A Subway Doesn`t Have to be Underground

[bill937ca]

This is the Ginza line at Shibuya.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-WmJza9JLc

 

At night leaving the station.

 

 

[westfalen]

Cutting a hole in the side of a building is not a very realistic way of disguising the tracks entering the hidden staging yard.

[bill937ca]

Cutting a hole in the side of a building is not a very realistic way of disguising the tracks entering the hidden staging yard.

 

But there`s a prototype! 

[bikkuri bahn]

Cutting a hole in the side of a building...

 

Did you mention holes in buildings?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTQQiO3zHQQ

 

Model:

http://railblog.seesaa.net/upload/detail/image/070827_mokei1.jpg.html

 

Alas destroyed by the Kobe earthquake.  The station itself is still there, a nice one with an arched roofshed.

 

Nice cutaway floorplans of the building:

http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~mt-rokko/j_hankyu02.htm

[bikkuri bahn]

The first video was taken from the recently opened Hikarie Building.  Worth a visit if just to photograph the Toyoko Line terminal trainshed before it's closed/demolished and the line shifted underground.

[Densha]

Not really Japanese, but in The Hague they have trams going through buildings, even with a lot of switches and tunnels and stuff. At the moment you can see it at this page, but I don't know how to get a direct link to the article: http://haagsetrams.com/actueel/actueel.html (last two pictures are links to videos)

 

On-topic: I have something for trains going through buildings, now that I think about it, maybe I should implement it in a future layout.

[disturbman]

I know of at least one thing like that in Berlin.

 

Something quite like that although it's not the one I was thinking about.

[keitaro]

the line to bondi junction has a little bit of underground and through buildings here in sydney.

same as north sydney small 1km~ stretch through and under the buildings.

[Mudkip Orange]

Cutting a hole in the side of a building is not a very realistic way of disguising the tracks entering the hidden staging yard.

 

LOL

[The_Ghan]

the line to bondi junction has a little bit of underground above ground and through buildings here in sydney.

same as north sydney small 1km~ stretch through and under the buildings.

 

I've made the correction on keitaro's behalf ... that's what populating your carriages with over 300 z scale people does to you ... 

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan