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WORLD'S LARGEST MODEL RAILWAY - LOXX AM ALEX
Berlin in Miniature at New Alexa Center Mall
It’s
billed as the world’s
largest digitally operated miniature railroad display. It has complete
neighborhoods, old towns, high-rise economic
center, stadium with a concert, fun fairs, an international airport where
jet planes take off and land!, cars moving on highways and narrow
streets, and every 20
minutes
it turns
to night with the thousands of twinkling lights and splashes of illumination.
Modeled on the real world Berlin areas it has fantasy
imaginings as well. It is operated by 34 separate computers running 
400
model trains
on over 4 kilometers of track winding across bridges, past factories,
and apartment lined neighborhoods through road crossings where 10,000
cars and 50,000 miniature inhabitants go about their shrunken daily lives
(a miniature
day lasts
forty minutes,
apparently). The control console takes up a good portion of a wall with
video monitors tracking all the running trains, automobile traffic and
city operations. You can follow the S-Bahns, Regional rail, and Ice Trains
as they make their way around the city and environs.
The
Loxx Miniature World Berlin Railway version of Berlin is found on the
upper floor of the Alexa
Indoor Shopping Mall, a brand new five floor
complex of upscale clothing, bargain brands, food courts, clothing and
gadgets stores filled with the young hip mall shoppers of Berlin. The
Alexa Center Mall (the Alex) is 
just
a block to the east of the Alexanderplatz rail station (and can easily
be seen from the real life train coming
from the Ostbahnhof) and a few streets from the Berlin TV Tower, which
is represented in miniature in the center of the model railway. In fact,
you can take home a model kit of the Berlin TV Tower to add to your own
hobby railroad. 
The Loxx
am Alex railway is HO scale, covering nearly 3,000 square meters inside
the rather industrial
upstairs space at the mall, with lots of
room to grow. The railway is constructed of Fleishmann rail models and
mostly Faller model buildings which can be purchased in the shop. Most
of the buildings, structures and landscapes are original and unique.
New sections are always being added, recently working on the Berlin Reichstag
and Tiergartern.
The
Loxx am Alex is open 365 days a year from 10am
to 7pm. The cost to go in is €8.90 for 15 years and older, with
a discount for younger kids. If you've got a miniature child - under
1 meter tall,
they're free. There is a snack bar inside. Across the hall from the
entrance is a separate child's play area, Kinder City
for small children
to be entertained while adults wander the mall at leasure, so while
the big kids admire the wonder of the world in small, the small children
can be entertained, too. Keep going up the escalators to the back of
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