The very exciting news of today is that the plans for the Trainbarn have arrived back from our regional Council, fully approved and with no unexpected conditions! With the contract for the slab foundations already signed with the builder it's full steam ahead! Our subcontracted concreter is scheduled to do the slab in early March. Roll on March!!
I've wanted to have a proper place to run my trains ever since I was a kid, when my small Hornby Dublo layout took up a sizeable chunk of my bedroom. I loved running my trains (wore them out!) and improving my layout, but even then I was a 'collector', with various other sizes and makes of trains in every nook and cranny of my room. In my late teens we moved north to Queensland as a family, and combined with this, being very much occupied with training for my career, my trains were packed up and many given away (sorry Robilt!!) not to see the light of day for a very long time. I have had small spaces to set up a few trains since- the best was a rented house and we got asked to leave (!!)- but of course, as a collector, there was never enough space. Will the Trainbarn be big enough? Probably not, but it's a very, very, good start!! Is a bloke's shed ever big enough!!
Even though building the Trainbarn is one of the things that I've most wanted to do in life, it is a very big step and certainly not taken lightly. I admit that I tend to be one of those fairly anxious, worrying, sorts of people, so going through the various processes such as Council approval is a good thing for me, as there are lots of opportunities for the 'door' to close, if in fact this isn't the way forward. Perhaps convincing my wife about it was the first part of the process, although I don't recall any opposition!
As I said, Roll on March!!
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