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I'm thrilled to have a layout, though it is in the attic in the south. It is long and narrow, 8' X 25' around the perimeter of a room I built to enclose it. There is a 3 foot wide aisle in the center with layout access via an opening in the center and drop down ladder. Of course, I'd like more room especially for structures and scenery, but I've got plenty of work just to finish what I have started. When I finish (and we all know that a layout is never finished) then I'll be looking for more space.

 

 

This thread is bringing forth some nice comments, and pictures of some really nice layouts. When we were children, back in the 1950's Forward, a Huge Layout was in Our Dreams. Some of our dreams came True, some, did not. My Dream layout came True, 17 by 38 and into 5 Levels, interwinding, up and over themselves, via two Helixes. My answer to the Question is, No, it's big enough.....When one adds Scenery, Signals, And all the Ballast, Wiring, Transformers, Control Ststems, Lighting, And The TRAINS, it gets rather Expensive.... If I were to do this over, I would do a 12 by 24, and one Level, and Be Happy.....This hobby can become An Addiction,  uncontrollable, and Unexplainable...

Good Thread, time to go work on the layout.....Happy Railroading..

I just added the korber roundhouse and getting ready for the turntable a friend of mine came over and helped me to find a nice place for that I could be happy with   working with roger farkash to build me the point of rock station and keep moving,  as things start to develop I see the picture I have in my head of what I want and that makes it all worth it now if I can only wave my hand and get it finished I will be happy for now lol

Like a lot of other things, (including my bank account), we never have it BIG enough.  My layout is overall 22' X 24' and it's on four levels from 30" above the floor to 60" and it runs into a second room.  But it's against three wall of the basement and it's just not practical to expand it any more.   (The wife won't allow it to expand into the last 10' of basement area.)  So that's gonna be it.  I'm sure that the layout will be my last one, as I will be 80 this year and I just can't get down under the table and into all the nooks and crannys that I once could, so this will do it, for me.

 

But, it does have about 750' of track, some 65 switches, and lots of places to run.  I guess that I shouldn't complain.

 

Paul Fischer

how true, the problem is we all have so much nice stuff and so little room we can't make up our minds on what goes on the layout and what does not I sold a lot of items I could not put on the layout and I find I still have more stuff that I cant use and find myself buying more thinking yeah I can fit that on my layout only to see I cant

My layout works around the physical constraints I am faced with.  A converted porch area is 6x18 and goes into the next room for another 10x12.  Only one level.

 

However, everytime I drive by a trucking warehouse on the interstate and visualize all that space inside (maybe 2 football fields) . . . .   what I want is a layout so big that you don't know the train is coming back until you hear the chugging of steam or the rumble of the diesel engine.  That would tell me that a train is still running, just like standing near the tracks in real like.  I may not be able to see it, but I can hear it coming.  No lighted boards or sensors, just the sound of the engine (whistle/horn) tells me it's coming and that clackety clack noise that fades away as it leaves out of sight.  (Maybe have some gaps between forklift racks of washers, dryers, TVs, so I could get a glimpse of it now and them).

Layout #2 was being planned well before #1 was up and running.  The reality of how much space "O" actually required only became apparent once construction of #1 began.  Even with the ample space available for #2, I still find myself drawing plans that would be better suited for construction in HO....the allotted space isn't indefinite.

 

When the staff at the LHS questioned the amount of track I had selected, it left me feeling as if #2 should be plenty big enough. Still, I have this inkling that there might be room for more.

 

 

Bruce

 

 

I have to be satisfied with the size of my layout, because it uses all the available space in its room.  However, I had been hoping to buy a house with a full basement when we moved to Amarillo, and was quite surprised to find that they just don't build them.  There were a few small basement "scaredy holes" in case of a tornado, but no homes with basements large enough for a big, along-the-walls layout with doggone ends.  Oh, well . . .

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