Saturday, July 10, 2021

LDJ-69: Coal-hauling and Compact Layouts

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After a much-longer-than-expected wait, I'm happy to have Layout Design Journal #69 published, complete with three terrific layout stor...
Friday, June 25, 2021

5 Days $49, Then 4 Weeks Free

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 There’s still time to sign up for a terrific on-line event: the 2021 Rails by the Bay NMRA Convention . Clinics, panels, layout tours, eve...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Make Only New Mistakes Video

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A recording is now available of the LDSIG’s Make Only New Mistakes clinic offered via Zoom last November. It’s a distillation of the four-...
Monday, December 28, 2020

LDJ-68 – Railfan, Display, Scenery, and Fantasy Themes

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After a much-longer-then-expected delay, Layout Design Journal #68 is being distributed now. It includes: Beautiful On30 display layout rec...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

LDJ-67: Multi-deck layouts large and small; Manitoba branch line; more

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The most recent Layout Design Journal published by the Layout Design SIG brings together a nice variety of articles (including a couple ...
Sunday, December 08, 2019

LDJ-66: Structures and Switching; Bridge Selection; G&D Challenge; more

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I enjoyed working on the latest Layout Design Journal, being delivered to Layout Design SIG members by surface mail and email now. This i...
Friday, November 01, 2019

New LDJ Design Challenge: RDSF

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Attention layout planners! For the next Layout Design Journal Challenge we’re asking designers to create track plans and stories for publica...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Changeable Plates, Building Rooms, more in LDJ-65

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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 inc...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

Death of Expertise, Part 2

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For those keeping score at home, we can now add “International Trade and Tariffs” to the list of things that people on Model Train Forums th...
Monday, June 10, 2019

See You in Salt Lake City

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I’m excited to be participating in the Salt Lake City NMRA convention beginning July 7. Seth Neumann and I will be presenting the Layout ...