Quote:I have been purchasing junked Lionel Trains on e-bay and rebuilding/repairing/restoring them.  No formal training and no license so finding parts has been a challenge at times.  My youngest recently moved out and her old room is being turned into train room.  My inner geek is in all out flame mode.  

My husband has a dream of a train layout. We even have a room dedicated to it but he keeps changing his mind on how he wants to build the base so it's been in limbo for a few years now. He has dozens of schematics drawn up on Excel but to no end. He has the trains and track and other stuff he's bought over the course of 10+ years, all HO scale. He said if he had to do it over again he would have went one scale smaller (I can't remember which one it is) so he could build the layout like he wants. 

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