Another visit to the yearly modelrailroading event in the Railway Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands
1 OnTraxs is a yearly event at the Dutch Railway Museum. It attracks the better if not the best diorama builders in Europe and is aimed to interest families and espacially children for the hobby. There are dozens of exhibits on show, so necessarily I picked out a few I liked.
2 Utrecht Central station 1939-1973, created as a 3D printed model! This new technology enables to produce models that only exist in digital form until a customer arrives. No expensive tooling is needed in advance. With only a few orders the costs of the design can be recovered. But this comes not cheaply. Sliedrecht station costs €350. No price tag is known of this far larger station. Curious? Have a look at https://3dscaleworks.nl/
3 L'Île, the island, well you can't choose a simpler name for this freelance diorama
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12 It oozes the Breton atmosphere
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26 The background plate is separating both halves of the simple roundy-roundy suggesting much more space than there really is.
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28 Porto Flavia is a depiction of mining industry that once existed in Sardinia
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34 The loading dock of the line, straight from the cliff.
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54 A French layout "Evocation de la ligne Marie-Montcornet", radiating the atmosphere of Rural France in the Fifties.
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57 A french themed layout is this "Evacation de la Ligne Marle-Montcornet"
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63 Henk Wust is one of the well known builders in the Netherlands
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83 Depot Saint Moniat. A Belgian theme
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87 An Egyptian theme is rare and only therefor worth a look, but it certainly was an attractive layout
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98 A quick shot from a scen still very much in existence today in Utrecht. Instantly regocnisable!
99 The reality from approximately the same viewing angle
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101 The Graafstroom is a canal in the Alblasserwaard, and is depicted in the thirties I guess, with an imaginary tramway to serve the local milk factory, which inreality did exists and still exists today.
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103 The landscape and the buildings are instantly recognisable
104 The milk factory still exists today. Have a look around with Google and check out the older farm buildings along the Graafstroom
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109 The tramway is imaginary, the Alblasserwaard never had any tramway. A railconnection in Sliedrecht since 1888 was the closest.
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118 The bridge really worked and the ship really moved!
