Layout at Railway Museum at Omiya

[alpineaustralia]

Let me put this in perspective.

This layout is about 20 metres wide and is actually HO scale even though it looks like N scale.

Just think how much money this little baby cost

[Guest ___]

Made the mistake of finding the museum during a Saturday, so pictures were hard for me to take there two years ago.

[Bernard]

Alpine - I'm glad you told me it was HO scale. I assume then a lot of the trains, buildings, etc. had to be custom made? There also has to be a lot of "trap doors" in that layout to have access to the trains.

Did they show you the control center for the layout?

[alpineaustralia]

No - they operated the whole thing as a 'show' for the audience in picture No.1, narrated in Japanese.

Then  they emptied the room and let in the next audience for the next session.

The 'show' took you through a day, sunset, night time, twilight and back to day, as the trains operated.

[scott]

<---- space envy.

[bill937ca]

No - they operated the whole thing as a 'show' for the audience in picture No.1, narrated in Japanese.

 

Which means there is no chance to stand and observe for an extended period of time.

[489-YOMPAQ]

I have never gone to this Museum at Omiya, but I went to Traffic(?) Museum at Kanda(before it moved to Omiya) many times with my family when I was child.

I think Omiya's Layout is bigger than Kanda's, but it seems both are very similar.

I remember when I was child...

[Martijn Meerts]

Not Japanese, not in Japan either, but certainly big ;)

 

After you've finally found the train in this picture, look at the whole picture again, and then keep in mind that it is indeed H0 =)

[Bernard]

Marti - Is that photos from the Hamburg Model Train Museum?

[scott]

After you've finally found the train in this picture, look at the whole picture again, and then keep in mind that it is indeed H0 =)

 

 

<boggle>

 

Anybody know where I can get a 1000' by 20' basement?

[Tecchan]

At the Umekoji Steam Locomotive museum (Kyoto) they have also neat layout but in N scale this time.

 

 

http://japon.loriskumo.com/2010/03/le-musee-de-la-locomotive-a-vapeur-dumekoji/

[stevenh]

No - they operated the whole thing as a 'show' for the audience in picture No.1, narrated in Japanese.

Which means there is no chance to stand and observe for an extended period of time.

 

When I was there in 2007/2008 there was a huge queue to get in, so I just peeked through the window. They _need_ to shift everyone through quickly as the crowds are large... I don't know if there's an option to loiter longer on quiet days.

 

 

At the Umekoji Steam Locomotive museum (Kyoto) they have also neat layout but in N scale this time.

 

How old is this layout? Last time I was there (mid last year) there was only the smaller Steam-only layout.

[Martijn Meerts]

Marti - Is that photos from the Hamburg Model Train Museum?

 

Yes, it is.. I have to say though, that the Alps section (the one the picture is from) is BY FAR the best of all of them.

 

 

 

After you've finally found the train in this picture, look at the whole picture again, and then keep in mind that it is indeed H0 =)

 

 

<boggle>

 

Anybody know where I can get a 1000' by 20' basement?

 

You'll also need about 10-12 million Euro to buy the necessary materials ;)

[Tecchan]

 

At the Umekoji Steam Locomotive museum (Kyoto) they have also neat layout but in N scale this time.

 

How old is this layout? Last time I was there (mid last year) there was only the smaller Steam-only layout.

 

Sorry I can't tell.

 

But I think they have another one. It was covered and you can see it on the back of my picture. I'm not sure I wasn't able to take a look at it... it was too well packed lol.

They also have kind of a temporary exhibition the day I went.

[bikkuri bahn]

I have never gone to this Museum at Omiya, but I went to Traffic(?) Museum at Kanda(before it moved to Omiya) many times with my family when I was child.

I think Omiya's Layout is bigger than Kanda's, but it seems both are very similar.

I remember when I was child...

 

 

Yes, me too- The layout is what I remember most about the old Kanda Museum.  Though the museum layout that impressed me the most to date was the one (S-scale?) at the NRM at York.

[Fat Al]

I was at the museum a couple of years ago, and during our show, one of the Shinkansen trains derailed at the lower right hand corner right at the beginning of the show. No one went in to fix it, so I assume it must be quite an ordeal to get in there.

 

The funny thing was, it drew gasps from the crowd, while the MC just kept on talking. Judging by a reaction, you would think a virtual murder happened right in the layout or something...

[alpineaustralia]

it drew gasps from the crowd, while the MC just kept on talking. Judging by a reaction, you would think a virtual murder happened right in the layout or something...

 

And rightly so !

[ToniBabelony]

Good thing I wasn't there when that train derailed. I'd have started laughing very loudly in an instant.

 

Same thing happened on the 1-scale layout in the old Dutch railway museum in Utrecht once. Wasn't really appreciated by the crowd, but I didn't really care. I was 12 years old or something like that. That's probably my Dutch sarcastic nature...