No Ordinary Model Train Set

A work of art and German engineering! 
 
  
     
   This is unbelievable - I've never seen anything like it ever. 
   Check it out, you will be amazed and please make sure to watch the video at the bottom of this blog to see this in action - you won't believe it! 
     
   GERMAN TRAIN SET
  
   This is the world's biggest train set which covers 1,150 square meters (12,380 square feet), features almost six miles of track and is still not completed.

          

Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the 'Miniatur Wonderland' in 2000 
 


The set covers six regions including America, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany 

and the Austrian Alps 

 


 

The American section features giant models of

the Rocky Mountains, Everglades, Grand Canyon. 
 

 

..and Mount Rushmore 



The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn 

 
The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long

passenger ship floating in a 'fjord' 



It is expected to be finished in 2014,

when the train set will cover more than

1,800 square meters (19, 376 sq ft) 
 and feature almost 13 miles of track,

by which time detailed models of parts of

France, Italy and the UK will have been added.



It comprises 700 plus trains with more

than 10,000 carriages and wagons.



The longest train is 46ft.



The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings,

4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights... 



..and 160,000 individually designed figures.



Thousands of kilograms of steel and

wood was used to construct the scenery... 



The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system which mimics night and day by automatically turning them on and off.



The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve center.



In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than $8 million to put together, the vast majority of which has come from ticket sales.



Gerrit said: "Our idea was to build a world that men, woman, and children can be equally astonished and amazed in".



Frederik added: "Whether gambling in Las Vegas, hiking in the Alps or paddling in Norwegian fjords - in Wonderland everything is possible".

    

   The world's biggest model train set. 

    

    TALK ABOUT YOUR SECOND CHILDHOOD ! "BOYS" AND THEIR TOYS.... 

   
It comprises 700 plus trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons.The longest train is 46 ft long.  The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights and 200,000 individually designed figures. Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery. The set is on display to the public and is so big that they employ more than 160 people to show visitors around their creation. 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_532463&feature=iv&src_vid=PN_oDdGmKyA&v=ACkmg3Y64_s