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Hi all,

This thread has been fun and funny as well as informative, enlightening and encouraging.  Please keep the member news coming!  While I do not qualify as a member of the prestigious 48 Club, I appreciate and supports is mission.

Because Gilbert AF S gauge with its 20” radius tinplate curves and 10” standard straights has been my primary collecting and operating interest, my 4’X8’ was always a 5’X9’ sheet of plywood in order to fit at least two loops of track on it like my boyhood friends with Marx and Lionel O-27 could do.

Back in the day, this ping pong table-sized piece of wood was fairly easy to find at a lumberyard.  My folks actually moved the same bare plywood train platform that size to three houses and halfway across the state for us to use with our AF trains before jettisoning it before another cross state move.

After I got married, and we moved to another state, I couldn’t find a 5’X9’ sheet anywhere in the city. Fortunately I did find a lumber yard that kindly cut me three 3’X6’ pieces that I framed into three tables that I could bolt together into a 5‘X9’ and occasionally a 5’X6’ display table. I still have and use them after 50 years.

Oddly, my only home layout is a loop of O gauge Lionel FasTrack I set up several years ago to run my wife’s Hogwarts Express for the grandkids.  My S gauge  running has always been pretty much limited to a modular layout a friend and I use for public display.

Although the existing benchwork in my basement room extends beyond the qualifying size, as you can see from the second picture, the space available for the O gauge loop is only about 4’X7’.  These pictures were taken a while back, but I can assure you, the layout is the same. Only the piles of “crap” have grown.

So, although this set up may not meet the requirements for The 48 Club, maybe this will qualify me for an an associate membership in The Brotherhood of Crappy Basement Layouts.

Cheers!

Alan

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