Introducing the N-gauge model railroad layouts!

N-gauge + H0e: N-gauge America & H0e layout winter landscape

H0e layout “Winter landscape”

The H0e layout with a winter landscape was built in two years and is based on the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn (PLB). The layout is illuminated and is operated digitally and partially automatically. There are some push-button actions.

N – America gauge

This layout consists of approx. 40 modules and is based on the Southern Pacific (SP) before it was taken over by the UP. Trains with up to four locomotives and six meters in length are planned. Some of the vehicles are built in-house. The layout is operated digitally, points are set manually using a lever system.

Operator: ARGE Modellbahn soll Spaß machen, A – 2542 Kottingbrunn
System size: 19 x 8 m

N gauge: N-Bahn Freunde München modular layout

At the model building fair, the N-Bahn-Freunde München will be presenting an impressive modular layout on a scale of 1:160 (N gauge), which will impress visitors with its variety and attention to detail.

The layout consists of individually designed modules that are owned by the club members or the club. This results in a varied overall picture – with a colorful mix of themes.

A particular highlight is the spacious station on the branch line, which is also connected to a fiddle yard, which enables the assembly of a wide variety of passenger and freight train sets, often true to the original.

A single-track branch line is also connected. Only steam and diesel locomotives run here and provide a nostalgic flair.

The layout also has a lot to offer in terms of scenery: From industrial areas to rural scenes and detailed small town scenarios to a castle and monastery complex, each module reflects the creativity and model-making expertise of the club members.

The entire system is controlled analog and is blocked. Members of the N-Bahn Freunde München will be on hand to answer questions. Anyone who is enthusiastic about model railroads or simply enjoys a fascinating hobby should definitely not miss this stand.

Operator: N-Bahn Friends Munich
System size: 22 x 7 m

N Gauge: Energy & Railroad

The 2-track main line with more than 100 m of track, 40 points and 40 blocks extends over several levels with branches and approx. 20 trains up to 2 m long in a block system! The model railroad layout has a background as a mirror. This makes the plant appear twice as deep!

The model railroad layout has a 50 m staging yard, several tunnels, large bridges, commuter rail stations, a drivable 4-track rail ferry, a port facility with parking garage, canal with barges, a dam, a steam engine museum, an oil refinery, a power plant, a substation, several grain silos, a substation, a railroad museum, a transformer plant, and an old gas coking plant!

In addition, all buildings are changed and equipped with LED lighting systems. The very varied model railroad layout will captivate them!

Operator: Modellbahn-ARGE Kaarst, D-41564 Kaarst
Plant size: 8 x 5 m

N gauge: Hanami in Japan

The modular layout was created without a specific model based on Japanese motifs and operating situations. The colorful spring became the trademark of the layout. The analog double-track main line connects a suburban-like station and village with a railroad depot, stabling yard for locomotives, harbor area, mountain landscape and tunnel facilities. Highlights are our faithful “monsters” Godzilla, Mothra and Mecha-Godzilla, which enrich the modular layout in different positions, as well as the somewhat scaled-down “old” Tokyo Tower and “new” Tokyo Skytree in the suburban station. In the latter section, many vehicles have been elaborately illuminated so that the city flair comes across even in the dark. Up to 4 trains can be moved simultaneously on the 2 separate rings, and there are also train and shunting movements to marvel at in the depot and stabling yard. From steam locomotives from the post-war period to the most modern multiple units, such as Shinkansen, of today. Well-known Shinkansen names such as “Hayabusa”, “Kamome” and “Nozomi” can be found as well as the older Blue Trains “Hokutosei”, “Cassiopeia” or “Twilight Express” and express trains “Raicho”, “Tsubasa” or “Hato”. The variety is very large and offers many encounters from old to new.

For the first time, we are showing the mini-modules of one of our members in a special area. These modules encourage you to build them on your kitchen table at home and can be assembled into a layout in a very short time. Here, mainly shorter trains are presented, as can be seen in the rural regions of Japan.

Operator: IG nippoN, D-97941 Tauberbischofsheim
System size: 15 x 4 m

N gauge: Chalon sur Saone station in France around 1995

The model railroad layout shows the replica of the station of Chalon sur Saone in France and 4 km of real track in scale 1:160 (N gauge) in the period around 1995. The model has 98 turnouts and 120 m of track, the backstage model has 19 storage tracks with 50 m of track and 40 Roco turnouts. The network works with a 3-light SNCF BAL trolley with relay, the console can track 80 possible routes.

The buildings, signals and overhead lines are all custom-made!

Operator: Particulier Jean-Marc Monin, France-71440 Lessard en bresse
System size: 15 x 4 m

N gauge: Swiss SBB Alpine line St. Niklaus

A Swiss SBB Alpine route on two square meters? Hardly possible, but worth a try. With a clever route layout, many viaducts, tunnels and details reminiscent of the Swiss railroad, an attempt has been made to recreate this atmosphere in a small space.
A branch line branches off at a through station and leads over many bridges and tunnels to the terminus station at St. Niklaus.
St. Niklaus station has two tracks for railcars. Niklaus station has two tracks for railcars and another two tracks where the arriving locomotives have to make headway before they can leave the station again with the locomotive facing forwards.
This “headway” can be done very impressively using servo uncouplers.
Danger, signalling and switching is done digitally with Selectrix. I use the Traincontroller 9.0 software via a laptop.
The St Niklaus layout has a 3-track staging yard on the main line and a 4-track staging yard on the branch line. This allows a varied train operation with several trains.

Operator: Löffler N-gauge plant, Mr. Jörg Löffler, 87600 Kaufbeuren
System size: 2 x 1 m

N Gauge: The Bahnhofsstrooß & The Bass Railway

The Bahnhofsstrooß: A drivable diorama in N scale. A streetcar shuttling back and forth in “de Bahnhofsstrooß” in the late post-war period. The shop windows are set up and illuminated. Several scenes can be seen on the small area, including an arrest by the police, an elderly woman “asking” her sweetheart with an umbrella not to look after the light girls… or sometimes a curtain hangs out of the window because there is a draught. The scene is accompanied by an appropriate “urban” sound. The trees in the ruins are self-made from broom, sea moss and flockage.

The bass track: A shunting scene, also N gauge, embedded in a bass guitar case.

Both tracks are equipped with lighting from above. The Bass-Bahn is slightly lower and, due to its construction, is viewed from above, while the Bahnhofsstrooß can be viewed at eye level.

Operator: Willi von Simonsdorf, 66450 Bexbach
System size: 3.5 x 2 m