Fantastic! I wonder how many Hershey bars he had to melt to make
the train. Ha!
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Here's a layout we should consider building.
Dexter Oliver
JUST RECEIVED THIS FROM A HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE.
I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THE PICTURES.
I GAINED 20 POUNDS JUST LOOKING AT THE PICTURES.
A train made entirely of chocolate has set a new Guinness World Record as the
longest chocolate structure in the World.
The sculpture, on display at the busy Brussels South station, is 112-feet
(34.05 meters) long and weighs over 2,755 pounds (1250 kilos). Maltese
chocolate artist Andrew Farrugia spent over 700 hours constructing the
masterpiece.
He said he came up with the idea of the train last year after visiting the
Belgian Chocolate Festival in Bruge: "I had this idea for a while, and I said
what do you think if we do this realization of a long chocolate train, you
know, because a train, you can make it as long as you like.
"Actually it was going to be much smaller than it was, but I kept on adding
another wagon, and another wagon, and it's the size it is today."
Farrugia had previously built a smaller train of 12 feet for an event in Malta,
which he said gave him insight about how to build this much larger version.
There are two parts to the train. The first seven wagons are modeled after the
new Belgian trains, and the rest of the train is modeled after the old train
wagons, including a wagon with a bar and restaurant on board.
Three days before the event, Farrugia transported the chocolate train by truck
in 25 wooden boxes from Malta to Belgium. Farrugia said the train incurred
considerable damage during the drive and several of the train's walls had
completely collapsed. Luckily, with hard work and little sleep, the chocolate
artist was able to fix all the damages before presenting the train to the
public on Monday.
After measuring the length of the train and confirming no material other than
chocolate was used, officials from the Guinness Book of World Records added a
new category to the collection of world records and declared the train to be
the longest chocolate structure in the world.
