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I was thinking the same thing....the guy who had his N-scale layout professionally built because he was too busy to do it himself, did he miss out on some fun? Maybe it wasn't as much fun for the builder, either, or at least, not as much as if it had been his own layout. I want to "enjoy" banging my head on the duckunders or the benchwork while I'm setting up my tracks. I want to be able to swear like a gandy dancer when I accidentally try to solder my hand to the two pieces of flextrack I'm trying to join together. And I certainly want to be able to gasp in horror as my fast freight jumps the track and flies the 3-1/2 feet to the carpet because I didn't throw the turnout in time. My own feeling on the subject is that we should all build what we're comfortable with, in terms of expenditure, size, complexity, operations, etc. I'd like to have a large basement to set up a huge layout, but I know that it's probably never going to happen unless I suddenly hit the PowerBall Jackpot (not likely, I don't bet on lotteries). The small $500 layout that was featured in MR a few issues back is nice, but it's not what I want to do with a railroad. It seemed to me to be little more than a basic oval with a loop going off to the industrial area. That might be fine for some people, but I like to be able to run trains and watch them move through lots of variations in scenery as they pick up cars in one location and drop them off in another. I suspect that if I ever get my layout(s) up and running, that they won't be "overnight" successes, they won't be anywhere near professionally done, nor will they feature anything fantastic, such as automated dispatching. They will have the things that I want on them, the way I want them, and maybe, from a working man's view, that's the way they should be.
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