I also started messing around with Anyrail 6, a simple and inexpensive CAD program and designing a new layout. It took all of January, February and part of March to tear out it down. The clincher for me was a ride on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge! I had been reading the "Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette" for years, using it as a way to see and get ideas for fine model building! After a several years of growing more and more dissatisfied with my current layout, a year ago New Years, I started tearing out the old layout.
As time went on, the fact that my layout wasn't designed with operations in mind, made me see that it might be time to tear out what I'd done and start over. This pointed out the fact that I really didn't know much about how trains actually did there work! It also pointed out the fact that I hadn't designed the layout with scale like operations in mind. I grew tired of just running trains pretty quickly and got interested in Operations. I started this layout in 1988 and designed the layout with running trains as the goal. This allowed me to have steam and 1st generation Diesels on my layout. locomotives and settled on 1953 as the year I modeled. I started buying, kit bashing and re-painting my N.P. So the town of Butte became the main town on my layout. had gone through and settled on what the N.P. As the layout progressed, I thought I really liked the Northern Pacific Railway and wondered how I could model the N.P. I was more into watching my trains run than into actual operations. It was a pretty simple design, three loops around with a main yard and a staging yard under the main yard. In my previous HO layout, I started it as a freelanced layout. Since this thread is posted in the "Dream and Design" portion of the MRH Forum, I thought I'd talk a little about what I'm trying to accomplish, what my Dreams and Design "GOALS" are.
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