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Issue 41 has Old-time trams in modern streets - the current German scene, billboard reefers, 1920s style, and a Doodlebug conversion. We look at micro layouts and the quest to shrink the Timesaver, Laurie Green’s Old Ophir layout and John Allison’s Shatterstone Freight Depot.

Double ended Doodlebug

Walthers model converted

Blueprint ACF Reefers

Making these well detailed HO models

From Bad to Wurz in Oe

Converting Gnomy coaches for NG use by Jack Trollope

Shoreditch Goods and Coal Depot

Completing the wagon hoist layout

Shatterstone Freight Depot

John Allison’s lightweight British HO layout

Scale Drawings

More from the files of Arthur North

Honey, I shrunk the Timesaver

Ideas from the Internet

Designing Micro Layouts

The principles outlined by Carl Arendt

Old Ophir

Laurie Green’s superb car-portable Rio Grande branch layout

On German Rails 2002

Some observations of the current scene

We also have our regular hobby news and comment, product news and reviews, club news, shows and events, book reviews and readers’ letters. The Hornby ‘Duchess’, Bachmann ‘Russian’ and Walthers Doodlebug are on this issue’s test track.