Layout at a glance.

[Jetrock]

Note: Current status/projected status

Name: Sacramento Belt Line
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 6x2/18x8
Height: 46"
Style: bookshelf/around-the-room shelf layout with peninsulas
Period: 1946-1966
Locale: Downtown Sacramento, CA
Theme: Industrial switching, diesel/electric commuter/interurban & industrial switching
Scenery: Cardstock & styrene streets over foamcore/foam & Sculptamold, styrene streets
Control: DC, single cab/DC, multiple cab
Roadbed: None, mounted directly to MDF sheet
Track: Atlas code 100, Peco switches
Max grade: None
Minimum radius: 12"/12" freight tracks, 6" trolley/interurban
Backdrop: 1/8" Masonite/1/8" plastic sheet
Fascia: None/1/8" Masonite
Completion: 6x2 section 75% complete, second section 6x3 benchwork complete and ready for track

[Anonymous]

Layout at a glance

Name: Willoughby LIne
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 13' X 22'
Height: 40" 1st deck /59" 2nd deck
Style: double deck around the room center peninsula w/ duckunder and helix in the corner

Staging: approx.120' of track Under center pennisula & second track in helix
Minmum aisle width: 30" with 27" pinch point
Period: 1952-55
Locale:California Central Valley and Sierras
1st Deck: California Central Valley - scenes include Highway 99, Ninth Street in Modesto with track down the center, large yard, The onion peel
2nd Deck: Sierra Foothills - Scenes include: Hetch Hetchy junction, Rattlesnake gulch, Mather, Groveland engine facility

Theme: Southern Pacific on bottom, Sierra, Hetch Hetcty style freelance on top
Scenery: Hydrocal hardshell with castings
Control: Easy DCC wireless
Roadbed: Homasote on 3/4" cabinet grade plywood
Track: Atlas code 100 in staging. ME flex codes 83,70 & 55 visible sections
Turnouts: #6 minimum ME, Peco (in staging) Shinohara, BK etc...
Max grade: 2%
Minimum radius: 30"
Backdrop: Painted walls with curved corners
Fascia: 1/8" masonite
Completion: 5% - built room, track plan, staging and lower deck benchwork complete

[88gta350]

Name: Indian Valley Railroad
Scale: HO (1:87)
Size: 11' x 22'
Height (average): 50"
Style: Around the wall w/ center peninsula
Period: 1995-2000
Locale: Mifflin County, PA (Central PA appalachians)
Theme: Short line
Scenery: Foam
Control: DCC
Roadbed: Cork
Track: Atlas code 83
Max Grade: 2%
Min. Radius: 24"
Backdrop: painted sky

I should add all this is planned, as construction has yet to start. [:(]

[dave9999]

Layout at a glance

Layout #1
Name: To be determined
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 10' x 12'
Height: 36"
Style: around the room w/ duckunder
Period:1940's- early 1950's
Locale: Based on the Murphy Branch of the Southern Railway
Theme: Freelance
Scenery: Hardshell plaster over foam and newspaper wads
Control: Digitrax DCC
Roadbed: AMI Instant Roadbed
Track: Atlas code 83
Max grade: 2%
Minimum radius: 30"

Layout at a glance

Layout #2
Name: To be determined
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 8' x 10'
Height: 48"
Style: around the room w/ duckunder
Period: 1940's- early 1950's
Locale: ???
Theme: Freelance
Scenery: Hardshell plaster over foam and newspaper wads
Control: Digitrax DCC
Roadbed: Foam
Track: Atlas code 100
Max grade:0%
Minimum radius: 30"
Both layouts running steam and early deisel w/ Soundtraxx and Digitrax decoders. Also BLI QSI.
Patiently waiting for the Tsunami
I'm currently working on layout #2 until the weather gets cooler.
Dave

[rexhea]

