Looks Like We Just Purchased a Nice Size Ranch House with my own Train Room!

WOW, that is going to be a great train room.  Every train guys dream.

No picture but congrats on your new house. 

Congratulations!!! 

And, good luck!!!

Henry J. posted:

Congratulations!!! 

And, good luck!!!

Congratulations & enjoy, but do not do as I have done.  Bought this house 9 years ago - yesterday -  as it had just the design I wanted that would allow a nice - two room - layout.  I became involved with other "train club" related stuff.  Now I'll play hell to get things up and running before my "expiration date" comes along.

Great Dave.

Didn't see a pic (came up with blank screen), but sounds great!

Congrats on your new Train Room (and the rest of the house too! )

-Dave

Good luck with the deal!

I hope you don't get lost with other honey-do projects.

You have a strong will to make a move at this point in your life.

The Christmas layout will work year round until you get to the train room.

That's great Dave. It will be awesome running trains on a cold winter's night with that fire place going. How about the basement? Most ranch style homes have a full open basement. If your's does, once your layout out grows the room, build a helix down into the basement. 

Congrats, that is great!   Have fun!  Please post your ideas on a layout plan when you can.

Congrats!!!!

Peter

Still in the same area ??  Congrats and have fun.

That's great Dave. Best of luck and enjoy!

Congrats Dave !!!!!

Alex

Good deal.  My wife and I looked and looked when the railroad transferred me to Amarillo.  There are not many homes with full basements here, and the only suitable one we found was built in 1946 and had never been upgraded electrically nor in the plumbing.  I foresaw fixing and fixing, so we bought a 2-year old home with no basement, and the train room upstairs has worked satisfactorily.

Good luck on designing and building your own railroad.

Gentlemen,

   Thanks for the nice words, I will try to take some pictures this afternoon if I can get over to the new place.  The one picture I had was a link to the Realtors sales pictures and they removed the listing after we made the deal.  

Thanks again everybody, I am very excited!   The real work moving starts after the closing in July.  Meeting with the Realtors this morning for final paper work.

Jim Pastorius,

   Our new home is about 12 miles away for our place in Churchill, the new home is in Murrysville, Pa.   5128 Logan Ferry Rd, Murrysville, Pa.  It's in a real nice neighborhood, everyone has about an acre of property with their homes on this particular road.  Will need to invest in a bigger lawn tractor for sure.  The city of Pittsburgh, Pa will be about 18 miles away.  We needed to keep it semi close to Pittsburgh due to my wife's obligations to the Symphony.  

Thanks much for the advise everybody !  

Moving is going to be insane.

PCRR/Dave

great news Dave.

Hi Dave: Congratulations

I would like share a major error with my train room. You may want to do, "on day one" right after they hand you the keys.

Paint all the walls a sky blue, will make for better videos & still photos.  I have a shelf layout, that is 24 feet long and comes out on each end, 10 to 8 feet. Four main lines, with several sidings per line.

Have fun.

Gary

Dave,

Sounds great!  The property looks big enough for a garden railroad too

Congrats Dave!! This is fantastic news!! A dream come true for sure. 

John

Very cool Dave, congrats!  You'll be a busy beaver now creating your new RR empire!   You can also run trains all year long now, that will drive the wife crazy!

Congratulations Dave! Best of luck in the new house. 

Congratulations! All the best at the new digs.

Brad

Congratulations Dave!!!  I know how frustrating it is waiting for a train room of our own.  I finally acquired the 130 sq ft room this past winter, but haven't gotten anywhere yet of benchwork.  I am looking forward to seeing what you do with this wonderful room of yours!! 

Your wife is in the Symphony!  What does she play?  I have heard them several times, because for the last two years our youngest daughter has been singing in the Mendelssohn Choir with the Symphony.

Great news, we're all happy for you, now's the time to start designing your dream layout.

Jack

Cool.  Looks like a nice yard too.  Pay heed to other's warnings about getting sidetracked.  I've been in my new house almost 4 years now and haven't started on my layout yet, even though I finally got a dedicated room (which is also my home office).   Just can't seem to start work on it because of all the other projects that keep getting in the way.   I think I'm close though.  If this rain will let up, I think I might go buy some lumber. 

Dave, I wasn't sure if you said your new space was a actually basement or not? Either way, good luck. My first house in life was a Ranch style house...I like them and Cape Cods the best (mostly for their basements). 

Tom 

great news, Dave.  We'll sort of be neighbors. I'm in Freeport...exit 17 Route 28 north from da Burgh.....

JeffPo posted:

Cool.  Looks like a nice yard too.  Pay heed to other's warnings about getting sidetracked.  I've been in my new house almost 4 years now and haven't started on my layout yet, even though I finally got a dedicated room (which is also my home office).   Just can't seem to start work on it because of all the other projects that keep getting in the way.   I think I'm close though.  If this rain will let up, I think I might go buy some lumber. 

Welcome to my world Jeff!  I have this 22 x 14 room that can be dedicated to the layout, and even a smaller room to move my workbench and computer into, and I have yet to get started.  I even have a bunch of Mianne benchwork in the basement to ease the task, I'm hoping this summer is the magic time.

We'll see how fast Dave gets going, now I have to make it my mission to start before him!

Congratulations Dave. Beware of the honey do list,  it will get you side tracked with the train room.

That sounds wonderful Dave.  Good luck with the new house and future layout.

Dave,

Great to hear. Now you can run those new NASA switchers!

Charlie

You deserve it..forge ahead with vehemence and zeal...and i know you got enough track power for a layout the size of walmart

Congratulations - I'm happy for you! Hopefully, I will get to experience the same but if not, I'm happily content down in my "crappy" basement.

-Greg

Wonderful news Dave! Go geterdone!

That's wonderful Dave. Now the adventure begins!

Good find Dave! Ranch houses are a tough find in Western NY. They often sell the day they're listed. I do have a friend who I work with retiring soon. He may move to a warmer climate. I have first dibs on his ranch before he sells on the open market. Basement size, 70' x 30' with 10' ceiling. I can't get him to stop working though. 

Congratulations on the new house and soon to be Train Room. Remember don't let the honey due projects over whelm you and delay the Layout project. We just moved into a new house and I have a chunck of the basement for my layout.

Awesome news!!! 

Bob

NYC Z-MAN posted:

Good find Dave! Ranch houses are a tough find in Western NY. They often sell the day they're listed. I do have a friend who I work with retiring soon. He may move to a warmer climate. I have first dibs on his ranch before he sells on the open market. Basement size, 70' x 30' with 10' ceiling. I can't get him to stop working though. 

70' x 30' with TEN Foot ceilings - Now THAT's a nice basement!

I could get by with one half (35' x 30') that size in a pinch.  

Nice going Dave and best of luck with the new place!