Gauge 1 layouts are individually built and designed dreams. Sometimes they have to disappear. Fortunately, there is usually still time to photograph them in detail.

42 photos of a richly equipped basement layout that no longer exists.

With its usual precision, Spur1-igArtig.de has completed a locomotive shed that corresponds to part of the original from 1907. The prototype is located in Saint-Maurice in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Railway photographers are generally harmless and rarely cause any trouble, except for the occasional dangerous interference with rail traffic. In one country, however, the situation is quite different.

For the price of a gauge 1 locomotive—per day—you can travel through picturesque southern Europe on a new uxury train.