Massive Model Railroad - 400 Bridges - 30ft Mountains - You Have to See to Believe

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I love model trains! As a kid in New York I used to visit the little hidden train stores scattered throughout the city and one really big store named Polks that is now long gone.

I built little dioramas funded by my grandfather, and dreamt about huge and complicated model cities that I absolutely did not have the room for, not to mention the money, because those little N Scale German trains were expensive as heck.

Now of course most of us settle for things like TrainSim world, But it’s not the same. I just found out about this place in New Jersey and I very much want to go visit there. The little kid in me is stupidly excited.

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I sent this to my mate who is an absolute model train nerd of the highest order and he was blown away by it

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For those of us in Europe, there’s the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany. Well worth a visit, not just for model train enthusiasts.

Edit: just noticed that the video might require a NSFW tag for some of the Easter eggs shown, watch at your own discretion :sweat_smile:

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Wow!

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Talk about a labor of love. :sunglasses:

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I remember my father had a single N-scale locomotive, can’t remember if there was any rolling stock. I marvelled that something could be so small and still work.

Nowadays I imagine it’d be easy to do with modern machine-wound micro motors, of course there’s negligible demand …

I still have a few locos in storage… and I have a shed now… for my retirement :wink:

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