how big is your layout ?

[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)

Right on, trainjunky!!!!!!!![:D][:)][8D][:p][:)][:D][8D][:D][:)][^][:p]

[eastcoast]

I am working a 12.5 X 13 around the room shelf
with a new 4 X 4 penninsula industry.
It will keep me busy for quite a while.

[ddechamp71]

-a small Z scale module, about 1 X 4´
-my soon started Z scale walkaround layout will be 16 X 22´.

[Anonymous]

Mine's under re-construction. It is 12' x 20' with a 6' x 14' center aisle. The layout is like a doughnut..with a hole in the middle to operate from. HO scale. Track runs around the layout twice before repeating. I'm planning in continuous, out and back, and point-to-point operation with hidden staging.

[Anonymous]

So far, I've got an hour glass shaped 4' x 12', but as soon as time & $$$ permit, I'll be adding a 2' x 14' yard / siding........

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by train boy

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

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

Man, it really sounds like you're dissapointed with your 4x8 layout statas. I mean, you always put a [:(!] or [V]. But don't worry, someday we'll all have basement empires'. [;)]

[GDRMCo]

My new layout will be a portable layout that can be built in a 36x18 area

[Anonymous]

My layout is 9' x 13' x 41". Track is HO and layout is "L" shaped. Will attempt to run two trains using tunnels and mountains. Am new at this and who knows what might happen.

[Anonymous]

My HO layout currently under construction is 1'6" by 12', which is plenty work, to complete it in the next 9 months.

Jon

[vsmith]

8 feet by 20 feet

It too big AND too small.

At 8' x 20' it eats up a big part of a 20' x 20' garage, I can still get the car into it but its tight.

At G gauge, 1/2" scale, its WAY TOO SMALL. If you see the plan it looks like something from Carl Arnets Micro-Layout pages.

Basically its an oval with a small yard at each end, with access ailse's to reach switches and sidings. All the benchwork is done all the track is layed. but I'm still fighting the battle of space out there finding room for all the junk we seam to accumulate these days while accomodating the layout as well.

[Anonymous]

Dear vsmith,
You're ambitious! I thought I was pushing it with O in 20x20. This just goes to show, there's always someone trying to put more into less space. And what's your minimum radius?

You're either very brave or very determined,
Daniel

[Anonymous]

right now my layout is 4x8 HO layout but I am going to ad on another 4x4 section

[n2mopac]

My first layout was a starter N scale at 4'x4'. My new layout currently under construction in the benchwork stage is 16'x17' walk in with a 10' peninsula.
Ron

[Anonymous]

Mine is exactly 7 5/8. Which is my hatsize! i.e. its in the planning stage. I will be building a PRR Industrial switching layout where the visible part will be a "Diorama" 10' x 2' with a 5 track fiddle yard 6' long in the closet off one end. I hope to start this in the new year.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainjunky29

Dear vsmith,
You're ambitious! I thought I was pushing it with O in 20x20. This just goes to show, there's always someone trying to put more into less space. And what's your minimum radius?

You're either very brave or very determined,
Daniel

Not brave, just Nuts!

Its not so much ambition but nessecity. I had planned a garden layout, unfortunatly my wife also had plans for the same patch of ground so guess who won that match....[;)]

Instead I said I would take a portion of the garage, I still had to park her car in there, so my layout got down-sized considerably. So out went the big locos and big curves in came the industrials, critters, and varmits. I'm using 4' diameter curves (R1), small industrial locos, and shorty freight cars and 2 axle frieght cars.

I've always wanted to do that "finescale" thing in large scale but never thought the wife would let me do it in the garage so I was a bit shocked when she ousted me from the garden and banished me into the garage.

So now I get to try and make something really interesting. I studied alot of plans from Carl Ardent's Micro-Layouts webpage to help refine the process. Each time I got too ambitious and had too much crammed into the layout, I would go back to the webpage, then eventually realize that less IS more, ands go with the less fussy ideas. As it is there is still alot of work in it to do. All my track is down, next is the scenery to start, then buildings to integrate.

