My grandfather had been born and raised in the Essen area, but then left Germany a few years before WW1 began. Anyway, what a great effort went into modeling these trains to scale, and I'm impressed with the result (if not the wars in which these guns were used.)
Craftsmanship is definitely not dead. Nor is pride of work of detailing. Thank you for showing. P.S. I built a model of a K5; Anzio Anne some years back. Made a dinoramma in scale with German WWII vehicles from Minitank. Gave it to a hobby store as a display because we moved out of state and it would have never survived the trip.
With the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2010, the US Army Ordnance School was moved to Ft Lee, Virginia. All the weapons associated with the museum were moved to Ft. Lee. The captured Leopold Railway Gun is on Display on the Installation, which is open to the public.
als ersten Wagon in Ihren Video ist ein Schuerzenwagen zu sehen, den koennen Sie im Original in Koblenz im DB Museum bestaunen, und schon einmal in Koblenz da gibt es noch das WTS (Wehrtechnische Sammlung) die haben einen Panther und einen Jagdpanter Fahrfaehig
Actually, with all due respect, Mr. Goring had quite a model train layout!!! I read that's how he perceived & created battle plans. Perhaps the most enjoyable way to make battle plans! :-) He's long since been dead. As for Heaven or Hell, GOD only knows.
Ran across this and was ready to congratulate someone on restoring such a great train unit. Then I eventually figured out it wasn't quite full size. That's a fantastic thing you've done.
Thanks, I'll look for that.. The European Locos have a particular style that I like very much.. Yes it would be interesting to see some of the Famous Trains of the WW2 years.. Like Hitlers private armored train "Amerika".. Maybe Stalin's armored train with the tank turrets all over it.. Or maybe "Von Ryans Express" from the Movie..
Those are excellent models and structures! Very good video. I never thought about rail guns being positioned that way. I suppose they were too heavy to rotate on a pivot.
What a amazing set up an great CRAFTMANSHIP.....i tip my hat to ur greatness. Felt like i was in germany watching this from a distant. I would add that if u were able to slow the video a bit it would more intence ...juss a lil recommandation but WOW GREAT JOB PAL
I don't suppose you have got a 'Dora' railway gun in HO scale? Would like to see this sort of detailed featurette about those monsters! Also what a great demonstration of the precision performance and detailing of the train models we see. Especially the slow speed control of the side view around 2:30 ... Roco always were a top class manufacturer although it was Fleischmann who originally acted as the first 'excellence' benchmark in HO scale back in the 1970s IIRC.
Now that was very impressive and thank you for showing how the heavy rail guns would have been positioned, that is something I would not have realised or even thought about, fabulous layout and just love the detailing, great video, thank you, Mark
Thanks Mark. A very limited and time consuming way of warfare ! I wonder if they ever hit their targets ? Must have been very large.............. Reinhard
Very nice video and 99% accurate: the brown freight car has an UIC 10-digit computer-number. Another question is if bridges along the route would support the weight of the two guns coupled together? I would expect the guns should be separated by at least a couple of empty freight cars - or the passenger cars for the staff?
I always wondered why it was that you tell when you were looking at a scale model (they used to be used regularly in old war movies). Then I stumbled across a photographer who makes fake miniature pics of panoramic city views (these guys use post-processing to adjust the Depth of Field to make real city views look like they are miniature models). So can adjusting the DoF do the opposite and make miniatures look big? -the answer is yes. To make small things look big you need to used scaled down lenses (to replicate the human eye's DoF). That's why the model ships in WW2 movies look like models, because to achieve that DoF with a real ship and camera the lens would have to be 30 ft across!! I've started adjusting the DoF in the 3D-modeling program that I use and the results are immediate and impressive. Maybe scale modelers can do the same?
+Basic No, but wiki 'Miniature faking' and it goes into some depth about the technique (you might also want to check out the wiki pages on 'Depth of field' and 'Focal length') . If you google "Focal_lengh" (sic) and click 'Images' you'll find a picture of a red water-bottle taken with 3 different lenses. The 18mm illustrates nicely what can be achieved. Its something I'd never thought about adjusting before in the 3d-modeling program I use, but it really does work well for the project I'm working on (making a large ship look big!).
well done on the presentation of your clips...very good...i wonder if anyone will think or wish to produce running models some of the german,polish or russian armored trians that were used in 1st half of last century...im sure that would generate a lot of interest...marty
There must be more passengers in these wonderful Trains! OTHERWISE a great working! At home I took heil and we want to t´see our leader calls on my loudspeakers!
