Oberwesel layout

I've long wanted to model Oberwessel. I lived in this region of Germany in the early 1980s. This stretch of track was hopping with traffic in those years and famous locomotives like the Br103 that looks more like a 747 than a train. The layout is designed as two modules that will plug into an immense staging system that I've been building for several months already. The staging will serve engine hauled trains through iconic scenery like a train jukebox. 

The layout is currently acting as a foam cutting station for the Lost Shore layout. The layout will be wider than this, I will attach a lowered sextion to the front of the layout for the Rhine and its bank.

I've been working on motive power and digital conversions. This is an engine room casting for a Br111. 

These are models from the 1980s, getting upgraded grab irons, pantographs and Lok Sound 5 before heading to the paint shop. 

Staging under construction.