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I've swung the camera around in a circle and then taken a couple of shots of the peninsula. The ramps are on the side walls. I hope you can make sense of it. It's probably not a new idea, but it's very impressive. The dimensions of the room are of a double garage (6.5 x 8.5m approx). It's great for operational running as it can take a train a long time to get around. It's also possible to leave a train running on one level for a while and run other trains up and down past it.
Worth a look, I thought.
Max
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Well worth thinking about. :thumbs
'Petermac
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Lots of work and lots of money invested there.
Lots to like (I don't like the scattering of coloured plants but it's not my business).
Have you seen it working, Max?
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Ray (the owner), was asking me about RR&Co. Now. There's something with which to conjure. :twisted:
Max
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:cool:
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Can I give Ray your name for help when he starts to wire it up for RR&Co?
Max
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Sorry about that. You can see the doorway and a good view of the three inserts and the lift up deck.
Max
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But I don't think it would suit my style. Nor my pocket.
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Yeah no worriesCan I give Ray your name for help when he starts to wire it up for RR&Co?
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At our last exhibition, they had all proudly displayed their coffin-like wares, to which I wryly commented: Oh, I see shoes have gone whole sale. I
n a gesture of conciliation, they invited me to place one of my beauties on their module, to which I graciously acceeded: It looks rather like an Earl at a cowboys` barbecue.
Many of them are what I call wine collectors with no cork screws: They have no layout and the only time they can see their stock in a row, rather than a stack, is when they bring it to my place. Whenever they exhume their unholy stuff (once I had TWO American electric locos crowned with unseemly womens`rollers polluting my tracks), I flee to make coffee. As opur nursery rhyme goes, they know they can play in the woods whilst the wolf is away; but fie if they dare not hide them away when I return rattling cups, saucers and spoons to warn them off!
Forgive them, oh Lord, for they know not what they model!
sergio
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We make similar comments about the GWR over here Sergio . :cheers
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Thanks for the photo,s Max. An impressive railway room and design.
I remember seeing in an old early 1980,s Railway Modeller.
A layout built by a chap in the UK on a similar design.
He placed town stations on each loop with tunnels and bridges as scenic breaks, Each loop represented the mainline run between Towns.
It seemed to give an interesting operating theme.
I think the layout was called Banbury or something similar.
regards,
Derek.
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