02-16-2014, 10:00 AM
There's an article in the February 2014 RMC that really caught my eye by a guy who built a 4x 6 layout with/for his son, now 11. The whole thing seems to be very well done, and it gets a lot of good use from the space, as far as I can see (I wish there were more photos of the layout). He says he used the Atlas "Dispatcher's Delight" layout, but RMC didn't publish the plan (you can find it at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.atlasrr.com/code100web/pages/10002.htm">http://www.atlasrr.com/code100web/pages/10002.htm</a><!-- m --> ). The boy seems very happy with the layout, the dad seems to be too, and it looks like they have a very good mutual activity. This is an argument for the traditional hobby and the nuclear family! (My own dad didn't appreciate my company all that much, and my parents hated the idea that I "never outgrew playing with trains". That's one lucky family.)