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My First Layout
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<p>My first layout?</p> <p>Well, I received my first "train set" at Christmas 1963, aged 7. No place for a permanent layout, then. I usually assembled the track on my bed, with a green colored woolen(!) blanket acting as scenery. Boxes were tucked underneath the blanket to simulate hills. Of course, I had to disassemble it each night.</p> <p>A few years later we moved into a house my parents had bought. It had a basement and I was able to negotiate some space for a layout. It was a 1 m by 2 m affair, with a track plan very similar to John Allen´s famous original Gorre & Daphetid RR. Track was Marklin tin plate and the scenery composed of hard shell and colored saw dust. It was small, it was not necessarily good looking, but it was mine and I had built it myself! It did not last very long, as a our basement was flooded following a heavy thunderstorm. I salvaged as much as I could, packed it up and sold it a few years later, just before I took off to the US as that year´s exchange student. </p> <p>In fact, the layout was quite ugly, but I still have fond memories of it, but, alas, no pictures!</p>
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