Sure! There are lots of us with G indoors.
Here's my old asylum layout:
1201 pulling through "Table Grove."
And my old shop layout:
And my current office layout:
(Everything else is piled up in a storage unit now.)
ElMik, that is a really attractive layout! I especially like how you used the trees and buildings as view-blockers. Very nice, indeed!
SandyR
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
Have fun with your trains
so far this is my layout
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
I have been building an indoor layout under my house for about the last two years. It's a custom built home on a slope that is steep enough to provide stand-up room under several of the main floor rooms. The house foundation and support walls are spread footing and beam construction so the floor is dirt and still sloped too steeply to work direct so I have framed the layout up to be mostly level but with enough grade differences to allow crossings. There are two 300+ foot lines to allow twin grandsons to run trains independently. The layout traverses 4 "rooms" divided by the foundation support walls so you can generally see only one room well at a time. I have a combination of store-bought and scratch built structures and have done lots of "landscaping" and topography modeling learned from several years of working in N-scale some time back. My two lines aren't modeled after any existing lines or any specific era and have kill sidings to store a variety of trains. They are designed to just "run-for fun" and not to do a lot of switching or "freight on a schedule" operations. My real joy is actually in the dreaming and building.
I would be happy to supply some pictures but I see that a note from "Bergie" on 11/27/06 indicates Mac users photos will not work at present and that's what I use. If someone with a Mac has found a way to provide photos and can clue me in I can get started. In the meantime, count me in as another "indoor" modeler.
Here some photos - assuming I did everything correctly. It seems a little complicated.
On the layout schematic, the gray color represents foundation walls, the red and green two different railway lines, yellow for sidings, and the blue is an extension of the red line. I tried to screen out most of the overhead ductwork in the pictures. The gray backgrounds are cloth to hide the wall framing and the one long painting (40 feet) partly showing behind the turntable was done for me by a friend for a previous N-scale layout and salvaged for this layout. I don't have much talent for painting decent clouds or mountains so the backgrounds are mostly just pale gray/blue.
Here is a shot of my "G" Gauge double track around my Front Room.
I can run it any time I want. I especially like it during commercials.
Sorry for the poor quality. I have one of those digital cameras that knows everything on how to take a perfect picture.
to dwbeckett: I'm sorry the photos aren't a bit larger. I'm just learning how to process them. I tried saving them in higher resolution (image size) and placed 2 new ones on my photo holding site but subsequest test revealed they were going to display no larger here than the first set. The photo site has their own size standards they adjust to and it doesn't look like that can be changed. I'd like to know how others are able to display larger photos here.
For your area size question - you'll notice the layout is kind of a "U" looking format so I'll start from left upper to across the bottom and then upper right to give sizes. We had a fair amount of rain last year and are getting plenty this week. I monitor the dirt floor but have not noticed any water intrusion. I have wood "runways" or decks in some areas and indoor/outdoor carpet in others to keep from tracking dirt into the house.
Upper left is 28' x 16' but I can only use about half of the long dimension because I run out of headroom. Across the bottom is 20" x 16", 20' x 15', 20' x 4' (that's a stairway framing zone), 20' x 13' (only used about half because the height above the floor is pretty tall), and the upper right room is 18' x 16'. The smallest diameter curve on the green line is 8' and the smallest on the red line is 5'.
TOM THE BRAT,Can't beleve a computer programmer forgot there logon TRY TORBY your signature gave it away
David
Of course, I knew my login, but the password got reset again and again and they only will mail it to the email address I used to have...
So, here I am with a more descriptive name
TOM THE BRAT and On30fransico, we Three should try to meet someplace in San Jose or Pleasenton. then we could share Idiea's I live on the Delta so some place in the middel would work for Me. Or maybe the house in Reno, I have a connection for resonable casino rate's. then you would be the first out-of-towner's to visit the DNRR.
Dave
scooby Yep.....working on a Gauge 1 3-rail (prewar Marklin) layout.
ElMik Hello, I bought a Wilesco steam engine from you at the National Threshers meet in Wauseon two years ago. BTW nice layout!
underworld
Hey there,
Add me to the ranks of indoor Largescalers (wherever I fit in). My line is missing about 30' of track to close the loop around my basement. Definately will finish that this year. Just in time to sell the house next year. Hope the new owners like trains! If not it will provide a neat shelf for useless garage sale stuff. I've never worried about what I have constructed indoors...if someone wants to tear it all out later that's their deal. In the meantime I will enjoy what I have. Indoor is great when I get tired of seeing the snow. Pics??? Time for a digital camera! Later eh...Brian.
bman36 wrote: Hey there, Add me to the ranks of indoor Largescalers (wherever I fit in). My line is missing about 30' of track to close the loop around my basement. Definately will finish that this year. Just in time to sell the house next year. Hope the new owners like trains! If not it will provide a neat shelf for useless garage sale stuff. I've never worried about what I have constructed indoors...if someone wants to tear it all out later that's their deal. In the meantime I will enjoy what I have. Indoor is great when I get tired of seeing the snow. Pics??? Time for a digital camera! Later eh...Brian.
Brian, just dont forget to pack the track when the time comes, you'll need it at the next place, right?
on30francisco wrote:I am modeling G scale (1:20.3 - 1:22.5) indoors. I'm modeling a freelance backwoods logging line on 45mm track and a small mining/industrial line on 16.5mm (HO) track around the perimeter of my very small San francisco apartment. Although I model from a model railroader's point of view and am a stickler for details, I feel if it looks good it's OK. I used to model in On30 but I caught the Large Scale bug when I built a logging caboose and some flatcars in Large Scale that I originally built in On30. It is so relaxing and enjoyable to model in LS compared to O or HO and at least you can see the details without a microscope.
I was into HOn30 before this. You want to talk about eyestrain?
scooby1 wrote:what are using when you did your scenery,I'm going old school using checken wire with a hard shell
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