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If you can get your hands on a wide roll of plain white paper, cut and spread sheets of paper where your layout will be. Draw your basic track plan on the sheets full size to get an idea on what you can fit where. Another tip is to draw curves full size on posterboard and cut them out to use as curved templates. <br /> <br /> Howard Zane was a industrial/architectural designer and a highly skilled model railroader. He was trained to mock up three dimensionally. So when he built his layout, he just built it with no track plan. The layout was the plan or mock up. He envisioned what he wanted to do and knew how to do it. You can see his layout in the [url="http://www.allenkeller.com/GMR12.htm"] Allen Keller video # 12, Howard Zane's Piermont Division of the Western Maryland[/url] <br /> Click on high lighted words for links.
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