how big is your layout ?

[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]

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! [:)]

[PistolPete]

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

[Anonymous]

10'X12'[;)]

[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]

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.

[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]

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

[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

[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]

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

Jon

[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.

[GDRMCo]

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

[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'. [;)]

[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]

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.

[ddechamp71]

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

[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.

[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]

[Anonymous]

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

[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]

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]

[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

[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]

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.

[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

[rf16a]

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

[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.

[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...

[JeremyB]

mines 4x8 and it keeps me plenty busy