Another expo I like to go each year. It’s usually held the last weekend of november in the shopping mall of Geneva Airport. It’s also accessible by train! :-D
This year: no N scale, not many stuff in the shops, nothing really impressive but… a huge O gauge layout. About 10m per 20m of Swiss trains: olds and news. Man! Those trains are BIG!! The scale is about 1:45. A lot bigger than N gauge that is 1:150/1:160 and HO (which stands for Half O) that is around 1:82.
This was a perfect occasion to try filming with my new iPhone! Here is a quick movie. :-)
Of course I made lots of tours around this huge layout to take pictures. It’s impressive how many people were around…
I was impressed to see the variety of models at this scale. O gauge models are quite expensive (a single loco can cost the price of several N scale sets) and I didn’t think there would be so much choice available.
On this next picture you can judge the actual size of the rolling stock. It’s so big! I couldn’t even build a returning loop in my apartment.
The Red Arrow is gorgeous! I’m more used to see my N-Scale model and I enjoyed seeing it at such a scale!
There also was other stands but nothing as impressive as the O gauge. The Swiss Vapeur Parc was displaying a steamer and a smaller layout of the park.
I call this one “Trainception”: a model train within a model train:
You’ll find more pictures on Tecchan’s Facebook page, don’t forget to like it! ;-)
It was a nice expo but like when I went to Rail Expo in Nyon this year, I was a bit disappointed not to see more different layouts and especially N scale ones. Thus said, all was compensated by the O gauge layout, I can’t get enough of this one!