This track is perfect for someone who has no room for a track, yet wants a track to run his trains.  It is literally only 3 feet by 9 inches when folded up, and it sits neatly on a shelf, ready to go.  When folded up, it looks kind of nice, and yet is totally portable so you can take it anywhere at a moment's notice.  It fits five cars and one switcher locomotive, has one mainline and three branches, each with a potential industry for dropping off and picking up cars.  And you can make it a game of sorts, where you switch out cars from the mainline to the industries in a most efficient and timely manner - hence the name "Timesaver".

The October 1976 Model Railroader Magazine had an article on how to build a Timesaver using Atlas Snap-Track.  The board can fold up making it compact and portable.  So that is what I did.  Looking back, I probably would have made two small changes.  First, I would have taken a 6' board, cut it in half, and cut one of those in half to make the board and its folding sections.  It's simple and fast to do, and the track can be made to fit once the boards are cut.  And secondly, I would have used Flex Track and just cut it to length rather than using all those short pieces and curves they have listed.  Again, it's simpler than their method, and you can cut it and curve it to whatever shape and length it needs to be and avoid having to piecemeal a bunch of pieces together to get the right fit and shape needed.