Two prominent Forum members, Chugman and Spence, are knee deep into the process of making changes to their layouts. Art is overhauling his intermodal yard to align it's use more in keeping with how he wants to operate his railroad in the future. For Spence, it is a total redo. I applaud each one of these members projects as they translate into their desires to make improvements to their layouts.
Most of us are constantly re-evaluating what we have and thinking of ways to make our layouts better. Changes can be big or small, but always with a goal of improving our layouts.
A couple of years ago, we decided to make some major changes to our layout. What we accomplished turned out to be absolutely for the better. Since then, we have talked about what areas could be improved and brought into line more in keeping with our current goals for the layout.
The availability of new products also can have an influence on potential changes to layouts. The Harry Heike GCT base is a classic example of a new product that warranted changes to the layout to accommodate it. In this case, it took a beautiful Terminal and the area it occupies on the layout to a totally new level of elegance.
Here is a chance for you to tell us if you have plans to make changes to your layouts and what is the motivation behind this. Should be interesting to learn how many Forum members this may apply to.
