I was very interested to read about the size, scale and location of the everyone's layouts. Since we often have discussions about larger locomotives, pulling power, big radius curves and the major railroads I had assumed that many of you had large layouts. Its comforting to know I'm not the only one who must deal with tighter than desired curves and must work within an area that is a good bit smaller than a full sized basement. Anyway here are a few things I'm curious to learn about your layouts.
Again what scale?
Type of Railroad ( Shortline, Large Railroad, Industrial )?
Prototype or Freelance?
Era?
Design ( point to point, loop, out and back, switching )?
Main Operational Focus: (Switching, way freight, passenger, main line)?
Maximum operators?
DC or DCC?
Length of main line run?
Minimum clear siding length ?
Minimum radius ?
How many turnouts ?
Number of locomotives? (the ones just for the layout)
Largest locomotive? (Again just for the layout)
Size of Planned Car roster?
Normal number of cars in a train?
Bruce