@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:Don, you just made my day. My overall dimensions will be similar to yours. And I know I can carve out a suitable facility. Please post additional photos!
Thanks
Jay
Well, the last thing I would recommend is copying anything I have done! I have taken every shortcut possible and thrown standards out the door. Not good. Last night I almost finished laying out the service area. I have done the whole layout by eye--no computer and hardly any pencil or paper. I bought all the track and switches I thought I'd need and just started laying them out on the platform. I've had to rip things out and re-do things sometimes. But overall it hasn't gone too badly.
Lots of bridges. But the part that got cut from my original goals was staging. I was originally going to have staging yards under the layout. But I just decided my tired old 67 year old body would not enjoy the work. So I gave up staging. I suspect that decision will make operations shall we say....uh...."less interesting" than they otherwise could have been. But I just couldn't face the "under the table" work. L-A-Z-Y-r-me.
My primary goal is simple--to get it into the fun-to-run stage before I meet my maker. I don't expect it will ever be done, nor do I want it to be. I like building. So Lord please just let me run some trains and smell the smoke and hear the 567's whine. I'll be fine with that.
Don
