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From: "Ron" rdukarm AT roadrunner DOT com
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:18:14 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Layout design, pt. 2 (was: Layout design: Port Morris)
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List,

Attached are 3 photos of Elmira I took in the early 1980's. There was still
an EL "feel" to the property then. Perhaps these might assist in modeling.

Ron Dukarm


Subject: RE: (erielack) Layout design, pt. 2 (was: Layout design: Port
Morris)


> Yep. Depending on what you might call the "Southern Tier", the concrete
> viaduct in downtown Elmira might just be the most distinctive thing on the
> Erie/EL between Starrucca and the bridges over the Genesee River, in my
> humble opinion. I would think a section about two or three feet long over
> one or two city blocks would be enough to convey an image of downtown
> Elmira. It would be a focal point of the whole layout. People would be
> able to look at it and know right away...yep, that's Elmira all right.
> And it's not like you have to START with that part of the layout. Just
> finish it temporarily with subroadbed and work your way up to it, gaining
> confidence as you build other stuff on the layout.
>
> -pat moore (in Greenville, SC)


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