One of John’s two designs was “The Central Minnesota Railroad,” a tabletop railroad with 24-inch minimum radii. John rotated the center line of the layouts’ footprints 45-degrees and chose the title, “On the Bias.” Armstrong designed two track plans for the September 1953 issue.
A frequent contributor was John Armstrong, an undisputed genius of model railroad planning. A John Armstrong inspired layout: In March of 1952 Model Railroader magazine began a series called Track Plan of the Month.
