|
              |
4rail.net - Hobby - Alpine Railway Projects | |
 Alpine Railway Projects Page |
 See Alpine Railway main
page... See Alpine Railway at
shows... Alpine Railway and DCC...
Subribe the Alpine Railways
Newsetter & Show Info for Free!
 The Bietschstal bridge is one of the oldest and most distictive parts on the Alpine Railway. Click the pictures to see the larger versions!  The Alpine Railway is not just a railway on the modules, but villages with roads connecting them as well as numerous mountains and gorges. Here an automatically guided bus stops in front of the level crossing to let the train pass first.  Blue mountain on the Alpine Railway is one of the indefinitely postponed projects aiming to improve the landscape to look more mountainlike.  The front corner and an impressively long Inselburg station of Alpine Railway in the Tapiola show. Tapiola is the real center of the city Espoo in Finland. Built originally as a comfortable garden city, the center now 50 years later has numerous shopping malls.  |
|
| We will update info on many of Alpine Railway hobbyists projects on this page. New modulary design The most important project for the Alpine Railway hobbyists is the increased modularity of the layout. The idea is to use smaller modules that are easier to carry and if need be replace than the older heavy modules. Standardization has also been taken several steps further. At the same time some upgrading will be done, like adding the Funikular railway to one the corner of the Alpine Railway.  Picture: A fully packed trailer carrying modules and supplies for the Alpine Railway. Smaller modules are much easier to transport and store, and are the preferred method for building despite the fact that there is more work on putting the parts together and taking them apart before and after any show.  Pictures above and below: Proper planning and brainstorming helps to achive the best end results fot the finished Alpine Railway. Here the planning and standard module building is done to Erkki's section of the huge layout.  Mountains and valleys To enhance the mountainous look there are plans to add mountains and large hills behind the rails and valley formations in front of these. Without these additions the huge layout looks from a distance more or less flat despite the hilly landscape. Computer control improvements While the whole Alpine Railway is computer controlled and all the trains computer guided, this is a constant target of improvements. DCC variants are used. Enhanced Flexibility Need for enhanced flexibility has existed for years as some of the show grounds cant accommodate the largest modular layout of Finalnd as whole. This will likely be one of the actions after the basic modularity design is finished. |
||
|
|
||
Other Alpine Railway pages Alpine Railway main page...
See Alpine Railway at
shows... Alpine Railway and DCC...
Subsribe the Alpine Railways
Newsetter & Show Info for Free!
Alpine Railways New Pictures Page...
The Swiss Railways
section... The H0 Great Northern of the
1940's... The Hobby section main
page...
|
||
        |
