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One of germany's finest and most famous and superb model railway with steam trains in ho scale

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Rating: 4.5; Vote: 2

If you re asking German model railroaders and railway enthusiast, where to find the most outstanding permanent model railway exhibition in Germany, they will probably answer, this is the Modellbundesbahn. In fact, the Modellbundesbahn is a superb HO scale permanent display layout, constructed to museum quality. In 2007, the British railway journal Continental Modeller called this layout the German equivalent of Pendon Museum. On the contrary to many other model railway layouts, which are presented in Germany, this HO scale display is an accurate and historically correct scale model of Ottbergen railway station and its locomotive shed as they were in 1975. Buildings, locomotives and trains are carefully weathered. There are no high speed trains. No, there are freight trains, local passenger trains and a lot of railway traffic at the classification yard or marshalling yard as it was usual in the early 1970 s. Over time the loco depot at Ottbergen, housing the strong steam locomotives, type Class 44, was to become famous as one of the last major centers of steam in Germany. Also in the early 1970 s, there was a young boy, called Karl Fischer, living near the railway line in Ottbergen. When he was a child, for countless hours, he stood near the railway line and watched the large steam locomotives of the German Federal Railroad. He was fascinated by the Class 44 steam train locomotives, and of course, he was fascinated by the big marshalling yard - right behind his parent s house. Twenty years later, Karl Fischer, had a dream: He wanted to recreate Ottbergen in miniature as an authentic historic record. Captured by its memories of the steam age, 30 years later in October 2005, the first stage was opened in Bad Driburg. The layout had been built in sections and was assembled as a large U shape. On one side is a scale model of Ottbergen railway station and the famous loco depot. On the other side is an accurate scale model of Bad Driburg railway station. The HO scale display was built over a period of eight years. Taking around 35, 000 man hours. Occupies about 100 square meters and consists of 1, 100 meters of track, 216 points and 83 signals. When building this miniature world a lot of emphasis was put on reality. There are no gimmicks, just high quality railway modelling at realistic speeds, using authentic train formations. Trains run at authentic scale speeds. The landscape is modelled to a very high standard. The first stage of the railway layout was constructed by professional builder Gerhard Dauscher, while the second stage has been supervised by Michael Butkay. The buildings are mostly scratchbuilt, or at least heavily adapted, as few commercially available kits were correct. In 2009 Karl Fischer and his team decided to expand the layout. This was not just a simple case of an addition but involved modification of the existing installation. A large new central module was added with a new railway station. If you look at the cab ride, you will discover this new section because it was used as a starting point of the POV drive. Furthermore, this point of view video, some say first person view video, which was made by Pilentum with great passion, is a very good way to get to know this model railway layout exactly. Everything was fine by the year 2017. But then, Karl Fischer and his team, especially Norbert Sickmann, decided on a change. The old location of the model railway exhibition had become too small. An enlargement of the layout or an extension of the exhibition area was not possible. Therefore, the entire installation was dismantled in the summer of 2017 and rebuilt in a completely new exhibition hall. At the end of May 2018, the new exhibition was opened in the city of Brakel, approximately 15 kilometers away from the old location. Today, the size of the whole installation makes it necessary to use a digital control system, using the software TrainController. Control of trains, control of accessories, occupancy detectors and locomotive decoders are based on the Selectrix digital model train control system. Finally, there are more than 80 locomotives, 900 items of rolling stock, 150 buildings, 7, 000 figures, more than 1, 500 trees and 2, 500 shrubs. There is an ongoing programming to fit interior lighting to all coaches. Actually, the new car system is running. And, as you can see on the cab ride train journey, inside the new location is enough space to expand the railway installation
Date: 2020-04-24

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Comments and reviews: 10

hntrains
Great angles, great footage overall. It was good the text was over around halfway through the video; that way, one could finally enjoy the images fully. Towards the end I realized I did not know what the entire layout looked like. Perhaps it was never intended for the video to provide a comprehensive view, but I would have liked to get that. Do those people work there, under that same roof, to add whatever is necessary to expand the layout or do they work somewhere else and bring the parts to the layout when those are ready for assembling and incorporation? The only thing I would say the layout is missing is more life. Every now and then, a little scene involving people, perhaps, animals, too, such as that lady in the swing; showing how the place is inhabited - as opposed to just some train platforms and some streets. And how cool would it be if the passageways under the layout were turned into actual tunnel sections!
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Rob
Very very good. Thank you. Two points, about unnecessary distraction, that you might like to consider: 1. The gratuitous music is annoying to some. Perhaps nowadays they form a small part of your audience here; however, removing the music would immensely please them, without dismaying the rest. 2. The commentator has a good command of English, but many words are mispronounced, usually by acccent placement. Word recognition for native English speakers relies heavily on the accent shape, it's one of the first things the brain checks. It's a feature of the language that takes even the best linguists a very long time to master. It's all understandable here, but why have that distraction, when a native speaker would do the job perfectly. Anyway, thanks again, for this and your other videos.
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18aprile
Che senso ha una traduzione in inglese di uno speaker inglese? Fatto questo appunto, non mi resta che elogiare il filmato per il realismo spinto tanto da poter essere scambiato per un filmato reale, davvero stupefacente. solo la sovrascrittura disturba un po' l'eccellenza delle immagini. comunque complimenti da un appassionato di ferrovia reale e miniatura.
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gdavis7362
When watching real trains you can kind of see the weight of the cars and the load being moved, the appeared lightness of the cars is the only thing for me that keeps this and all model trains from being immersing, that and the building of course. If these guys can't overcome that perception no one can. Excellent Work.
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Merulious
Marvellous, superb modelling everywhere, but my question is, Who invented the free travelling road traffic models that are the finishing touch? The first time I saw these it was quite some time before I realised they were models. It is so good to see trains driven by drivers not empty cabs as well. Thank you.
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Piotr
Absolutely insane. I had to pause a few times to take a better look at the details and it borders on ridiculous. Each tree, house, lawn and other items are perfect. Even the tracks have that familiar discoloration from old fashioned toilets. What a great build. Is this something you can visit?
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Walt
Thank you so much. Danka Shon! I would like to ask if the curves are too tight for the passenger cars? They look out of scale. Am I wrong? The realism is impressive otherwise. They went to great lengths to include the community in which the railroad is located. Bundesbahn sitzenleben!
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Ronn
I like that you run the trains slow enough that they look like real trains with a real load to pull. Also the directional lighting really enhances the realism of the scenery. Thanks. Would it be possible to put a camera from the point of view of a steam engine driver's window? Ronn
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HD
I try to assemble a passenger train for the 2nd era (around 1930-1945)-particularly the one german army (3rd reich) used for troups transport. In case you have any info. about the locomotive class and the passenger cars for HO scale, please help me, many thanks in advance!
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CAG
Absolutely amazing work so perfectly detailed and accurate. makes it a shame you did not finish the insides of the tunnels as it would have increased immersion 1000 fold since you were recording from the engineer s position as the train ran down the line.
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