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Has anyone in the New England area used a "Yankee work shop" as a train room. I am currently looking to purchase a house with a two car garage that has  a second floor that the previous owner used as their carpenter work shop for their business.  No this not the main reason why I am seriously think of purchasing this home, we just love the place and the "Yankee work shop" icing on the cake. This project will not start until  the main house and grounds are finished  I just want to get ideas and see what other folks have done with similar type of space.

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Norm's Yankee Workshop is on the ground floor, no one wants to carry lumber upstairs.

"Ask this old House" does use an "upstairs" style set, but they never seem to carry anything up.

Upstairs loft type rooms do offer more private space and better security than ground level sheds or barns.

A friend who has this type of room, likes the ability to go from home to his train train room over his attached 3 car garage without going outside.

Hi Kris, I use the upper floor of a post and beam garage for the layout. I have found a few challanges

but so far it has been good decision. The biggest issue for me is that there is no climate control so 

working in a parka during the winter is a lot of fun. The biggest impact on layout design is the 

slope of the roof and how to avoid not loosing a lot of floor square footage. The first concesion was

the height of the benchwork had to be limited to 40 inches to ultimately provide enough clearance

for rolling stock on the upper level. The other impact of the roof slope/open rafters was I decided to

use a valance/view block with the switch control panels. All in all I'm happy with the outcome. Good luck

with your house hunting. Mike

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PRRMike posted:

Hi Kris, I use the upper floor of a post and beam garage for the layout. I have found a few challanges but so far it has been good decision. The biggest issue for me is that there is no climate control so working in a parka during the winter is a lot of fun. The biggest impact on layout design is the slope of the roof and how to avoid not loosing a lot of floor square footage. The first concesion was the height of the benchwork had to be limited to 40 inches to ultimately provide enough clearance for rolling stock on the upper level. The other impact of the roof slope/open rafters was I decided to use a valance/view block with the switch control panels. All in all I'm happy with the outcome. Good luck with your house hunting. Mike

Mike:

Thanks for posting these.  My layout is being built in space that's very similar to yours ... and I'm facing the same challenges (slope of the roof, freezing in winter, hot in summer, etc.).

I hadn't thought to make use of the space between the rafters the way you did with the switch panels.  That's very creative.

Thanks again for posting.

Steven J. Serenska

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