Should be. Gun is Hornby-Rivarossi HR6026 "Schweres Eisenbahn Geschütz Leopold". Try the Importers for UK, Ontracks. Locomotive is Roco Br 50. Try Arcadia models, Shaw, near Oldham. They may be able to help you with the others, Liliput Reichkonferenzwagen and the Norwegian Sleeping Car (repainted from the brown with added decoration).
+punkrockpub This could be difficult! The originals shown in the film were by Rivarossi. RR were taken over by Hornby PLC. I don't know if they available in the Hornby Continental range (as Hornby-Rivarossi), but this is the only starting place I can suggest, other than ebay.
+Samurai'splayMC2 1 : 87 HO. All items listed at end of video (5'21"). Gun is by Rivarossi. They have been taken over by Hornby PLC so your guess as to whether you can still get them is as good as mine! Good luck with your train.
Nice railway but the rail guns cannot fire cross tracks thay not built to recoil thay only capable of firing in a straight line, all that metal and men plus Material to lob a shell 30 to 40 k is not practical that why they only used a few times special track and a vast amount of time to set it all up things in short supply to the German forces,
Yes, I'm amazed too. I think 4:3 vision will do. After all, it's only a toy train. Perhaps not the spirit the majority of viewers have been inspired by. If I had called the Fort Victoria Model Railway "Train Inside a British Bunker" - who knows.............but would Hermann Goering have been as impressed ?
Rumple Stiltskin Hello Rumple Stiltskin. Thank you for your kind comment. Scale of railway when displaying continental trains is 1:87(HO); when displaying British trains is 1:76 (OO - which means British trains are slightly bigger but run on track gauge 4 ft 6 inches. It is an anomaly that has been present since the beginning of railway modelling)!
It is HO scale. The individual items are listed at the very end of the film. They are now very old. You may still bee able to get the class 50 loco from Rails of Sheffield secondhand Ebay section. I sold it to them recently ! As for the rest.............
Sven D. Schlage vor, Sie schauen die Filme "Szenen aus Königsberg" und "Last Chance in Königsberg" auch auf diesem Kanal gekennzeichnet. Danke für Ihr Interesse.
Had me fooled - until I realized the train was traveling far too quickly for a railyard. Throttle that baby back to about 1/4 as fast. The equivalent of 15 mph. It's doing 35 or 40 here. And can one engine pull two guns? Maybe 200 tons each? I just looked it up...I was close...218 tons. Putting all that aside, the modeling is fantastic. Very high level. Just slow that train down.
+Leon Davis Thanks for your comment, Leon. The film was taken totally "tongue in cheek" to show off the two guns which had been acquired by a friend. Yes, too fast, and a very unlikely train. But one class 50 loco could easily pull 600 tons, so not beyond the realms of possibility?.......
***** I was just ever so slightly - and in good fun - trolling you... But maybe in retaliation for fooling me - for about 15 seconds. The trains and scenery are so highly detailed, it looked like a film from that era. I'm a bit of an expert regarding vintage photography so the first thought that went through my head was, "when the hell did Agfa (a German company) make color film stock?" In the US, Eastman Kodak made color film and some was used toward the latter half of WW2. But the Germans? I was going to look it up, but then, "ha! The speed! Too fast! It's a model railroad!" So that's how well you did it. My knowledge of rolling stock is extremely limited so I'll defer to your expertise. Still, it's not the weight so much, but the mass. A switcher engine could pull those things around in a yard okay but over the Bavarian Alps? Going up might not be so much of a problem, but the downhill would be a real swine. Too much inertia and too little brakes. Straight into the canyon. Bottom line though, it looks fantastic.
Unbelievable and very impressive well done so real!What's scale of your railway N or S ? There were mini model world in German Hamburger and Holland Rotterdam!
How I truly enjoy watching this video! All of the attention on detail is second to NONE! I wish that something like this was available in "O" gauge. I have finally found out where can purchase trains like this!
Modelling is fantastic.....if it had been filmed in B&W I would have been fooled.....
My grandfather had been born and raised in the Essen area, but then left Germany a few years before WW1 began. Anyway, what a great effort went into modeling these trains to scale, and I'm impressed with the result (if not the wars in which these guns were used.)
Your detail is beyond words. Thanks for posting this video.
Thank You, David. Your comment is greatly appreciated.
This is amazing the detail is fantastic congratulations to those involved in this model making.
Very kind of you to say so. Many Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
R.
Now thats cool. Love the rolling stock and the music fits very well. great job
This is super cool, I love model railways with war-trains and this looks amazing!
brilliant , great craftmanship
Found what i want for christmas
Excellent modeling. enjoyed watching.
beardo52 Thank you Beardo52. Glad you enjoyed it.
