Building a $500 Layout

[Justinmiller171]

Justin I don't see any $$$$ in your budget for locos or rolling stock, is that because you already have those? I'm guessing from the rather large size that this is HO. Have you thought of going with N scale. i built a similar layout a few years ago in N in a 12" by 24" space.

The $500 budget is for the layout itself, I already have a DCC system, and I chose Ho-scale because I already have a loco and a fair amount of rolling stock.