German train set

[Carbon_One]

I know some of you folks enjoy trains so am including this one that was sent to me.

On your next trip -- you may want to see this amazing site in Hamburg, Germany

-- unbelievable ! ! ! ENJOY

German train station

Be sure to see the video at the end -

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 e-mail 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 complete

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 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 which 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 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"

The world's biggest model train set.

TALK ABOUT YOUR SECOND CHILDHOOD-----

"BOYS" AND THEIR TOYS....

It comprises 700 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. Open this hyperlink for a 4 minute look at this Hamburg, Germany site.

http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/video/4-minutes-wunderland/

[Sideoftheroad]

Wow. The detail is amazing. We took the kids to a train show downtown Indy recently. They had alot of good setups but I don't think they were close to the detail as the ones in your pics.

[twigg]

That's impressive!

 

Shouldn't that cruise ship in one of the photos be on it's side?

[bongobobny]

Awwww, Twigg beat me to the punch! I'm not too sure about that Mt Rushmore though, Looks more like Hitler, Stalin, Mousolini, and Mao Tse Tung...

 

I would love to see that in person! First time I've ever seen a rock concert in a layout!

[steamer]

There is a place called Northlandz in Flemington NJ. that is similar to this. They have 3 or 4 floors of all different size model trains. They bill it as the largest in the world. Took my Grandson there abbout 3 years ago. It took us around 4 hours to see it all. I think this one that is posted here has better detail. But the one in Flemington is still worth seeing.