What's the deal with model railroads - from Exact Rail.com

[JCitron]

http://www.exactrail.com/whats-the-deal

Interesting little slideshow.

John

 

[martinvk]

When it says "Largest model Train Ever Built" it shows a rather blinkered point-of-view. See Wunderland for some interesting numbers and then look at some of their videos too.

 

[Euphod]

Could they have possibly made that any more concise?

 

[jjanmarine3]

That is very interesting - Thank you

 

[oknotsen]

In the list of "other countries with enthusiasts", I was missing the Netherlands, so I digged up the link to Rotterdam Miniworld.

Some figures:
Rails: 2,3 km
Switches: 500
Signals: 180
Trains: 150+
Wagons: 1.800
Control PC's : 23
Buildings: 2.800
Stations: 13
Tree's: 7.000
Lights: 19.000
Wires: 44 km
Pinguins : 5
Super hero's: 3

 

[qassaquyangli]

The 8 miles of track, 42 houses, alot of bridges, trains = (I think it's: ) http://www.northlandz.com/index.html
Saw it on Dream Plan Build video series (One of them).

 

[bl4882]

I believe I saw something on "Tracks Ahead" about this, I hesitate to use the word, "layout" a while back. The "stats" page is really impressive.

Bernie