Micro Layouts

For the model railroader who has no space for a massive layout featuring the New York Central mainline from Albany to Chicago, there is hope: micro layouts.

Personally, I LOVE the idea of small, simple layouts that attempt to capture the flavor of a particular time or place, rather than an attempt to recreate mainline railroading.



For those of you who are interested in finding out what can be done in a REALLY small space (four square feet or less!) I highly recommend Carl Arendt's Small Layout Scrapbook web-zine and his Micro Layout Design Gallery. An interesting article by Carl about American micro layouts can be found here.

There is a complete index for all the issues of Small Layout Scrapbook. Well worth taking the time to go through!

I'm seriously considering my own micro layout, to be about 9" wide by about 8' long...a bit bigger than most micro layouts, but offering a little more operation than usual.

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