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Good luck on your move John. It's gonna be great!

Meanwhile, here's an interesting problem for you to cogitate on.

What sensor arrangement would you consider to allow you to identify a particular engine?

As you very well know, we usually just identify that 'some engine' has been detected at some point on the layout, but what if we wanted to answer the question: Which engine is it?

Thanks for your really informative posts over the years.

Ray

Congratulations!! Looks like a great train space you will have too. It's also really good you are only going a few miles and have the 3-4 months extra time to get moved and I think you may end up needing every minute of it too. We moved about 4 years ago after being in our old house for almost 35 years. The stuff accumulated in that time was just amazing! Couldn't believe it all fit on our old house. We moved only about 8 miles and that helped, but it took a lot longer than we had figured so the extra time will be great to have! We had movers do all the large and heavy items, they were very reasonably priced too, not bad at all. Should have had them do more.

Anyway I wish you the best of luck and hope everything goes well in your move. Also hoping you enjoy your new train and work spaces. It's a big undertaking, but you will be happy when it is all finished! After that long in one place it will still be an adjustment, even if you really like the new place! 

Forgot to add, I think you will really like your Mianne benchwork too! Great stuff!

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Well, the whole room is around 40 foot long, but the space for the trains is probably around 22-24 feet, there are the two areas at the ends that I won't have track.  The one end will have my workbench and parts storage, the other end will have a TV and some seating.  Of course, I have to find a spot for our secondary fridge, and it'll keep my beer cold and on-hand.

Right before they sold the house, the previous owners put almost $100,000 into upgrading all sorts of stuff.  All the bathrooms and kitchen are brand new.  I didn't understand it as they just got market price for the unit anyway.  I can only imagine that it REALLY needed it for some reason.

Here's a couple of shots of other parts of the house.  All the floor covering everywhere has been replaced, amazing!

 

 

 The light fixture has to go!

 

 

 

 

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gunrunnerjohn posted:

Well, it's finally happening!  We just signed up for the long awaited move.  We are downsizing from our existing place to a condo.  The good part is, I get my long awaited train room, and it's empty and ready to build!  It has storage a nice large room for the layout, and even a powder room.  Being a daylight basement, it has an outside entrance and even a window.  In the back there's an unfinished room that I'll do my woodworking in.

The seas have parted at last!

New Train Room N1New Train Room N2

 

Green with envy..Me and my fiancee also downsizing soon(condo and a lake house where the layout is..looking at properties Pa, both Carolinas and central Fla.GRJ you have inspired me

John,

Great train room, and a beautiful place overall - congratulations!

I hope the 'train room' does not remain so pristine for very long; and yes, by all means - Paint The Walls First, or very early on. That's what I did when I built my layout, and I not only painted the walls sky blue with clouds, but also mountains, terrain,  and buildings to serve as backdrop to what I knew was coming.

Looking forward to see progress pictures soon.

Alex

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If your sump pump doesn't have a battery backup pump I would seriously consider getting one. We never had one until moving to our current home in Aug. 2013, it was a new home. Got a backup pump installed right after moving in. A couple of months after the year warranty was up the main pump failed on Thanksgiving during some pretty heavy rains. The back up pump saved the day. We got the main pump replaced the following week after the holiday. That experience left me wanting a backup for the backup pump!

I have a battery backup here, and I'll likely do it there as well.  I don't want any water in my trainroom!   Another option is the water powered unit, but you have to make sure that your outlet is not blocked.  I might do one of those and just have it shoot outside about a foot, just enough to get it away from the house.  The good part is with a daylight basement, that end is at ground level.

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