Miniatur-Wunderland
Posted by kim on Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Two German Brothers Have Put
This TRAIN SET Together.
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 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 scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings,
4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights. .
...and 160,000 individually designed figures.
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.
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!!!
http://www.miniatur-