[alcoman]

Located in the Speicherstadt area of Hamburg, Germany.

It's in the news again this year with 24 pictures.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pic...43783/The-worlds-biggest-model-train-set.html

 

[Boston&Maine]

Wow! I have never seen anything more detailed! I can not imagine what working on that must be like... I am jealous

 

[Big Ed]

also how much $$$$$$$$$$$$ it took to build it

 

[jimmyhardwick]

Wow!

This is really great! I love the details. This must a cost a fortune.

 

[modeltrainhead]

O_O holy moley man i saw a link on youtube and im like im gonna make bigger lol

 

[TiMn8er]

WOW 500,000 hours so far.. I could not build that in my life time.

 

[Boston&Maine]

Sure you could, if you spent 57 years working on it taking NO breaks :laugh:

 

[tworail]

There is no denying that Minatur Wunderland is THE most hardcore train set

Can you imagine working there though? I'm pretty sure I'd give up my day job if they had an opening..

 

[THoggSr]

Train display in Germany

Are you sure that the train display in New Jersey called Northlandz isn't bigger

 

[tworail]

They seem about equal in some respects once you look at the stats. 8 miles of track vs 12 km .. pretty even. NL might have more square footage.

Although MW says they have 800 trains, and NL says up to 100 trains operating at once.

I never heard of it, I'll see if there is some youtube videos available.

 

[THoggSr]

Worlds biggest trains

I have several pictures of it and a couple of videos I even bought the dvd very impressive layout 3 stories high ho and o scale

 

[Coolbreeze]

they employ 160 people to operate the place for visitors. and have that command center thats more then a real station. darnit man

 

[Lester Perry]

I have been to Northlandz. I left very disappointed. They might have 100 trains running but I feel a train should be more than a locomotive and 2 box cars. To me it seemed it was thrown together just so it could be the biggest. There was nothing realistic about it. This is just one persons opinion please don't take this as the final word.

 

[AmericanMuscle94]

WOW! How do i get that job?

 

[radfan]

also how much $$$$$$$$$$$$ it took to build it

Never cost them a single buck Ed, It was all paid for in Euro's

 

[modeltrainhead]

Never cost them a single buck Ed, It was all paid for in Euro's

lolz funny

 

[Stowit]

I seen this before and used it to convince my wife.......

"Honey, you think I spend to much on trains?"

She's been helping me ever since.

 

[craftsmaster]

It's nice to hear new voices this time guys. I'm not absolutely certain about the name but it's more than 1,800 square metres (19, 376 sq ft) and feature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed models of parts of France, Italy and the UK will have been added.

 

[Vish]

Yes, the Wunderland is just that - wunderbar! They blog us at Toy Collector and here are the articles so far:

1. The Wunderland Car System
2. The Wunderland in Numbers
3. Updates From Miniatur Wunderland
4. Hamburg - The Largest City in the Wunderland
5. 1:87 Airport under Construction
6. The Wunderland America Layout
7. Switzerland has moved in
8. See the Largest Railway Diorama in the World

AS an FYI, we are working on having blogs as a feature on MTF so that you do not have to go to another site going forward.

 

[gc53dfgc]

The only problem with wunderland is one I can't afford to goto germany right now (maybe they could open up wunderlands in other countries just a though) and two i don't speek german so i would have to get a translator or i wouldn't be able to read what any of the signs and things say. But it is trully something every modeler and lover of trains would love to see in person.