Last Christmas, I travelled with my family to Hamburg, Germany, where I lived in the 1990s. Being in Hamburg always means to pay a visit to the Miniaturwunderland, the biggest model railroad exhibition layout worldwide. This time, we concentrated on the nicely detailed Italy section.

I just returned from China where I have a lttle side job as a visiting professor teaching railway signalling classes in an international program at Beijing Jiaotong University.

I recently reactivated my Instagram account. It's mainly about model railroad topics. You may visit me at https://www.instagram.com/jpachl/

With 'Metro Exodus', there is now a computer game playing in a dystopian near-future railroad world.

My new TT scale diorama was inspired by the railway station Finsterwalde (Lower Lusatia).

In the meantime, I also submitted a picture to the Ripley's Unconventional Art Contest.

One of my TT scale model railroad pictures from the 'Leaving the city' series, which I already posted in a blog entry on 2017-09-24, was accepted for submission to the SG Trader Digital Art Competition. Everybody is kindly invited to vote under the link given below. To avoid multiple votes, voters must be logged in. If you do not want to open an account just for voting, you may also login via Google or Facebook.