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Oren: <br />Think first about the advantages of a round-the-wall layout. 1) Everything's easy to reach; 2) Plenty of room for a lot of "main lines," sidings, spurs, and straight-a-ways; Not as much room for a lot of structures and diorama as with other types of layouts, but that saves you a lot of money,too. <br />Some dsadvantages: 1) If you want to be able to reverse your trains you have two choices - a round house or a reversing loop, or a combination of the two. It's very difficult to reverse an entire train on a rountable unless the roundtable is as long as your trains - not likely. 2) With a "Big Boy" to operate on the track, you're tallking about, at least 24" radii if not 26", which means at little over 4 feet to turn for it to do a 180 at each end. 3) You'll probably have to use #6 & #8* turnouts to give the Big Boy plenty of room to change tracks, which that isn't all that bad; just takes up some more room. 4) With walls 14' X 25' long, you're going to have to buy spools and spools of wiring, whereas a more concentrated layout, like a "U" or "L" shaped layout, the wiring would also be more concentrated. <br />Admittedly, there are arguments for all kinds of layouts and their advantages and disadvantages, and I would be the last to make an opinion on what's best for someone else. It's like my hobby shop owner always says, "It's your railroad. Do with it what you want to and just have fun. So I say the same thing to you---have fun and good luck. Let us know what you decide.
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