Please excuse my mess. These are some pictures of my crappy basement layout. please feel free to critique it, but i'm not starting over this should be the last O -Gauge layout I will ever build.
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Looks good to me. Good to see you at Edison. See you at York.
Dave, I don't see a disaster at all. Looks like a fun layout. If I showed mine....now that's a disaster. In fact it's a plaster disaster. Hundreds and hundreds of pounds of rock plaster. Don
It looks better than my layout - much better.
NH Joe
Dave, that is wonderful! I love it. All that matter is you like it and have fun with it.
I personally love the "crappy basement layouts". They are my favorite.
Nice job
What disaster are you talking about? Looks like a totally cool layout to me, one folks would love to have. I give you a thumbs up, my man !
Scrappy
that looks great!
Nothing wrong with your layout. Looks pretty darn good to me.........Paul
Steve Musso posted:Looks good to me. Good to see you at Edison. See you at York.
At least the DCS works!
(thanks for programing it!)
Looks very good. I even spotted a support beam from the Roller Coaster Tycoon building set. Do you have the coaster setup on the layout? I would love to see a photo of it. I have the same set, it takes up a lot of real estate. Which is why mine is packed away in a closet.
i like the haunted house area!
Looks nice, enjoy it! It has everything, track and trains and scenery
Your layout looks great!
The best part you are having fun!
Enjoy.
Mike McCutcheon posted:Looks very good. I even spotted a support beam from the Roller Coaster Tycoon building set. Do you have the coaster setup on the layout? I would love to see a photo of it. I have the same set, it takes up a lot of real estate. Which is why mine is packed away in a closet.
Hi Mike!, You have a good eye on the coaster set. Mine is just there for show as I had to modify it to fit it in the space I had and the coaster keeps getting "hung up". I would like to replace it with a Coaster Dynamix Mine Train as I think that would fit in the space allotted.
You have Krispy Kream Donuts!!
Crappy? It looks fantastic! Thanks for posting.
Hal
The disaster is there are not more pictures of it. 
FWIW. First, I like all the busy trackage and colorful structures on your layout. I don't see a mess. I see a fun place to escape to and run trains.
However. Is there is something mysterious lurking in your post Dave? You wrote that you "are not starting over", but then followed it up with "this should be the last o gauge layout I will ever build" . I wonder if you, like me a couple years ago, have a pebble in your shoe that is bothering you and the discomfort is growing to the point that you want some changes, but don't want to go through the disruption and what might be a lot of work. When I redid my layout starting a couple of years ago, I left the basic benchwork track design the same except for a few important doable changes that made a pretty big difference for me in operations. It did take a lot of time for me but it was worth it.
I seldom went down to the basement to run trains for a while because I disliked what I saw on my layout. It was a mental block. So if you are still having fun with things as they are, and I hope you are, then that's what counts. If you want to get rid of the pebble, now or later, that's OK as well. I hope to see more of your layout.
Are you modeling an earthquake in the picture with a wood-framed building under construction?
Looks like a nice layout to me.
