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4 x 8 Layout Contest

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4 x 8 Layout Contest
Posted by SpaceMouse on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:05 AM

Welcome Judges to the 2007 4x8 Design Contest.

Please choose your top 5 favorites and rank them from 1 to 5. List them by layout name. Click on the thumbnail for a larger picture and description.

Based upon your rankings, they will receive points as follows: (You don't need to do this. We will do this at the end of the contest.)

First Place 9 points
Second Place 7 point
Third Place 5 Points
Fourth Place 3 Points
Fifth Place 1 Point

After 1 week the scores will be added and the winner announced with appropriate fanfare.

See the Layouts

Voting ends Dec. 4

Chip

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:28 AM

The whole time I was programming the site, I never really evaluated the layouts. So here goes since no one else wants to start the ball rolling. I found it easy to cut and paste off the voting page.

1. Du Bois and Punxzy 
2. Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad
3. Rader Authority Of Transit (RAT Lines)
4.Selkirk & Pacific Ry
5. Ward City Mead & Eckley

 

 

 

Chip

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Posted by steinjr on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:39 AM

 Here are my votes:

1) Turkey Trail Railroad
2) Du Bois and Punxzy
3) Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad
4) Rader Authority Of Transit
5) Selkirk & Pacific Ry

Stein

 

 

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Posted by RedGrey62 on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:06 PM

1. Turkey Trail RR

2. Loopy Bridge & Terminal RR

3. Selkirk & Pacific RR

4. Du Bois and Punxzy

5. Newport Northern

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:16 PM

My votes below. 

1. Venango and Erie

2. RAT Lines

3. Loup Creek 

4. Ward City 

5. Du Bois and Punxzy 

Enjoy

Paul 

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Posted by selector on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:20 PM

I won't vote for my own, so my rank-ordering is as follows (they were all nice layouts, and I don't say this as a smarmy "attaboy" to all participants):

1. Du Boise and Punxzy

2. Whisper River

3. Loopy Bridge and Terminal

4. Ward City Mead & Eckley

5. Venango & Erie.

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Posted by C&O Fan on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:21 PM

My Votes

1 Ward City Mead & Eckley

2 Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad

3 Whisper River

4 Becket & Berkshires

5 Du Bois and Punxzy

I like the Du Bois and Punxzy but i don't see how once a train leaves the yard

how it returns without backing all the way around the layout

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Posted by Fazby on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:52 PM

1.  DuBois

2.  Loupy

3.  Vanango

4.  Selkirk

5.  RAT

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Posted by Autobus Prime on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:35 PM

Folks:

Selector's not kidding; it's hard to pick 5.  These are nice plans.

We should have contests like this regularly.

1 - RAT Lines.

2 - Whisper River.

3 - DB & P.

4 - Turkey Trail

5 - Sierra Mesa Southwestern

 

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Posted by rs2mike on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:50 PM

Nice job mouse.  Ok here is what i voted for

newport

dubois and punxzy

whisper river

ward

radar

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Posted by Hawks05 on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:32 PM
Here are my selections:

1. Du Bois and Punxzy
2. Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad
3. Turkey Trail Railroad
4. Venango & Erie
5. Sierra Mesa Southwestern
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Posted by Annonymous on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:11 PM
Chip: Check your PM
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Posted by tomikawaTT on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:12 PM

You asked for it!

  1. DuBois and Punxzy
  2. Whisper River  (is my gauge bias showing?)
  3. Loopy Bridge and Terminal
  4. Ward City, Mead and Eckley
  5. RAT Lines

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:13 PM

My choices:

1st    #10 Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad

2nd    #12 Ward City Mead & Eckley

3rd    #4 Du Bois and Punxzy

4th    #6 Turkey Trail Railroad

5th    #8 Sierra Mesa Southwestern

 

 

 

 

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:19 PM

Hello they are all very good ideas.

1 newport northen

2 rat lines

3 dubois & punxzy

4 loop creek

5 whisper river

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Posted by beegle55 on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:52 PM

Great job on the layouts. Liked them all! Great effort.

