Where is Your Layout ?

[Acela026]

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

Acela

[retsignalmtr]

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.

[ATLANTIC CENTRAL]

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

[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 .

[Alantrains]

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

 

[richhotrain]

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?  

Rich

 

[richhotrain]

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.

Absolutely awesome.

Thanks for sharing.

Rich

[Alantrains]

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.

[steinjr]

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

[304live]

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

[willy6]

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'.

[Geep Fan]

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

[trnj]

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

[IRONROOSTER]

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

Enjoy

Paul

[VunderBob]

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

[superbe]

 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

[CTValleyRR]

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.

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.

[Medina1128]

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

[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.

[farrellaa]

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

[last mountain & eastern hogger]

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.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

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.

 

[doctorwayne]

Separate room in a finished basement:

 

Wayne

[Motley]

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

[tgindy]

Room dimensions are 9'x9' with an in-the-open offset hallway adjacent to the furnace room for its anti-Jack Frost hobby room winter feature.

In a split-entry home, the basement is not a basement, but half of the lower level is finished, with a hobby room for a 100 year-old library bookcase plus an organ along the wall -- With a 5'x9' layout space.  Now, why would CR&T be N Scale?

[Anonymous]

Mine is right now occupying the better half of my desk, leaving just enough room for a stack of MR copies, the notebook I am typing this on, and a telephone. My wife has already started to be a little grouchy about this mess, so I will have to finally put op the racks & rails for the planned shelf, on which my mini-modular N scale layout will find its final position.

[twhite]

Mine is in a typical "California Basement"--AKA the 2-car garage.  Nobody out around these parts parks their cars in their garages, garages around here are for storage and 'guy stuff'.  The Yuba River Sub is my 'guy stuff', LOL!

Tom

[richhotrain]

Texas Zepher

richhotrain:

So, where is your layout?

At the moment it is in my head.    However, I do have a separate building that I purchased for it.   Making the two meet is the hard part.  I've been three years now just trying to get the building ready (like no leaks in the roof, properly running water, sewer etc.).

Wow, how big is that space?

[BATMAN]

In 1997 at age Forty I finely found someone that could tolerate my weird sense of humour and married her. Sold my average size house on my average size lot in North Vancouver and bought a Mcmansion in the country. 1.25 acres with a near new 5000 Sq. ft house all for the same price as my little house in the city. Can you say "Train Room"?  It was always in the back of my mind to get a house big enough to have a decent Train Room. The only down side was trading in the hot sports car for a Honda Civic for the commute. I rode my bike the 11Kms. each way at the old place.

My layout is in what the Real estate Agent called the guest suit. I hope my guest trains have a happy stay.

The down side of the room is a big window, three doors and a six foot wide entry way into the room. The upside is a fireplace, Bar and full bathroom. One of the bedrooms is my model building/repair room.

We are now looking to move further East as the developers are knocking at the door. When I bought the house the closest bus stop was 12 Km. away, it is now 8Km. away. That's close enough to smell the new Walmart. We are probably going to have a house built for us that will have the things that my wife's hobby needs and 400 Sq. FT. Trainroom. That's about the right size for this Lone Wolf.

Bar with Lazyboy.

Office/repair room.

I feel pretty lucky having the space I want.

                          Brent

[richhotrain]

BroadwayLion

The LION built his railroad in a Classroom! ☺ It is a second (or third floor--depending on how you count them) floor above the library.

How do we know that you're not LION to us?   

Rich