Ten journeys cost one euro. Rail travelers know the nostalgia that these glass time capsules evoke in adults. Mothers and fathers who used to stand with their parents at the windows of the coin-operated model machines at the station and now with their own children. Here the ICE always came and still comes on time. In an infinity eight, the journey leads past legendary Faller houses, kiosks with mushroom roofs, picturesque castle ruins, futuristic 60s villas and pretty half-timbered houses. A journey from Fallerville, through Fallerville, to Fallerville is the perfect trip! But the small, tidy world in the glass boxes is under threat. Over 40 installations once stood in Germany’s train stations, but one location after another is now being lost. Not because the business is no longer worthwhile, but because a bakery store generates far higher rental income for station managers. Contracts are being terminated. This is how Hamburg, Münster, Stuttgart and Wuppertal were lost. There are currently still 21 model railroad layouts in German stations.
