MR has been using a portion of a cool layout plan in their magazine ads - see page 65 of the November 2012 issue. Can anyone help me identify this plan? It looks like it would fit my space, but it would be nice to see the entire plan. I looked through all 664 plans in the track plan database and could not find it. Can someone please help? Thanks very much!
It is the Fiddletown and Great Divide RR from the January 2010 issue.
It is in the track plan database, but appears sideways not vertically as in the ad.
Enjoy
Paul
Thanks Paul!! I found it - I had actually already saved the plan to my PC, I just couldn’t identify it. And it does fit my space perfectly.
- Kevin
Just looked at the track plan - nice!
The narrow gauge portion was obviously very heavily influenced by the John Armstrong Hardscrabble and Golconda track plan - the wye into hidden staging even indicates “Hardscrabble,” but Golconda has somehow transmogrified into Fallburg.
Whoever applied the names must have taken pun-fabrication 101 from Spider Robinson - except that some go well back in model railroading history. Bill McClanahan had Collier Bluff on his layout, Wiggley came from the John Armstrong plan I cited. I can’t place Crimea River but remember having seen it before.
Bad puns aside, the whole looks to be very workable as an operation-influenced plan.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in somewhat similar fashion)
Thanks Chuck! I did wonder about some of the names. Now I have another track plan to find - I have most of the books with Armstrong’s plans, so I will take a look…