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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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To: the invisib1e hand
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:29:27 PM PDT
by
bogusname
(Banish All Lliberals)
To: bogusname
always wondered how one would ship them.
To: bogusname
Just watch, some damn red ant is going to see this thing and get a bright idea.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:44:57 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
To: bogusname
I think it was Gomez Addams who said "Why would a grown man play with trains if he weren't going to blow them up?"
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:45:12 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
(Raise the fanged and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weaponed mistress...)
To: AlexW
May have been 1.5 scale.That is the favorite ride on scale with real live steam engines.We are a sick,sick bunch.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:46:42 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: imahawk
I don’t think so. I think it’s a great hobby.
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posted on
10/25/2009 9:50:57 PM PDT
by
bogusname
(Banish All Lliberals)
To: bogusname; All
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posted on
10/25/2009 10:22:03 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: AlexW
Evidently literally true, in his case.
28
posted on
10/25/2009 10:24:23 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(So, people call me a smartass. "I'm not smart," I protest.)
To: ETL
29
posted on
10/25/2009 10:24:44 PM PDT
by
bogusname
(Banish All Lliberals)
To: imahawk
Well, you certainly get steamed up often enough.
≤}B^)
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posted on
10/25/2009 10:31:45 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(So, people call me a smartass. "I'm not smart," I protest.)
To: bogusname
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posted on
10/25/2009 10:43:50 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ETL
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posted on
10/25/2009 10:44:54 PM PDT
by
bogusname
(Banish All Lliberals)
To: Fester Chugabrew
To: bogusname
To: Berlin_Freeper
Check out this one in Hamburg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA&feature "The "Miniatur Wunderland" model railroad in Hamburg, Germany is the largest in the world, covering 16,146 square feet of space with more than 10,000 train cars running around its 6.8 miles of HO scale track. Now, the makers of this huge layout have created a video that gives you a jaw-dropping look at the vast scope of this intricate work of art.
"Its construction started in 2000, and is still underway, with a tiny airport due for completion by the end of this year. This is just the beginning - there are plans to double to layout by 2014."
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posted on
10/26/2009 3:45:11 AM PDT
by
dorothy
(“Wisdom cries out loud in the streets, she raises her voice in the squares…" Proverbs 1:20)
To: Erasmus
36
posted on
10/26/2009 4:18:38 AM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: dorothy
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posted on
10/26/2009 5:16:52 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: bogusname
isn’t Willie Greene supposed to be posting this?
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posted on
10/26/2009 2:25:26 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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