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QUOTE: Originally posted by bruce stephens Hello everyone i dont have a scale ruler yet it is on my list, does anyone know what the width of a two lane road would be in ho scale in inches? Thank You in advance.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by edkowal Things can also be different than what you expect. For instance, in older towns and cities, the main streets in the town may be a lot wider than you'd expect from the above discussion. They can be sixty, eighty feet wide, or wider from curb to curb. This is because when the downtown was built, automobiles were not the primary means of transportation. Horse-drawn wagons and buggies were. Streets were wider because the horses, with attached buggies were tied to hitching posts, so they tended to project out into the street, rather than be "parked" parallel to the walks, as you see more often now. Also, in order to make a U-turn, you had to leave sufficient room to turn around while going forward: horses in a hitch don't really reverse very well. I was really surprised when I saw photos of some of the towns and citites in Maine, until I began to realize this. Those streets were a lot wider than I would have expected. For examples of this phenomenon, go to the Maine Memory Network site, and search for images with MMN numbers 5276, 5272, and 12182. These show the width of some streets in the cities of Portland, and Brunswick , Maine. When the thumbnails pop up, click on the "info" button. Then, when the page refreshes, click on the "full page" button to get a large image to study. The Maine Memory Network is at: http://www.mainememory.net/home.shtml -Ed
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