Southern Pacific Switching Layout

[P5se Camelback]

... If anyone is interested, Here is a link to some info on the Railroad I am thinking of Modeling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte_County_Railroad

Justin, Justin, Justin!

I thought that you had decided to "build something," just to get on with it and DO IT!

So ... now it looks like you are still pussy-footin' around with maybe I'll do this, or maybe I'll do that, no, I'm gonna do this other thing. Wait! I've changed my mind, I think I'm leaning towards dointg this next interesting thing that i'm now infatuated with.

I know you are young ... I was too, once, a few years ago. I understand having trouble making up your mind because you are shooting off in all directions. But there comes a time when you have to either fish or cut bait!

Please! Come to the realization that this will not be the "layout of your dreams." It will be a learning experience and you will then use the things that you learned on this layout to build the next one where you will learn still more new things to add to what learning you did on this layout. I'm sure that most of us here on this forum have each built several layouts over the years (the operative word there is "years") and virtually none of us even have remnants of our first or second or even third layouts.

You've been heading in one direction now for a bit ...put the blinders on if you have to, but keep going, don't be distracted by "the next new thing!" I have been kicking around the Lehigh Susquehanna & Western for going on forty years. I've started and had 20 to 30 linear feet of L-girder benchwork on which was operating trackage at least three times in three different living spaces in three different towns in three different statesand each time I moved I packed up all the models (carefully) and broke down the benchwork and left it at the curb to wait for trash day, knowing that I would just start over with a new trackplan to fit in a new space when I got situated in my new job and my new residence. But I continued working on the concept, developing industries with loads in/loads out, building rolling stock and collecting brass Reading Railroad Camelbacks in several different wheel arrangements, along with the appropriate motive power classifications and numbering systems.

My point is the that layouts have come and gone but the railroad has continued on, and a brand new new layout is about to begin in a brand new living space in yet another new state. You must do essentially the same ... nail it down, and begin the build. Stick with it! Think about it! Gary S. is building his second layout since joining Big Blue. And these were not his first and second layouts!

Get Off the Dime!

Just Do It Already!