Monday 9 November 2015

[www.keralites.net] Trains....A miniature world!

 

Two German Brothers have put this TRAIN SET together.

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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…

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Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the 'Miniature Wunderland' in 2000.
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The set covers six regions including America , Switzerland , Scandinavia , Germany , and the Austrian Alps.
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The American section features giant models of the Rocky Mountains, Everglades , Grand-Canyon etc…
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...and Mount Rushmore.
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The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn.
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The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a 'fjord'.
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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…
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It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons.
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The longest train is 46ft long.
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The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights.. .
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...and 160,000 individually designed figures.
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Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery...
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The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system that mimics night and day by automatically turning them on and off.
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The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve centre.
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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.
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Gerrit said: "Our idea was to build a world that men, women, and children can be equally astonished and amazed in."
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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.


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