Bob's Track Plans

Dave had his benchwork completed—like a piece of fine furniture—when he came to me for the design of his N scale railroad. Originally...

David has a substantial collection of superdetailed and lit buildings, so we prioritized fitting them in to this modest footprint. The...

Bob wanted to pack as much operation as possible into his 5x12' island pike. The result, based loosely on the Western Maryland in and...

It was an unusual shape - 4x14' island, with a couple of columns smack in the middle. But I think we made it work. I found the town of...

Here's an unusual one: a small double deck design. No room for a helix; Rav uses a cassette to stage cars and transfer them from lower...

This compact design uses two hollow-core doors arranged into an "L" but – like Norm Wolf's Bowman Center, which inspired it - a cassette...

It's only 6x8', but it packs in three railroads, interchange, an intermodal yard, auto unloading, staging, and a few industries to boot. ...

A mini-sized layout fitting a number of craftsman kits into a 5x7' space. Download PDF

After relocating to an apartment, Norm had to restrict his layout to the size of two hollow core doors. He identified the Bowman Center,...

While working on John's home layout we did a modular version of the same prototype for his Scout troop to build. This 8-module plan is ...