My son is off to college and has given his permission along with moms blessing to move my modeling bench into his room. There is room for a shelf layout along two walls over the modeling bench.  There is even more room over the bed if I can figure out a way to raise a layout section up to the ceiling.

I have started working on the layout again. I decided to post this to my blog because this is the start of what should end up looking pretty cool and being an area that provides A LOT of operation potential.

My creative side will simply not allow me to formalize a plan and follow it... I have an idea what I want but that is all.  The thrill of the hunt is the junk I find at trainshows and figuring out how I can clean it up and put it all back together again.

i'm curious if all modular layouts are strictly composed of standard (interface) modules or if modules possibly used in a home layout might be arbitrary shaped/sized and connected with something other than a module?

I understand that there are standards (e.g. FREMO).  a conventional (FREMO) modular layout

I happened back across this posting I made to another forum a few years ago. Thought I might repeat it in its own subject thread as it is still very much a guiding theme with my new layout plan.
 

I just like Model Trains,...of all sorts....the scale miniaturization.

I'm particularly fond of steam engines, and particularly the large ones. I'm a fan of C&O, B&O, NW, etc, etc.

And as a kid of course I had the ubiquitous Santa Fe diesel engine,...those famous worldwide recognizable colors.