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I find it so interesting how Furlow's work can divide a room. His work is amazing to my husband and myself, and it has sparked alot of creativity in us for our first layout. We are new in this hobby, and our layout will be totally freelanced, and with trains that we both like. And I doubt that my husbands Heisler and my Santa Fe Superchief were ever near each other in real life. But they will be on our layout. So what. This hobby, I thought, is suppose to be fun and creative. We are not knowledgable enough to build or run a true prototypical layout. And according to a recent MR poll, only 10 percent do that. While 40 percent do totally freelance, and 50 percent a little of both. Would we like to learn to run prototypical? Of course. But right now we are just getting our feet wet. And the stuff that we need to know before we build our first HO layout is a bit overwhelming. Wiring, DCC, decoders, track laying, workbench building and other stuff. We just want to see our trains run in our little utopia. From there, we will see how much further we will go. We are doing this to have fun and get our creative juices going. BTW, I didn't realize the MR was a serious model railroad magazine. I don't think I would subscribe to it if it was. I love the wow factor of layouts like Furlow or Vic Smith that are in it's pages. And educate myself with it's articles at the same time. No, I don't see "smurf engineers" on store shelves. But I have seen Thomas the Tank. So that means to me that this hobby is for everyone. Well that was my .02 cents. Cindy
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