I wish I could have been able to obtain someone of your knowledge early
on when I built my layout. When I built my spiral loop using the open L
beam type construction, finding places to make or take measurements was
difficult, as it's someplace in space. I finally convinced a fellow
modeler, who had surveying experience, to stop by and help. I did in a
couple of hours what I had already spent days just thinking about.
Finding people on the net who can help is one of the benefits of
belonging to various groups, that we're round when I was building.
Your idea of the travel trailer is pretty good. I understand used
versions can be had for very little money. Likewise in the boom and
bust oil industry and related construction businesses, portable office
trailers are often sold for next to nothing. Many are typically 12 X
60's or so with running water, AC & heating units. Just finding a place
to put one is the trick. In this neck of the woods subdivision
regulations generally outlaw that sort of thing, but having property
further out from a city will work. On our recent local tour, I visited
a gentlemen who built a nice metal quanset (sp) type building, fully
insulated with urethane and nice HVAC unit--I was afraid to ask what
something like that would cost, but looking at the rest of his hobby
farm, I knew he could afford it and I couldn't.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
>
>
> I'm a mechanical design engineer and have 45 years experience
> designing and building production machinery and products. The only
> thing I want to move on my layout are the trains.
>
> Ed Kozlowsky
> Sanford, Maine
>
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