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Hello Ed, First let me thank you for all the info that you supplied. It will give me some good things to think about and take in account for my layout. The layout that I am thinking about ia one that I found on the Atlas site. It is the Minimum twice around(HO15) and has an industrial motif. I chose it because I can run 2 trains at once, has some long mainline and has several spurs/sidings that I can do some switching on. The main drawback from what I have discovered is that it has 18" radii and I can only run 4 axle locos for operational integerity. But heck, life has its ups and downs too. I looked up all of the structures that you had recommended in the Walthers 2003 catalog that I had already purchased. I found all but one, it was the small manufacturing Building(Leviathan Manufacturing) Perhaps if you get a little free time, you could take a look at the layout on the Atlas site and make further recommendations on industries and their location on the layout. I like the idea of having coal represented in a coal tipple or something but since all the available space is clustered in the middle, I didn't think that it would be realistic in real life with the structures that you mentioned. But I guess that it would be a good fit on one of the sidings. How big a layout did you have? was it modular so that you could disassemble it easily? What era did you represent and what RR and locos did/do you have? Depending upon available resources, you could buy/build a storage shed "out back" and be back in the RR game. If you live in a cold weather area, you could only run in good weather. Unless you put in a heater of some sort. Feel free to pass along any advice or info at any time. My name is Al and I live in Flint Mi. My email addess is alfred3224@aol.com
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