Hi Alan,

Having checked out the exceptionally enticing photos on both sites I now do not know, if given the choice, whether I would decide I wanted to own all those O Scale trains or live in Switzerland (OK - I would ask for both)!

I have honestly never seen a collection of European O Scale stock like that, and to see it actually working on a layout rather than in a display case is something very, very special. It is now in my list of "Favourites".

Living in Australia it is even getting hard to see European HO layouts "down under" now ( or simply buy the item you want - there used to be quite a market for it once - now Roco and Liliput in particular are virtually impossible to buy locally) so I am relying more and more on the web lately to look at layouts. So, to see a working main line European O Scale layout is a first for me - after over 45 years in the hobby!

It's funny, but I have often thought that given the space, the ability and the access to European O, I would have gone down that track. The closest I have ever got, unfortunately, are the pages in Continental Modeller reviewing the new 7mm scale Nurnberg items - none of them to my knowledge ever make it to Australia (though we do get British tinplate models and occasional items of Marklin and Aster Gauge One).

Has your club thought of showing the layout on "YouTube"? (Yes - I know I am being greedy).

Seriously, thanks very much for the links.

Richard