Hi Folks - I started building an N gauge layout years ago & I'm trying to locate the original magazine or book the layout was in. I've been searching around the house most of the morning & cant find it since moving last. The layout was 4' X 4' with a reversing section & several sidings. I believe ti was in Model Railroader or one of their track plan books. If this sounds familiar to anyone I'd deeply appreciate your input. If need be I can upload of photo of my trackage to maybe jog some memories.
Thanks In Advance!
Arnold In The Smokies
Arnold,
Most magazines will keep back issues of their magazines. If you know about the time when the issue with your layout came, it shouldn't be too hard to find it. I hope that you can find your layout, and good luck.
Peace
Yeah I'm not real sure of the time frame, it was likely I bought it in the 70's or early 80's. I looked through some of the listings in the Model Railroader archives & nothing rang a bell. The unique thing about this plan was its size, simply a 4' X 4' square top with no cut-outs.
You can use the Model Train Magazine Index, hosted on this very site, to search by size and scale of trackplan. Those parameters give four results in MR:http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=T&len=4&wid=4&scaleto=N&proc=9&MAG=MR
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Thanks cuyama - Thats a GREAT resource! None of those sound familiar but thats not to say one of them isn't it - I need to dig some more here & find the darn thing:-)
Thanks for the input guys - I did find the layout (though not the book - yet). The plan was in a 70's Atlas book Nine N Scale Layouts & the layout was called Monopoly & Octopus. I did get it running after some major track maintenance the last couple of nights. My 4 year old is really thrilled we got it running so no its on to fixing some remote switch issues (I think the contacts may be corroded) & then on to scenery.