When I was in Southern California in February to go and see various places, I visited then Train Shack in Burbank. Besides the rude service from the employees I liked the O gauge layout they had. I was going to ask for a track plan, but when I had a question about getting a few pieces of Atlas O track I was rudely told to wait for somebody else. So I left without asking my other question, and the Atlas track. Does anybody here have an idea or a identical track plan to what they had? I have two pictures I took but they didn't get all the layout, just half of it. Any ideas or track plans would be nice.
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They've always been rely nice to us when we go in there. I thought it was a track plan from Atlas but I don't remember for sure. It's basically just a fancy figure 8 with sidings.
I have run into the same experience with them over the phone. The woman that owns it is very nice and helpful. Why not call them and ask for her or email them via their website?
They've always been helpful when I've been there. Sometimes they get really busy, though, and can't drop what they're doing, but they try. The layout itself looks like an O gauge variant on the H.O. Atlas "Junior Pretzel" with a couple of extra/relocated spurs and some grades added According to Todd, they had a builder make the layout from components readily available in the store. From a design standpoint, the layout has something that's a sore spot with me -- reverse curves on the main line. Adding a straight extension on the bottom would eliminate that issue. If I recall correctly, the curves are O-45. It has been a while since I've seen it.