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Hunterdon County, Northlandz Great American Railway, Doll Museum and Art Gallery, 495 Highway 202 South, Flemington, New Jersey, USA. Phone: 908.782.4022
Hunterdon County, Northlandz Great American Railway, Doll Museum and Art Gallery, 495 Highway 202 South, Flemington, New Jersey, USA. Phone: 908.782.4022
Northlandz is a largest amusement park with miles of model trains track that passes through incredibly interesting and detailed scenery. With all these great things to see, it's a perfect place to entertain young kids 🚂🚂
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Hunterdon County, Northlandz , 495 Highway 202 South, Flemington, New Jersey, USA. Phone: 908.782.4022
Let's support each other, believe in each other, encourage each other to never give up, and lift each other up! Celebrate love in color with us. Northlandz is a 'Scenic Wonderland', unlike anything the world has ever seen. Throughout this world class attraction, you will experience thousands of handcrafted, cleverly conceived structures, housed in a vast array of cities, villages, and country settings.
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ღ The world’s largest model train tracks layout at "Northlandz Miniature Wonderland". Rail Road track pass through the Bridges, mountains area, houses, everything imitates the reality. Come and make your memories. ☺
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A beautiful view of ''Model Train Track''.!! Come and visit the World's Largest Model Railroad.
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Bruce Zaccagnino started building model railroads in the basement of his Three Bridges home 24 years ago. When the train set grew too big, he excavated a second basement, then a third, a fourth and a fifth. By that time, it took 81 people to operate the entire thing at once. His open houses twice a year drew international attention.
Mr. Zaccagnino has built an even bigger model railroad, which he calls Northlandz, Home of the Great American Railway, in a 52,000-square-foot building on Route 202 in Flemington. The building also contains a 250-seat auditorium, art galleries, a doll museum, and a large pipe organ. On Dec. 18 1996, he opened its doors to the public for the first time.
Visitors to Northlandz wend their way through the entire building while they watch 135 locomotives and thousands of railroad cars run through a landscape of miniature cities, canyons and mountains, as well as a ''bottomless'' pit and other flights of fancy.
Visit to Northlandz in January of 2010. An astonishingly large HO model railroad layout, recommended for train enthusiasts. It occupies a building the size of a large 3-story warehouse.
Pros:
+ Quirky - some of the scenes are pretty amusing
+ Detailed - lots of fine work. You can spend a long time in one place, just looking at the subtleties
+ Huge - Very extensive dioramas
+ No that does not quite do it, how about "Gargantuan?"
+ No, still not right. I think this: "You're lying. It cant be that big." - No, it is. Jaw-dropping. That link shows only part of one of maybe a dozen rooms. Plan on 90 minutes if you jog through, three hours if you take your time and enjoy it.
+ Organ music - The builder and owner, Bruce Zaccagnino, is a skilled organist and plays for visitors (I think every day) in a little theater in the middle of the building.
Cons:
- Dust - Lots of it. I'm sure it's a nightmare to clean, but it needs it. At HO scale, it's up to the inhabitants' ankles.
- Disrepair - Plaster landscape cracking in places. Little figures fallen over. Not too often, but enough to jar you from your reverie.
- Few trains! - When we visited most rooms were largely silent; I guess it made the trains more exciting when they did come through, but they did so rarely, and often only a handful of cars.
- Somewhat inflexible - you have one shot at moving through, then you need to buy another ticket if you want to revisit a scene. Not a big deal... except there's only one bathroom inside at the halfway point. Remember, it's HUGE. Know your kids' tolerances if you go.
All in all if you like railroads (or have kids that do) you should probably see it at least once.
The world's largest model rail road track in Flemington, NJ and have a lot of fun with your friends and family. Rail track passing through the mountains area, Bridges, houses, everything mimics the reality 🚂.
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Northlandz Model Railroad, Flemington, NJ. First off, I don't know what the 'z' is about; it kind of makes you feel like there is some sort of hip-hop element going on, but that isn't the case. If anything, you can chalk it up as just another eccentricity of this scarcely contained interior world, the outsized thought balloon of one man and one man only, Mr. Bruce Williams Zaccagnino. (Wait...is that the 'z' connection?) Even with the following illustrated examples, it is a place several shades beyond description.
The first puzzler confronts you before you've even entered: the building which houses such grandiose displays of imagination and wonder is stark, windowless, and miserable-looking from the outside. It looks like the kind of structure that you would normally enter to buy discounted office furniture or blow-up dolls. You look at it, shiver, and think this can't possibly be the place. But it is.
When I first walked in from a dim November afternoon with my family, Zaccagnino (he is referred to as 'Mr. Williams' on the website) was just completing an effervescent romp on a gaudy, white pipe organ that threatened to brighten things up a little, but the carouselesque music felt entirely out of place - it soon became clear, for better or worse, that Mr. Williams' vision is not the most light-hearted in the world. But what an awe-inspiring vision it is, regardless of what passing gawkers happen to make of it, regardless of its eerie lighting (I swear there were no filters on my camera) and copious layers of dust. I myself became instantly hooked by it.
