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The World's Largest Layout - MountainMan - 03-26-2009

Eight miles of track in this German miniature world/model museum.

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Quote:HAMBURG - It's billed as the world's largest model train set — a miniature world that snakes along eight miles (12 kilometers) of track, amid fields, cities, even the snowcapped Swiss Alps.

And it's quickly becoming one of Germany's biggest tourist attractions.

Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, have turned their boyhood passion for model railroads into a lucrative private museum called Miniatur Wunderland that has kept adding track since its 2001 opening and drew 1 million visitors last year.


Re: The World's Largest Layout - Steamtrains - 03-26-2009

M'man....One of my brothers sent me this link late last night....I was going to post it this morning, but didn't have time... Curse
It's weird how these things propagate throughout the net....

Re: The World's Largest Layout - Bigsteel - 03-26-2009

man,its amazing what a vision and alot of cash will do! what amazes me the most is not the trains,but the working cars! with turn signals,brakelights and fire and police dept dispatches when there is a wreck! man is that freakin cool Thumbsup,but overall,id still rahter see doctorwaynes layout in person Misngth Thumbsup --josh

Re: The World's Largest Layout - lightbender - 03-26-2009

Haha, I got an email from my brother and my sister with links to a UK newspaper site. They have a nice slide show of the layout;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/5043783/The-worlds-biggest-model-train-set.html

Tony.

Re: The World's Largest Layout - eightyeightfan1 - 03-26-2009

At least she said "model railroad" instead of "toy trains".
Model Railroader did a spread on that a couple of years ago. I don't think it was as big then.
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Re: The World's Largest Layout - upnick - 03-26-2009

Seems this layout has been flashed around the world over the last week ..... i know one of the guys who works there he is a lucky guy railroading for a living Icon_lol

This is a world record video they did in a footbal stadium 2004 ...........

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Re: The World's Largest Layout - dadbert - 03-27-2009

Lots of video on you tube. They even have real model boats (radio control) in real water. Follow the link for another different news breif. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1164713/Nine-years--8m-miles-track-later-twin-brothers-present-worlds-biggest-train-set.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... n-set.html</a><!-- m -->

Re: The World's Largest Layout - dadbert - 03-30-2009

I found this link on another forum. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kriWZVaZBXg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kriWZVaZBXg</a><!-- m -->

Re: The World's Largest Layout - Ralph - 03-30-2009

Thanks for the links dadbert! Amazing! Some very realistic modeling along with just plain fun!
Ralph

Re: The World's Largest Layout - eightyeightfan1 - 03-30-2009

Thats is neat.
Gotta love the moving vehicles.

Re: The World's Largest Layout - tetters - 03-31-2009

Amazing!

The model tankers in the water are neat. I really love that Rock Concert scene too. Big Grin

Good thing they have all those Fire Trucks. Seem to be an awful lot of fires breaking out on that layout. Misngth

Re: The World's Largest Layout - tomustang - 03-31-2009

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