Northlandz Model Railway System - NJ
Hobbit and I joined a couple friends to visit Northlandz Model Railway System, the Guinness Book of World’s Records for being the World’s Largest Model railroad. It was started in 1972, and all the models are handcrafted by the owner, Bruce Williams Zaccagnino. The whole layout spread over 52000 sq feet having 8 miles long railroad track with 100 + miniature trains, 1000+ buildings, 400 + bridges, and 250,000 trees that cover the whole landscape. It's a Mile just to walk through the linear layout. Hobbit Loved it. He begged to be picked up to see, because often the step was still too low for him. There's even a construction scene (one of many). Hobbit was encouraged to name all the vehicles, and of course, he did. There was a sign stating that some bridges required as many as 23,000 hand placed pieces. This was not even the most elaborate. They spanned chasms, scaled wall high mountains in zig-zags, and some had multiple track that ran at the same time.