White River Line
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Here is my latest video on building my layout where I do some track planning. Hope you can check it out.
Track planning video
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It's a very nice video.
There's a fine line between being adaptable and 'fluid' when crafting a layout, but if one has spent some time on a coherent plan, and then finds oneself making several modifications, one can eventually find oneself in a bind. A layout plan constitutes a schematic for a system. Systems' components are interrelated, meaning what you change in one thing will affect pretty much every other component.
At some point, when making one of a succession of modifications, it's never a bad idea to pause and to carefully consider the original plan, it's purpose, and what you might have changed inadvertently along the way that has you going in a completely wrong direction. At some point you no longer have a plan, but you're winging it and hoping it will all turn out in the end.
This need not be the case for highly experience builders, but newcomers to the hobby, or rather to 'their' hobby, as they see it and are learning what they love about it and what they dislike about it, are apt to get wrapt....as in, around the axle.
Just a word of caution. A plan on which someone has spent time has a lot of merit, even if it includes several mistakes. One must not lose sight of the inherent value of that original plan, and should avoid marked deviations from it. If such deviations can't be helped, then the original plan must be discarded and revamped.
There's a fine line between being adaptable and 'fluid' when crafting a layout, but if one has spent some time on a coherent plan, and then finds oneself making several modifications, one can eventually find oneself in a bind. A layout plan constitutes a schematic for a system. Systems' components are interrelated, meaning what you change in one thing will affect pretty much every other component.
At some point, when making one of a succession of modifications, it's never a bad idea to pause and to carefully consider the original plan, it's purpose, and what you might have changed inadvertently along the way that has you going in a completely wrong direction. At some point you no longer have a plan, but you're winging it and hoping it will all turn out in the end.
This need not be the case for highly experience builders, but newcomers to the hobby, or rather to 'their' hobby, as they see it and are learning what they love about it and what they dislike about it, are apt to get wrapt....as in, around the axle.
Just a word of caution. A plan on which someone has spent time has a lot of merit, even if it includes several mistakes. One must not lose sight of the inherent value of that original plan, and should avoid marked deviations from it. If such deviations can't be helped, then the original plan must be discarded and revamped.
