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.
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.
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.
"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) is worth watching, in particular Gerrit's Tagebuch (diary) (edit: videos are German spoken)
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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.
[1] https://www.mapillary.com/
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.
But why can't I move around? :-(
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) is worth watching, in particular Gerrit's Tagebuch (diary) (edit: videos are German spoken)