60103... well here is a pic of what I call switch 5 on the layout, I'm not fluent in model train terminology. Maybe I should call it a turnout instead of a switch? I imagine all turnouts have switches? All the turnouts/switches are powered on Dads layout, tho some of them are creaky. How would you lube something like that, or maybe they're corroded inside?
The 'road bed'? is cork and it seems to have shrunk some over the years, notice the gaps between the edge of the cork and the surronding grass as well as the gap right down the middle of it parallel to the rails. I wonder if this shrinkage has deformed the rails? I don't know if it's scale or not, it looks like it might be.
He built this in 1950, before I was born, I have no idea where he got the layout plan from. Was model railroader magazine in print back then?
Geez..I guess I coulda trimmed my feet and the tripod outta this pic..great photographer ima not..sorry bout that