I am looking for an L-shaped switching HO scale layout that was in the centre of a MR magazine from the early 1990"s. yes, this is vague but I cannot find the magazine in my collection. The layout featured the disappearance of the engine with a couple of cars behind the backdrop in the centre of the plan - behind a couple of buildings. There was a small yard in the shorter section of the layout. I cannot find the plan on the internet or the MR layout database. I would appreciative any help.
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That’s a lot of searching. Anything to narrow it down some more? I’ve noticed that time goes faster than some people think and a lot of times when someone says “it was in the 90’s” it turns out it really was in the 80’s.
One thing that helps is to use an index that really works - the NMRA one for example, while returning results for much more than just MR, also actually has a completely workable search. The results are then returned witht he magazine names in alphabetically order, and then within a magazine name, in date order. “L-shaped switching layout” will probably return hundreds if not thousands of results but you can scroll down to the Model Railroader section and then look at the dates and see if the title or author sound familiar.
You may be thinking of Joe Taylor’s track plan in the October 1994 MR, page 82. 9’X12’ in HO. Generally, plans of the early-to-mid 1990s won’t be in the database.
Yes, although it’s a bit ungainly as drawn. I drew my first N scale plan using X-Factor staging a few months after this article came out. I didn’t remember the Joe Taylor article at the time, but it may have been in my subconscious.