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When we formed our club, I owned a 5x7 trailer that was immediately too small. I sold it and donated the proceeds to the club to help pay for a larger trailer. We took delivery of our 7x14 trailer just two years ago. Well, being a growing club it is now too small.

Today we took delivery of a 8.5x24' trailer! The next step up will involve a Peterbilt and a CDL!

This is the "old-new" 7x14

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The new 8.5x24. Before any jinxes us yes, yes we will outgrow this one too. Just a matter of time. For now, we're all set.

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bigtruckpete posted:

Do you use the trailer as is or do you build storage features into the unit?

First thing is to get a good coat of gray epoxy paint on the floor. We have 1x2 chocks screwed to the floor to provide positive location for the various type of modules. These will get transferred from to the new trailer. On the walls, there are attachment points for the hold-down straps.

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Gentlemen,

We have gray. A floor is only new once. That's the best opportunity to give it a good paint job.

As 3 Railers, we always strive for utmost prototypical inaccuracy. In honor of Putnam Division's affinity for NYC, we spared every effort in selecting genuine simulated Dreyfus Gray for the floor.

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We formed in 2009......in the fall of 2009 we started building modules......this past weekend ( 1st weekend in June 2010) was the 6th anniversary of our 1st modular set up.....in group member Ben's garage. What a great ride it's been.......reading CSam's thread makes me appreciative of the great group we have!

Here are some pics of the 1st set up.

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Saturday AM we had productive session cleaning out our 7x14 trailer and loading up our 8.5x24 trailer.....we were done before it got too hot.

Now we can concentrate on module building and updating for the rest of the summer.

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Special kudos to Tom (Gilly@N&W). He drives the trailer around like a champ!

We have got room to grow. This is our 3rd trailer since we started in 2009.

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Four things to add.

  • Not shown is "Bridge over Geezer Gorge". There was just no room for it on the 7x14 trailer!  
  • Yard modules (6' long) now will stand on-end. Massive space savings.
  • The 7x14 goes to its new home this afternoon. WOO-HOO
  • This morning the driveway is sans-trailer(s). My chance of getting lead poisoning has just gone down significantly.

 

BTW, this is what the next  trailer is going to look like (8.5x32). This is the absolute limit for my truck. My best estimate is we're about 5 years out before we need this one. We're already making BIG plans after the next retirement wave hits. Stay tuned. Ya ain't seen nuthin yet !!!

 

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Gilly@N&W posted:

Four things to add.

  • Not shown is "Bridge over Geezer Gorge". There was just no room for it on the 7x14 trailer!  
  • Yard modules (6' long) now will stand on-end. Massive space savings.
  • The 7x14 goes to its new home this afternoon. WOO-HOO
  • This morning the driveway is sans-trailer(s). My chance of getting lead poisoning has just gone down significantly.

 

BTW, this is what the next  trailer is going to look like (8.5x32). This is the absolute limit for my truck. My best estimate is we're about 5 years out before we need this one. We're already making BIG plans after the next retirement wave hits. Stay tuned. Ya ain't seen nuthin yet !!!

 

 Limit for your truck!?   Naaaaa. You just need a BIGGER truck!! 

 

Our club just recently purchased a second 7x12 trailer to augment and redistribute the weight of the layout we have in our 7x14 trailer. We can set up a 50 x 60 ft. Layout.

Below is our largest layout to date since starting our club in 1992. This is roughly 40 x 60. We set this up back in February at the World's Greatest Hobby show in San Antonio.

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Currently on our 90 degree corners our minimum curve is 60 and the max is 96. On our 45 degree corners our minimum curve is 96 and the max is an extended 120.

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Tom,

We have 4 mainlines. When we first started we only had 2 ( Track 1 & 3) but it was hard to give everybody a chance to run so we added the 2 extra mains ( Track 2 & 4). I personally wish we had just added track 2 to allow for more scenery. On some modules track 4 will meander over to 5 and in one area track 3 and 4 meander over to 4 and 5. All corners have 5 mains because to make the layout configuration more flexible. 

Our standard modules are 24 x 48. There are a few that are 28 x 48. We have also granted permission to make 24 x 24 inch modules. Scenery modules are customized to fit some places while others are made from blank standard modules.

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