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.
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Voting ends Dec. 4
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
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 Railroad3. Rader Authority Of Transit (RAT Lines) 4.Selkirk & Pacific Ry 5. Ward City Mead & Eckley
Here are my votes:
1) Turkey Trail Railroad 2) Du Bois and Punxzy3) Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad 4) Rader Authority Of Transit5) Selkirk & Pacific Ry
Stein
1. Turkey Trail RR
2. Loopy Bridge & Terminal RR
3. Selkirk & Pacific RR
4. Du Bois and Punxzy
5. Newport Northern
Rick
My votes below.
1. Venango and Erie
2. RAT Lines
3. Loup Creek
4. Ward City
5. Du Bois and Punxzy
Enjoy
Paul
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.
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
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
1. DuBois
2. Loupy
3. Vanango
4. Selkirk
5. RAT
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
Nice job mouse. Ok here is what i voted for
newport
dubois and punxzy
whisper river
ward
radar
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
You asked for it!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
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
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Hello they are all very good ideas.
1 newport northen
2 rat lines
3 dubois & punxzy
4 loop creek
5 whisper river
Frank
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.
-beegle55
1. RAT Lines
2. Newport Northern
3. Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad
5. Turkey Trail Railroad
Chip,
Check your PMs.
Don Z.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
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
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.
I won't vote for my own layout, so here are my choices:
Job well done to all designers!
1. Rat Lines
3. Loup Creek RR
4.Sierra Mesa Southwestern
5. Helix Mountain
May the best one win!!
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
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.
A gentle nudge to keep this on Page #1....let's have some more voters!
In descending order, I prefer plan #s 10, 11, 12, 4, and 6.
Mark
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........
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
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...
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 )
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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