Let me start this BLOG entry with this.  Apparently, my wife realized the folly of her ways when she suggested that I could go around the walls of our basement with a mixed use space as a rec room and a train room.  She has again asked me to have a dedicated room for my trains.

I'm curious.

Those who are in the process, or have gone through the process of designing a layout, what is the most frustrating part of planning a layout for you?

I'm not talking just about creating a track plan, though that can be frustrating, I'm talking about everything that goes into the planning process, from deciding what era, to what railroad, to Givens & Druthers, to figuring out where to put the layout.

What frustrates you, and why? Maybe frustrates is too strong of a word.

So with the mass of railroaders on this site, I feel it would be appropriate to have some sort of a data base available of viewable track plans and maybe a brief description or operations plan. Maybe Joe could answer this; is there a way that plans could be stored and be available to be viewed. The obvious way is for everyone to add them to this or a similar blog, but they would not be searchable that way.

And so I have realized it would be well to separate the old blog from this new blog...