All aboard for the world’s biggest model railroad
We’re talking 700 trains (one is 46-feet long), 4,000 cars, 2,800 buildings, 160,000 individually painted people. And that’s not all…
Miniatur Wunderland, in Hamburg, Germany, features six miles of track, with seven more miles on the way. It already covers 12,380 square feet, and it’s scheduled to keep growing for five years.
The trains chug through crazily detailed sets of Germany, Austrian, Switzerland, Scandinavia and the United States, with the whole system being controlled from a huge high-tech nerve center.
The attraction employs 160 people, and has already cost about $12 million to build.
Oh yeah, and I want one for Chrismas.
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