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[[File:Farm-Family-in-Bakersfield-06-14-14.jpg|left|thumb|400px|This hand-made building by Jeff Roaten will naturally age and weather if it remains on the garden railway layout -- just like the prototype upon which it was based.]]
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[[File:Exaggeration-postcard-boy-with-navel-oranges-flatcar-edward-h-mitchell.jpg|An early 20th century exaggeration postcard by the California photographer Edward Mitchell, featuring two Washingto Navel Oranges on a a Southern Pacific fatcar.]]
  
 
One of the things that everyone has an opinion on is scale -- the relative size of our railroad when compared to "real life."
 
One of the things that everyone has an opinion on is scale -- the relative size of our railroad when compared to "real life."

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A MATTER OF SCALE

by catherine yronwode

An early 20th century exaggeration postcard by the California photographer Edward Mitchell, featuring two Washingto Navel Oranges on a a Southern Pacific fatcar.

One of the things that everyone has an opinion on is scale -- the relative size of our railroad when compared to "real life."