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<p>Excellent question, Bob!</p> <p>In my 48 years as a model railroader, I have built 7 layouts. The first one evolved from a Marklin starter set in my teen days and lasted just a couple of years, as I discovered other interest. It was a rather crude layout, toyish looking, with Marklin´s typical tin plate track of those days. No wonder it did not keep my interest for long. I dismantled the layout and sold off all the materials I salvaged.</p> <p>Years later I built a N scale layout, not a big one, just a 2 by 4 roundy-rounder. It was fun to build, but operation was limited, so it had to go. Life got in the way of further activities, so there was a 15 year hiatus from the hobby, well not really. I kept my interest in model railroading, ventured a little into HOn3 after coming home from a year in the States, but did not make it into a layout worth that name. After I founded a family, the interest got rekindled and I ventured into Z scale, only to find out, that this scale was to small to give me that railroad feeling I wanted to have. But the bug had bitten again! I started out building a small HO scale layout of German prototype - just to try my hand on various techniques. It was Marklin again - for reasons of pure nostalgia. I kept it for about 5 years and then it had to make way for some serious model railroading - a small HOn 2 1/2 layout, following a prototype of a place located in the Saxonian mountains. In addition that, a garden layout was built, where I could operate my live steam loco.</p> <p>Both the garden layout and the narrow gauge layout had to go when I lost my job and my house went into foreclosure.</p> <p>I am now back into business, building a small mini-modular layout, which is just pure fun!</p> <p>Although I have always dreamed of building one of those basement filling train empires, I have never actually gotten around to doing it. But guess, what - I have never missed it.! My interest in model railroading covers a wide range and I am afraid I don´t have the energy or the will to stay with one theme over a period of 10 or more years. I am glad that I have come across this concept of mini-modules. Building a single module is a matter of, say, two weekends - not much time is needed to come up with something new. even a complete new layout can be done, without having to sacrifice the old one. The "Big One" has to wait until I grow up - I´ll be turning 55 pretty soon, and chances are minimal that I actually will.</p>
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