World Record Train Layout - Germany

[Cossett]

Hi all, I found this on another forum and thought it was worthy of a spot on here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA

Cheers Tracy

[Brel]

Nice find Tracy,

[Izzy]

That is so kool - if I ever get to make a trip to Europe it is definitely on my A list

[yoater]

If I ever get over there I'll make that one of my stops :D

[rc_farmer]

We were gonna visit last yr while there, but didn't have time. Hamburg is a nice city.

[YoungGunz]

10,000 train cars..... thats amazing

[BRICKNICK]

That is amazing, I'm impressed with the computer controlled cars, how does that work? Do they follow a strip in the road or something?

[Roundabout]

Sadly I have never been at the Miniature wunderland, it's only about 270miles from where I live, if you take a close look at the video, then at the one minute marker you see two trucks from the legendary Danish trucking company P.C.Holm Pedersen, I worked there in the nineties, one of my RC trucks is a model of on of the trucks from that company.


http://www.rctruckandconstruction.com/showthread.php?t=85

[Merlin]

i was in Hamburg with my family, its realy great and a lot to see

[vampyre78]

That is one of my favourite set of videos to watch and daydream, one day i'd love to get over there to see it.

@Bricknick - The cars IIRC are made by a german company called Feller. I looked into it a couple of years ago. If you're willing to go the whole hog with the setup (like miniature wonderland have), you can make 24/7 rolling cities that almost look alive. I believe it uses alum/copper under the road surface, and works similar to DCC in trains. I know that when the cars/trucks are low on power, they re-route themselves and drive out the back to automated charging stations.

[Actros861]

If you get a chans to visit, do it :)
I was there 09 and plan to go there again so i get to see the newly built airport.

It's just a fantastic exhibition :D