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Good Morning! October already? Gee, somehow my inner calendar must be running late! It´s a nice day - lots of sun and comfortable temperatures. Fall is my season when it is like that. I like the fall colors so much. The past few days I have been trying to sort out my own thoughts on a future model railroading project. As a result, I have discarded all previous ideas of a HOn3 layout, the European style narrow gauge layout or the rack and pinion railroad layout. I have to accept the fact, that I won´t be able to build the kind of layout which I would like to have. I am just too tight in terms of space and money to come anywhere near my dreams. But giving up on model railroading is beyond my imagination. I can´t picture myself building model ships or airplanes, collect stamps or just do plainly nothing. Model railroading has been an important part of my life. It helped me to keep my sanity in bad times, provided fun and entertainment, tickled my imagination and creativity and thus has been a good buddy in over 50 years. I know I need to do at least something. Building another shelf switcher for a layout or a diorama is not the answer, regardless of the scale. So what to do? I don´t know yet, but I keep on looking into various directions. Maybe the answer is in a smaller scale, although I am not really fond of them. This would at least solve my space issue, although even N scale is already to big. Should it be Z scale, then? Even smaller? I don´t know, but I must say that I am really intrigued by that little briefcase layout my friend Lothar built out of the leftovers I gave him. From a model railroader´s point of view the layout is a disaster - a folded figure 8 layout with a little station, no staging, hardly any serious operation other than letting a train circle the loop. Scenery is nice looking, but not really realistic. Bottle brush trees, grossly oversized street lamps - the whole thing reminds me of what we did in the 1960´s. But the thing is a briefcase loaded with fun. Not that I think building a briefcase layout is the answer, but what if I take up the idea and come up with something slightly bigger, but still portable? Something with a touch of more realism? OK, that Z scale stuff from Maerklin is quite expensive and US prototype stuff is hardly available, but the European stuff is available at every corner store and there is an abundance of used stuff to be found on the "bay"! More thinking to be done! Adding to Galaxy´s wishes - make it a happy day!
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