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Guys <br />All I am saying is that if you a looking for detail, you can see it from ten feet. I can. <br />I can clearly see an LGB coupler at ten feet, or a Kadee coupler, or a link and pin coupler. They do not disappear at ten feet. The loveliest garden railway I ever saw ran stock LGB in factory fresh paint, through gnome gardens etc. It was beautiful. I liked it enough to finally start building my own garden railway. <br />What impressed me most was that even from ten feet or so, far enough to see a whole train, I could appreciate the detail of it all, and see all the handles and grabirons, and see proper faces on the crew. <br />Just place your favourite locomotive on a table, measure ten feet, stand there and see how much you can see from that far. <br />I think the rule is rot, the words. Not the what people originally meant, when the phrase was coined, or what people do to enjoy the hobby. I am not sayng you have to superdetail everything for your trains to be valid, just that if someone does add details to a model, they are still visible at ten feet. <br />And you still can't uncouple from ten feet.
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