Name: Blue Creek & Warrior Railways
Scale: 1:87
Size: 18' x 22' one room + 18' x 2.5" other room
Height: 1st level 50", 2nd level 56", 3d level 62"
Style: Open Grid, 1/2" BC plywood for sub road bed
Period: 50-60's
Locale: Southern Appalachians
Theme: Freelance, Scenery, Industrial (coal, coke, steel, petro, lumber)
Scenery: Cardboard weave, Plaster gauze, Plaster of Paris
Control: Digitrax Super Chief DCC, Lenz turnout control (Mainline only)
Roadbed: Woodland Scenics
Track: Atlas Flex Code 83, 648'
Turnouts: Walthers Shinohara DCC #4 (yards)[:(], #5, #6
Max Grade: 2.5%
Min. Radius: 26" mainline, 22" other
Backdrop: hand painted lauan
Facia: lauan
Roadnames: Southern, GM&O, Norfolk&Western, L&N
Per Cent of Completion: 25%
Completion Date: [(-D][(-D]

[Anonymous]

Name: Union Pacific Green River Sub
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 20' x 24'
Height: 50"
Style: around the room
Period: 1945-1959
Locale: Green River, WY to Ogden, UT
Theme: Union Pacific
Scenery: none yet
Control: Digitrak DCC
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: Shinohara code 70
Max grade: 2%
Minimum radius: 34" upper, 36" lower
Backdrop: hills and castle rocks
Fascia: painted pine

[twhite]

Jonothan: Sincerely hope your layout isn't in a garage, I just spent a couple of weeks tearing out the Bachmann fixed wide-radius curve trackage because the UV rays or whatever it's called here in California, warped the Heck out of my 34-36" radius curves. Just relaid about 90% of my Bachmann with Atlas and a radius guide. I'm so ticked that I can't see straight. Not at Bachmann, because their EZ track is GREAT! But it can't take anything but STRICT indoor weather. Especially after a couple of years. Best of luck to you, though. May your railroad grow to 36" curves and a whole fleet of Big Boys.
Tom
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[orsonroy]

Layout at a glance

Name: Nickel Plate Road, Peoria Division
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 12'x25'
Height: 36" - 54"
Style: triple level corkscrew with wing staging
Period: 1947-1950
Locale: Bloomington to Peoria, Illinois
Theme: Mainline running, terminal yard & interchange at Peoria, industrial switching at Bloomington. Primary road the NKP, with the P&PU, P&E, TP&W, PRR, IC and GM&O as major players (interchange roads with their own tracks and/or sidings), and the ATSF, C&IM, M&StL, CRI&P, CB&Q and C&NW as minor players (transfer runs into Peoria/Pekin only)
Scenery: foam
Control: DC now/DCC once complete
Roadbed: 1/2" foam, homemade
Track: Peco code 75 for all switches, Peco code 75 and Micro Engineering code 70 for mains, Atlas code 83 and M-E code 70 diamonds, Peco code 75 and M-E code 55 sidings, Peco code 75 and Atlas code 83 staging yards
Max grade: 2.5%
Minimum radius: 32" mainline, 24" yards/industrial
Backdrop: painted drywall and 1/4" Lauan plywood
Fascia: none

[IRONROOSTER]

Here's mine:

Name: Virginia & Lake Erie
Scale: 1:64
Size: overall, 11'3" x 18'8"
Height: 58""
Style: around the room w/ duckunder, center island.
Period: mid 1950's
Locale: Eastern
Theme: Double track mainline interchanges with 2' narrow gauge, which leads to waterfront town.
Scenery: none yet
Control: DC
Roadbed: cork
Track: Shinohara code 100 main line code 70 on the narrow gauge.
Turnouts #6's and 8's on mainline, #4's and #6's on the narrow gauge.
Max grade: 0%
Minimum radius: 36" standard gauge, 19" narrow gauge
Backdrop: none
Stage of completion: Benchwork is all done, double track mainline is laid and the inner loop is wired. No scenery yet.

