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          | Scale:  | 
          HO
              
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          | Size:   | 
          33'
            X 26' with staging at both ends and a return loop at both
            ends.  There are two branches , the Abercrombie Sub at about
            28' feet of track and Pictou Landing Sub at about 20' ft of
            track.  | 
         
        
          | Prototype:   | 
          Canadian
National, Owen Sound, Southampton, Durham and Fergus Subdvisions and
Canadian Pacific Owen Sound, Teeswater and Walkterton
Subdivisions.   
            
              | 
         
        
          | Locale:    | 
          Owen
Sound, Hanover, Harriston Jct, Palmerston, Mount Forest, Durham,
Walkerton, Southampton, Fergus, Guelph for CN.  Orangeville, Fraxa
Junction, Mount Forest, Harriston, Saugeen Junction, Hanover, Walkerton
and Owen Sound for CP | 
         
        
          | Period | 
          1988 
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          | Layout
            style:         | 
          Around
            the walls and branches out from the walls with a double deck in the
            second room for staging and a return loop at both ends | 
         
        
          | Layout
            height:   | 
          54"
            to 66" 
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          | Bench
            work:  | 
          Steel
            Benchwork using C Channel and Steel Studs.  | 
         
        
          | Roadbed: | 
          Cork
            on 2" styrofoam insulation.  Using Woodland Scenics
            incline sets for grades.   Staging is cork on
            3/16" gatorboard. | 
         
        
          | Track:     | 
          Atlas
            Code
            83 
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          | Turnouts: | 
          Peco
            Code 83 #5's, a few Walthers #5's and Walthers curved turnouts and
            Walthers wye. | 
         
        
          | Minimum
            Radius: | 
          24" 
             | 
         
        
          | Length
            of mainline: | 
          185
            feet  
             | 
         
        
          | Scenery:      | 
          This
            is a brand new layout so no scenery outside of buildings and vehicles.  | 
         
        
          | Backdrop: | 
          Will
            be painted on walls 
             | 
         
        
          | Power
            system | 
          Lenz
            DCC, sound equipped 
             | 
         
        
          | Operations:      | 
          Car
            cards, 4 sided Waybills, | 
         
      
        
        
      
       
      
      
        
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