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    planning possible expansion

    One thing to consider is the impact on the resale value of your house. A long thin extension is just about ideal for model railroading but useless for just about everything else. Maybe an indoor bowling alley or a skeet shooting range :-)
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    Do you belong to the NMRA ?

    I am a member of the NMRA but to tell the truth, sometimes I'm not exactly sure why :-). I think of it more likely giving a donation to some charity thats doing worthwhile work. I am happy that they went after the dud parent on sound decoders. They are definitely the right group to do it.
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    Golden Valley module

    Thanks for the welcome. I really should not hijack this thread but hopefully a short reply won't offend. I wrote up an article about my switch from Marklin to conventional two-rail in this article on my web site. I am currently building a new layout in my basement. You can see some pictures of...
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    Golden Valley module

    Some thoughts from a fomer Marklinist I found this thread to be very interesting. I used to be an enthusiastic Marklin modeler but with the passage of some years, I found it increasingly to be aesthetically unpleasant. In fact, the very things that turned me off were the ugly appearance of the...