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Pictured: The world's smallest working train set... it's the size of a fingernail
Daily Mail ^
| 23rd October 2009
| Mail Foreign Service
Posted on 10/25/2009 9:10:04 PM PDT by bogusname
Measuring a tiny eighth of an inch by quarter of an inch, this carefully crafted piece of engineering is the world's smallest working train model. The five-carriage train, which is 35,200 times smaller than a real train, nips around an oval route even taking in a ride through a tunnel on its three-quarter inch track. Created by New Jersey train enthusiast David Smith, the miniscule model was built using nothing more fancy than a craft knife and a steady hand...
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TOPICS: Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: model; modeltrains; tiny; train
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Now that took some patience.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:10:06 PM PDT
by
bogusname
To: bogusname
Dave looks fun...
To: BookmanTheJanitor
That look comes from straining your eyes. LOL
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:13:23 PM PDT
by
bogusname
(Banish All Lliberals)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
He looks like that nut in Fargo.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:13:55 PM PDT
by
hercuroc
To: bogusname
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:14:02 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(A mob of one.)
To: bogusname
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:14:46 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(A mob of one.)
To: Jet Jaguar
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:14:54 PM PDT
by
bogusname
(Banish All Lliberals)
To: bogusname
LOL...I tease the guy...but that is some handiwork that would take tremendous skill & patience. You just think they could of had a better picture...HAHA.
To: bogusname
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:16:10 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(A mob of one.)
To: bogusname
Very neat.
I had a ham radio friend in Florida that was into trains.
His entire 10 to 20 acres, however, was a railroad with all the bells and whistles.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:16:37 PM PDT
by
AlexW
(Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: AlexW
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:17:41 PM PDT
by
bogusname
(Banish All Lliberals)
To: bogusname
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:19:00 PM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: hercuroc
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:19:58 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
Dave looks fun... Dave looks dead. Somebody poke him with a stick.
BTW - It is impressive.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:21:21 PM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
To: bogusname
I do not know the scale, but big enough to ride on.
It was not just a toy train. He had freight trains with coal cars and special unloading tracks, just as in a real railroad company.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:23:04 PM PDT
by
AlexW
(Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: bogusname
Whoah! Fill that gondola up with skin flakes!
To: bogusname
At first I thought the motor was part of the train. It’s not, the whole thing sits on an external motor.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:23:55 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: bogusname
The five-carriage train, which is 35,200 times smaller than a real train...No it's not.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:25:32 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
To: bogusname
The world's smallest working train set... it's the size of a fingernailWow. Bet it hauls a lot of freight.
To: bogusname
I’ll stay with Lionel thanks....
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