What ever happened to stud rail?

If you look at the caboose pic I posted earlier it's just a slider clipper onto the roller.

 Amazingly I found another Swiss layout using stud rail while watching youtube:

 

http://youtu.be/N5ZezPTIp7Y

 

 Look at 6:08 with the maintenance car and in the final shot you can clearly see the stud rail. I think he's also using 2-rail on part of the layout (the outdoor parts anyway). unfortunately the sound is in Italian, so I can't really follow what they're saying. A very impressive layout.

Michiel,

Nice Youtube video find! I think the catenary is powered as well- the craftsmanship on that layout is incredible. An outdoor 2-rail O gauge layout with studrail and live catenary? Truely impressive.

 

Geno

 There's also another video in the playlist featuring the same layout:

 

http://youtu.be/iaj3g3CLJFA

 

 Here you can see the outdoor section doesn't have stud-rail as do some parts of the indoor layout; so I think he must have been using stud-rail in the past and now converted to standard 2-rail? 

 

*edit: I knew there was another Swiss club, here it is: 

http://www.bmec.ch/ and then look at this picture: http://www.bmec.ch/anlagen/spu...ictures/spur0_08.jpg