On our recent trip to Sarasota, Fl, we visited the Ringling Museum. It's a sprawling estate/museum; about 60 acres. One of the buildings houses an enormous scale model of the circus as it was setup town after town. Part of the model featured an industrial section of trackwork ( photos above), using familiar Walther's kits as part of the backdrop. It even used some of their also familiar backdrops - the only difference was that the entire model is built at 3/4" to a foot. So the track was about 4" wide. I am assuming they simply used the Walther's kits as a guide and scratch built their own. Some of them stood at three and four feet high. If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know. It was interesting to see ; but I am curious as how those structures came to be.
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