Every New Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning's End

[Anonymous]

Hi Everyone.

I just wanted to drop this note and say that my model railroading efforts are about to embark on a bold new frontier. As I may have hinted in other posts, I will be moving to a new location across town from my current residents with my parents at the end of the month. In preliminary review of my possible living arrangments, Every option I am looking at will give me an aproxamate 10 X 15 Space to build a model railroad. As such, I am going to be abandoning my Lander Northwestern concept that I have been pursuing. Not that the LNW is a bad concept or flawed in some fashion, It is just that the Lander Northwestern is a concept that fits the pattern of what I was able to do, rather than what I wanted to do. So rather than carry on with a concept that does not bear my full weight of passion and vigor, I am moving on to something that does.

With this move about to take place, I am now going to start implementing a plan that I have had floating around in my head since I first developed the concept when I was seven years old. This concept is the hope and dreams of a very ambitious seven year old, and the fact that as I am now 14 years older and much more wiser, and that the concept I developed so long ago is still valid, Is an amazment to my self. What I plan to do is reuse the South Lander Industrial Branch Section of my current layout and have that be the Union Pacific Interchange with the loop of track being a short section of UP Main Line. Then around the room I plan to build a GN/BN/BNSF themed layout with a 4 level surround staging setup around the perimeter. The BNSF and the Surround Staging are the only real modifications to the original scheme and the UP section is changed from being a paralell line to occupying the penensula in the arrangement afore mentioned.

As I envision this new layout, if I stand in the center to my left and curving around behind me will be the main operational classification yard for the layout. Proceeding from there will be the UP Interchange and the Penensula section. Then a narrow isle way on the opposite side as the line darts through the backdrop into the surround staging. Prceeding from left to right in front of me as the mainline exits the surround staging, will be a small town. with the Walthers Clarksville Depot as its Focal point. then proceeding around the corner to my right will be a big down. The Town of Bedford, that was once the theme for one of my previous layouts. But instead of the town constructed in a circle, It is now built along straight track.as we proceed down the mainline we again enter the main classicication yard that began this tour. It might not seem like much, But for the ambitions of head strong seven year old. It is a grand vision indeed.

Now some of you might be saying. Now wait a minut James. Aren't you a UP steam fan to? Yes I am. and I am currently doing the research I need to build a UP Steam Layout that will be built after I reach a reasonable state of completion on this layout and will need to find larger living quarters. As a side note. the Town sections and main classification yard will be built as movable sections to faciliate relocation while the rest will be consided salvage what you can and scrap the rest.

Thanks for reading my proposal.

James