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MR Mar 2002 Article: Designing a layout to fit your DINKY SPACE!
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Bigger isn't always better. With a BIG layout you NEED others to run it. Is this what you want? A guy in our club has a large layout, the mainline is around 325 feet long, wraps around the basement three times on its way from one point to the other. Of course he's never been married, so the house is all his! <br /> <br />He has operating sessions every three weeks and all kinds of guys show up, there must have been around 20 last week. Really hard to get around others at times when following your train. He sort of zips around keeping everything running more or less smoothly, and seems to enjoy himself. But this is not what I personally would want if I had a home layout (I have three pairs of HO scale modules - stacked and stored most of the time). <br /> <br />And there's the maintenance aspect - cleaning track, making sure all of the electrics and turnouts work properly, maintaining the rolling stock, etc. Sounds more like a job than a pleasurable hobby! <br /> <br />BIG isn't always better! [:D] <br /> <br />Bob Boudreau <br />Here's his Island Central Railway site: http://www.geocities.com/islandcentral/
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