Enjoy
Paul

[Javern]

Layout at a glance

Name: Milwaukee Road
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 11' x 12'
Height: 50"
Style: around the room with swing up
Period: 70's - present
Locale: midwest
Theme: Milw country to city
Scenery: foam/plaster
Control: DCC/Prodigy
Roadbed: Woodland Scenics foam
Track: Atlas code 100
Max grade: 2%
Minimum radius: 26"
Backdrop: undecided
Fascia: 1/8" masonite

[egmurphy]

Guess I can add something to this thread. You need to keep in mind that this is still in the early stages of construction.

Name: F.C.V.N. – Ferrocarril Veracruz Norte (North Veracruz Railroad)
Scale: N 1:160
Size: 3’-0” x 6’-8”
Height: depends on what it’s sitting on. Right now it’s on a dinette table so it’s about 31”. If I ever get permanent folding legs built I’ll shoot for about 44-48”
Prototype (?): Freelanced
Layout type: island (it’s just a hollow core wood door, but I guess you already figured that out from the dimensions, huh?) [:)]
Trackplan: folded loop
Period: 1940-1960 Actually we play pretty fast and loose with the era thing. If it has roofwalks it’s probably acceptable. Cabeese – of course. And NO SNICKERING when I whip out my SD70MAC in TFM colors to watch it run. [swg]
Locale: northern Veracruz State, Mexico, (with a name like that, where else) between Tampico and Poza Rica
Theme: Were we supposed to have a theme??? [%-)] Personally, I like the music from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. Oh, that’s not what you meant? How about small branch line that hauls mostly crude oil and fresh fruit.
Benchwork: Hollow core wood door, covered with ¾” extruded foam
Scenery: extruded foam base, ground foam ground cover (at least that's what the plan is.)
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: traditional cork under mainline, none in yards or sidings
Track: Atlas code 80 flextrack, mostly Atlas standard turnouts (manual)
Max grade: I’m embarrassed to say. [:O] [*^_^*]
Minimum radius: 9-3/4” (unless I kinked some of the flex track trying to squeeze in that tight curve.) [:)]
Backdrop: n/a
Fascia: tbd

Construction Status: about ½ of the track layed. Wiring just starting.

Here's a look at the track plan. If you click on it it shows up better.



Regards

Ed

[FThunder11]

Name: Amtrak cross-country Empire
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall: 52+sq ft
Height: 24 "
Style: along 2 wall(mabey a little more soon)
Period: present
Locale: USA
Theme: Amtrak and other Class 1's
Scenery: none so far
Control: DCC soon
Roadbed: woodland senics roadbed, and a little cork
Track: Micro Engineering code 83 concrete flex track
Max grade: 2% probably
Minimum radius: Good question, i havn't measured, and its enough for a 6 axel diesel to get around
Backdrop: just the sky(mabey)

[brothaslide]

Currently,

It's all in my mind - hoping to become reality some day.

[Anonymous]

Layout at a glance

Name: Southwest Pacific
Scale: HO 1:87
Prototype: UP, SP, WP, ATSF, DRGW, MoPAC and CNW
Size: 5x8
Hieght: Not sure yet
Style: Free standing table
Period: 1940-1960
Locale: The Overland Route from Omaha to LA
Theme: Good old fashioned western railroading!
Scenery: Foam and plaster
Control: Digitrax DCC
Roadbed: N/A
Track: Bachmann Code 100 EZ Sectional track
Max Grade: 1.5%
Minimum Radius: 18''
Backdrop: Not sure yet

[robengland]

