Posted on 03/23/2009 5:29:39 PM PDT by airedale
This is simply unbelievable. The Miniatur Wunderland model railroad in Hamburg, Germany is the largest in the world, covering 16,146 square feet of space with more than 10,000 train cars running around its 6.8 miles of HO scale track. Now, the makers of this huge layout have created a video that gives you a jaw-dropping look at the vast scope of this intricate work of art.
Its construction started in 2000, and is still underway, with a tiny airport due for completion by the end of this year. This is just the beginning — there are plans to double to layout by 2014. We especially like the Las Vegas portion, complete with dazzling LEDs lighting up the night.
You have to watch the new video above to get the full impact of this remarkable achievement, which has taken in excess of 500,000 working hours to build. There's good reason why this is Germany's most popular attraction, already visited by more than 5 million flabbergasted tourists.
Actually, the health club next door is providing the power via the stationary bikes the zimmerfraus are peddling. They are thinking of putting in a thermal collector to use in off hours, powered by the glass window view from the street which is always occupied by deutschesmensch ogling the churning scuttles.
Go here to explore the info on the Redlight district for this model railroad: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/wunderland-sections/knuffingen/kunffingen-highlights/red-light-district/
Pretty darn cool.
Never owned a boat, have you?
bet it makes a better profit than Amtrak
They are going to have passenger airliners taking off from the airport. They have a video of the tests http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/video/tracking-shot/film/article/tests-for-the-takeoff/
I would love to see it in person.
I really liked the tiny hookers in the cute red light district
Hitler had Albert Speer build a model of his proposed grandiose capital city to be named “Germania”. It was maybe ten feet by twenty feet overall.
What a piker! Hitler’s model was so small it was set up in the underground Fuehrerbunker so he could contemplate what might have been as Russian shells rained down.
Now, comparison with Hermann Goering’s model train layout at his `Karinhall’ might be worthwhile.
Take a look at the description of the guy who runs the Red Light District at: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/wunderland-sections/knuffingen/kunffingen-highlights/red-light-district/ Some how it’s appropriate that he was kidnapped but I don’t think he was kidnapped by a “concerned citizen”.
The Howard Brothers circus model at the Ringling circus museum in Sarasota is a fantastically large model of a circus visiting Knoxville Tennessee. Although it is a circus, it is integrated into a very large model railroad layout.
I once owned two boats - a 24’ CC, and a 34’ wood CC. Then I joined a 12-step program...
Step 1) Get RID of the boats!
Rent one?
I wonder if you can do a lease back with a boat, like folks do with aircraft.
That is pretty incredible.
“A boat is a hole in the water, lined with wood, into which you pour all your money.”
“A boat owner’s two happiest days: the day he buys his boat, and the day he sells his boat.”
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