How many of you have collections without layout?

I don't but... My solution is run at my clubs at least once a week during school and when not 2 times a week.

I do.   I have a "temporary layout" which consists of some Fastrack on the floor of my garage.  It is a double tracked loop which is approximately 9'x16'  with O84 & O72 curves and switches with a 4 track yard inside.  I've had it set up since August 2014, so my poor pickup has had to sit out in the weather since then. 

Larry

I don't have a layout, but view myself as an operator since I run down at the club every weekend. I don't view myself as a collector since I don't display any of the items I have.

Bossman, I could have written that paragraph. I haven't had a large layout in 15 years. I do have a single loop carpet central. The lack of a real layout has not slowed my acquisitions. I keep looking at my collection to see if I can thin out a few things, and it doesn't happen. Meanwhile more items keep showing up at my door.

I have put up a wall of shelving to display my engines, but there are racks full of rolling stock that need to see the light of day.

I remain convinced I will have that layout some day.

Paul

While I do have a O-gauge layout, I possess engines and rolling stock in "S" with no permanent layout.  From time to time I will put down a loop of MTH/S-helper track on the living room floor and run my 1:64 stuff.  Since it is similar to o-gauge Fastrack, the MTH s-gauge track is pretty quick to set up and then put away later.

Given that there is still about a 50' "hole" in the layout where I'm still laying track, I'm still in the "no layout" category. My collection is run on our club's modular layout. Today is a snow day. When I get home from work, hopefully I'll get to the attic and get some more track laid. Still amazed at how fast I burn through cases of Gargraves 37" straights. It's beginning to look like 5 will be enough.

*** Update *** Since I retired January 2018, all of my track is laid and wired. We've had trains running for almost 2 years now.  Funny, how work got in the way of trains...….

I don't.  And i still keep buying. I have a 32'x40' hobby building but all my trains are still new in the boxes. I need to get my priority's in order and start building a layout in this building. I am 59 years old and have some health issues. If i don't and i pass on somebody's going to get a lot of trains that i should have enjoyed.

I had a massive dream of a layout if I won that $1.5 billion Powerball.   Someday.....

At least my collection of JLC and Vision engines are meticulously detailed and makes them nice stationary pieces to stare at and dream of the possibilities...

I do not have a layout as took mine down that was in the beginning stages ( had 3 loops and that was about it with a couple of switches but it was 8' x 16' but we moved to a even smaller place so now I'm buying still but wife is complaining your still buying but your running out of room my reply your still buying purse and there's no more room for them either.  

I hope someday to close-off the detached garage and use it for a train room. ( add heat/air conditioning ) which would give me about 14' x 18' But I'll probably lose that too even thou it's suppose to be mine. ( yeah I've heard that before as boxes and other junk start taking over lol. ( glad I have a pick-up truck   

But yes at present I do not have a layout but still am buying

I have a 12' x 20' loop.  I have a train sitting on the loop but rarely run.  I still buy trains but not as many as I used to.  I feel the same way FEET feels.  I am in my 60's and my health isn't that great either.  If I go my wife will sell all my trains in a heartbeat and go to Aruba.  What a waste.  Collecting all those trains and letting them just sit there waiting to be sold.  One of these days I'll stop procrastinating and put up a layout.  Maybe.

Rick

I have a double track floor layout for my O scale trains and a separate oval track on the floor for just subway trains which keeps me very busy. Not having a permanent layout did not stop me from adding some buildings,accessories, scenery and lots of trains.

* I do have an N scale permanent layout, which helps me with the "I don't have a permanent layout blues" for O scale.

I fall within this group. Lost my train space when we sold the family business. This action has not hampered collecting whatsoever. The problem is that there's no room in my modest home for neither a layout or the trains. Incredibly, things continue to be set outside my front door and I bring them in. I'll display a few items for a period of time, then off they go to the storage unit. It is them that I'm confronted with the fact that I have more stuff than even the largest layout could ever digest. I guess it must be some sort of out of sight, out of mind thing. Is there a twelve-step program out there for this?

Other than this years first ever tinplate Christmas layout, I haven't run any trains in three years. I'm feeling a bit left out the fun.

I have a 6x10 oval of 060 fastrack on the carpet of our spare bed room. If that counts as a layout then I have a layout. If not, then I don't, but I do have a ton of trains just waiting for a real layout. 

I'm guilty. What's worse is, I can't stay in one scale. I buy O, HO, N, and G. I also have been thinking about the Polar Express in S. I have also been looking at building a 7.5" gauge car or two. A 40' boxcar is 60" and with trucks, runs around $1,100 in kit form. (I'm thinking about learning how to weld) 

No layout, except for Christmas.  I do belong to a club and have a key that allows me to run my trains when I want. 

Gilly@N&W posted:

Given that there is still about a 50' "hole" in the layout where I'm still laying track, I'm still in the "no layout" category. My collection is run on our club's modular layout. Today is a snow day. When I get home from work, hopefully I'll get to the attic and get some more track laid. Still amazed at how fast I burn through cases of Gargraves 37" straights. It's beginning to look like 5 will be enough.

We will get you finished this winter!

Peter

I run my trains and i don't have room to put up a permanent layout but set up lionel fastrack on the carpet and run and i also run at the club and at shows when we have them at the club and i do collect some train items and also getting stuff to do a layout one of these days.    

Waiting for a move that hopefully will happen this summer, then I'll have a permanent place to finally build a real layout.  Now I run anywhere I can.  I have my carpet central that goes around three rooms, but that's not the same as having a real place to run the trains. 

Nope. Always at least the floor