MNCW posted:Amfleet25124 posted:Scott D. posted:Hello, Everyone,
I am both new to the forum and new to modern O-gauge trains. My wife and I are contemplating a move to central FL to a home we would have custom built. In the central FL home we are contemplating, the only place available to run trains, at least O-gauge trains, would be the garage. Never having lived, full time, in FL, I have not much more than a vague idea of what could be done to run trains in a garage. Can anyone advise me:
(1) Is it possible, or even advisable, to run O-gauge trains in a garage in central FL?
(2) If the answer to (1) is "yes", and given the home is not yet built, what accommodations need to be made for the trains? Do I need to plan for A/C? Or can the trains survive the summer without A/C and without incurring damage (heat, condensing moisture, mildew, etc.)?
(3) What questions have I not asked that I should have asked?
Any help from our FL members would be greatly appreciated.
Scott D.
Scott,
My thread from 2017 when I was moving should provide you with some guidance.
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...e-humidity-real-trax
Kevin,
I didn't see what the outcome was in your situation. Did you built a layout yet, if so where and how did it work out?
I hope to retire in 2-3 years. Ocala Fl. and Upstate New York are on the short list if we move, Upstate NY is probably most likely.
Tom
Tom,
The first floor garage in the townhouse was used for motor vehicles and I squeezed a 52x100 table in the living room on the second floor where I dabbled around in temporary O, HO, and N layouts along with my regular Halloween 
and Christmas 
ones.
We since moved to a downtown hi-rise apartment, which is not conducive to model trains or model planes - power tools, saw dust, paint spray residue, etc. are a no go 
- so right now all I have is 2x8 display area adjacent to the kitchen. I did run a small HO Inglenook Sidings switching layout for a while though. Other than that, 99% of my train running time has been at the two train clubs that I'm a member of. Downtown hi-rise living isn't all it's cracked up to be, so we're currently looking at moving again, preferably to a single-family house with a yard, etc.
