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It's too bad info such as this isn't "required reading" for newcomers to the hobby. From what I've seen, most modelers find space in their home, build as big a table that they can fit into the space and then lay track almost everywhere. There is very little thought given to how their model railroad could actually operate. Many people (like myself) don't have a great interest in operations, but a model railroad should have a purpose, a reason for being rather than being just a place to park rolling stock. Or watch the trains go around and around in endless circles. Some do just this because they don't know any better. I consider myself a person who makes models of railroad equipment, structures, etc. I don't really have an interest in making a model of a railroad. My HO scale modules are to me operating dioramas that I connect with others in our local club. So operations don't really interest me. I do help a friend operate his basment filling layout regularly, but its not the operations that draw me there, its the interaction with fellow modelers. To each his own! Bob Boudreau
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