Archive Update: A Model Model Train

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Waaay back in December 2011, I shared a link to a video about the largest model train set in the world, Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany (http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2011/12/model-model-train.html). Although the set is thrillingly wonderful and oh-so-impressive, the video was sub-par and looked like something shot in the 1950s. So here is a more recent, higher quality video about this amazing miniature world in which a day lasts 15 minutes and where 900 trains with 12,000 wagons roll through Scandinavia, Europe, Africa, and the United States, past ships, trucks, cars, and planes that also go about their appointed rounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s

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And if that's not enough for you, how about an insider's view via cameras mounted atop some of the miniature vehicles? (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxr_PTDkNXM