Model Train in a Glass Bottle (Z-Scale)

[@dirkhabenicht8940]

In the late seventies our local model trains shop in Kassel, Germany have had such a setup, but the bottle was standing. Really cool yours as well. They have had a touch-switch on the front window of the shop and by holding the hand on the glas the train started to run for two minutes. Many child loved this. They must have cleaned the window twomtimes a day, 7 days a week.

[@clayboi6939]

This needs to be in a model train museum!!

[@bottle-train3600]

Clayton Skarke Do you have any particular place in mind?

[@bottle-train3600]

Any particular museum?

[@clayboi6939]

Which ever is closest to you so that you can visit often and continue to enjoy!

[@clayboi6939]

Theres a national model railroad museum in Tn, and a Model railroad museum in San Diego as well. I'm sure either one would love to have this as part of their exhibit!

[@Tipman2OOO]

Duuuuuude siiiiick!!!! I would have thought it not possible if I did not see it!!!

[@bobshaw1408]

Just found this vid,all I can say is thats amazing!!! To all the modelers who say I dont have enough space, I say yes you do!!

[@TristanMorrow]

:-) Amazing modeling work! I'm also super-impressed that you filmed it with so little reflection or distortion-kudos!

[@Vesalempinen]

Now thats what I call a creative layout..!!

[@andrewsimpson9781]

what do you do if you have a derailment in the bottle? How do you fix it up again?

[@bottle-train3600]

Thanks for all your comments :) Apologies for not responding to any of your posts earlier. Of course I can't reveal all the secrets about how I did it but it was built outside the bottle first, then cut into sections and re-assembled inside using modified surgical tools and some home made tools. Being patient, a steady hand and lots of late night hours were the main ingredients - pretty much a "once in a lifetime" project. Someone would have to come up with some serious amount of money to make me do it again.

[@Tracy_Martel7]

No bottle cutter. Built OUTSIDE the bottle. The hole is as big as three fingers. I must of walked past the deli section because I smell balogna.

[@bottle-train3600]

Sorry if you think it's fake but it isn't!

[@bottle-train3600]

And why would I show anyone how I did it? Anyone could do it then!

[@MZTrainsChannel]

amazing crazy lovely !

[@pkiriakos1]

Nice job.Congrats.

[@nscalefun]

AWESOME!!!!! Keep up the good work.

[@ajkleipass]

I, too, would love to hear more about how you built it and got it assembled inside the bottle. In reference to what someone else commented, never mind soldering, hooking sectional track together and getting tiny card onto the track is hard enough in clear space that I don't even want to try it through the mouth of a bottle!

[@thatbeardedsoapguy5082]

Very impressive!

[@Just_Another_Railfan]

awesome! Hope it doesn't derail! That would be a real pain :)

[@NewArcheryProducts]

very cool

[@CB22513]

I just imagine what happens when a loco derails...

[@Hassan_2030]

How do you do the maintenance on the loco and the railbus!?

[@0010zz]

Epic!

[@Darkrai9087]

Now here's the better question: What happens if the train derails within?

[@Tracy_Martel7]

Your screwed😂😂😂

[@johnpenny5638]

I need a lie-down in a darkened room...

[@Willowfs4472]

WOW.!!!

[@catfishjenkem2226]

Sweet !!

[@kentlofgren]

At first, "meh", then, after thinking about it for a couple of seconds: "oh!".

[@andrewgladfelter4298]

What happens when the train derails?

[@bottle-train3600]

Well.... that's part of the "anger control excersise" - throwing a hammer is not the solution. It takes a whole lot of patience and fiddling with tools to recover the wreck. In hindsight, building a tunnel was a really stupid idea! But I have retrieved the entire train from inside the tunnel a bunch of times. Cleaning the track is the worst. After a while there are "dead spots" where the locomotive gets no power.... Arrggghhh!!!

[@giulius7176]

How the heck do you pull that off??

[@itsblenkinsopp]

gynecologist

[@Tracy_Martel7]

No hate but how your you able to get the walls to the houses in, there much taller and much wider then the can or your three fingers.

[@bottle-train3600]

If it was easy everyone would do it.

[@glendenig9962]

What did the bottle originally hold?

[@johnrettig1880]

OK that's that ..... I'm giving up drinking .... I went to take a drink .... And somehow got in trouble with The NTSB , for derailing a train .

[@lazyrrr2411]

Sir .!. i SALUTE you❗

[@catherinejanakiraman9149]

Usually when I see something, I think, I can make that. This isn't one of those times...

[@TramcarTrev]

Yes impressive.... Im going to go one better. A model tramway in a bottle with working overhead. To quote Guilius how do you do that, c'mon just the soldering through the neck of the bottle would have been to say the least a challenge....

[@logancraig4234]

God forbid a derailment XD

[@MrGeocidal]

But. But. But that's impossible!

[@bottle-train3600]

Not everything posted online is fake - this one really exists and I built it without cheating! Everything that's inside the bottle went thru the neck. It was a lot of work.

[@stevenallenedwards8965]

All it needs now is some fake snow and it will be a snow glob

[@kylerfarmer8415]

the caboose is not the locomotive get it right!!!?????

[@51jim]

What? Sounds kind of rude, did someone make a mistake!!!!!??????

[@joea3508]

you should have been a proctologist... you missed your calling.