Last Christmas, I travelled with my family to Hamburg, Germany, where I lived in the 1990s. Being in Hamburg always means to pay a visit to the Miniaturwunderland, the biggest model railroad exhibition layout worldwide. This time, we concentrated on the nicely detailed Italy section.

Credit: @ Jörn Pachl

The upper picture shows a contruction site for a retaining wall at a bridge across a river. The picture below shows an abandoned steam engine rusting away on a siding.

Of course, we also visited the other parts of the layout. The layout is famous for well made indstrial scenes. The next picture shows a hopper car loading facility on the North American section.

On the Sweden section, there is a model of the Kiruna iron ore mine. There, I took a picture of an industrial night scene.

For more information (in German and English) on this layout, visit https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/