A Successful 2nd Layout: The 7-Year Journey

I define success as having a layout that is complete and fully operational with minimal derailments. A second layout provides many opportunities to make track work/layout improvements based on lessons-learned, and to hone your modeling skills. Please attend if you would like to run long (100+ car) mixed freight trains without derailments using distributed power to climb a 2.25% mainline grade. Curve easements are required. What will your railroad cost? See my detailed investment (cost) analysis broken down into six categories.