where does your empire live

[Anonymous]

Basement. Not cold (or hot) 'cuz I got vents! Yay Heat! Yay A/C! I love the basement.

Train room is ~20x30 (half is actually 26x30). Also in basement is a bathroom, my workshop (about 10x15) and a storage room (also about 10x15). Unfortunately, about half the basement is not full-height, but crawlspace. Not sure why the original owner did that - couldn't have saved much money...

When we went to buy a new house, I told my wife the deal was I would "own" the basement and she could have the rest, so she should buy a house big enough for her w/o refinishing the basement to living space.... Despite the monstrosity she foisted on me, sure enough about the time I started working on the train room, I got noise about "but aren't we going to put a rec room down there?"

Recreation Room? Yep, that's what I'm doing right now, hon. It's called "trains"... he he he.

[Anonymous]

In the train room in the barn. It's heated, and air conditioned, and has a bathroom right next to it, so it doesn't ahve to worry about someone hogging it all the time.
Greg

[jrbernier]

Mine takes up about a 25' by 20' area of the basement - the other half of the basement is my 'crew lounge'....

Jim Bernier

[jrbernier]

Mine takes up about a 25' by 20' area of the basement - the other half of the basement is my 'crew lounge'....

Jim Bernier

[BMRR]

My N scale empire is in my computer room.

Stan.

[bryanbell]

Living in an apartment, I seem to fall into the train collector category. I just keep buying them and they just keep going into storage boxes which are quickly filling my closets.

Bryan

[IRONROOSTER]

In the basement, but it's not cold.
Enjoy
Paul

[Budliner]

that's the king of my railroad


K

[Budliner]

this is HO

[grayfox1119]

In my lower level of a split entry ranch. These style homes, which are still being built, were very popular in the 50's - 80's. They are very nice because the lower level which is really the basement, is not always set 7 feet below grade, especially if they are built on a level lot, Mine is set into a hillside, so the front is walkout and the rear is set fully underground, and that is where the train room is, 10.5 x 27. Not cold though because the furnace is only 10 feet outside the door to the train room, so it stays warm in the winter.

[Budliner]

thats my first img
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
wow


k

[Budliner]

this is so cool we all have things we need to contend with
I too am limited with space constraints
I model a published plan

its a 12X11 and I only have 11X10 I got it in with no ill affects
I never imagined having to put up with wild life (I live in the city)
K-

[howmus]

The Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western is religated to the cold basement. No room upstairs would be nearly big enough to house her. Heat will be added as soon as the construction of the new room is done (and I have the money). [:)]

[tomikawaTT]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite

Couldn't vote, because you left out the entire West Coast where we park our cars on the street and use the garage as our model railroad "West Coast Basement." Which also means that we get to share our Empires with various and assorted bugs and wildlife (mine consists of a family of raccoons who come in after dark and eat the cat food and mutter among themselves ominously while I run trains).
Tom

Second the motion - and not only on the West Coast. I once had a garage layout in South Dakota (and a headbolt heater to keep the displaced car happy).

[twhite]

Couldn't vote, because you left out the entire West Coast where we park our cars on the street and use the garage as our model railroad "West Coast Basement." Which also means that we get to share our Empires with various and assorted bugs and wildlife (mine consists of a family of raccoons who come in after dark and eat the cat food and mutter among themselves ominously while I run trains).
Tom

[tmcc man]

My O gauge layout is in my basement, my HO pike is at my grandparent's, and I will soon have my G scale empire outside (it looks puny right now, a small loop around the family room, and large diesels going around tight corners). I will post pictures on the GR forum and this forum if everyone wants to see the layout when it is being built and when it is finished.

[Tracklayer]

I voted extra room, but it's actually out in the office of my work shop which I guess you could say is an extra room...

Tracklayer

[james saunders]

mines in the garage but im limited for space as one side has a car parked in there and the other side is a fridge, freezer and my dads work benches, so i cant have any more than a 4X8 but its still fun.

[ramoutandabout]

well actually its not to bad down there its a finished basement with a rec room bath and bedroom

[cmrproducts]

No it is not in a cold basement. The walls have been insulated and drywalled. There is a drop ceiling in place and I have over 40 8 foot fluorescent lights in place. The room has all of the electric in surface mounted conduit under the benchwork.

The room is 25 feet wide and 75 feet long. It was specially built for the layout with no windows (as they would have been covered over anyway – and they would have just left in the cold air) and an extra row of blocks to give a ceiling height of over 8 feet. The furnace and water heater are upstairs so that leaves NOTHING in the way except the posts that hold the center of the building up.

Even the stairs are not in the train room. They come down from the work shop and are located in a foyer just off the basement proper. I have an office/computer room which is not part of the basement but is located adjacent to it. I also left enough room in the office to expand the layout into this area but will be an around the walls addition.

BOB H – Clarion, PA

[loathar]

20x20 out building that still needs heat & AC. Brrrrrrrr....

[Catt]

I voted for my computer room which just happens to be in my not so cold basement.[:D]

[rrgrassi]

Mine resides on the dining room floor while it waits for me to finish converting the garage into a train room.

[Anonymous]

I don't have a layout. I collect Locomotives.
Allan.

[Budliner]

art that sound awsome wish I had a big house like that
but I just rent
and hope she dont mind

K-

[ARTHILL]

When my wife stopped teaching piano, I got her music room. It is in a fully finished basement. Heat, air and humidity control. It still has to double as the dining room when the clan assembles for Thanksgiving, but the tables make great auxillary work areas. I feel very fortunate.

[Anonymous]

When I get it built in will be someplace a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Then Union Pacific can sue George Lucas for my dilinquent UP SD45s and GP-9s

[Budliner]

I have mine 5 feet off the floor in my computer room and its nice and comfortable no spiders or dust
and was just wondering what people do with there setup