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exaclty what was said above. i have built my layout (yet unfinished) for a lot less than 25 bucks a month. it was made mostaly from plywood and 2 by 4s that were thown out. we had to got to the hard ware store and to get one more sheet and a few more 2 by 4s. the 2 by 4s were all ripped into 2 by 2s and used for the bench work and legs of the layout. all that cost less than $20 for us. now you may wanna be building something a lil smaller (ours is in a 12 by 8 space and is 66 swaure feet). but yeah to start off with get some wood at your local hard wood store and build your slef a table. that should take ya long enough. it took me, my brother and dad a few weekends to get ours fully set up. <br /> <br />next month maybe start on track. depending on how much track ya want it may take up some of the next months buget... and then ya can keep going on like that. if you run outa money then ya wait till ya have some to go get new stuff. in the mean time you can try to make some free things for your layout. an easy one that comes to mind for me is water tanks made of tape rollscenters (you know the plastic thing in the middle of a scotch tape roll). i got the idea outa some book, sad to say i dont remeber which one, but what you can do is glue several ( i like 4) tape rolls centers together, one on top of another. then you cut a flat peic of styrine for the roof. you can then run latters wires for pipes down to make them look good. you then spray paint them and ya got a nice little building that was very cheep if not free. <br /> <br />so yeah thats the kinda things i like to do since im on a buget. there are plenty of little things you can do for no or very little cost. <br /> <br />another low cost subsitute is to make a modual. im planing on makeing an HO scale modual this year when i am living in my appartment at college just so i have some where to display my trains and hopefuly find some one else to run it with =P but thats a much lower cost alternitive, and if you build it to NMRA standers at least there will be some one else out there that has a simular modual it can connect with. <br /> <br />so yeah, good luck =)
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