Hello everyone. I am starting a new layout. It will be in two seperate rooms. The main layout is 12x16 Colorado based. The second room will be a steel mill 9x12. I am very close to finishing the benchwork in the main layout, so I will be getting foam down and start laying track by next week.

The track height is 40". I am ok with the long reaches 33" in some places. I can climb on the benchwork when installing track/switches. (I am a small guy).

This is only my 3rd layout, so still learning things about modelrailroading. I had my last layout for 5 years. I've learned a lot of things since then. My last layout benchwork was just horrible, had access holes everywhere, could not follow trains, and the yard was an afterthought.

This layout I want a proper yard, and at least one staging track. Having trouble trying to create more staging. I know I could add a peninsula, but I want to freely walk around inside to follow my trains. I don't want any grades, or multiple levels. Multilevels just look weird to me.

Coors brewery is 20min from me, so I wanted to model that, and have plenty of room and tracks for that. They have their own yard, switcher, etc.

On the steel mill room. I am facscinated with the steel industry, and wanted to build a steel mill. And since Walthers is re-releasing their steel series I thought it would be a good time to do this.

I also like running passenger trains, steam excursions give me an excuse to run steam.

Moderator note: adjusted diagram sizes so the whole thing shows up.