Eight Miles Of Model Trains

Northlandz in Flemington, New Jersey in insane/inspired — eight miles of model trains:

The great thing about the museum is that it has this brilliant dark/dystopian touch that undercuts your usual expectations of model trains. It sort of starts out sunny:

But then you notice odd touches, like a delivery truck that has run off the road:

. . . and train disasters:

. . . heaps of junked trains:

. . . nightmare cliff dwellings looking like something Hieronymus Bosch conjured:

. . . and of course a plane crash: