July Issue Article - Sole Remnant of 1950s Showroom Can't Be 4x6!

[Texas Pete]

I don't understand why Mr. Carp didn't just contact the current owner and ask him to measure the layout.

Pete

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

Perhaps there will be a follow-up article on this topic. 

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[sir james I]

July? you have July? as usual mine has not arrived yet.

[Penny Trains]

Me too!  I was dissappointed to finish the article and find nothing about how it ended up at E. D's.

[POTRZBE]

Getting back to the actual topic:  I wish Mr Carp had spent more ink on the acquistion of the layout.

[Firelock76]

The local band in the college town I went to back in the 70's got sick of everyone requesting Loudon Wainwright's "Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road."

They always played it, though.  "Crossin' the road late last 'nite, didn't look left and he didn't look right..."

[Penny Trains]

It looks bigger than 4x6 at any rate.

And Hendrix?  Love that song! Manic Depression too.  Though my favorite local band of the 90's (Armstrong Bearcat) used to hate it when I came to their shows because I always asked for it, and they always complained about the feedback!  I requested it anyways and they always played it!

[Texas Pete]

I got to squinting at the layout photos on p25 and p26 and the proportion looked to be all wrong for a 4x6.  Upon counting the front straight tracks in the photo on p26 there turned out to be six of them - at 10 inches each that's 60"/5' right there!

When you add in the 45° curve along with the 10" straight section of an O22 and the other 45° curve at each end there's no way the layout can be much less than nine feet in length.  Add the other O22s and the far side siding and the width would barely squeeze in to four feet, but that does look pretty tight in the photos.

This is not a complaint, just an observation.  Like Jimi Hendrix said, "If six turned out to be nine, I don't mind."

Pete