Craftsmanship is definitely not dead. Nor is pride of work of detailing. Thank you for showing. P.S. I built a model of a K5; Anzio Anne some years back. Made a dinoramma in scale with German WWII vehicles from Minitank. Gave it to a hobby store as a display because we moved out of state and it would have never survived the trip.
I can only echo the comments about the marvelous job in model making done here. Very nice detail. Well done!
It would be awesome to see the dora rail gun too
With the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2010, the US Army Ordnance
School was moved to Ft Lee, Virginia. All the weapons associated with
the museum were moved to Ft. Lee. The captured Leopold Railway Gun is on Display
on the Installation, which is open to the public.
Many thanks for this information.
This is awesome all the building and detail this is the Coolest thing I have ever seen
Multi track drifting (deja vu)
These guns were just some left over guns used by the navy in Cruisers and converted for use on the railways. Easy as pie!
als ersten Wagon in Ihren Video ist ein Schuerzenwagen zu sehen, den koennen Sie im Original in Koblenz im DB Museum bestaunen, und schon einmal in Koblenz da gibt es noch das WTS (Wehrtechnische Sammlung) die haben einen Panther und einen Jagdpanter Fahrfaehig
Wow that is so awesome!
Excellent Work My Friends .
Beautifully smooth movement. I love German steam.
Very nice work ! I'm no hobbyists but I worked with a fellow who was and learned to appreciate the art .
Thanks Mark. Glad you liked it.
In heaven, there's no internet, but in hell Hermann Göring (he had model-trains) watched this film and he was impressed.
Actually, with all due respect, Mr. Goring had quite a model train layout!!! I read that's how he perceived & created battle plans. Perhaps the most enjoyable way to make battle plans! :-) He's long since been dead. As for Heaven or Hell, GOD only knows.
Very nice video ....
Wonderful video, incredible detail. Certainly a paradise lost.
Well done.........very fine detail........a wonderful piece of history.....preserve the past.....and remember the worlds lessons!
Best model railway set ever
Well, Dan, that just has to be the best comment ever. Thank you very
I agree with you Dan!!! This model layout is second to None!!!
Ran across this and was ready to congratulate someone on restoring such a great train unit. Then I eventually figured out it wasn't quite full size. That's a fantastic thing you've done.
+bitsnpieces11
That's one of the nicest comments I've had so far. Thank you very much!
Thanks, I'll look for that.. The European Locos have a particular style that I like very much.. Yes it would be interesting to see some of the Famous Trains of the WW2 years.. Like Hitlers private armored train "Amerika".. Maybe Stalin's armored train with the tank turrets all over it.. Or maybe "Von Ryans Express" from the Movie..
Another stunning film about a very unusual item. Very glad to see my coach getting some use.
I like that coach with the Swastika banners.
I've been wanting to model Hitler's private 15 car train for a long time.
Those are excellent models and structures! Very good video. I never thought about rail guns being positioned that way. I suppose they were too heavy to rotate on a pivot.
Very nice movie, i was looking for the gustav rail gun, but found this leopold? I thought marklin made it?? Wil surch now for rivarossie? Thnx
The details are insane. Wow! Nice work.
Great Video. Love the detail. Thanks for the subject matter it was very interesting.
Very cool awesome video my oppa used to tell me stories about the big railroad guns
nice model, very realistic
What a amazing set up an great CRAFTMANSHIP.....i tip my hat to ur greatness. Felt like i was in germany watching this from a distant.
I would add that if u were able to slow the video a bit it would more intence ...juss a lil recommandation but WOW GREAT JOB PAL
Many thanks for your comment. A new railway will be under construction shortly. I will try to drive a little more slowly.
Excellent work!
Excellent Detailing!
+Mark Carlson
Many thanks Mark.
Enjoyed this video very much, great rail guns, train & layout. Thanks for posting !
What a fascinating video, the loco is stunning and the guns remarkable. Thanks for the show
I love it !! Thanks for sharing...
Very satisfying video.
Wirklich sehr schön gemacht.
Sehr vielen Dank. Gut, dass Sie es genossen.
Great detail work on that train, very impressive.
Many thanks, Ben.
Well done. I am impressed and informed.
Amazing detail wonderful to watch... perfect music too
I don't suppose you have got a 'Dora' railway gun in HO scale? Would like to see this sort of detailed featurette about those monsters! Also what a great demonstration of the precision performance and detailing of the train models we see. Especially the slow speed control of the side view around 2:30 ... Roco always were a top class manufacturer although it was Fleischmann who originally acted as the first 'excellence' benchmark in HO scale back in the 1970s IIRC.
