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This is the home of Al, Marge and the cubs in Duran, New Mexico as of the summer of 1960.

In lieu of a lengthy description, there are alternate copies of drawings with foot notes telling what things are.
The large spacious house and two brand new high price cars...not to mention the elaborate 0.27 gauge train board layout for the cubs, and the room built on to accommodate it...are evident that Al makes a good income at Horizon Innovations as a licensed professional aerospace engineer where they design and build top secret prototypes of equipment for the military. Al presently holds a master's degree, and has future ambitions of going back to attending part time college for a doctor's degree in advanced engineering.
Also, Al's dad is part owner of a drilling and excavation company, which made it financially possible to help Al on his way through college part time upon graduating high school. During the early 1950s, Al also enrolled in an in-school apprenticeship program offered by Horizon Innovations while attending evening college classes.

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house 2,340, cars 516, new mexico 297, year 1960 284, go kart 40, lawn mower 20, floor plan 10, train board 5, two car garage 1

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Type: Picture/Pinup

Published: 3 years, 8 months ago

Rating: General

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AlBear

3 years, 8 months ago

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Edited 3 years, 8 months ago by Owner

My goodness! Now that is a gigantic model train! The room dedicated to it is 1/3 of the living area of the house! Cool drawings.

moyomongoose

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ AlBear

Thank you for the compliment and fave.

Room for the train board is a third the size of the original house, but with the income Al earns, no one had to go into debt for it.

TheGroundedAviator

3 years, 8 months ago

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One large mancave there!

moyomongoose

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ TheGroundedAviator

Very nice place in deed.

TheGroundedAviator

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ moyomongoose

I feel sorry for the boys though, they share a room and their sister gets one too herself!

moyomongoose

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ TheGroundedAviator

Three boys, one girl...What could one say.

Before Clarence came into the picture, it was only two boys sharing the bedroom.

TheGroundedAviator

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ moyomongoose

Oh my crowed induced claustrophobia! But yeah, it does seem a little cramped, not as say all kids in the back seat, but still cramped.
Nice looking house though, seems modern and cozy.

moyomongoose

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ TheGroundedAviator

The two bedrooms for the cubs are 14' x 14' each, so three to the room isn't too bad.

TheGroundedAviator

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ moyomongoose

Still, she gets one too herself.

moyomongoose

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ TheGroundedAviator

She lucked out.

TheGroundedAviator

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ moyomongoose

Cram her in with three boys in the car would be the "get back" time!

MrRoseLizard

3 years, 8 months ago

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Seeing this house makes me reminisce about a house where I used to live back in the 1980s with my parents and grandmother. It was an old house built around the 1940s or 1950s, but it was a "ranch house" about 22' by 76'. It was burgundy with white trim, and the outside was covered with wood shingles. When My parents and I moved in with my grandmother after I graduated, we converted the garage into an extra bedroom for my parents. We also had another garage built just behind and to the side of the house so we could park our cars in it. The new garage was 20' by 30' with work space for building my model kits. I also remember the pocket doors like the one you put in the kitchen. We had 7 pocket doors in our house: 2 sets of double doors separating the den from the dining room and the dining room from the living room, another one leading from the den to the breakfast nook, another leading from the dining room to the kitchen, and the newest one leading from the den to my parents' room. About the only thing we didn't have was a Lionel train layout like Al and Marge did because my dad had to get rid of his old Lionel trains. I did have an N-scale train layout on one of those fold-down 4-by-8 sheets of plywood, but I had to get rid of that when we finally had to sell the house. Last I heard about the house, it was occupied some time ago, but the owners recently moved out. I wonder if anyone else moved in?

moyomongoose

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ MrRoseLizard

That truly sounds like a really nice house.

I myself use to have HO scale trains...Most Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars are a compatible size for an HO layout.

MrRoseLizard

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ moyomongoose

Well, some of the Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars are compatible, anyway...especially the buses and big trucks. But for a more realistic scale, I would've recommended cars made by Busch, Wiking, Preisser, and other companies. You can find them in the Vehicles section of the Walthers website: http://www.walthers.com

And yes, it was a very nice house. Last I heard, the people who moved in after us planted a tree in the front yard. Guess they didn't like having the only bare yard in the neighborhood.

moyomongoose

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ MrRoseLizard

I have a few of those cars and trucks that are made to actual HO gauge - 1/87th scale.

Snowfirechakat

3 years, 8 months ago

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wow very cool

moyomongoose

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ Snowfirechakat

Thank you...And thanks for the fave.

TheGroundedAviator

3 years, 8 months ago

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I may have just missed it but there is one thing any house back then would have back then and that's a record player. I'd say a fancy radiogram with 33,45 and 78 RPM settings.
My dad and uncles had one then and it was a prized possession they saved up together for.

moyomongoose

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ TheGroundedAviator

They had a portable record player, which was stored away when not in use.

TheGroundedAviator

3 years, 8 months ago

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@ moyomongoose

Fair enough. They were the MP3 of the day, though a good vinyl 33 LP from a good player always sounded better too me.

jackthepregnantfolf

3 years, 7 months ago

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what a layout also a fun fact is that lionels f3s cant operate on 0-27 curves however the nw2 and scouts can along with the 2025 and 2037

ZwolfJareAlt306

3 years, 1 month ago

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Just looked at the train board in relation to other fixtures in the house; even for O gauge, that is one LARGE layout!

moyomongoose

3 years, 1 month ago

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@ ZwolfJareAlt306

True it is.

With Al Coyote's income as a scientist/design engineer working for Horizon Innovations, he is in a position to be able to well afford it for the cubs.

After all, that income also afforded the family two brand new 1960 automobiles...a 1960 Chrysler 300, and a 1960 Plymouth Fury 9 passenger station wagon.
Also, the cubs have a go kart.

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