4 x 8 Layout Contest

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Welcome Judges to the 2007 4x8 Design Contest.

Please choose your top 5 favorites and rank them from 1 to 5. List them by layout name. Click on the thumbnail for a larger picture and description.

Based upon your rankings, they will receive points as follows: (You don’t need to do this. We will do this at the end of the contest.)

First Place 9 points
Second Place 7 point
Third Place 5 Points
Fourth Place 3 Points
Fifth Place 1 Point

After 1 week the scores will be added and the winner announced with appropriate fanfare.

See the Layouts

Voting ends Dec. 4

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The whole time I was programming the site, I never really evaluated the layouts. So here goes since no one else wants to start the ball rolling. I found it easy to cut and paste off the voting page.

  1. Du Bois and Punxzy
  2. Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad
    3. Rader Authority Of Transit (RAT Lines)
    4.Selkirk & Pacific Ry
    5. Ward City Mead & Eckley
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Here are my votes:

  1. Turkey Trail Railroad
  2. Du Bois and Punxzy
  3. Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad
  4. Rader Authority Of Transit
  5. Selkirk & Pacific Ry

Stein

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  1. Turkey Trail RR

  2. Loopy Bridge & Terminal RR

  3. Selkirk & Pacific RR

  4. Du Bois and Punxzy

  5. Newport Northern

Rick

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My votes below.

  1. Venango and Erie

  2. RAT Lines

  3. Loup Creek

  4. Ward City

  5. Du Bois and Punxzy

Enjoy

Paul

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I won’t vote for my own, so my rank-ordering is as follows (they were all nice layouts, and I don’t say this as a smarmy “attaboy” to all participants):

  1. Du Boise and Punxzy

  2. Whisper River

  3. Loopy Bridge and Terminal

  4. Ward City Mead & Eckley

  5. Venango & Erie.

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My Votes

1 Ward City Mead & Eckley

2 Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad

3 Whisper River

4 Becket & Berkshires

5 Du Bois and Punxzy

I like the Du Bois and Punxzy but i don’t see how once a train leaves the yard

how it returns without backing all the way around the layout

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  1. DuBois

  2. Loupy

  3. Vanango

  4. Selkirk

  5. RAT

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Folks:

Selector’s not kidding; it’s hard to pick 5. These are nice plans.

We should have contests like this regularly.

1 - RAT Lines.

2 - Whisper River.

3 - DB & P.

4 - Turkey Trail

5 - Sierra Mesa Southwestern

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Nice job mouse. Ok here is what i voted for

newport

dubois and punxzy

whisper river

ward

radar

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Here are my selections:

  1. Du Bois and Punxzy
  2. Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad
  3. Turkey Trail Railroad
  4. Venango & Erie
  5. Sierra Mesa Southwestern
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Chip: Check your PM

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You asked for it!

  1. DuBois and Punxzy
  2. Whisper River (is my gauge bias showing?)
  3. Loopy Bridge and Terminal
  4. Ward City, Mead and Eckley
  5. RAT Lines

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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My choices:

1st #10 Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad

2nd #12 Ward City Mead & Eckley

3rd #4 Du Bois and Punxzy

4th #6 Turkey Trail Railroad

5th #8 Sierra Mesa Southwestern

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Hello they are all very good ideas.

1 newport northen

2 rat lines

3 dubois & punxzy

4 loop creek

5 whisper river

Frank

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Great job on the layouts. Liked them all! Great effort.

  1. Newport Northern

  2. Turkey Trail

  3. RAT

  4. Whisper River

  5. Sierra Western

The Du Bois and Punxzy looked pretty well planned out, but it was a little crowded and the roads seemed a little tacky, but just not my type of layout.

-beegle55

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  1. RAT Lines

  2. Newport Northern

  3. Loopy Bridge and Terminal Railroad

  4. Ward City Mead & Eckley

  5. Turkey Trail Railroad

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Chip,

Check your PMs.

Don Z.

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Just did a quick tally of the first 15 votes.

There is a couple of voters which hasn’t used the complete name of the layout copied and pasted from Spacemouse’s web page, and whose votes may consquently be open to interpretation, but this is what I think the running tab is after 15 votes:

Smile,
Stein

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There is only one I liked so far:

Venango and Erie

That layout would be perfect if there was a run around somewhere on the road.

The others, I have not formed enough study to choose and rank yet. I will continue to work towards ranking the other 4.