Abandoned Train Set Time Capsule House

Located in the Muskoka region of Ontario Canada, this long abandoned house sits boarded up along a remote highway.  Unassuming from the outside, this forgotten bungalow is overgrown and boarded up, nothing more than an eyesore to neighbours and drivers passing by.

Inside, the home is a perfectly preserved time capsule, with nothing but the effects of time altering the conditions.

As I entered the home, I was hit with that familiar blast of abandoned house air, the musty damp smell that never leaves you, that tells you that you’re in for a surprise.  With an asian themed tiki bar, a fully intact living room, kitchen, bedrooms and more, this is the kind of house that only comes along every so often.

The biggest surprise sits in a small room in the basement, where the German man who lived here spent years building a custom toy train set, in an Austrian Alps setting.  While this train set would have been spectacular at one point, it now sits like a post-apocalyptic scene, a miniature version of an abandoned village.

The owner of this home was a German American named Günter, who moved to Ontario Canada with his young wife. The man was a high school teacher, teaching grades 11 and 12 at a local high school.