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Jimmy Thompson	Posted: 04 December 2023 14:12:50(UTC)
	Alan, That could very well be the case. They found a background panel (and base?) and just whipped a layout together. The only other thing I thought about was that there was water damage to the landscape part, but even that is a stretch of the imagination... because the background panel seems to be unaffected by any damage. I hope the new owner is at least happy and/or resigned to his new acquisition... p. s. I still would have to have some piece of paper saying it truly was from Macy's... p. p. s. I apologize for drifting off from the 0923 of the original post...
	Jimmy T Analogue; M-track; BR 111; KLVM; Primex; Sarrasani Zirkuswelt There is a Prototype For Everything
kiwiAlan	Posted: 04 December 2023 13:23:10(UTC)
	Originally Posted by: cookee_nz Here are the images from the site. I have doubts that is a factory layout. It just doesn't have the quality of scenic work that I would expect, and the 'fiddle yard' at the back just doesn't look like Marklin workmanship. I suspect this was a layout built to order for some shop to have trains running around to get the punters in. Maybe the shop owner built it themselves, or had a friend build it. No doubt the marklin signage on the divider has been acquired as part of marklin advertising fittings, but to me that is about it.
Jimmy Thompson	Posted: 04 December 2023 12:05:56(UTC)
	cookee, Thank you! for getting the pictures! And, rough though it is, it still has "The Look"! And it appears that the background panel apparently survived fairly well.
	Jimmy T Analogue; M-track; BR 111; KLVM; Primex; Sarrasani Zirkuswelt There is a Prototype For Everything
marklinist5999	Posted: 04 December 2023 11:26:46(UTC)
	Worthpoint is an auction house site. They don't list the sold for prices unless you have an account. Catawiki does.
cookee_nz	Posted: 04 December 2023 10:35:49(UTC)
	Originally Posted by: Jimmy Thompson Here is another layout, although it looks fairly simple compared to others. This was listed as for Macy's Department store, location not available. Not sure how long the pictures will last. Simple double oval (5100 and 5200), 3' x 7'. There seems to be bits missing. The "back side" "Märklin...so many advantages" - again, I think there may have been some damage, and that the previous owner must have removed the damaged bits...but might that have been for display of loks and rolling stock and track? I post the link to worthpoint, as the photos do not seem to want to transfer - may be an old auction? Just seems a bit "rough around the edges", in my opinion https://www.worthpoint.com/worth...out-7-ho-train-468057007 Here are the images from the site. That "worthpoint" site is dodgy as, I would not trust shysters that advertise a "free trial" but to get it, you have to agree to be automatically billed for renewal after 7 days, and you can't register without putting in a credit card. Many would consider that misleading to say the least. Sounds like criminal shysters to me and not ever getting my credit card. But it could be worth getting a debit card with no balance just to sign up and then frustrate them with bounced debits. The layout is not one I've ever seen, not in any of the layout catalogues, although it does kind of have that look about it. Pity the images are not larger, and the underside would tell a lot. Sorry they are so small, beyond my control
	Cookee Wellington
Jimmy Thompson	Posted: 02 December 2023 13:11:12(UTC)
	Here is another layout, although it looks fairly simple compared to others. This was listed as for Macy's Department store, location not available. Not sure how long the pictures will last. Simple double oval (5100 and 5200), 3' x 7'. There seems to be bits missing. The "back side" "Märklin...so many advantages" - again, I think there may have been some damage, and that the previous owner must have removed the damaged bits...but might that have been for display of loks and rolling stock and track? I post the link to worthpoint, as the photos do not seem to want to transfer - may be an old auction? Just seems a bit "rough around the edges", in my opinion https://www.worthpoint.com/worth...out-7-ho-train-468057007
	Jimmy T Analogue; M-track; BR 111; KLVM; Primex; Sarrasani Zirkuswelt There is a Prototype For Everything
cookee_nz	Posted: 02 December 2023 12:25:33(UTC)
	Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Originally Posted by: IanC One minute you're playing trains, the next day you're invading Poland. Normality on the brink of WW2. Strange times in 1939 Germany. I have a book that has a photo of Goebels with his train layout, IIRC it is Fleischmann O gauge three rail. Not sure if it was taken before the war, or in the early stages. Seems everyone (almost) in the hierarchy had a layout. Possibly you mean Goering?, he was the well-known train fanatic, didn't know about Goebels There are several photos circulating of the extensive layouts in Karinhall, such as this... (not wishing to validate him in any way whatsoever but the topic does seem to surface from time to time) There have been previous threads here about the topic.
	Cookee Wellington
kiwiAlan	Posted: 01 December 2023 23:31:10(UTC)
	Originally Posted by: IanC One minute you're playing trains, the next day you're invading Poland. Normality on the brink of WW2. Strange times in 1939 Germany. I have a book that has a photo of Goebels with his train layout, IIRC it is Fleischmann O gauge three rail. Not sure if it was taken before the war, or in the early stages. Seems everyone (almost) in the hierarchy had a layout.
Jimmy Thompson	Posted: 01 December 2023 13:03:08(UTC)
	cookee, 410M! Beautiful! Well done! Could indeed have been the prototype. (and as the catalogue is an "artist's rendering", it might well have been produced as shown, at least at the first, perhaps? , and if the sources are correct, by 1951 that control cabin was located on the turning table itself, rather than off-set)
	Jimmy T Analogue; M-track; BR 111; KLVM; Primex; Sarrasani Zirkuswelt There is a Prototype For Everything
IanC	Posted: 01 December 2023 09:35:44(UTC)
	One minute you're playing trains, the next day you're invading Poland. Normality on the brink of WW2. Strange times in 1939 Germany.

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