Hello Friends I'm so pleased, Rosetown got a new Trainstation. You can find a step by step instruction from Lionel Gazeau on my Website. On another note, people asked me about the story behind Rosetown and here it is: The Story about Rosetown: Long before the Mexicans colonized the SW the Ancients had established a flourishing civilization. Water was a prized commodity and settlements usually sprang up around wells or watercourses. Some dried up permanently, some were seasonal while yet others were poisonous and some health givers. The natives disappeared and the Spaniards moved in after many centuries. One such Oasis was named Sane, or, "œI heal". The spring was reputed to cure everything from impotence to headaches, from impetigo to hangnails. Several people were supposedly brought back to life and others swore it was a love potion. Times changed, English-speaking Americans took over the region and moved into Sane. Unfortunately too many people were shot down after losing their sense of humor when the local inhabitants told them they were in Sane. It was renamed Hog Wallow because of the wild pigs that bathed in some of the local springs. Time passed but Hog Wallow never grew to have more than a few shabby houses. Let me tell you the story of Grandpa Elgee. Early last century Gramps learned that if he moved to these here parts he would be cured of all the things that ailed him. He bought a few thousand acres and built a small adobe house on a spot he liked. After a while he got tired of hauling water from the nearest town about fifty miles away and bought himself a Model T Stake Bed truck from a fellow named Art Micron. He modified the frame, added a platform, winches and motors and rebuilt it into a drilling rig. After which he went prospectin' for water. He didn't go far as he drilled 35 feet from his front door. Instead of finding water though he tapped right into a shallow pool of oil. Luckily it wasn't a gusher and he was able to cap it right away. So Gramps built a bigger well only about 25 feet away this time but a bit Northwest of the house. Unfortunately he was as good at building oil wells as he was at finding water and the thing fell over before he could complete it. That destroyed his one and only room and he decided to hire people who knew how. Grandpa made a sizeable fortune from his oil but squandered it in the numerous gambling Halls and houses of ill repute that blossomed in the area after his findings. One of his favorites was a young Lady named Rose who took care of him in his dying days. Gramps decreed that henceforth the town would be named Rosetown in her honor instead of Hog Wallow, a name that most people didn't like anyway. For a time they wanted to call it Lionelville in his honor but he turned it down. He died happily several years later, still on top of things. Today Rosetown is a prosperous and growing city with a beautiful new passenger station, several missions, shops and restaurants, a motel, a police station, fire station as well as a High School. In the old part of town, now the red light district, can still be seen some of the original adobe houses. A hotel and a shopping center are planned for, along with additional housing for its growing population. As chronicled by Lionel Gazeau in The History of Rosetown. © 2006, The OtherLionel Publishing Co. USA. Sincerley Jürg http://www.rosetown.ch
Excellent station and story Jürg! Now that you have the whole town, when do we get to see everything on your layout? It's going to be fantastic with all your custom trains and structures!
Hello Rob, Rosetown is not finished yet. Still a lot of Buildings are missing. I'll start the Layout on February when I get my first 4 Modules. I think the Layout will looks similar to this (of course in SW Style):
