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When I first met my wife, I had recently finished the basement at my old house, and expressed my desire to build some kind of train layout. Originally, I was thinking of building a small Lego layout or HO-scale train. Sarah proceeded to buy me an O-Scale model train as a gift, not anticipating how serious I would take the hobby. While the train scale was bigger than I expected, I proceeded to build an 8 foot by 8 foot layout, complete with buildings, landscaping, tunnels, and a butte. Unfortunately, the scenery did not travel well in the move to our new house, and the space was eventually needed for more growing Lego town and MOCs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I first met my wife, I had recently finished the basement at my old house, and expressed my desire to build some kind of train layout. Originally, I was thinking of building a small Lego layout or HO-scale train. Sarah proceeded to buy me an O-Scale model train as a gift, not anticipating how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxgratton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxgratton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxgratton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxgratton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxgratton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maxgratton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/maxgratton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxgratton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}