Hey guys. I am working on designing my dream home, and my dream layout at the same time. I'm conflicted on many aspects of the design and what all I want on the layout. The room is a little over 8000 Sq Ft. Yes I know, it's very large. It is going to be in the basement of the house. I want to incorporate a lot of different of scenes, industries and other things. My plan is to have two decks that are connected with no helixes. The bottom deck will be at 30" and the top deck at 60". A few other things.

I've been thinking about model railroading again, and this time I think a traction layout would be interesting. I want to keep it small, and I want to make it compatible with East Penn Traction Club modules. Going to a convention with it would be a good long-term goal to work towards. I'm not particularly interested in modelling one prototype, or even freelancing a US railroad, rather, I have mine set in the setting of some stories I've written, although this particular module would take inspiration from one SEPTA trolley depot I've seen.

I am looking for some electronic version (.pdf e-book etc.) of Track Planning for Realistic Operations.  No go on Amazon. Books-a-Million, Kalmbach etc.  A web search turned up an "e-book company" but this was a scam.  If you enter a title it says it's available and sends you to a website that requires a CC# to "look" then says there is no such book then sends you to another site (again asking for a CC# to look) this is where that nonsense stopped.

After 33 years of building and operating my HO Northern Pacific Layout, I felt a need to start over in On30 because I love to build models.  I found that with all the Ready to Run and pre-built stuff for HO and the lack of kits, there is compared to when I started in HO in 1988, that HO was simply not holding my attention anymore.