The doctor who went down into the basement and disappeared
You should play with the trains
Once up on a time there was a doctor called Bent Schultze. He loved model railways. When he wasn’t treating his patients he played with his trains. In the basement of his house Dr Schultze created a fantasy world called “The Country Somewhere”. In the layout of Somewhere he constructed two railways. He built small cities with houses, factories and parks representing life around 1945.
You should play with the trains
Wander around Doctor Schultze’s fantasy world and dream away in everything that happens. All funny scenes and episodes. But it was mainly industries, ranking and vices that fascinated the doctor. He played with the help of an ingenious card system, which “forced” him to solve the task of picking up, transporting and landing various intricate loads, for example a wagon full of French wines…there was a lot of sorting and it took time. But it was fun!
Who was Dr Schultze?
He moved from Denmark to Sweden and became a renowned, local profile in Ljungby. He was as good a doctor as he was a model builder. Between 1965 – 1995 he built and played with his trains in his basement. Towards the end of his life he donated the fantasy model railway in 1996 to the municipality of Ljungby.
The disaster
Unfortunately the model was disassembled heavy-handedly with a disasterous result. Tha landscape made of plaster was rumbled and the rails oxidated.
In 1999 a railway enthusiast, Staffan Vifors, took over the project together with ABF, a Swedish non-profit making organization. Three years later the association TågCentralen was founded. Between 1999 och 2012 we rebuilt about 80 percent of the original Country Somewhere.
A voluntary rescue operation which took 15 000 working hours to complete.
