I've not seen one of these in the flesh before, so I thought I'd share it.  The layout belongs to a member of my club.  I thought it was innovative.  The idea is that the whole room is a helix which runs around the walls.  It's on four levels, with the bottom level intruding into the room as a peninsula.  I hope this series of photos will explain.


































I've swung the camera around in a circle and then taken a couple of shots of the peninsula.  The ramps are on the side walls.  I hope you can make sense of it.  It's probably not a new idea, but it's very impressive.  The dimensions of the room are of a double garage (6.5 x 8.5m approx).  It's great for operational running as it can take a train a long time to get around.  It's also possible to leave a train running on one level for a while and run other trains up and down past it.

Worth a look, I thought.

A very interesting concept Max.  You can sure get some long runs (and trains) into a fairly small space.  I do like his scenery and the girder bridges are pretty impressive.

Well worth thinking about. :thumbs

Wow!
Lots of work and lots of money invested there.
Lots to like (I don't like the scattering of coloured plants but it's not my business).
Have you seen it working, Max?

I've never seen an operating session, Pete.  It's not my thing.  I have seen trains running, though.

Ray (the owner), was asking me about RR&Co.  Now.  There's something with which to conjure.  :twisted:

Thanks Max.  Very interesting indeed.  It was what I was trying to achieve in my first version of Eastwood Town and there are some pics early in the thread.  It's all gone now so it was great to see someone had achieved it….:cool:

never seen that before,very impressive,thumbs
:cool:

Impressive - now that's what I call a train room !!    I couldn't make out what happens at the door - I assume the track is hinged and poor is cut off if the door is open or is it a sliding door and Limbo dancing is compulsory :roll:

The main level at the bottom has a hinged lift up panel with copper contacts, Dave.  The three top ones lift out completely.  The aisles are about a metre wide, so plenty of room for operators to move about and every part of the helix can be reached easily from the floor.  Each of the three upper tracks are about 300 mm wide.

Can I give Ray your name for help when he starts to wire it up for RR&Co?   

I just went back and had another look at the photos.  I've missed out the doorway.  It might still be in the folder.  :oops:

Found it.




Sorry about that.  You can see the doorway and a good view of the three inserts and the lift up deck.

Max, 'wow', as they say, that's a layout and a half at least.

But I don't think it would suit my style. Nor my pocket.

What is it with the upside down world of Oz? You all seem to have sheds or garages which are bigger than my house! You'd need to be a millionaire to buy something that size around here

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Can I give Ray your name for help when he starts to wire it up for RR&Co?   

Yeah no worries

Most of my fellow-nutter-countrymen model Continental or American. I can grudgingly tolerate Continental, but frankly dislike (North-)American (as we say in Spanish, one cannot argue with taste). For me, those humoungous diesels or interminable coaches look pretty much like shoe boxes. They, on the other hand, mock my "trocha trucha" ("fake gauge"), and the amicable war is an unending pretext for fun.

At our last exhibition, they had all proudly displayed their coffin-like wares, to which I wryly commented: Oh, I see shoes have gone whole sale. I

n a gesture of conciliation, they invited me to place one of my beauties on their module, to which I graciously acceeded: It looks rather like an Earl at a cowboys` barbecue.

Many of them are what I call wine collectors with no cork screws: They have no layout and the only time they can see their stock in a row, rather than a stack, is when they bring it to my place. Whenever they exhume their unholy stuff (once I had TWO American electric locos crowned with unseemly womens`rollers polluting my tracks), I flee to make coffee. As opur nursery rhyme goes, they know they can play in the woods whilst the wolf is away; but fie if they dare not hide them away when I return rattling cups, saucers and spoons to warn them off!

Forgive them, oh Lord, for they know not what they model!

sergio

We make similar comments about the GWR over here Sergio . :cheers

He He pushing our GW friends Peter.

Thanks for the photo,s Max. An impressive railway room and design.

I remember seeing in an old early 1980,s Railway Modeller.
A layout built by a chap in the UK on a similar design.
He placed town stations on each loop with tunnels and bridges as scenic breaks, Each loop represented the mainline run between Towns.
It seemed to give an interesting operating theme.
I think the layout was called Banbury or something similar.
regards,
 Derek.