How long it took to set up your train set?

[Anonymous]

My train set took 2 weeks to set up then another 3 weeks to put the senary and now i just need some nails witch will take about one week and all together thats about 6 weeks to do how long did yours take?

[Anonymous]

I will just use say how long it took to lay track, becasue none of my layouts to this date have made it to a "state of presentation"

First one took about 20 minuts. It was a loop of brass track laid on bare plywood.

Second one was an afternoon and evening with my dad, It was double track with a double crossover on each side of the loop. laid on cork roadbed.

The third one was about a week and was the Atlas "Morgan Valley RR" trackplan.

The fourth one was also about a week and was a loop with a 5 track yard and a small industry section I somhow managed to cram into 4X6 feet.

On my fifth and most recent layout, About an hour to go pick it up and set it back up in my garage becasue the benchwork which was used on the previous four decided to wrot out on me. (It had served so faithfully for 16 years). However this layout is now dismantled and in storage as I was planning to move at the first of this month but that fell through. And the space It was at has already been taken over by new concerns and have no intention of relinquishing it for the time being.

James

[Anonymous]

well seeing I'm not done and I've been working on it all day for the past three days, and all I have done it about 20 feet of track of the 100 plus I'll probably end up laying. I would say about a month.

My first layout. Five minutes! Well it was already built and all I had to do what put the 4x8 on sawhorses plug in the power pack and I was good too go.

THe second layout took about a week before I was done.
Andrew Miller

[BRAKIE]

I can completely build a small layout in 4-6 weeks.A industrial switching layout in 3-4 days..
Now my late wife and I built a N Scale layout on a 36"x72" H/C door layout including assembling the buildings and scenery..It took us 25 days to get that layout completely finish for display at a local Train Show..The layout ran flawlessly for the 3 days of the show and would continue to serve me well for the next 8 years including displays at Train Shows.[:D]
BTW This layout had a double track main line,a 8 track yard with a switching lead,a engine serving area,industrial sidings and small town area..The layout was void of space eating mountains and unrealistic grades....Not to brag but,that layout won 3 First place ribbons,2 second place ribbons and one Best of Show and was the lead in view on the local news as well as the back ground scene for the TV interview of the shows spokesman.
There was lots of action.2 trains running in opposite directions on the main lines,yard switching and movement in the engine terminal area..All controlled by MRC power packs,Atlas controllers and selectors..That layout still remains one of my best design layouts to date.[:D]

[BNSFNUT]

Started to work on my current layout 8 yrs ago and it is not done yet.
I built a 4'x6' at a clubs 2 day open house and it came out pretty good.
The total hrs spent was about 14. The stuctures (all but 2 another member built them while I was building the rest of the layout) where all done before I started, they came from some of the members layouts. Now I can spend 2 hrs + just detailing a 1ft square area.

[CP5415]

4 years & counting!

Gordon

[Anonymous]

2 years and counting and i don't even have my mainline done let alone the scenery!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Huh, You asked how long? Well for me it's been a long time [ smiling ]. Between work , taking care of the home front, cutting trees for a side job, & the great flood of the concrete bathtub ( basement ) . It has been about 5 months or so since I've started to design & start redoing my entire layout. I am planning to take a weeks vacation sometime soon & just go at it big time so I can get her up & running. I want to go high tech, but am going at it with a yellow proceed with caution & prepare to stop signal. No matter how long it takes me I'm still having alot of fun. & learning alot from you folks out here about this hobby sure makes it even more fun, Even though we all don't agree at times about certain issues. ..........." HAPPY RAILS "

[Anonymous]

My train layout will be complete when I die.

[Anonymous]

2 years and it's still not done. It's going to be torn down soon to make way for the next one, buil around a module set I've bought.

[AggroJones]

My last layout took about 4 years from planning to completion. It was 45 square feet.

The bedroom sized one I'm starting now will too be "complete" when I die.

[Anonymous]

Five years in the making only 25% completed. most important is to educate your self buy learning from others the internet is a very useful tool. lots of patience will result in a satifiying finished product.

[Anonymous]

Well I'm right at the start of my first ever attempt. It is going to be an N-gauge on a 4x4 plywood board. I could'nt even begin to say how long its going to take me, but as the addiction kicks in I hope to keep moving at a moderate pace.

[orsonroy]

My "train set" is a 225 linear foot, three level MODEL RAILROAD, with well over 500 square feet of overall layout space. I've been working on it for just over a year now, and I estimate that I'm about 15-20% done.

One of the best things about this hobby is that it can become a lifelong love (obsession?), that includes more and more varied tasks than virtually any other hobby: woodworking, sculpting, painting, kit assembly, electronics, machining...it all comes into play in model railroading! Even when I'm eventually "done" with my layout, I'll never be finished with it!

[darth9x9]

I built the frame work for a corner module for my club in about 6 hours on a Saturday when two of our five 'corner' guys didn't come to the show. All day Saturday we ran point to point. Then a couple of years later, I decided to scenic the corner module and did it in about three weekends. You can see the whole clinic at:
http://www.fcsme.org/bcarl/basic_scenery.htm

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Davidvd59

My train layout will be complete when I die.

[#ditto][:)]

[Anonymous]

Six months into the layout, My track is laid, wired, and partially painted. My track would be completely painted if I hadn't run out of paint (Note to self: buy more than I think is necessary.) I am hoping to finish within a year.
Reed

[CBQ_Guy]

Years and years...

[Anonymous]

a 2x4 took me 3 months and thats was with two very generic layouts with no scenery and bachman easy track, which was more of a headache then the one u get eating ice cream too fast, but my layout now is all in orginal atlas track nailed down which took me 4 days of headaches, but my scenery i think will never be done![}:)][;)][:p][:D][:)]

[on30francisco]

My first train set was Lionel with "Super O" snap track. It took about 15 minutes to snap together an oval and hook up the transformer. The trains ran great!

[ClinchValleySD40]

Train set???? Sorry, I don't have a "train set".

[darth9x9]

What's he the matter clinchvalley, don't you "PLAY" with trains??? [}:)][}:)][(-D][(-D][:-,][:-,][:-^][:-^]

BC

[Anonymous]

I started drawing layout plans last november I have he mainline up and partially wired
still bare wood and roadbed so I estimate another few years and thats if we dont move to a new house.

[rexhea]

QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy


One of the best things about this hobby is that it can become a lifelong love (obsession?), that includes more and more varied tasks than virtually any other hobby: woodworking, sculpting, painting, kit assembly, electronics, machining...it all comes into play in model railroading! Even when I'm eventually "done" with my layout, I'll never be finished with it!

I cannot say it any better than orsonroy. [:)]
I hope my layout will be one that will always need something added or modified. After 3 months of planning, I have had 10 months of construction. The mainlines are down and have started some scenery, but there is an endless list of things to be or can be done. I may have 20% of the obvious completed.

Love this stuff!
REX

[Anonymous]

Let's see the bench work is up (going on 2 months now ) have not laid any track yet (need roadbed) it's been 6 months since starting on it a project that really began 4 yrs ago hopefully will try to get some sections complete by the end of the year.Still learning about the hobby having fun too.