Learn new approaches to the "good, old 4 x 8" layout. Expert track planner Iain Rices gives you two plans for a waterfront railroad, and Bryon Henderson's Houston Terminal shows you a 4 x 8 plan that includes hidden staging. For narrow gauge fans there's an On2½ plan that divides a plywood sheet into two different scenes. In the last article Model Railroader associate editor Steve Otte describes three different ways to cut a plywood sheet to get three very different track plans.
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