Awesome Model Railroad Layout of Old Nijmegen: Optical Illusion of Forced Perspective

In this video, we discover a model railroad layout built according to the principle of forced perspective. What does that mean? Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera. Loek Bronkhorst is a model railroader living in the Netherlands. He is well known in the European rail transport modeling community because he builds model train layouts with sophisticated drive technology. In addition to conventional electric model trains, he also uses magnetic drives, ball bearings and chain drives to move objects. His latest model railway layout, called “Rijk van Nijmegen”, is a fantastic diorama depicting the Dutch town of Nijmegen at the beginning of the 20th century. The Maas en Waal steam tramway, which ran west of Nijmegen between 1902 and 1934,