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While I don't entirely agree with Brakie on this one (It's not the most gratuitous example of Lionel-type thinking I've seen in MR, but that mountain is horrendous), he does have a point. I'm not as opposed to the traditional 4x8 as some, but unless a lot of attention is paid to design, it's not a format that's conducive to staying in the hobby, as all that you can do with most 4x8 plans is run laps and a wee bit of switching, and that gets boring quick. A railroad needs to 'DO' something. It needs a reason for being, a reason for its traffic. Lionel thinking is the run-laps design. <br /> <br />If you want a nice example of a 4x8 design that's got more life, check out the Midland,Ill plan in Tony Koester's Realistic Operations book, it breaks the 4x8 down into 1 scene and staging, so you can use the back half like a fiddle yard, and run realistic timetable operations on the other half. It's also a great Layout Design Element that could be incorporated into a larger layout by chopping off the back half and re-laying a bit of track. There's some good stuff in the latest MR Planning, and if you really want a basic 4x8 loop, look at the Berkshire Division, in the December 92 MR, it's head-and-shoulders above this years project, or even the Pittsburg Plate Glass 4x8 switching layout in the Jan 03 MR.
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