Sometimes a hobby gets a little out of hand. At Bernard Buesink’s from Aalten, it has even completely derailed. What started with building handy scale models that still fit neatly in a display case, ended with the Austrian model Railway Panorama; A mountain landscape of 250 m2 in scale 1,22.5 in the backyard. Complete with railway, a city, roads, ski lifts, mountain river, a lake, bridges, etc.. For a few years Buesink only let his family and friends enjoy his hobby, but in 1979 Bernard opened the model railway for the first time for public after a tip from a acquaintance. This turned out to be such a success that, together with the tourist office in Aalten, he decided to open the model railway to the public on Sunday afternoon.

However, it did not stop at building only a model railway track. Shortly after this, Bernard Buesink started building an even bigger train. The result was three locomotives of which the longest was 5.50 m, and six wagons, one of which worked as a vacuum cleaner to keep the track of 300 meters long clean.  

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These trains made it possible for the visitors to be driven around. Due to circumstances, however, this came to an end. Bernard didn't think it was a bad thing afterwards. Because sometimes as many as 600 visitors came in on a Sunday afternoon, because of the many media interest. This was a bit too much. At the end of 1989 Bernard stopped the narrow gauge ribbon, after which he sold almost all the material in 1998 to Familie restaurant 't Noorden in Aalten. Here you can still see the trains, and ride them as usual.  

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In 2006 Bernard's last train was made roadworthy again. Until the end of October 2015, it ran in the forest near Buesink’s backyard on a rail of about 80 meters and was given the name Bos-Express since 2013. Children and adults could take a ride for a small fee. Unfortunately, the plot with the model railway had to be sold, which meant that this beautiful track came to an end. Ramon (Bernard's grandson) hopes to continue the life's work of grandfather in a new beautiful place so that Bernard's passion and greatest hobby will continue to exist.