Military trains fighting hot weather the danger of "Sun Kink"

Heine, whom is a member of our Model Railway Club, does not only have an awesome Garden Railway, but his and his wife's lovely garden is also on the local 'Garden Society's' 'Garden circuit'. Last Sunday Heine & Astrid invited the to an 'Open Garden' arrangement, and our MRC-members were invited to run trains, to fully show off this spectacular garden. It was also an opportunity to promote model railways to garden enthusiast. It's been a heatwave in Norway lately, and perfect weather to do outdoor hobby activities, so I brought a couple of my military trains and attended the 'Open Garden':

A lot of people were visiting the garden this Sunday afternoon:

The trains are getting ready for service in the fiddleyard:

First out was my German Heeresfeldbahn with a short, but well armed, rake:

Then I was getting my British War Department livesteam locomotive from Roundhouse ready to haul a supply train. There is simply no ON or  OFF button on a livesteam locomotive and you have to heat it up to make pressure. It takes a little longer time:

Here is a YouTube video showing both my German  Heeresfeldbahn train and British W^D train in action at Heine's Garden Railway last weekend:

As there were several kids visiting the gardens this day, there was also a service by 'Thomas the Tank Engine'. Being a standard gauge model running on 45mm gauge, he must be about Gauge 1, and that should be about the same size used for the Thomas models used in the TV-series:

This is a rare sight. This model by Piko comes with only one center car, and they don't make a lot of other center cars to get separate. One member in our club finally managed to find one:

He has both the 'Old' and 'New' version of this train set. A very nice model indeed:

Heine was also running a rake of beer and fuel:

A Swiss passenger train by another member:

And some members had also brought their new acquisitions:

Astrid & Heine are very hospitable, and served coffee, pastries and waffles to their guests:

This was a perfect day out to run trains in the garden!

It even looked like my German troopers in one of the cars enjoyed their day out too!

Thank you for inviting us and for your warm hospitality Astrid & Heine!