European Layouts anyone??

[Anonymous]

If you have a European layout image gallery on the web or know of a European G scale webring, let me know.

I like looking at Euro layouts!!!

Regards,

Thomas M.

[dukebasketballer`]

While I cannt help with your search for pics, I too find myself liking the european trains more and more.
Sorry I cant help you,
David

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dukebasketballer`

While I cannt help with your search for pics, I too find myself liking the european trains more and more.
Sorry I cant help you,
David

Hi David!

I never was introduced to European trains - except seeing the occasional Japanese bullet trains in magazines--until LGB got under our Christmas tree in the late 1980s.
I had an LGB catalog then, and I was somewhat perplexed at the funny looking trains and cars in Europe. I had never seen Austrian narrow gauge trains before, and loved them because they were so tiny. The closest thing in America that I could compare them with was my "all time favorite" little steam mining train--the one at Knott's Berry Farm in Orange Cnty, Calif. that I had rode on all thru my youth. The mining train was an authentic reproduction of a typical coal mine train...when I saw the Stainz I instantly thought how great it would be to make a mining layout. The fact that it would be based in Germany or Austria didn't bother me because I also loved the Medeival architectures of Europe...another big reason I love Euro trains is the scenery that goes with them...Roman ruins, viaducts, bridges, cobblestone roads. I now am a German, Austrian and Swiss railway fanatic and have many references and constantly on the lookout for more.

Now I really understand that creating a Euro layout outdoors takes a lot more work ($$) than a typical US theme, probably why those who like the Euro trains still stick with American layouts. Have you seen Franz Grund's empire? WOW! is the word for that ! There is also another gentleman in Germany (shown in the back of the 1998 LGB catalog) who has a large Euro layout with a complete Rigi shuttle to the mountain top--its absolutely gorgeous!

Regards,

Thomas M.

[Anonymous]

Thomas mate; you are one of the most misinformed people.

Japan is not in Europe, its thousands of miles away; as a matter of fact it is about as far east as you can go and still be in Asia. I don't know if you have ever heard of the Pacific Ocean but it is a very big body of water and the US A is on one side of it and Japan is on the other.

I only run LGB European, although I am working on a single American train just for variation. What i like about European layouts is that you can have the old with the new right next to each other. My railway is early 20 th century central european.

I have been to Olympia in Greece and have seen the original running track thousands of years old and right next to it is a microwave tower, this is what i mean about the old with the new. Or even a modern electric railway next to medeivil castle.

The business of scale and different gauges is beyond me to understand, so ignore the whole thing.


Rgds ian

[Anonymous]

Check out these for some European pics:

http://www.lgbtuinbaan.nl/ (click on foto's, site is in Dutch)

http://home.arcor.de/onlinebahnhof/start1.htm (click on "Entlang der Strecke", from then on: "weiter" is next, "zurück" is back)

Not a layout, but a company offering some droolingly nice stuff for a branchline German railroad:

http://www.lokfuehrer-lukas.de/0%20BW-Gebaude/Kleinbekohlung/k-bekohlung-02.htm

also check out the links on the right for more of this.

[Tom The Brat]

QUOTE: I never was introduced to European trains - except seeing the occasional Japanese

What do they teach in these schools these days?[V]

[folkestonekeith]

Hey, don't forget there is a Japanese Bullet Train in Europe - it's in the National Railway Museum in York in the UK and was donated to the museum by JRWest a couple of years ago - it is the first non-British built exhibit in the museum and was included as an important icon of the progress made by railways around the world......

Also starting in 2009 there will be a fleet of mini-Bullet Trains (to be built by Hitachi) running in the UK operating the domestic high-speed trains on the High-Speed Channel Rail Link from Folkestone (and other local stations) to London in about 50 minutes - it takes baout 1hour 30 minutes now. Even though we invented trains we don't build them anymore (well more-or-less) so we now turn to Japan. Ironic.....

So maybe LGBFan123 was dreaming of the future when he penned his message

[Michael Stephens]

Here are some other good links to Euro modelers' sites:

http://modellbahnen.cadosch.org/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=56

http://www.aengi.com/

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/reutimann/index.html

http://www.beathis.ch/lgb/lgbmain_e.html

Don't be intimidated by these Euro super layouts. I enjoyed my "test loop" on my deck for many years before recently moving.

[Anonymous]

Yes that is true; some of the layouts that are in the LGB atlas are intinidating but they aren't as good in real life as they seem in pictures. The pople in general who own them are pretty '''''''' and don't have much else in their lives.

I have been on that high speed chunnel rail link and i thought it was very good. went from Ashford in Kent to Gare le Nord in Paris.

Rgds ian

[Paul Stanton]

Hi Tom,
I came across this site while browsing,

http://www.modellbahn-portal.de/show900.html

Lots of garden layouts!

Paul

[Ray Dunakin]

Check out the February 2003 issue of Garden Railways. There's a French layout that is fairly simple yet beautiful.

[Anonymous]

Hey, come to Japan - I see bullet trains everyday on the way to work!

Matthew [(-D][bow][bow][;)]

[Anonymous]

<<<<<
I never was introduced to European trains - except seeing the occasional Japanese bullet trains in magazines--
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Uhmm....well, what I MEANT to say was "...Japanese and German bullet trains..."
Basically I meant anything "non American" in trains....unfortunately my education from tv ads to school projects to magazines to movies never, ever had anything but American trains!!!

I am well aware that Japan is in the Pacific....

Cheers,

Thomas M.

[Anonymous]

Hey gang,

A BIG THANK YOU!!! Lots of great photos at these sites you gave me!!!! Great fun! Love to see what LGBers are doing with their Euro trains....love the weathering jobs on that Dutch site!!!!

I really don't have much luck when I go into google or yahoo and try to find them myself...I have spent hours searching but never come up with great links like these!

Thanks again!

Thomas M.

[Anonymous]

Thomas are you saying that the trains in India are the same as the ones in Germany just because they are non American? What about our Australian trains which are the biggest in the world; some of them up to 2 miles long; I suppose there the same as well.

Mathew mate, do you know where I can find a good Shaboo Shaboo house; I just love it and i have yet to find a decent one outside Tokyo.

Rgds ian