how big is your layout ?

[Anonymous]

how big is your layout ? mine is 4x8.[V]

Alex in the sooner state.[:)][:D][8D][:I][:p][;)][:o)][8)][^][?]

[Anonymous]

Well I dont have one yet Im planning one In Nscale on a 4x8 layout.

[EL PARRo]

Mine is 5x9. It was originally going to be 4x8, but I decided to expand it so that I could have 22" radius track instead of only 18".

[Jetrock]

Mine is 6'x1' with two 6"x15" projections on each end for the curves, 7.25 square feet, so I selected 2x4 (8 sf.) Pretty dinky for HO, but it's all mine...

[Hawks05]

3x5 piece of particle board right now until hopefully wednseday and this weekend when i can get the bench work done. my dad said today he'll buy plywood on wednseday and we can build it after thanksgiving.

[CP5415]

9X12, here open grid construction.

[Anonymous]

My size wasn't listed. Right now my size stands at 6X16. I am planning another 8 foot extension which will make it, 6X 24

James.

[Anonymous]

My size wasn't listed. It's 5 X 17, plus a 5 ' section added to the width at one end.

[jjbmish]

Just started construction on my new layout. I have a space that is approximately 13' X 30' for right now. The layout will be a double decked around the perimeter with a center penninsula.

John

[ClinchValleySD40]

60' X 30'

[GerFust]

Better answers to the question might be in terms of square feet of the layout takes, or number of feet of track on it, since layouts come in varying shapes. Mine is equivalent to a 4x8 at 32.5 square feet, but is not a rectangle by any means.

-Jer

[jjbmish]

60' X 30' All I can say is "WOW" Hope you are getting help with building the layout

John

[willy6]

4x8 seems to be a winner,but my question is since the beginning of lumber yards and building if the norm for plywood was established at 6x8 instead of 4x8 would most of todays layouts be 6x8?

[Anonymous]

I'got a new one of 56x2
What do you think about that!
I'am making now railplans. I'ts more difficult than it likes.
But time is on my site.

[Anonymous]

I don't have one yet, but I'm planning on a 5x8 or 5x9.

[Anonymous]

Can you believe it, mines too big! I live in a rural area and work on it mostly by myself. Most of my model railroad friends live 90 or so miles away and visit quarterly. My layout is 26x41 feet (1060 sq ft) walk in railroad with about 500 feet of main line run and 10 % is double decked. ( It still wasn't big enough to get eventhing in I wanted for operation.) The main line trackage for the lower deck got finished last weekend is wired and the DCC system is working nicely. Scenery is complete on about 15%. I've been working on average one day a week on it for about four years. It's way to easy to enter the train room at 9 am Saturday morning and not come up for air until dinner time. It loads of fun!

AL3

[Anonymous]

My railroad is 10X29 with an 8X16 extension. The name of my railroad is the Four Corners and Pacific (freelanced HO). I have been building it for the past decade. It is nearly completely scenicked. A retired friend of mine and I work every Thursday afternoon (that is my Saturday) and every other Monday night.

[Anonymous]

My layout is L shaped, 12' x 24' on one leg and 7' x 18' on the other. I have about 1000' of hand laid track and 130 built up turnouts.

[Anonymous]

Is this like a phallic thing?

[JeremyB]

mines 4x8 and it keeps me plenty busy

[Anonymous]

mine (was originaly my dads) is our entire basement. Roughly 30x60 but our house isnt a rectangle shape...and the layout indents and protrudes into the indents and protrusions of the house...but i can run prototypical length trains and have them look good!!! so its big enuf...

[BRAKIE]

Mine is 30"x 11'6".. A yard layout..I built the Jackson Ohio yard of my fictitious C&HV Ry..It can double for a generic C&O yard as well.The yard is loosely based on the C&Os Peach Creek yard.I built this layout as a photo prop and I can switch cars as well.

[rf16a]

Right now it's 4'x8' in HO scale, but someday I hope to expand.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

I don't have one yet, but I'm planning on a 5x8 or 6x8.

Dear 4884bigboy,
For someone whose screen name is the worlds largest locomotive (take that- C&O/N&W fans[:p], I'm a UP fan), I must say that I would have expected a larger layout.
But it's probably better-size is like power: it corrupts. I was in a 12x16 room with O. Then I planned on an 18x20 room for O. And each time I was fairly content. Now I'm in a 20x20 room for HO and I still want more! (I supplicate that if I only had 30x30 feet I could do so much more!!!) Now I'm planning on a full circle roundhouse, with over 50 stalls (hey, plan ahead!)! Amazingly, I'm already planning on another deck for the layout. This is going to take a long time to get relatively finished (yes, I know that no layout is ever truly finished....) Someday, I'm going to buy one of those massive grociery store distributing facilities, and build the world's largest layout, in O no less![:)] (Selective compression will have no place on such a large pike!!!![8D])
-Daniel

[Anonymous]

my layout is 13'x13' it is double tracked, and modeled after the green hills of pennsylvania. it is in the conrail era between 95-98'. the final years. it will soon be DCC, it has 4 industrial sidings, a lot of hills and mountains still under construction. right now, i am working on re-creating the "twin ledges" in cresson, pa. all the sidings are freelance. i have a small basement with a house on it, and space is limited. i am also building a lower level staging yard, approx. 20ft. in length with 5 tracks and 3 no.6 switches in atlas code 83. steel mill, paper mill, warehouse, coal/ore plant soon.

[IRONROOSTER]

Mine is 11x18 feet. in S scale. This size is probably about right since I can't dedicate time to it every week.
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

Not Big Enough!

But remember size isn't everything, it's content that counts. I'm presently working on an area that will give me a layout approximately 10X30. When I say not big enough I realize I sound like I'm boasting, but I'm not, the problem lies with the way I've set the layout. Not enough wide turns, bridges, double track, etc, etc... As the kids say "this is boring all it does is go around in circles". time for some branchlines and spurs.
Maybe this winter.

Maybe the problem is I started out too big and haven't been able to see the end of the tunnel.

Fergie

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainjunky29

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

I don't have one yet, but I'm planning on a 5x8 or 6x8.

Dear 4884bigboy,
For someone whose screen name is the worlds largest locomotive (take that- C&O/N&W fans[:p], I'm a UP fan), I must say that I would have expected a larger layout.
But it's probably better-size is like power: it corrupts. I was in a 12x16 room with O. Then I planned on an 18x20 room for O. And each time I was fairly content. Now I'm in a 20x20 room for HO and I still want more! (I supplicate that if I only had 30x30 feet I could do so much more!!!) Now I'm planning on a full circle roundhouse, with over 50 stalls (hey, plan ahead!)! Amazingly, I'm already planning on another deck for the layout. This is going to take a long time to get relatively finished (yes, I know that no layout is ever truly finished....) Someday, I'm going to buy one of those massive grociery store distributing facilities, and build the world's largest layout, in O no less![:)] (Selective compression will have no place on such a large pike!!!![8D])
-Daniel

I hope with the right size curves I'll be able to fit a Big Boy.[:D]

[cmrproducts]

My layout is in a 25 x 75 basement with no stairs, furnace, nothing but the posts down the center. So far there is about 2700 feet of track in and it is still climbing. We operate every other week and I have had several OP Till U Drop sessions. Scenery is slowly being added but is going too slow as I am having too much fun operating. I am doing the CR Lowgrade from Driftwood to East Brady, PA in the 75 - 85 time period using Digitrax Rado DCC.

BOB H Clarion, PA

[Anonymous]

Not big enough N Scale 25 x 16 future expansion is planned