I'm not really much of a train person. I had a train set when I was very young, and it's easy enough for me to understand the allure of the railroad for many, because it's very similar kind of allure which roads have always held for me. Not cars. Perhaps oddly, I don't care a damn about cars. But roads and the things found alongside them always fascinated me, from the very first. My first drawings were maps of the suburban landscape in which I was driven around, the signs, the gas stations, the bridges, the route numbers and traffic lights. Growing up, I constructed a series of miniature 'cities', which were again more like suburban townscapes, adorned with elevated highways, clover-leaf interchanges, and rotating bank signs. They would always start with Lego base plates and then branch off into Lincoln Logs and random improvised pieces from other building sets around the peripheries of the spare bedroom I was lucky enough to utilize for a number of years, until my brother finally claimed it when I was in eighth grade. So in other words, while model railroads have never been my thing per se, I'm mesmerized by miniatures and small-scale layouts - or as I've come to understand in adulthood, any kind of medium which attends to or recreates close detail. And so it was that I drew an immediate and exciting connection from Northlandz back to my junior engineering days.
It wasn't just that, though. I've seen plenty of miniature layouts through the years, and while their craftsmanship always lends itself to appreciation, I'd never encountered any that didn't try to bathe their little worlds in folksy, quaint overtones, every setting hearteningly and blandly idyllic, three-dimensional equivalents of a Currier & Ives print. The creator of Northlandz, by contrast, shares my strong affinities for both realism and surrealism. Not only are there decidedly unromantic factories sprawled everywhere, but some are depicted in various stages of abandonment. Houses and theaters are boarded up here and there. There is even an entire ghost town, and not your conventionally imagined western scene at that. The entire layout is woven through a rugged geology of cliffs, canyons, and rocky grades that suggest Colorado but which could also be the anthracite and coal regions of Pennsylvania or West Virginia; the scenes among these backdrops alternate between the world of Zaccagnino's youth, where industry was more vibrant and commonplace, and the world of today where many of these industrial sites are empty and derelict. I was not in the least expecting such depictions when I originally planned my visit.
Beyond this, however, the imaginative qualities and enormous scope of this layout is nothing short of breathtaking. Even if you hurry through it, only stopping every so often to take a picture or stare bemusedly at a heaping tower of bead-sized tires or to squint at the title of a movie advertised on a minuscule mezzanine, it will take you a couple of hours to go through the entire thing. It's not just some big open space ringed with walkways: you walk through it, under it, over it, double and triple back on it, and every now and then slink through corridors which feature display windows of old radios and typewriters. Perhaps after those couple of hours certain aspects will be found repetitive, but there is always some wholly unanticipated quirk just around the next corner which compels the visitor to stop and involuntarily open her mouth in wonder. Zaccagnino's engineering chops alone are off the charts. It appears as if he couldn't be satisfied in building this behemoth unless it afforded him the most challenging set of parameters possible. There is a highly impressive array of bridges spanning the many chasms and waterways of Northlandz, no one of them the same in design or support. These, like so many of the structures, were crafted in painstaking, letter-perfect detail, and in many cases appear to be modeled after nothing actually in physical existence. There are towns on stilts, a miniature golf course in the sky, a harrowing rope bridge leading to a remote monastery, an entire amusement park, mining factories precariously and inventively perched around steep cliff walls; quotidian scenes of folks backpacking up a mountain road, laundry hanging along backyard clotheslines, random junk lying around the grounds of an old factory, plane crashes, train wrecks, scrap yards, houses undergoing demolition, even the driving of the Golden Spike. And yeah, I guess a lot of trains zipping this way and that, as well.
Northlandz is a bit out of the way if you're in based in either the Philly or New York metro areas. But whether you have kids or not, whether you like trains or not, it's well worth a gander sometime. You won't see anything like it anywhere else. It may even make you want to dump your old blocks and Legos all over the living room floor and start building something yourself.
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Hunterdon County, Northlandz Great American Railway, Doll Museum and Art Gallery, 495 Highway 202 South, Flemington, New Jersey, USA. Phone: 908.782.4022
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The world's smallest operating model train set was built by New Jersey resident David Smith, a model train enthusiast. The tiny railway consists of a five-carriage train that travels on a circular track through a tunnel while being 35,200 times smaller than its standard-sized version. The village showcases a model shop for storing the tiny trains. It costs Smith £6 to build the train set.
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Let's support each other, believe in each other, encourage each other to never give up, and lift each other up! Celebrate love in color with us. Northlandz is a 'Scenic Wonderland', unlike anything the world has ever seen. Throughout this world class attraction, you will experience thousands of handcrafted, cleverly conceived structures, housed in a vast array of cities, villages, and country settings.
🌹 Just Visit Northlandz for more adventure.
☑️ For More Information...
📞 Call (908) 782-4022
➡️ Visit Now 👉 northlandz.com ❣
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