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Posted by Motley on Friday, December 2, 2011 12:35 PM

Mine is in a finished half-basement. It takes up the entire space. There is a laundry room and bathroom.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, December 2, 2011 12:58 PM

Separate room in a finished basement:

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, December 2, 2011 1:09 PM

No basejment, no attic, no garage. Mine is located in the front room of my 25' trailer. The long side with the extension (Layout Ext) is ten feet long. The other side by the door is six and a half feet and it's seven feet eight inches wide. Diagram is not to scale.

 

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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Friday, December 2, 2011 1:59 PM

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The LM&E is in a 17 ft. by 13 ft. room in the basement under our sunken living room. It has about 7ft. 3 in. headroom. There is a lead track that goes through the wall and becomes four staging tracks in a storage area that are about 12 ft. long.

The main layout is comprised of three levels. only the arriving track is on the lowest level as of yet and for awhile. But it will have interchange tracks on one side and industrial area on the other.   ( no windows) 

It also has a four ft. six inch duckunder to get under the two mainlines and into the main room.  So far there has been no problems and I consider it some exercise going in and out.  If I cripple up too bad I will rearrange that into a drop bridge I do believe. But not in the works right now.

I also have a "little"  workshop in that storage area as well for doing on the spot repairs. I do most of my building in the computer room on the main floor.   There are overhead shelves on both sides of that storage room for rolling stock storage as well as a mini belt sander and a mini table saw.

I consider myself very fortunate for this space and my wife has no problems that I have taken this over.

Johnboy out.....................................and trying to get down to the train room.

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Posted by farrellaa on Friday, December 2, 2011 7:16 PM

I built a 24' x 26' addition to my house about 5-6 years ago, just for my HO layout (plus a basement for my wood working shop. I have a 20' x 18' layout with a little space around it for workbench, storage and viewing. It is about 70% done (most of the track is in place and some minor scenery has been started) and I am anxious to get to the detailing stages but have to keep reeling myself back to prevent working myself into a corner.

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Friday, December 2, 2011 7:47 PM

richhotrain
Wow, how big is that space?

It is a school house gym. So it is a full basket ball court 95x50 with bleachers on each side and a full stage on the end.  I guess about 125x80 not counting the front lobby/bathroom/concession area.  9600 square feet or so. 

here is a snap shot of the inside.  This was taken the first day we looked at the property before we bought it.  It looks much better now without all the desks all over and floors swept up.

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Posted by Medina1128 on Friday, December 2, 2011 8:19 PM

Mine's in the train room. Non-model railroaders call them basements.


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Posted by CTValleyRR on Friday, December 2, 2011 9:16 PM

Texas Zepher

 

 richhotrain:
Wow, how big is that space?

It is a school house gym. So it is a full basket ball court 95x50 with bleachers on each side and a full stage on the end.  I guess about 125x80 not counting the front lobby/bathroom/concession area.  9600 square feet or so. 

 

here is a snap shot of the inside.  This was taken the first day we looked at the property before we bought it.  It looks much better now without all the desks all over and floors swept up.
http://www.walkersquawker.net/images/gym.JPG

Zephyr,

I remember how excited you were when you picked up this fixer-upper (and how jealous most of us were).  Sorry to hear you're still working on it.

For myself, my layout is in a semi-finished basement.  When the kids are done with school, I'll be raising the garage roof and building a guest bedroom and a train room up there.

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Posted by superbe on Friday, December 2, 2011 9:31 PM

 Mine is in a small area of a walk out basement. It is heated and air conditioned with my work bench in the same area. 

My wife actually offered the adjoining rec room, but I couldn't bring myself to "trash" it.

As you can see I used it as my home office. After retiring I did move the oak desk on the left along with the computer, printer, etc to the rec room. Incidently the desk was bought used and had been in  SCL/ LN office. A calander dated 1981 is on a pull out'.  

 

 

 

 

 Hey, the blue walls are a big improvement over the rose colored block sealer.

Good thing I didn't use the rec room for a larger layout when this one isn't half finished. That would have made me feel real guilty.

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Posted by VunderBob on Friday, December 2, 2011 9:33 PM

Where is my layout? Still sitting in the racks at Lowe's.

I used to be clueless, but i've turned that around 360 degrees.

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Friday, December 2, 2011 9:49 PM

Mine is in the basement.  Current phase is 12x31 ft.  I plan to expand into more of the basement later on.

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Posted by trnj on Friday, December 2, 2011 10:09 PM

My present layout is in our laundry room, a 8' x 6' x8' point to point switching layout.  My other layouts have usually been in a spare bedroom.

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Posted by Geep Fan on Friday, December 2, 2011 10:17 PM

Mine is located in the finished basement... taking the space that formerly was my son's bedroom who is now married and has his own home. When completed it will 9 x 16 space. 

