Small Highway/Switching Layout

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Thanks for the comments Up until now, i was fairly pleased with the plan and the progress.... lol

Dont you just hate when you cannot for the life of you make up your dang mind on something to model?

It happened to me, AGAIN :oops:

So here it is, after seeing Kurt's Miami thread, looking it over again and again, and after spending literally hours reading, studying, and re-reading on this guys site: http://www.lancemindheim.com/ I have come to the decision that i want to do something like this. Since the ideas of modeling the M&ET were thrown out the window and are un-reasonable given my current living situation right now, at least until i can get a place of my own and the M&ET can have its own building/storage room, the plans are just not going to happen right now. The M&ET modules are really something that i need to do when i get a little older, something to work on when i have the space for them.....

Right now, i have space for a few small modules, i can prolly get 4-5 more modules comfortably on the wall (this does not include the 2 modules i have now) if i take down my old shelfs completely. The reason i want to stay away from layouts attached to my walls, at least for the time being, is that i dont know what the current situation of my family (mom and dad) and the situation with our house (crappy economy is making it tough) is going to be in the near future. And everything from here on out that i model in my room that is attached to a wall, is pretty much all for nothing as it will have to be torn down anyways when i am either forced to move out or get a place of my own which will hopefully be soon lol.

I wanna do a couple small modules, really focusing on the details of buildings, roads, trains, and scenery details. I just do not know what to model right now. I need to do some research to pick a good spot to model.....

Anyone who was following this thread and was hoping for more progress, im sorry, its just not going to happen given my current situation :oops:[/quote]



Hi Josh,

Dont give up on what you have achieved so far ........... i wanted to make my HO layout wider so i could get a turnaround for the locos but it just wouldnt work and i settled as you know for the switcher idea.

Come on show us more of your work and how your going to make your switcher look good and give me amongst others inspiration with ours

Oh BTW the turnouts i mentioned ...... Electrofrog are all metal rails and the insulafrog have plastic inserts where the frog is ....... if your going DCC electrofrog win everytime and of course look like real roads.