I actually hope that by the time I build my big layout that tech has gotten cheap enough to do the time scape thing.
Or my railroad will be set in a perpetual sunset dusk or sunrise dawn lighting scheme.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Honestly Size wouldn't be an issue as I don't think I'd want anything more than 500-600 sq ft. What I'd like is a Model Railroad located in a fictional country, it would connect a remote Oil and Forestry town with a port city. Inspiration would be taken from railroads such as the ABB in Switzerland, the Geodrich-Exeter and Tshietin Transportation lines in Canada and Easter Eurpean logging lines. Most of the locomotive power would be second hand american units with occasional foreign made units traversing the rails.
I hope that I will have the resources to someday build a layout that models "most" of a system with a centralized terminus and several routes leaving that point... perhaps I will need to start a club to do so... of course this is when I retire...
I found this online and it turns out it is about 15 minutes from my house. I haven't been there yet, but it seems exactly what you are talking about.
A guy with seemingly unlimited amount of funds buys a 50 x 75 warehouse and starts building.
http://wyomingdivision.org/photographs.htm
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
We have some pretty decent versions of "the ultimate model railroad" going on right in this forum, with Michaelrose55 and his Georgetown & Allen Mountain RR., and a guy named Onewolf, who built a new building, and started filling it up.
Scroll back in this layout forum, you'll find him.
That 50'x75' is huge! Looks like they have assembled an army of people to build it.
Mike.
My You Tube
I'd probably build a larger version of the layout I have with longer runs between towns.
I'd have bigger staging yards and they would be easier to get at.
Broader curves would be nice too.
With unlimited funds, I could hire somebody to help with maintenance which a monster layout would need lots of.
I might even consider an S or O scale version of my HO layout. I'd have to see what was available.
I don't need much for space. 40 by 40 would be perfect. I want to play alone, and I never want to "operate" a model railroad, so all I really need is a longer run for traines to enter and leave my scene. I would love to see the train disappear around a hill rather than just go into a tunnel.
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I really don't need any more money. I have pretty much everything I could ever want.
TIME... that is what I need, and it is in very short supply, and I cannot buy any more of it.
Steven... this is the asset you have the most of. Use it wisely, you can never get it back.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
DavidH66 Honestly Size wouldn't be an issue as I don't think I'd want anything more than 500-600 sq ft. What I'd like is a Model Railroad located in a fictional country, it would connect a remote Oil and Forestry town with a port city. Inspiration would be taken from railroads such as the ABB in Switzerland, the Geodrich-Exeter and Tshietin Transportation lines in Canada and Easter Eurpean logging lines. Most of the locomotive power would be second hand american units with occasional foreign made units traversing the rails.
http://www.railpictures.net/showimage.php?id=472639&key=3766063
http://www.railpictures.net/showimage.php?id=544163&key=3766063
http://www.railpictures.net/showimage.php?id=329149&key=4137828
http://www.railpictures.net/showimage.php?id=633659&key=2110657
http://www.railpictures.net/showimage.php?id=268226&key=2110657
Here's a scene I'm definitely going to replicate on my railroad!