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Visit the World’s Largest Model Railroad in Street View

25 points by mstolpm 11y ago

wibr 11y ago
Worth a visit if you are in Hamburg! The control room: https://goo.gl/maps/PqBmK9vjX1G2 https://goo.gl/maps/PqBmK9vjX1G2
- joezydeco 11y ago
  I totally loved this place. I could have stayed the entire day if the rest of my family would have let me. If you swivel 180 degrees, note the locker with the multi-colored doors. Inside each door is a charging cable for a type of camera or smartphone. You can stand there and get a quick refill of your device, or put €1 in the slot and leave it for a while. It's the neatest thing I've ever seen in a tourist attraction. Haven't seen it much of anywhere else.
  - fapjacks 11y ago
    This is exactly why I travel alone.
    - joezydeco 11y ago
      Well, my son asked to go because he wanted to see the new airport addition (and it's insanely cool). I'm the one that had to be dragged out at the end because I get way into the mechanics of the attraction.
      - fapjacks 11y ago
        Oh, I just mean that the reason I travel alone is so that I have complete freedom to spend all day in a place like that.
  - Someone 11y ago
    At least some people think there's even a business in _free_ charging stations: http://www.chargebox.com http://www.chargebox.com.
jngreenlee 11y ago
They didn't blur faces and addresses! This must be in violation of some Privatrecht!
grx 11y ago
Should've rendered a sky as background :)
toomuchtodo 11y ago
Anyone near Hamburg able to do this with Mapillary [1]? [1] https://www.mapillary.com/ https://www.mapillary.com/
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exDM69 11y ago
If you get a chance to visit a giant miniature railway like this, do so. They are marvelously complicated pieces of machinery combined with hand crafted works of art to build the city and scenery on top. And if you get a chance to peek in the control room to see what makes these things tick, take it. I took a peek to a control room of a much smaller railway set than the one in the article and it was impressive. About a few dozen monitors that display the entire track network and every train and vehicle on the tracks. The railway I visited was in Berlin, on the top floor of a mall in Alexanderplatz. It's the biggest miniature railway I've ever seen, but it's smaller than the one in the article.
delinka 11y ago
This is awesome! Especially that they spent time developing tiny street view cameras. But why can't I move around? :-(
Someone 11y ago
"We’re talking 13,000 kilometers of track [...] across a layout that’s now takes up almost 14,000 square feet." That would be half a mile of track on each square feet; even 13 kilometer seems crowded to me. Looking at their site, I learn it is 13 km on (1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) plus lots of interconnections between the sections; a lot of that track is out of sight. And by the way, their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/MiWuLaTV https://www.youtube.com/user/MiWuLaTV) is worth watching, in particular Gerrit's Tagebuch (diary) (edit: videos are German spoken)

25 points by mstolpm 11y ago

wibr 11y ago

Worth a visit if you are in Hamburg! The control room: https://goo.gl/maps/PqBmK9vjX1G2 https://goo.gl/maps/PqBmK9vjX1G2

joezydeco 11y ago
I totally loved this place. I could have stayed the entire day if the rest of my family would have let me. If you swivel 180 degrees, note the locker with the multi-colored doors. Inside each door is a charging cable for a type of camera or smartphone. You can stand there and get a quick refill of your device, or put €1 in the slot and leave it for a while. It's the neatest thing I've ever seen in a tourist attraction. Haven't seen it much of anywhere else.
- fapjacks 11y ago
  This is exactly why I travel alone.
  - joezydeco 11y ago
    Well, my son asked to go because he wanted to see the new airport addition (and it's insanely cool). I'm the one that had to be dragged out at the end because I get way into the mechanics of the attraction.
    - fapjacks 11y ago
      Oh, I just mean that the reason I travel alone is so that I have complete freedom to spend all day in a place like that.
- Someone 11y ago
  At least some people think there's even a business in _free_ charging stations: http://www.chargebox.com http://www.chargebox.com.

jngreenlee 11y ago

They didn't blur faces and addresses! This must be in violation of some Privatrecht!

grx 11y ago

Should've rendered a sky as background :)

toomuchtodo 11y ago

Anyone near Hamburg able to do this with Mapillary [1]? [1] https://www.mapillary.com/ https://www.mapillary.com/

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exDM69 11y ago

If you get a chance to visit a giant miniature railway like this, do so. They are marvelously complicated pieces of machinery combined with hand crafted works of art to build the city and scenery on top. And if you get a chance to peek in the control room to see what makes these things tick, take it. I took a peek to a control room of a much smaller railway set than the one in the article and it was impressive. About a few dozen monitors that display the entire track network and every train and vehicle on the tracks. The railway I visited was in Berlin, on the top floor of a mall in Alexanderplatz. It's the biggest miniature railway I've ever seen, but it's smaller than the one in the article.

delinka 11y ago

This is awesome! Especially that they spent time developing tiny street view cameras. But why can't I move around? :-(

Someone 11y ago

"We’re talking 13,000 kilometers of track [...] across a layout that’s now takes up almost 14,000 square feet." That would be half a mile of track on each square feet; even 13 kilometer seems crowded to me. Looking at their site, I learn it is 13 km on (1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) plus lots of interconnections between the sections; a lot of that track is out of sight. And by the way, their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/MiWuLaTV https://www.youtube.com/user/MiWuLaTV) is worth watching, in particular Gerrit's Tagebuch (diary) (edit: videos are German spoken)