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In this video, we visit the large model railway layout of the German city of Stuttgart. This miniature world built in N scale is the life's work of Wolfgang Frey. He was a German model railway enthusiast who passed away in 2012. In November 1978, Wolfgang Frey started building the model railway. His dream was to build an exact replica of Stuttgart Central Station, all the houses and buildings, all the roads, all the tram lines, all the signal boxes, all the freight stations, all the locomotive sheds and all the surrounding railway lines. We are not talking about a small diorama. We are talking about a private miniature world spanning over 800 square meters. Everything we see is a unique rarity. Wolfgang Frey never intended to build a Miniatur Wunderland. He wanted to build a larger model railway layout of Stuttgart and its railway infrastructure. In real life, Wolfgang Frey was a train dispatcher for the German Federal Railways. From November 1978 to October 2012, Wolfgang Frey built one of the largest private model railways in Germany. Today, it remains incredible that Wolfgang Frey built this miniature world on his own.