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I am a fond admirer of John Allen and the G&D, however one thing that always "bothered" me was four main lines one over the other on the side of the mountain. John followed the "nolix" design method because I don't believe the helix had been conceived at that time. John built his "empire" in his space. Granted it took twenty years to get to the point it did at the time of his death;however, he started with a small 4 X6 size layout and then incorporated it into a larger plan. <br />What each of us does in our layout building is affected by the same things the prototype was faced with a space determined in our case by the dimensions of the room, basement, or what ever to accomplish a "mision". The elements of that are determined by what we have conceived for our empire. That could be an oval to "run" trains on chasing the caboose, or a multilevel monster we need a crew to help build and operate. Whether that is "flatlander" country or a mountain bridgeline like the G&D depends on what we start with and where we either want to get to, or can get to. You can plan and start building a basement filling plywood or foam monster that will have a golden spike cerimony in the next millenium. The "rail road"pat of the layout will come one section of track, turnout, structure and scenery at a time. The journey is limited by the fun of getting there and the obsticales we will each encounter along the way and the talents we bring or develop to make the layout live. There may be a great many long tunnels to hide the recrossing of the space rather than four stacked lines on the side of the mountain on my empire. But that is just me. After all is said and done this is a hobby for the majority of us, and hobbies are supposed to be the fun part of the journey, flatland, mountain or multi tiered. <br />Will
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