German Forum - American Model Railroading

Germans are really great model makers. The best!!!

That is pretty cool!!  I wonder if there is a way to put an OGR forum link on their site to see if any of their members are into O-scale?

 

Alan

I just have been going through the site. They had over 400 vistors or guests and 56 members on line today.  Posting a link on there forum will be easy. Athough most are into N and HO which would be expected for Germany. I did come across G scale. So I am sure O Gauge is in there. My German is not so rusty having been stationed  and lived on the economy in  Germany for 15 years with the Army(I returned to the states in 2009) and still watch some german tv stations through my laptop and get the German football league on cable.so I am good. I also found that some of their members have posted many links to US sites. tommorw I will explore it more from my laptop.

Doug

There was a large scale sub-forum on there which covered basically everything bigger than HO - all the way up to 7 1/4" gauge outdoor trains.  Almost all the O scale posts that I saw there were related to On30, except for one guy who was looking for a place to buy O standard gauge 2 rail flex track.  When I was last in Germany, in 2012, I found a hobby shop in Duesseldorf that had an assortment of O scale - both Euro and USA.  That would be Menzels Lokshuppe.  I bought a few things there, but the shipping back to the US almost exceeded what I paid for the goods (one item was heavy).

Sprechen sie Deutsche ???  

I'm still looking for the darn signs! (Zeichen). The site doesn't seem to have a "search" function. If anyone finds the location, please post the URL.

The site does have a search function, but it's a bit cumbersome. (Click on the 'Suchen' tab.)

 

I managed to find some links to signs there. They mainly seem to be traffic related signs though.

 

Here's a link to the posting with the links.   (Click here)

 

Hope this helps. 

Doug...since your German is good, how about checking with one of the members to see if they would link to this site somewhere on their forum??

 

Thanks,

Alan

 Are you looking for US signs? There was a longrunning thread over on the model railroader forum a while back that featured tons of old US commercial signage. I'll see if I can find it.

 

Here's the link to the sign post on the MR forum.

Ditto on finding old U.S. signs...I, too, look for those, if free...and for a better variety

than many of the commercial ones.  I know enough German to get around the country

in a car and stay in zimmer frei (bed and breakfasts), but that would not be enough

to hack it on that website.  Since I like exploring Europe, I always am glad to see

Europeans exploring America as good international relations.  I have encountered German tourists on a backroad in Death Valley, have read of their interest in American western history, and of a German family vanishing in Death Valley, which is best visited this time of year!! when we, in much of the country, are all standing in snowdrifts.  I would suspect they mostly model western American railroading for that reason, but????

Thanks - I can definitely use some of those.