The Braun brothers have built the world's largest train set, the 'Miniatur Wunderland', which covers 12,380 square feet and features almost six miles of track. And it is still not completed!
This is the worlds biggest train set which covers 1,150 square meters (12,380 square feet), features almost \r\nsix miles of track and is still not complete
Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the Miniatur Wunderland in 2000
The set covers six regions including America , Switzerland , Scandinavia , Germany and the Austrian Alps
The American section features giant models of the Rocky Mountains, Everglades, Grand Canyon ...
...and Mount Rushmore
The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn
The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a fjord
It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train set will cover more than 1,800 square meters (19, 376 sq ft) \r\nand feature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed models of parts of France, Italy and the UK will \r\nhave been added
It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons
The longest train is 46ft long
The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights...
...and 160,000 individually designed figures
Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery...
The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system which mimics night and day by automatically turning them \r\non and off
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 \r\nof which has come from ticket sales
Gerrit said: "Our idea was to build a world that men, woman, and children can be equally astonished \r\nand amazed in"
Frederik added: "Whether gambling in Las Vegas , hiking in the Alps or paddling in Norwegian fjords – \r\nin Wunderland everything is possible" \r\nThe worlds biggest model train set.