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YouTube: World's Smallest Working Model Train Layout (video)

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MAKE Magazine:  World's smallest model train set? - seems likely!

Planet Green Articles Feed:  Watch the World's Smallest Working Train in Action

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World's smallest model train set? - seems likely!
MAKE Magazine — Wow! David K. Smith has made what seems a shoe-in for the title of World's smallest model train - This is a Z scale model of an N scale train layout--a model of a model. And it works. I built it to sit in the window of a Z scale hobby shop on my "real" train layout, the James River Branch. - and this isn't even his first micro layout, check out one of the larger yet still impressively eentsy predecessors. [via Neatorama] Read more | Permalink | Comments | ...

Watch the World's Smallest Working Train in Action
Planet Green Articles Feed — It's simultaneously one of the most adorable and most astonishing things you're likely to see today: measuring just 1/8th of an inch by 1/4th of an inch, I present to you the world's smallest working train. This model train set was built at a 1-35,200 scale to the real deal by New Jersey train enthusiast David Smith--and the only tools he used to make it were a craft knife and his bare hands. As you watch (and squint) you'll see the 5 car model passenger train make its way around the little hill--the thing actually runs impressively fluidly. So what's the thing made of? According to the Telegraph ...

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