Layouts and layout building

 Looks like someone has done a great job on this layout. 

Brusio, Switzerland 

I can just say WOW and do this.

Either somebody did a really good job of reproducing the prototype....

Or somebody slipped a prototype photo into a model forum...

Having just looked at a couple of photos of the Brusio Viaduct, my money is on the latter.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with HIDDEN helices)

That's quite beautiful. I love stone viaducts.

I thought everyone would get a kick out of this picture, It looks so much like something a modeler would do to get elevation on their layout.
UPS made my day, they delivered my 2-6-6-2.

Cheers 

Lee

 ... all of Switzerland is just one big, fantastic model railroad! I still wonder how they made the mountains look so realistic...

Here's another one:

 That's about as real looking as it gets!  But those are some strange looking Shays pulling that log train... 

Seriously, somebody knows how to build a model railroad, just look at those trees!

Jarrell

Oscar Wilde said "Life imitates Art."

Nice to see nature & life finally catching up to our art
(now if I could only get nature's pine trees to look more like bamboo skewers & scouring pads

cheers!
--mark

Travel Channel used to have a series called Swiss Railway Journeys, where they travelled through different routes and railway systems all over Switzerland. I don't remember which route, but they have covered this loop. The radius is about 70 meters i think, which translates into 80.4cm or 31.6" in H0.

Svein

 Did a little quick research, this Brusio loop has a 7% grade, they say.  Here's a youtube video from a passenger seat on the inside. 

steemtrayn:

Here's another one:

What's not immediately noticeable about the Darjeeling-Himalayan loop is the seven-man crew of that little 2 foot gauge loco.  Two of them stand on the pilot beam and throw sand on the rails.

I have a hidden helix of similar curvature, but the track gauge (prototype) is 42 inches.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

tomikawaTT:

What's not immediately noticeable about the Darjeeling-Himalayan loop is the seven-man crew of that little 2 foot gauge loco.  Two of them stand on the pilot beam and throw sand on the rails.

I have a hidden helix of similar curvature, but the track gauge (prototype) is 42 inches.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

Seven men...Engineer, fireman, two sanders, coal breaker... Who did I miss?

steemtrayn:

tomikawaTT:

What's not immediately noticeable about the Darjeeling-Himalayan loop is the seven-man crew of that little 2 foot gauge loco.  Two of them stand on the pilot beam and throw sand on the rails.

I have a hidden helix of similar curvature, but the track gauge (prototype) is 42 inches.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

Seven men...Engineer, fireman, two sanders, coal breaker... Who did I miss?

Head end brakemen, one for the locomotive, one for the first car.  In operation, it looks similar to one of those fraternity, "How many people can we stuff into a VW Beetle," stunts.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)