Löylymäki station
The parish of Löylymäki is somewhere in Savo. It is a beautiful summer day in the late 1950s. The railway station is the hub of the community. Steam locomotives, diesel locomotives and rail cars, popularly known as "lättähatut" stop at the station. Löylymäki is bustling with activity, people are working, on holiday, pursuing sports activities, having a sauna or engaged in illicit distilling in the depths of the forest… The countryside is full of life.
Löylymäki is a fictitious place. However, all the scale buildings are based on Finnish prototypes. The views along track are also typical of those in the Finnish countryside.
This creates a credible universal model of a Finnish village with a church and the station surroundings. The only thing missing is the smell of wood, tar board, steam and smoke of old country stations. You can imagine these yourself.
Löylymäki station is a typical branch line station. The station building is based on type drawings and has become too small as the village has grown. There is also a locomotive depot and carriage repair shop.
The first display of Löylymäki abroad was at IMREX in London, UK in 1993. The model has since been on display at model railway exhibitions in Finland, the Netherlands and on several occasions in Germany.
The scale model can be dismantled into modules for transport to exhibitions. Track-laying has been done for a two-track direct current system. Some of the moving models have been built from kits, others have been built entirely from scratch.
A Model Railway Club built Löylymäki
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