A motorcycle tour with a twist

These days the weather is really hot and sunny in Norway, and way to good to be spent inside to paint miniatures,  modelling or play wargames. So when a friend in our MRC invited fellow members to a running-session on his garden railway yesterday in this nice weather the choice  was actually very easy. There was only one challenge; my friend does not live in my 'neighborhood' and our car was not available at the time. So it needed to be a motorcycle tour with a twist.

Luckily my 30 litre pannier could just about fit a G-scale locomotive and 3 goods-wagons.

So in the occasion of being a motorcycle tour, I brought my LGB Heeresfeldbahn locomotive and 3 wagons loaded with motorcycles. 

My friend's garden railway is really big and can accommodate much traffic, so my other friends trains also saw action at the same time. I think most scales, gauges, periods, regions and prototypes are represented in our club.

His railway is actually so big that multiple different routes are possible, and that might offer some challenges to the operation when the drivers gets occupied with drinking coffee and chat with each other... (Luckily everything was OK)

I borrowed some goods-wagons from a friend during the running session as I think they looks like some of those used on German Heeresfeldbahns during WWII. Perhaps I must consider to expand my fleet in the future. -But those boggie vans will clearly not fit my motorcycle panniers tough...

Thank you Erik for your hospitality, food, beverage and letting us run trains on your superb garden railway! 

Another Day Out, on another garden railway belonging to another friend and fellow MRC member

Since I had to bring my own garden railway to a closure I really appreciate that members in my MRC regularly invites to running sessions on their garden railways. It is a really social happening and get-together as well. 

My friend has a really large garden railway  and it is fully scenic:

For me this was also an opportunity to take my new 'railway ferry' for a run as a local Heeresfeldbahn freight for the Sturmpionere:

Following are some few impressions from our running session:

I also brought my W^D livesteam locomotive (by Roundhouse) and let it haul the 'Combat Engineer Ferry'

Trains & Coffee:

This is from an earlier running-session, but catch the author in a familiar position documenting one of our running sessions:

Thank you Gylmer for inviting us to run on your awesome garden railway and for your hospitality.