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Randy, Some follow up: Lets talk benchwork height: How much clearance do you need underneath the layout??? Have you worked this out with your wife and others??? For example if you were going to build a double decker with say 40" and 55" deck hegths what would be the difference as far as the storage goes, in raising the height of your single deck to say 52" and going underneath for the staging we were talking about earlier?? I would try to get a commitment from the other parties on amount of storage underneath..... One other thought did occur to me. Sounds like your father in law is in serious need of of a train running fix......He may calm down a bit after he has run his 10 car passenger trains around the basement at 90mph for a few hours. My solution for the short term would be to build some generic benchwork in a rough approximation of the finished project in all of the space that you have in the basement for the big layout and put up a couple of big temporary loops on foam that run the whole length of the basement (Atlas code 100 flex, buy a box of 100 from mail order). Let him run till his stuff until he gets tired of going in circles. I did this in my train room while I developed my evil (track) plan. It won't take you too much time and it will give you both an idea of what it will be like to run trains all the way around the basement. You will be able to use the benchwork as the basis for the permanent layout and you can use the flex for staging or what ever depending on what type of track you prefer. This wil buy you time to design the "Uber layout" while he gets to run trains. It will also define the space as a railroad space for the rest of the family and may make it easier to negotiate on storage, etc once the temporary layout has been up a while. Some thoughts,
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