The Layout Design SIG's Layout Design Journal #65 is in the mail now. On-line delivery emails are also going out now.This issue includes: Changeable plates allow a layout to go back in modeled era and/or change prototypes for photography. Tips, tricks, and surprises in specifying a layout room in a custom-built home. Design Challenge: model railfanning, public display, scenery presentation, and/or fantasy in any space. Modern-era Switching Challenge layout based on a long-ago Fallen Flag. As seen on tour: Benchwork and Human Factors ideas from NMRA SLC LDSIG tour. Free on-line US topographic map source and use. LDSIG News and announcements, including Board of Directors Election.
You may download a free “Sampler” of a few pages of LDJ-65 and other recent issues.
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The new Design Challenge is open to anyone, not only LDSIG members. I'll post it here in the next week or so.
