MR Mar 2002 Article: Designing a layout to fit your DINKY SPACE!

[Anonymous]

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[chateauricher]

Don,

Although I'm not married, but ,based on what I have heard from many who are, I think I would rather deal with challenging topography and hostile natives than with a wife. [swg]

[Don Gibson]

CP DIDN'T double track their mainline Oakland - Promotory Point. so why should you?

Note: RR Surveyor's dealt with challenging topgraphy and Indian's. You only have 4 walls and a wife.

[Javern]

I'd love to have a huge monster layout. have cameras mounted everywhere. Hire 2 no 3 merry maids to come in and clean track

[Anonymous]

I'd have an unmanageable maintenance monster. And I hope I don't build another one.

[twhite]

Well, instead of just the Yuba Sub from Deer Creek to Yuba Pass, I'd try for a mainline from Oakland, east to Reno. Maybe even across the desert to Salt Lake City. And double-track all the way!![:P][:P][:P]

Tom

[SpaceMouse]

Formerly titled:

MR Mar 2002 Article: What would your layout look like if your house did not get in the way?

When I read that title in the March 2002 MR, I thought, "Wow! What a great technique for layout planning!" I eagerly read only to be disappointed. The article was about putting together an aerial photo from composit shots.

But that doesn't change my conception of it. How many of us take the space we have availible cram everything we can in and then start cutting to make it fit? What if we did the opposite?

What if we worked it from the other end? What if we imagined the perfect railway without the bounds of space? What if we imagined each location and image of this railroad from the vantage point of perfection. Each stop, spur, industry, and town as the perfect representaion or ideal . Then we take these perfect parts, select our favorites, and apply them to what ever space we have, be it a 2x4 N layout to a warehouse O layout.

The pieces we have left, though maybe smaller in scope, are no longer compromises. They are perfect. They may be pieces, but they are perfect.