What type of layout do you have?

I will start this out, my shelf stlye layout is 185" long by 15" wide, Point to point switching in a city setting.

And if we're actively working on multiple layouts of differing designs?

Well, since you ask - and to follow on from railohio. .

I currently have 3:

A 7 x 6" x 2' 6" (The Kereru Branch).

A 2'6 x  2'6" portable - Six-Mile Bush.

 A  24" x  12"  The Kaiser's Reef (Hauraki) Gold Mining Co (No liability)

Thanks for asking

Komata

"TVR - serving the Northern Taranaki . . . "

Mine is 30" x 60" under glass and doubles as a desktop.  At the moment it is vacant and barren due to a home rennovation.  Hopefully by fall, trains will be rolling again.

Mine is a work in progres.  Benchwork and backdrop scenery completed. As yet, no track laid down  Over all room size 10' x 11'  

See ya

Room sized layout. 10.5' x 13.1' room/building. Using 2' along the walls for a double track mainline.

Two level shelf layout for me.

My sixth, and probably last, major layout has been planned and will be started this week when the lumber arrives.  It is room size in that it will occupy two walls, 7' and 9.5', will be 30" wide and have a 3'x 4' peninsula, giving it the shape of a reversed (and slightly deformed) "F".  In total, 47 sq. ft. of real estate.  Unlike my last layout, which had a double-tracked, one way traffic, mainline, this one will be single track with a reversing loop and two generous passing tracks, loco terminal, freight yard,  coach yard, and several buinesses to service.  Mainline and passing tracks will be Unitrack while all other trackage will be Atlas snap.

 Dick

Hi All,

I have a 10' x 11' work-in-progress in the spare bedroom, 6 NTrak modules and a Kato track oval for the gas-log fireplace mantle for Christmas.

Tom Fredenberg

Apex, North Carolina 

A small 2x4 layout, with a planned extention for a small (the layout is 2x4) yard off to the side

A 2x4 - with big plans to expand to a huge 3x6.  Hope I can handle the adjustment... (and the excitement)

But it is a small room. Actually it's not much past the "still working on design" stage but I can run a train around it...

20' x 30" Loop - to - Loop. (temporary)

East / West yards, interchange, some industrial switching on either side of mainiline.

--Ed

But the room is ''All Trains, All The Time''.

111 sq.ft. room - 54 sq ft.layout

2 mainline continuous loops. 2 trains running.

1 is short , about 16 ft long , no turnouts, just  a loop inside the bigger double loop which is longer at about 55 ft in length with turnouts for future expansion and a small yard with a space all layed out for a coal loading tower.

41" x 110"  = 32 sq feet.  (It is a reshaped 4x8 table trimmed on the width and the trim is added to the ends).  It is a rolling layout that sits in a 7x11ft alcove off my rec room.  Rolling allows access from any side. 

It is a foam top table with track on three levels (1" above plywood, 2" above and 3" above). 

I have two interconneced loops that can run independently.

 

I posted room size, but it is a small bedroom 10' x 10' with two modules 4' x 7'6" and 18" x 37" connected by a 7" x 3' shelf.

My layout occupies a shed 16' by 10' with insulation and air conditioning .  There is a door in the middle at one end and it has no windows.  It is a shelf layout around three sides with each side being three feet wide.  Approximately one foot of the rear around the layout is passive scenery.  It has a compressed single loop to give the impression of a double track.  There is a branch line around about fifty percent of the layout.  Hidden holding tracks (enough for 6 trains) with a reversing loop make up one end of the loop.  There are approximately four other passing sidings.

 There are three towns, the major one has a yard with six tracks approximately 4 foot long.  All towns have industries but I haven't figured out their relationship to each other with respect to moving freight.

The maximum grade is 2% and the minimium curvature is 16".

The minimum height of the track is 48" above ground and rising to about 55".  Mountains in the background have been built to about eye level.

 The framework is 2x1" L girders in sections for easy(?) removal.  This has proved useful when building the layout.

The layout is attached to the wall with steel brackets.

The roadbed is 1/2" 5 ply for lightness.  In hindsight I should have used 3/4" plywood to minimise warping (very important with Code 55 track).

 Operationally the layout provides the chance to operate small trains (about 12 freight cars) between the towns with 4 layover tracks large enough to store 40 car through trains.

The track is Microengineering Code 55 and the turnouts are Atlas Code 55, various nos. 5. 7 and 10.

 Turnouts are controlled by Circuitron Tortosie motors.  Power is DC through 2 power packs.  There are three reverse loops.

The rolling stock is assorted in terms of company and time period.  I tend to run mainly steam and early diesel and concentrate on one company and one era at a time.  When bored with this I switch companies and eras.  This generally only involves changing locos, cabooses and passenger cars.

