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This garden is not only the dream of little boys.

Dads also get teary eyed when they stopin Rangsdorf, Rheingoldweg 12.

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"Actually it wasn't that I wanted to become an engine-driver or nothing else", answers Manfred Arndt when questioned whether it was his childhood dream. "I was fascinated by the nose of the breaking urban trains here in Rangsdorf. Well eventually I became a railway employee".

He trained as a Betriebs- und Verkehrseisenbahner and later retrained to become a Lockschlosser.

250 metre of rails, constructed into eight circlesis laid in his garden. The 45 millimetre rail trains among them also a copy of the ICE, everything steered digitally are responsible that onlooker and sightseer stop at the garden.

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Mandfred Arndt readily provides information and even offers once a year (spring) an Open Day in his garden.

"Last time we had nearly 1.200 visitors - unbelievable", he says.

Nearly always present is son Torsten and his friendand of course the soul of the whole thing wife Brigitte, who incidentally also works for the railway.