Your Train Room

[n2mopac]

Mine is in an unfinished basement used for storage, launtry, etc. So I guess you could say EVERYTHING is in my trainroom.

Ron

[rexhea]

Detached from the house, my train room is a 24'x 40' former shop with 18' x 40' adjoining garage. The main Layout area is in former shop area and covers half of it. The other half has one large work bench for model assembly and scenery projects, one small work bench for electrical and loco work, paint table, and an old dinette table and chairs for what-evers. One corner is reserved for relaxing and reading MR pubs with a two lounge chairs and TV.

The adjoining garage has a 2' x 18' extension off the main layout for elevation and staging purposes, but also houses my table saws (woodwork area), bass boat, lawn mowers, mechanic tools, and lots of junk accrued from over 38 years of marriage.

[steamage]

My train room is 32 x 9 feet in a remodeled attic room. Also in the room is my office desk and computer and a sofa to nap on. My wife has the rest of the house downstairs.

[AggroJones]

Let's see here.....The 11' x 11' SP&E is in there, 6 milk crates full of Model Railroader magazines, railroad books. My bed, TV , DVDplayer, and a broken stereo are under part of the layout. Several large plastic storage containers are stacked around in there.

Unfortunately, my clothes are in there too, which means alot more dust and lint in the air than otherwise.
I used to have a 6' tall shelf , I cut it down low enough to fit under the layout. It houses all the locomotive and freight car boxes.

I've got posters of trains and women on the wall. Lots of women. [:D]

[Jetrock]

My space is a 18x8 foot "no-car garage" detatched from my house. As to what is in it:

Band equipment, including PA, drums, a bass guitar made out of a 2x4, giant lizard costume, giant shark costume, giant demon costume, giant prop demon head that shoots smoke out of its eyes, microphones, monitor wedges, box of band T-shirts, randomly changing amount os 1/4" speaker cable, and duct tape. I've also got my boxes of party/nightclub supplies (dancefloor lights, tablecloths, candles, napkins, wristbands, etc.) and my DJ equipment in a big case.

Two work tables, with tool wall, in the process of being dismantled and replaced with wall-mounted shelf layout. The lawnmower is in there because it needs to plug into power for charging but just about all my gardening stuff is now in a shed in the backyard.

And, of course, the ever-expanding Sacramento Belt Line, gracefully making its way along the outer perimter of the room...

[PistolPete]

Lets see, train room/office/den for me, about 12 by 13. Lay out size about 25 ft of 2 foot wide shelf on the walls with one 4x8 peninsula. Height about 52 " with just enough clearence for my computer and TV. Walls are still flat white a few train pictures lots of soccer pictures and awards. The space is tight but doable.
I do need to find some space or way to display a break wheel and twin leadlight cover from some freight cars and an engine my bother helped decommision. Any Ideas?

[Anonymous]

My basement, It has my 4 X 16 ft. Eastern RR layout. Train pictures on the wall. My computer which has alot of train things in it.

[Anonymous]

Large Train Layout, welder, cutting torches, steel, small unfinished dragons, sm.pieces of wood scrap, plastic sheet, large plastic mirror, framing clamps, lots of tools, misc. hardware,
drill press, RR pictures, RR photo albums, framed pictures, art photo albums,
gas heater, 2 large fans & 4 sm. fans, rolling steel layout tables, cutoff saw, band saw,
table w/about 5 diff. grinders, rolling train workbench under train table, rolling storage
table for model rr supplies, long lengths of steel(sq.tubing, angle, flat bar, round stock),
train display cases, xtra tables along one wall for future layout expansion, sheets of expanded metal, 4x8 sheets of plywood, tarps, & whatever you can find laying around in
a metal sculpture work shop & a cluttered train room in the construction phase.

Larry

[camarokid]

My layout, all my tools that I need to build it, TV, CD player w/dual tape player, AM-FM Stereo radio and turntable. On top and bottom of the layout is all the boxes in the world that my wife thinks she needs to keep to send things to our married daughter. It's a mess.

[GDRMCo]

My bed, wardrobe that will have a draw full of trains connecting to my layout, brakets to hold up my yet to be constructed layout and a big barrel of polystyrene foam for scenery.

[mustanggt]

My garage. used to be shared with a kawasaki ninja, 10 rc cars, and junk, as usual[;)]

[PennsyHoosier]

layout and . . . a deer head. My room is the only place my wife will allow it.

[BNSFNUT]

Work bench , furnace,water pump, hot water tank, table saw , drill press, band saw, and lots of junk and oh yes a layout.

[tomwatkins]

My railroad room is a 13 1/2 by 15 1/2 finished room in the basement. It holds the layout, unbuilt kits, small tools and supplies. I built shelf units under the layout for storage of most things, but the kits are in large cardboard boxes. Lumber, foamboard and other large materials are stored in the basement proper.
Have Fun,
Tom Watkins

[fec153]

Garage, same as twhite BUT thankfully,NO cat. Soon will be a TRIKE. Custom 80 Harley conversion. My wifes. I'll ride SHOTGUN. Bikers know what I mean when I state-I DONT RIDE B---H!
Flip.

