I decided to do a comparison of a recent iteration of my self layout with the main parallel and angled about 3 degrees.  I would appreciate any comments on the advantages / disadvantages of an angled main as well as opinions between the two designs.

My only concern right now is the extra few inches in accessing the switch at the bottom of the run around.  I want to manually control switches with a ground throw or a skewer flicking the switch and don't want to mess with under the table controls if possible.

Hi All:

This will be a thread dedicated to the dreams n' schemes concerning my HO scale Kansas City & Gulf proto/free lance theme, which will (eventually) include two separate layouts.

One layout, the Ozark Sub portion, is a partial dual level that utilizes a "nolix" to connect the levels. The Ozark Sub is now up and 100% functional. Operations have been taking place for the past couple months or so. The Ozark Sub is housed in a separate out building built exclusively as a hobby building.

This might be an odd question here, but I'm find myself stuck at this point.

If you were to start a new railroad....

So this is an attempt at a fun conversation to hear what other modelers would do if they were to start from scratch today and could not model what they currently are modeling. 

Why do I ask, simple.. There are so many great things we can model and most of us are doing exactly what we want, but lets just say you have a clean slate and the only rule is you cant model what you have already done. 

So lets here it, a brief what you model know, and what would you model and why?