Friday, February 25, 2011

Railroads - Miniatur Wunderland, Germany

Two German Brothers have put this TRAIN SET together.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
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…

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the 'Miniature Wunderland' in 2000.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
The set covers six regions including America , Switzerland , Scandinavia , Germany , and the Austrian Alps.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
The American section features giant models of the Rocky Mountains, Everglades , Grand-Canyon etc…

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
...and Mount Rushmore.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a 'fjord' .

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
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…

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
The longest train is 46ft long.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights.. .

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
...and 160,000 individually designed figures.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery...

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system that mimics night and day by automatically turning them on and off.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve centre.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
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.

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives
Gerrit said: "Our idea was to build a world that men, women, and children can be equally astonished and amazed in."

Trains - Miniatur Wunderland - Phani Kiran: World Informatives

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.


Thank You !
Received this from Mr. Chandrashekher

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