MNCW posted:Paul,
Good topic...I had actually started a long running "retirement" topic years ago on this very subject. I think at least one of your responders posted on my topic too, Mark Boyce.
I think I've been saying "I am 3 years from retirement" for the last 5 years now, but now I think it is accurate. I am probably in the minority here, I am trying to hold off building a layout in the hopes that we will move further upstate in New York to save on the high property taxes we currently pay in the Hudson Valley. We are not warm weather folks, before anyone asks about moving south.
I have plywood and some prewar T-Rail track and O-27 track that I have been slowly stockpiling.
Good luck on your project.
Tom
I recall that topic, Tom. There was a lot of value in that conversation as with this one.
As to the idea of moving to a different house, I am taking that into consideration. We are now in a split entry house, a style we do not like, but the price was right when my mother-in-law wanted to unload it. We will stay there as long as Kim's mom is still living or at least not in a care home. Right now, she lives across the road. I'm building the layout in modules I can move with me. I don't have the modules specifically designed on the track plan, but am taking it into consideration. Since Kim's mom is only 84, we could still be in this house for a while. It has been a long process for this layout. First carpal tunnel surgery in both hands for the second time in 2015, slipped disks in 2018 which damaged the sciatic nerve in the right leg. Next it was left knee replacement this past November. So I'm working on ways to build the layout without having to crawl, duckunder, or lay on a creeper. I guess it's better than starting a traditional build a few years earlier and not taking those things into consideration.
