In August 2018 a group of five brave members of the FREMO americaN group travelled from Germany to Sweden. We met just north of Hamburg and continued together with a transporter and a minibus.

We continued through Denmark. With an perfect timing we arrived at Helsingør and did not have to wait for the next ferry. So we embarked the and had a short break before we continued the final part of our trip trough Sweden on the E4.

The last stage took us about three hours of drive, without any remarkable events. So we arrived at Fagerhult. I have never been that far to the north. We were welcomed by our fellow modelers from Sweden and after a short break we started to unpack our cars and setup the layout. As we brought some of the central modules they had to wait for us to arrive until the setup could continue.

The layout resembles three railroads which interchange traffic through Dirks newly built wye-extension for the Yakima-Curve. So not only gets the module its first use during this meet, but its also a key feature. Without this module most traffic would not find its way through the layout.

I started my first session as operator at the large Hasslingen Steel Mill. The operations here are quite complex but I could always refer to Jan, who built it, if I had a question.

The layout and operations was set to take place in the time frame from roughly 1950 to 1970. On the FREMO americaN pages you can find the report FREMO americaN meeting in Fagerhult 2019.

Happy model railroaders at Habo HobbyThe last day of the meeting, Sunday we half a day left for our operations, before we had to start tearing down the whole layout.

JönköpingAfter the break down of the layout and packing the cars we hit the road again at 3 pm. At 6 pm we got the first ferry. At 2 am I returned the rental car and continued home with Peter where we arrived at 3 am and got to bed after an exciting and enjoyable weekend.

The way back.

• americaN
• fremo
• meeting
• modular
• operations
• road-trip
• sweden
• layout
• gallery
• report