Amazing Model Railroad
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Matt308
Glock Perfection
Wow!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
That is an amazing place Andy, there was a little about it on the TV with James May a couple of weeks ago and It's on my list of places to visit but alas I think the next trip is going to miss Hamburg by about a day's train ride. Maybe in about 2012.................
RabidAlien
1st Lieutenant
Nice! 
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
That is impressive
Awesome!
wheelsup_cavu
1st Sergeant
Pretty cool. 
Wheels
Wheels
BikerBabe
Senior Master Sergeant
God, what a load of work that has been put into that model railway! 
Messy1
Master Sergeant
That is a amazing railway. From the video, the detail looks impressive.
ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
Truly an engineering marvel. Leave it to the Germans to come up with something
like this.
Charles
like this.
Charles
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
SON!!!!!
Matt308
Glock Perfection
I went to a model railroad convention here in Seattle many years ago. The literal engineering that went into the production was uber phenomenal.
What they do is specify an entry table size and interface dimensions, track locations for the interface, etc. That way all compatible entries will interface (edge up properly/interoperate) with the next entry. Thus you can have a 1880's diorama interface with a 1950's scenario with a 1941 WW2 railyard with a Canadian Rockies Express.
It is rather phenomenal how these guys put all these entries together and then set up an engineer's station to run all the trains. It is something similar to air traffic control, but with all the electrical, mechanical and physical interface implications. Impressive as hell actually.
What they do is specify an entry table size and interface dimensions, track locations for the interface, etc. That way all compatible entries will interface (edge up properly/interoperate) with the next entry. Thus you can have a 1880's diorama interface with a 1950's scenario with a 1941 WW2 railyard with a Canadian Rockies Express.
It is rather phenomenal how these guys put all these entries together and then set up an engineer's station to run all the trains. It is something similar to air traffic control, but with all the electrical, mechanical and physical interface implications. Impressive as hell actually.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Ha! Good eye Gary! Can't quite make out what type but there are two parachutes.
Lucky13
Forum Mascot
Naaaah....too cluttered! I never get why people try squeeze as much as possible on some layouts, not my thing. Nice work though!
Hmmm I've had a close look full screen and it appears to be a civil plane of some description, not a Lockheed Electra as that has twin rudders although the original models made for the Electra had a single rudder, possibly a twin engined plane though.
Yes I know I'm quite sad!
