Just off Route 202 in Flemington, New Jersey, sits an unimpressive warehouse that holds a most impressive life's work -- that of the husband and wife team Zaccagnino, creators of the world's largest model railroad. Inside, scores of model trains wind their way past an unrelenting succession of impeccably detailed scenes in miniature -- mini cities give way to mini mining towns, mini graveyards, even mini outhouses. In the center of it all, Bruce Zaccagnino plays a massive pipe organ, providing the soundtrack to this universe in miniature.

Producer: Matthew Ozug / Executive Producer: David Isay / Production Assistant: Michael Garofalo / Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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		Jean Zaccagnino talks about the world's largest dollhouse (RealAudio, 0:26 min)
		Photo of the model-train control room (JPG, 88kb)
		Northlandz Web site
		"Brewer Bell Museum," a radio piece about a bell museum in Virginia
		"World's Longest Diary," about a man who has written a thirty-five million-word diary

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