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 Alpine Railway Alpine Railway is probably the biggest modular model railway in Finland. It models mainly the Swiss railways and environment, but also surroundings from other alpine countries Austria, Germany, France and Italy. However, no mountain railroading is strange for the Alpine Railway Hobbyistis. Alpine Hobbyists are active on Norvegian and U.S. modelling as well. The Alpine Railway hobbyists have no formal club structure. This is a loosely gathered group of good friends who use the Internet for communication. We have our informal meetings several times a year around the layout, where we plan new modifications and future projects. Between the hobby shows we build and upgrade modules mainly at group members' home. Modules of the layout are owned by several people and form together a great working miniature world! As a modular system Alpine Railway is never finished. Currently we have several projects under way including "New Olten" and "The Blue Mountain"(to add the currently missing mountain scenery). More on these projects here in the near future. |
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The Swiss Railways
section... Click to enlarge the pictures!  The Re6/6 is dashing forward on the tracks as another train passes the station in the background.  RAbove and below some of the Swiss railroad stock seen on the Alpine Railway.   The Biehstal bridge is one of the oldest and most distictive part on the alpine Railway. Click the pictures to see the enlarged versions!  The Alpine Railway is not just a railway on the modules, but villages with roads connecting them, 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 postponed projects aiming to improve the landscape to look more mountainlike. |
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 Alpine Railway took part in the yearly national model railroad meeting in Tampere Finland 27-28.10.2007. The layout mini configuration is shown in the picture. Picture: Lorenz Schmuckli. |
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| Alpine Railway Hobbyists Obviously the group needs to have guidelines to be able to work together. Certain measurements and the DCC system plus the train controllers are all common during the hobbyshows. The modules are not strictly identical, which enables richer variety when putting the layout together, without sacrificing the flexibility of modularity in general. If you take 10 hobby shows, there are probably at least 5 different Alpine Railway combinations to be seen! DCC for train control Originally the Alpine Railway was a quite ordinary traditional DC layout where the controllers directed the track instead of the rolling stock. The DCC age started as late as the year 2004, because a huge layout needs a lot of considerations before making extra investment on all components and hundreds of pieces of rolling stock. On the other hand DCC allows for a lot of improvements, below a few of them:
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Alpine Railway at Helsinki Model Expo Hobby Show in March 2007. Click the picture to see the whole layout! |
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Other Alpine Railway pages See Alpine Railway at
shows... See Alpine Railway Digital
Command Control page too... The Swiss Railways
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