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Thatcher's Inlet, a 6-foot-by-30-inch (1.83 m Ă— 0.76 m) shelf-type switching layout. It was inspired by the Wiscasset waterfront of the Maine 2-foot railroads. The equipment was based more on available N gauge products than on the AHM MinitrainS line – it
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in 1963 - for a long time out of production, but some of the Egger-Bahn line has been reintroduced by
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3-by-5-foot (0.91 m Ă— 1.52 m) portable model railroad called the Elk River Line. The layout appeared in articles starting in the April 1970 issue of
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70:Definitions
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