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| Twibil... |
 Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:20 pm |
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On Oct 5, 7:04 pm, "Roger T." <roger... at (no spam) highspeedplus.com> wrote:
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I have a "small" model railway. It occupies a 12 x 16 foot room, "small" by
North American standards. 
Gotcha beat. (Can you "win" by being smaller?) My train room's only
11 1/2 x 14.
I designed it with several goals in mind: the first being that the
essential track plan was based on the east end of the Santa Fe's "Kite
Line" branch that ran in a loop eastwards from the San Bernardino
yards through Redlands and Mentone, then swung north to East
Highlands, northwest to Patton and Del Rosa, and then due west to
rejoin the Santa Fe mainline only about a mile north of where it
departed for Redlands in the first place.
(Historical info for anyone who's interested at:
http://www.highlandhistory.org/Kite%20Track%20Tour-Draft.pdf )
This gave me a prototype-based excuse to have a loop of track (with
hidden staging) that could be used for engine break-ins or just simple
"train watching" by non-railroader guests.
The second goal was to have as much operating potential packed into
this small space as I could manage while still avoiding the "bowl of
spaghetti" syndrome. I've got 19 different industries and a couple of
"switching puzzles" included, which looks as if it ought to provide
somewhere around a 3-hour operating cycle for a single engineer.
The third goal was to place the railroad at an indeterminate and
selectively compressed location somewhere in southern California so
that I could (A) look out the window to see what the scenery should
look like, and (B) include as many typically southern California-based
industries and scenes as I could.
An advantage I hadn't thought of beforehand turns out to be the fact
that nothing on the layout is much more than 2 feet away from your
eyeballs, which gives me the opportunity to do a lot of "foreground
modeling" on everything from trees to rolling stock.
Fortunately, I *enjoy* foreground modeling!
~Pete |
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| Roger T.... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:04 pm |
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Quote: There's been a discussion going on in one of the Yahoo groups as to the
definition of a "small" layout. The British members lean towards
something I'd call a micro or a diorama. The American members mention
the proverbial 4x8. What's the opinions of folks here?
I have a "small" model railway. It occupies a 12 x 16 foot room, "small" by
North American standards. :-)
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Cheers.
Roger T.
See the GER at: -
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| Mark Mathu... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:46 pm |
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"Larry Blanchard" <lblanch at (no spam) fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:nqGdneGIuMkGjlfXnZ2dnUVZ_g7_fwAA at (no spam) pghconnect.com...
Quote: There's been a discussion going on in one of the Yahoo groups as to the
definition of a "small" layout. The British members lean towards
something I'd call a micro or a diorama. The American members mention
the proverbial 4x8. What's the opinions of folks here?
To me, 4x8' is the classic definition of a small layout. |
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| Klaus D. Mikkelsen... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:03 pm |
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Larry Blanchard skriver:
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How can a small layout be made interesting? A bridge route between two
interchanges comes to mind.
I have plans for a small layout
http://moppe.dk/mibane.html
"Rough google translation":
<http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=da&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmoppe.dk%2Fmibane.html&sl=da&tl=en&history_state0=>
Klaus
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