| 8 Realistic Track Plans For A Spare Room |  | Author: Lance Mindheim
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Pages: 56
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.1
ISBN: 1448612993
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9781448612994
ASIN: 1448612993
Publication Date: June 10, 2009
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Featured inside are eight creative track plan ideas for your typical spare room. Each plan is designed to be easy to build, fun to operate, and visually inspiring. Explore themes such as a Milwaukee Road branch line, a Maine shortline, an Appalachian coal branch, the fictional Tulsa Belt and more!
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 8 Really Realistic Track Plans February 11, 2010
Robert J. Miller (Antioch, IL USA)
Lance has provided well researched prototype short line branchs and selected specific feature towns, and industries in all his track plans. The features are geared to keep your interest once the layouts are built as well as generate enthusiasm for building them. He also makes sound suggestions on how to research prototype track plans via the internet to create your own track plans. He really knows what model railroading is all about in having all aspects of fun. I plan to build one of the plans from this book in the near future. It may be pricy, but I feel it is worth it! I strongly suggest you read Lance's other recent books for more ideas.
 Derailed January 23, 2010
Richard Stein
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not what I expected. The book is poorly written, badly photographed, contains little not covered better in other sources & is greatly overpriced. I returned it.
8 Realistic Track Plans for a Spare Room by Lance Mindheim December 10, 2009
Fredrick C. G. Scheer (Maryland)
Represents remarkable value. Mr. Mindheim gives you a rich palette of construction-ready, operations-ready layouts to choose from, using crystal clear graphics and augmented with straightforward, high-quality guidance without excess drivel, just what you need to get it started, built, and running. These railroads are for modelers looking for advanced design and yet are "doable" in every way, even for a novice.
Part of doing a layout instead of just dreaming about one is getting in touch with what is reasonably possible in your modest space. Accordingly, Mindheim shares his discipline: (1) to put aside childish notions of huge empires in your crawl space or laundry room, and (2) to get yourself focused on what you can do to achieve a state-of-the-art rail operations platform. Having said that, any of these layouts could become a branch within a larger model railroad system.
The plans are complete (with an inventory of track and switches you'll need, and showing principal structures you'll want), operationally elegant, and sophisticated, doing railroading patterned on the real thing, no silly switching puzzles and other toy train stuff in here. This is the best layout book I've seen in four decades of model railroading. You'll be pleased.
Layout Design For the Real World November 16, 2009
Paul Boehlert (Atlanta, GA USA)
It's tempting to think of Lance Mindheim's book "8 Realistic Track Plans For a Spare Room" as strictly appealing to the small-layout fans among us, but I think it's got a lot to say to every student of model railroad design. The railroads in this book are modest and attainable, firmly based in the prototype,operationally interesting and refreshingly free from the gimmicks and gadgets that seem to teem in other current trackplans.
The book itself is a simple soft-cover of 56 pages which includes 22 color photos and 12 diagrams, both trackplans and construction diagrams. One minor but much appreciated feature; smooth-finish uncoated page stock is used, making it easy to write notes and marginalia. A yellow data block accompanies each plan, with dimensions, curve radii and other vital info. Pretty standard, but appreciated nonetheless. My one gripe is with the perfect binding--opening the book flat on the workbench (it is essentially a workbook, after all) will likely result in damage to the spine and possible loss of pages.
Perhaps the greatest value of this book is the support and validation it provides to the 'average model railroader'. The model press features large, elaborate layouts, as it should; such endeavors are inspiring and contain lots of great ideas. But most of us are far more humble in our vision, and Lance's books and articles serve as a continuing reminder that small and relatively uncomplicated layouts can be just as absorbing and fulfilling as the gymnasium-sized railroads. I'm considering two of the trackplans in this book for my next layout project. There's no higher accolade a planbook can receive than that.
Great book with good ideas September 20, 2009
Paul Cottingham
I really enjoyed reading this book. As a person who would normally create overly complex layouts, this book gave me some great ideas for simple, operations oriented layouts for a small room.
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