That is the figure put forth in the MAR 07 MR. That is a 15 x 15 room.
I don't know if that is room size or the layout square footage. Either way it seems on the large size to me.
Is yours bigger or smaller.
My current layout is 40 sq ft. The one I'm just starting is room size: 88 sq ft--add staging and it is 106 sq ft. Actual Benchwork sq ft. 44 sq ft--with staging 56 sq ft.
Chip
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Robby P. wrote:I only have a 4 x 8. I have alot of catching up to do. I have a BIG basement but I dont think the wife will like it if I take it all.
My wife gave me the entire basement. That means that even tho the utilities and laundry room take a quarter of it, and the bar and pool table area and the lounge area and the mini office and the game table area. Well, I still have a 12x24 foot space. Since I neede access to the storage under the layout(s)I split it up unevenly. Two feet aisle along the wall. Four feet from the laundryroom door and from the aisle down the center of the basement. No space from the sofa in the lounge. Leaves me 6x20. Simple. Now if I can only get this moving at a visible rate of progress
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For HO I have 16 square feet.
There is a small upper level on it that is 8.4 square feet.
I hope to add a hinged fiddle/staging yard that will be about 3 square feet- 3.8 square feet.
So I hope to have a total of 28 square feet.
It is all the space I can use right now, and I am thrilled to be back in the hobby and have that much!!!
I should sell condos....
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
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Robby P. wrote:After you said something about it, I said hey, it doesnt look right blue. This avatar is alot better.
There's another thread mentioning NS and their black and white design. I thought you were campaigning for a change.
I get to see a few NS trains in my travels. Blue and white reminded me of the BTHS model railroad club from back in the 1970s.
My current layout is in a room 11'4" x 18'8" or about 210 sq ft - the actual bechwork occupies 114 sq ft, but I am going to replace it with one that expands into more of the basement. Actual benchwork will be about 190 sq ft in a basement area that is about 800 sq ft.
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Paul
And just where does MR get the data upon which they based their statement? They must be going solely on the average size of the monster layouts that they feature in their magazine and not the average size that most of us have. I don't recall their ever conducting a poll of their readers to see what size layouts we have. If they did, I certainly missed seeing it. The 15 x 15 foot figure would mean that the entire room is nothing but layout, with no open space to move around in, so the actual room would have to be much larger than that.
Well, I'm average! My layout room is 15' x 15' exactly.
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My room size is 9x13 (117 sq ft). The layout is around-the-walls, with a 2' depth for the most part so actual layout sq ft is much lower (and no second level to make up for it).
I am so below average
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My layout room is only about 100 sq ft. Subtracting the aisles and counting the various layers ( 2 - 4 layers) gives me about 350 sq feet of actual layout. I have 300' of track and 34 turnouts in that area.
As I mentioned in a similar thread a couple of weeks ago, I'm WAY below average at 32 sq. ft. Can I be graded on a curve? (No!...Wait!...That's way too steep of a grade. 14% to be exact.)
Anyhow, as far as the future is concerned, it doesn't look like I'll be joining the MRR "Mensa Club" any time soon. I'll manage to have fun somehow...
Tom
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My calculator says I have about 400 sq ft of available space, and the actual layout takes up about 165 sq ft - Gotta have room to move around!
Jim
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
Room is 12 X 13, 156 sq ft.
Layout is around the walls, approx 100 sq ft.
Like the price of houses 9 are $150,000, the 10th is 1.3 million;
that will throw the average way up but is not a true representation.
I think the same is true with layouts, from previous posts it appears
most are confined to the garage or extra bedroom.
But some are lucky enough to have entire use of a 3000 sq ft basement.
So 225 might be the average but perhaps we should be looking at the
mean or median number. I forget the proper math term but you get what I mean.
Just a thought. We are mostly HO and N Scalers. I bet if the S-ers and O-ers were to vote the size would jump a bit.
For the person that asked, the MR survey took place several years ago. They did not define several.
The layout I am building right now is 8 square feet, 2 X 4 freemo module. However, it looks like we will close on a new house in August and my wife has promised a room in the basement, 14 X 28. She said I had 3 years from the time I move back in (sounds bad doesn't it!?), military stationed away from her, to get a layout started or she is claiming eminent domain! No worries, she just said started, not finished, whew!
Rick
My room is 22x18 for 396sqft. The layout is 13x9 for 117sqft/ I guess that would make the average layout about right. MRR shows layouts that are 4 to 5 times the size of mine. 4x117 = 468 + 117 / 2 = 292.5 So what is average anyway!
RMax1
As a former working statistician, this kind of statistic comes under the general heading 'meaningless.' Kind of like saying the average woman wears a size 8 shoe. The woman you're looking at may be a pixie-sized gymnast or a bodybuilding amazon. What shoe size does SHE wear?
Whatever layout I had at any given time was average - FOR ME. Sizes ranged from 16 x 96 inches, to 3 x 6, to spare bedroom, to (finally) double garage. As for whether Joe Jones had an N-trak module or a layout big enough to model the state of Rhode Island, I kneweth not - nor did I care.
As I once posted about the ubiquitous 4 x 8, it can be anything from a cramped O scale engine terminal to a Z scale empire. It's not how big the space is, it's what is done with it and how satisfying it is to the owner. One size does NOT fit all!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in a 2-car garage)
I think 225 is probably a good median number.
My layout is 22 X 28 with 2 visible levels and another partial level for staging.
That 22 X 28 includes the basement stairs, furnace and water heater. The washer and dryer are under the workbench.
I consider my layout to be at about the 70th percentile of the ones I have been to meaning that 70% are smaller and 30% are bigger.
HI I have a 10x11Ft room 110sqft still working on a plan
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