Shocking Surprise in the Crawl Space

Daniel Xu and his wife bought a house in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. They'd been inside, and had a home inspection, but Xu hadn't seen the crawl space himself. The tiny opening led down a few stairs and revealed a huge area totally covered with a miniature railroad setup! The previous owners had not mentioned it, and it turns out that their father had built the railway in the 1960s and it hadn't been used in many years. Why didn't the home inspector mention it? He probably assumed the buyer knew about it, and he had other things to attend to. 

The real kicker is that Daniel Xu is a railroad engineer himself, and also a model train enthusiast with his own model trains, but nothing as extensive as what he just bought. He plans to restore and upgrade the railway with modern technology, while keeping the vintage look. (via Metafilter)