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3rd Times the Charm...I hope!
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Well guys, I finally got started my 3rd, and hopefully final, rebuild of my layout on Sunday. My initial layout (Jan.2005) was the old standby 8x4 folded loop, which got boring after a very short time. It had lots of nice terrain features like mountains and valleys and bridges and tunnels, but no operational interest. My short lived 2nd layout (Feb.2006) was a flat layout with a ton of operational interest (I think 26 switches on a 14x8), and while it was fun to be doing all that switching, I didn't look like much. I was disappointed in the look and decided to take a step back and figure out what it was I wanted. I read Chips aticle about "Givens and Druthers" and sat down to make a list. With my list inhand I opened my design software and started working away. I went through a lot of designs and it took almost two months, but finally I got a plan I liked which addressed my G&D's as closely as possible. I sat on that plan for a couple weeks, and after revisiting it, I decided that it was ready to be implemented. So like I said in the first sentance above, I've started. It's good be working on the layout again. I'll post pics as I get progress of interest.<br><br>Trevor<br>
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