Hi Everyone, I was wondering what everyone would do if today was your first day of O gauge model railroading. How would you do it differently or would you not change a thing? For me, I would keep the Milwaukee Road as my prime railroad and keep the time period late 50's, early 60's with all diesel. I would stick with Atlas track, TMCC/Legacy and DCS and all scale equipment. I would put more railroad signals and crossing gates on the layout. More sidings for passing. A more prototypical freight yard that I would actually use for switching and classification. Possibly a multi-level layout with more independent loops. What would this change? Not too much except I would not have spent a lot of money on items that I didn't need. I would have more than 2 trains running at the same time.
The most important thing I would do is have a layout design prior to putting the first screw into the framework. I would also have a wiring schematic along with the wire, signals and anything else needed for that segment of model railroading. Every area of the layout would be accessible without the use of walk-unders, ladders or any other means of reaching.
This is not at all a condemnation of my current layout. IMHO I believe mine is very good (which I'm sure we all do). These are mostly observations for a "what if" scenario should a rebuild become a reality. Let me know what you would do if you could or would start over.
