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Alright, here's the type of design I'm currently leaning towards... Please don't take the track plan too literally. The idea is there's a passenger station on the long leg of the "L" - this is the Santa Barbara, CA passenger station. The rest of the layout will be frieght stuff. Today, no switching occurs in this area, but I plan to modern either present day, or 1996, just before SP disappeared. Or I could do like 2000 or so, when you'd often see both SP and UP equipment. (I apologize to the more serious operations type people) - but I imagine watching freight and passenger trains go round-and-round, and doing some freight switching. There will be more switching opportunities than what's currently shown. The scale is HO Minimum radius is 30" (except for the spurs) Overall Size is 8ft x 10ft. The benchwork is 22" wide, except for the corner areas. The grey portion will be removable - likely styromoam reinforced with 1 x 2's or something like that. Layout height will be, well, high. (I forget what numbers I came up with in the garage a few days ago). I'll have a workbench, toolboxes, etc. underneath the layout so I could go about "normal life" in the same area as the layout. I could even make it "shadowbox" style with a curtain over it or something like that.. I should add, I've been very heavily influenced by Pelle Soeborg's layout coverage in MD the past couple years (as well as his previous 1998 cover story). As much as I'd like to think of myself as an operator type guy, I'm guessing I'll mostly enjoy "watching them run", with some switching thrown in for fun, but not as the main focus. [img]http://precisionmechanicaldesign.com/rrpics/L-ShapedLayout1.jpg[/img]
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