The rail line in the Port of LA/Long Beach is called Pacific Harbor line. Use Google Maps to see the myriad potential for modeling this area. Both UP and BNSF use the tracks. I do work down there and it is very common to see locos from all three lines moving up and down the harbor tracks. The...
I guess it depends on your perspective. I'm coming from the model airplane world where it is easy to end up with a plane worth $10,000. So the cost of trains looks like a bargain to me right now!!
I think this guy wins!! Something like $500,000 USD invested in it. Imagine what he could do with a train!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC4jG-wuVoc
Interesting. I never thought about the amount of space available, seems like an independent variable when it comes to the program used to design track. If the Unitrack ends up giving me a "kids" layout and something short of total realism, then I'm OK with that. I'm not plannng on trying to make...
Got it. Doesn't matter to me that the guy who did it is outside the US. And since I am planning on using Unitrack, it works perfectly for me. Maybe I'm European:rolleyes:
I messed around with a couple of other programs and settled on AnyRail. I liked it well enough to send them my money, it was worth it to me. What others do makes no difference to me. AnyRail is a nice, easy to use program that does what I need it to do.