Hyllerum - a Very Small Shelf Layout

Here I want to show you a small shelf layout, or rather a diorama, which I built a long time ago. I wanted to save them to this post before the web page on where pictures of it were displayed is going down.

Original web page text below:

This diorama depicts a Swedish small city station. If I have to pin-point the era I would say the it is the 1960’s.

 

This is a stub end station, with one branch of the line going ‘north’ through the tunnel just behind the freight cars, and the other going ‘south’, passed the tower.

Below is a closer look at the station area. A typical Swedish passenger train, pulled by a type D electric engine is waiting to depart. This is a Train (with a capital “T”) to me, since this is what they looked like when I was growing up. The cars and the engine are all N scale Fleischmann models.

The platforms are scratch-built, while the houses are kit-bashed. 

 

The catenary is by Sommerfeldt and is “live”, meaning the diorama is in effect two totally overlapping DC electrical blocks. The type D engine can be controlled through the catenary while another engine can be independently controlled through the tracks.

The type D engine by Fleischmann is one of the few commercially available Swedish prototype N scale engines. As such it is very popular among Swedish N scale modelers. The engine is  nicely detailed, as are the passenger cars. The model is an example of one of the early N scale designs and is in my opinion a lousy runner. But it looks great!

The local switcher and some freight cars. The engine is made by Arnold, while the cars are by Roco. This engine is an even worse runner than the D engine, but since it at least is in an SJ (Swedish State Railway) paint scheme it has certainly earned its place on this diorama.

The tower from where the station area is controlled. The petroleum tank car on the spur is from Arnold.

Yet another shot of the tower and the cars on the spur.

The switcher is picking up a mail express car.

The passenger train has departed and passes the tower on its way ‘south’.