Our friend Vili Skoflek built a full operational copy of a Slovene SZ-432 electro locomotive downsized at 1:18. He started his project at age of 14 dreaming to be a train driver one day. It was 26 years ago. After a very long stand-by of the project the main work continued during past two years on a wish of hes soon. Here we have today a heavy 40kg locomotive, done completely manually without milling, nor turning machines ... All is full functional and operates remotely from the indoor command table, full of signaling lights and buttons, power supplied via masts along the rails as on the real railway! Well done for a hand work. Anyhow, all is much more than only a hobby, hes dreams became reality - Vili is today a professional train driver in a real life, too. |