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In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach writes:
> For this show we
> built two plywood boxes to give us room to loop the two mainlines back on
> each other, creating a 'dogbone' layout.
Could you elaborate what you mean by "plywood boxes" in this context? When
first I saw the pics I had assumed you were looping the track around behind
the curtain on banquet tables or something. Are you saying you had hidden
dogbone ends, or something different? Thanks!
I did look through the other pics and did not see what you referred to.
Echoing everyone else's oohs and ahhs is a given, of course.
FUT trains.org as this is show related, scaffolding for partially completed
modulars is quite interesting conceptually.
++Lar
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| (...) Nothing that complicated - we used our regular tables (40"x60"), Conan threw together some simple plywood boxes to get up to track height on each end of the layout. (16+ bricks on the low end, 24+ bricks on the high end.) We put a simple loop (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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