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<p>For me, the fun starts with the planning process. A lot of "imagineering" has to go into it. I take a lot of care drawing up the track plan, detailing it, and in some cases, also sketch up 2-D views. Next comes the search for material, which is sometimes a tedious task, as all those nice things you can buy at your end of the Big Pond are not readily available at my side of it. For those items way beyond my budget, I have to find cheap alternatives. Quite a time consuming procedure! I also like all steps of the building part - except wiring. A soldering iron and me - two worlds apart! Luckily,  a friend of mine is an electrician by trade and he also likes to help. Once a layout reaches a stage where I coulkd call it "semi-finished", the operations part keeps me interested for a while, but not as much as the dreaming, planning and building phases. Don´t get me wrong, I also like to operate trains on my layout, but my layouts (I have built 7 or 8 over the years) are usually small, with limited operation possibilities, as neither  the space I have for a layout, nor the necessary funds allow for a room-filling train empire.</p>
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