Arkansas & Western, Z, Germany   The layout topic is Wild Horse Junction Station. It is a freelanced interchange station operated by the local railroad in Eastern Colorado the Arkansas & Western RR. The layout is timed in the transition era. The A&W RR is a branch line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) a typical transcontinental main line railroad. Here the cars of ATSF and Denver and Rio Grande Western are exchanged.
On the track will be one train of each of the main rail roads, while in the junction station the different connections will be served. The car interchange will be managed in two specific yard areas. The operation is governed with designated car cards.  The layout is operated analog with two handheld controllers from Rokuhan.		The rolling stock is mainly from AZL, micro trains and some items from Märklin. For the track Rokuhan material was used.The minimum radius is 220 mm.
		WELTPREMIERE !!

		Golden Spike, H0, Danemark Golden Spikes dedicated exhibition Layout are partly inspired by the desert landscape of Cajon Pass in Southern California, Kingman Canyon in Arizona and Vernon, an Industrial Area in the Los Angeles area. If we start from behind, the industrial area primarily reflects the slightly dull pastel-colored concrete buildings that are adapted to the space between the curved railroad tracks. The most colorful in this part are the graffiti painted facades.
		GERMANYPREMIERE !!
The 13 meter long mountain range is heavily inspired by the easily recognizable mountain formations found in and around Kingman Canyon in AZ. Those who have been there will probably nod to recognizing the railroad bridges that pass by if you drive south, from Kingman, along the track of Old Trails Rd.		The landscape around Cajon, CA. is attempted, reproduced by a long stretch of Route 66, following the railroad, passing a typical motel and fast food restaurant before the track continues alone into the desert and comes to our version of Frost Flyover, which is in the real world east of Victorville CA.

		The more seldom used gage size of TT with scale 1:120 is presented by Michael Gruner and Helmut Müller. They are showing a layout that is situated mainly in a landscape representing Canada. On this layout, part is modeled with rolling hills landscape which will be crossed by long trains possible in TT. The other part of the layout is created in small town city type setting. Here the visitor is able to see a harbor in which busy switching service is happening.
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		Florida East Coast Railway, H0, Germany The biggest layout which we ever had on a convention
		The H0 arrangement consist of approximately 80 FREMO modules of a single track modern mainline (after year 2000). The prototype for the layout is the Florida East Coast FEC situated in the southeast of the USA. You will see palm trees, bridges and much water.
The modules are arranged for the first time and just for this convention in a FREMO untypical inverted figure eight configuration. This way the visitors will have an unobstructed view to all modules and it will allow for an interesting operation.		World PREMIER!!
The yards are located on the inner ring, were a lot of the FEC typical trains are sent on their way. At the various interchange points, the visitor will find a typical junction, a regional container –hub, car loading facility, rock loading, a AMTRAK station and many more small industries. The 50 m long outer circle allows the operation of US typical long trains pulled by several locomotives (freight and passenger trains)		The layout is operated digitally as it is FREMO standard. Every train is controlled with one dedicated handheld controller (FRED) which connects to the Loconet. The dispatcher in each station is responsible for the operation of the switches, gates, and signal lights. Please take some time to watch the operation.

The Fridge, H0 aus den Niederlanden
		DEUTSCHLANDPREMIERE !!
Shown will be a H0 train layout modelled after the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe RR. The concept is ‘industrial switching’.  Operation with short trains, deliveries and pick up of freight cars at the various industries is the main activity on this layout.		In this theater the main line power with their often colorful bulgy bodies and their freight cars some of them which sometimes are quite aged are the main actors. The stage for this operation is displayed by a fictional yard located in the old part of town on the East side of Phoenix, Arizona (USA)
In the industrial area – named City creek – mainly companies have settled with their business being in the in the food Industrie. One of the largest companies is Arizona Cold Storage, a warehouse company for refrigerated goods. The public calls the area the fridge. The time is in the 1980 ties.

		HEB will be presenting again some never shown modular layout extensions in very interesting southwest settings using some unique diorama ideas. As it is a trade mark of the HEB the long trains with individually weathered cars and prototypical consist will catch the visitors eye.
		In Harrislee and Stone Creek Junction HEB will show also some interesting switching moves. The observant visitor may also find the occasional hand crafted 1960 to 70 ties car and other super detailed treasures along the road. WORLDPREMIERE !!

