Ok, that maybe sounds crazy, but bear with me here…
Wife and I are adding on to the house and as part of that work they’ll be building a two-car tandem-style garage–about 14x44 connected to the existing garage. Current thinking is to have the over-height attic space (the addition will have a roof line to match the two-story main house) act as my home office. I figure the usable floor space will be about 13x30, which seems large enough to have a layout in, as long as my desk doesn’t interfere.
Outside we are on sloping ground that is pretty much completely covered in trees. So if I have track outside it will be confined to a similar sized space but will require significantly more maintenance in terms of keeping leaves/branches/weeds out of the ROW than my old layout.
I know there would be concerns about fire safety (though that’s what an extinguisher is for) and that steamers sometimes leave oil/water on the track when running. So there would definitely be downsides to running steamers indoors. I was thinking about lining the indoor ROW with something fire resistant/proof under the tracks.
Thoughts?