2010 March 02 "Day 2"

I continued the clean up, shifting stuff to the front garage and started to sort out some ideas on how the layout would look.

A given would be a layout depicting North America (midwest or west) in HO scale.
My favourites over the years have been the Western Pacific through the Feather River (now part of Union Pacific Railroad) and the Burlington Northern (now half of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe), as well as granger railroading in places like Iowa.

Initial thoughts were for a single track double loop around the 11'6" x 18'6" (3.6m x 5.7m) room, similar to the Montana Rail Link layout I had seen a few years ago in Wainuiomata (Wellington), with the possibilty of a stoarge area on a 600mm peninsula, with a smaller branch line town above that.

The only area of concern is the entrance door to the garage (it swings in) so the section across the doorway would need to be removable. This will be a problem for egress, especially in an emergency so I may have to hang the door to open outward, and then the removable section can be slightly more permanent.