Actually, to do a prototypically correct model of Union Station Kansas City, complete with train sheds on both east and west, an S layout would require approximately 26'. If I am looking at my calculator correctly... two sets of sheds, each approximately 800' long = 1600'; width of the North Waiting Room approximately 100' including some peripheral stuff = 1700' divided by 64 = 26.56, correct? That is a lot of scale real estate to devote. What several modelers in other scales have done hereabouts is to show only a part of the station, a vignette as it were, in the background. That leaves room for freight operations, etc. Roy I.
> From: Jamie Bothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:28:51 -0500 > To: S-Scale List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: S-Scale Modeling Long passenger cars on tight curves > > Next if you want long cars and want to >> pull them into a train shed attached to a union station (aka Kansas >> City, Chicago, St. Louis etc.) you will need 20-40 feet on a layout. >> So >> at this point if one were to have a large or medium sized passenger >> station and some kind of simple circle around it, we are talking >> perhaps >> 40 foot in total length. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
