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The St. Gallen layout is basically a folded figure-eight. Construction began in 1977. 188 Control center Stein Gletschersee Mühlebach Working Together Story by Max Wyss LGB fans from all over the world make pilgrimages to the LGB layout of the St. Gallen LGB Club, located northwest of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The club layout is one of the largest outdoor layouts in Europe, allowing 12 trains to operate simultaneously. About 1000 meters (3280 feet) of track have been laid in an area that measures nearly 700 square meters (2300 sq ft). Normally the layout operates fully automatically: dropping a one-franc coin in a meter runs the trains for about 2 1/2 minutes, roughly the time it takes a train to travel the entire line. Boswil am See Schiltibach Mt. Sigishorn Grossbach Freudenstadt Schiltibach Viaduct History The whole thing started in 1976 when the St. Gallen LGB Club was founded. The club’s goal was (and still is) to build and operate an LGB outdoor layout. The problem of location was solved very quickly, since the owner of the Schiltacker Restaurant wanted to create an Reservoir Untersee Sigishorn Steinbrunn Loop Vorbrugge
Just drop a coin in the meter and you can watch the trains run all over the layout. amusement park. He liked the idea of the model railroad layout and offered the club space to build it. Construction got under way in 1977 and operation began in the summer of 1979. The line was single-tracked and enabled as many as six trains to operate fully automatically. Relay-controlled block signals prevented accidents at sidings at the five stations. A clubhouse was built adjacent to the layout to store tools; it was later used to house the trains and electrical equipment. Subsequently, the clubhouse was expanded to serve as a lounge. It is linked to the layout by a spur; the trains are assembled in the clubhouse and stored there overnight. It was soon obvious that six trains did not offer enough action for the average park visitor. There was no logical way to increase the number of stations, but double-tracking the layout proved to be the right answer. Running a maximum of twelve trains provides a lot more to see, but usually only nine trains operate at any one time. This permits expresses to pass certain stations. The cog railway on the mountain, as well as the Rigi cable cars, makes the layout even more attractive. Operation Since maintaining the layout costs much more than feeding one-franc coins to the meter can provide, it wasn’t long before sponsors had to be found. The fence around the layout was lined with paid advertising, and some cars carry paid advertising. The layout normally operates fully automatically, but there are chances to play on days when there are enough club members around. This is also a treat for the public, since no one has to pay money to make the trains run! Still, every coin is welcome, and the tendency is not to “play” when the weather is nice for customers. Sometimes the urge gets too strong, though, and strange things can happen. There was the time, for example, one member had recently become the proud owner of a remote-controlled fire truck. So he had the idea of setting fire to an old wooden model building and then simulating the fire department putting out the blaze. And that is just what he did: set the house afire and “call the fire department.” A bucket of water made it possible to do the whole thing over and over. When the layout commences operation for the season at Easter, there can be surprises. One year, everything was normal on Saturday and you could work in your T-shirt and shorts; then about 200 mm (8 in) of snow fell on Saturday night. This offered the members a chance to do some snowplowing before the white stuff vanished in the afternoon. 189
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00559 Explore the World of LGB Inte
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10 CHAPTER 1: A TRADITION OF INNOVA
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The Richter brothers, Wolfgang (lef
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14 LGB Q&A Ernst Paul Lehmann Paten
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20 CHAPTER 3: QUICK START LGB start
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30 Layout 9 1,3 x 2,5 m 2211000 1 1
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LGB track sections and accessories
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Laying Track Indoors Doug Wead's "A
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