Train-loving engineer discovers huge model train diorama in basement of new home
Daniel Shu, an engineer who bought a house in the suburbs of Melbourne, went down to the basement to renovate it and discovered a huge model railway diorama that filled the entire room, Australian public broadcaster SBS reported.
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The house that Mr. and Mrs. Shue live in on the outskirts of Melbourne has a garage, so the first floor of the house is slightly elevated.
Shue, who had bought a house and thought he needed to renovate it, went into the basement to check.
There, I found a train model diorama filling the entire floor.
When Shu contacted the previous owner and spoke to him, he discovered that the item had been made by his father in the 1960s, when the previous owner was still a child.
It seems that the diorama was made using the latest technology at the time, but as this was not mentioned to Mr. Shu when it was handed over to him, it seems that the previous owner had completely forgotten about it.
However, as fate would have it, the new owner, Mr. Shu, is also a train enthusiast who owns model trains, so rather than removing the diorama, he plans to check which parts are still usable and restore it so that the trains can run again.
'When my friends' kids come over to play, they don't want to leave and stay here all afternoon,' said Shu. 'I haven't turned the power on yet.'
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