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First of all, thanks for all the great comments. I'm glad my humble little 4x8 was interesting to someone other than me. I started building this layout the beginning of 2003, almost 2 years. I retired in April, 2003 so I have had lots of time to work on it, especially in the Wisconsin winters. I started with a couple "Life Like" sets and then got into John Deere. The first loco I bought when I decided to build the layout was a new Rivarossi Challenger. Of course the original Life Like "toy" engines have been long since worn out and the Santa Fe GP38-2 is now a dummy engine. The 0-4-0 is on display in the "park". The layout is built on a 2" foam board on wood supports. The mountain and rock scenery is made from "Great Stuff" foam insulation in a can. Works really well when molded into plastic bags inside boxes. When it comes out it looks like rock faces. The grade on the layout is a steep 4% using the Woodland Scenics incline set and begins just at the ends of the straight track on the 22" diameter outside oval. The rest of the track is on the original grade. The track is Atlas Code 100 on Woodland Scenics foam roadbed. Cork road bed and other types of fill brought some sections of the table top up to the track grade. As much as I really put my heart into this layout, I am looking forward to building the new one. There is a "Children's Museum" not far from here. Perhaps I will donate this layout to them. Anyhow, I will keep you posted on progress when it begins and will post some more pictures of this layout without all the trains cluttering it up so you can see the track plan better very soon. Keep on letting me know what you see that I don't. Ray
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