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[quote user="cascadenorthernrr"] After staring at a blank sheet of paper for long enough I finally came up with this. <img style="width:704px;height:auto;display:inline;" src="http://mediaprocessor.websimages.com/fit/1920x1920/cascadenorthernrr.webs.com/Ore%20Line%207.jpg" alt=" " /> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> [/quote] How wide is it? The club that you joined, is it a modular railroad club or do they have a permanent layout or something else? If modular layout, maybe consider building a module to their specifications? If I recall you said you were 16?  Do you have plans for after high school (college, work, technical school) and if so, what do you plan to do with your layout?  Many people have suggested that you bite off a smaller project.  My previous layout got to the stage of limited blue foam scenery and 70% of track layed.  That took 3 years.  It was somewhat larger than most of your plans have been.  I wont tell you what it cost.  Take a look at this article.  It should give you an idea about what a railroad costs to build.  It is a very simple layout with very sparse desert scenery.  It has only 7 turnouts.  <a href="http://www.jimspavins.com/trackplans/deseretpowerrailway">http://www.jimspavins.com/trackplans/deseretpowerrailway</a> My layout was less than half that size, but the cost was going to be in the ballpark. My suggestion, build something small that you can take with you.  That T1 probably wont see much use for the moment (maybe on a club layout?) save it for later when you have your own space to build a layout.
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