So we now have a house with a basement with more room for a layout.  Our new house has increased our total square footage by 800 sq.

Continuing on with my story from "View from a Siding..."

This title has always been how I've felt about my place in Model Railroading.  I've wanted to be a "Model Railroader" since I was about four years old.  Its only been the last few years that I've really had a sense that I could do it, but I still kind of look at myself as a lonely switcher sitting on the siding watching the wonderful trains go by, hoping for an opportunity to be one of those mainline trains rumbling along.