German Train Set

This is unbelievable- I’ve never seen anything like it ever. Check it
out, you will be amazed and please make sure to watch the video at the
bottom of this page to see this in action – you won’t believe it.

• Train Set Scale
• Sections of the German
  Train Set
• The German Train Set
  Rolling Stock
• The Train Set at Night

Train Set Scale

Here is the biggest, longest and most comprehensive train set in the
world.  To give you an idea it displays 6 miles of track and covers an
area of over 10,000 square feet (1,150 square meters).

It is the life work of Frederick and Gerrit Braun.  The twin
brothers who are in their 40s, began work on the ‘Miniature Wonderland’ in
2000.  Their train set empire incorporates scenes from America,
Switzerland, Scandinavia, the Austrian Alps, and of course, Germany.

Sections of the German Train
Set

The American section features display models of the Rocky Mountains,
Everglades, Grand Canyon, and Mount Rushmore. While the Swiss section has a
reconstruction of the Matterhorn mountain.

You can begin to see the scale, and the detail in the pictures to the
right.

The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a ‘fjord’

The Future
Twins Frederick and Gerrit Braun expect
their project to be finished in 2014, when the train set will cover about
20,000 sq ft, by that time the track will have doubled to over 12 miles.
Addition sections will feature models of parts of France, Italy and England.

Will and Guy wonder will they be satisfied until they have trains from
everywhere in the world, for example there are intersting trains in China,
India and South Africa.

The German Train Set Rolling
Stock

• It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons
• The longest train is 46 ft long.
• The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars – many
  with illuminated headlights!
•  160,000 individually designed figures.
• Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the
  scenery.
• The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve
  centre.
• In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than 8 million to
  put together, the vast majority of which has come from ticket sales.

The Train Set at Night

Another example of their attention to detail is the 250,000 lights.
They are programmed to mimics night and day, and not only provide
illumination, but the lights become part of the show themselves.

Train Set Nerve Centre

Perhaps it’s this picture of behind the scenes that makes us appreciate
that this is no ordinary train set.

Gerrit said: “Our idea was to build a world that men, woman, and children
can be equally astonished and amazed in”.

Frederik added: “Whether gambling in Las Vegas, hiking in the Alps or
paddling in Norwegian fjords – in Wunderland everything is possible”. The
world’s biggest model train set.

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It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons. The
longest train is 46 ft long. The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800
buildings, 4,000 cars – many with illuminated headlights and 200,000
individually designed figures.

Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the
scenery. The set is on display to the public and is so big that they employ
more than 160 people to show visitors around their creation. Open this
hyperlink for a 4 minute look at this Hamburg, Germany site./p>

Do not miss the video!
http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/video/4-minutes-wunderland/

See more picturesque train pictures.