Railroad Museum Schwarzwald, Railway museum in Schramberg, Germany.
The Railroad Museum Schwarzwald occupies the ground floor, 742 square metres, of a former Hamburg-American Clock Factory building in Schramberg, built in 1904 to plans by Stuttgart industrial architect Philipp Jakob Manz. Its centrepiece is a mountain layout of 20 by 7.5 metres with 220 metres of track in standard and metre gauge, alongside a depot scene showing steam-locomotive servicing with turntable, water cranes and coaling facilities. Around 900 hand-built gauge 2 models stand in some 170 running metres of glass cases.
The model railway museum opened on 27 October 2012 as an extension of the Auto- und Uhrenwelt Schramberg. It occupies the ground floor of a factory building erected in 1904 for the Hamburg-Amerikanische Uhrenfabrik to plans by Stuttgart industrial architect Philipp Jakob Manz. The city of Schramberg bought the surviving buildings in 2012; the listed structure was restored in 2009.
The collection is on loan from the southern regional group of the Interessengemeinschaft Spur II, an association of gauge 2 (1:22.5 scale) model railway enthusiasts that is independent of any manufacturer. The museum opened on 27 October 2012 as an extension of the Auto- und Uhrenwelt Schramberg, in a former Hamburg-Amerikanische Uhrenfabrik building restored in 2009.
The museum occupies the ground floor of the former Hamburg-American Clock Factory, covering 742 square metres. The large mountain layout measures 20 by 7.5 metres, with 220 metres of track in standard and metre gauge; push buttons let visitors drive part of the trains themselves.
The collection belongs to the southern regional group of the Interessengemeinschaft Spur II, an association independent of any manufacturer, which lends the exhibits. Its 500 handmade fine-scale models in gauge 2 are described as the world's largest such collection. Each vehicle is assembled from roughly 10,000 individual parts.
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