Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report
22.09.03 at 09:12 hrs
Weekly Report No 151, CW 38
From Monday, 15.09.2003 to Sunday, 21.09.2003
What a weekend: A superb special exhibition by Märklin/Trix! The station of Hamburg-Dammtor is an impressive building and definitely an eyecatcher for every layout. Maybe, just maybe we can integrate it in our layout.
Apart from the Märklin/Trix Insider meeting, the 'Rail day' which saw us represented in the ICE shops in Eidelstedt, also was staged on Saturday. We'll have a special report on this topic later on.
Apart from the exiting events we also new and nice pictures from the American section...
First, we have some impressions from the Märklin / Trix Insider meeting:
Until mid - October, the model of Hamburg-Dammtor station can be seen in our exhibition. Märklin was kind enough to borrow us the model for a couple of weeks.
The sales booths offered the obligatory special run cars in all gauges as well as the Speicherstadt buildings and accessories at special discount prices.
Märklin left us a few special run cars so we can now offer these in our online shop and at our counter.
Interested visitors had the chance to attend various seminars relating to numerous topics. Amongst others, topics like Selectrix, the development of the Speicherstadt buildings, Railware, and the Car-System were on the list.
Speakers like Rolf Knipper, Andreas Weiß, Gunter Schneider, Frederik- & Gerrit Braun, as well as Joachim Jürs and Dieter Hinz delivered many interesting seminars.
Close to the weekend, they were still visible but now the first areas of the American section are covered with a thin clear plastic tarpaulin in order to protect from dust and dirt.
Right now, the middle section of the Rockies receives a lot of attention and work.
The first summits hide under plaster which means that in the very near future we will see breathtaking bluffs here.
This bridge will definitely be an eyecatcher in the Rockies. By the way: it is not made of wood but completely built with styrene. Not quite exactly Gaston's material to work with... ;-)
Testfitting the Western town
The saw mill below the mountains uses water power from the river it is located on.
The train operators are also busy... This 'ICE-train' in America will certainly disturb nobody...:-)
Secret buildings? Yes, definitely!
These styrene structures are able to carry a fold-down working platform for the technicians ;-)
Parallel to the Märklin/Trix Insider-meeting, the 'Rail Day' was staged on Saturday. The Miniatur Wunderland was of course represented in the ICE shops Hamburg Eidelstedt.
The 'real' railway showed off the ICE and its technique.
An ICE motor
a wheelset with disc brakes.
Apart from the ICE, some other locos were also there to be admired: a class 101, the fastest motive power of the Bahn AG.
The only class 103 in traffic red (sponsored by Roco)
an orient red class 218.
A class 295 which is an improved version of the class 291, equipped with radio remote control
A class 363
The only powered end car of the ICE1 that is on reserve.
One of the highlights:
The Metropolitan, hauled by class 101-130.
And right in the middle of all this, the Wunderland cared for games, fun, and big wins.
Uli raffled off masses of free entrance tickets and we invited the kids to a couple of competitons.
Uli brought on a super show and we really look forward to the next time!
Under the austere eyes of the jury and with a lot of motivation from Uli...
... an oval had to be set up, connected to power, a train had to be set up on the oval and a test drive had to be absolved.
The winner of each round had to be the fastest in setting up and he had to drive his train one complete round each forward and backward without derailment.
The winner received the brand new Miniatur Wunderland DVD from Eisen Bahnromantik.
