Well, my garage is for three cars but we use it for hobby, work shop, and storage space, and don’t have the large garage doors. My layout share is 9’6" x 24’. I am planning to submit my plan anyway. If it gets rejected, so be it.
Wyatt,
You need to reread my post. I wasn’t talking about the door leading into the house, which my garage also has. It’s the theory that there would be a walk through exterior door from the garage out to the great outdoors.
Don Z.
Two-car garages are frequent sites for layouts in California. Every layout I’ve seen ignores any doors to the exterior. The only functional door is the one connecting to the house. In the San Francisco area, there are some well-done layouts based on such prototypes as the Yosemite Valley, Sierra, Western Pacific, and the SP Santa Cruz branch. You might have seen write-ups on some of these layouts in magazines over the last couple of decades.
Mark
Oh, and as I recall, none of the doors for entering the layout/garage areas intruded into that space. If not originally designed that way, the modelers corrected the situation.
Mark
Also note that choosing the right bay would require items such as groceries to be passed over/thru/or under the layout to get from the vehicle to the kitchen.
Have fun
My contention was that if I had a 20x20 space, which I did in real life, I would not choose the more constrictive side given what I had planned to install layout wise, I would chose the right hand bay for its clear 10 x 20 space and leave the left hand door side open for vehicle and access, thats all. In fact my current layout actually goes across the back wall of my garage, its elevated and the deck is cantelevered enough so if I park a car, theres enough room for either of our cars, which are small, to fit easily; the cars nose slips under the layout. [;)]
This is why I asked for a proviso for those of use who would like to submit our real layouts as entries. I will modify my layout to fit the 10x20 space as oriented [:D]
Chip, just a thought but maybe the layouts when submitted should be done so in an east-west format, not the north-south orientation as shown on page 1, so your getting 800 w x600 h format and not 600 w x 800 h? Save some space that way.
Don, I was not trying to mean spirited, or hateful. People say I come across that way.LOL
As for the ext door going from garage to outside, I have one of those too,lolololol. It aloows access to the backyard. The only other access is a gate in the fence… which was made by a wood butcher, because it takes a 100T crane to get it to move.
That door is a half glass unit, with the window opening, which works great for my exhuast and fresh air intake for my portable A/C unit.
I apologize if I sounded upset, mad at world, angry, mad, po’d, hateful,disgusted,I can make that list last a long time, my wife always adds new words to it daily.LOL
Time to go make the doughnuts,lol, or should I say excavator buckets.
Adios wyatt
The track plan / drawing would be too small. The vertical format would work best. I just converted mine from horizontal to vertical and can see the details better.
BTW, nothing was mentioned about length, just has to be 800 pixles wide.
My thinking is what Elmer mentioned. My limitation is the horizontal width of the space I have for the layout on my website.
OK 800 pixels wide max by whatever the heights turns out, is fine with me [:D]
Stupied question but I want to make sure this before I start. Must we allow room for a car? Or may we use the entire garage space?
You get 10 x 20 or half the area of a 20 x 20 garage. You can use the “car side” for walk around access.
Thanks.
Now this one I’ll do because I’m actually doing it for real. Even have a strategically placed door to contend with.
Chip you have mail
I’ve got one from Vic and one from Elmer.
You should have my entry now.
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5 days to go, long holiday weekend, should be a few more entries hopefully coming soon.
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Deadline has past, Any further entries?