The Chocolate Train
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.
This train holds the Guinness
world record for being the longest chocolate structure, according to a
