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(...) with (...) Room and pieces always seem to be the limiting factors. We're thinking of finishing our basement this summer and the layout will pretty much take up the entire space except for a narrow walkway around the tables and some space for (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) it? (...) Keep aisle space in mind, please. Don't expect to reach in much more than about 24-30 inches from a table edge. you may find that you need some "access hatches" or more of a walkaround layout with peninsulas, than a huge expanse that (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) the (...) about (...) Of course there are solutions which don't require access hatches. A kind of interesting one from the latest issue of The Narrow Guage and Shortline Gazette - one modeler building in a large scale has a mine building that (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This layout still exists!...The Madder Valley Railway exists in probably the best model railway museum in the world, at Pendon (Oxton). The MVR went through many versions in the time that it existed, the current one is different again. James (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) about (...) It would work fine...on the floor. This is where my layouts are for the most part, with the lego trains it works quite well to have them directly onto a solid floor. Yes, it does limit some choices of elevation, but it also adds a (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Maybe you can, I can't. :-) I've had too much good food (including some fine German beer last week), and I think I mass enough that if I'm wearing shoes I deform the baseplates and if I'm just wearing socks I deform my feet to the point where (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) walk. Lar, I mass out at around 120 kg, or 250 Lb's...and I am currently navigating on 1/4" plywood on carpet (not so good...). The key is to step on the _roads_ not the studs :). I have many a time had little "lego" indents on my legs from (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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