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Hello All --

Just a note to let you know about some small layout articles in the
April Model Railroader:

The cover story features a very nicely done "large" small layout --
an 8'×8' based on a published trackplan.

There's also an article on fitting 4×8 and 5×9 layouts with along-the-
walls shelf extesnions into typical small bedrooms.

I don't subscribe to MR and only pick up issues when they have
something interesting that stands out, so I was unaware that MR was
running a "small layout contest".

I have not been paying a lot of attention to the hobby press in the
last year or two, but within the issues of MR and MRP that I have
picked up in the last three months, there does seem to be a lot of
press on smaller layouts lately.

Anyone else notice this too?

Thanks --

Jon Piasecki
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--- In small-layout-design@y..., jonp@b... wrote:

I have not been paying a lot of attention to the hobby press in the
last year or two, but within the issues of MR and MRP that I have
picked up in the last three months, there does seem to be a lot of
press on smaller layouts lately.

Anyone else notice this too?

Thanks --

Firstly let me commend Jon on a great idea for a layout design group.
I too find the signal to noise ratio on the LDSIG to be worse than
normal lately and the RMR newsgroup is insane at times. Cudos for
going public.

I have been struggling with a space for my layout and have resigned
myself to using the dark dank basement. I have a space about 16x13.
That is not all that small but I have decided to keep my layout small
due to cost considerations. Which brings me to my main point.

I am pleased with the attention small layouts have been recieving in
the press. Smaller means less expensive and quicker to build. I know I
am in it for the long term but for a man with a young family, mortgage
and car payment, the basement empire may be too much too soon. It
would be a shame to loose a potentially prolific modeler after the
interest wanes due to a lumbering mass of expensive layout that never
seems to be finished.