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Cons Setting up your modules at a show on a Friday night, then getting up a O-Dark-thirty and driving for an hour or more to run trains for the public at a show on Saturday. Then doing it all day Sunday, only to pack it up and schlep it home that night, and reporting to work the next day.[xx(] Pros Doing all the above, while running trains[:D], talking to other modelers,[:D] making new friends[:D] and seeing kids squeal with delight when we park the coal drags and bring Thomas and his friends out[:D]. As far as the day-to-day home layout is concerned, 1/2 my layout is modular, the rest is attached to the house. All the modules are 4 ft, or multiples thereof, and contrary to popular statements, you can build a modular layout that runs around a room and is NOT an island. Just make your trapezoidal corner modules with 2 18"x24" "wings" to make them inside-out corners !!!!! Sorry, we dont have better pics on the webpage yet, but you can see an ariel view at http://www.fcsme.org/0310_3.htm showing an inside out corner. Seriously, I've been doing this modular thing for going on 9 years, and frankly, I cant see doing it any other way now. I've moved my modules about 6 times a year now and because of careful planning and good woodworking, I can set my 5 modules up myself in about an hour. When the whole club is together, it really seems to fly!!!! One more Pro,,,,Because of its portability, more people can see a modular layout at one time that any layout that is "housebound"!
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