Miniatur Wunderland
The Miniatur Wunderland is, according to Guinness World Records, the largest model railway system in the world. It is located at the historic site Speicherstadt in Hamburg and is one of the most popular and most visited sights in Germany. Speicherstadt is the also largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations, oak logs, in this particular case.
The Speicherstadt is located in the port of Hamburg. It is 1.5 km (0.93 mi) long and interlaced by loading canals.
The Miniatur Wunderland exhibition includes around 1,120 digitally controlled trains with more than 10,000 wagons. The Wonderland is also designed with around 4,300 houses and bridges, more than 10,000 vehicles – of which around 350 drive independently on the installation – 52 airplanes and around 290,000 figures. The system features a recurring day-night lighting cycle and almost 500,000 built-in LED lights. Of the 7,000 m2 (75,347 sq ft) of floorspace, the models occupies 1,545 m2 (16,630 sq ft).
Knuffingen Airport
After six years in planning and 150,000 hours of work under construction, Knuffingen airport was officially opened to visitors on 4 May 2011 as a special section of the Miniatur Wunderland facility. Its buildings resemble Hamburg Airport. As in the fictional main town of Knuffingen, there is also a simulation of a fire department with a large fleet of vehicles, including four airfield fire engines. On the 14-meter (46 ft) runway, aircraft models accelerate to scale on an invisible sled, and by means of two guide rods can lift off the ground and disappear into a wall. Depending on the launch phase, the guide rods allow a horizontal tilt of the aircraft that approximates reality.
40,000 LED’s bulbs (each of them installed manually), 100 km of electric wiring, 15,000 miniature figures, 1,000 meters of railway tracks are installed in the model of the airport.
Also more than 50,000 lines of code was written, and 4,000,000 Euros turned into miniatures.
In order to simulate the approx. about 250 take-offs and landings per day, Miniatur Wunderland tested many different systems. In the end, they decided for a catapult that allows our fleet of 47 aircrafts to glide through the air.
In addition, you’ll find an extensive Carsystem at the airport. Next to a well-equipped Airport Fire Brigade (which comes into action with up to 14 vehicles in case of an emergency landing), there are numerous buses and service vehicles such as catering cars, fresh water and tank trucks, pumping engines, push-back cars, and many more. The Airport is connected with Knuffingen, so vehicles from both sections can share the automatic charging stations.
https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniatur_Wunderland
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