Moving form N to HO is causing a lot of space issues in my 10x13 foot spare bedroom. They are issues I can solve but ones that are really keeping me from doing what I want which is moving forward on the new HO pike. I'm amazed at the amount of "junk" I have.  The biggest issue so far has been cleaning off my so called work table. I say so called because rarely did any work ever get done on it. It became the piling place for all my stuff. I could not have used it to build a model kit if I'd wanted to.

When I can fight through a recent spate of dizzy spells, I've been slowly but surely making progress on building the benchwork for my new HO venture as well as acquiring parts pieces and rolling stock for it. I'm taking a little break from the benchwork to write this. So far besides bench lumber, I've acquired WS foam roadbed, some Atlas code 83 flex and and some Peco turnouts that I'll need. Also today I purchased from Micro Mark a Bachmann 2-6-0 Mogul with DCC  plus sound and a bulk pack of six Tichy undec forty foot boxcars.

Pulling out the remnants of my old N scale layout  and trying to get the room prepared for the new HO venture. I keep asking out loud to no one in particular.... "who built this dang thing?!!" Of course it was me who decided to glue as well as screw everything together. Anyway, moving forward, slowly but surely.

Michael

I have been an almost life long N-scale modeler.  My first train set was HO but it wasn't long till I gravitated to N and I've pretty much been an N -scale guy for the entire thirty four years I've been a "serious" model rail. Unfortunately though at the ripe old age of forty nine, I find that there are factors that have conspired against me where I no longer can continue to model in N. I have a bit of shakiness in my hands from meds I take and my eyesight isn't getting any better with age.