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Thanks for this, Dave. I'm beginning to think that bricklaying practices in northern USA owe more historically to Greater Europe than to Britain, but it looks as tho Toronto at least has a stronger British influence. Those Boston buildings I mentioned have six or even seven stretcher courses between each header course, yet appear to date from early 1900s. It's an interesting detail topic to me (if not to many others). I've gone cross-eyed poring over black-and-white photos of background buildings in pictures of New York, New Jersey and points north-east, in travel and history books in my local library. I'll keep on looking. Thought I might find an article or two in old model magazines, but the trawl I made of the Trains.com on-line index yielded very little (and nothing New England related). Know just what you mean about the memory. I turned 60 last year and even before that had realised my memory banks weren't hanging-on to things like they did 20 or 30 years back. My ID is an anagram of my surname. Call me Richard if you wish.
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