Steam Trains at Nienoord

At Nienoord recreation park in Leek, in the province of Groningen in the Norhteast of the Netherlands, several model trains can be seen. This short films shows three of them. All trains operate on live steam.
--0:00 The Genzelbahn, a model raliway on scale 1:7.
--0:51 A garden railway (LGB) on scale 1:22,5, the track laid out on a concrete elevation.
--1:17 Nienoord Spoorwegen, a model railway on scale 1:8.
Filmed by Hans Vegter in August 2009.

If you can read Dutch, you may find the following links interesting.

About Nienoord Spoorwegen:
http://www.familieparknienoord.nl/familienienoordspoor2.htm

About the Genzelbahn:
http://www.genzelbahn.nl/geschiedenis.html

A short Dutch TV doc about the people behind the Genzelbahn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N60UCVgDLM

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Autos & Vehicles

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• steam
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• stoomtreinen
• nienoord
• leek
• groningen
• netherlands
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• lgb
• garden
• railway
• tuinbaan
• spoorwegen
• genzelbahn