Model Train Restaurant

Model Train Restaurant LINK: Youtube Why have waiters when can you have a massive model railway to serve your customers?

Gas Turbine-Powered Model Train is Powerful Enough to Haul around Its Builder

This 1:8.4 scale model train is powered by a gas turbine engine. It travels down five inch gauge tracks quite quickly, as you can see by watching the video in the links. The train was built by Hidepon Works and displayed at Make Fair 2010 in Tokyo.


Link and Video, Via: OhGizmo! | Official Website (Google Translate) | Photo: Gizmag | Via: Neatorama

World’s Smallest Working Model Train

Model train enthusiast David K. Smith has built a miniscule train layout which works – the train travels in an ellipse, including through a “mountain.”

“Thus, what was intended to be a Z scale model of a 4- by 8-foot HO scale layout became a Z scale model of a 2- by 4-foot N scale layout! After I picked myself up off the floor, I made a few quick calculations… the modeling scale would be an eye-popping 1:35,200, and the finished layout would measure .125 by .200 inches…”

The video shows the basics of the layout and the clever solution re the motor. Further details re the construction are here.

Via: Nothing to do with Arbroath, Via: Neatorama, Via: Youtube

Santa Fe El Capitan by Lionel

This is running on 59' of track set up throughout a living and dining room. LINK: Youtube