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Good Morning! I can´t say I had a good night. I woke up at 2am and fired up my old computer, trying to find ideas for a layout I can afford, but in vain. Model railroading has helped me not to go crazy. It was my way of traveling the world, the one and only dream left. That seems to be gone, leaving me in the doldrums. My issue with planning a layout is that I think in scenes, less in terms of a track arrangement. As I like to watch trains, scenes are quite important. Still there needs to be a certain minimum of track to have some kind of a realistic operation. I figure myself standing on the platform of the station, observing the train movements. The type of operation in such a station would be express trains rushing through it, without stopping, local passenger trains stopping, discharging passengers and taking people on board, sometimes being overtaken by a ICE train, freight trains pulling slowly through the station or sometimes stopping to let a fast passenger train overtake. To re-enact this kind of operation, I need three tracks in the station and sufficient staging tracks in the hidden area of the layout. Anything less would get boring after a really short time, as there is no switching operation. Trains terminating on this type of station are usually push-pull units. Before settling in N scale, I had a close look at Z scale. US prototype stock is not available in Germany and sourcing in the US without a credit card is close to impossible. Transfering funds to the US is a costly affair. European stock is outrageously priced, as there is only Marklin. Z scale therefore is not a viable choice. I have packed up all my stuff and stored it out of sight. I have to get used to a life without trains... Not a happy camper...
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