Moving large layout

It wasn't in this group but do you mean

MBQ

That was the one TA I could not remember which list I'd seen it on, but I knew someone here would know. It certainly looks a nice set-up, can anybody supply a little more information in English ;)

The layout you see transported here is enourmous. I have seen it some time ago at the annual Intermodellbau show in Dortmund. It depicts the BLS mainline in Switzerland going through the Lotschberg Tunnel. It is one of the exhibition layouts off the Cologne Model Railway Club. It goes completely against most British practices. It is continuous run with a giant staging yard, modular baseboard construction, controlled by computers, and utilizes RTR models. The size allows for full-length mainline trains.

Thanks for that Jim - just what I needed. The pictures were interesting when I first saw them and I thought I had put up a book mark so I could have a closer look later and was annoyed to find I hadn't. A few pounds spent on building it ;)

I saw something similar about 6-7 years ago, my father in law took me and my son to his bosses house to buy a Hornby ATP. He was a serious model collector and after we bought the engines he asked if we wanted to see his layout.

He took us in to his 5 car garage (empty) and down some stairs to a room he had excavated underneath the garage. In there was an exhibition layout he had bought from a german manufacturer. He told me it took 2 x 7.5 tonne lorry loads to move it. it was a 4 track loop about 40 foor by 20 foot with full scenery. on the walls were showcases with about 100 engines and carriages etc.

He also showed us a further 5 rooms such as his digital experiment room. n gauge room, continental room, general room and american room.

There must have been thousands of engines and rolling stock in boxes and on wall displays.

My father in law told me the boss used to go and buy model rail shops round the world just for the stock and then sell what he didn't want at swap meets.