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HO Scale (16.5mm gauge)
Inspired by an Iain Rice design in
Model Railroad Planning
2003
, John Peckham’s 1x6-foot Rockport Maine features a
“picture frame” to set off the layout and direct the audience’s
attention. John operates with a card order car-routing system
that makes good use of the hidden dropleaf fiddle yard to the
left of the layout. He also uses ambient sound, with ocean and
countryside noises coming from four speakers hidden behind
the upper valence.
Sn2 Scale (9mm gauge)
Russ Haigh built
The Cavorite Tram,
a 20x30” narrow-
gauge railway, some-
time around 1995.
It’s built on three
layers of Foamcore
board glued to a
frame of 2” thick
pink insulating foam.
The little 1:64 tram serves a mine for cavorite, a mineral invent-
ed by H.G. Wells that has the uncanny ability to fall upwards.
Wells used it to power a flight to the moon. Russ’s pike includes
Minimum space layouts - 4
MRH-Sep 2014
