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Quick Ques re: typical 2 lane street width in town.
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<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="dknelson"] <P>Bill McClanahan ......also makes the point that a full scale width street tends to look too large and too dominating on our otherwise compressed layouts, for the same reason that our model trees, neighborhoods, factories, depots, rail yards, etc would look small in real life but seem large on a layout. In real life we would hardly notice a city street 50 or 60 feet wide. On a model railroad it would look enormous. </P> <P>Dave Nelson </P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>Thanks, Dave and everyone else kind enough to give me some tips on this.</P> <P>Yeah, I kinda thought there was some perception issues with full scale streets. </P> <P>I think Mr. Beasley's 3" widths look good. Thanks for the pictures there. I also learned about the sidewalk widths from those shots. I was looking at the "sidewalk styrene" sheets I have and wondering how may squares to use in width.</P>
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