Thought that was good

A good 10 minutes showing the systems as they evolved.  Operations training on an interesting 500 m2 and 1.5 km track!  Must be some serious automation behind that as well... Good find for Tom Scott!

PUTRA

A system was made to do something similar using Digitrax.  PUTRA in Malaysia.

https://www.digitrax.com/casestudies/putra-kelana-jaya-rail-line/

it’s a very cool idea to use a Model Railroad to teach real world concepts.

Training

The UP has a whole virtual railroad it uses to train dispatchers.  It can be used with the prototype dispatchers interfaces.  The also have an engineer training simulator they can set to most of the prototype routes.  

Norfolk Southern, too.

After he closed his hobby shop in Toledo, the late Steve Scanes (also known for his large sales spaces at train shows and his more recent shop in Blissfield, Michigan) hired out with NS. During his time there, he built a model railroad for NS to use in crew training.

NS Training Layout : pics

Dear MRHers,

As Fritz noted above RE Norfolk Southern Training Model RR...

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/10052

https://www.flickr.com/photos/themodelrailwayshow/sets/72157631974631333/detail/

As a side-note, I note that this prototype training layout features zero run-arounds,
an intriguing detail given the oft-cited "switching layouts must have a runaround" in modeller trackplan discussions...

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

PS big fan of Tom Scott's YT videos, well worth following IMHO...

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Teaching layouts in Germany

The Darmstadt layout is not the only layout of that kind in Germany. At TU Dresden, which is the Dresden university of technology, there is a similar layout of almost the same size. Here is a video made by the American consultant Tom White. After some cab ride and interlocking tower scenes (in the former Braunschweig tower), the layout part starts at about 7:40:

Other university model railroad layouts exist at TU Berlin and RWTH Aachen. Both are a big smaller than the huge layouts in Darmstadt and Dreaden. The Berlin layout, I use on a regular basis with my students from TU Braunschweig. In Germany, teaching railway operations and signalling is common practice in study programs of transportation engineering.

Also, such layouts are very popular at universities in Eastern Europe. Here is a video of a new layout at the University of Zagreb, Croatia:

Joern

British old school

...as in old-school signalling. It reminds me of the Thomas the Tank Engine series when they still used actual models.