Model railroad is amazing. Watch a video

If you like model railroads, you will be in railroading heaven at the Living Desert Museum in Palm Desert, California. The G scale model train garden features more than 3,000 feet of track on eight working lines over an acre.

Watch the amazing video at the bottom of this story, which was taken right from a locomotive as the model train makes a ten-minute roundtrip. At times, you will swear you are aboard a real, full-sized train.

With six different loops of track, each varying from 150 feet to over 900 feet long, the railroad has grown to an acre. The mainline train travels on 980 feet of trackHistoric scenes in the Train Garden include Mount Rushmore, Southwest cliff dwellings, a California logging and mining town, the Old Indio train station in the Coachella Valley and part of the Grand Canyon with the El Tovar Hotel.

They layout's biggest claim to fame is a hand-built trestle bridge, which is the world's longest for G-scale trains at 202 feet.

The trains are driven into a workshop each night, measuring approximately 12 x 42 feet. They are checked for any necessary repairs, cleaned, and made ready for the next day. Over the railroad's existence, volunteers have logged more than 100,000 hours and built more than 3,300 feet of track.

The Living Desert Train Garden is located at 47900 Portola Ave in Palm Desert. Trains operate from Oct 1 to June 15, normally 7 days a week.

General Admission: $11.95 less for seniors, military and children.