Great photos!

Luis,

Thank you (brigdao) for sharing these photos.  Too bad Michel's website is not available in English!

Geof

Can you explain what is being

Can you explain what is being hauled in those cage like cars and what will be hauled in those hopper cars? Blayne

Nice work

Awesome models

The transition to the backdrop is flawless!! And I love the Portuguese architecture style, that station is gorgeous.

Just curious, those 2 axle wagons with a "cage" on them (seem behind CP 1502) are meant for ceramic tiles?

Regards

Daniel Kramer

P.S. I would love to see an article of this remarkable layout. Not sure if it fits MRH readership though.

Portuguese modeling

Hi all.

Thank you so much for your comments. 

Please take note that the photo were taken by the modeler, not by me.

About the cars: those cage 2-axle cars were used to carry the cork that was removed from the trees, or to carry hay or even wine barrels or boxes. Those models are brass from a Portuguese company called Norbrass, as well as the ALCO CP 1502.

The hoppers cars are Fals type cars, used to carry gravel or sand. They are also Norbrass brass models.

Please, feel free to do questions. Even if I don't know the answer, I'll try to find the correct answer with the layout owner.

Best regards.

Portuguese models

Locos look great. How do they run?

Hi Mark! They are awesome

Hi Mark!

They are awesome runners. All wheel drive and pickup, big mass flywheels. 

Regarding the detail, they are fabulous!!

The first 2 locos are of

The first 2 locos are of English origin, the little 0-6-0 (blue and the yellow) was an industrial switcher built by Sentinel sometimes fitted with a Rolls Royce diesel prime mover. Very common in steelworks and coal mines, Hornby do a 4 wheel version in OO gauge. The blue BO-BO is a Portuguese build  but using internal components  and bogies supplied by English Electric. The UK version was called a Class20 and a total of 225 where constructed, 50 odd years on a small number are still in regular mainline use! Excellent models and buildings, lets see some more.

More great photos

Hi all.

So, the next modeler I am presenting here is David Nobre. David Nobre is great modeler that built a layout in Show cases. He is on of the most important modelers in Portugal, because I brought a lot of new modeling ideas into our country. David won a 1st place prize with the show case that is called "Luzianes-Gare", in a modeling show in France, back in 2012. I know his work since 2002, when I shaw his layout in a show in Lisbon. His work is inspirational to many others.

Again, David love the Alentejo, and the layouts I am going to show are representing a part of this beautifull area of our country.

You can follow more of his work in his Facebook page: 

Please take note that all the photos were made by him, and I have his permission to use them.

Still need to find more photos of "Luzianes-Gare".

I hope you enjoy.

Cool photos!

Luis.  Very cool photos from across the pond.  Thanks for sharing them.

Tom

Good sharing

This forum is fantastic in that modelers all over the world can exchange thoughts and pictures here. These two works are great. Both David and Michel did well - Michel has great depth of field in his pictures and took them from a good angle. Thanks for sharing.

layout

looks great to me

Belíssimas fotos - Beautiful photos

Luis,

Belíssimas fotos das construções e trens. O detalhamento, nessas fotos, da arquitetura que nos remete a Portugal é inspirador . É muito interessante encontrar colegas ferreomodelistas "lusófonos" através do mundo que a internet e a MRH nos propicia. Eu sou um ferreomodelista brasileiro.

Beautiful photos of buildings and trains. The details in these photos, the architecture that takes us back to Portugal is inspiring. It is very interesting to find "Lusophone" (Portuguese speaking) model railroaders colleagues across the world that the Internet and MRH gives us. I am a Brazilian model railroader.

Articles

I'm always interested in articles that show fine modeling, whether it be from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia etc. Everyone has different scenes to depict, different structures and rolling stock, and some solutions that are commonplace for one set of models are new to others.

Most readers here at MRH seem to be here for North American-style modeling, but surely there is room for other approaches.

Hi all, thanks for your

Hi all, thanks for your comments.

I will try to bring more Portuguese modelers to this forum, or at least their work, because we tend to think that only foreign modelers are great. Indeed they are great, but we also have great guys here who do amazing things with model trains...

@kieling_franco: obrigado, amigo. (thanks, mate)

Thanks for the support.