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Have you guys noticed the 20 minute rule. This rule is easy to state: no matter how long and how hard you worked on the layout today, it looks like you did about 20 minutes of work. I'm glad I don't have a boss over me while building my layout as it seems to absorb a lot of labour, with little apparent return. I was talking to a friend of mine about this rule, and he wished I could talk to his boss and explain it. I put about 3 to 4 hours of work today into track work, adding some rail, adding feeders, checking the rolling integrity of the track, cleaning up, fixing old mistakes, making new mistakes, and generally trying to advance the track work. When I was done and I looked at it, I swear it looked like I put in about 20 minutes of work. I've seen this before, with my benchwork it was the same, especially putting up the hard board to take my commercial backdrop. Then when the backdrop went in, I had a buddy come over and we'd go at it pretty hard for a couple of hours. And when he left, the backdrop looked like we spent about 20 minutes putting it up. I was thinking, maybe if I only put 20 minutes in; the layout will look just as good.
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