WORLD'S LARGEST MODEL RAILROAD

Maybe you would like to see the actual layout in action. It is even more impressive than could be imagined from the stories.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e98_1237657552

Remarkable! Very impressive that it has street lights that work.

They've got videos, photos, webcams ... on their website:


http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/multimedia/

thanks , intrepid !
just a wonderful video .

btw i worked in that area of the port of hamburg for eight years before coming to canada . since i grew up right in the harbour , that's where i spent my childhood and my "formative" years . where once coffee , spices , carpets ... were being warehoused , exhibitions and art have now taken over .
since most goods are now arriving at or leaving the port in containers , there is little need for warehouses anymore .

close by the model-railroad exhibition , the INTERNATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM has been opened - click the UNION JACK in upper right for ENGLISH text:

http://www.internationales-maritimes-museum.de/



a former warehouse - now filled with ship models and related exhibits


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other parts of the new harbour complex are :

NEW CRUSE SHIP TERMINAL
(big enough to handle the QM II)

http://www.hamburgcruisecenter.de/site_e.html

QM II entering the harbour during annual call during the summer season :


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and perhaps most interesting THE NEW PHILHARMONIC HALL -
click for ENGLISH version in lower left :

http://www.elbphilharmonie.de/

quite a futuristic building : a huge old brick-warehouse topped by a glass-structure