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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Miniature Wunderland

On my recent vacation to Hamburg, Germany I was delighted to visit Miniatur Wunderland (German for miniature wonderland) it is a model railway attraction and one of the largest of its kind in the world. As of January 2011, the railway consists of 39,370 ft of track in HO scale, divided into seven sections: Harz, the fictitious city of Knuffingen with International Airport, the Alps and Austria, Hamburg, America, Scandinavia, and Switzerland. The exhibit includes 890 trains made up of over 11,000 carriages, 300,000 lights, 215,000 trees, and 200,000 human figurines.

We spent well over 3-hours walking through the entire exhibit and it is still growing.  They have plans to build new attractions all the way out until 2020.  Here are a few pictures from our trip.



































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