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Too late in life? Are you kidding? Re-inventing oneself occasionally should be mandatory in this life. Learning photography is on my list of things to do when I'm 62. I've been doing nothing but trying to plan my layout's co-habitation with my living space over the past year or so. One of my "re-inventions" led me to live up here in the mountains and, as a result, I now have little in the way of dedicated modeling space. My current, under construction layout shares space in my living room and part of my office. If things get out of hand there could be a branchline into my kitchen, though part of that has already been given over to my N Scale wood kit business. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, we build the layouts we can, not the layouts we wish we could. When designing your layout, include short spurs at appropriate locations where they could become branchlines or a continuation of the mainline in the future. Also consider the flexiility of building some detachable modules or sections that can be stored over or under the permanent part of the layout when not in use. This could double the size of your planned dogbone layout. Good planning could make setting up the detached modules faster than setting up for a photo shoot. Wayne
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