Layouts and layout building

 I have aquired the old issues of Boys Life magazine for the Glenn Wagner layout.

I will be willing to share copies of the layout to anyone interested.

I do not have file hosting at this time.  I will send a pdf to your email address.

Please email my address edward1222@aol.com for a pdf of the layout and other info from Boys Life.

Ed

I would be interested in taking a look.

 Greg,

I have the layout in pdf format.  What email address should I use to send ?

Ed

Ed,

 Did you recieve my e-mail?

Ed

I as well would like to have a copy - please send pdf to afzski@yahoo.com 

Alex

Ed, what scale/guage (O or HO) is the layout in your magazine and what size was it?

Does it matter what scale it is in?

 After all, you can always rescale it.

Has anyone heard from Ed?

The Boys' Life 1959 layout was just another HO 4X8. Tight curves, switchback industry spurs, not much room for structures or scenery, etc., etc. Fifty-year-old design ideas.

Except for nostalgia, I can't understand why anyone would care, but that's just me.

cuyama:

The Boys' Life 1959 layout was just another HO 4X8. Tight curves, switchback industry spurs, not much room for structures or scenery, etc., etc. Fifty-year-old design ideas.

Except for nostalgia, I can't understand why anyone would care, but that's just me.

Well, given that I hadn't seen it and don't mind looking for ideas that can be applied to a smaller scale ( in the same area ) even just another HO 4x8 with tight curves, holds the promise of something I might not have thought of before.

Greg H.:

cuyama:

The Boys' Life 1959 layout was just another HO 4X8. Tight curves, switchback industry spurs, not much room for structures or scenery, etc., etc. Fifty-year-old design ideas.

Except for nostalgia, I can't understand why anyone would care, but that's just me.

Well, given that I hadn't seen it and don't mind looking for ideas that can be applied to a smaller scale ( in the same area ) even just another HO 4x8 with tight curves, holds the promise of something I might not have thought of before.

 

 Possible, but not likely.

 Here: http://www.trainplayer.com/Site3/FeaturePages/user_layouts_gallery.html#Boys_Life_4x8 - it took all of 2 minutes to find using google, with keywords:

Boy's life 1959 layout

And then having to find the new link on the trainplayer.com web site, since it had been reorganized since the last update of the google cache.

Smile,
Stein

Wow!

Talk about a busy layout - reminds me of some of those Atlas track plans where they try and cover the entire area with track.

Greg H.:

Wow!

Talk about a busy layout - reminds me of some of those Atlas track plans where they try and cover the entire area with track.

 Yup. Which kinda was the point Byron was making :-)

 Grin,
 Stein

To be fair, I have seen some 4x8's that were not to bad - indeed would have been fairly decent rescaled to N or Z scale, while still retaining the 4x8 size, I'm not sure that layout would benefit from anything but Z and doubtful of that.