Contractors are here today starting a project to give me the shaft - for a small residential elevator. We've decided to stay in our present house "to the end," and it seems prudent to get one given our regard for ankles, knees, and tendons that will eventually, we hope, reach 80+ years (not for some time, but let's get this before we have to have it) and because in the past two years one person I know fell to his death on his stairs, a very good friend my age slipped and was in rehabilitation for 21 weeks, and another friend needed just nine weeks. Stairs, Bill Bryson's book on homes tells me, are the most dangerous part of a home.
Anyway, in researching small home elevators (ours will be only big enough to hold my wife, me, and a big laundry basket), I talked with 18 people who already had them. Six had model train layouts in their house, too. A rather high percentage I thought - until I considered the owner demographics. Both appeal more to older than than younger folks.
So, is this another area where there is a lot of commonality? Just curious, particularly if it goes to your trainroom? Mine will not: the shaft would come up right in the middle of the layout. If I need it eventually, I will get one of those stairway lifts to the third floor.
But does anyone else have one. What are the ups and downs of having one, so to speak.