[Anonymous]

My train room is an "L" about 500 square feet. All that's in the train room is benchwork / layout / trains. Rolling stock stored in mobile pull-out shelving under the benchwork. My railroad art is displayed on the walls of the stairwell leading down to the basement (also a couple of pieces in my offce - I work from home). My nicer locomotives are stored in hardwood glass-front wall display cases. One of them is in my office, the other three are in the workshop room that leads into the train room.

[Trainnut484]

My wife and I just moved into a house, and one of the bedrooms (small) is my train room with plastic tubs housing my HO collection, boxes full of train books and pictures, clothing (non-railroad) that we don't know what to do with now (donations to Salvation Army sound good to me), and I have the feeling more stuff will be stored in there until we get everything unpacked.

Of course, I planned on my train room being the last thing to shape up. There are plenty of boxes in the other rooms to unpack.

Take care,

Russell

[Fergmiester]

It's a 600 square foot Rec Room in the shape of a "L" with a 1/2 T on the top, which is the work shop. About 300 sq' is layout or slated to be layout with the remainder being a TV/gaming room. There are three sunken book shelves in the wall with train, marine, transportation, gardening and some misc. reading. There are also three ship models on the shelves. On one wall is a ship's wheel, semaphore flags and Brass Port and Stbd Nav lights from the old Pilot Boat in St John's, Nfld.

Three walls have a sky mural painted on them as a backdrop, another has a 18" Brass Porthole mounted on it. And there are several other nautical mementos hung on the walls as well as two train posters.

And my Scouting/Cubbing Stuff is stowed under the layout!

Regards
Fergie

[twhite]

Garage--share the train with the lawnmower, washer, dryer, hot water heater, some toolboxes and a cat that wandered in six years ago and decided never to leave, which means a kitty-litter box that has to be changed every other day. Oh, yes, leftover lumber from the initial framing that is never going to leave either, since I may sneak out there when nobody's around and expand the layout--and when I'm asked what happened, I can put on a Very Innocent Face and say, "I don't know, it was there when I got up, this morning."
Tom

[jacon12]

That's it on the left,,, though it does have a roof on it now, but the inside is still pretty much the same.[:)]

[Hawks05]

my layout is in a really tiny bedroom/storage room. it was a bedroom when one of the previous owners back in the 60s and 70s had like 8 kids and didn't have enough room for all of them. when my parents moved in in the 81 it was turned into the storage room. last year my mom and i cleaned out a space big enough for a 4x8 layout. we have rubbermade tubs lined up around 2 walls, an old dresser with nothing in that i should just have them throw away so i can add onto my layout, a book shelf that is full of teaching books and other stuff my mom had, and then a closed. so bascially its my layout with a fort of tubs around it. i want to get a desk this weekend to somehow put in there for a work station so i don't have to use my bedroom all the time for everything.

[orsonroy]

layout, workbench, tools, RR magazine, book and reference material collection, RR photo collection, RR models, RR modelling supplies, layout construction supplies, paint, adhesives, furnace, water heater, freezer chest, chairs, dust, garbage, and the occasional dog, person or cat.

[mikebonellisr]

I'm a cartoonist and I share my railroad with my workspace in a 20x20 ft studio above my garage.The area for my artwork is getting smaller and smaller and smaller and.........

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by RedLeader

Besides my layout (under construction), a whole big mess...

[#ditto] *sigh* just the layout, a bunch of boxes, and a dark basement.

[Anonymous]

well the layout, three shelf units to hold rolling stock / some of my locos. an old union pacific calendar (50s) a painting of the mount hood railroad.. i have an old up stock cert and pic of big boy to go up and i have a big blueprint of a sd40-2 in UP. and a gp30 blueprint. ok so i have more 'stuff' than wall space.. go figure..

[egmurphy]

My "Train Room", .....sigh...... I should be so lucky. My small layout is temporarily setup in one part of our bedroom. And I'm thankful to our VP of Real estate and Finances (also known as my dear wife) for allowing me to keep it there this long and for not making me tilt it up against the wall when I'm not actively engaged in working on it.

All my model railroad magazines and most of my railroad books are in the bookcase in the bedroom also.


Regards

Ed




Ed

[Anonymous]

only thing in my train room is my model railroad and my work area for my Nitro rc car. but for the time being my trains have overtaken my rc work area.

[cwclark]

i have the layout of course, pictures of railroad memorabilia, my diploma, honorable discharge from the u.s. navy, and all my boy scout stuff from when i was a scoutmaster...

[RedLeader]

Besides my layout (under construction), a whole big mess...

[Anonymous]

What's in your Train Room? Mine has the model railroad, railroad posters and pictures on the wall, NASA Posters, Train Collection, and my Hot Wheels cars collection.[8D]