Thank you all for the complements, it really is encouraging to have your inputs. Like most of us, I learned by watching and seeing other people's displays and layouts.
Tyson will have to sketch up my track plan. Skipped that initial step and just drew each section out full scale on underlayment paper. I then transfered that to the frame work and the actual layout itself. Shamus thanks, the water is latex paint on construction foam that I carved and shaped. I then finished it off with several coats of clear gloss polycrylic. Mike, my layout is only about half completed. To complete the layout I had to appropriate most of the back porch. Yahoo, that was accomplished last week. Misses never complained, even when I put up an insulated wall and door on MY three quarters of the porch.