A couple weeks ago, someone asked for help in finding an article that appeared in an insert/supplement to [/i]Model Railroader[/i] with a layout plan that could be arranged with an oval of track on a conventional rectangle train table- OR cut in half down the middle as a long linear shelf layout-- OR with the two halves set at right angles to make an L-shaped shelf in a corner. The person looking for the article was not sure where to look.
I guessed what the correspondent was looking for and wanted to help, but couldn't originally find it.
However, I was organizing and straightening last night to find something for my income tax and I think I found both the silly $13 interest slip and the insert. I think the article the person was writing about was "One Plan, Three Options" by Linda Sand, in the "supplement", [i]8 Great Train Plans for Small Spaces." It is a reprint of trackplan articles from past issues...and I have the original issues for almost 50 years... Something I don't need to keep but too good to throw away. I have been carrying it with my substitute teacher's briefcase for middle school assignments where kids have a 30 minute reading period to read whatever, just read. In case I can get a youngster interested in model railroading. But haven't been able to get 12 year ols to look at it any longer than 5 minutes.
I would be willing to pass this on to someone who would appreciate it. Contact me at leighant at hotmail (but make it a real email address by changing the word "at" to the you-know-what symbol and adding the dot-com etc. (I am deliberately putting this in words which a human should be able to figure out, but an email address gathering robot program will not be so likely to recognize, for selling to a bank of bulk "spam" advertisers, etc.)
I wonder if this forum has so many posts so fast that an item of interest primarily to one individual will disappear in the pages and pages of posts before it is ever seen by a person who only goes to the forums once in 24 or 48 hours?
Or did the person already find what he wanted?
Or is a question asked on this forum so "instant gratification" that it is not of any interest a week or two later? I sometimes have questions that take YEARS to answer and it is so exciting when the answer comes, even though it may relate to a layout or scene I am no longer building...