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Hey all! First time posting here, have only been in the railroad modeling arena for about 1 year. My father and I messed with some LIonel about 30 years back....but i'm not into HO, a bit more realistic and a nicer size for me. I was going to do a 4x10 layout, then decided to take up less space, i'd do this! I put up a 6" shelf running around the walls of the basement about 50" off the floor. I have about 150 feet of mainline track! I ran basically a large loop, double track with shelves on either end to turn them around. my goal was ALOT of track, and alot of long runs for long trains. I built a builtin bookcase that has a 'mantle' for the train yard, and a larger shelf over the computer table to hold a few mountains and a little river. so far the river/mountain area is about done (about a 2x6' shelf), and for the first effort it came out pretty darn nice! I purchased tons of scenic material and have taken my time to install things. it's wonderful and i'm very surprised as to how it's come out as i'm NOT artistic :) all i have to say is, no wonder it takes 30 years to build these layouts! in the past 8 months, i'm only got the track laid, and the shelf scene above done! i'll try and get pics one of these days.....
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