My "layout" is in a former liquor store! The module club I belong to has set up in a vacant shop in a local shopping center. I have 18' of HO scale main-line modules, plus a loop back behind them to a small yard used for staging and operations. If I ever get my own place again, I will definately want a garage to finish up and build a layout in (basements here are usually underwater half the time).
John
If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is really thinking.
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BerkshireSteam....it made me wonder, "where does everyone else put there's? I have heard of other layouts, like one of my options, being located in a spare bedroom. I have also heard of them being built in an attic room, in the basement, in the garage, and heck even in a large shed specifically built to house the layout with electricity and full HVAC. So, I ask, where is yours?
I have heard of other layouts, like one of my options, being located in a spare bedroom. I have also heard of them being built in an attic room, in the basement, in the garage, and heck even in a large shed specifically built to house the layout with electricity and full HVAC.
So, I ask, where is yours?
But before that I did not have any room in the house so "my" layout was the club "layout".
But it's future intended home was the gymnasium, I guess puts me into the large shed category. The catch is that after we cleaned it up, we really like it as a gym.... so trains might get moved to a large shed.
This is the "before cleanup" pictureOutside
Mine is still in a tree somewhere...
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Hi All
Here's where my layout is located. It's a 4' X 16" with a dog leg to the right forming a J
The airplane , Oil Co signns, and the Marlboro clock remain in place.
Happy Railroading
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
I have no garage thus the lawnmower is chained down on the front porch. And the mechanics tool chest is in the kitchen. One bedroom is used as a studio/office, one I sleep in, one for the railroad and one for the shop. Trying to figure out which wall to cut through to make the layout bigger. Wife? She is like the garage....
Modeling a railroad hypothetically set in time.
In the 'Train Room' , in the basement.
The layout is 5'x16' which started life as a 4'x8' based on Linn Westcotts book HO Railroad that Grows, and it has. It is transportable, and is actually two 5'x8' sections, hinged in the center with casters on one long side and fold up legs. It can be laid on its side, folded in half, and rolled out the door as a 2'x8'x5' unit. The workbench is an old roll top desk also with casters, and a base cabinet/test track also has casters.
I live and work at a Boy Scout camp and when I retire and leave the layout will go with me. It is about the size of a car and would easily fit in a garage if the next home doesn't have room indoors. I read many posts about how inefficiently an island layout utilizes the space, but for my needs it is ideal. Track on the two sections connect only at the back of the layout and when the secnery is completed it should loose most of that roundy-roundy look. And the grandkids love it.
Dave
From Mt Pleasant, Utah, the home of the Hill Valley and Thistle Railroad where the Buffalo still roam and a Droid runs the trains
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When I bought my home 15 years ago, I converted the attic room that was used as two kids bedrooms into a 22' x 9' train room and office. I added new Insolation and new dry wall, along with new wall plugs.
My layout is being built in a “spare” room with some restrictions and limitations.
Several sections have been moved in.
A little further along...
There is one open staging yard which must be completed and trouble-shot before I can add the section that will go in front of it.
Some sections are out in the garage. The parts in the house are not ready to connect.
And some parts of the layout exist only as renderings of 3D digital mathematical models.
I have a small collection of Micro-layouts in G and O living in the garage, and a really really small HOn30 layout living on my work bench
Have fun with your trains
My layout is in the basement, together with heating. Approx. 16x 23 feet, about 370 square feet including aisles.
But now I have a second room for my narrow gauge layout. When our youngest son moved out my wife told me, better a railroad than another storeroom. I took this chance. :-)
But I can also say my layout is in my imagilnation: My History of Westport Terminal RR starts "Once upon ..."
For the narrow gauge I have still to write this.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Mine is in CANADA.....................
Really it is in the basement in a 13' x 17' room under the sunken living room with about a seven foot ceiling.
Johnboy out.............................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Mines in the basement sitting there gathering dust. Due to money problems I won't be doing anything for a long while. Got my engines boxed up so they don't gather dust. It really bites. No train running for me. :(
tony314 Mines in the basement sitting there gathering dust. Due to money problems I won't be doing anything for a long while. Got my engines boxed up so they don't gather dust. It really bites. No train running for me. :(
Tony, remember I am off on Wednesdays and Thursdays and you know where I live.
Mine is in my garage kind of G Shaped 8 X 18 X 13 X 8.5 feet.
Have heat and A/C. I plan on tearing it down this summer and start on this plan.
Main lines will be 150 feet and trunk line around 120.
Ken
I hate Rust
Currently we have two layouts....but the discussion is going on now for a more favorable spot for the indoor layout. HO in the basement. Workbench is there too. However, it is not a finished basement, house is 9 years old. Small layout, which my plan was to do a simple circular plan that would allow me to review my skills that has been unused for a number of years, and allow simple experimentation with new technologies and techniques that I needed to learn. That venture has been successful.
Now, discussion is going on to allow one of 4 upstairs bedrooms to be used for trains. Current thought is shelf style, round the room (probably twice), combination point to point with circular continuous running. More to follow....
Issues of the basement are: clutter, storage, wish it was neater for when guests want to visit, doggies won't go to the basement (so they stand at the top of the stairs and cry that "daddy" is down there and they can't be with him), away from the rest of the house.
The other layout is in the yard G scale around the patio. One for the fall, winter and spring, one for the summer.
Try the spare bedroom. It will be out of everybody's way, and will allow for expansion.
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
Mine's in a two-car garage ("California Basement"). A kind of modified 24x24' "G" shape that turns back on itself on two levels. It's just a big, fancy "Dogbone". I've still got some of the garage left over for expansion--mainly a proposed staging yard.
The weather here in the Central Valley is supposed to be seasonably 'mild', but my major drawback is vacuuming pollen during the spring and fall. Other than that, the layout is pretty trouble-free.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!