Mine is already counted, way back on page one, but I thought I would add a diagram.
Two car attached garage.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Massey ,,,Note taken ...new SOP for the West PENN R/R... LOL
HO on traditional bench work in the side yard. Rebuilding to a simpler track plan using hand laid Fast Tracks products. The concern is UV from the Sun, not rain - hey, Phoenix is in the desert.
Decking is 3/4" plywood with cork road bed. Installing risers at present for one-piece end returns (42" radius for outer track)
I've got mine in an 10' x 20' outhouse like the one johncpo has. not as nicely finished tho.
Trainmedic I've got mine in an 10' x 20' outhouse....
I've got mine in an 10' x 20' outhouse....
That's quite a commode!
Steve S
Trainmedic I've got mine in an 10' x 20' outhouse
I've got mine in an 10' x 20' outhouse
I wonder if he's ever had a derailment and lost an engine down the hole.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
richhotrain!
Your response to the LION was absolutely hilarious!!!. No offense to LION but I still have a bit of a hard time with the way he refers to himself.
I am one of the "yet to be" layout people. For now my layout consists of a temporary test track that extends along my workbench and computer desk for about 9 feet. When funds permit (i.e. son graduated, no mortgage) I will claim a 24' x 10' space in the garage. I have been working on the design for several years and improving it as I learn more from these forums. In fact, the financial restraints have saved me from making several (many) newby mistakes that would have occurred had I been able to throw myself into building the layout when I first started.
Great thread!
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critter Your response to the LION was absolutely hilarious!!!. No offense to LION but I still have a bit of a hard time with the way he refers to himself.
What critter find funny, richhotrain now fear. Him immediately try to soothe savage beast, but LION not reply. richhotrain offend LION by misCATegorizing room for him layout. Him explain his foolish oversight, but richhotrain now believe that LION be angry. Lion now silently stalk richhotrain. Him treat richhotrain like prey. Result could be CATaclysmic. richhotrain now want to CATer to LION. Offer olive branch. Him need CATalyst to spur LION to action. richhotrain need to hear from LION. Any response be CAThartic.
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Alton Junction
In spite of the fact that I have now conducted The Greatest Survey Known To Man, I have been asked to improve and categorize the results even further, so I will now do so.
Here are the refined results of the survey to date:
Basement
Traditional - 29
Walkout - 2
Split Level-lower - 1
Total Basement - 32
Living Area
Spare Bedroom - 11
Other Room - 16
Room above garage - 3
Attic - 1
Trailer Home - 1
Total Living Area - 32
Separate Structure
Outbuilding - 8
Garage - 4
School House Gym - 1
Classroom (roar) - 1
Liquor Store - 1
Outside Yard - 1
Total Separate Structure - 16
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Total Primary Layouts - 80
Second Layouts - 5
Contemplated Layouts - 3
Suitcase Layout (?) - 1
A few additional comments.
Some of the reported layouts are shelf layouts. These have been counted in the rooms in which they are located.
Also, those layouts in rooms other than spare bedrooms were originally reported as "spare rooms" but are now recategorized as "other rooms" including dining rooms, living rooms, and family rooms, just to name a few.
Some respondents reported a second layout, in addition to their primary layout, and these second layouts have now been counted but the room location is not stated for these second layouts.
So as not to ignore those who do not currently have a layout but are contemplating one and who responded to this survey, I have now acknowledged them.
Rich
Hi!
I've been away for awhile, so bear with me..........................
Has the layout been found yet ???
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
mobilman44 Hi! I've been away for awhile, so bear with me.......................... Has the layout been found yet ???
LOL
Very funny !
NO SOUP FOR YOU !!!!
I would love to have the one in the Liquor Store.. Just don't ask me to rerail anything.. Yeah the Tank cars would be loaded with Vodka! Ha hah AWESOME!!!
duckdogger HO on traditional bench work in the side yard. Rebuilding to a simpler track plan using hand laid Fast Tracks products. The concern is UV from the Sun, not rain - hey, Phoenix is in the desert. Decking is 3/4" plywood with cork road bed. Installing risers at present for one-piece end returns (42" radius for outer track)
Presumably, you will have some shade or other protection over that. The power of raw sunlight -- as I'm sure you're aware -- is not to be underestimated. The sun will bleach your colors, make your plastics brittle, and wreak havoc with your trackwork as it expands and contracts.
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
I knew there would be someone to jump on that !!!
I have a 36"x80" HCD layout in the breakfast nook.
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
I'm building a 4x8 N scale layout in the spare room.
THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH.
rs2mikeMine resides i my mind only as it becomes more clear and evident that my wife will never allow me the classic car and model train layout . It is far more important to have her ears pinned back than to invest in things that can be sold for money later down the road.
Rich: New Category here...In My Mind....
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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blownout cylinder rs2mike: Mine resides i my mind only as it becomes more clear and evident that my wife will never allow me the classic car and model train layout . It is far more important to have her ears pinned back than to invest in things that can be sold for money later down the road. Rich: New Category here...In My Mind....
rs2mike: Mine resides i my mind only as it becomes more clear and evident that my wife will never allow me the classic car and model train layout . It is far more important to have her ears pinned back than to invest in things that can be sold for money later down the road.
Good morning, BC. You're right. We need a category for those thinking about a layout. In the latest tally, I added the "Contemplated Layouts" category to acknowledge these folks so that they don't feel slighted.
Hi
Mine is in a 18' by 10' shed in the garden. HO west Virginia coal country.
Chris
Here are the results of the survey to date:
Other Room - 18
Total Living Area - 34
Outbuilding - 9
Total Separate Structure - 17
Total Primary Layouts - 83
Contemplated Layouts - 4
My HO layout( the part that is built anyway) is an aound the walls shelf layout on the second story of my house. The upstairs consists of three rooms that are all 13.5' x 13.5' in the shape of an L. My shelf layout goes around the walls of tow of those rooms, passing thru the dividing wall. If I where to start over, Id make the shelf DEEPER. Should have done more planning.
Santa Fe all the way! Should have done more planning.
Should have done more planning.
Shouldn't we all?