4: GN RS3 #225 delights the rail fans as it passes
Broadview, Oregon
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large room on the second floor which I intended to be a gardening
shop. There's a hill behind the garage that allowed me to put in a
ramped entrance for the gardening tractor and cart.
The growing season here in the North Country is very short so I
was looking forward to giving my tomato plants a head start under
grow lights, potting indoor plants for the house, having a work-
bench, a freezer chest, etc. There was lots of room up here so one
day I started drawing plans for a 4' x 8' layout I could put in one
corner of the shop. Then I thought, what if I extend the layout
along that back wall and … well, a year later, I had drawn plans for
a layout that would encompass the entire shop.
My wife is an artist and at the time she was painting in a small
bedroom, and one day she came to me and said that she needed a
bigger studio. And I said, "Aw, honey, no you don't."
And she said, "Then you don't need such a big train room." She
got her studio.
Jim Ferguson’s GN - 4
MRH-Oct 2013
