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8. I love the look of Chris Schmuck’s 20-ton coal cars,
as they instantly time warp almost any layout back to
the 1890s and early 1900s.
9. While my daughter and I built our Alameda-Belt-
in-a-Box shelf switching layout to be set in the years
immediately after WWII (see the article in MRH Nov
2012), just by replacing the rolling stock with the 20-
ton cars, ventilated boxcars, and one of Atlas’ new
4-4-0’s – we’ve created something that a young Jack
London might have seen while he was clam digging on
the marshy peninsula.
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