Layouts and layout building

Hello guys,

I was wondering if anyone knew where i could get an N-Scale version of the G-Scale Claremont & Concord project track plan.

I have looked everywhere and i am either looking in the wrong place or i just cant find it!

Thanks in advance

Ross

There probably isn't one that's been published, but it would be easy to lay one out for yourself. Bachmann has announced an N scale 44-tonner, so you'll even have the perfect motive power available soon.

If you do plan to do your own track plan version, I'd suggest that you open things up a bit to allow longer runarounds and sidings and a bit of staging, if you can. The G version is very, very tight and a little more relative length in these areas will make the layout much more fun in the long run.

Byron
Model RR Blog

Plans are usually drawn only to one scale, there likely is no N scale version and never was or will be.

Take the G gauge version and rescale it yourself, it doesnt have to be exact, use the G layout as a planning reference and then use N gauge templates to relay the track plan to that scale on grid paper, from there you can start building. Its not that tough to do, really.

Does anyone know which issues the Claremont & Concorde project series were in?

I can get them out of my archive at my club but i cant remeber which issues it was in!

A good resource for questions like this is the Model Train Magazine Index provided by our hosts.

Using that and entering the roadname, turns up a few articles. The MR series with the G gauge project was August through November 2005

 Well, I know someone converted the plan to HO scale. If you go to Yahoo Groups The Small Layout Design group.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/small-layout-design/

I think you have to join to get access to their files, but it is free. A person with the screen-name Shortliner created it. It is in their file section in a folder named "Shortliner's folder".