NEW: 12x20 Man-Cave: Copper Mtn. Layout Plan: Atlas-O and On30, 11'4" by 11'4"

Added the new Menard's Cripple Creek Lumber structure:

Wow...I was just going to post for ideas on a mixed 3 rail and On30 layout.  Beautiful design.  I see 0" and 3" markings on the 3 rail track.  Is the the elevation above base plywood in that area?  You would not have a track piece inventory list for the O 3 rail..???   Great layout.

@johnshorse posted:

Wow...I was just going to post for ideas on a mixed 3 rail and On30 layout.  Beautiful design.  I see 0" and 3" markings on the 3 rail track.  Is the the elevation above base plywood in that area?  You would not have a track piece inventory list for the O 3 rail..???   Great layout.

Thanks very much John!

Yes, the elevation is above the layout base (plywood or foam or other method).  I can do a O track inventory later today.

Addition of future smelter complex:

Making the staging tracks double-ended (O72 & O81 curves), also creating a long circuit around the room, min O54.

Making two independent routes for the O-gauge.  Expanded to 12'x12':

Thinking most interior room dimensions are not exactly 12', I condensed the layout to 11'8" by 11'8".  Unfinished.

A roughed-in copper smelter complex in lower right, with a connecting RR turnout lower left:

I have a finished basement room  (with a closet and windows) allocated to me for my home office and "Man-Cave".  Lights, heat, AC, with a bathroom just outside the door on the lower-right.  I was curious to see what this layout might look like to fit that room.  Its just short of 12' by 20', so this illustration is 11'8" by 19'8".

I don't want to fill the entire room with RR, as this is my office, with a TV, fridge, and easy chairs and etc.

I added a wye to turn trains.  Limited to O45 unfortunately.

Reach and access is very good, just the lower left corner difficult.

I added a steam loco service track inside the wye, O54 accessible.

Ken,

As always, great work! Looks like the layout will fit very nice and still leave room for the essentials.

I saw an opportunity to make the perimeter O72.  Tracks in GREEN are O72.  Tracks in BLUE are O54 (which can also run the O72).  The BROWN tracks are O45 limited (which can run everywhere).

@Sean007 posted:

Ken,

As always, great work! Looks like the layout will fit very nice and still leave room for the essentials.

Thanks Sean, its looking good!

Considering an expansion, to make minimum O54.  Occupies more room space of course.

Expanded the On30 loops.

More structures, roads, and trees:

People and items added:

I already have both the work table (served as a dining-room table) with lift-out tops with N-Gauge inside (currently disassembled), and the computer desk with Z-gauge on a pull-out drawer beneath (also currently being re-worked).  I built the dining room table in 1997, and the Z-gauge computer desk in 2014.  

Shelves for trains behind the table along that wall.

The lower left corner (Oil Storage Tank) is the only difficult-to-reach area of the layout.

More room details:

A few more small buildings, and slag heaps.

I went around the layout looking to fine-tune.  I replaced one O54 turnout with O72, and made the two O72 passing sidings #5 turnouts.  Wider is better, looks better to see the #5s.  The passing siding through the power plant past the smelter got a bit longer.