World's Largest Model Railway

STORY: A team of more than a hundred people, both young and old, are constantly at work expanding a miniature wonderland. It is divided into several sections: Hamburg, Austria, the Harz Mountains, America, Scandinavia, three Swiss Cantons and Knuffingen, a fictional town created solely for the wonderland. And to achieve the team&;s dream of holding the world's record, meters and meters of tracks are necessary. [Sebastian Drechsler, Press Officer, Miniature Wonderland]: "In order to keep the title of biggest model railway in the world we have to guarantee that a train can travel from here to Scandinavia. Around twelve meters of track lie between the two points.&; Miniature wonderland's creator, Frederik Braun, never would have thought that over one million visitors a year would visit his miniature world. [Frederik Braun, Creator, Miniature Wonderland]: "When we began, we thought we were building a fantasy. But we soon realized: hey, why don't we build it realistically? Then we recreated America. And today, we are saying to ourselves, if we keep getting so many visitors, the world is so big so I don't mind if we build everything!" The wonderland creator wants to expand his railway model and for that purpose, Braun is selling pieces of 'land' in auction on Ebay. They are selling at around 10,000 Euros per unit, each the size of an A4 piece of paper.

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