Using my thumb and the photos of the brother's thumb to make an educated guess, I would guess that it's HO scale.
--Lee DeGolyer
From: 844bill@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:48:05 -0500
Subject: Re: FW: Fw: Toy Train Display - A Must See
To: ttat-members@aoot.com
Awesome. Anyone happen to know what scale it it is?
--Lee DeGolyer
From: 844bill@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:48:05 -0500
Subject: Re: FW: Fw: Toy Train Display - A Must See
To: ttat-members@aoot.com
Awesome. Anyone happen to know what scale it it is?
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:04 AM, John H. Eagle, Jr. <jheagle@texaseagles.net> wrote:
Awesome!
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Subject: FW: Fw: Toy Train Display - A Must See Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:19:25 -0500 From: Carol Evans <kevans29@comcast.net> Reply-To: <kevans29@comcast.net> To: John Eagle <jheagle@texaseagles.net>
This is fantastic.Ken
From: James Deckard [mailto:jamesdeckard@clear.net]
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From: Chuck Sr Natcher <cmnatcher@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:44 PM
Subject: Fw: Toy Train Display - A Must See
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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 theRocky Mountains, Everglades , Grand-Canyon etc
...and Mount Rushmore .
The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn.
The Scandinavian part has a 4ft longpassenger ship floating in a 'fjord' .
It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train set wouldcover more than 1,800 square meters / (19,376 sq ft) andfeature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed models ofparts 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 woodwas used to construct the scenery...
The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system that mimics nightand 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 than8 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 theAlps 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!!!