[Anonymous]

10'X12'[;)]

[PistolPete]

10x12x13, u shaped, with a width of 2' to 5'. Mostly still in planning and construction stage.

[Anonymous]

Dear trainboy,
No offense, (just pointing something out) It seems that you dislike your 4x8 layout. I mean with all the [:(!] and the [V]. Hey, I feel the same way about my 5x8. Someday we'll have empires and we'll see whose's laughing! [:)]

[Anonymous]

Mine is under construction 6x8. I'm building it on top of an Air Hockey table (7 foot), that my wife tried to sell[:)]. I get to keep both!!

-Tom

[Anonymous]

mine fills most of a 12x18 room and has 3 levels with a continous run on the bottom with a long out and back on the upper levels.

jon

[Anonymous]

I'm a glutton for punishment, "G" scale layout is 10'x62' with a 12'x12' ell under a deck.

HO standard gauge city style switching layout on two foot wide shelf along the walls of a 11'x7' room.

HOn30....."micro" layout 15"x48", still trying to get the little beggers to run better.

Gn15....."micro" layout (Savannah Waterfront) on Carl Arendt's "Micro Layouts for Model Railroads" site. http://www.carendt.com

OLD DAD

[Anonymous]

Perhaps this thread would be more accurate if the poll would have been in square feet. THen every layout size is covered, since there are very few "rectangular" layouts once you pass 4x8. Such as:

1-32 sq ft
33-48 sq ft
49-64 sq ft
65-80 sq ft
81-100 sq ft
101-140 sq ft
141-165 sq ft
166-190 sqft

etc. I dont know what the variables would be, but you see my idea. [:)]

[ddechamp71]

-My small diorama: about 1 X 4 ft (no loop, trains are going back and forth)
-My future layout (I wish I start it in next january): walk-around 15 x 22 ft, walkaround style.
Both are Z scale.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by OLD DAD

I'm a glutton for punishment, "G" scale layout is 10'x62' with a 12'x12' ell under a deck.

HO standard gauge city style switching layout on two foot wide shelf along the walls of a 11'x7' room.

HOn30....."micro" layout 15"x48", still trying to get the little beggers to run better.

Gn15....."micro" layout (Savannah Waterfront) on Carl Arendt's "Micro Layouts for Model Railroads" site. http://www.carendt.com

OLD DAD

Hey OLD DAD, you and I have similar psychosis... I mean tastes!

I'm also doing two Micro layouts, an HOn30 thats 9" x 10" and a G gauge (yes, full G guage) layout based on one of Carl's "shoebox madness" layouts, "Cycles de Berlan", and Yes! its under the 4 sq foot rule!

[CBQ_Guy]

I picked "other" as mine is 24 by 38 feet.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by allaird

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

Geez...that sounds like a monster. BTW, what scale?

[Anonymous]

I took over my basement, my layout is 30'long x14 wide with wall to wall and walk around areas. My wife thinks im crazy but I tell her im not sitting in a bar all night.

[trainfan1221]

Mine is 6X3. But I`m told this is good for n-scale. At least I`m up from 4X3. I have a lot going on includung two big and one small yard, a continuous loop mainline,(note I avoided the term "oval"), and trains ranging from general merchandise to coal to an intermodal train....It`s all in what you do with what you have.
And it still takes up half of my darn bedroom!!!

[Anonymous]

My N layout is in a "study" - now the train room which is 9 1/2 by 13 1/2 feet. In it so far, I've built a double decked layout. A few years from now I will add a third deck under the current lower deck strictly to be used for staging. At first I was worried I couldn't have a decent size layout in this room, but I have my hands full since I do most of the building by myself.

[Anonymous]

It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it, no, it's how you build it, or, never mind, size is everything.

Have a Merry Christmas