Piet Brijs - Model railroad trackplan
The trackplan is created with the help of Sébastien Marchant's Railways software for model track planning, version is 3.0.12 of May 1999.
The first one shows the visible tracks of the lay-out. The dotted tracks are the invisible ones. The second one shows the hidden station and the rest of the non visible part of the lay-out. The few dotted lines represent visible tracks (also shown in the first track plan)
You will find pictures of the trains and the scenery in the tour pages.
As long as I can remember I have trains. More then 40 years ago I bought my first Maerklin train. Since that time I build several lay-outs. This one is the largest and the most sophisticated.
In 1982 we moved to this house. The track plan was designed in the winter of 1982/1983 with the use of templates. The first tracks came in the winter of 1983/1984. Originally it was a combination of M en K tracks. After a while I decided to use only K tracks on the visible parts. During the years I made some modifications on the original plan, so at the end the lay-out didn't match the original drawings entirely.
You could say that the lay-out is finished, but I'm still working on it. Most of the modifications have to do with maintenance, enhancing the scenery, adding more electronic gags, replacing Maerklin signals by Viessmann, and so on....
In 2000 I started the conversion to digital. At this moment all the trains run digital. The rest is controlled in a traditional way.
I have a combination of digital and delta locomotives. Some of the older (non digital) ones are upgraded to digital. I also bought some new ones. The rest was added to the growing stock of "out of service" locomotives.
On advise of my dealer I bought the Intellibox controller and later on the Intellibox boosters.
Some statistics about the lay-out:
