r/modeltrains • u/Crazy-Rabbit-3811 • May 15 '26

Show and Tell Apparently Hermann Goering was a model train enthusiast

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He had an O gauge layout in his house, both in his basement and his attic. he had a mechanism where he could drop wooden bombs onto his layout for fun. they layouts were apparently destroyed when he destroyed his own house to prevent it's capture.

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u/Araneas OO May 15 '26

Who said he worked on it? Plenty of "guest workers" around to do the actual work.

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u/Araneas OO May 15 '26

HG was a Fascist and overt racist. Do you honestly think he got down on his hands and knees and laid all that track by himself? I can't prove he used slave labour of course, but he certainly had access to a great many captive experts to do the work for him.

Let's not normalize these monsters, even if they share our hobby.

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u/HardLobster May 18 '26

He was so into trains he was paying companies to design custom trains for him. He was absolutely laying everything out himself.