After spending over a month working on my first real N Scale railroad layout, I decided to start a blog about the adventure. Why not? I hope it will serve to capture lessons learned, since this is the "learning layout" and I'm sure there's others out there who may benefit from this journey.
Why "YORKTOWN M & S"? Well, we needed a name for our railroad - or at least felt like we needed one! We were married on the USS Yorktown and that name has historic significance in our area of Colonial Williamsburg. M & S - Mike & Sheila. After all, even though this is mostly my hobby/project, Sheila still enjoys the process and is a definite design contributor!
So there we were, hanging out with our friends Dan & Terry when Dan & I were kicking around ideas for some sort of "hobby". Dan & I work at the same place and both needed some sort of stress diversion. Dan mentioned model railroading and I said that I had some N Scale train stuff in storage. I always liked N Scale since it allowed for a lot more layout in less space than HO Scale. I went home and pulled out two banker boxes pretty full of N Scale stuff. As I emptied the boxes, I realized I have about 40 pieces of rolling stock, 9 locos, a bunch of track, 24 motorized turnouts, two power pack/throttles and several other miscellaneous things. Off we go!!!!
As an architect, I can frequently suffer from paralysis from analysis. I waded through multiple layout books I had and downloaded XTrackCAD for some track designing. Armed with plenty of ideas, room for a 4' x 8' layout and CAD software - I headed off into layout design!
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