Two more recent videos. In the first, my Reichsbahn Reko BR58.3 pulls a tank car train around Papphausen. Loko by Gützold running via analog...

 A first cab ride around Papphausen / Führerstandsmitfahrt rund um Papphausen in both directions. Note, speeds not always prototypical for a...

 Another afternoon running trains on the layout with views of the Hauptbahnhof, through it actually, and some other vantage points.

Papphausen has been tote Hose for years now, really, but after a very busy summer and early fall, I decided to take a break from the bookb...

Here the location in Google Maps And my view from the Förderturm of the Bergbau Museum. Finally, across the street from t...

Documentary from the early 1930s about the construction and running of the first high-speed diesel railcar of the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesell...

Running more of my vintage Märklin. Louder, "rougher," and with that distinctive ozone smell.

Pulled out a bunch of my old classic Märklin to run for a change – back to the basics for a while. 😃 The E03 with the TEE (the classic ti...

Due to bookish (bookbinding and writing) projects my layouts have languished and Shelob and her offspring have run amok, dust built up, and ...

While coal required to power the steelworks was domestic, mined from the depths of the Ruhr Valley, iron ore was often imported and brought ...

Die Bahn im Jahre 1958: In großen Zügen - Eine Studie über die arme, reiche Bundesbahn The DB in 1958: A study in broad strokes about the...

And here the BR 44 of the DB with a load of coal to power the Wirtschaftswunder...

The BR290 on the go with a short freight. Lots of fun running this afternoon. Been a while.

A day in the life of a Lokführer on E10 306 . Back then E10 306 would looked like this. Image from Drehscheibe Online . Video in German. ...

Wow! Love the fact that they made real models rather than using CGI for all. Images look like they could be sets for the Cabinet of Dr. Cal...

2 really nice English videos explaining the model railroad hobby... From the introduction by Weslake500 at YouTube where these live: O...

You never know who you'll meet on the train... Animation by Markus Neidel.

Wonderful railway and urban footage in this 1927 silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann , co-written by Carl Mayer and Karl Freund . The f...

Two really clever German language videos from Die Sendung mit der Maus , a children's program by the WDR. How Track is Made The Railro...

After what seems like years, finally cleaned the streetcar track and put the tram (at Düwag GT6 - bidirectional) back on. The model is by R...