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House for sale with railway or is it the other way round?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 11:18 am
by michaelasc
Just came across this house listing in the USA with the most amazing railway on the grounds.

http://tracks.lionel.com/private-railro ... -included/

What do you think?

Re: House for sale with railway or is it the other way round

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 11:39 am
by Ex-Pat
Just wish I'd known about it when I was in Portland last year!

Re: House for sale with railway or is it the other way round

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 11:47 am
by End2end
:o :o :o :o :o
30 foot trestle bridge in the garden!?!
S scale layout indoors !?!
All those planes!?!
A deck the size of a frigate!?!
Holy moly!!!!!
Thanks for the link michaelasc. Amazing to watch.
Thanks
End2end

Re: House for sale with railway or is it the other way round

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:00 pm
by glencairn
$3.5 million! That is tempting. Lady G says she would miss the grandchildren? I wouldn't miss her. (Good job I ducked just then)

Glencairn

Re: House for sale with railway or is it the other way round

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:58 pm
by Bufferstop
It's been on the market a very long time. You would think they've knocked a couple of million off the price by now.

Re: House for sale with railway or is it the other way round

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 1:09 pm
by ParkeNd
That's only about £2m - not much more than a much more modest property in London. I know you would have to give up the solid traffic, pollution, and noise if you bought it - but it seems a bit of a bargain really.

Re: House for sale with railway or is it the other way round

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 7:10 am
by NakatsuHime
True, but you'd need to put up with people using too many Z's, and not enough U's.

Also, for some reason, the incessant ding-ding of US locomotive bells really irratates me.

Re: House for sale with railway or is it the other way round

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:15 am
by Bufferstop
NakatsuHime wrote: for some reason, the incessant ding-ding of US locomotive bells really irratates me.
But once you'd bought the house modellers rule #1 would apply.
"It's my railway and I'll run it the way I b***** well like"

ps I'm not turning american it's just a convenient way of saying "number one"

Re: House for sale with railway or is it the other way round

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 8:11 pm
by brit-in-bama
NakatsuHime wrote:
for some reason, the incessant ding-ding of US locomotive bells really irratates me.
they do to us that live here with then too! but at least they only do that where people are around, and the loco is going slow, when they are moving out of towns they use the horn when approaching a crossing, but you hear the diesel engine a long time before they do that!