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Model Train Set put
together by two German Brothers. Unbelievable!!
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 'Miniatur
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 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 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, 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 Wunderland everything is
possible."This 4-minute video is worth watching for this amazing
stuff.
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you to Smile.-
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Shariq
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