An enjoyable Sunday out

Last Sunday a friend and fellow member of our Model Railway Club invited to a running session on his Garden Railway. The weather was really nice and sunny and it was a great day out. 

People are getting their trains ready to run in the fiddleyard:

A friend brought a new live steam locomotive and rake for the operating session. A most impressive engine:

Another American steam locomotive (which is battery operated):

Rätische Bahn from Switzerland:

Another train from Rätische bahn:

This narrow gauge train actually had Rollbocks to transport standard gauge wagons on narrow gauge railways (which are impressive models when modeled to true II / 1:22,5 scale):

A German Mallet locomotive:

With a 'Banana-wagon' which is kind of a signature or symbol to our club, as we used 'Banana wagons' to identify our self when first meeting each other 24 years ago. It looks like the monkeys are having a good time:

Heine trades with racing parts and has also modeled his father's old race car to 1:24 scale:

And another car he's not trading parts for yet. I'm curious to see if he makes this one to run on rails in the future:

There were kids visiting the Garden Railway this day so another 'famous' train made an appearance:

Heine has even hidden a speaker in the goods wagon (play it with sound on your own risk):

I brought my military trains, one British and one German:

Both are British steam, One narrow gauge and one standard gauge:

All in all, this was a really great day out and everyone seemed to enjoy them self:

This is in the very social end of the hobby; coming together and enjoying not only common interest in trains but also enjoying a bbq lunch togheter:

Thank you very much for the invitation and your hospitality Heine!