Do you have a model train set?
Do you have a model train set?
The world’s largest model train set in Germany beat its own Guinness World Record by adding a new section based on the country of Monaco. “Miniatur Wunderland” in Hamburg, has held the Guinness record for the world’s largest model train set since 2011, it has now beaten its own record by expanding to 10 miles of track. By 2020, the exhibit is expected to cover 25,000 square feet. The exhibit includes 1,300 trains made up of over 10,000 carriages, over 100,000 moving vehicles, 500,000 lights, 130,000 trees, and 400,000 human figurines and two airports. (See more by clicking “source:” below.)
One day an engineer calls the dispatcher and asks him for the official system time. The dispatcher responds by asking him what road he works for… The engineer is a little upset and snaps, “What difference does that make?”
“Well,” the dispatcher drawls, “if you work for the Burlington Northern, it’s 2 pm;
If you work for the Union Pacific, it is 1400;
If you work for the Norfolk Southern, the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 2;
And if you work for Amtrak, it’s Tuesday!”
A passenger train is creeping slowly along. Finally, it creaks to a halt. A passenger sees a conductor walking by outside. “What’s going on?” she yells out of the window. “Cow on the track!” replies the conductor. Ten minutes later the train resumes its slow pace but within five minutes it stops again. The woman sees the same conductor walking past again. She leans out of the window and yells “What happened? Did we catch up with the cow?”
Two drunks were walking upgrade between the railroad tracks. One of them said, “This is the longest stairway I have ever been on.” To this, the other replied, “It’s not the stairs that bother me, it’s the low banister.”