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Two German Brothers built this miniature train layout together. At the end of the photos, there is a video that is truly amazing to watch.
It is the world’s biggest train set, covering some 1,150 square meters or 12,380 square feet. Although it has almost six miles of track, it 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 as well as Mount Rushmore.
The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn.
The Scandinavian part has a 4 foot long passenger ship floating in a ‘fjord’
It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train layout will cover more than 1,800 square meters or 19,376 sq. ft. and feature almost 13 miles of track. At that 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 46 feet long.
The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, and 4,000 cars – many with illuminated headlights.
At present, there are over 160,000 individually designed figures.
Thousands of pounds of steel and wood were 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, with day turning to night every fifteen minutes.
The whole system is controlled from a massive computerized nerve center.
To date, the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than 8 million euros 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.”
If you want to be truly amazed, watch this 4-minute video.
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