some crazy layout

[keitaro]

holy crap

 

http://n-hiroba.com/index.html nuff said

 

got it from a mixi member he is the owner

[bill937ca]

Its been around for years. If I`m not mistaken its located on outer western end of the Chuo line near the Keio and JR Hachioji Stations (which Wikipeida says are a five minute walk apart).

 

 

[The_Ghan]

Hmmm ... while he has plenty of nice consists the layout is simply a spagetti bowl of track to me.  I'd appreciate your layout more, keitaro.  But thanks for the interesting post.

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan

[Bernard]

I remember this layout.....I'd like to see what they do when there is a train derailment in the middle.....I wonder if they have someone dressed as Tom Cruise from Mission Impossible suspended from the ceiling by a wire and when there is a derailment he is lowered down onto the layout to retrieve the train? 

[Jcarlton]

Are there any rental layouts that try to use a more linear approach?  Every one of these layouts I've seen seems to try to cram as much track as they can into their space without trying to make the experience realistic. it's just runnung trains round and round. Have John Armstrong's books never been translated into Japanese? It's like these Japanese rental layouts are stuck in the 1930's for the most part.  I can understand it for home layouts with the severe restrictions placed on them, but you would think that the kind of space that this layout has would be an opportunity to be creative.

[Mudkip Orange]

Are there any rental layouts that try to use a more linear approach?  Every one of these layouts I've seen seems to try to cram as much track as they can into their space without trying to make the experience realistic. it's just runnung trains round and round. Have John Armstrong's books never been translated into Japanese? It's like these Japanese rental layouts are stuck in the 1930's for the most part.  I can understand it for home layouts with the severe restrictions placed on them, but you would think that the kind of space that this layout has would be an opportunity to be creative.

 

How many spurs and little industry shunts are there on a modern Japanese railway?

 

Most of the urban-suburban Japanese populace is used to fully double-tracked rail lines that always go to the same place. None of this crazy ad-hoc "you never know which platform it'll be on" stuff like at, say, NY Penn or PHL 30th lower level. Where there's operational interest it's mostly fast trains overtaking slow trains, e.g. the four-track stations on two-track Kansai lines.