My main railroads are Santa Fe, UP and NYC and a small amount of GN.

All cars which should have lights do so, as do buildings.

I havent't figured out a timetable yet as I am waiting on further track to complete the sidings.  So I am spending a lot of time "just running trains".  This has not been wasted time because it has taken me a long time to iron out the bugs (misaligned track, or rolling stock with dirty or out of gauge wheels and misaligned couplings are some of the issues). But that's modelrailroading for you!

Mine occupies a 6X8 foot room on the back of my house. The benchwork is up and phase one, the subway, is in place and rolling. I am having issues with derailments at this point, so until those are resolved, I cannot proceed. The reason for this is that being a subway, 90% of it will be inaccessible. It must perform flawlessly.

Forgot to mention that I plan to install a ten engine roundhouse with a Walthers turntable.  Also, where appropriate my passenger cars are home made diaphrams.

I have a tiny 3' x 2' setup with about as much track as can reasonably be crammed into that space to allow for light switching and some "tail chasing" continuous running...

My tiny 2x4 layout barely fits into my den. Does that make it "room size?"  I love urban apartment dwelling.

" Also, where appropriate my passenger cars are home made diaphrams."

Robertw, tell us about your home made diaphragms, please!

Looks like the Beginnings of something good there. :)

Hi robertw,

I live in a townhouse.  My living room is 15' x 20'.  For me, 16' x10' would be a house-sized layout, not a room-sized layout.  Congrats on having enough space for yours.  My backyard "shed" is 4' x 4' and contains garden tools.  However, my 36" x 80" layout in a spare bedroom is still fun.  Maybe after I win the lottery, I can have more space. 

Mine is a 4x8, but will change to room size someday.

I am under construction with at 13'6" mountain with a single helix joined to a 21' by 3' wide and a 6' X 6' mountain on the other end, sort of a large dogbone. I have a double main line, with maximum grades of 1.5% and minimum 24'" radius curves on a table that is 48" high.  The layout is built in 5 sections bolted together so it can easily be taken apart and I have 4 sections installed with 101' of track laid on cork roadbed over 1/2" plywood. I used angled braces of 3/4" plywood from the wall just over the baseboard to a point 2' in on the 3' wide sections so I have no legs to the floor getting in the way.  The layout sections are all 3 1/2" wide 3/4" plywood ripped the long way from full sheets with large open sections under both mountains so you can get in there to work or get trains shoud they derail.   I like to run long freights and long passenger units and have an ABBA with 13 passenger cars I just can't wait to run.  All switches are Peco large radius and all track is flextrack.   My hobby room is upstairs, fully finished with ceiling fan and light and track lights with dimmers. 

For the past 40 years, I have had an N scale 2 ft. by 4 ft. layout.  I am currently building an around the walls layout in a 13 by 19 foot room, so I've got two layouts!

Mine is room sized, 3m x 3m.

The layout is 5.2 sq.m, course it sounds better if I say it in square cm, then it becomes 52,025 sq cm. :)

Hi Will, that plan looks to be a really nice one - at least to my eyes!

Have you considered posting it over in the Layout Design and Planning forum? I think it will get a lot more "views" over there! (I am sure that quite a few people have (and will) skip this thread simply because it is a poll).

If you do decide to post 1t there, maybe you can provide a little further information about it?

(I did do a quick look to see if you might have already done this but couldn't find anything).

I'm planning a 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 ft. shelf layout, 2 foot wide except for one area that's 6 in. wide.

When I told my wife I was only going to build a 2’ x 4’ layout she thought it would be cute and tiny, but I didn’t tell her it was going to be 4’ tall so it will be easy for me to work on. We she saw the complete bench work it shocked her, considering it will going into our one room apartment. Sooo, to be room efficient it will triple as layout on top with space in the middle for our TV and DVD’s and the bottom will be shelves. Its going to look good with stain and trim though, a regular piece of furniture in our living room.

My Dream (nightmare) layout is 13' by 22'. I'm 2 years into it ... it's turning into an obsession. Take a look.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5hfvEmHhQ

Two NTrak POFFs, one in need of rehab, the other in need of ballasting completion.  One 2' OneTrak module in need of ballasting.  I also have 1 blank POFF, 2 blank 2'x3's, 1 blank 2'x2's, and a 4' corner that's benchwork only in need of rehab/structural "enhancement", plus the cut framework for two more 2'x2' blanks.  And if I ever get my 6' folding table back, I'll be able to set my Unitrack funloop back up.

My layout is about 94" x 40"  but it will someday be a lot bigger.  Just not enough space...need to put an addition on the house.