As I said, this club had a fire in their club house (Westerkade 21, Schiedam) a couple of years ago (in 1995 actually) and after doing some serious fund raising they are back building a club lay-out. These few pictures, taken in June of '97, are just a brief impression of what they are re-building. Much to my surprise I found their homepage a while ago when doing some surfing.
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The beginnings of some new platforms. They're simply made from small pieces of plywood and before painting will be detailed with vertical strips on the railside face of it. |
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An electrician's dream (or is it nightmare): the wiring of the control panel, all labelled and colour coded. |
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This here is their small Märklin lay-out, they use this one for shows and exhibitions. This was the last shot on the trip with my flashgun. When I triggered the shutter for this shot, the flash went off with a considerably louder pop than usual and just plain quit working after that. |
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These are a few buildings that actually came through the fire relatively unscathed but, if you look closely, you'll see for instance that the two roofs in the middle have started to bow a little and have separated from the heat of the fire. |
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Slowly but surely the landscape begins to take shape. |
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In one corner of the layout was this castle sitting high on a mountain top. |
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Web Pages Created by Pieter Klapwijk. Pages last updated April 9th, 2000 |