Mine is in a finished half-basement. It takes up the entire space. There is a laundry room and bathroom.
Michael
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Separate room in a finished basement:
Wayne
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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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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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.
-Bob
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richhotrainWow, how big is that space?
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.
Mine's in the train room. Non-model railroaders call them basements.
Marlon
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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.
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.
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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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.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
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.
Mine is in the basement. Current phase is 12x31 ft. I plan to expand into more of the basement later on.
Enjoy
Paul
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.
John in Carolina
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.
Corey
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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
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:
Smile,Stein
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.
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
Absolutely awesome.
Thanks for sharing.
Rich
Alton Junction
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?
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
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 room .
Jay
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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 room .
Party room? There is no better party than model trains, that space would go to the layout real quick if it was mine.
Sheldon
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.
Bedroom. Glad I'm into trains, when we moved I got the largest room!
Acela
The timbers beneath the rails are not the only ties that bind on the railroad. --Robert S. McGonigal
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.
Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.
Mine was in a spare bedroom but since we moved it is now a memory with parts in boxes.
Joe
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!).
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
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
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 Have a nice day Frank
There you go. Our first attic layout.