Anybody want a challenge?

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid I used to have Lionel trains that my father would set up the night before Christmas and leave it set up until mid February..He built all the accessories himself and even wired his own motors...I must have told this story to my kids for the past thirty five years because this Christmas I wound up getting four sets of HO trains....Two Bachman sets, one set that was on sale on QVC, and the other set was purchased at Hobby Surplus.Com..
Here's the problem...I have limited space and can just spare room for a 4'x8' layout..Can anyone figure out how to set up four different layouts running at the same time using the 4'x8' area?

[Anonymous]

Try to stack them. You have 4x8 by how high?

[turbine682]

Well.... my first question is why would you want to have 4 different layouts running at the same time? I think this would detract from a better single layout that could run 2, 3, or even 4 trains simultaneously. Let's see, 2 could run continuously on 2-track mainline, 3rd engine could be switching cars or setting cars on an interchange track, 4th train hidden in staging to be brought out once a mainline train completes its run....

Just some thoughts - good luck with the challenge! [8D]

[Anonymous]

How about one or more elevated loops, as on the Lionel display layouts?

[Anonymous]

Hello,
Try thortrains.hypermart.net they have tons of layout plans for N,HO,S, & O Gauge

[Anonymous]

I was thinking that perhaps you could run the HO trains in the background to provide a "forced perspective" of distance. The only other problem that I can foresee would be how you could build a loop for it and not show the loop.