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- After finalising the purchase of a home in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, a Melbourne man found something unexpected.
- There had been no mention of the expansive model train network beneath the home’s floors.
- Coincidentally, new owner Daniel Xu is a keen train enthusiast and engineer.
Underneath his new home, Xu discovered a model train setup, designed around an extensive network of train lines and miniature landscapes.
Xu, a train enthusiast himself, had no idea this was what was under the home he ha just purchased. Source: SBS News
With plans for renovations, Xu needed to get beneath his house, much of which is raised, sitting above a carport.
“I was shocked and I immediately asked my wife to come down to have a look — she was shocked.”
The model train set was put together by the former owner of the house Daniel Xu recently purchased and could be about 60 years old. Source: SBS News
His love of rail started when he was young, through a Japanese cartoon about a crime-fighting train.
The set had likely not been used for some years, with the area full of spiderwebs when Xu first went beneath the house and found the dusty set.
It is not the project he had in mind when buying his house, but Daniel Xu has committed himself to restoring the old model train network he found beneath his home and hopes to upgrade some of the technology. Source: SBS News
Xu, who said he already had a number or train toys and model trains, plans on getting the lines cleaned up, in order to test what still works and get the entire network back up and running.
“My friends kids come and play, they don’t want to leave, they spend the whole afternoon here although there is no power at all [running through it at the moment],” he said.
