Dream Division

Pictures of the finished layout, drawn from your plan.

Four scenes from the Blue Ridge Division, a user-created HO layout in a 15 by 10 foot room. Each one was rendered from the user's own track layout and their description of the railroad: its era, its industries, its scenery.

Curved trestle over a gorge with tunnel portals either side

A sawmill with log piles beside a siding at the end of a branch line, hills behind

A brick roundhouse behind a turntable, its stall tracks running from the pit into the doorways, the lead track coming straight toward the viewer, yard tracks at the left

Five yard tracks in the foreground, the roundhouse and turntable at the upper left

Step 1

Scan your room

Walk the room once with an iPhone, or type the sizes. The plan is fitted to the room you actually have.

Picture to comeA LiDAR capture of a room at the office.

The room, scanned. Walk it once with an iPhone and the walls land on the plan.

Step 2

Import a sketch of your layout

A published plan, a photo of graph paper, a drawing from a design session. Dream Division reads the track, the sections and the names, fits them to the measured room, and shows you what it was sure of and what it guessed.

The kind of drawing a person brings. The Blue Ridge Division, HO scale, in a 15 by 10 foot room. This one was drawn from the plan's own geometry, so every line matches the editor screens below.

Step 3

Dream Division turns your sketch into track

Real parts from the catalog, laid on the plan with the grades and clearances worked out. The checks run as you work and speak in plain words: which curve is too tight, which grade is too steep, what is out of reach from the aisle.

The Blue Ridge Division in the editor. A real screen. The mountain is a 16-inch mass drawn in contours; both main lines pass through it in tunnels, and the editor sets the portals where the track meets the mountain's foot.

The whole Blue Ridge Division fitted in its room, every scene labeled, with the findings list on the right: each one a sentence about a grade, a curve or a reach problem — **The whole plan in its room, with the findings.** A real screen. Every scene is named on the plan, and the findings read in plain words: "Mill runaround climbs 4% here, over the 2.5% limit; it needs 45 in of run, not 28 in."

Step 4

Describe the things your track layout can't show

Era. Location. Industries. Key scenic elements.

Tell it, in your own words, what the railroad is and when it runs. It says back what it heard and asks one question at a time. It never lays track or moves anything on your plan. The pictures are drawn from what you tell it.

A design preview of the partner screen: the fitted plan with four numbered highlights on the left, and on the right a conversation where the modeler describes Southern Railway in western North Carolina in 1952 and the partner reflects it back and asks a question — **The conversation.** A design preview of the partner at work on the Blue Ridge Division: era, road, industries and the first highlight, captured in the "What I heard" card.

Step 5

Select key scenes in your layout, and click "Render"

Pin the scenes you want to see. Each picture is drawn from the plan and from what you said, so it shows your railroad, not a stock one.

A design preview of the highlights screen: four pinned scenes on the plan and a list on the right with a Render button for each, the first one already rendered with a thumbnail — **The highlights.** A design preview. Four pins on the plan, a Render button for each, the first picture kept.

And more

Three more tools come to founding members through 2027, each one built from the same plan.

Design benchwork to support your layout

Sections, legs and risers drawn from the plan, with a cut list and shop drawings you can take to the lumber yard.

Coming to founding members in 2027

Budget planning and phasing

What the railroad costs in track, turnouts, lumber and structures, and which part to build first so trains run early.

Coming to founding members in 2027

Build it for your own rolling stock

Curves, grades and clearances checked against the engines and cars you actually own, before you build.

Coming to founding members in 2027

Envision your division

Pictures of the finished layout, drawn from your plan.

Gorge and trestle

Mill town

Engine terminal

Division yard

Scan your room

Import a sketch of your layout

Dream Division turns your sketch into track

Describe the things your track layout can't show

Select key scenes in your layout, and click "Render"

Three more tools come to founding members through 2027, each one built from the same plan.

Design benchwork to support your layout

Budget planning and phasing

Build it for your own rolling stock

Be in from the first day.