Interesting animation

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Pretty neat stuff, MLW. The Europeans seem much more adept at creating animated scenes than we do. Witness the TV video. It's obviously a nice layout and way bigger than anything I've ever owned but I wouldn't want my passenger train featured going through a grade crossing with non-working flashers.
 


im curious to know what happened to that coal dumper scene. That club had to move to a new location and I believe start over with a new layout.
 
I remember, about 15-20 years ago, when I was wee... there was a modular layout at the Great American Train Show that was held every year at the George R. Brown Convention center in Houston, TX. This particular one was there several years running, and featured a complete loop, mine-refine animated system. The whole layout was (HO scale) heavily animated, but what stood out in my little mind was the open pit mine, where down in the pit, and excavator would load dump trucks, which would drive up and out of the pit (they were obviously on a under teh table track, but it was still real neat...) and they would dump into the waiting hoppers. The hoppers were then put on a train, and run around to the far side of the layout where they went through an operating rotary dumper... and they stayed coupled.

Other scenes included a theme park, complete with a N or Z scale ride on- train...

I wonder what ever happened to it?
 
Speaking of Great American Train Shows...

A buddy and I saw a HO modular layout at Dayton, Ohio, a number of years ago... probably 15 or 20 years ago, don't recall for sure... It had quite a few animated features -- three that stuck in my mind were:

(A) a high-rise office building, with the CEO's helicopter sitting on a helipad on the top of the building. The blades of the chopper were rotating, and there all the "requisite" flashing lights on the chopper and on the corners of the helipad.

(B) a drive-in movie theater. The screen was a mirror, set at a 45° angle, which reflected from a TV under the layout. They had a VHS tape playing a movie, which the patrons in their cars were watching.

(C) a small boy flying a kite. The kite was (most likely) a small piece of paper, mounted on a thin wire. What was really cool was they had a fan somewhere under the layout, and somehow they funneled some of the airflow through something (like a pipe?) which blew against the kite gently, causing it to move in the breeze... VERY cool!

Anyone have any info on this layout?

Regards,
Tom Stockton
 
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