Dad has my final layout design and has made some minor modifications to it. We have 30 feet of flextrack. I bought dad what is called CODE-83 track. It looks more realistic than CODE-100 which is the stuff we used when we were kids. There is a product made of styrofoam for elevating track sections and I think we should go in together and get him that stuff. The big expense of track laying are the turnouts. Each electric turnout is 12.95 There are 17 of them on the layout. That is a cost of $220.15. Compared to the cost of the 30 feet of flex track at $31.95 the turnouts are outragously expensive. If I, dad, and you went 1/3 on the switches the cost would be $74 each. I think we should use the existing power packs for now. The cost of all the structures Dad wants is going to be more than the cost of all the turnouts. We can aquire these at intervals of a couple per month. Below is a list of structures that Dad wants:

Lumber Yard
Grain tower
Cattle yard
Freight station
Passenger station
Dual engine shed
Colaing tower
Water tower
Switching control tower
about eight buildings for the town and dock
Cargo crain for the dock

We are going to scratch build the long bridge across the river and the dock area. We are going to use ships dad already has built as they are correctly scaled.

We also need telephone poles, signs, cars, people, and billboard ads.
The ads should be produced by us as should building signs.