Your dream layout????????????

[GAPPLEG]

Just enough room to do the Lordsburg Sub. of the SP justice.

[trainfreek92]

thanxs for all the replies guys!!!! and nice plans. it would also be mice to make it to Great Model Railroads!! Tim

[MidlandPacific]

The Colorado Midland from Leadville to Basalt over the original High Line.

[Anonymous]

My dream layout would be modelled in a scale of 12 inches to the foot! Be built over a length of about ten miles and ideally my first locomotive would be a Standard gauge Alco Brooks 2-8-2 (built in 1925), currently residing in Cuba!

On a more sober scale (OO scale) I would love to build a model of a British four track mainline set in 1950/60 near the end of steam, with the fast expresses over taking slow goods trains, and all steam loco's being trashed to their limits on 13 coach expresses!

In the mean time I'm happy planning my On30 Cuban layout, it'll be about 8ft by 2ft to start with, with plenty of room for expansion at either end!

Regards,

Stephen.

[Marty Cozad]

Tim
Way back when I was 13, "I had a dream". Life will throw so many things at you that I only pray that you'll still be in the hobby.

It takes choices and planning to stay in the hobby.
My wife right before we got married found out i had trains stored at mom's house, my dreams had been packed away.

14 years ago i sold all my HO, and became an out door railroader. now i 'm catching up with my age group of old dudes traveling around playing trains.
I've had many a dream layout. Just staying in the hobby is a dream.[^]

[railroadyoshi]

Bukwurm, I've got a similar plan. Currently, the 9x8 i'm working on will become part of the larger layout, since my current layout represents one of those focal points. (and will get an unreasonably proportionally large area)

Trainfreek, which route would you take up to Burlington?

[james saunders]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wairoa

A huge club layout in a 1000 x 500 foot warehouse with 3 levels and all in HO scale except for the British portion which would be in OO. Ahh. It would have a port scene 200 feet long and 50 wide, ahh yes.

i would PAY to see that!!!

OZJIM

[Anonymous]

The Iron Belt is as close to "dream" as anything I'll ever achieve, it is larger and will have more of my favorite operating/scenic elements than any of my earlier layouts. I'm within 2 months of being able to take my trains and assembled structures out of storage and put them back on, but first I want to hide any remaining bare plywood. I did all of the work myself so I don't have to worry about depending on anybody else to fix any malfunctions (especially electrical ones).

Being contented with what I can afford -- now that's my REAL dream![:D]

[on30francisco]

The building would be as big as an airplane hangar and would be climate controlled. One layout would be On30 narrow gauge and an O scale standard gauge shortline set in an eastern, mountainous, backwoodsy area around the early 1900s. My second layout would be in HO scale around the transition era in the eastern part of the country with dense urban areas and mountainous country (love those bridges and trestles). It would have a mainline and a branch line. My third one would be a G scale logging layout. I might even try to build an O scale traction layout.

[nbrodar]

One that I will actually finish. I've started seven layouts, and never finished one. My current one is the farthest along.

Nick

[SpaceMouse]

Kinda Sorta.

I wanted a 1890's layout in the redwoods. That wasn't practical because there wasn't a lot of railroading in that time period in the redwoods. And ceratinly not enough to do the kind of ops I was envisoning. So I have converted my son's 4.5 x 8 (soon to be 5 x 8 with staging) Hogwart's layout to the 1885 Rock Ridge and Train City.

Within a week or so, I'm building the benchwork for a switching layout that will be about 15 30" in an L shape that will be the Union Lumber Saw Mill and End Yard of the California Western Railroad in 1917. I won't really start it until the smaller layout is finished--about 6 months from now. There will be hidden staging and will eventually connect via 50' of double trrack along the wall to Phase 2, the logging camp and log loading areas. Then Phase 3 will be the Northwestern Pacific Interchange at Willits and the NWP north to Fort Stewart. Phase 3 will be bigger than phase 1 and 2 combined. At this time, the Rock Ridge and Train City should have moved upstairs into my office.

[jecorbett]

I am building my dream layout. It is a freelanced railroad which is a composite of several lines which terminated on the west bank of the Hudson across from New York. (Erie, DL&W, NYOW). The modeled portion of the railroad is in fictitious towns but connects with real locations through staging yards and dummy interchanges.

I am in my retirement home which was designed with a large open basement with this railroad in mind. After 4 years here, it is coming together although not as fast as I had hoped or expected. I really think this winter will be the time I break out and really make some serious progress.

[Anonymous]

Yes and no. I am building sections that I hope to incorperate into my dream layout and I am working on a final plan for it.

An airplane hanger or abandoned Wal-Mart would be nice if I had unlimited time and funds but I like the house I am in now and even if my wife disagrees I have other intrests.

[mustanggt]

I think I've said this before but....

An HO replica of the entire Northeast Corridor. Starting at South station, in Boston and ending at Washington DC. MBTA from boston to providence, which would be a couple hundred feet of track in itself. Also featuring: CSX, Guilford, Providence & Worchester, Metro-North, NJT, Septa, 100 car unit trains, Point to point operation with hidden staging, DCC, CTC signaling, full automation ability, all housed in an old warehouse. Oh yeah, and it would be a club layout too, to prevent one person maintanence nightmares that would happen with such a complex layout.

[Anonymous]

I've thought about a big around the walls shelf layout, that all comes together at a double ended yard, that would function as visible staging. It would have three or four cities on it, that could each be done as a stand alone switching layout. It would be large enough that a train running laps on the mainline could easliy stand in for scheduled through freights.

