Wominsee

Now I've got a digital camera, I thought I'd post a few photos of the unfinished N gauge layout, "Wominsee". At the moment things are in the very early stages, there's not much apart from track, the foundations of some scenery made from carved of foam, and a few buildings. But trains are running, thanks to ready-ballasted Kato Unitrack.

BLS Re4/4 No 193 arrives at the north end of Wominsee with a set of BLS blue and cream EW1 stock. The brown Re4/4s are very much workhorses of the BLS, and it's a pity the only commercially produced version in N is this now-discontinued Arnold model. It's rather crude compared with the the latest products from the likes of Kato and Fleischmann. The coaches are old Lima Minitrain ones. The pink freight wagons in the siding behind are supposed to be that colour; one of the world's stranger freight stock liveries.

SBB Re4/4iv passes the station with an international train formed of German stock in the old Epoch 4 livery. The class never went into series production, and the four prototypes were eventually sold to the Sudostbahn to run between Romanshorn and Luzern. During the early 1990s these four locos were still in SBB ownership, and were a common sight on the BLS main line. The model is by Roco, another discontinued item, which I've managed to track down from eBay. The station building is a Faller kit; it's scheduled to be replaced by the Kibri Swiss chalet-style building that I have yet to build.