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Posted by willy6 on Friday, December 2, 2011 11:16 PM
Mine is in my daughters old bedroom,10.5'x 14'.The HO layout is 10.5'x8.0' duck under.The duck under standing up space is 2'x4'.
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Posted by 304live on Saturday, December 3, 2011 12:07 AM

well this week I just got the half of the basement that doesnt have any furnaces etc in it cleaned out... thats where mine will be... lol

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Posted by steinjr on Saturday, December 3, 2011 1:04 AM

One small around the walls switching layout with a lift-out across the door in a 6.5 x 11.5 foot workshop/tool storage room on the ground floor:


One small (8 feet x 15") switching shelf on the back wall of our upstairs living room:

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Posted by Alantrains on Saturday, December 3, 2011 4:23 AM

oops, didn't get back to this thread until now,

Spare room is a study between garage and rest of the house, so I have to leave a path thru the 2 doorways. Gives me a 12ft X 6ft rectangle with a couple of extensions in the corners.

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Posted by richhotrain on Saturday, December 3, 2011 4:33 AM

Texas Zepher

 richhotrain:
Wow, how big is that space?
It is a school house gym. So it is a full basket ball court 95x50 with bleachers on each side and a full stage on the end.  I guess about 125x80 not counting the front lobby/bathroom/concession area.  9600 square feet or so. 

here is a snap shot of the inside.  This was taken the first day we looked at the property before we bought it.  It looks much better now without all the desks all over and floors swept up.
http://www.walkersquawker.net/images/gym.JPG

Absolutely awesome.

Thanks for sharing.

Rich

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Posted by richhotrain on Saturday, December 3, 2011 4:41 AM

OK, here is the tally so far:

Basement - 16

Spare Room - 12

Bedroom - 6

Separate Structure - 4

Garage - 3

So, we have 41 layouts accounted for.

What I can't figure out is the 756 Views of this thread and only 41 identifying a location.

C'mon, the rest of you, where is your layout?   Bang Head

Rich

 

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Posted by Alantrains on Saturday, December 3, 2011 5:19 AM

I'm slightly jealous of Richhotrains layout room/building.

Here's my entire layout. Well just about all of it, there's a bit more in the bottom right corner

 

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Posted by modelmaker51 on Saturday, December 3, 2011 5:28 AM

Another basement layout. It has it's own 12x23 ft room. It's an around the walls with a center peninsula double decked layout.. My  12x18 around 3 walls workshop is next door, my desk and computer are on the 4th wall. There's also a 6x18 ft furnace room that also houses the helix. the last room is 12x24 and is the party roomDrinks Cool Whistling.

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Saturday, December 3, 2011 6:30 AM

modelmaker51

Another basement layout. It has it's own 12x23 ft room. It's an around the walls with a center peninsula double decked layout.. My  12x18 around 3 walls workshop is next door, my desk and computer are on the 4th wall. There's also a 6x18 ft furnace room that also houses the helix. the last room is 12x24 and is the party roomDrinks Cool Whistling.

Party room? There is no better party than model trains, that space would go to the layout real quick if it was mine.

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Posted by retsignalmtr on Saturday, December 3, 2011 6:36 AM

My N scale layout was in my family room. An around the walls shelf with a 74 foot single track main with a couple of passing tracks. When running I had to install two lift out sections to span doorways and my cats used it as a raceway to get from window to window  and I couldn't run it continuious in the winter because it ran too close behind my woodstove. 

I moved it up to an unused 11 ft X 8 ft bedroom, reversed the swing of the door to have the entire space for layout. With the addition of a helix I will get the 74 foot mainline back.

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Posted by Acela026 on Saturday, December 3, 2011 6:08 PM

Bedroom.  Glad I'm into trains, when we moved I got the largest room! 

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Posted by Dusty Solo on Saturday, December 3, 2011 8:51 PM

Since the day my folks bought an electric washing machine and a Frigidaire and moved them inside the house I have been using this block shed in our back yard where I could build models and run trains. This was in the 1970’s., when they strung power lines, and I built up wooden benches for working at and a layout. First there was just a test track then a loop and last I put in switches and a wye. I like to keep things simple because its easier to maintain that way

 

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Posted by dale8chevyss on Saturday, December 3, 2011 9:05 PM

Mine was in the basement of my old house, and in the basement of the new house.  It's a 4X8.  Did I mention I moved it as a whole?  4X8 doesn't seem so small when you are moving it as a whole unit.  I'll never do that again. 

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Posted by joe27 on Saturday, December 3, 2011 9:14 PM

Mine was in a spare bedroom but since we moved it is now a memory with parts in boxes.Sad

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Saturday, December 3, 2011 9:46 PM

Attached 2-car garage, 25x25 with insulated walls & ceiling and its own heating/cooling unit.  In addition to the main doors (which are always bolted shut), there is a door on the side and a door into the main house where I need to maintain an open path; also a stand-up freezer against the house wall where I also need to keep it clear.  So my layout can only fully cover 2 of the 4 walls.  But I've still managed to squeeze-in a layout that satisfies my givens-n-druthers.

When my wife and I were house-hunting, I told her I required one with space for a reasonable-sized layout.  So we agreed from the beginning that the garage would be mine (except for the freezer of course!).

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Saturday, December 3, 2011 10:54 PM

Hello mine layout is in a 3rd floor room its18 x 12. It might have been a Attic at one time but it finished now. Here is a pic

Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by richhotrain on Sunday, December 4, 2011 5:28 AM

0-6-0

Hello mine layout is in a 3rd floor room its18 x 12. It might have been a Attic at one time but it finished now. Here is a pic

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j229/0-6-0/DSCN2754.jpg

Have a nice day Frank

There you go.  Our first attic layout.   Bow

Rich

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