CNW model railroad

You know sometimes something simple like this i think would look great on my layout even though it is modern.  Today I drove past this and a pellet hopper was being loaded. How simple a spur, some hosing, a small scratch built building and a few hoppers. If you zoom out from street view trucks can pull up right on the grass and load their trucks. This is in wentzville, MO

The inspiration for this layout really comes from a few places. I have been reading through the blogs of lance mindheim . I really like his approach to switching layouts, don't get me wrong I like watching trains run, but as life moves on and priorities change I don't mind watching a train running back and forth over the same line versus watching a train run around in circles.  I really like the puzzle work of switching operations. I also have found blogs  like http://cnwmodeling.blogspot.com to contain a lot of information that allows for a better understanding of how real railroads operate. So incorporating some of these things with the ideas of Lance's shelf layouts I think there are infinite possibilities for making small switching layouts or a medium size layout that allows for larger industries paper mill and soybean processing plant.

Well I have learned a few things in purchasing someone elses layout. It is a great way to get into the hobby. A lot of things are done for you so you can get up and running in a few weekends. However some of the issues I came across was having to but in a DCC bus, It didn't fit my space, as great as it looks in pictures, once you tear it down, it is hard to get it to look like the previous layout.  The legs were not as strong and when I went to remake them I just decided to just start over and reuse what I could. I was able to reuse the industries, tracks, trees, turnouts, L girder benchwork. What I needed to remake were the legs, this time around I decided to mount leg adjusters on all legs to account for the slope in my basement.  I also decided to run the wiring bus before installing the benchwork. I put two holes in so if I ever put in an accessory bus it would be easy to run.  Any way here is to second chances to old layouts. In this new layout I pl...