Layout in a trailer or office building

[Anonymous]

Has anyone any experience building a layout in a mobile trailer or mobile office building. My present house is too small for the layout that I want and I want to build a layout that I can "take with me" when I move on in a few years. I don't recall seeing anything in MR about this but it seems to be that a used mobile office building with heat about 10 x 32 would make an ideal arrangement for shelf type operation.

[AltonFan]

John Armstrong briefly discussed the possibilities in the book Creative layout Design.

One of the things Armstrong discussed is the necessity of making sure that local zoning would allow such a thing, and talking to the neighbors, if for nothing else,to inform them you looked into the legalities, and are in compliance.

[ndbprr]

It was either last year or the year before that Great Model railroads had a narrow gauge railroad done in an old office trailer that had been moved several times becasue the owner worked on ranches as a foreman.

[vsmith]

Short Line and Narrow Gauge Gazette for the last 20 years has been publishing (printed once over a ten year period and then republished) a series of articles on the construction of the Clear Creek RR, under the title of "Up Clear Creak". A D&RGW based line built into a 10 x 40 trailer and moved twice, with some damage due to trailer flex. The layout filled the trailer as it snaked around the room.

[Anonymous]

I've seen an LGB exhibition layout built inside a trailer. Must have taken the builder ages as they'd clearly had to strip the interior completely - it was pretty much full of trains! One side was modifed to swing up (like a burger stand) so that people could see the layout. This was a "show" layout though, rather than a "personal" one.