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 Post subject: Re: My first computer-controlled layout--35 years ago!
PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:41 pm 
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Yeah, that is just great, I need to get back to my module.


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 Post subject: Re: My first computer-controlled layout--35 years ago!
PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:16 am 
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Don, great project and film from long ago. Looks like we were doing our projects at about the same time. Sad to report that I ended up selling my N scale stuff during a yard sale. I wonder what happened to all of your highly detailed 1980 layout?

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 Post subject: Re: My first computer-controlled layout--35 years ago!
PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:58 am 
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The train board got disposed (lost the house in divorce), but most of the structures were saved. The "POC" structure was a modified Airfix Desert Legion playset. The pirate ship restaurant was a Lindberg Golden Hind model (I've almost completed a new version for my current layout). The Tomorrowland circle building and rotating Rocket Jets were scratch built. Later on I replaced the DLRR trolley with a red Rivarossi 4-4-0 and several Overland passenger cars. Not prototypical, but looked nice.

Features that were embedded in the plaster or the epoxy water were lost. A couple of the items have a home on my current "Disneyland" layout.

We are headed to DLR for my annual "inspiration" tour in about two weeks! Hope to take lots of pix and notes around Carsland and BV Street (love the idea of the Red Car trolleys).

The 1980 layout used Linn Westcott's zip texturing scenery system. Found out years later that my second wife is a direct cousin to Linn via the Westcott family tree.

Don in Chicagoland


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