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We posted about the Miniatur Wunderland, the world's largest model railroad and model airport in the world, on Neatorama before - but the company has just released its official 2011 video.
Take the 5-minute virtual trip on a voyage like no others into the world of miniature: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Theresa!
YouTube user troopertrent made a model DeLorean like the one featured in Back to the Future Part III. In that movie Marty McFly and Doc Brown had to push the time machine with a steam engine train to get it up to 88 MPH. troopertrent pushes his model DeLorean with a model train. As you can see at the end of the video, he went all-out on this production, because this is a completely functional model DeLorean time machine.
-via Nerd Bastards
This 1:8.4 scale model train is powered by a gas turbine engine. It travels down five inch gauge tracks quite quickly, as you can see by watching the video in the links. The train was built by Hidepon Works and displayed at Make Fair 2010 in Tokyo.
Link and Video via OhGizmo! | Official Website (Google Translate) | Photo: Gizmag
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Densha otaku are people in Japan who are fascinated with trains. To appeal to their tastes, the Washington Hotel in Akihabara has built an elaborate model train set in a hotel room:
Of course the guest can play with model trains along the thirty-meter track (there are apparently two authentic controllers, so friends can drive the trains together) and even the real thing — the Shinkansen line and Akiba station — is visible from the room’s window.
Though it is possible to rent from the hotel, the Nikkei Marketing Journal reports that many guests bring their own trains to use on the four-line track. The first to stay over was a 23 year-old company employee, followed by a man in his eighties. But there have also been mothers with their kids, so it’s not just strange guys with train obsessions!
The train room opened in June and costs from 23,000 JPY ($265) per night. If you want to make a reservation you will have to wait up to a month!
Video at the link.
Link via OhGizmo! | Photo: Japan Trends
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Model train enthusiast David K. Smith has built a miniscule train layout which works – the train travels in an ellipse, including through a “mountain.”
“Thus, what was intended to be a Z scale model of a 4- by 8-foot HO scale layout became a Z scale model of a 2- by 4-foot N scale layout! After I picked myself up off the floor, I made a few quick calculations… the modeling scale would be an eye-popping 1:35,200, and the finished layout would measure .125 by .200 inches…”
The video shows the basics of the layout and the clever solution re the motor. Further details re the construction are here.
Neatorama has previously posted links to about 80 of the world’s smallest things.
YouTube link. Via Nothing to do with Arbroath.
