{"id":500,"date":"2012-09-14T21:36:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T01:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallmodelrailroads.wordpress.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-06-18T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T16:09:53","slug":"carlarendt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/carlarendt\/","title":{"rendered":"I Miss Carl Arendt!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"II miss\u00a0Carl Arendt! His writings on small and micro layouts at\u00a0http:\/\/www.carendt.com\/<\/a>\u00a0changed my view of Model Railroading forever.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over several years I had attempted to build a few different layouts and all ended with a semi-constructed “plywood central” that did not satisfy or keep my attention. Each time I would get so far and then finally decide after months\/years of tinkering the design was not doing it for whatever reason. I liked Model Railroading, but for some reason i just could not see a plan through.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been interested in Model Railroading since I was a kid in the 1970’s.All the US magazines and books I read always\u00a0referred\u00a0to the large basement empires. I always assumed that is what you did, build a layout that fills all the available space and ask for more.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Carl's<\/a>
Carl’s “Peek’s Pike”, click to see the article on Carl’s site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2009 I was doing research for yet another new layout. This time I knew I needed to scale back and designed a modular\u00a0shelf layout so I could work on it in pieces (and maybe finish one for a change). It was still large and went all the way around my workshop. I had designed the\u00a0shelves\u00a0with integral backgrounds and lighting. Little did I know I had re-invented the\u00a0$100 dollar module<\/a>\u00a0with my shelf design. I was having trouble with proper lighting and was doing research on the web when I stumbled across\u00a0Carl’s site<\/a>.<\/span>
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\"Carl's<\/a>
Carl’s Square Foot Gn15 Layout, click to go to article on Carl’s site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carl’s site<\/a>\u00a0was amazing! I quickly learned that it did not have to be large to do what I wanted. Everything I had learned from all those US based magazines was out the window. It was like my eyes had been opened to a whole new world! I began focusing on small layouts I could finish and did. Now I can model in multiple scales, locations and industries. I can take my layouts on the road and share it with others. the real key is that I can finish it in a reasonable amount of time.\u00a0<\/span>
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\"Carl's<\/a>
Carl’s Sap Line, click to see article on Carl’s site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sadly<\/span>, Carl passed away in 2011 and many in the model railroad hobby world felt the pain of losing a true pioneer in the hobby. His\u00a0site\u00a0<\/a>has been saved by volunteers in order to save his work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I miss\u00a0Carl Arendt! His writings on small and micro layouts at\u00a0http:\/\/www.carendt.com\/\u00a0changed my view of Model Railroading forever.\u00a0 Over several years I had attempted to build…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-layout-spotlight","wpcat-28-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e6yk-84","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":398,"url":"https:\/\/smallmr.com\/wordpress\/layout-composition-and-design-concepts\/","url_meta":{"origin":500,"position":0},"title":"Layout Composition and Design Concepts","author":"Marshall Stull","date":"September 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This post marks the one year anniversary of the Small Model Railroad web site. 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