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12,000
Plus Square
Feet of Toy
Trains....Never
seen anything
this
precise.... do
these guys
have jobs?
Two
German
Brothers Have
Put
This
TRAIN SET
Together.
BE SURE to
click on the
link at the
end and view
this in
motion.
This is the
world's
biggest train
set.
Covers 1,150
square meters
/ 12,380
square feet
Features
almost six
miles of track
and is still
not complete
Twin brothers
Frederick and
Gerrit Braun,
41,
began
work on the
'Miniature
Wunderland' 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
etc
...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
would
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
would have
been added
It comprises
700 trains
with more than
10,000
carriages and
wagons.
The longest
train is 46ft
long.
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 that
mimics night
and day
by
automatically
turning them
on and off.
The whole
system is
controlled
from a massive
high-tech
nerve centre.
In total the
set has taken
500,000 hours
and more than
8
million euro
to put
together,
the vast
majority of
which has come
from ticket
sales.
Gerrit said:
"Our idea was
to build a
world that
men, women,
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
Wunderland
everything is
possible.
"This
4-minute video
is worth
watching for
this amazing
stuff.
Now....click
below to see
it all in
action!!!
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