Thank-you. Sometimes when I look back over what I had to work with, the final result is amazing to me also. I think this one fits into that category, as did yours.

I could not agree more Peter.

Thank-you. I'm so glad someone noticed. That is the key to everything - cramming a lot in without making it looked crammed.

Keep watching this space. Further developments are in the pipeline.

Figuring out what the customer wants is the first big challenge (sometimes they don't even know). The process starts with a lengthy questionnaire (46 questions, most of which require some thought). Even then, the customer's desires often evolve with the plan - meaning that I frequently have to chase a moving target. No, I'm not complaining. That's just part of the job. If someone already knows exactly what they want beforehand, they probably don't need my design services in the first place.

How could developing a complex model railroad design not be interesting?

I've not tried it on a Mac so I can't help you. You could always download the free demo version from the website and try it for yourself.

My thoughts about ceiling layouts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (meaning that I've never given them much thought) Seriously though, a loop of track just below the ceiling is basically just for displaying a train on. This is not really a suitable location for an operational model railroad. If that's what you want, then go right ahead - it's just something that's never appealed to me since I like to get up close for hands-on operation. Of course, once you try to run around more than one room, you have to consider the possibility of running into framing every time you pass through a wall. This shouldn't be too much of a problem provided you know enough about construction to know which walls are load-bearing and which are not. Without this building knowledge, the safest approach would be to use a stud-finder everywhere you want to pass through and just assume that every piece of lumber you find needs to stay exactly where it is.

Yes I agree with you, but it wasn't what the customer wanted. This layout never got built anyway as he decided to move all his shop tools into this building and have me design another layout for his other shed instead.

Please contact me through my web-site and we can talk about it. www.superiormodelrailroads.com

Actually I'd say that in most cases the client already has confidence in my abilities from watching other layout design videos. My you-tube presentations are my only advertising and every inquiry I get is a result of someone seeing something that impressed them on an earlier video.

@John Hand True. But then he would've had to sell all of his cars, locomotives, and all of the buildings and bridges that he had already built. Also, if he's like me, he might not like N scale.

In most cases, the client is already firmly devoted to one scale long before they contact me for a layout design. Seldom does the question of scale come into a design, although I did recently have a query from an N-scaler who wondered if NO-scale would work in his space and be more reliable.