Hi Genosharp, Judging from your avatar photo and your introductory message, it looks like you made it out of duty and into retirement perky and safe-and-sound. Good! Great! Lordknowz, the badguys are always lurking, so to have a law enforcement person joining our hobby and this forum seems, to me, to be a good and welcome occasion.
Indeed, have fun.
If you would like, at some point, to post a photo of the space/place you have in mind to mount a model train layout, you would likely get numerous first-replies. (We like photos.)
FrankM