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10 x 12 Layout submission, final thoughts on the 12 x 12

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10 x 12 Layout submission, final thoughts on the 12 x 12
Posted by Dan M on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:00 PM

I have redesigned my 12 x 12 Layout submission to fit the following.

Scale: HO Scale

Name: Dead Horse & Rump Central

Chief traffic: stick (hit repeatedly), flies, maggots, and other noxious odors.

Operations: Its dead, so it does not operate

Thanks guys for comments and suggested changes. Heck, if I'd know this little error on my part would have caused such a commotion, I would have run for president and installed a layout in the Oval Office! Say, you know what kind of layout to build in the oval office? Oval of course!

Dan

Modeling the Pere Marquette RR, Almont Subdivision http://railroadfan.com/gallery/index.php?cat=10046 http://trunklinephotography.blogspot.com/ http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=1055 "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
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Posted by SpaceMouse on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:14 PM
The problem was that everyone liked it. If it was a piece of junk, no one would have cared.

Chip

Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.

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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:00 PM

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   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by Dan M on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:04 PM

You forgot the hidden staging yard or "black operation yard" that lies out in Area 51. Who knows what trains are running out there. Rumors have it they transport UFOs, alien DNA, and have alien porters.

Hey, maybe we should have the next contest theme on Area 51? All tracks would be hidden, only operate in the dark, and we all would need secret security clearance to even draw it. Heck the NSA are probably reading this as I speak!

 Dan M

Modeling the Pere Marquette RR, Almont Subdivision http://railroadfan.com/gallery/index.php?cat=10046 http://trunklinephotography.blogspot.com/ http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=1055 "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
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Posted by pcarrell on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:16 PM
 Dan M wrote:

Hey, maybe we should have the next contest theme on Area 51? All tracks would be hidden, only operate in the dark, and we all would need secret security clearance to even draw it. Heck the NSA are probably reading this as I speak!

We'd have to deny that the contest exists though!

Philip
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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:46 PM

You left out the

Sphagetti layout - where the train always seems to be going your way part of the time, but really never gets anywhere for anyone.

Enjoy

Paul 

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:42 PM
 IRONROOSTER wrote:

You left out the

Sphagetti layout - where the train always seems to be going your way part of the time, but really never gets anywhere for anyone.

Enjoy

Paul 

With a minimum of three mandatory multitrack helices - forks in centers optional.  When carefully analyzed, it proves to be a conglomeration of non-connecting single-tracks, point to point.

Chuck  (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:42 PM

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   Have fun with your trains

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