Great things in small packages
WE DON’T PLAN to give a theme to each year’s edition of Great Model Railroads. We simply pick the best layout articles to come across our desk. Sometimes, though, a theme happens to emerge on its own. This year, it seems the theme is compact layouts. Now, we’re aware that small model railroads are a popular topic with our readers; we’ve published issues of Model Railroader collecting several articles on that topic. But we swear it didn’t occur to us until we saw this issue’s articles pinned up on the meeting room walls that we noticed so many of the layouts were spare-room-sized or smaller. We didn’t plan it that way, I swear. But if we had planned this issue to prove the idea that small model railroads can be great model…