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Wow, what a multitude of opinions! As I stated earlier, I don´t think that it is a good choice for a project layout. Large layouts are pretty well covered during the year and those of us, who already have a large layout and want to expand it, already know how to build the benchwork, lay track and add the scenery. Has MR not understood the writing on the wall, I am inclined to ask. In times, when money is getting tighter for us, and space is getting even tighter, running a feature on building a monstrous extension on an already club-sized layout may not be the right thing to do. Who of us has the extra cash to the tune of $ 5,000 for tackling such a project, who of us (still) owns a home of a a size that could house such a large layout? MR leaves the field of interesting and rewarding small layouts pretty much uncovered, also in their regular monthly features. Small layouts don´t have to be the set track type, round the rosie layouts, as one of the posters so eloquently stated. There is much more to small layouts and I would like to see MR going into this field much more. The Beer Line was certainly a step in the right direction, although I would not call it a small layout anymore. But its modular design and different ways of configuring it, just like dominoes, made it an excellent source of inspiration for own layout design. Add to that the feature on how to operate the Beer line, and this project layout was excelling all others I have seen. Too bad that MR decided to go back to the old way of "big is beautiful", instead of showing us how to enjoy MRRing with little budget and small space.
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