Spent the last 2 weeks moving to a new house. One more trip to storage should get everything here. Spent most of the afternoon looking through boxes of trains. Still need to find my 2020 engine and tender, and the tender for the 2055. Everything else seems to be accounted for. The closet in the spare bedroom is completely full of trains, and about 10 boxes in the bedroom, along with a few still in the garage.
I have decided on a new layout plan, smaller than my previous one, but it should be “finishable”. Figured I will do a smaller layout in the spare bedroom for practice before I move on the family room. Don’t expect to have any trains running until Christmas. Thinking right now that I will buy pre-made benchwork. Don’t feel like wading through the sea of twisted and bent lumber locally.
**MPZ…**after the trauma of deciding to sell, selling, looking for suitable new digs, packing, moving, and now unpacking. This has been a long and challenging road for you, and I recall there was some sadness in one post when you had to tear the old layout down.
I don’t think you wrote much on the new house or neighborhood you selected, but it has to be better than the last one. Look at the bright side. You saved money on guns, ammo, an owners permit, shooting lessons, and a gun club membership. [tup] [(-D] And you get a new layout to boot.
Thanks for the replies. We are still unpacking. At this moment, the only thing I can’t find is the 6020W tender. The new house is larger, and I could put up a pretty big layout in the basement. I have chosen not to at least for a couple of years. I want to do a smaller more furniture-like layout that I can hone my scenery skills on, and work with a different track system, without it being in a main room of the house.
The new house is in a newer subdivision, has a HOA restricting renting (not sure how I feel about a HOA, but I don’t plan on doing anything that would be against the rules, like painting the house purple or something.), 3 car garage, which my truck is in right now, probably the first time since it left the factory 15 years ago, established yard, shed in back, etc. Pretty much our dream house. Finished basement with a wood burning fireplace is what sold me. All in all, I’m glad we did this. We had really outgrown our old starter house, and, suprisingly, made a pretty good profit selling it. Hope all goes well for the new owner.