Setting up the layout Modules ready for the setup This year, we had the chance to use a room of the Nordwestdeutsches Museum für IndustrieKultur in Delmenhorst, near Bremen. During the meet there were 11 attendees. We had prepared a plan and a concept for operations to siumlate the traffic around the year 2005. Unpacking all modules, setting up the layout and installing the loconet wiring for the boosters took about seven hours.

This article gives an insight into the operationional concept for a typical modular meeting of the americaN chapter of the FREMO. The Layout Overview of a modular layout made for operations Never the same layout. For every modular meeting, we plan a new layout. The layout is planned to match all the given constraints, like the room, the attendees and the available modules, the choosen era. A layout may vary in size, shape and the order of modules.

A few members of the FREMO americaN group wrote an article for issue december 2020 issue of the N Scale Railroading Magazine. During a small modular meeting we took photos of the operations. We choose to follow a single train during operating session and explain the thoughts and operations in detail in this article. A small selection of the content we choose for the article. >  >   <>   <

The Hallack & Howard Lumber Company Sawmill is the main industry in Cascade and on my module. It has two tracks and generates about 6 to 9 cars incoming and outgoing traffic every day. Let me show you, how it was built. Hallack & Howard Lumber Company >   <>   < Hallack & Howard Lumber Company, Images LOC & Idaho State Historic SocietyThe sawmill was torn down, but in the 1960s it was quite busy and is the main industry on my module.

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. Rear view of a Citroen Jumpy packed full to the roof with modules >   <>   < We continued through Denmark. With an perfect timing we arrived at Helsingør and did not have to wait for the next ferry.

July 2019 in Delmenhorst, Germany. It was one of the warmest days of the year some maniacs had no better idea than setting up a modular layout for the weekend. In October 2019 we want to show a layout during the US-Modellbahn-Convention in Rodgau. In the FREMO americaN group we build modules for operations. Showing the modules at an exhibition or convention is not our primary intention, but we found out that we could build an oval layout with some modules and only needed two small adapters to make it all fit.