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The Miniatur Wunderland (German for: " Miniature Wonderland ") is, according to Guinness World Records, the largest model railway system in the world. [2] It is located at the historic Speicherstadt in Hamburg and is one of the most popular and most visited sights in Germany. [3][4] The exhibition includes around 1,120 digitally controlled ...
15 July 1851 (1851-07-15) Location. The Göltzsch Viaduct (German: Göltzschtalbrücke, pronounced [ˈɡœlt͡ʃtaːlˌbʁʏkə] ⓘ) is a railway bridge in Germany. It is the largest brick-built bridge in the world, and for a time it was the tallest railway bridge in the world. It spans the valley of the Göltzsch River between the Reichenbach ...
Miniatur Wunderland — the world's largest model railway and airport [3][4] (HO) - Hamburg, Germany. Miniature Railroad & Village - USA. Modelbane Europa (HO) - Hadsten, Denmark. Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers (O) - USA. National Railway Museum - a railway museum including a model railway (O) - York, United Kingdom.
A simple Märklin model. A coffee-table Märklin layout in Z scale (1:220). The locomotive is about 50 mm long. Märklin model steam engine in function. Märklin was founded by Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Märklin [ de ] in 1859. [ 1 ] After his death in 1866, early in the company's life, his wife Caroline Märklin lead the business until 1888.
No.3. 1:22.6. 2+1⁄2in (64 mm) The smallest scale able to pull real passengers. Was one of the first popular live steam gauges, developed in England in the early 1900s. In terms of model railway operation, gauge 3 is the largest (standard gauge) scenic railway modelling scale, using a scale of 13.5 mm to the foot.
LGB (trains) A typical LGB model train on a garden railway layout. LGB stands for Lehmann Gross Bahn - the "Lehmann Big Train" in German. Made by Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk in Nuremberg, Germany, since 1968 [1] and by Märklin since 2007, it is the most popular garden railway model in Europe, although there are also many models of U.S. and ...
Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustav) was a German 80-centimetre (31.5 in) railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications in existence at the time.
Other exhibits of railway history include a steam crane, a saloon coach from Adolf Hitler's special train that was used in 1955 by German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, on his historic visit to Moscow, a snow plough, a dining car and a historical telegraph station. In addition there is a large model railway layout (Theme: the Schiefe Ebene).