Name: South Pacific Lines
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 11' x 11'
Height: 40" (I have a young son)
Style: walk-in U, kinda
Period: 1974
Locale: an imaginary New Zealand where US prototypes prevailed
Theme: junction of branch line with main (there is only one main in NZ [:D]), Traffic: stock, frozen meat, coal, timber, local freight, passenger, tourism
Motive power: mixed steam and diesel, a doodlebug
Scenery: not yet
Control: Digitrax DCC with DT300 infrared throttle (and UT4 when it comes out), some Soundtraxx sound (but waiting now for Surroundtraxx), digital fast clock, Tortoises with DS54, Digitrax detection/transponding (BDL168 and RX4), JMRI CTC under development, planned Digitrax signalling
Control panels: flat screen LCD monitors and sandwiched acrylic/photoprint/styrene
Framing: galvanised steel framing with 2" blue foam, in big modules just small enough to get out the door. Some trad plywood on L-girders planned just to compare.
Roadbed: traditional cork. Some experiments in cork tiles, AHM, bedroll foam...
Track: Tillig Elite code 83 (lovely stuff!) and some Peco 100 on hidden staging
Max grade: 5% briefly, 3% generally, 8% switching to the wharf!
Minimum radius: 22" main, 12" industrial switching
Backdrop: hand-painted masonite. Will try adding some photo landscapes later
Fascia: 1/8" masonite
Room: basement

This is a learning layout while waiting for renovations to provide a room for the "real" layout in 3-5 years, which will be about the same floor area but triple decked.

[Anonymous]

Layout at a glance

Name: Allegheny, Mercer, and Lake Erie Railroad
Scale: 1:87
Size: To Be Determined Later
Height: TBD
Style: TBD
Period: First week of October 1998
Locale: Western Pennsylvania
Theme: Coal, steel, and intermodal
Scenery: TBD
Control: DCC
Roadbed: cork
Track: Handlaid code 100
Max grade: 2.5%
Minimum radius: 32.5" upper, 30" lower
Backdrop: TBD
Fascia: TBD

So far, nothing at all exists. College football season has eaten up my weekends and no job means food comes first in the budget, but in a few weeks I'll have some spending money and two away games in a row. I'll use those two weekends to start work on a pair of sections that could fit into my dream layout whenever that day comes.

[Anonymous]

Name: Northeast metro
Locale: Northeast Corridor
Scale: HO
Size: 24' * 20'
Min radius: 22" (subway system), 26" (mainline)
Max Grade 3% (subway system), 2% (mainline)
Track: code 100, Switch #4 (subway system), #6 elsewhere
Construction: open grid style
Era: 1940's to 1960's

With any luck i will be able to reproduce some sections of the city subway systems, as well as the sections of rail, currently owned by Amtrak and Metro North, i think. The perfect way to keep a good balance of a big city scene and suburban life.
........too bad its still a dream in the making so far. :(

[twhite]

Aggrojones: Cool. Sounds like a good layout. Let's see, here are my stats.
Railroad: YUBA RIVER SUB, D&RGW.
Scale: HO
Size: 24x24
Height: 43"-56"
Min Radius: 34"
Max grade: 2.4%
Track: Code 100 main, 83 yard
Turnouts: #5 Yard, #6/8 Main
roadbed: Woodland Scenics
Construction: 3/4" extruded foam over 1x2 pine frame.
Layout type: Around the wall w/ walk-in, 2 duck unders for maintenance
Scenery: aluminum screen w/plaster cloth, hardshell w/paper (combination)
Backdrop: Masonite
Era: 1942-52
Motive power: 100% steam.
Railroads: Rio Grande, SP (trackage rights) some GN. Borrowed motive power from C&S, C&O, Pennsy and N&W--used by Rio Grande.
Projected completion: Never, I hope.

[AggroJones]

What are the stats for your current layout? Or your planned one? Or whatever railroad your working on? Lets here it.

Layout at a glance

Name: Sierra Pacific & Eastern
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 11' x 11'
Height: 46"
Style: around the room w/ duckunder
Period: 1944-1956
Locale: California Sierra Foothills
Theme: Freelance --Southern Pacific meets Santa Fe
Scenery: glueshell with plaster castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: Atlas code 83 and 100
Max grade: 2%
Minimum radius: 26" upper, 22" lower
Backdrop: 1/4" masonite
Fascia: 1/8" masonite