Reply to "Lost the fun...need a remedy???"

Wow, I understand where you are, however you’ve got many friends in the hobby , via this wonderful OGR Forum, with fantastic ideas for your consideration, and I wonder if you have a peer group in your area, 100 mile radius, of friends that have layouts?  I’m in Clarksville Tennessee and within a 100 mile radius, Nashville, Tn., Madisonville Ky., Owensboro Ky., Evansville In., and just a bit further Louisville Ky., there’s a great many friends with layouts, from medium, to huge that are fun to visit. This pandemic has really stopped our visiting each other however by staying at home, it’s created great timing to work on our trains and read the OGR Forum news. My layout is a Looney mixture of non-scale, some scale like things, snow village, and Lionel accessories, a dukes mixture of things, but they are all fun. My layouts name is “Leapin Larry’s Looney Lines RR”, THE QUAD L SYSTEM, simply fun to run. Now it’s all Lionels Legacy controlled, track, trains, switches, etc., so, I recommend you pick a Control System of your choice, Lionel, MTH.  A friend one time told me, “an inch is a cinch, so, find a beginning spot, go slow and get to work. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, we understand.