Layout pictures by Robert Landwehr
The first a layout in 1978. Only a cheap prosuct, but for me it was the greatest thing at those time.
1983 I continued with a NOCH layout (Brauneck) and with Fleischmann, i.e. with DC-system
In 1985 there wasn't enough room also on the "Brauneck", so that a layout of 1,30m x 2,20m was built. It was enlarged constantly, cog railway, mountains...., but its size remained unchanged (10cm broader for the cog railway), because the room was very small.
Finally, I could rebuild a basement room. From now on the layout was standing for the whole year and not only for Christmas time like before. More and more boards were screwed on the existing layout baseboard....
.. until it had becomme an imposing layout. However it was very unstable, because always new parts had been added. The mighty 70cm high mountains finallay became the layout's fate. Because of the high weight and the bad base structure everything had warped, the results were derailments and uncouplings. One day, one of the supports was breaking - so the whole left part of the layout (about what you can see on the picture) was breaking away.
4-track central station, double-track main line, with catanery wire and with a 9-track shadow station. branch line with a 3-track station an different line versions, cog railway with height difference of a about 60cm , field railway, and a large depot with a turntable.