Biggest Layout

check out Northlandz.

Doesn't count - it's an exhibition layout built by a group hired for the purpose. OP specifies _individuals_.

Great Model Railroads regularly features layouts in the 20 x 40 ft range, occasionally larger ones. But although these are individually owned, most are the work of the owner and his friends. Would they fit OP's criteria? I don't think so.

I suspect that Sellios's Franklin and South Manchester would be #1 in HO. It is AFAIK solely his work. (He finances it in part by producing much of his work as kits, sold under the FSM brand.)

HTH wolf k.

The late Frank Dubery's O-scale Aberfoyle Junction layout is 83' by

How about John Allen's Gorre & Depheated?? I seem to remember that that was fairly good sized.

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I know it's not strictly on topic, but the biggest layout at the moment is surely the one at Miantur Wunderland inHamburg, Germany.

I've just cone back from a short weekend visit organised by some of the NMRA British Region members. What a place.

I'll writing something about this soon. Would anyone like me to post links or something about it on this group?

Surprising, it was not that big. The details were outstanding. It was in his basement sort of. He incorporated the hill that he lived on in parts of his layout.I don't recall the size of the layout, somewhere in the 15 X 30. His use of backdrops and scenery made the layout seem much larger.

Cheers, Wolf K.

Remember, though; it was an around-the-walls style layout with only one small pennensula.

A lot of that 32' X 26' was walkways for operators, spectators, and access, and his workbench etcetera were also part of that measurment.

~Pete

Wonder what percent of his kits ever get built.

Remember, though; it was an around-the-walls style layout with only one small pennensula.

A lot of that 32' X 26' was walkways for operators, spectators, and access, and his workbench etcetera were also part of that measurment.

~Pete

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- And many contemporary layouts of that size are two decks or more, plus staging.

The plan was for about 600ft of mainline when completed. IIRC there was about 500ft installed. I'm rereading the book, so will Know For Sure ina week or two. ;-)

cheers, wolf k.

How about this one:

It's not a private layout but part of a model village open to the public. Watch the video taken from the train that takes 8 1/2 minutes to complete the circuit.

It's an amazing place, not far from Heathrow Airport just off the M40 so it's convenient for tourists to visit before they go back home.

You did say "etc" when you were listing scales, so I imagine the trophy for largest layout would probably go to some live steamer with lots of land who has graded and laid out all of the rails and ties mostly on his own. Can't give you specific names, but I have seen articles at times about a live steamer that appears to have done most of their own work building a railroad on their land.

Very interesting, thanks. The other videos are also worth a look.

Hello, and while watching the video, if it weren't for the "giant" people I would've assumed I was on a full-size train. One heck of a layout and scenery and attention to detail. Thanks for the post. (Now if I can just find a way to save that swf video to a file.) Sincerely,

John Wood (Code 5550) e-mail: snipped-for-privacy@itd.nrl.navy.mil Naval Research Laboratory

If you use Firefox there's a extension called dwhelper

Try ashampoo.com - a german outfit, I've been using their CD burner, photo manager and defrag software for some time, and they have a product or two - low cost, too - that claim to pull video clips into files on disk.

As suggested by another poster, I have been using Download Helper with Firefox for quite some time to save and convert online videos. Download Helper is one add-on, and the converter is a separate add-on, but together they allow you to download various online video and audio formats and convert them to MPEG, MP3, WAV or a variety of other formats that are handled better by the more common player software.