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HO scale 9×5 track plan

Manny’s HO scale 9×5 track plan makes the most of his space: You can see the picture’s of Manny’s 9×5 track plan here. If you read Manny’s narrative there’s some great take aways too. Guess when he started this layout? In the 70s! It’s a great example of two things: Firstly, a layout is never …

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6×4 track plan

Jim’s 6×4 track plan is simple but looks great fun: You can see the picture of this 6×4 track plan here. As you’ll read, I’m often saying track plans with a theme always turn out better than the ones that don’t. Jim used his interest in local history to put create his imaginary ‘Holland Odessa …

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8×4 HO scale track plan

Jim’s been in touch with his 8×4 HO scale track plan. You can see pics of how he’s getting on with his layout here. Jim’s modeling the late transition era of his childhood in the 1950s and 1960s, for the Southern Railway in the southeast corner of my state, and a non-prototypical branch line called …

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8×4 HO track plan

Cal’s 8×4 HO track plan really does fit a lot in to small space – but I think it works really well. You can see his layout pics here. For this layout, I used Atlas code 83 track. Below are the part numbers (I forgot about the buffers in the track plan diagram). Now let’s …

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