Since I moved back to Sherman in October 2002, we lived in a 2 story house that had an HO scale layout in the attic- it was built by the landlord, who besides being a CNW/CGW nut is a friend of mine (hey, he waived the deposit, and helped me move in). Since then, I've had room to let my Frisco horses run. Now, the missus has announced that she has found a 3-bedroom deplex with garage (hold on now....), and she has not only put down the deposit, but paid the first month's rent. Well, the house we were living in is quite old, and due to age (no basement, and the support posts underneat the house are bois d'arc stumps), it's settling- so much that the doors don't fit quite right, and also because of age and little insulation (and a few summers from Hell), the cooling bills are ridiculous. While I will miss the layout I've been leasing, I now have a chance to build a new one in the garage of the duplex. It'll share space with the washer/dryer and freeezer. Since I won't see the place until next week, when I go home (apparently now to move stuff across town), I don't know what I'm dealing with, space-wise. I may wind up building a new incarnation of the Frisco's Miami Branch, a busy (for its time) section of track off the Afton Sub in Miami, OK that included a BFGoodrich tire plant. Toss in the Miami CoOp, plus remnants of the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf, and it could be busy. So in a way, one layout goes (most likely the landlord will tear it out of the attic if he can't find another tenant who's also a model railroader), but another one, albeit smaller, will rise from the sawdust. I also have some N stuff......so I may also do a shortline railroad with connections to the Frisco, featuring a paper mill, chicken feed plant, and whatever one finds in the southern USofA. To paraphrase the late Ronald Reagan, "Here I go again".
That's all I have to cook with in my motel room now.......sigh............ However, I DO have an extra coffeemaker and a small fridge, so between the coffee and the occasional Shiner Bock, I'll be a happy gandy dancer!
Update- the missus want me to go to N scale. The plot thickens......but I still have quite a few N goodies, including some code 55 track I bought for my N switching layout in Cheyenne, so......add 2 GP9s, tw0 RSD4s, one SW1200, code 55 track, lots of ground foam & trees, a paper mill, an unbuilt grain elevator or two......plus some pulpwood flats that need a woodyard to call home....and all that leftover code 80 can be used as staging........... Oh yes, two Frisco GP38s with caboose to match, for a Class 1 connection. Where's that Atlas RTS?????
