Scenic Roads

Charlemagne's Kingdom

Photos and Text by Kathleen Walls

A trip to Helen Georgia offers a lot of fun treats but this one is more then you might expect. Visit Charlemagne's Kingdom and you are transported to modern day Germany from the North Sea to the Alps via Willi Lindhorst's magnificently accurate and detailed model railway. The proportions are perfect and the details are fantastic.

Tiny towns cling to the side of the Alps. Every little detail is presented.

You feel as if you could enter a building or drive one of the tiny cars or trucks. Even the plant life is perfect.

Here a tiny circus has trucks and train cars with the name of the circus, Barnes Circus, and the people stroll the midway. The tents are held in place by guy wires. Elephants are being disembarked by realistic workers. Even the Ferris wheel has riders.

This swimming pool scene shows the attention paid to the smallest detail

The attraction shows Willi's love of trains, his native homeland and all the visitors who come to view his realistic landscape. Willi and his wife, Judi, provide an unusual attraction for both model train enthusiast and just plain people alike .

For More Info: www.georgiamodelrailroad.com/