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If you can dream it, you can do it..... - Walt Disney I love to be told that something "can't" or "should'nt" be done. I hear the words but the imagination area in my brain almost always translates them to "can" and "do". Most of the time this has worked out great........there have been a few instances that I will just write off as a golden opportunity to learn from my mistake.....such is life. Wayne, thank you for the kind words. Your writing indicates that you may be inflicted with the same condition that I am!......... The layout around my dining room ceiling should be considered as a decorative functioning display, not as as an interactive railroad. As I have mentioned before, everything that is up there was left in my care when my father passed away. As all of it was of a european style it would not have fit into my existing basement layout at all as I like to model and run with big heavy american diesel. It just did not seem right to put everything in a box and store it. I considered static shelf displays. I considered running another small layout in my basement with just this equipment. Combine both ideas and you get - running layout shelf display. Idea was born......told my family.......they shook their heads in disbelief.......imagination heard "cant" converted it to can.........big windows - door wall - above the door it goes.......Norm Abrham building stuff with Melomine......add the fact that I personally do not know anyone that has this (or would want it for that matter)......idea moved to plan then reality. It has been running for 5 years now and to be honest I cannot even imagine having a dining room without a train. I miss my dad......when I look up he is there.......I think he would have loved to see his trains run as they do and to see something that he enjoyed so much in his life carry on in ours.......(that was a tough sentence to type).......sometimes it is more than just a train. Mark C. I appreciate and agree with your observations as well. I am currently in the vision design build stage of my basement layout. The current dream is of a 4 x 12 table with a spur to a shelf layout running down one wall just above a couch right around 42" off the floor. This layout will definately be more user interactive. Sorry for the long winded post...... Gary
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