What I think I really want, is a smaller shelf layout along one or two walls. My current 4 1/2x1 would be the "West" (left side) end, with unscenicked staging to the left, and two more towns to the "East." There'd be a stretch of mainline between the current layout, nad the other two towns. The other two would be physically close, but at different elevations, preventing a direct rail connection between them. Any cars moving between the two, would require an interchange at the current section. (I really need to name that town.) I'd probably put more unscenicked staging out past one of the new cities, but leave the other one as the end of it's branch.

It would probably be no more than 12' long sans staging, and only two feet deep, at it's deepest point. This is N scale, btw.

[Cox 47]

The Illinois Central Mattoon to Evansville line thru Toledo, Greenup, Newton and southSingle track With big yards at both ends..Cox 47

[rolleiman]

Wabash RR.. Single level (none of that stacking stuff for me), Car Ferry operation from Detroit to Windsor with operating ferrys of course.. Okay, there would be some staging representing the run through Ontario to Buffalo NY.. From Detroit west, Montpelier OH where it would branch off to Chicago and and to Decatur Ill. Leaving both of those areas and on into St. Louis Union Station.. AND.... The Ann Arbor RR, which the Wabash owned at the time, running from Toledo, through Detroit, up to Frankfort Michigan.. With those locations, having tracks cross in various appropriate places, I could run just about any power I wanted to. Hey, you Did say Dream layout..

Actually, this layout exists, just WAAAAAAAAAAY scaled down to fit the space and wallet and the true dream would be to fini***he layout I have..

Jeff
[8D]

[Noah Hofrichter]

My dream layout is a Layout based on the WSOR Reedsburg Sub, modeling exactly all 50-60 miles of foot by foot. But, thay will never happen, so my actual goal is to model the WSOR Reedsburg sub, with the scenery in between towns condenced but the towns modeled as they are.

Noah

[twcenterprises]

I would model the Gainesville NorthWestern as it may have appeared in 1957 had it survived. I would model it inch for inch in 2 50x500 foot buildings connected by a corridor on one end resulting in a "U" shaped configuration.

Brad

[Anonymous]

it would be my ficticous railroad, the conecticut river valley(see my bio) and set in the early 90's.

i would have it be around the wall, 30'' shelves, going from the conecticut coast to newport in vermont, with huge yards at each end and several industurial areas in the middle. most of it would be double track mainline, crossing the big CT river every 20 (scale) miles or so.

the scenery would be mid fall, with some bare trees and a light coat of snow near the canada border.

the trains would be fairbanks morse, baldwin, and alco, piulling bridge traffic for cadian national and CSX and new england central; and local/switching jobs along the mainline, with occasional excursion trains.

the buildings would be typical new england suburbs, industurial, and cities, with big yards outside the major cities.

all in the big 60'x100' whare house that doesnt exist. [:p]

Happy Dreaming! lol

GEARHEAD426


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[joegreen]

I dont really have the blue-prints yet but I have a pretty good idea of what it's going to be. I'd like to model the BNSF Aurora Sub or the IC&E Chicago Sub. I'm 16 so I still have many years left(or do I????????) to build a layout. My first dream is to become a railroad engineer so after that we'll see if I have time for a layout. I'll probably get a friend to help out building and designing it. I know of a model railroad club near me so maybe I'll join and help out with their huge layout.

[Tracklayer]

I have a lot of dream layouts, but if I could have anything I wanted, I'd go with the biggest model scale there is in steam era, and I'd build it around the D&RGW of about 1900.

Tracklayer

[Texas Zepher]

Well, my future is a former gym/auditorium about 90 x 60 two stories, viewing gallaries on the second level on three sides. Normally I'm pretty good at track plans but every time I've put pen to paper for this one I am overwhelmed.

[jeffshultz]

I don't know if this is my dream layout - but it's my current dream.... it's the first time in over 20 years I have space to have a real layout.

[Anonymous]

Well, my layout is nonexsistent. Being in an apartment sucks, but one step at a time, I wanted to get a small N scale layout up on maybe 4' x 6' but we'll see. My dream layout would be like the ones you see at the big hobby shops...trains...trains...and more trains. Just trains after trains, tracks upon tracks and great views. The dream layout where you always have space, time, and money to add more....

[tmcc man]

My dream layout will be in the future as well. I am 15, and I have my dream layout planned already. It will be O gauge, around the walls, about 50 by 50, and will have scenery from the floor to the ceiling. It will be Altoona, PA around the 40s, all vintage diesels, and steamers, with a lot of freight and passenger cars. Buildings, stations, coal mines, coal towns, sidings galore and so forth. The engines and cars will be a mix of PRR, NYC, N&W, and a lot of the eastern roads. They will all be command equipped. As for my garden railway, well, too many things to list here[:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

C&O New river and Allengheny sub divisions.

The layout would exit staging at Prince Wva, at Prince I'd model the bridge that crosses the New River to connect to the mines on the Piney creek sub, the Piney creek sub staging yard would have stub ended tracks that all ended into a turntable, To turn doubleheaded H-5 and H-6 2-6-6-2's.

Around the corner from Prince, there would be Quinimont, the coal marshaling yard for the Larel creek branch, the Larel creek branch would be connected to Quinimont via a wye, the wye would connect to a helix that would go down to a lower level that represents the Larel Creek branch. The line would continue into Hinton, the head of the New river line and the beginning of the Allengheny sub. Smaller power would be switched for H-8's and other mountain climbing power.

The Allenghany sub would continue up to Allenghany and down all the way into clifton forge, there would be seperate staging yards for the Peidmont and Mountain Sub divisons at Clifton Forge.

[wairoa]

A huge club layout in a 1000 x 500 foot warehouse with 3 levels and all in HO scale except for the British portion which would be in OO. Ahh. It would have a port scene 200 feet long and 50 wide, ahh yes.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainfreek92
[br what about yours???? Tim[:D]

A FINISHED layout!!![:D]