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RailCommunity and DigitaleModellbahn (DiMo) will offer an extensive workshop programme at Faszination Modellbahn Mannheim:

Regardless of whether you’re a beginner, an advanced enthusiast or an expert – an interesting programme is...

Three trains run in different directions on the oval layout, two of which alternate automatically in the station. Transport to and from the peat extraction facility is handled by a Regner narrow gauge railway in shuttle operation...

This layout depicts a US forest railway with sequoia trees up to three metres tall. Amongst other features it shows a US western town with a fully equipped saloon (with hillbilly sound), hotel rooms, a sheriff’s office with jail...

The US industrial shunting layout depicts a small American town in the late 1950s. The time period chosen for the layout – during the transition between steam and diesel – makes it possible to present steam locomotives with steam...

This layout is set in epoch III/IV. The former Ingolstadt Central Station was faithfully recreated as the main station. Beyond this, a functioning maintenance depot with turntable, a coaling facility, a roundhouse and a water...

The city of Sidi Fontana in Morocco is fictional, but the layout was inspired by one of the world’s longest narrow gauge railroads which spans more than 2000 km. The railway system makes it possible for the French army and...

Claudius Schüle from Karlsruhe presents his 0 gauge layout on an area of 36 square metres. Vintage fans get their money’s worth with this tinplate railway. Rolling stock from Märklin, Bing, Lionel and various other manufacturers...

For personal reasons Mike Bisset had to cancel his participation!

This 0 gauge layout depicts the Ladeside diesel maintenance depot from the early 1960s. Diesel locomotives began to replace steam power in numerous applications at...

There are numerous, functional funfair rides on the modular layout, which have been elaborately equipped with SMD lighting technology. On the bumper car alone, more 900 SMDs were installed and wired via running light controllers....

The layout shows what it was like in the 1950s and 60s (epoch III B to IV). It’s digitally operated and manually switched. With two stations including one siding and one stop each at the two reversing loops, up to four trains can...

An historic winter sports special train passes the gantry signal box at the station approach in Bad Eisbach. There’s busy through traffic and bus traffic on the station forecourt at the end of Bad Eisbach’s main station. The...

The club has created a perfect representation of their native Saarland with this layout. A double-track main line runs through gentle green hills, past half-timbered houses and vineyards. In many years of intricate handiwork, the...

This modular H0 railway is a single-track Franconian branch line from epochs III and IV with several small to medium-sized stations, as well as other stations and stops. Interesting scenes alternate with expansive landscapes. The...

Süderhafen is a fictitious port facility set in a timeframe of 1910 to 1920. The railway depicts port operations from years bygone with roughly 20 radio-controlled ship models, functioning cranes, shunting horses, steam towing...

This layout takes “The German Federal Railroad in the 1960s” (epoch III) as its motif and is highly detailed, has background scenery and is equipped with its own lighting. Professionally aged vehicles are operated in a manner...

The motif is not based on any concrete archetype and comprises a double-track, fully electrified main line with branch lines. Vehicles from epochs III to VI are used. Steam and ICE operation is thus possible. Attention is focused...

The TT layout recreates the German Reichsbahn in the GDR in the 1970s and 80s. It consists of a 2-track automatic main line with a replica of the concourse at Dresden Centre Station as its centrepiece. Up to 20 trains with a...

The centrepiece of this layout is a replica of Alzey Station with 10 tracks and a total length of approximately 5.5 metres, based on the German Railway’s original track plans when the station was built in the 1980s.

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N-Club International (NCI) organizes the setup of layouts based on its members’ modules. Thanks to a standardised module connection system, ever new layouts can be created. Primary attention is focused on train operation and the...

Model club “Z-Freunde International” will present a variety of attractive module layouts at Faszination Modellbahn Mannheim 2020. Here’s a small sampling:

Deep Sea Port

The Z gauge Deep Sea Port diorama was conceived on the...

IG Kirmes & Kirmesmodellbau will present a 4 square metre funfair diorama of the Cannstatter Wasen on a scale of 1:87 – Germany’s second-largest fun fair – on a 24 square metre presentation area. In addition to numerous self-built...

At "Junior-College Europa" organised by BDEF (the Federal Association of German Railway Friends) children and youngsters learn about railway modelling through a series of work and play levels supervised and supported by experts.

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Heiko Wendler: West Bend Grain (N gauge)

On a scale of 1:160, the “West Bend Grain” competition layout depicts a small grain silo loading facility in the Northeastern United States in the early 1980s. It was conceived without any...

Heinz-Ulrich Grumpe: “Göhler Narrow-Gauge Railway in Summer 1961” (H0e gauge)

Commercially available materials were used. The grain loading facility comes from Auhagen, the truck scales from Model Scene, the transformer house...

Jürgen Tuschick: “Heinzenberg Station 1968” (Z gauge)

This is an almost entirely faithful reproduction of Heinzenberg Station which was located on the former Weiltalbahn (Weil Valley Railway). The station building corresponds to...

Otto Gisch: “Gischuna” (Ho and H0m gauge)

Gischuna is a fantasy layout located in the Swiss Alps during epoch III/IV. This is where normal gauge meets the Rhaetian Railway’s narrow gauge. A double-track car system layout runs...

Wolfgang Stößer: “Hepsander Coastal Railway” (H0e gauge)

The Hepsander lighthouse is well known and popular, which is why there’s always lots of action there on Sunday. The day invites visitors to go for a walk, many of whom take...

Dr. Michael Giersberg: “Light Narrow-Gauge Railway” (H0e gauge)

Peco’s H0e narrow gauge track was used as rail material. The sleepers were modelled on the irregular shapes of the narrow-gauge railway sleepers. The tracks were...