South American Model Railroad

September 7, 2015

Santa Elena Station, at the highlands.

Andre from Brazil sent in these photos of his railroad.

Says Andre: We have started our first HO layout. I and my girlfriend used Brazilian made material, like 3 of 4 locos and almost all wagons, tracks and buildings. Most of that is made by Frateschi.

A busy street near Boa Vista Station.

There are also a loco made by Rocco and a lot of Faller and Noch stuff, and some old Majorette vehicles from the eighties.

Santa Elena Station with a EP-4, a G-12 and an old passengers train

In my figures the layout has 40 meters of track in 7 square meters. We have not put the ballast yet. We are afraid of some eventual damage to the tracks.

Manaus-Caracas Express crossing the Amazonian savanna.

We’ve planned a savanna and mountain scenery, like our state (Roraima – Brazil) in the northern frontier, near Venezuela and Guyanna. It’s the land of the “Up” animation movie (2009).

So, our layout presents a fictional railway crossing a part of Amazonia and Gran Sabana.