No basements in Texas. The only spade Texans know about is in a deck of cards.
John Armstrong
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From: Bob Werre
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Basement Excavation
Dave, Yes your dirt might be worth selling! I imposed upon my friend
Gerry Evans when he lived in Arizona to obtain some reddish rock that
I've used on my layout. Gerry sent me several milk cartons of Arizona
rock. The downside is that I have way too much now, so I have been
trying to sell some.
And Bob, back when I was a kid in my Circuit letter AF#6, Leonard
Giovannoli contracted with a guy to build him a subterranean type
railroad room adjacent to his home. His contractor didn't a very good
job and he was plagued with leaks and other problems. His situation was
his home was on the smallish side so the basement had a furnace and a
water heater taking up much of the prime space. Besides all that is was
all open beams and pretty dingy.
Despite the fact that we don't have basements or attics that could be
cooled down here, I've felt somewhat sorry for those who have to deal
with older homes that are railroad-unfriendly! My second story home
addition was (at the time) a fairly large expense. However, as luck
would have it (or maybe it was un-luck to some) I had some S friends who
were out of work, who lent a hand with the hammers. As a matter of fact
this week will be the anniversary of the start of that addition. We
tore off the roof of my single story attached garage, added a mess of
20' 2 x 12's and started decking around Thanksgiving 1984. Despite a
couple of mistakes, the room has held up to a couple of hurricanes and
some severe storms.
I think the secret to doing these kinds of projects is to be: 1) rich
enough to hire a really good contractor or 2) be young enough to do it
yourself. I could never take on a project like that again!
Bob Werre
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>
>
> I was wondering what to do with the dirt, but we could screen it and
> put it
> in small bags and sell it to other modelers, in my case as genuine
> Pennsylvania dirt. (Other locations will vary.)
>
> Dave Heine
> Easton, PA
>
>
> Come around here and we could dig out a crawl space next to my
> basement, put
> in a door, and I could have a return loop at Terminal District, too!
>
> Bob Nicholson ___________________________________________
>
>
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