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Wow this reminds me of a similar situation of mine almost one year ago now. See I had bought a 4x8 layout from this dude in Northern Connecticut and all the track was down but had very very little scenery done. So I decided to purchase it for $325 and take it home and hook the scenery up. Well I worked for a month hard as hell on it and it came out very nice. I just couldnt wait to run a nice UP AC4400 on that layout. I had two problems with this layout once I was ready to run trains, SO I THOUGHT!!!!! I took a six axle to the track and it would not stay on anywhere man. I was whining like a baby of what to do. I was wondering if I should expand the curves on this but there were too many of them and they were litterally like 15inch curves and one or two smaller!! Not only that!! The layout was a DC layout and I was so baffled with how to even run the train he gave me for the layout. It had 13 switches, Reverse polarity switches, and what not. I struggled with what to do for about two weks when I said damn it I am going to build my own empire and it will be bigger than this!! Oh Plus I wanted to have my train run for a distance not be at point A in 20 seconds as that layout was like. So here is what I had in my basement a year ago and two pictures of what I have now. Take a look at the curves on layout #1. Good luck with your decision. [img]http://www.railimages.com/albums/AlfredMayo/aml.jpg [/img] [img] http://www.railimages.com/albums/AlfredMayo/amk.jpg[/img] [img] http://www.railimages.com/albums/AlfredMayo/ami.jpg[/img] This was my first mountain I built. I used chicken wire and plaster cloth [img]http://www.railimages.com/albums/AlfredMayo/amg.jpg[/img] [img] http://www.railimages.com/albums/AlfredMayo/amb.jpg[/img]
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