Yosemite Short Line On30 rmc may78

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Short Line There are two tales here : modeling in any scale or gauge in a li mited space (thanks to a drop- leaf module) ; and modelin g inexpensively in largescale narrow gauge (thanks to the use of HO components in %" scale) /Lawrence Patch

espite over 15 years of building W'D scale structures, rolling stock and motive power-all, oddly enough, for 30-inch gauge-space limitations seemed to preclude having a railroad on which to operate and test the equipment. Inspiration provided by articles in RMC (such as David Cast's " 0 Scale + HO = On2Y2 " in November 1962 and Bill Livingston' s description of his On2Y2 Venango Valley railroad in June 1971) kept the pot boiling, however, and i finally designed a railroad 40

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