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First of all, designing for continous running and designing for operation are not exclusive goals, as some of these posts might suggest. Second, some of the biggest and best magazine- and museum- quality layouts have provisions for continous running. Granted some of that is to entertain the non-operational lay public and visitors, but it's there nonetheless. Third, whether a layout is designed for operation, running, or both, has no bearing on the current or final quality, finish, or level of detail. Sure, a loop is not "prototypical". Neither is a plastic locomotive. <br /> <br />Some of us have switching layouts not because we don't like loops, but because space constraints won't allow for them. Some of us have loops because we want longer "runs" than we would get if we built point-to-point. Some of us have 1000 square feet to work with and can do a little (or a lot) of everything.
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