OK, folks, this will be my fourth attempt to post to this thread (perhaps it's a message from the gods that I'm not allowed to respond here). This would have been my first post at The Gauge were it not for the technical glitches.
At any rate, the micro-layout seen in the videos is actually the second one I've built. the first, which is slightly larger, is on Rick Spano's
Sceniced and Undecided.
I intend to make more of these in the future, including a large (so to speak) club layout with multiple trains running, and a backyard garden railroad.
I've made many such micro-animation devices over the years; you can see some of them in action on
this page.
By the way, hello, all! And thanks for the compliments on my absurd little layout. Oddly enough, I did not use any magnification aids to build it (I could not do that again today).