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Turtle Creek MRR layout
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BRAKIE - My comment about Proto87 was with humorous intent ... however, I do see what you mean, but I don't think an article about a beginners layout is necessarily the right place to say it, although in this instance Jim Kelly did make the point about branch lines not having huge ballast shoulders like a mainline in one of the follow up articles. <br /> <br />I still think you are missing my point about layouts like the Turtle Creek being a transition between a trainset and a model railroad. The only real purpose in life for these layouts are training grounds for future hobbyists, they must get the basic skills and get something built, trying to impose higher standards is not the way to encorage people into the hobby. Like you don't learn algebra before you've been taught the basic of math. <br /> <br />Whether or not someone actually builds the published track plan is kind of irrelavent as long as they have read the article on how to go about putting a basic layout together. <br /> <br />Many British mags make this mistake and try and make their "how to start" articles over complicated, which puts beginners off - the hobby in th UK is suffering from a lack of new kids which I attribute in part to this mistake. Paying attention to the track for a main, branch, or siding comes when the beginner replaces their first layout because they have outgrown its limitations, in the mean time they have learnt that the main part of the hobby is that its FUN to build things.
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