My saga continues as I work every day cleaning out the living space where I intend to live and have a layout. The previous occupant (deceased) was a hoarder and lived like a pig but I now have the bedroom cleaned up and a nice bath. A new kitchen is being installed and almost finished. Last but not least, the living room where my layout will be is almost clean of trash and dirt. So there has been a lot of drama and progress. Right now it appears the layout will be about 9 ft wide and 15 ft long. The modules will be approximately 2 ft wide on the long sides and 4 ft wide on the ends. They will be built like my old layout- 1x4 frames and legs with cross bracing on the top covered with Homosote covered by green indoor/outdoor carpet. Using clean O gauge tubular track from the previous layout. There will be 3 loops of track, the outer one O with 072 curves, the second standard gauge with 054 curves and the inner O gauge with 054 curves. No switches, conventional control and my tinplate and other buildings. Main goal right now is to run trains. Possibly tomorrow I will start to bring the boxes out of the shed where stored. It has been almost a year- way too long and I am excited and impatient.
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