Good Day folks, I have been looking at pages 24-25 in the new Kalmbach "Track Plans from the Experts" book -- specifically it is Iain Rice's layout design...
My new October issue of Model Railroader arrived today wrapped in an advertisement for a new DVD that enables you to explore 75 years of Model Railroader. The...
Doug, The original article in MRP 2001 doesn't include any design details such as minimum radius or turnout size. Given that Iain Rice is a denizen of the UK,...
... Seeing as Fred has vented on a number of groups I will post part of my reply to him from the Weathering Group. If you read the notice you would have noted...
Thanks for writing this comment. I wish I could have put is as well. I too will pass on this. Jim ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi Three approaches to S bends. Simplest - provide a staright between the curves sufficiently long so that with the coupling of the longes vehicle on the...
Yes Fred I agree everything seems to be very expensive and I’ve also gone back to scratch building, mostly in card and any other thing that can be re-cycled....
As a modeller,who hails from across the pond,i thought about this DVD long and hard,the information upto 2009,the earlier stuff i would relish,as the modellers...
While I certainly respect Fred's view of this topic, I must confess that the opportunity to get rid of my stacks of boxes of old MR's from years gone by is a...
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... Are they definitely PDFs? That wasn't clear to me from the description in the "shop" on MR's web site. I'm running Linux here, so I can use PDFs just fine...
Personal opinion from a different Fred: I don't see the point in tearing down a company (in multiple cross-posts) whose product you have no intention of buying...
Way back when, a hobby shop owner would loan me older copies of MR and I pored through them. Usually in study hall. These were from the late Forties and early...
Average layout sizes were smaller in years past. People had smaller hobby budgets, I assume. And people scratchbuilt out of necessity or to maximize...
... From: Ken Provus<mailto:kempro@...> To: small-layout-design@yahoogroups.com<mailto:small-layout-design@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, September...
Roger, Glad to see you scratch building again. Nothing compares to it. I received other emails about others who are scratch building again and have begun to...
... The space thing is certainly a plus, but I agree with Fred on the price. While MR has to make money to stay in business, I seem to remember a time when it...
Hi Overpricing can be self defeating. At $50 a lot of people would take it. At $190 most might look for access at their club or not bother. If 4 times as much...
Is this the index that people are complaining about? http://trc.trains.com/en/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?view=ViewAllMagazines To stay somewhat on topic...
From the home page of the group Discussion of the design and construction of small model railroad layouts. This group is intended for the average model...
Hi Murry, I doubt "fear" has anything to do with it, but rather the amount of data contained in the set. A DVD disc can store 4.3 gigabytes of data (or 8.5...
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A reminder that a request was made yesterday at 15:30 EDT that this topic be closed to further discussion. There have been several posts since that time. ...
Hi everyone, Haven't posted much here, but I've been listening in for a while. I'm (finally) ready to start a new layout, and I'm looking for some advice....
Hi Have been considering a zig zag railway. 8ft length would severely limit train length and/or vertical gain as you'd need train length, turnout, slope,...
Dear Bill, Sounds to me like you need to check the trackplan in the Nov '85 MR by Bill Baumann, And maybe check the Wolfgang Dudler interpretation "3rd St...
Hi Bill, Have you looked at Lynn Westcott's "101 Track Plans for Model Railoaders" (Kalmbach Publishing)? May I suggest you check out plan #8, the "Port Ogden...
Bill, Hmmm... GN and Milwaukee... sounds like Great Falls Montana. Check out Dan Lewis' North Montana Lines, also in N scale. Pastor Dan lives down the road a...
Hi folks, I just stumbled across this website -- www.huntervalleylines.com/gallery It looks great, with lots of layout plans for small switching layouts. Has...
