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I'm new to the hobby (but I had a Lionel as a youngster) and even the prototype layouts in the magazines have some kind of "cheating" involved. There seem to be areas where personal preference over-rides accurate reproduction with regard to things like couplers or signal lights or even the choice of one brand of track over another where the prototype specs are not exactly reproduced in a given scale. I agree that the magazines are too focused on models that feature the real world but I personally find the slavish reproduction of reality to be a bore. If you have the time and money it is easy to find the parts and "build" a real line. I more enjoy the articles that feature a freelanced world that shows me the personality of the modeler, not their ability to copy something in miniature. As someone who has worked in Hollywood for nearly thirty years, much of it in miniatures and visual effects ( and a lifelong science fiction fan), I am designing my first layout (in N) as a lunar colony sometime later this century or early in the next. I intend to include scratchbuilt lunar structures, futuristic vehicles, a monorail, a rail launcher, and an ore processing facility as the base of the colony's economy. I won't have any trees but who knows what might be found deep in a crater on the Farside?
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