How to spend a sunny Sunday?

In Norway summers are short and intense, so hot and sunny weather really invites to outdoor activities. -Like when a friend on short notice invited to 'coffee & trains' (...and waffles) in his garden today.

I brought both my German Heeresfeldbahn...

...and British W^D trains

My other friends brought their new acquisitions and somewhat more colorful trains:

Today's last train on the timetable with a 'load' for the host

When coming home and placing my trains away, I could tell that my youngest son had 'played' with my Winter Pizza:

Looks like there will be time for some workbench-projects tonight as well...

An Inglenook Sidings and military goodstrains in the garden

Tuesdays are usually club-nights in our Model Railway Club. After a long period with rain and cold weather we finally got some nice hot and sunny summer weather this week, so one of the club-members invited to a running-session on his garden railway this Tuesday as it was better to spend the afternoon and evening outside than indoors at the club.

After I mocked up an Inglenook Sidings at home several of our club-members got interested in this kind of shunting layout, and we decided to build one in G-45 at the club. This guy hosting our club-night in his garden is very effective, and had already start building this Inglenook Sidings layout. It was made so it could be connected to his garden railway too, which it was today so we could all try it out.

With this Inglenook Sidings connected to the rest of 'the line' it was now possible to assemble rakes and make up my military trains in 'the yard' before sending them off to the front:

I usually doesn't get time to take so many photos of my livesteam locomotive in action, as you can simply not run it by just pushing a button or give it some throttle, which usually makes me so busy that I have no time or chance to takes any photos of it. So thanks to Arne, a fellow club-member, who would run it so I could finally take some photos of it.

There was some 'civilian' traffic on the line as well:

'Bodil', the dispatcher was overlooking that trains were running on schedule according to the timetable. 

Getting together like this, running trains, drinking coffee, barbequing and and have a chat is in the very social end of this hobby. Thank you Erik for your hospitality.

What type of trains, scale or prototype do you prefer?

A Midsummer Eve Garden meeting

Despite it's 'work-weekend' this weekend, I just had to bring my Heeresfeldbahn with a Flosssackfähre-rake and go when a friend in our MRC invited to a Midsummer running-session in his garden last night. -Which is coincidentally the same date as our MRC Gleng Modelljernbaneklubb was founded (in 2001). The Garden meeting were lasting through the whole night, but due work this weekend I had to leave about midnight. Here are  some impressions:

A supply trains brings the 'local tax' for 'right of way rental':

Our MRC, Gleng Modelljernbaneklubb was founded in 2001 and started as a Round Robin Club'.  Now we have a proper location next to the railway-station in Sarpsborg. This is a photo from the founding meeting: