Location

[Anonymous]

Mine will be located above the garage. It will be approx, 9x25, about 90% benchwork completed and just waiting on more money to continue.

[dharmon]

My current layout is in three 18 gallon RubberMaid containers and five smaller, but well padded Sterilight car cases I made. I run my trains and currently keep my skills up at a club. My last layout was 2' x 12' in the garage/basement tucked into the cupboard under the stairs.

[CBQ_Guy]

Well if I ever get the room prep done the layout (HO) will be in the basement. I have roughly a 24 by 38 foot area but that area has to be shared with utilities and a couple other small considerations.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005

Train-Master, that is a really neat small layout plan, where did you find it? It has a long continuous run with 2 passing sidings, but also has a way to reverse the train in either direction. Most small plans aren't that nice.

That layout is from the Atlas website.

[Big_Boy_4005]

Train-Master, that is a really neat small layout plan, where did you find it? It has a long continuous run with 2 passing sidings, but also has a way to reverse the train in either direction. Most small plans aren't that nice.

[eng22]

My layout is folded up in in my pocket, on a couple of sheets of graph paper.

[Anonymous]

My layout is in a lumber yard, and its rolling stock either doesn't exist yet or is in Alton,IL's hobby shop, the Green Caboose. In other words, ITS NOT BUILT YET!!! Maybe I'll start on a beginner layout this summer...
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[Anonymous]

Garage - 7' x 10' layout. My house is technically 3 stories, but only the garage is on the lowest floor. It does make a long hike from my room (top story) where I do all my modeling work to the garage. My parents are kind of mad because the layout takes up just enough space so that they can't park a car in the garage. I think they could, but it would entail parking it at an angle. Anyways, this is essentially my layout -

[Noah Hofrichter]

Mines in the basement. It's a 8x16 L-shaped layout.

Noah

[pbjwilson]

On the basement floor. Temporarily I hope. Believe it or not I may set up in our greenhouse! It's 14x14 no floor - but it's heated and I believe it's about 5 degrees outside tonight. so I just might start clearing a spot..............


Paul the Painter

[Anonymous]

Hi All,
Mine is in the basement. Finished room measuring 12X16 with 8' ceilings.

[Anonymous]

Garage room with speical wall like lounge room 4 x 10 feet N scale

[bsteel4065]

My layout is 16' x 12' and is in the attic. You see, the problem with the UK is that not many houses have basements. And we definitely do not have th espace that house in the US have. However, if you're lucky you can get up in the attic, floor it over and there you are. Of course, the problem with modern houses like mine is that the rafters can be limiting. But with imagination and determination .... it looks good. It does tend to get hot in the summer though!

[Anonymous]

I'm in Texas where basement's unfortunately don't exist. I closed in one stall of my garage and added heat & A/C. It's 9 x 17 and S scale.

Roger

[ClinchValleySD40]

It completely fills a 60' x 30' section of the basement. Under construction, benchwork almost done, part of the mainline and all of the main staging are done. It will be operational this spring.

[Roadtrp]

I thought I'd be the only person with a Dining Room Railroad, but I see someone else has already posted. All of our bedrooms are in use, the family room is pretty well taken up by the home theater system, and our house doesn't have a basement. Thankfully, since we have an eat-in kitchen my wife let me take over the dining room. Her only request was that I be able to move it out over the Thanksgiving-Christmas period when we do a lot of entertaining. I'm building my railroad on 2" extruded foam, and have a ledge off of my loft/office area that is a bit over 4' X 8', so that is where I plan to relocate during the holiday period.

[CP5415]

Mine's in the attic. A 9X12 layout.
It's the best spot in the house except for the sloping peak ceiling

Gordon

[theghan]

i built a 30 x15 shed down the back of the block and it is only a 30 feet walk from the back door i model in ho and i have gone around the wall with my design and it is an all train shed

[Anonymous]

N scale built in a "study" which isn't a study any more. The room is 9 1/2 by 13 and can handle a nice size layout that gives me an N scale empire. I would suggest that studies are the least used rooms in the house for many and is a great place for an N scale layout.

[Hawks05]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

QUOTE: Originally posted by Hawks05

4th bedroom. thats not saying much though, 4 bedrooms.

My house has 1 normal sized bedroom, 2 small bedrooms. One is mine, and one belongs to my little brother who is your age.

haha. the whole upstairs is mine. the first room is mine which is decent sized compared to my last one, and the 2nd is nothing more than a storage room but was used as a bedroom in the 30s up until the late 70s. and then the attic.

when i finally get my own place i'm building a huge layout, well bigger than the one i'll have now.

[PistolPete]

In my office, which is about 12x13. the layout whwn completed will be U shaped on the wall about 10x12x13.

[Anonymous]

Basement

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Hawks05

4th bedroom. thats not saying much though, 4 bedrooms.

My house has 1 normal sized bedroom, 2 small bedrooms. One is mine, and one belongs to my little brother who is your age.

[Hawks05]

4th bedroom. thats not saying much though, 4 bedrooms. mine and my parents are about the normal size and the other 2 are not even close to being bedrooms. the one where my trains are is like 10 x 12 feet but is full of stuff along the walls with my trains hopefully in the middle. thats how i'm guessing it will be. and the other room is the same which is my old room now just the plant room and will probably be my dads guitar room.

until i move out for college i know this is where my layout will be. if i do buy an apartment or something in college i may move everything up there, or i could just leave it at my parents until i find some permanent.

my "workbench" is my desk in my room. has my tool box and some paint and what not. also doubles as my MRR storage stuff. i have all my ads and my big Walthers HO book in one thing, all the reference books in another, and all my Trains and MRR magazines in the other.

[Anonymous]

It will be located in an upstairs office. Unfortunately, my mom said I can't use the whole thing. But the half of the room I am using has a built in counter top/desk around the walls, and will serve as the benchwork. The area is about 8.5' x 8.5'.

[Anonymous]

Mine takes up 1/2 of the basement family room, about 10 x 13 with a continuous loop and branch. Keeps me busy for now.
Andymanboy

[dave9999]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lupo

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I just love your American basement lay-outs but having one where I live is allmost impossible,
I live in a dutch "polder" about 10-15 feet below sea-level: if i put a spade in the ground I immediately strike water!

lupo,
I have a similar situation, not a lot of basements in Florida. With all the flooding from hurricanes, basements would become indoor swimming pools. Dave

[Anonymous]

My layout was in a small, spare bedroom. Key word: was. Over the weekend, I got a flash: why not move the bedroom furnishings from the master bedroom (which is much larger) and into the room presently used for trains? Nearly as soon as the idea hit me (boing!), I began dismantling everything in each room. The swap now complete, I can began anew. Can't wait for that first lengthy passenger consist to take it's inagural trek across the new track plan![:D][:D][:D]

[DavidH]

Purpose-built basement room 15 1/2 X 24 of which 16 1/2 of the length is used for the pike. (n scale)

David