A few figures for the little train of La Heste

- Building starts in September 1994

- The scale used is 1/87th

- 200m of track and ballast are placed over an area of 28m2

- 77 automatic points

- 24 sections regulate around 30 trains

- 4 stations welcome the passengers

- 20 Km of electric cable supply various scenes of everyday life

- Around 100 buildings make up the towns

- Thousands of characters and animals appear in the different scenes

- Thousands of trees and bushes have been planted

- About 100 vehicles are moving on the streets and main roads

- Two torrents race down the mountains

- A northern French town has been built

- A Basque village has risen out of the Pyrenees

- A village from the Sarthe region is included in the industrial area

- Two rack trains take the tourists up to the snow capped summit

- Dozens of small scenes give an insight into both town and rural life

- At night, thousands of lamps light up the town buildings, the train stations and the mountain chalets. It is a truly enchanting spectacle.

- A station controller’s office runs the entire network and the animated scenes

- 20 000  working hours were required to complete the project

- Roughly 2500 hours of painstaking work are still required to fine tune the model