First photo Effort

Yes, good advice. For the Christmas layout I'll be using banquet tables which are 8' by 30". The Plarail and HiT tracks should be pretty easy to figure out since I don't have a lot. The Trackmaster II stuff will be harder if I'm going to incorporate all of the features that are in the sets. I hope to modify them in such a way that they come together in a more linear fashion. The church basement is only so big and I have other people putting layouts up too. My home layout on the door is small enough at this point that I sit and fiddle with the track trying to come up with ideas. I definitely need to purchase some risers to get more track on the table. Right now with my limited selection of track and almost no risers I can either do a fancy layout for a single train, like the twice-around I'm running now, or do a couple of ovals so I can run multiple trains, but with a simplistic pathway. I'll have to decide later how much space I want to take up for a home layout. My fear is that size will continue to increase...