Mtntrainman, your scenery is FANTASTIC !!! Your layout is cool, too !!! In my layout, I see nothing but perfection. Only because I haven't started it and screwed it up !!! I have the track plan, modified from old NMRA magazine. I did get all track I need before the "Great Track Famine". Turning 60 in Nov, NEED to start building this thing !!!
To look at my layout is to stare into the Styrofoam void. The Styrofoam void doesn't stare back or anything, but it's not particularly interesting either.
I see long trains operating with good trackwork and lighting but just dreams of the buildings and scenery to come. - Tonkphilip
Mine is a mess. I am really discouraged with it. I haven't done much of anything to it. I haven't ran a engine or train on it in a few weeks now. Not sure what direction i am headed at anymore. Half the layout is still plaster and pink foam and just have no interest in going any farther. Right now, I am at a impasse as to what i want to do or how. From my past, "when in doubt, don't".
I see unopened moving boxes and the three 3'X4' sections of the old layout sans scenery I am replacing thanks to a move and a bigger layout space.
Smokey..... Even if you don't work on it for months...it will still be there when you are ready again.
I see a bunch of stuff I want to be doing but don't have the space set up for yet, and at the same time I see a bunch of stuff I already have the space for now and no time to do it in. Either way, what I am not seeing is a ton of progress but - much like the home repairs - I just keep telling myself 'yeah, but when it's done it'll be freaking sweet' I tend to only work at it for short periods of time every few days, because those are the only times when I am not pulled off in other directions by life in general. Do what you can when you can, but no sense stressing or burning yourself out over something that's supposed to be bringing you joy! (just my $.02, btw)
If we move i will have to downsize it anyway. Deb now wants to move back home to her family. Thats in Maine. Nothing in stone but she is pretty much determined to move. I think it has something to do with the Heat in the south and Family. It maybe a year before we do anything, but its there on the table. Now i have no idea where to put all my tools and work bench. Now where am i going to put my grill??? Maybe we can get a 2 bedroom apt. that could be nice. The only thing i don't like is winters!! run out of something needed for the layout and have to wait 6 months till all the snow melts!! That or get a bob sled and some huskies. But back to the issue right now. I see it but nothing comes to mind as to what i want to do with the logging camp. I think i need more length like maybe 10 feet. I think i need to find a new plan and redo the layout all over again. Whats that now? would be 7 rebuilds now. Dono.. Just not sure what to do. Guess i will figure it out after a few new layout plans. In the meantime..Guess well wait and see.
I hate being in limbo. It puts so many things in life on hold. I hear Maine is gorgeous, but I've only been to Kennebunkport for a couple of days in summer, which was wonderful. But living in it all winter long would get old pretty quick for me, and if indoor space was at a premium, even worse. But if the one you love is there (and happy), that's more than half the battle anywhere. Whether hot or cold, you're just scurrying from one climate-controlled environ to another, anywhere you live. But as a friend of mine in Scranton PA says, "I can put on more layers to keep warm than I can take off to keep cool!" For me, its more a matter of how long the hot or cold lasts. There's a temperate latitude that runs east-west through hills from the NM/CO border, along AR/MO, TN/KY to western NC/VA, which is almost ideal, with all four seasons well-represented. Summers are hot, and winters are cold, which is fine because neither lasts too long.