Now that was very impressive and thank you for showing how the heavy rail guns would have been positioned, that is something I would not have realised or even thought about, fabulous layout and just love the detailing, great video, thank you, Mark
Thanks Mark. A very limited and time consuming way of warfare ! I wonder if they ever hit their targets ? Must have been very large..............
Reinhard
That was fun to watch.
+Pasi Fsc
Good. That's how it's meant to be. Glad you enjoyed it.
Superb video..... hats off!
Very nice video and 99% accurate: the brown freight car has an UIC 10-digit computer-number. Another question is if bridges along the route would support the weight of the two guns coupled together? I would expect the guns should be separated by at least a couple of empty freight cars - or the passenger cars for the staff?
this video is great thank you ever so much !Im doing a model railroad of the Vietnam areagreat work
+thamas musller
Thank you very much, Thamas Musller. All the very best with your Vietnamese Railway.
How did you get hold of these trains?
excellent presentation amazing detail
I thought his was real great detail!
I always wondered why it was that you tell when you were looking at a scale model (they used to be used regularly in old war movies). Then I stumbled across a photographer who makes fake miniature pics of panoramic city views (these guys use post-processing to adjust the Depth of Field to make real city views look like they are miniature models). So can adjusting the DoF do the opposite and make miniatures look big? -the answer is yes.
To make small things look big you need to used scaled down lenses (to replicate the human eye's DoF). That's why the model ships in WW2 movies look like models, because to achieve that DoF with a real ship and camera the lens would have to be 30 ft across!!
I've started adjusting the DoF in the 3D-modeling program that I use and the results are immediate and impressive. Maybe scale modelers can do the same?
+Basic No, but wiki 'Miniature faking' and it goes into some depth about the technique (you might also want to check out the wiki pages on 'Depth of field' and 'Focal length') .
If you google "Focal_lengh" (sic) and click 'Images' you'll find a picture of a red water-bottle taken with 3 different lenses. The 18mm illustrates nicely what can be achieved.
Its something I'd never thought about adjusting before in the 3d-modeling program I use, but it really does work well for the project I'm working on (making a large ship look big!).
well done on the presentation of your clips...very good...i wonder if anyone will think or wish to produce running models some of the german,polish or russian armored trians that were used in 1st half of last century...im sure that would generate a lot of interest...marty
So Nazi, but at HO scale. I especiallly like how they aimed it. Its actually imformative without a word said.
There must be more passengers in these wonderful Trains! OTHERWISE a great working! At home I took heil and we want to t´see our leader calls on my loudspeakers!
Should be. Gun is Hornby-Rivarossi HR6026 "Schweres Eisenbahn Geschütz Leopold". Try the Importers for UK, Ontracks.
Locomotive is Roco Br 50. Try Arcadia models, Shaw, near Oldham. They may be able to help you with the others, Liliput Reichkonferenzwagen and the Norwegian Sleeping Car (repainted from the brown with added decoration).
This is very cool!!! Where can I get one of these at?????? Please let me know at your earliest convenience!!!!
+punkrockpub
This could be difficult! The originals shown in the film were by Rivarossi. RR were taken over by Hornby PLC. I don't know if they available in the Hornby Continental range (as Hornby-Rivarossi), but this is the only starting place I can suggest, other than ebay.
Sehr gute Arbeit !! Herzlich Dank..
was ist die marke von den waggon mit den swastikas?
grt
Jeroen
3:41 multi-track drifting???
what scale is this is it like n scale or somthin else and if i is n scale where did u get it from im trying to make a german war train for my layout
+Samurai'splayMC2
1 : 87 HO. All items listed at end of video (5'21"). Gun is by Rivarossi. They have been taken over by Hornby PLC so your guess as to whether you can still get them is as good as mine! Good luck with your train.
Bravo!*****
Good Point. I hadn't though of this when making the film Many thanks for your interest.
Nice railway but the rail guns cannot fire cross tracks thay not built to recoil thay only capable of firing in a straight line, all that metal and men plus Material to lob a shell 30 to 40 k is not practical that why they only used a few times special track and a vast amount of time to set it all up things in short supply to the German forces,
Niiice!!! Is that marklin? Where did you buy it?
3:50 Deja Vu! I've been this place before! :D
Wow! Such detail!
Absolutely astonishing. I thought it was a real railway from the thumbnail.
Very beautiful and good !
Excellent ! Very happy you think so !
letzterinstanz Great movie !
it's like the first rocket before they got v1 and v2
Very nice.. 2-10 Decapod???
Would like an engine like that to pull a train I am working on..
