how big is your layout ?

[Anonymous]

9' x 11' in a bed room.

[Anonymous]

25' long x 6' "Dog Bone"

[jimrice4449]

I've been at it for 25 or 30 years, starting with a 25X26 oversized 2 car garage and when that filled up tacked on a 12X24 extension. The basic shape is el shaped with a 4X44section running east to west and a 4X20 section running off of that. I believe it's the largest terminal complex in model railroading. It' on two levels with psgr on the upper and frt on the lower. From east to west there's an upper level yard for long (10 cars or more) psgr trains having 23 tracks that narrows down to a single lead to go through what was originally an exterior wall. After passing through the wall it widens out to a passenger depot having 8 platform tracks and a run-around track. At the west end the depot makes a left turn narrowing down to a double track main, a roundhouse lead and a coach yard lead. There are two more psgr yards running north and south, both having 12 tracks, one for permanently coupled trains of 3 to 10 cars and the other for "loose" cars to be made up into trains. The double track main line turns left along the south wall and broadens into a three track reverse loop/staging yard befor becoming the east main and returning to the depot.
The lower level pretty much duplicates the upper but in frt. At the east end there's a 9 stub track yard (B yard as in blocked) that serves to hold cars as I build them until I've got enough for a train, then there's rhe B yard train yard which is for trains that run as blocks. I've got or am building 4 coal trains of 40 cars each and I've got two 48 car reefer blocks, one Santa Fe and one PFE. the B train yard is 10 traccks wide with a running track along the wall and the B yard lead (for the stub yard) along the aisle. A lead for the D yard (as in departure) runs off of the running track along the wall and widens to 5 tracks each of which holds a 50 car train. The along the wall track as soon as it passes the D lead switch starts up to the hump (or C yard as in classification) which is 12 tracks wide the shortest being 12 ft. At the lower end of C yard theCyard and D yard leads merge into a single track that runs into a penninsula with my frieght "main" consisting of, would you believe a single track loop of 38' with a couple of staging tracks running off of it and back into the yard.

[PennsyHoosier]

My modest little pike is 7'3" by 10'.

[Anonymous]

At 64 I'm building my forth and probably last layout. It's upstairs in a spare bedroom that meausres 13' X 16' and the layout is 11' X 13' around the wall. I had to not put it up against two walls as I needed room to service the wall mounted AC and have some room to get into the room.

It's a double oval with two, three track staging areas.

Bob

[douginut]

My layout is a Size #7 and 5/8ths.
It exists solely in my head.
Imagined for an L shape in N scale 8 feet by 13 feet on two walls, 18 inches deep in N scale.
all urban
trolley with trolley freight set in 1954 and back.
just moved and the annointed room is still full of boxes yet unpacked.
must admit that the layout looks better at it's current size and location than it probably will at the full scall of reality.

Doug, in Utah

[Anonymous]

My layout is a 4x16

[pastorbob]

28 foot by 35 foot, basement, with three decks connected.

Bob

[aloco]

Three and one half feet wide by six feet long, oval tack plan with eighteen inch radius curves and two sidings. One siding is an entry track outside the oval, and I use this track to assemble trains. The other track is a siding with a grain elevator. I model a small prairie town in the mid-1970s. I use my home layout for running idiot loops, and I just have a power pack connected to the track. If I want to do switching I have a few DCC equipped switchers that I run on the model railroad club layout.

[darth9x9]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Roadtrp

QUOTE: Originally posted by darth9x9

I am planning a 3000 sq ft layout with the potential to go to 5000 sq ft. with our two additions. The Chessie empire will live again!

BC

So do you live in a Mansion or a Warehouse?

[;)]

Actually, neither. Last year the wife and I built a hose and the basement was specifically engineered for the layout ie no poles/columns, no windows, no sewer lines running along/down the walls, stairs come down in the middle of the room and no mechanicals (the HVAC systems, water heater, pressure tank, and electrical panels are all on the first and second floors of the house). The running joke is: that paid for the basement, my wife paid for the first floor, and we both paid for the roof. Contact me off list and I will send you a link to a website that over 1500 photos the house under construction.

[SilverSpike]

My train room is 15.5' X 14.5’ and still working on the ground breaking stage at this point. Just pulled up some 40 year old linoleum and going to put in new ceramic tile.

- Ryan

[canazar]

Well, I have a 16x 8 rough oval that has one duck under for center access then add "P" shaped off the top for a large kick out loop. All in all, I have about 200 feet fo track down. Last weekend, I through down the "Last Piece" of track to complete my original plan. About 50% half-assed scenery done, (just painted and some bushes) about 20% done with full ground cover and trees, with scupltamold custom rocks forms... And in mid may, I TEAR it all out as my girl and our moveing into a new home. ATleast she said I get the living room, or next largest room so I can build inside instead of the garage. And I get to start all over again... Woo Hoo

[Anonymous]

18 x 22 around the wall and a penninsula with a loop ala Tehachapi style, in HO of course. That was the smallest when I became interested in trains and I just stuck with it all this time. I can run passenger trains with a not too unbelievable curvature and still have plenty of room for a great layout.

[Anonymous]

my is 7x12 on one end and 7x9 on the end with a 3x12 between them.

[Anonymous]

Not built yet, but in the design stage...
8 ft. x 16 ft. (HO)
Should be a fun project for the kids and me!

[WSOR4492]

Had to voter other for mine. It's 30"x28' and 3 levels tall. Living in an apartment doesn't afford much of a footprint, so I had to go up. Modeling BN 1995, East Dubuque, IL to LaCrosse, WI. Lower level staging; middle level, E. Dubuque IC tunnel and Cassville, WI; upper level, Crawford Jct., Prairie du Chein, WI, and North LaCrosse, WI. Pair of helixes and return loops to keep everything moving. Oh, and two sections of single track in an otherwise double track mainline to keep everyone on their toes.

[Anonymous]

My current and absolutely final layout (at least I hope it is) is 12' x 24', is around the wall with an island, 30" minimun radius mainline curves, no. 6 turnouts on the mainline, no. 4 Tru-Scale hi speed turnouts in the staging. Visible mainline track is code 70, staging is all code 100. The road is set in the Western mountains where I live. My layout is too big when it is time to dust it in the spring, too big as I continue to build conifer trees to place on the mountains, too small when I wi***o run a mainline train in a continuous loop while I just sit and watch. Just the right size for the operating scheme we use every two weeks when full operations are conducted over the line. In absolute truth, this layout is perfect for me. I can perform the maintenance required without wiping myself out, and after many tries, I finally got the layout I was always shooting for. I like the mix of through freights, switching, way freights, locals and mine runs that are part of the current operating scheme. It is great fun.

Tom

[WilmJunc]

Two, 4' x 8' sheets of plywood in a "L" shape.