Now it is official: the rooms are rented since 11/01/2000. As you can see on the
following pictures, there's a lot to do! This is the place where
a dust-free, wonderful location for our layout is to be created!
At the same time, our model railroader
Gerhard Dauscher is making up the plans for the first of 5
building sections! We have our first article in the Hamburger
Abendblatt and the Bild-Zeitung (both are newspapers). Our call
: "Model railroaders wanted" flooded us with more than 160
applicants! After long thoughts and sightings we selected 40 of
them. Two groups of 20 will have to attend a seminar with us and
Gerhard Dauscher on 2 weekends. After that we will have to
decide on approx. 15-20 model railroaders. We're a bit unsure
and anxious if it works out to form a group of 15-20 model
railroaders of different age and character into a harmonic
team!
That's how one of the most beautiful houses of the
historic Speicherstadt looks like. Here we will be found. It is a
dream => the most beautiful location one can find for such a project.
We'd like to take the opportunity to express our thanks to the
HHLA and most of all their Board of Directors and Mr. Nelde for
their trust in our project! We'll pay it back a hundred times!
This material lift at the wall will be of much importance to us
during the next weeks!
That's the present state! One can guess a bit what the future has
at stake for us!
Here you see about 10 percent of our total floor area. Impossible
to summarize the total size of this object in pictures!
After an inventory the first building materials arrive. We start
by renovating the ceiling. The first dry-wall panels have arrived!
During the next weeks this will be the place where hundreds of
tons of building materials, track, etc. will arrive at our location. In
ancient times, coffee was hauled up by cranes and block and tackle.
Today, the lift shown above will do this work for us. Only it ain't
coffee any more...
