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    comments on preliminary trackplan

    Long time member, infrequent poster here. I'm working on a trackplan for a layout, and I'm soliciting comments on it. The overall area I have is 12X18, and this plan goes around the walls with a peninsula. I plan on operating it P2P, and I consider it to be a big switching layout. The enclosed...
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    Lightweight benchwork (?)

    I thought I'd ask this here, because the modular guys would know the best how to answer me. I'm warming up to build a 6X10 home layout, with the intent of it being lightweight and mostly portable. I don't intend to take it anywhere like a show or modular meet, but I do want to be able to take...
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    Comments and suggestions on this plan

    The enclosed plan is more of a doodle than a serious effort. Unfortunately, all I have to work with is Atlas RTS. Also, even though you see the sectional track in use, I'm an old hand, and I sure don't intend to build it that way. The plan is the best rendition I could do of Iain Rice's East...
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    Jafn

    Another board newbie saying hello. I go by VunderBob just about everywhere I go. I'm 43, married, have a teenaged son, and two cats that I despise. I model in HO, am partial to the Southern, and my planned layout will be a dual era (by 2 years) branch of the Southern. Era 1 is set in the summer...