The World's Largest Layout

[MountainMan]

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

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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.

[Steamtrains]

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...
It's weird how these things propagate throughout the net....

[Bigsteel]

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 ,but overall,id still rahter see doctorwaynes layout in person --josh

[lightbender]

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/pictureg...n-set.html

Tony.

[eightyeightfan1]

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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[upnick]

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

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

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[dadbert]

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 -->

[dadbert]

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 -->

[Ralph]

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

[eightyeightfan1]

Thats is neat.
Gotta love the moving vehicles.

[tetters]

Amazing!

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

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

[tomustang]