Designing My HO-Scale Room Layout

[Justinmiller171]

I didn't really mean that It was a "throw-away" layout when I said it was a practice layout, it was more of a "learning layout", one that I would build till it is completed and use it to practice my skills, but still keep it. I just get discouraged every time I go out to the layout and see just track on plywood, and then realizing that I still have to get all of the freight cars, the engine, and do at-least most of the scenery. I have already decided that I will only be building a few buildings and leaving the rest as "Mock-ups".

I did recently visit Lance Mindheim's site and discovered he is writing a book on building a small switching layout, this should get me to finish building my Miami layout, but I only have a couple of months to work on it since the weather will be getting bad pretty soon so that's why I will be building a layout in my room.