Leroof posted:Jake , that is fantastic! Nice postwar collection being run and enjoyed!
thanks for sharing and motivating. I lived in small NYC apartments all of my childhood and most of my adult life.
in my childhood days the apartment was so small that I had my trains in a box under the single bed. As much as I wanted a 4X8 piece of plywood, that was not a possibility. Once a weeek I would make a deal with my mother that I would clean and vacuume the apartment for living room floor time for train running. Great reminder of how much joy in a loop or two.
enjoy the possibilities.
Leroof.
It's certainly doable to have a train layout, it just takes some creativity. It's certainly not the replica Postwar dealer type layout that I'd eventually like to have, but it gives enough of the postwar feel and it's nice just being able to run trains.
Even when I was still living at my parents house we had a similar situation to what you had with the floor layout. Most of the time my stuff was packed away other than at Christmastime. My mom had the advantage that I usually had to vacuum the floor before I set trains up anyway due to the shedded fur from our dogs. 
