A Matter of Proportionate Distances:

How's the layout re-model coming along?

It's also 27 feet around that pool table if you walk on the rail...

Bob

Yeah.....that's right; 27 feet around the rail.

Your point?

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Bob, I'll now make myself a ham sandwich (with horseradish) on Rye Bread. 

Cheers,

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YO MATT,

I'm now finished with the construction...am waiting for the State, County, and Local inspectors to approve it before I paint.   

Thanks for your interest in my Project!

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I'd enjoy a sandwich like that as well, cold beer too please. Do you really have to get that tablework inspected as you noted? If so, that's incredible.

Bob

It's looking good, very nice work.

HEY  BOB,

Heck No.....no inspection required!

I was just being dramatic!

DAB REDRO

HEY CHRIS,

Thanks again!

Yep, it took me a month, just as I predicted, but now comes the painting and the tracklaying, which will require some new track and more time as well.

(Gotta get a few 1/48-scale mountain goats, too.)

REDRO  DAB

That is the fun part, laying the track and getting trains running again.    Heck I thought by getting it "inspected" you meant the wife...  or as I call mine, the Chief Officer of Lands and Acquisitions....it could go either way with her.  Sometimes she signs off and others she just glares at me and walks away. 

HEY CHRIS, 

Your wife has the final word in your hobby expenditures?

Not so here!

When I retired in 1998 and bought our retirement home (4 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths, 3-car garage plus workshop), she said to me: "We have a Master Bedroom for ourselves, and I want a Guest Bedroom, so you can have the other 2 bedrooms for yourself."

OK I said, so I selected the largest of the remaining 2 bedrooms for a Den, and the 4th bedroom for a Hobby Room.

That was OK for awhile, but I wanted a really spacious room all for myself, so I hired  a Contractor to build me a 500 sq. ft. Game Room addition, which is large enough for a 9-foot Pool Table, plus a Model Railroad Layout!

I paid for the addition from my own checking account, which did not interfere with the Family funds or my Retirement funds.

Therefore, my Lovely Wife has had absolutely no say in whatever plans I have had for the Game Room, and that's the way it's been since 1999!  

She doesn't vacuum and dust in my game room...I do!

'Bye...

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Sounds fair to me. I probably would have went just a tad larger though.

HEY HUDSON,

I've expanded those loops as far as I can, due to interference with the corners of the pool table.

As it is, making some corner shots causes interference between the butt end of the cue and the bench legs on both loops.  (See plan drawing.)

Maybe I should have bought a standard home-size 4' x 8' table, but I didn't forsee a railroad layout back in 1999!

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Reminded me of the Seinfeld show where Kramer and George's dad were playing pool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCTJeaDHaB8

The final word?..No.  She is usually just the final one to gripe!...  some times.

Hal,

My apologies. I did not explain myself clearly. I meant I would have tried to go a little larger with the building knowing I was planning a 2 rail layout. Of course I don't know how much room you had or what your budget was so I was not being critical.

The folded dog bone is one my favorite track plans. I pretty much have the same track plan in mind but where I differ is that I am going to put each "blob" (as John Armstrong put it) on top of each other. The bottom blob will be covered up and the trains will "appear" to go somewhere far away.

Good luck and keep us posted.

HEY CHRIS,

I see.

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HEY HUDSON,

I didn't want to go over 500 sq. ft. on my game room addition, because it would have then raised my Property Taxes.

Without the confines imposed by the Railroad, that was a truly spacious room, which is why I chose a 900-pound, Tournament-size (9 x 4-1/2 ft.) pool table!

(Budgetary considerations are never an issue with my hobbies.)

I can't expand anymore toward the entrance wall, as I have furniture in that space.

Cheers,

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FOR MATT JACKSON:

When we lived in Long Beach, we would frequently go to Ports O' Call, and also the Maritime Museum.

We went on board the Angels Gate tugboat too!

I actually lived in San Pedro, in a housing project near the Todd Shipyard, from 1945 to 1948. I attended Dana Jr. High during 1948, when I was 12.

That's all.....

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Small World. My sister went to Dana in the 1970's. One of our founding members, John Pignatelli, was the chief model maker for the Maritime Museum (which got him the model maker job for the movie "Titanic").

I've also been on the Angels Gate. It's a former Navy Tug and actually had a couple of machine guns mounted on her during the war. I don't remember when the museum got her and painted her yellow. My understanding is that she used to go out and earn her keep. Haven't been there for some time.

BTW, at 900 pounds, how thick is the slate deck on that pool table? Sounds like it's at least 2". My next-door neighbor had a 7 1/2 foot with a slate deck and it took six of us to move it.

Hal, I understand. We all have our givens and druthers. If making it bigger would have raised taxes then I would have done the same thing you did. I also have some other stuff in my train room besides the trains. I got my drums, some toys for the grandkids, amd I would like to fit a small couch in there someday.

HEY MATT,

I think the table installers said that each of the 3 slates weighed over 200 pounds, and the wood in the table is very heavy also.

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