The Absolute Ultimate Model Train Set-Up

Like most guys, I’ve always enjoyed model trains. My parents had a friend with an elaborate set-up in his basement, with track running in every direction. Just as you started down his basement stairway you passed a half-dozen hooks, with an engineer’s cap hanging from each. No one was permitted in the basement without wearing one. It was very cool!

Several years ago – before the Iron Curtain came down – my wife and daughter and I arrived in Nuremberg, Germany as we returned to the West by train after visits to Hungary and Prague. Our daughter was not quite seven at the time and we had promised her a new toy at the end of our trip.

There is a wonderful toy museum in Nuremberg and we paid a visit there as soon as we were settled in a quaint little hotel. It was, as I recall, a five-story building and when we arrived at the top floor I was startled to find a wonderful model train layout laid out on a platform that was probably 30×50 feet in area. And get this: It was a replica of the Omaha, Nebraska rail yard! (This photo is of another display in that city.)

But speaking of model railroad layouts, take a look at this video. Without question, this has got to be the most fabulous, most elaborate, biggest, most unbelievable …

Well, click and see for yourself!