Tiffany and Chessie,
Thank you. It was really fun to build and got a great response from OGR readers at the time.
Sinclair,
The walls are from Scenic Express Here's a link:
Ace,
Yes. The parts have to be separated when moving. The 80" measurement includes the end sections. Actually, I think it's more like 76" or 78" overall IIRC.
The center section is the largest piece at about 30"x48". I don't recall exact measurements and I haven't dug out the article lately.
The city scenery section and the mountain scenery section aren't real big, but the whole thing (6 pieces plus legs) pretty well filled up my old Honda Odyssey van.
The six pieces were center section, two end track sections, center section backdrop, mountain scene (backdrop permanently attached to mountain), and city scene (again backdrop attached), plus 4 legs with bracing gussets. At shows, I usually omitted the legs and just set the whole thing on a table.
The OGR Modular Scenery layout I built on a chunk of Styrofoam for another series of articles might qualify better as tiny. It could have been smaller, but they wanted me to use Fastrack and 36" diameter was the smallest available at the time. This one lives on in Allan Miller's office at OGR.
Jim