While we explore this subject I'd like to point out that "small" is as seen by the beholder.? If I can take a layout on a bus in the city or check it as luggage on an airplane flight I might call it "small" for my purposes.? OTOH if I'm the owner of a construction crane rigging business with a nice big airconditioned shop building my "small" layout would likely be defined by what my equipment can easily move without too big a crew or permits from the local cops.
I kinda like the 24x48 module size having once gotten started in that direction in hopes of participating with a local module group.? Now the nature of modules is that they need to be of somewhat more robust construction than a single "pack and hand carry" in a portable case display module.? But these types share one common problem.? They're subject to handling shocks and vibrations that are a good bit stronger than what they will experience in the train room.? A very small layout like a pizza size has the benefit overy low mass and relatively high stiffness of its litttle parts.? Beyond that some amount of vibtation/shock isolation (blocks of foam) around the layout in its carrying box is easier to do.
If some of you out there have built your own carrying cases or found some commercially available container that works real well how about starting a thread here on carrying cases and tell us about it.
EdW
