Pretty Nice Micro Model Train City Edge Layout of the Suburbs of Paris in France by Wieger Pasman

Although this model railway layout is only 60 cm x 30 cm in size, we discover an incredible amount of detail. This is the special feature of model railroader Wieger Pasman, who demonstrates that less can be more with his understated atmospheric model train city edge diorama. He was inspired by the desolate atmosphere of the Parisian district of La Plaine Saint Denis and built a diorama in HO scale with an industrial yard crossed on one side by a main line railway on an embankment. The suburbs of large cities - called “Banlieue” in French - can be characterised by dirt and filth on the streets, abandoned houses, wild camping sites and everything we would describe as ugly. But it is typical of these suburbs that there is railway traffic. There are mainly goods trains. Sometimes, there are locomotives being transferred from one station to another. The roads are also crossed by industrial railways because there are many factories and large companies in the suburbs that need to be supplied with goods.