{"id":3575,"date":"2003-10-01T10:56:14","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisby.dk\/wordpress\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2025-01-12T20:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:43:21","slug":"2013-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisby.dk\/wordpress\/?p=3575","title":{"rendered":"2013 – The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The past 3 years, my train set had been running around the Christmas tree. So after Christmas 2013, I decided that the old train, which I have owned since childhood (bought second hand around 1970, but probably much older than that – from the fifties or sixties) shall be used to build a real model railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even so, it still also runs around the Christmas tree every year:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Christmas train (and tree) 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally, I had a Fleishman set running on a large piece of chipboard, which was painted green. Later, the Fleishman set was sold and substituted by the previously mentioned M\u00e4rklin set with M-track, a few houses from Heljan, the classic M\u00e4rklin 3000 steam machine, another slightly bigger steam machine as well as an American Santa Fe diesel locomotive plus a few railway cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were lights in the houses. The entire house. Not only the windows. Even the roofs were lit. But I do not recall any other kinds of prototypicalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small comment: The shift away from Fleishman happened because my father got tired of cleaning track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When one lubricates the locomotives as well as I did, M\u00e4rklin’s 3rd track for power is the optimal solution, even though the natural looks of M\u00e4rklin M-track is a story that can be told very fast indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the need for frequent track cleaning disappeared, which made my father happy. And I did not care much about the looks those days anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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