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Attention to detail brings SIERRA VISTA — The precise attention to detail surrounding the room isn’t by accident when you walk into the Cochise & Western Model Railroad Club. All the track, the buildings, the lights and every other scale model carefully in place are there for a reason. The neighborhoods designed from the 1940s and 50s. The personnel responding to a building on fire. The construction worker welding away. Each layout “tells little stories,” said club member Jason Bease. The club has been going strong in Sierra Vista for more than 30 years, most of which have been in...

The world's smallest working model train set has been unveiled – measuring just 1/8th of an inch by 1/4 of an inch. At 1-35200 scale to the real thing, the five-carriage train travels around an oval route including ride through a tunnel. Powered by a standard two-inch-long rotating motor head and carved out of mouldable plastic, the model train cost Mr Smith just over £6 to make. "To get a sense of scale you have to remember that the River Branch project is being built to the scale of 1-220," Mr Smith added. "It has taken up two and a...

Video: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/video/4-minutes-wunderland/ ---------------------------- Germany’s latest hot tour attraction is a 12-kilometre long model railway set that winds its way through a world of miniature scuba divers, fire trucks and other dramatic scenes. There is something kind of magical about a museum that lets you feel as if you are towering over the Swiss Alps. This is the effect of Germany’s latest hot tourist attraction, Minatur Wunderland. Billed as the world's largest model train set, the museum is miniature world that snakes along eight miles (12 kilometres) of track, amid fields, cities, even the snowcapped Swiss Alps. Twin brothers Frederik and...