Introducing the gauge 2 model railroad layouts!
Gauge 2m (G): Segment layout “Hammerundermeadowvalley”
The garden railroad is considered the big one among the small ones. Locomotives and wagons that even children can pick up without dad yelling for help right away. In addition, there is a richness of detail that can also be perceived with the naked eye. The IIm show layout of the LGB friends from the Lower Rhine, consisting of 12 segments offers on a total area of 15 x 5 m everything you could wish for on a model railroad. Up to 15 trains are in operation at the same time. Detailed scenes especially please the female viewers. Due to a track height of only 70 centimeters, even small children can view the miniature world. In addition to a colliery with a 140-centimeter-high winding tower and wind turbines, there are many richly furnished industrial complexes and stately homes. Controlled digitally and by radio with the Massoth system. On about 150 meters of track with about 40 switches, a lively railroad operation is possible on two levels. Saxon and Lower Rhine motifs can be found on the layout. Since American narrow gauge vehicles also like to travel, the Saxon station Hammerunterwiesenthal and thus the layout was renamed “Hammerundermeadowyvalley”.
Operator: LGB-Freunde Niederrhein, D-47228 Duisburg
Plant size: 15 x 5 m
Track 2/2m (G): North SeaLive
On approx. 11 square meters, this model railroad on a scale of 1:22.5 shows a coastal scene with typical North Sea vehicles on narrow gauge (45-millimeter model track) and standard gauge (64-millimeter model track). The layout has a large photo background and with its many small details (from water in the harbor basin to mice on the ceiling beams of the engine shed) invites you to linger and watch.
As there is no closed rail circle, rail traffic runs “point to point” and the train drivers have a lot to do. Live operation” is therefore shown.
Operator: LGB-Freunde Niederrhein, D-47228 Duisburg
System size: 11.2 x 1 m
Track GN15: Wooden goods factory Bernhard Brettl
In the “Christmas land” of the Erzgebirge, there are still many small craft businesses that produce wooden toys and Christmas items. An example of this was recreated here with a smile, a lot of coziness and exaggeration. The very outdated field railway operation on display, which was used to transport the required wood between the sawmill and the small timber goods factory, where the machines are still driven by water power, or to transport the manufactured toys away, fits in well with this. In the upper left area, visitors sit in a small beer garden with a brewery, taking a break and watching the hustle and bustle on the factory premises. Many different vehicles, all of which were built in-house except for the chassis, are on the move on the practical track layout with manually operated turntables and a bascule bridge.
Next door is an old board mill with a mill wheel, where the logs are cut with loud sawing noises. Bernhard Brettl’s house impresses with its beautiful half-timbering. There is still a rail connection to the rock cellar, where the draught beer from the small home brewery can be stored.
Operator: Private facility Bernd and Ilona Rüger, D-09623 Frauenstein/Erzgebirge
System size: 2.5 x 2 m
US size Standard Gauge (54mm): US tinplate railroads of the twenties
Vehicles from Lionel, American Flyer and Ives. All of the exhibits date from 1901 to 1939 and most of them are over 100 years old.
US Standard Gauge (gauge) was the standard gauge in the USA before the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, this gauge is not compatible with European gauge II, the US Standard Gauge (gauge) is wider.
The models are very popular with US collectors due to their bright colors and glittering bronze applications (trim). They are not true-to-scale reproductions of the real locomotives, but are at best based on certain originals of their time.
We, the Tinplate Players Association, are probably the only collectors in Europe for this gauge.
4 collectors have collected almost the entire program from this period and are presenting the exhibits for the first time in Europe on a large 4-circuit layout. All of the decorations are also from these manufacturers from this period. Many moving accessories such as figures, signals and level crossings complete the layout to create an overall picture of the US model railroad of the 1920s.
Operator: German Tinplate Toys Players Association, D-91056 Erlangen
System size: 12 x 5 m
