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Reply to "Lionel Dealer Display Layouts, Factory Layouts and Postwar Layouts"

Two final thoughts on that MPC layout pic: My grandfather was the one (in the mid-50's) to get me into the world of Lionel. He also would take me out to the local classification yard ("The Hump," as he called it) to stand on the walk-bridge which crossed it, and watch freight cars come over the hump and run into the various tracks, as the various trains were made up. So any 3-rail "O" yard definitely holds my attention! Also, with the limitation of O22 and 31" radius curves, any simple "yard" (like the one in this pic) has necessarily widely-spaced sidings. I once traveled to view a public layout in Iowa where the designer had figured out an ingenious way to more closely pack the parallel sidings, using all "stock," uncut pieces of Lionel O track. Of course, by using cut pieces, or O72 switches -- or by going to non-tinplate track, such as Gargraves, a more realistic "yard" CAN be created, but that would be cheating.

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