Hi

I am one of the "remote" people. I live about 300 miles from an LHS or club and they are in the most remote capital city in the world (Perth , Western Australia). I am building corner layout in my office 10 FT X 8 FT and mostly 24" wide. It has a continuous run , branch line and industrial yards (country town interchange).

I have one loco for this setup so far. It is a NSW Class 48 (Alco DL531) and has DCC but absolutely no room for sound. Would seriously think about Soundtraxx 's around the layout system but have NCE.

I have been silent, but here continues the expansion of my cubicle railroad.  At first I didn't want to block access to my cube, but now I just want my trains to go around! Sure, the shelf can lift up, but its too much work, so it is a duck under to get into my cube.

See more here:

http://www.digitaltrainlab.com/2013/01/cubicle-access-trains-trains.html

For the new model railroaders to the site, LOCTITE PL 300 is a great adhesive for joining foam board together.  I use it for building up layers of blue foam to create mountains.  It will adhere the blue foam to wood too.  It is also great for gluing down track to the Woodland Scenics foam roadbed.  It dries the same color as the blue foam.

This is My Buddy's 18" gage, 12" to the 1', Mine layout. It is located in Norther Nevada, on a 40 acre ranch. As you can see it's a point to point layout. Main line is about 40' long. No timetable. Full one way, empty the other. All equipment is operational.