After a lot of debate and dis-
cussion, along with consid-
erable thought as to scoring
the submissions, we have our
winners:
Grand Prize:
Don Hanley -
Fort Wayne Union Railway
layout.
First Place:
Douglas Forbes -
Western Expansion layout.
Second Place:
Michael
Brown - N-scale 2x4’ layout.
Third Place:
Ben Kaur -
Xtrack CAD layout.
Honorable mentions ...
Chris DiPaolo - Urban
action:
Clever use of space,
but traction layout is of
limited interest.
John Dimitrievich -
Chicago Fork:
Out-of-the-
box benchwork methods,
provides a lot of layout for
its micro space.
In this issue, we publish the
Grand Prize winner’s entry. In
MRH staff notes - 4
Just remember everything is clickable, so click away! The cover
teasers, the table of contents, the index, and even page refer-
ences in the text are all clickable. You don’t really need page
numbers any longer with a digital publication because it’s easy
to get anywhere you need to go just by clicking.
The one thing that’s always true with change is that it can be
disorienting at first. We’re expecting to get more questions and
some grumbling asking why we couldn’t just leave well enough
alone? Please give it a few issues for you to get used to things.
From the issue assembly side, we’re getting used to the
changes (since we’re a few months into them already with all
the issue planning and article pasteup we’ve been doing) and
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MRH $500 Starter Layout Contest
The MRH $500 Starter Layout Contest
concluded at the end of November, and
we’ve judged the entries. The idea with
this contest, of course, was to see how
clever modelers could be with starter lay-
out ideas. And as a side benefit, the con-
test gives us many small layout articles in
our article backlog for future issues!
Judging criteria included how easy the layout is to build, how
well the design works as a base to build on for the future, how
interesting the layout is (and would it maintain a newbie’s
interest), how much outside-the-box thinking the approach
entails, and how well-prepared as an article is the submission?
MRH-Jan 2013
