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 Posted - February 22 2016 : 6:31:59 PM
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http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/uploaded/Chops124/20150609013735_1857.jpg
Slow day at work. Copy and pasted this one from a couple years back. I'm going to
rebuild this diorama into a double circle that climbs and travels above the other,
cork screw style. I learned that up until the railroads were built, there were only
six stage coaches extant in New England for long distance travel. The roads were
so horrific that people went on horseback or foot until the railroads blew the roof
off transportation ("Made In America," Bill Bryson). If you wanted to go from Boston
to New York. for example, the preferred method of transportation was a "coaster"
(a shoreline hugging passenger ship). From a first person account I read of stage coach
travel out west in about 1870, stage coach travel was a dusty, bumpy, fly infested
ordeal undertaken only by the truly desperate (can't think of the title, think it was
"Westward by Rail," or something, a serialized newspaper travelogue of the period).
Edited by - Chops124 on February 22 2016 6:39:39 PM
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Posted - February 22 2016 : 7:41:57 PM
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Nice coach. Have you looked into the Jordan Highway Miniatures? I posted a photo of the
completed Horse drawn Hearse. They also have other types of wagons and such.
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Posted - February 22 2016 : 9:47:36 PM
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I do have a Jordan wagon I painstakingly put together some 20 years ago.
Probably missing a wheel. I will probably end up using it on either
this diorama or the British OO layout. For some reason I painted it bright
blue. I must have been drunk. This long predates my knowledge of
Zelda the Swordsman and his pink Pacific.
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