A little history

John Allen was a consumate artist and one of his many gifts to to model railroading was the Timesaver layout.

A tightly woven collection of tracks it challenges your ability to move rail cars to their correct locations -- in it's own way as addictive as chess.

The call for information on plans comes up regularly on r-m-r so I thought I would put a page together with pointers to the several locations on the web for information

The List

• Dale Burnett at the University of Lethbridge has an interesting site that outlines some of the basic switching moves
• Scot Osterweil has a good page that provides a trackplan for a  6' by 1' version
• A UK version of the Timesave exists on the Minimum Space Railway Modelling page
• Charlie Comstock actually built a modular diorama using the Timsaver
• Mike Tassano has also created a realistic shelf railroad industrial design for the Timesaver
• Da Trains has an excellent diagram of a Timesaver that is designed for N scale
• Railway Engineering (the home of definite opinions about trackwork and switches) have a picture of a pair of Timesaver layouts
• A Timesaver was incorporated into a 3' by 5' beginner layout in N as well
• Sillub Technologies have a version of the Timesaver for their XTrkCad software
• Challenger Software produced a game called RRSwitch that allowed you to play the Timesave on your computer. Their Compuserve site seems to be a little erratic, but you can order the game here.You can also download it here

Scott Perry,  a fellow r-m-r fan has recently started a Timesaver page too

Update for S & G:  click here for the original and for the show!

Last updated:  March 10, 2001
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