>>1103870You turbo-autists might be able to help me here:
I'm wondering if someone, anyone had or knew where to get a copy of an old Model Railroading magazine from the early 90's. In it, there was an article that from my studies, was about Mike Hurlburt and a small tabletop N-scale layout that he built involving a fictional branchline set in Southern New England called the Trap and Garnet Ridge that interfaced with late-70's/early 80s Conrail.
I remembered reading this issue as a little kid and thinking that it had to be one of the /comfy/-iest model train layouts that I'd ever seen. I'm from New England, and the idea of modeling a sleepy branchline snaking through the hills of some small old mill town just gives me the feels like nothing else.
I chased that feel, and the images in my head of a red-and-yellow U23B hauling boxcars out of an old factory and across a wooden bridge, and was able to chase down the name of the layout and the rough time period in which it was built and written about.
From there, though, I'm stuck, and I'd love to get my hands on that article or see if anyone here could find it and scan/upload it or anything else written about that specific layout, as it's one with a vibe that I really would like to try and replicate for an art project that I want to get started on.
