A train made entirely of chocolate has set a new Guinness World Record [pics]

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 realisation 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 modelled after the new Belgian trains, and the rest of the train

is modelled 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.