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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...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: model; modeltrains; tiny; train
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Now that took some patience.
1 posted on 10/25/2009 9:10:06 PM PDT by bogusname
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To: bogusname

Dave looks fun...

2 posted on 10/25/2009 9:12:26 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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That look comes from straining your eyes. LOL


3 posted on 10/25/2009 9:13:23 PM PDT by bogusname (Banish All Lliberals)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

He looks like that nut in Fargo.


4 posted on 10/25/2009 9:13:55 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: bogusname

5 posted on 10/25/2009 9:14:02 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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6 posted on 10/25/2009 9:14:46 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Thanks


7 posted on 10/25/2009 9:14:54 PM PDT by bogusname (Banish All Lliberals)
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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.


8 posted on 10/25/2009 9:16:04 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: bogusname

You bet.


9 posted on 10/25/2009 9:16:10 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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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.


10 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.)
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That sounds pretty cool.


11 posted on 10/25/2009 9:17:41 PM PDT by bogusname (Banish All Lliberals)
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Nifty!


12 posted on 10/25/2009 9:19:00 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: hercuroc

Where is pancakes house?


13 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.)
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Dave looks fun...

Dave looks dead. Somebody poke him with a stick.

BTW - It is impressive.

14 posted on 10/25/2009 9:21:21 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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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.


15 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.)
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Whoah! Fill that gondola up with skin flakes!


16 posted on 10/25/2009 9:23:32 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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At first I thought the motor was part of the train. It’s not, the whole thing sits on an external motor.


17 posted on 10/25/2009 9:23:55 PM PDT by TChad
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The five-carriage train, which is 35,200 times smaller than a real train...

No it's not.

18 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.)
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The world's smallest working train set... it's the size of a fingernail

Wow. Bet it hauls a lot of freight.

19 posted on 10/25/2009 9:26:38 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Fearing for the republic 24/7.)
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I’ll stay with Lionel thanks....


20 posted on 10/25/2009 9:28:23 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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