Forum 10x12 layout design contest - results

[steinjr]

Voting on the 10x12 layout design contest has now ended.

A total of 38 people have posted their votes:

Autobus Prime
beegle55
BurbankAV
chadw
ChrisNH
colvinbackshop
Conrail5
dhilyer
DigitalGriffin
dmitzel
Driline
garya
gcri
HO_Greg
Hoople
innocent_gentleman
IRONROOSTER
Johnnny_reb
last mountain & eastern hogger
mammay76
marknewton
NevinW
OzarkBelt
P & LE RR
rfross
rs2mike
saronaterry
secondhandmodeler
snagletooth
SpaceMouse
stebbycentral
steinjr
stilson4283
Texas Zepher
tomikawaTT
vsmith
wheeler
wm3798

Each voter was asked to liste his or her #1 favorite overall, #2 favorite overall and #3 favorite overall, plus "best H0 scale layout" and "best N scale layout". #1 favorite got 5 points, #2 favorite got 3 points and #3 favorite got 1 point.

 Not everybody followed the instructions litterally, so a few voters only listed their favorite layout, not the three best, and a few did not list their favorite H0 and favorite N scale layout.

 But here are the results:

Overall favorite among submitted layouts:

Place	Layout plan	Points	Comment
No 1:	Kintetsu Utsube Line	51	8 #1 votes, 2 #2 votes, 5 #1 votes
No 2:	Buffalo and Susquehanna	50	4 #1 votes, 9 #2 votes, 3 #1 votes
(DQ)	Snover and Port Fuller	46	5 #1 votes, 5 #2 votes, 3 #1 votes, oversize relative to contest rules
No 3:	Altoona and Johnstown	43	6 #1 votes, 3 #2 votes, 4 #3 votes
No 4	Philadelphia and Erie	37
No 5	Borracho Traction Co	30
No 6	Progressive Rail	18
No 7	Appalachian Central	14
No 8	Lower Susquehanna	11
No 9	River Valley	10
No 10	Big Fork and Dielh	8
No 11	Southern Railways	6
No 12	Branch Line Coal	4
No 13	Christmas Special	1
No 14	Twin Peaks	1
No 15	West Virginia Southern	0
No 16	Port Erie Belt Line	0

 

Best H0 scale layout submitted:

Layout	No votes
Kintetsu Utsube Line	11
Philadelphia and Erie	8
Buffalo and Susquehanna	7
Progressive Rail	4
Branch Line Coal	2
Big Fork and Dielh	1
Lower Susquehanna	1
Christmas Special	0
Twin Peaks	0
Port Erie Belt Line	0

Best N scale layout submitted:

Layout	No votes	Comment
Altoona and Johnstown	13
Snover and Port Fuller	12	Was actually H0 scale
Appalachian Central	4
Southern Railways	2
River Valley	2
West Virginia Southern	0

Link to contest thread: http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1325388/ShowPost.aspx 

Smile,
Stein

 

[SpaceMouse]

Thanks Stein

 

[mammay76]

Great Contest!! some great layout designs, definately gets the brain going for layout ideas!! Can't wait for the next one......

[SpaceMouse]

Congradualtions to the winners.

Also I want to point out that the Snover and Port Fuller was an excellent design and may have taken the whole ball of wax except for a slight Boo-boo.

IN the Layout Forum there is a decompression session for the entrants.

[SpaceMouse]

Bump for your viewing pleasure

[DigitalGriffin]

I think next time I'll design my layout more geared toward advanced modelers instead of newbies. 

So what's next Chip?  Unlimited size contest?

 

[SpaceMouse]

I think next time I'll design my layout more geared toward advanced modelers instead of newbies. 

So what's next Chip?  Unlimited size contest?

That's what we should talk about in the decompression session in the Layout's section.

And yes, some of the voters seem pretty sophisticated.  

 

[vsmith]

5th place?, not bad for renegade scale!

2800 views....38 voters.

Chip, how about including the authors name next to the entrys name, so we know who did what?