The yearly modelrailway show at the National Railway Museum in Utrecht
1 Ontraxs is tradionally held every year during the last weekend of the spring school holiday. Venue is the National Railway Museum in Utrecht. As always a disclaimer: I photographed e few layout extensively, but needless to say many, many others were equally good. I just picked out a few because I liked them.
2 Dun Stravaig is a layout that at first does not look too spectacular. But in second look there is a very original idea hidden in it. It consists of four identical inetconnected dioramas which differ in only one aspect: the season they are depicting.
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7 But even so, the work on the details of these dioramas is brilliant
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12 A perfectly modelled well-worn bread and butter shunting loco
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32 This layout is remarkable in that is very spacious, suggeting the vastness and relative emptyness of the French countryside
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50 Even as small as this, layout can still be very interesting
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52 The idea to add a poster of this very exhibition!!
53 Along the way to other layouts I also saw these beauties.
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57 A wargames modeller also made an outing into the railway worls with this stunning result!
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81 Ackle is one of the masters, i f not the of diorama building
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111 Robert's layout was aa stunning depiction of the lumber trade. An absolute eye-catcher and justly drew hords of people.
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138 Hasselfelde is a station in the Harz region.
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142 The station building is instantly recognisable
