Any Model Railroaders here??

I started tearing down my 15x19 foot, around the walls HO setup built on hollow core doors, because are you ready...I didn't have enough room to do what I wanted!

I bought my house specifically for that "extra" room, and because you can drive a car between the house and the property line, and there's enough room for a sizable garage.

I thought about switching to N scale and modeling the phosphate traffic and general freight I see local to me, circa 1998. I had plan that would let me almost replicate the area around me withing about 10 square miles. There's a lot of interesting stuff RR wise near me including a crossing diamond, an ethanol trans-load, a power plant, and an industrial park.

I found however, As I started collecting models, that N is just too small for me to work on as I am periodically requiring more powerful reading glasses :(

Coupled with that (pun alert), A prototypically correct version of my favorite small steam engine has been released (PRR H-10 2-8-0), making for more realistic proportions in my room.

So now the HO version of proto- freelanced 1948 SW Ohio PRR is back on, but this time I'm building an additional lower deck that will have a staging yard, and a mine branch. Except fot the mine, I'm shooting for the flavor of the line that ran nearest my house when I was growing up, and that I saw almost daily, but back dating it.

For the record, I'm also a big Alco FA fan, and I have the production engineering sample from Broadway Limited/ Precision Craft, before they lost the tooling in a lawsuit. I bought it at their headquarters "garage sale" for $40 along with a few other tasty pieces of MRR manufacturing history.