EuroWest III

July 24-25, 1999

The pictures below capture the highlights of this event. If you want to skip the pictures and go to the videos click here

This event would not have been possible without the support from Andreas Hildebrandt and the Spaten Importer, Chrissa Imports. Many thanks to Andreas and all others who helped make this event a great success.

For ETE members the event began friday night, when we arrived at the beer warehouse to unload and set up the modules. Eric Nielsen (left) and Rudy Pfeiffer (right) from San Diego unload their modules.

ETE Chairman Bill Comfort Jr. (left) and Stretch Andersen (right) help setup the modules. Bill came all the way from St. Louis to attend this event.

Hans Beck setting up his modules

Jim Recker (left) and Hans Beck (right) continue unloading modules.

An ETE module  ready to go to work.

The Modules begin to come together. Selwyn Eddy stands behind his two modules.

The Bay area modules begin to come together.  Bill Comfort, Selwyn Eddy, Dave Pryor, Carsten Ramcke and Mike Beck (from left to right) make final adjustments. Carsten came from Michigan to attend the event.

Dave Pryor making final track and catenary adjustments.

After about one hour, the Bay area loop is finished. 12 modules and 4 corners are finally in place.

The Bay area control panel, behind Stretch Andersen's module.

A laptop was also used to control the Bay area layout, running the Railroad and Co. software.

The public could see the software we used to control the layout on this monitor.

Errol Kibicki (right) working on the San Diego modules. Carsten Ramcke (left) enjoys a beer while filming the module setup.

The San Diego modules are set up in a point-to-point arrangement.

Do you think we'll finish all this beer in two days ?

Errol Kubicki running the San Diego modules

The main station on the San Diego modules

The roundtable on the San Diego modules

A freight train on the San Diego end loop module

Trackside workers on the San Diego modules

Passangers awaing the arrival of a train at Mariasville on the Bay area modules

ZDF express on the Bay area  main line

Swiss freight train leaving a signal.

Spaten is everywhere !

We had fun with the new Marklin Messwagen, shown here displaying actual train speed.

Another view of the Bay area modules

On saturday, many visitors enjoyed the items available for sale. Great prices !!!

Uli Schweickhardt from ETS (left) came from Germany with lots of good bargains for all.

Everyone's checking out the goods. There were plenty of happy buyers.

ETE member Fred Lohden checks out the K track "drag-strip". Those beer cases came in handy !

Dr. Eisenbahn (Jacques Vuye) was also there providing his repair clinic.

The following day the modules were reconfigured into one long "fremo" style layout. Here's were we broke the previous record by running a 74 car freight train pulled by Jacques BR44.

When it was all over, it was time to pack up the modules.

The other official ETE module transportation vehicle