The World By Train

[Apogee10]

I am in the planning stage of a route that I plan to build that will be titled "The World By Train". The idea is to have a section of the route for different regions of the world. For example, a passenger train might pass through a region of the USA with a small typical town. The train might then pass through a tunnel and emerge in a region of Germany or France or Great Britian or ---- with a typical town or village. I envision an industrial region with multiple industries. There is no limit to the scope of this route.

The purpose of this post is to solicit ideas. All suggestions are welcome and wil be appreciated. I realize what an undertaking this is.

I even had the thought that if anyone wished to they could make a region and we could merge the routes. I don't know anything about merging routes so some one would have to help.

Anyway I appreciate any thoughts and suggestions.

Earl

 

[airtime]

I think this is a great idea and I don't think it's ever been done before, I had a similar idea a while ago, to reflect weather and time of the year...

I was going to build a part of the First Great Western route, from Reading to Didcot, but once built, place the routes side by side, one side would be summer only with green fields and green trees, and the other side would be the winter version, white fields and snow on buildings and stick trees, all trees would be in the same place on each route, but one would have leaves and one wouldn't, thank goodness speedtree arrived, this will help my cause a lot.

The other idea I had was similar to above, except one route would have track missing, and track workers all over it with speed restrictions, and this route would only be used at weekends and nightimes only, and the other route would have all trackwork completed and no speed restrictions at all, and this route would only be used on weekdays, both routes would be exactly the same side by side and both set in summer time...

I'm considering going for the second route, as it'll be easier to build, and also because, I'll use it more than just two to three weeks of the year...

Both routes side by side would be accessable from one baseboard, splitting off as a junction at reading and didcot...

Anyway, I think all ideas sound great, now to work...

Good luck with your route and let us know how you get on...

Joe Airtime

 

[rjhowie]

I think that really is quite novel and a bit like that giant model railway in Germany that does much the same. Could be fun and it certainly is worth exploring?

 

[jonj]

good idea