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One other point to remember is most layouts focus on the railroad (you're all saying... duh!) so therefore tend to be linear. If your layout is only 3 feet wide (about the maximum for good reach), with the tracks roughly in the middle, that space is somewhat less than 300 feet across - less than 150 feet across. How many sky-scrapers or suburban malls (or other larger buildings) can fit entirely within 150 feet of a rail line? Maybe that is why the largest buildings tend to be restricted to either flats or the backdrop themselves. You'd have to have a lot of room for even one of these big modern buildings... If in fact any of them are that close to the tracks... On the other hand, I can see demand for models of new smaller buildings, like gas stations, or small manufacturers, or low-rise office buildings. Many of these might be easy enough to scratch build. One of the buildings near my office put up an addition in about 2 weeks last summer. It, like the rest of the building is simply covered with corregated siding, with windows on the first floor only. Wouldn't be too hard to build. Andrew
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