Local Newspaper Captures a Perfect Day at the Garden Railway

Heine invited to another running session and a day out in his garden. The weather was lovely and I thought it was a great opportunity to take my new Maintenance of Way/ Permanent Way Maintenance wagons out for their first ride. Since it's been a while since it's last outing I also included my pioneer ferry load in this rake. Perhaps a train on it's way to repairing tracks over a bridge or river rossing or something? If you want to read more about them you can find more info on these links:

• MOW/ PWM wagon part 1
• MOW/ PWM wagon part 2
• Pioneer Ferry load

Heine's Harz Bahn. In 2022 several member from our model railway club visited the prototype in Werningerode:

"Traffic Jam"

Another member brought his new Live Steam locomotive by Roundhouse. It's an American class, but similar to the type used by early railways in Norway. The wagons are Norwegian though and are kits by Proinor.

"She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain..."

Another American train was running this day; A Standard Gauge by Aristocraft:

"Tyra The Supervisor"

Another LGB Steam engine by Heine. The prototype for this Mallet engine was actually made for the German Military Heeresfeldbahn:

A Swiss EMU from Bernina bahn by another member:

The same member also brought his Swiss 'Glacier Express'. He and other members from out mrc went on a ride with the prototype in 2012:

Here is a YouTube-video showing the trains in action:

It's really 'hard' to run trains in the garden so we needed a break. Later on we also bbq'd:

A journalist from a local newspaper had also heard about this garden railway, and wanted to come on this day out to make an article about it.

It's always interesting when 'outsiders' are going to report on niche hobbies like this, and what kind of view they are presenting. This turned out to be a nice and informative article about the Garden Railway hobby, and this is the finally result on print:

Link: Bymagasinet NÆR nr. 2/26

I'm going to the movie theater later today with my youngest son to see the premier of the new Toy Story 5 movie. I'm wondering if there are any Army Men left amongst Andy's old toys?? 

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Last December I posted a blogpost about of an article about a friend and fellow MRC member Heine's Garden Railway which was published in Allt om Hobby, the biggest hobby magazine in the Nordic countries. It also covered some photos and information about my military garden trains. Allt om Hobby is a Swedish magazine and published in Swedish which is not a problem to read within the Nordic countries. But I didn't expect the majority of the readers to this blog to run to their local newsagents to buy a copy though.

But now recently Allt om Hobby published the whole article for free on their website. This gives you all an opportunity whereever you live and whatever language you speak to visit and read the article if you'd like to. Depending on your browser, the website for the article can easily be translated from Swedish into whatever language you prefer. I've translated it into English in my 'Google browser', which worked great! So here is the link to the:

Link: Free article in Allt om Hobby about Heine's Garden Railway

Photo by Joakim Sannagård/ Allt om Hobby

Enjoy!

My Military Garden trains in the biggest Hobby Magazine in the Nordic Countries

Allt om Hobby is a Swedish Hobby magazine established in 1966 which covers every aspects of modelling hobbies including scale-, radio controlled- and railway modelling. Although being Swedish it's probably the biggest Hobby Magazine not only in Scandinavia but in the Nordic Countries as well with 6 annual issues, each with a print run of 4000 magazines + 3000 digital readers. This magazine is available at selected Newsagents in Norway.

Late this summer the editor of Allt om Hobby was visiting Heine, who is a member in out Model Railway Club, to write an article about his Garden Railway. So several members from our Model Railway Club was very early up a Monday morning in September to run trains and provide some traffic on Heines lovely garden railway for this article. Now the latest issue of Allt om Hobby is published, and in this issue is also a 8 page long article about Heine's Garden Railway on print:

I was very delighted and pleased to see that almost a page was used to cover my British and German Military Garden Trains:

The Main Character in this article, and well deserved too, was naturally Heine who has constructed this amazing garden railway, and keeps inviting us over for running sessions and are actively contributing to our active garden railway society. Heine continually keeps posting new photos from running sessions in his garden (and others alike) on his and on our MRC's Facebook groups. Both are 'open' groups and you are welcome to visit and follow them if you like continously updated photos of Garden Railways. I know he's planning a running-session this Sunday,  but I won't be able to join due to my work.

• Heine's Model Railways Facebook Group
• Gleng Model Railway Club Facebook Group

Despite the cover-photo and some of the other images in the article are suggesting otherwise, there is absolutely no snow here so far this winter (!). Actually it's mild and been raining more or less constantly since late November. So it's very uncertain at the moment when and if we'll be able to run trains in the snow this winter. -I'm dreaming of a White Christmas ❄️

"Svingen" hits the press

Mj-Bladet (The Model Railway Magazine) is the only model railway magazine published in Norway. The publisher is MjF, The Norwegian Model Railway Association, and is issued 4 times a year. Members automatically receives the issueas as 'subscribers', but the magazine can be bought in model railway shops too. Today I received 'the Christmas issue' and was delighted to see that my small 'Christmas Pizza layout' made it to the cover:

Inside the magazine it's a 5 page article about how I made this micro layout in 6 evenings. The article it's a translated and updated version of my blog-post about it:

So if you're here because you followed the link in the article you are most welcome. I hope you'll find something interesting on this blog. 

There was also another very interesting article in this issue about a German WW2 H0 scale layout located to the Balkans. It's constructed as a exhibition layout, and I really hope to see it at a model railway exhibition. If I do, I'll make a blogpost on it.

'Svingen' micro/ Pizza layout was exhibited last weekend at the Christmas market at Borgarsyssel Museum in connection with The International Model Railway Day. Here are some updates photos and atmospheric videos of the layout:

Earlier this week my wife was tidying up some old stuff. She found a similar but smaller table she was not going to use anymore, which she handed over to me. Time will show what I'll eventually going to use it for. Please follow this blog and find out.

I enjoyed a cup of coffee while reading this interesting issue of Mj-Bladet and had a good time in my favorite chair. 

Military trains in large scale hitting the news

I'm a subscriber to Norway's only model railway magazine called 'Mj-Bladet' (simply translated into 'The Model Railway Magazine'),  which have 4 editions a year.

When I receive a copy I usually sits down, relaxing with a cup of coffee and enjoys the issue.

When receiving the latest issue today, I was surprised to see this large photo of my large scale military trains, which I has covered in this blog, almost making it to the middle pages too.

This was a very nice surprise to see my work from this blog at print and published.