A munition train of flatcars carrying Panther tanks..
Wir cool ist das denn!! Nicht schlecht, so zusagen sehr gutes video! Perfekte Bespannung, original!!
simply beautiful. Thx for sharing it!
Many thanks, Ardin Alonso. Glad you enjoyed it.
500 000 views for this as compared with 600 views for Fort Victoria Model Railway.
Leopold best viewed in Cinemascope or VistaVision ?
Yes, I'm amazed too. I think 4:3 vision will do. After all, it's only a toy train. Perhaps not the spirit the majority of viewers have been inspired by. If I had called the Fort Victoria Model Railway "Train Inside a British Bunker" - who knows.............but would Hermann Goering have been as impressed ?
great movie, thax, what gauge is it?
+Duck Man
Thanks Duck Man. Gauge is 16.5mm, scale HO 1:87
Nice video sir.
Incredible attention to detail on this layout! What is the scale?
Rumple Stiltskin Hello Rumple Stiltskin. Thank you for your kind comment. Scale of railway when displaying continental trains is 1:87(HO); when displaying British trains is 1:76 (OO - which means British trains are slightly bigger but run on track gauge 4 ft 6 inches. It is an anomaly that has been present since the beginning of railway modelling)!
Is this HO scale and if so where to buy these?.
It is HO scale. The individual items are listed at the very end of the film. They are now very old. You may still bee able to get the class 50 loco from Rails of Sheffield secondhand Ebay section. I sold it to them recently ! As for the rest.............
cool model thought aye!
Amazing detail, truly German precision...
Very many thanks.
Love the German big guns......
What a nasty weapon.
Ferrorama! LOVE IT
that is cool how they had to use multiple tracks to turn the gun.
Ein Glück das es nur ein Modell ist.....
+Herbert Meier
Ja, nur ein Modell, aber was für ein Modell!
Impressive.
Are these model trains still available? And, if so, where can I get one at?
Magnificent!
Praise Indeed ! Glad you thought so. Many thanks.
nice work on the lay out and video
Many thanks, Anthony.
+letzterinstanz music in the beginning what it called
Details of the music are in the credits at the end of the film.
Tolle Anlage aus einer interessanten Epoche. Gibts da Bilder wie die im Ganzen aussieht?
Sven D. Schlage vor, Sie schauen die Filme "Szenen aus Königsberg" und "Last Chance in Königsberg" auch auf diesem Kanal gekennzeichnet. Danke für Ihr Interesse.
Had me fooled - until I realized the train was traveling far too quickly for a railyard. Throttle that baby back to about 1/4 as fast. The equivalent of 15 mph. It's doing 35 or 40 here.
And can one engine pull two guns? Maybe 200 tons each? I just looked it up...I was close...218 tons.
Putting all that aside, the modeling is fantastic. Very high level. Just slow that train down.
+Leon Davis
Thanks for your comment, Leon. The film was taken totally "tongue in cheek" to show off the two guns which had been acquired by a friend. Yes, too fast, and a very unlikely train. But one class 50 loco could easily pull 600 tons, so not beyond the realms of possibility?.......
***** I was just ever so slightly - and in good fun - trolling you...
But maybe in retaliation for fooling me - for about 15 seconds.
The trains and scenery are so highly detailed, it looked like a film from that era.
I'm a bit of an expert regarding vintage photography so the first thought that went through my head was, "when the hell did Agfa (a German company) make color film stock?" In the US, Eastman Kodak made color film and some was used toward the latter half of WW2. But the Germans?
I was going to look it up, but then, "ha! The speed! Too fast! It's a model railroad!"
So that's how well you did it.
My knowledge of rolling stock is extremely limited so I'll defer to your expertise.
Still, it's not the weight so much, but the mass. A switcher engine could pull those things around in a yard okay but over the Bavarian Alps? Going up might not be so much of a problem, but the downhill would be a real swine. Too much inertia and too little brakes. Straight into the canyon.
Bottom line though, it looks fantastic.
looks good thumbs up!
+bruno de jong
Many thanks, Bruno. Glad you enjoyed it.
Unbelievable and very impressive well done so real!What's scale of your railway N or S ? There were mini model world in German Hamburger and Holland Rotterdam!
Sehr schön. Leider nicht ganz korrekt umgesetzt. Der G-Wagen ist in Epoche IV beschriftet. Das geht besser. :-) Die Musik passt perfekt.
Nice model
Great models
How I truly enjoy watching this video! All of the attention on detail is second to NONE! I wish that something like this was available in "O" gauge. I have finally found out where can purchase trains like this!
Thanks, punkrockpub. Very happy you enjoyed it.