06-19-2011, 09:40 AM
Looks good, Kurt. There is nothing wrong with building and rebuilding. If your main interest is scratch building structures, a relatively small layout will be filled with structures, and once that happens, you have nothing to build unless yo tear out the old and start over! I'm wondering if a single track plan could work for multiple cities? I've seen layout concepts where the same track arrangement was used with structures and details swapped out to make the layout fit multiple eras in the same spot. I'm wondering if a single layout track arrangement could be used to allow swapping out structures to change a location from Los Angeles, to Oakland, Ca, to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, or other city in the Northeast, or even to model cities in the South, or Northwest? Of course then you would need to buy locomotives to match the various railroads you were modeling. An LAJ Cf-7 wouldn't work if the city being modeled was Pittsburgh, Chicago, or Detroit! Such a layout would also allow you to change out structures just like you change train consists as well.