A puzzle for you...was parking that tough?
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Seems to be an early attempt at what would be called a parking garage today. Obviously within the confines of a large city somewhere, so parking was probably at a premium.
This type of parking is still in use today. I was in NYC in Oct. 2009 and saw a small parking lot near Times Square that was parking cars above others using car lifts like some mechanics use these days.
Robert H. Shilling II
Looks like the first automobile vending machine? LOL.
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farrellaa Looks like the first automobile vending machine? LOL.
Here is your car vending machine:
This is where your new Volkswagen will be stored when you pick it up at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg.
Looks like good use of a small space to me - until it breaks down and nobody can get their car out to drive home.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
G Paine Looks like good use of a small space to me - until it breaks down and nobody can get their car out to drive home.
That was what I was kind of thinking as well...still looks a little to me....but what do I know...
Sir Madog Here is your car vending machine:
Hey, maybe Walthers could add something like this to their Cornerstone Series. It would be a multi-story round house. Man, I would finally have a place to store all of my steamers.
Rich
Alton Junction
So this is where they filmed Darth Vader throwing the emperor to his death in "return of the jedi" - cool.
Chris
I remember seeing something like this in old Sears Christmas catalogs in the early 1970s.
Dan
Um, Yeah, I've seen something like that...I even allowed my rental car to be parked 6th floor up in a garage not to disimilar in 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii as the Hotel at Waikiki beach did not have enough parking for all the rooms.
It was a vertical garage. each space on on a level up in the air about 20 feet deep and an elevator lifted teh car up and slid over to the correct slot to park it in,
It was fascinating to watch.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
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After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Just did a project in Philly that was a slot type parking facility. They fit a lot more cars in a tight space and no damage claims because customers can't drive in a garage.
Springfield PA
Transpose this to model railroading and you could come up with some new concepts for freight yards or staging!
Jim
hardcoalcase Transpose this to model railroading and you could come up with some new concepts for freight yards or staging! Jim
why yes you could, but isn't that why some modelers already have "cassettes" and multi-level stanging yards already?
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That would have been Chthulhu's right hand man....
AH, Murphy! So that's what he is going by now. He comes to visit me all the time. Like several months ago when I melted the plastic brake shoes/hangars on my brass PRR L-1 when I was stripping off the old finsh in a lovely bath of laquer thinner. OK, I need to quit hijacking this poor man's thread - sorry.