shortliner Posted May 13, 2018 Author Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) Daniel - I suddenly remembered a trackplan that I did away back, which was a roundy-roundy, circular layout, with a short chubby person sat in the middle of it - I believe it is on a CD of XTrkCad plans - so I went to look ,in the hopes of taking up your challenge - needless to say the CD has 284 files on it and I can't remember what I called it - if I come across it I'll post it - but don't hold your breath - you'll be VERY red in the face if you do! Edited May 13, 2018 by shortliner 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 go on Jack you know you want to build one, i'll provide the aspirin!!!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 13, 2018 Author Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) For those who want to extract the not-very-large-not-very-large and tax my ancient little grey cells almost to destruction, I had a sudden idea and looked at Carendt .com - and google - with some success - so here it is - the proof that Shortliner HAS designed a multiple roundy-roundy lies on page 95. Challenge accepted! It is a bit difficult to see, but in the "hidden sidings/rock face"area there is another curved turnout - in the original drawaing there wwas an xxx.a drawing with a connecting track via a tunnel-mouth joining the outside track with another curved point. Edited May 13, 2018 by shortliner 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted May 13, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) Couldn’t find anything like that on page 95 (leastways,not with your name on it) but I did come across this on page 104: Edited May 13, 2018 by Regularity Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Well done Jack. Looks surprisingly interesting to operate. I had a go at tweaking it into something a little more Mindheim. Back alley urban industrial tracks, that kind of thing. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 13, 2018 Author Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) Well done Simon, I'd forgotten that trackplan - there is also East 149th Street Bronx yard http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/25093-erie-rr-east-149th-street-“harlem-station”/(although that isn't a complete circle) - you may find that more easily on RMWeb - The one I posted above is (AFAIR) 4 up from the bottom of the page Very small with a photo beside it Edited May 14, 2018 by shortliner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 13, 2018 Author Share Posted May 13, 2018 Daniel - that looks very workable - and good for exhibiting! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 N gauge one modelled by Terry Tasker from Southport club Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 13, 2018 Author Share Posted May 13, 2018 N gauge one modelled by Terry Tasker from Southport club 32271766_1690311707690642_5136112743723565056_n.jpg Yes - I know Terry - Judge of Chrysanthemums (if that is how you spell them) - a good photo of him! I wonder if this thread - which has gone well off topic - is inspiring any ideas in readers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 It's certainly inspiring me. I'm having a full afternoon of layout planning. Not a lot else to be doing at work to be honest! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 13, 2018 Author Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) It's certainly inspiring me. I'm having a full afternoon of layout planning. Not a lot else to be doing at work to be honest! Added a suggestion in the other thread - My inspiration! Edited May 13, 2018 by shortliner 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 There was a 4mm/OO "polo" layout like that at the Cradley Heath show a few years ago. The operators soon tired of the suggestion to make the train stationary, & the layout rotate under it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 One of Peter North's layouts also featured in a CM bonus DVD, I seem to recall the depot building was a converted boxcar. I always fancied seeing the layout post shortline era, clapped CF7 or smokin C420 Indiana HiRail style. As for circular plans I recall a plan of a real warehouse which featured several circles and some very complicated switches, an early 90's Great Model Railroad mag had a nice SP industrial with a couple of SW1500's for power. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Dear Bob, Try Great Model Railroads 1995 page 56 "Night on the Docks" by Dave Nicastro. Interesting pic of Dave depicting what "eye height" benchwork looks like against a human on page 59... ...on relooking at this, I can't help but think I must have been channelling parts of this on B3AM... Happy modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Prof Klyzlr, any idea if GMR 1995 is available digitally anywhere? Thanks, Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 14, 2018 Author Share Posted May 14, 2018 (edited) There was a 4mm/OO "polo" layout like that at the Cradley Heath show a few years ago. The operators soon tired of the suggestion to make the train stationary, & the layout rotate under it. Might well have been Chris Gilbert named Beaver Falls - bought from a guy in Southampton ( Keith Addenbrooke???) and since sold on some time ago to a guy in the Welsh Borders Edited May 14, 2018 by shortliner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 14, 2018 Author Share Posted May 14, 2018 For anyone interested in exploring the idea of a circular layout further - there is some more here http://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-design-gallery/single-level-micro-layouts-contd/#16 ( at the bottom of the page ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 14, 2018 Author Share Posted May 14, 2018 (edited) Just to make it a little clearer, I've marked the additional link in red- it probably needs to join the outside track a bit further anti clockwise to fit in with the geometry of the PECO curved turnouts Edited May 14, 2018 by shortliner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Might well have been Chris Gilbert named Beaver Falls - bought from a guy in Southampton ( Keith Addenbrooke???) and since sold on some time ago to a guy in the Welsh Borders No, found it:- http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/66554-cradley-heath-mrc-ist-model-railway-exhibition/page-2&do=findComment&comment=1196418, it was called 'Little Brickhill', by Steve Kesterton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Prof Klyzlr, any idea if GMR 1995 is available digitally anywhere? Thanks, Dan Theres a lot of archive stuff on the Model Railroader/Trains website, sadly this is only available to subscribers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted May 14, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2018 Theres a lot of archive stuff on the Model Railroader/Trains website, sadly this is only available to subscribers.Doesn’t include such things as GMR and MRP, just the monthly magazines. Having access to every issue, ever, is worth the annual on-line subscription, though. It is a fantastic resource, and worth every penny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 (edited) No, found it:- http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/66554-cradley-heath-mrc-ist-model-railway-exhibition/page-2&do=findComment&comment=1196418, it was called 'Little Brickhill', by Steve Kesterton. Well done on the find, Jordan - but I'm 99% certain that that is a re-work of the original Keith Addenbrooke layout - The buildings and tanks are the same or very similar - oddly I'm sure that there was a picture of Keith sitting inside the original layout on RMweb, but I've no idea where Edited May 15, 2018 by shortliner 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 That's Kalmbach's major failing, IMO. They don't offer their books/annuals as digital back issues. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted May 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2018 That's Kalmbach's major failing, IMO. They don't offer their books/annuals as digital back issues. That's because they are not monthly periodicals. I have MRP from 2012 onwards in digital format, because that's when they started providing it like that. Unlike the older magazine issues, these are not simple scans put into a document management tool, and to recreate them as true digital editions would be quite costly. I say that with regret as well as understanding, as I would happily buy (finances permitting!) all those previous issues in digital format - I can download them and read them even when offline, but they will always be there on my account, unlike the back issue magazines which are only there whilst I subscribe. (The ones that were released during my subscription will remain available to me.) This is still streets ahead of Railway Modeller, which although it has a better interface doesn't have the back catalogue available. And MRJ, which has only relatively recently adopted that 1971 technology called email... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted July 21, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2018 Just flagging up, there’s a good article by Peter North in the August 2018 Continental Modeller. A line which he’s made more recently, that I’ve been unaware of, doing the exhibition circuit. HO Rock Island in the prairies, Chica, Illinois. An oval 5’ x 4’, front half scenicked, back half fiddle. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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