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The Argentine
Industrial District Railway of Chuck Hitchcock is his answer
to the question "Is it possible to outgrow a famous 30
year old layout?" His former Santa Fe Argentine Division
was famous as one of the first layouts to be operated in a prototype
manner. Yet Chuck and his operators knew there had to be more.
The Industrial
District began as an idea ten years ago. Since he and his friends
really enjoyed switching industries, he decided a layout could
be built without a mainline. And so Chuck again became a pioneer
in operation.
The 54
x 26 foot HO railroad represents a Santa Fe line around Kansas
City in 1963. All trains are operated within yard limits, and
work without a dispatcher.
This Fiftieth
volume in the series is a return to Chuck’s work that Allen
first recorded 22 years earlier. In a way the work of preserving
Great Model Railroads has come full circle. Many of the layouts
in the series no longer exist except on video.
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