Operation 'Fall Weiss'

This is not a Garden Wargame report, but one of the members in our Model Railway Club coincidentally invited to a Club-day out in his fully sceniced Garden Railway, Reichenbach, on the 1st of September. Since I was going to bring my Heeresfeldbahn train I was inspired to make the head photo looking like it was supporting the logistics under Operation Fall Weiss on the Polish narrow gauge network September 1st 1939 (with a little help from ChatGPT).

My military trains have been running on these lines before, but since then Gylmer has expanded it with a longer mainline and brancheline and easier gradients. On these links you can see more photos and videos from previous visits to Reicenbach:

• Reichenbach May 2024
• Reichenbach July 2024
• Reichenbach August 2025
• Reichenbach September 2025
  
  
  

September is also the first month of the fall and it's getting darker earlier now, but the weather was still pretty warm:

Before we could start running trains, I had to use my Heeresfeldbahn Diesel to clear the mainlines by shunting Gylmer's rakes and wagons into different sidings around his layout as he'd arranged a running session the previous weekend as well. I couldn't attend to that one due to my work.

After clearing the mainlines and a branchline we were ready to run trains. There weren't so many members bringing their trains to this day out unfortunately:

A 'premier' and maiden voyage for a new (3D-printed) RhB-engine:

Gylmer was serving coffee, hot dos and waffles...

After the 'lunch breake' it had turned dark:

Thank you Gylmer for inviting us over hand for your warm hospitality

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In the comment-section in my previous blogpost Michael from Wargaming with 54mm Toy Soldiers noted how effectfull and how modelling lights added to the atmosphere. I followed up and informed that the lights in Heine's HSB and DR coaches (which can be seen in this post's photos and video) are made by short strings of battery powered Christmas lights which he mounted in a tube and fixed it to the roofs inside. These lights are usually very cheap, and will soon appear in the shops I suppose: