送交者: 86 于 August 04, 2011 12:05:28:
回答: 觉得芝加哥应该有好的railroad model museum呢 由 86 于 August 04, 2011 12:01:06:
The Great Train Story
The Great Train Story is a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) HO scale model railroad display located in the Transportation Zone of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. It explains the story of modern day rail transportation in a 2,206-mile (3,550 km) journey from Seattle, Washington through several plains states en route to Chicago, Illinois. The layout features 192 custom models of buildings and landmarks including the Willis Tower, Chicago Board of Trade Building, and Union Station in Chicago; and Seattle’s Space Needle, Experience Music Project and King Street Station. The landscape between the two cities includes several natural features such as the Cascade range, Rocky Mountains, waterfalls and forests. Man-made highlights include small towns, tunnels, truss arch and truss bridges, a lumber mill, farms, grain silos, a fruit packing house, a coal mine, and a steel mill.
In the exhibit, Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight trains move raw materials with centerbeam lumber cars while hopper cars carry grain and Coal. Intermodal cars laden with shipping containers, and car carriers also transport finished products on freight train consists. Passenger operations include Amtrak, the Chicago Transit Authority’s 'L' and Chicago’s Metra Electric Line trains.