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No only do we have cows, we have buildings, people, junk, etc. I have never got this far before!

So, your club has been at the same location for 15 years.

3000 Sq feet of layout, hundreds of scenery products, half finished projects, extra track, member's lockers full of trains. Lots of stuff.

And the landlord says, I am bancrupt, your lease will not be renewed. I am selling the building. You have a year to move.

And the local real estate market is booming!

Now is when all the doomsday planning comes into play. The budget surplus, wiring segmentation, and module separation points.

I would like to build a new layout using modules, mostly in a 2' by 8' size, but some will be odd balls.  How would you "connect" the modules together?  I envision bus wires running underneath the module supports that the module track power would plug into.  Does this sound correct?  How would one ensure the track work always lines up?  How would the modules be connected to the module supports?  All comments are appreciated.

Thanks,

Doug

So after years of thoughts and CAD printouts and revisions, I had enough. So I decided to do a mock up and see how it fits in scale instead of on paper.

Inspiration is WM Port Covington in the 40's. I have always like ship modeling and trains so I am combining both. My original room of 30x14 got cut in half a couple years ago and it really stunted my design process.  So I figured smaller maybe better because of the detail involved. Below are some of the photos that I am using for inspirations.

 My interview 

http://media.wix.com/ugd/dcfc72_354f8e8167ff43238ac6823f46bdf2c6.pdf

O Gauge Layout Update January 8, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crph1iu7ymU

There have been many excellent model railroaders that I have admire over the years. So many, that I would be remiss if I tried to name them all. But two that come right to mind for me are David Barrow and Lance Mindheim. Many years ago I read about David Barrows Cat Mountain and Santa Fe and saw how realism can be acheived through simplicity.  His original CM&SF wasn't overly scenicked. It wasn't overly landscaped. But it looked right. Than a few years later he wrote about dominos, 2' x 4' boxes that you basically assemble right on the workbench.

Been awhile so enjoy more to come.