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We are noodling the idea of moving to a much larger space and rebuilding the layout. At the current layout, people love to go up the attic stairs and look down on the layout. For the new layout, we are thinking we would change to an island design, freeing the walls for display shelves, with a wall down the middle of the island so we can use all of our building flats. The Mrs has suggested that we widen the walled space and install a catwalk all the way down the center of the layout. Very interesting idea. Anyone ever visited a layout like this? 

 

thanks. 

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Roadside America, Shartlesville, PA, has a raised aisle along the walls of the building that houses the display. At the far end is raised standing and seating for the Night Pageant. Most "panoramic" photos of the display are taken from the raised aisle.

 

Opened in 1953, Roadside America is the last of the great Lionel postwar layouts. Owner and builder Laurence Geringer wrote articles and published photos in Toy Trains Magazine.

Not sure if you want to count the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. That's not exactly a catwalk, but it is a nice overhead view.

 

Last year I visited an HO club in Kalamazoo, Michigan that was built in an old depot. They really did have a catwalk up in the attic space. It went all the way around the main space, and was rather narrow.

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