Driver 8 by REM

How Railroad Track is Made and Crossings Work

Two really clever German language videos from Die Sendung mit der Maus, a children's program by the WDR.

How Track is Made

The Railroad Crossing Gate

There was even a train decorated with images from the show...

That Märklin is making a model of...

http://medienpdb.maerklin.de/produkte/pdfs/Mae_HerbstNH_2011_DE.pdf

One of my favorites is about these supersized eggs...

http://blog.fleischerei-freese.de/2009/11/ei-da-schau-her/

Düwag GT6 of the Bogestra

After what seems like years, finally cleaned the streetcar track and put the tram (at Düwag GT6 - bidirectional) back on. The model is by Rivarossi and represents line 305 of the Bogestra in Bochum/Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Here it is with an occasional intercity pulled by a 103, a 150 pulling limestone towards the steel mills and an 221 hauling a mixed freight.

And another in HD 

More Lasercuts

Was working on some more Moebo and Joswood kits again today and made an interesting discovery that impressed me more than I already was by what was possible with lasers and cardstock...

Today's output of kits, an industrial chimney, a shed-like structure, and two transformer stations/pump houses...

Moebo's transformer station/pump house - detail of "windows."

Transformer stations/pump house detail of "windows"lit from within.

That "screen" is lasercut out of ca.1mm/40pt cardstock in H0 - Wow!