Oberlenningen station with local train.
The cunning plan for the weekend was to get something built and then write about it today, but but unfortunately Beautiful Wife had flu over the weekend and between looking after her and The Boys I didn’t have time to even get the modelling board out, so being British, I’m going to talk about the weather instead.
To be fair there’s a heck of a lot of it at the moment. We were walloped about by the tail end of the Quentin Storm system which came over after several fun days causing chaos in the UK, and for a week we’ve been getting snow almost every night. As a teenager, overnight snow meant we could confidently look forward to a couple of days off because the school was inaccessible. Not here alas: Germany is generally prepared for weather and when I got up at some unknown hour before seven to shovel snow off the pavement (Sidewalk) for the Kindergarten, the ploughs had already cleared the main roads and the buses were running normally.
Local trains are unaffected as far as I know. The picture shows a local train in Oberlenningen station a few weeks ago. I will get a proper entry about this trip written soon.
The week before the snow hit the UK I was in Toronto, where 6 inches (15cm) of snow fell in a day. Yes there was some disruption, but not like when we got 3 inches in England, and normal service was resumed the next day. It’s all about being prepared, which we are not in the UK! Next week I’m in Stuttgart, I’ll take a thick coat!
I’m glad we have rather moderate weather in the North of Germany.
The birds are saying spring is near, but I have my doubts about that.
I still have a locomotive from my model railroad times, by the way – a class 216 from Märklin. But it is probably way too outdated to run on today’s model railroads.
[...] Kirchheim there were once two railways: the Teckbahn, which I’ve mentioned elsewhere, and a line to Weilheim, which was closed to passengers in 1982 but still has track in situ. [...]