1. Newport Northern

2. Turkey Trail

3. RAT

4. Whisper River

5. Sierra Western

The Du Bois and Punxzy looked pretty well planned out, but it was a little crowded and the roads seemed a little tacky, but just not my type of layout.

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Posted by chadw on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:16 PM

1. RAT Lines

2. Newport Northern

3. Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad

4. Ward City Mead & Eckley

5. Turkey Trail Railroad

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Posted by Don Z on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:28 PM

Chip,

Check your PMs.

Don Z.

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Posted by steinjr on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:33 PM

 Just did a quick tally of the first 15 votes.

 There is a couple of voters which hasn't used the complete name of the layout copied and pasted from Spacemouse's web page, and whose votes may consquently be open to interpretation, but this is what I think the running tab is after 15 votes:

Smile,
Stein

 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:43 PM

There is only one I liked so far:

 Venango and Erie

That layout would be perfect if there was a run around somewhere on the road.

The others, I have not formed enough study to choose and rank yet. I will continue to work towards ranking the other 4.

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Posted by Don Z on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:44 PM

I won't vote for my own layout, so here are my choices:

  1. Sierra Mesa Southwestern
  2. Loup Creek Railroad
  3. Selkirk & Pacific Railway
  4. Newport Northern
  5. Venango & Erie

Job well done to all designers! Thumbs Up [tup] Thumbs Up [tup]

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Posted by Trekkie on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:54 PM
RAT Lines: First Place
Du Bois and Punxzy: Second Place
Newport Northern: Third PLace
Selkirk & Pacific Ry: Fourth PLace
Ward City Mead & Eckley: Fifth Place
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Posted by New Haven I-5 on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:05 PM

1. Rat Lines

2. Newport Northern

3. Loup Creek RR

4.Sierra Mesa Southwestern

5. Helix Mountain

May the best one win!!

- Luke

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Posted by L Cowan on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:04 PM

A real hard choice, all of them are very good.

1, Loopy Bridge and Terminal RR

2, RAT Lines

3. Du Bois & Punxzy

4, Turkey Trail

5, Venanro & Erie

Every one did a great job.

Never to old for trains!! Lee
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Posted by Don Z on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:03 PM

A gentle nudge to keep this on Page #1....let's have some more voters!

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Posted by markpierce on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:37 PM

In descending order, I prefer plan #s 10, 11, 12, 4, and 6.

Mark

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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:02 AM

Blindfold [X-)]

Here are my picks Spacemouse.

1.    DuBois & Punzy

2.    Loopy Bridge & Terminal

3.    Ward City Mead & Eckley

4.    Rader Authority of Transit

5.    Whisper River

Very Good Job to all entered and a good job done Spacemouse.  My wife says you have too much time on your hands.

Johnboy out........

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Posted by GraniteRailroader on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:21 AM

It took me about 2 hours of looking at each one in depth, tracing train movements, looking at realism, suggested scenery, operations complexity (simplicity?), difficulty of track work, and quite a bit more. I went through somewhere around 15 sheets of paper (that's over 1 sheet per design using both sides!) taking notes and marking things down (or up as it may be).

My top five, going from first to last...

 

  1. Ward City Mead & Eckley
  2. Dubois and Punxy
  3. The "RAT"
  4. Whisper River
  5. Becket and Beck 

I have to say, that all of the designs really made me think. A few of them really were hard to imagine because of the trackwork, but the top 5 I listed really "popped" out at me.

The Ward City M&E really gave me some ideas for my next layout, and I'll probably incorporate a few things from the "RAT" as well. 

Now it's time for me to go crawl into bed with the Chief Financial Officer so that she won't freeze my assets (AKA: I don't want to get stuck on the couch Whistling [:-^] )

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Posted by Crooked Creek on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:10 AM
1st- Du Bois and Punxzy
2nd- Turkey Trail Railroad
3rd- Whisper River
4th- Loopy Bridge Terminal RR
5th- RAT Lines
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Posted by RRRerun on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:26 AM

Great thread, here you go

1-Du Bois and Punxzy

2-Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad

3-Rader Authority Of Transit (RAT Lines)

4-Turkey Trail Railroad

5-Venango & Erie

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