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The "Gulf Summit Lines & Susquehanna Valley RR" is a typical example of what is known as the "spaghetti bowl" - design. Lots of track criss-crossing the table, but without any real operation potential, other than letting a train or two circle around. Operating such a layout will become very boring in no time at all. <a href="http://www.atlasrr.com/Code80/images/11018.jpg"><img src="http://www.atlasrr.com/Code80/images/11018.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> A 4 by 8 is quite a large reals estate for a layout in N scale, but nowhere it is written, that every sq. inch has to be filled with track. There are many good layout ideas around. MR ran a series on 4 by 8 track plans some time ago (2 years?). I also very much like the Androscoggin Central, as featured in the Kalmbach book "<a target="_blank" href="http://www.kalmbachstore.com/12428.html">N Scale Railroading: Getting Started in the Hobby, Second Edition</a>" by Marty McGuirk.
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