DCC Portal

If you want to visit the largest HO scale model railroad in the world, you’d better pack your bagsthe Miniature Wonderland is located in Hamburg, Germany. For true hobbyists, though, it’s worth the trip. With over 11,000 meters (36,089 feet) of fully computerized track, the model is both a memorial and a challenge to DCC enthusiastsyou can’t help but be inspired to go home and stock your own set up a little bit.The model celebrates the international appeal of model railroading, with sections based around America, Hamburg and the Coast, Scandinavia, Southern Germany and the Austrian Alps, and Switzerland. Perhaps it’s better to just let the numbers tell the story, though: in 2009, there were over 10,000 train cars, 170 computer-controlled cars, 200,000 people, 200 cameras, 300,000 LED lightsI say 2009 because the creators, brothers Frederik and Gerrit Braun, aren’t done yet. By 2014 they aim to add five more sections. About 1,396,300 has been spent on the railroad so farafter the final completions are done, the value should be somewhere around 2,094,450.