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Offline Danlake  
#1 Posted : 11 January 2014 07:11:04(UTC)
Danlake

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I think we posted link to this layout before:

http://www.gamrailroad.com/index.html

Anyway – there is lots of updates (go into the building log).

It’s pretty amazing stuffThumpUp

Brgds - Lasse
Digital 11m2 layout / C (M&K) tracks / Era IV / CS3 60226 / Train Controller Gold 9 with 4D sound. Mainly Danish and German Locomotives.
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Offline TheFatTick  
#2 Posted : 12 January 2014 14:21:39(UTC)
TheFatTick

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Wow. That guy is motivated.

Incredible stuff.
Offline Goofy  
#3 Posted : 12 January 2014 15:49:38(UTC)
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I see he did returned to N scale.
H0
DCC = Digital Command Control
Offline MalinAC  
#4 Posted : 12 June 2014 19:10:01(UTC)
MalinAC

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Thats someone who is very commited to his layout. Working on his own and that attention to detail its unbelievable.One can only dream. Eddie
Offline Mark5  
#5 Posted : 19 April 2022 15:23:10(UTC)
Mark5

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Worth taking a look at his updates. He has made some incredible progress. I landed here again because I am looking for anyone who might have done handlaid K-track. HIs work on the mountains and buildings is looking rather professional.

- M5
DB DR FS NS SNCF c. 1950-65, fan of station architecture esp. from 1920-70.
In single point perspective, where do track lines meet?
Offline dzug  
#6 Posted : 19 April 2022 21:37:49(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Mark5 Go to Quoted Post
Worth taking a look at his updates. He has made some incredible progress. I landed here again because I am looking for anyone who might have done handlaid K-track. HIs work on the mountains and buildings is looking rather professional.

- M5


I don't think it is handlaid track. He is now building an n-scale USA prototype railroad using Peco track after tearing up his latest German prototype HO layout which was 2-rail DC. He has gone back and forth from German HO to to USA N-scale a few times over the past 5 or ten years. He does incredible work and I have taken a number of ideas from watching his posts over the years. Hopefully he is happy enough with this latest layout that it will survive and get some areas to the finished scenery stage.

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Offline cookee_nz  
#7 Posted : 20 April 2022 21:15:35(UTC)
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Must be missing something here, what defines "hand laid K-track"?

Isn't all track, by definition "hand laid"?

In other words, hand laid as opposed to... ?????
Cookee
Wellington
NZ image
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Offline kiwiAlan  
#8 Posted : 20 April 2022 22:30:41(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: cookee_nz Go to Quoted Post
Must be missing something here, what defines "hand laid K-track"?

Isn't all track, by definition "hand laid"?

In other words, hand laid as opposed to... ?????


I certainly wouldn't consider K track to be "hand laid track".

Offline cookee_nz  
#9 Posted : 20 April 2022 22:36:00(UTC)
cookee_nz

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Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: cookee_nz Go to Quoted Post
Must be missing something here, what defines "hand laid K-track"?

Isn't all track, by definition "hand laid"?

In other words, hand laid as opposed to... ?????


I certainly wouldn't consider K track to be "hand laid track".



To my understanding, "hand-laid" means literally individual sleepers/ties, with the rails individually attached, usually with tiny nails, turnouts/points hand-made etc.

More common in the larger scales but of course can be done in H0, and probably smaller if you've got the inclination but rarely found in the Märklin world by it's very nature.

Anyone THAT particular about detail/realism would likely not be running 3-R Märklin. Trix maybe....

BigGrin
Cookee
Wellington
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Offline Mark5  
#10 Posted : 21 April 2022 01:44:04(UTC)
Mark5

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Originally Posted by: cookee_nz Go to Quoted Post
Must be missing something here, what defines "hand laid K-track"?


Poor choice of words, my apologies.
I am thinking of these projects. I find the results very beautiful, however complicated it would be to do with pukos.

https://www.handlaidtrack.com/

There are video showing how they make them... so like K-track in that they are open bed and laid in gravel but built from scratch... the large cross overs with double slips are a sight to behold.

I forget what they are called in German ... "hausentager" ... something like that maybe Blink
DB DR FS NS SNCF c. 1950-65, fan of station architecture esp. from 1920-70.
In single point perspective, where do track lines meet?
Offline Alsterstreek  
#11 Posted : 21 April 2022 21:29:14(UTC)
Alsterstreek

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Originally Posted by: Mark5 Go to Quoted Post
I forget what they are called in German ... "hausentager" ... something like that maybe Blink

Hosenträger = suspenders or braces

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Offline Mark5  
#12 Posted : 22 April 2022 21:17:19(UTC)
Mark5

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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: Mark5 Go to Quoted Post
I forget what they are called in German ... "hausentager" ... something like that maybe Blink

Hosenträger = suspenders or braces



My wife is European has had more German studies than I, luckily she went on a "Austauschschüler" during highschool and we can't help but chuckle how brilliantly complex and long German words are, yet still seem to sound so wonderful. We occasional listen to a German opera and love the sound but have almost no clue what they are singing unless we read along with the lyrics in the LP vinyl cover:

This voice sounds better...
https://en.wiktionary.or...ki/Austauschsch%C3%BCler

but here is Hosenträger
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hosentr%C3%A4ger
and some pretty fun search results come up:
https://hosentraeger.com/

... and one of the most common German words in our home is
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oberleitungen
Love

However back to the subject, handlaid track seems to be "Handgefertigtes Eisenbahngleis" according to the translation.
Does that sound correct?

If its not fun, why bother be an enthusiast of German MMR?
Cool
- Mark
DB DR FS NS SNCF c. 1950-65, fan of station architecture esp. from 1920-70.
In single point perspective, where do track lines meet?
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Offline Alsterstreek  
#13 Posted : 23 April 2022 10:18:29(UTC)
Alsterstreek

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Originally Posted by: Mark5 Go to Quoted Post
However back to the subject, handlaid track seems to be "Handgefertigtes Eisenbahngleis" according to the translation.
Does that sound correct?
That is a tough one in German:

The activity of "Gleis-Selbstbau" results in the end product "Selbstbaugleis". The latter is of course "handgefertigt", i.e. hand made.

RollEyes
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Offline Mark5  
#14 Posted : 23 April 2022 11:22:05(UTC)
Mark5

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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: Mark5 Go to Quoted Post
However back to the subject, handlaid track seems to be "Handgefertigtes Eisenbahngleis" according to the translation.
Does that sound correct?
That is a tough one in German:

The activity of "Gleis-Selbstbau" results in the end product "Selbstbaugleis". The latter is of course "handgefertigt", i.e. hand made.
RollEyes


Google translate has me SMH and RME.
they say:
Selbstbau = DIY
Selbst bau = build it yourself
Selbstbaugleis = do-it-yourself track
Selbst bau gleis = Self build track
however the Portuguese is much more lyrical: ferrovia artesanal
I trust your Portuguese is very good by now.
I miss the Lisbon-Cascais line getting near splashed by water and the Bolos de Belem.

Sorry we are way OT but ...I am still not sure I understand the semantic principles of German compounding Nouns by merging the words.
DB DR FS NS SNCF c. 1950-65, fan of station architecture esp. from 1920-70.
In single point perspective, where do track lines meet?
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