Looking for old small track plan


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JWoodside

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I'm looking for a old "Award Winning" small track plan, probably 20-25 years old. As I remember it was an HO or possibly a N Scale layout on 4x4. It was a continious 3 loop layout with a bridge crossing over one loop and the other two loops intersected at a 20 to 30 degree crossing. As I remember there was only one turn out for a short siding. It was cute with at least one tunnel. I have done endless searches on the web and not found anything. Does anyone remember this layout and have a diagram??
 
This is the closest I found.
 

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JWoodside said:
That's IT!!! I looked for several days on line and didn't find it. Where was that published? Thank again for you help I really appreciate it and my Grand kids will as well.
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The "trick" for this layout is the 15 degree crossing for one of the loops rather than a bridge crossing. That is why I love the 101 Book as well as the Atlas Track Plans for HO Scale Railroads books. Almost every layout has some little trick like that, which can be used in layouts of any size.
 
I wanted to make something for my Grand Kids that would be easy to run yet interesting. I'll probably leave out a couple turnouts and leave the double turnout in the lower left hand corner. I thought this layout fit the bill perfectly
 
I've always wanted to make that layout, just never got around to it. I was thinking about it when I did this one. It is the smallest I've ever done. It is 32 x 36 I think. 15" radius other than the 18" for the turnout and the curve directly accross from it to make the geometry match. Don't even remember why I did it now. Think it was for some display (note the location for the power supply on the bottom right). There were going to be six or so photo locations, but didn't get it done in time, so here it sits unfinished.
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kjd said:
I'm not sure Model Railroader would appreciate you putting copies of their book online. It was last printed in 2019 so I'm sure it's still available.
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I think they know already, this is from Trains.com website.

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