Hello, I am Manfred Schaible 

As a 1- year-old  - we are in 1949 - I had climbed onto the sill of an open window in order to better watch and smell the "Tchotchou". My my mother could prevent my fatal fall only by a cat-like approach from behind. At 3 I am said to have marched, my teddy bear in my arms, on the now dismantled metric railway from Nagold to Altensteig in order to visit my Grandpa in Rohrdorf. Could the crew have seen me and stopped in time?

Somebody found me and carried me back home to my parents. My love for trains should last longer than the pains of the punishment I received...

As a boy I had my Märklin HO, came to gauge 0 and 0e in the 70s by my French penfriend Maurice Genty whose father brought some 500mm material for arranging his central garden alley.  In 1974, with the advice of Bernard Bommert in Le Mans, we put a Citroen 2CV engine on one of the lorries in order to convert it into a "loco". In 1976 I started my own 600mm collection with a rectangular chassis from the Schorndorf tileworks. In 1981 we moved into our own big house in Spiegelberg, but I still haven't realised my O/Oe layout in the vast attic. First there was my profession - I teach English and French at a Grammar School -, then the restoration of our historic house (built in 1706), our 5 children, repairs of our house in France,  and, last not least, the creation of Manfred Schaible's garden railway, the MSGB which I present to you here.