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A Toy-Rail Layout Representative of Postwar-Style Basement "Train Tables"

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A Toy-Rail Layout Representative of Postwar-Style Basement "Train Tables"
Posted by IDM1991 on Monday, May 5, 2014 7:15 PM

Greetings;

The following short film depicts my layout in both its January-April single track/passing siding/stub-ended spur configuration, along with its present double-track/passing siding/stub-ended spur design.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zktN9N2Xpak

Sincerely,
Ian D. McKechnie, B.A. (Hons) 

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Posted by ADCX Rob on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 6:33 AM

Rob

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Posted by IDM1991 on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 2:17 PM

Thanks!

-Ian D. McKechnie 

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Posted by Firelock76 on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 6:05 PM

Nice video!  And what's that piece of music playing?  Good choice there, quiet and lovely with just a slight touch of melancholy for all the past years and people those old trains have seen, never to return.

Take good care of your little time travelers.

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Posted by IDM1991 on Thursday, May 8, 2014 8:09 PM

The first piece of music is Claude Debussy's Maid With The Flaxen Hair; the second piece (which begins when the train on the outer track - hauling the camera - approaches the Marx Glendale station for the second time) is Bob Acri's Sleep Away.  Both were sample tracks in my computer, but they do work well with the imagery.  I should also point out that, while trains on the outer main line usually pass through a Marx truss bridge at the north end of the layout - again, just ahead of the Glendale station - I had to remove it to give a metal Lionel flatcar with a camera strapped on to it adequate clearance. 

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Posted by jscola30 on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 1:05 AM

Trains ancient and modern, eh? Editing a toy train hymnal? Big Smile Jk, looks great!

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Posted by Firelock76 on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 5:47 PM

Thanks for the response on the music titles!

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Posted by webenda on Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:07 AM
Very nicely done video. Thank you for sharing. Credits at the end left this player out: uncredited photo IDM1991_zps99c3d6be.png

 ..........Wayne..........

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