A rural tramway, without overhead wires, but with standard gauge transshipment, with private sidings, with junctions, with road-running through villages, with roadside stretches, with right-of-way stretches, and with the splendid Kehl bridge as the cherry on the cake! A dream comes true!
The trackplan
The layout is designed as a simple fiddleyard to balloon loop arrangement. The loop is hidden behind a large brewery, while the return track to the junction point is completely concealed behind the houses in the village. Along its route, the line serves two stations: one features a simple loop track where trains can pass. The other, more substantial, boasts a goods shed, providing justification for some wagon movements. At one end of the layout, I decided to model the imposing Kehl bridge. Such a splendid…