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Here is what I did with my layout, maybe you can take some inspiration. First I spent a lot of time coming up with major alternate ways to use the space I had to get the empire I wanted. To do this, I only played with benchwork design and a "simple" mainline for quite a while... at least a year actually. <br /> <br />Once I had that settled, I built the benchwork and I had a rough idea of what I wanted, but really only the mainline and where what might go, but I had no plan of track anywhere. Then I started in one area and looked at other layouts to inspire me in that one area only. Once I had something, I laid the track for that area - this gave me more experience of what would fit where. I had to give up some things because my dreams where larger than my layout. Once I had the first area done, I examined the second area, became inspired, laid track for that and moved on. <br /> <br />In fact, my track plan won't be done until the layout track is almost all in. You don't need to have an entire layout planned, just lay some track to get the feel of it and see how much can be fit into an area - this experience will be invaluable as you go along.
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