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Model Railways
Railway modeling is as old or as young as the railway itself is old or young. It is difficult to name a specific date when railway modeling was born, since it turned out that the first model capable of movement was a model of a steam locomotive by the English engineer R. Trevithick, built by him at the end of the XVIII century, and not the locomotive itself, which was born a little later. Thus, the model was the predecessor of the world’s first steam locomotive.
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Railway modeling in its broad sense takes its first steps in the middle of the XIX century, during the rapid construction of railways in England. By the end of the XIX century, they begin to be engaged in Central Europe. How serious the fascination with railway modeling has become is shown by the fact that by the end of the last century, English lovers of railway models united in clubs where they were engaged in the manufacture of rolling stock and the operation of miniature railways, achieving full compliance with the external effect of models with the impression that locomotives and wagons of a real railway made. These requirements of maximum conformity of the appearance of models to their full-scale model, set at the dawn of railway modeling, have remained mandatory for amateur modeling to this day.
At the end of the XIX century, there was a rapid process of railway construction. At the beginning of our century, the Great Siberian Way was built. At the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, a model of the Siberian Express was awarded a Gold Medal, which is still the pride in the collection of models of the Leningrad Museum of Railway Transport. In the XX century, railway modeling begins to cover a wider range of people engaged in it as amateurs, and some find their professional vocation in the construction of models of railway rolling stock and artificial structures. In the first half of our century, three ways of developing railway modeling were clearly outlined. The first of them is large-scale, includes high-class museum and exhibition models made by professional mock-ups; the second is student railway modeling, which is popular in our country and has great educational value; the third way is small—scale amateur.

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