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Ed Kapuscinski

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If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« on: March 23, 2009, 11:08:19 PM »
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What would you build?

Chris's post about the F scale layout got me thinking.
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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2009, 11:11:24 PM »
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Crikey.  I could do the entire Western Maryland with only a modest amount of selective compression, and probably include the B&O and Reading from Connellsville to Rutherford.

N scale, of course...

Then I'd set up a trust fund for the Oompa Loompas I'd need to maintain everything.

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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2009, 11:24:10 PM »
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The 1956 PRR Middle Division in N.  ...with almost enough staging!
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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2009, 11:25:03 PM »
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I'm not sure what I would do, but I know I wouldn't pay other people to build any of it.  :P


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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2009, 11:50:10 PM »
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1/1 WM GP 9 and 4500ft diameter circle of track. Build my dreamhouse on one end of the circle the entrance to my 1/160 WM at the other.  ;D
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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2009, 01:40:20 AM »
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This is the result of 25,000 Sq Ft. and a blank check.....

http://www.entertrainmentjunction.com/

Just imagine what they could have done in N scale.

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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2009, 01:46:24 AM »
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I'd build the entire MEC Mountain Div incliding Rigby yard, and the B&M Portland Main from Rigby to Boston.


And a custom Kimber shop with Robb.
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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2009, 03:33:52 AM »
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Sizemore, isn't that nearly 16 million square feet?
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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2009, 07:28:44 AM »
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Shhhh.  He was an English Major... ;D
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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2009, 07:33:54 AM »
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Quote from: Ian MacMillan on March 24, 2009, 01:46:24 AM
I'd build the entire MEC Mountain Div incliding Rigby yard, and the B&M Portland Main from Rigby to Boston.


And a custom Kimber shop with Robb.

Giggity :D


I'd probably build the entire N&W Radford division... circa 1976... North Carolina, Abingdon and Saltville branches still in regalur use... maybe do the Shenandoah line to connect over with with Lee's lot...
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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2009, 07:34:26 AM »
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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2009, 07:47:00 AM »
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i would do a simple door layout, and use the rest of the space for my p0rn collection  ;D

i wouldn't want a layout that big, they are maintenance headaches

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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2009, 08:06:01 AM »
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Heh...Lee living next door to Robb...  I can see it now... He wouldn't allow any interchange traffic that wasn't 100% accurate! ;D

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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2009, 09:02:51 AM »
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Indoors or outdoors? If indoors, I'd probably build a large freelanced N scale layout that was computer controlled and open to the public for a fee. The trains would be prototypical, including many famous passenger trains, and would also include interurbans, rapid transit and streetcars. The show would start with 1900 era trains and move forward in quarter century blocks, 1900, 1925, 1950, 1975, and 2000.

Or maybe an indoor swimming pool with a live steam railroad around it.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: If you had 4500sqft and a blank check...
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2009, 09:20:19 AM »
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I'd do 1950's PRR from Johnstown to Altoona---or a portion thereof. 4500 sq. ft. is 45' X 100' or 75' X 60' or various other combinations, of course, so I'd have to think about the configuration. The first would give a perimeter of 290 feet, which is what, about 9 scale miles. With peninsulas, one could probably have a 20 scale mile main.

Now if you're talking 4500 feet square, well, I won't live long enough to do much with that, no matter how much money I had.
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