Maintaining the Focus on building and operating the Layout

[Andrew Falconer]

This might be something that some people, including myself, need to think about.

Focus on building the layout.

Concentrate on the exact design of add-on benchwork, scenery, and compressed buildings.

Everything on television and most of the radio is a distraction.

DVDs and Plasma TVs will not help you build a toy train railroad.

The layout is what matters. It must be finished first.

A layout can be the center of a great conversation while a DVD and DVD player might lead to arguments.

The electronics that matter are in the locomotives.

[otftch]

I agree with your post but we all have to appease the wives too.

                                                                                           Ed

[palallin]

I'm way ahead of you.  We have two TVs but no connection to the outside world (VCR/DVD capacity), and neither one is int he layout room.  No radio in there, either, though I can listen to CDs/Cassette tapes.  I do not watch television, cable or otherwise, or listen to any radio station unless I am forced to by sircumstances (such as being at the In-laws for holidays).  As bad as the programming is, the commercials are much worse.  I value my brain cells too much to kill them off deliberately.

 

[cnw1995]

This is sort of a personal preference thing, don't you think?. I don't consider myself to be a media king, but I like to listen to the radio while working on the layout - sometimes shortwave too - I actually prefer listening to old-time radio cassettes.

[palallin]

This is sort of a personal preference thing, don't you think?.

 

Of course!  Thus the