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Ian gives us the how to on this
neat little layout:
Wold Farm mushrooms is the result of
a lot of disparate thoughts whirling around in my head and coming
together in a strange way to produce a layout. How these ideas
produce themselves I don't know but all of a sudden one day I
was having visions of a 9" gauge railway line serving a
mushroom farm in a disused tunnel in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
Mushroom Farms in disused railway tunnels are quite common. What
really excited me was the idea of a miniature railway locomotve
coming out of a Standard gauge railway tunnel. Why the Lincolnshire
Wolds? I'm a born and bred Lincolnshire yellowbelly. I pretty
quickly put the visions down on paper and made it fit a 4' x
2' baseboard. Then something else happenned. I joined the rmweb forum
on the internet. They were having a competition to build a layout
in under 6 square feet. I refigured the plan to come in under
6 square feet. Why the unusual shape? I shamelessly cribbed the
shape from another entrant. I was becoming very disenchanted
with square baseboard layouts at the time and needed something
different. This shape really fired my imagination. So here's
a few shots of the development of the layout
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