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Good Morning Gang, it is a cold winter morning at this side of the Big Pond, with lots of that fuzzy white stuff expected to come down by midday - brrr! Zoe, I´ll continue with a mug of hot cocoa. I did not get much sleep last night, due to the pain. Todd, I am with you with the plan having a European flavor to it. It lacks a number of industries serviced by rail. It is not meant to be an "operations" type of layout, but a "let `em fly by" type. There is a bit of a trade-off between those two types, though not really an either-or issue. In Europe, model railroaders tend to be railfans and not engineers, so most of the layouts you´d see there pack a lot of track into small spaces, giving them that spaghetti bowl look. I agree that finding the right balance is not an easy task, but there is a rule of thumb I found to be helpful. Once you have drawn your track plan, re-draw it and eliminate every third switch [swg] My personal favorite is still the single-track version. I´d add 3-4 industries along the way, to justify that local train and to enhance operation and it´d be a near to perfect layout for me, if I had the space and the funds. Ray - chocolate chip cookies? Delicious! More, please! John - the old Romans were smart people, weren´t they? This little wisdom can not only be found in the book "De re militarii" by Flavius Vegetius Renatus (400 BC) but even earlier than that in the book "Art of War" by Sun Tzu (presumably 600 BC). The frightening thing about it is, that it is still all true [:O] Will be back later.
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