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Yup...I've gone to the store many a time, come back with lots of neat things and totally forgot why I went in the first place. As far as personal preference, I'm actually very much looking forward to laying the track myself. As a kid I did a lot of playing with legos and such, I never particularly liked large complicated pieces as I prefered to build every little part myself. I think hand-laying the track will be really fun, it's not a necessary evil to accomplish before I can get on to the fun of running trains. My attitude is that the fun is in getting there, not just being there. There's a good chance that as I age, move (I move every couple years it seems) and progress with my layouts I'll get the hand-laying out of my system and want to focus on other aspects, I may very well go back to flextrack (I have about 300 feet in storage), but for now I'm very much looking forward to it. And why shouldn't I? I'm twenty-eight and have the run of my basement, I'm not in a hurry to get finished, and I'd love to have the experience. I'm building my layout in a pseudo-modular fashion...I want to take my benchwork with me if and when I move again, and I want to build room by room. Basically my first room will have a thirteen foot yard with mainline pass-throughs, loops at both ends with mainline turnouts off the ends of the loops so that I can extend that line into the next room in either direction as I grow the line. Right now I'm looking at laying around 200 feet of track. When I'm done with this room I'll move on to the next room and do a different area of the country, once that track is down I'll run in the mainline and connect the two. Doing it this way will also help me zone the layout by room and seperately amp the track to support more trains as I expand. It's the approach that made the most sense to me...and by putting loops at the end of each addition I can run it as a single person, or switch those loops off and gear it toward operations with several people in mind. Versatility is important up here in tundra country, I want to be able to run my layout both ways depending on the weather and who can make it over for a weekend session.
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