I've chosen to completely demolish (nicely) my current layout for many reasons. First, it took most of the basement when my boys were infants. Now that they are no longer "afraid" of the basement, they venture down there to play hockey/soccer when some winter days are too cold in the small amount of space available, it was time to increase that. Secondly, I discovered that there was just too much layout for the time that I could dedicate to it as well as inconvenient places around a few high usage doors and hallways.

I want to remotor one of my O scale engines using a coreless motor. Coreless motors the size needed for an O scale engine are expensive (at least here in Germany). A suitable 12 V coreless motor is about 125 EUR (OUCH). Now I saw the same motor, only as 24 V version for 75 EUR. Being no expert when it comes to these electrical matters I wonder if it would make any difference or is the 24 V motor not going to work properly? I am running with DCC, so adjusting the start voltage would be no problem if necessary.

I just installed an 8" high 1/4" thick acrylic glass fence around the front edge of my sectional layout, partly to keep rolling stock from falling off if derailed, and partly to protect it during moves.

Currently the vertical fence supports stick up above the fascia approximately 7.5" and are bare wood. They are 1 x 2 pieces with a 1/4" routed groove.