		Hoquiam, N, Germany In the small 9mm gage, scale 1.160 we will show a large layout presenting long trains. Peter Gössel, Hagen Langbartels and Dirk Warwel will show elaborate track length  with beautiful landscape as well as many industrial areas. The industries will be serviced in FREMO operation. .
		WORLDPREMIERE !!

        

		Idstone Industries, 1, Germany     The modular layout called ‚Idstone Industries‘ is a switching layout of an industrial area along a mainline going through a small town USA situated in the Southwest of USA. The time in which the layout is situated is the late 1950 ties. The layout is operated digitally while the switching is done manually by the operator. This allows to use modern technology digital features in the locomotives and the rolling stock   The chosen time span represents the transition phase between Steam and Diesel. We are using Steam engines with smoke and sound as well as Diesels with rumble and soot. The operation is best being done by two people and the various goods are placed to the local businesses while we pick up empties and new goods to be shipped out. Through the point to point concept and the manual switching operation the layout is manpower intensive which makes the hands-on experience interesting. We are switching across the mainline and will have some street running scenes in the layout.
Currently the layout is segmented in 6 elements with the dimensions 1,8 Meter long and 0,85 Meter wide. Total overall length is 11 Meter. The segments are equipped with a backdrop also spotting flat buildings and layout lighting to simulate scenic depth  to the visitor.		The control system is based optionally on DCC or DCS with wireless controllers. With either loconet bus or MTH command signals. Here we are displaying that the electric can be kept extremely simple still using latest technology. We are planning to expand the layout over time into a phase two were we deliver from one industrial section to another. Furthermore we are developing upgrades with light effects and animation to improve the interest level continuously.
		WORLDPREMIERE !!
		still in building

		Diamond Springs, 0n30, Georg Koch, Germany     GERMANYREMIERE !!
‚Diamond Springs‘ was originally not planned to be a layout for exhibition purposes. As one of father’s three sons had bought an On3 Shay locomotive, a matching layout needed to be built in order for the locomotive to have a scenery to run in. In order to play at home or to play at Modul meeting the layout was built in modular form. Initially a simple layout plan was soon extended by a station. Finally extension modules were built which allowed some branch operation
The name of the layout „DIAMOND SPRINGS“ was chosen because some of the scenes were built after photos of the  „Diamond & Caldor Railway“ which is operated in Diamond Springs in California. The track is built from scratch with real wooden ties and the rails are hand laid. The switches are modified from PECO and installed on wooden ties. All structures and bridges are scratch built from wood. The rolling stock is mainly manufactured by Bachmann, some have been weathered and some are modified.		The modules have been constructed with very light weight in mind. A hard-foam sheet has been framed with poplar wood. The wider modules have been reinforced with girders. The scenery is also hard foam based.

		Santa Luisa, H0 + H0n3 Alex Lösch, Deutschland still under construction
WORLDPREMIERE !!

Pennsylvania Steel, N, Heinz-Ulrich Grumpe

		Standard Oil Fields  is noiw the 5th layout from René Paul from Netherlands, This time the gauge is H0n3.   GERMANYREMIERE !!

		MIGL Sunshine Valley, 0, Austria The idea for the Sunshine Valley railroad was born during the 2 nd US Convention in 2009. Ten years after the sunshine valley is part of the 7. Th US convention. This layout models a one track branch line located at the US East Coast. The layout is in scale 1:43 in O scale. The center piece of the layout is the Sunshine Valley Yard providing space for 4 tracks.
		GERMANYREMIERE !!
The operation is handled with diesel engines of D&H, WM and Reading with the majority being from D&H. The buildings are partially built from scratch which insures an individual charm.    Also on the layout circles a small park railroad of the local model railroad Club. The Sunshine valley line crosses this park railroad twice. Each time via a trestle bridge. In addition to the trestle bridges the layout houses a Pratt Truss bridge which in O scale has some impressive dimensions.

		Twin Cities, N, Deutschland noch im Baustadium WORLDPREMIERE !!

		Kennecott Copper Mine Corporation, H0, Deutschland noch im Baustadium WORLDPREMIERE !!

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