Forum 10x12 layout design contest - results

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Voting on the 10x12 layout design contest has now ended.

A total of 38 people have posted their votes:

Autobus Prime
beegle55
BurbankAV
chadw
ChrisNH
colvinbackshop
Conrail5
dhilyer
DigitalGriffin
dmitzel
Driline
garya
gcri
HO_Greg
Hoople
innocent_gentleman
IRONROOSTER
Johnnny_reb
last mountain & eastern hogger
mammay76
marknewton
NevinW
OzarkBelt
P & LE RR
rfross
rs2mike
saronaterry
secondhandmodeler
snagletooth
SpaceMouse
stebbycentral
steinjr
stilson4283
Texas Zepher
tomikawaTT
vsmith
wheeler
wm3798

Each voter was asked to liste his or her #1 favorite overall, #2 favorite overall and #3 favorite overall, plus “best H0 scale layout” and “best N scale layout”. #1 favorite got 5 points, #2 favorite got 3 points and #3 favorite got 1 point.

Not everybody followed the instructions litterally, so a few voters only listed their favorite layout, not the three best, and a few did not list their favorite H0 and favorite N scale layout.

But here are the results:

Overall favorite among submitted layouts:

Place

Layout plan

Points

Comment

No 1:

Kintetsu Utsube Line

51

8 #1 votes, 2 #2 votes, 5 #1 votes

No 2:

Buffalo and Susquehanna

50

4 #1 votes, 9 #2 votes, 3 #1 votes

(DQ)

Snover and Port Fuller

46

5 #1 votes, 5 #2 votes, 3 #1 votes, oversize relative to contest rules

No 3:
2

Thanks Stein

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Great Contest!! some great layout designs, definately gets the brain going for layout ideas!! Can’t wait for the next one…[;)]

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Congradualtions to the winners.

Also I want to point out that the Snover and Port Fuller was an excellent design and may have taken the whole ball of wax except for a slight Boo-boo.

IN the Layout Forum there is a decompression session for the entrants.

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Bump for your viewing pleasure

6

I think next time I’ll design my layout more geared toward advanced modelers instead of newbies.

So what’s next Chip? Unlimited size contest?

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That’s what we should talk about in the decompression session in the Layout’s section.

And yes, some of the voters seem pretty sophisticated.

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5th place?, not bad for renegade scale![:D]

2800 views…38 voters.[sigh]

Chip, how about including the authors name next to the entrys name, so we know who did what?