Micro City Tram, Trolley Layout

[bill937ca]

Here is a N gauge trolley layout using R103 Tomix curves and running various Japanese trams including a Hankai Tramway 161 series, Hiroden Greenmover LEX and a Bachmann Brill. There is a mixture of Japanese buildings and low relief photos mounted on foamboard.  There are operating traffic and pedestrian lights.

 

Godzilla makes a cameo on Instagram.   https://www.instagram.com/p/CXwgI-ivpLK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

From the video description:

 

This N scale micro city layout measures just 15.5 x 39 " or 40 x 100 cm, and uses the smallest radius curves available (4" or 103 mm). It is not based on any particular prototype, and features buildings and trams from around the world.

 

The backdrop and many paper buildings are made from digital photos collected while travelling, which are edited for perspective and mounted on foam board. Featured here are the Denver skyline panorama, State Theater (Portland, ME), Savannah Theater (Savannah, GA), and Hotel Chisca (Memphis, TN) among others.

 

Trams, trolleys, streetcars and light rail navigate the traffic signals and corners. Three trams can be switched in or out of the outer loop using turnouts, the inner loop is continuous with no turnouts to accommodate delicate short wheelbase equipment. All parts of the city are modular so the buildings, people, cars and details can be arranged in new ways. Especially worth mentioning are the traffic light circuits on the superb city edge model rail layout. For both cars and pedestrians, the traffic lights are switched absolutely realistically.

 

 

[Aleks]

Very nice layout and shows how interesting a small layout can be. Some trams or may be some spots have visible slowdown, I wonder what's causing it.

[bill937ca]

2 hours ago, Aleks said:

 Some trams or may be some spots have visible slowdown, I wonder what's causing it.

On the outer track there is a signal (back from the traffic lights) that is interlocked with the track. You can see it a 2.58 and other places. At 2.58 the Brooklyn Peter Witt's headlight is off. The power comes on and the headlight comes on and the car moves shortly after that.