Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report
04.02.02 at 12:12 hrs
Weekly Report No 66,CW 5
From Monday, 28.01.2002 to Sunday, 03.02.2002
This week's main task is bridge building. Moreover, most of the tram trackage, as well as the port railroad trackage have been embedded into pavement.
On a side note: we slightly changed the right-of-way for the U-Bahn (underground). The originally planned staging area will now be converted to a maintenance area where the visitor can watch how the trains are cleaned and maintained.
One dramatic event this week will happen, once the video team shows up with the first chapter of the documentation. Maybe we can tell you a sales start next week, who knows...
Briefing in the Wunderland. Chief-technician Joachim informs Carsten about the plans for the station area...
This is the place for the Speicherstadt complex. We already had a short insight into what Helge is going to build when she came in for a short presentation of these phenomenal structures. Hopefully, we have a camera handy when she returns ....
The bavarian original again is busy building bridges.
These bridges for the port railroad and a street are build using scrap pieces!!!
It's a good rule to never throw things away when you are a model builder!!!!
This is the future look of the bridge under construction...
Another bridge leads into the Speicherstadt complex,...
... where, in one of the houses, a well know Hamburg exhibition is located in the 4th floor.
The canals (in Hamburg known as "Fleet") just cry for bridges. But that'S how things go in a harbor town... Did you know that Hamburg has more bridges than Venice?
Easy to recognize: The town boasts a net of canals. The now white areas will later be converted to water.
No, Werner was not drunk when he built this dangling track. It is used for test purposes and closes the gap in the S-Bahn (commuter) -line with catenary to enable test runs. Since in the meantime a couple more tracks have been added underneath this bridge, it had to be raised a bit now has a gradient of more then 4% and can consequently only be used in one direction: a so-called 'one-way'-bridge :-)).
