mine (was originaly my dads) is our entire basement. Roughly 30x60 but our house isnt a rectangle shape…and the layout indents and protrudes into the indents and protrusions of the house…but i can run prototypical length trains and have them look good!!! so its big enuf…
Mine is 30"x 11’6"… A yard layout…I built the Jackson Ohio yard of my fictitious C&HV Ry…It can double for a generic C&O yard as well.The yard is loosely based on the C&Os Peach Creek yard.I built this layout as a photo prop and I can switch cars as well.
Right now it’s 4’x8’ in HO scale, but someday I hope to expand.
Dear 4884bigboy,
For someone whose screen name is the worlds largest locomotive (take that- C&O/N&W fans[:p], I’m a UP fan), I must say that I would have expected a larger layout.
But it’s probably better-size is like power: it corrupts. I was in a 12x16 room with O. Then I planned on an 18x20 room for O. And each time I was fairly content. Now I’m in a 20x20 room for HO and I still want more! (I supplicate that if I only had 30x30 feet I could do so much more!!!) Now I’m planning on a full circle roundhouse, with over 50 stalls (hey, plan ahead!)! Amazingly, I’m already planning on another deck for the layout. This is going to take a long time to get relatively finished (yes, I know that no layout is ever truly finished…) Someday, I’m going to buy one of those massive grociery store distributing facilities, and build the world’s largest layout, in O no less![:)] (Selective compression will have no place on such a large pike!!![8D])
-Daniel
my layout is 13’x13’ it is double tracked, and modeled after the green hills of pennsylvania. it is in the conrail era between 95-98’. the final years. it will soon be DCC, it has 4 industrial sidings, a lot of hills and mountains still under construction. right now, i am working on re-creating the “twin ledges” in cresson, pa. all the sidings are freelance. i have a small basement with a house on it, and space is limited. i am also building a lower level staging yard, approx. 20ft. in length with 5 tracks and 3 no.6 switches in atlas code 83. steel mill, paper mill, warehouse, coal/ore plant soon.
Mine is 11x18 feet. in S scale. This size is probably about right since I can’t dedicate time to it every week.
Enjoy
Paul
Not Big Enough!
But remember size isn’t everything, it’s content that counts. I’m presently working on an area that will give me a layout approximately 10X30. When I say not big enough I realize I sound like I’m boasting, but I’m not, the problem lies with the way I’ve set the layout. Not enough wide turns, bridges, double track, etc, etc… As the kids say “this is boring all it does is go around in circles”. time for some branchlines and spurs.
Maybe this winter.
Maybe the problem is I started out too big and haven’t been able to see the end of the tunnel.
Fergie
I hope with the right size curves I’ll be able to fit a Big Boy.[:D]
My layout is in a 25 x 75 basement with no stairs, furnace, nothing but the posts down the center. So far there is about 2700 feet of track in and it is still climbing. We operate every other week and I have had several OP Till U Drop sessions. Scenery is slowly being added but is going too slow as I am having too much fun operating. I am doing the CR Lowgrade from Driftwood to East Brady, PA in the 75 - 85 time period using Digitrax Rado DCC.
BOB H Clarion, PA
Not big enough N Scale 25 x 16 future expansion is planned
Right on, trainjunky!!![:D][:)][8D][:p][:)][:D][8D][:D][:)][^][:p]
I am working a 12.5 X 13 around the room shelf
with a new 4 X 4 penninsula industry.
It will keep me busy for quite a while.
-a small Z scale module, about 1 X 4´
-my soon started Z scale walkaround layout will be 16 X 22´.
Mine’s under re-construction. It is 12’ x 20’ with a 6’ x 14’ center aisle. The layout is like a doughnut…with a hole in the middle to operate from. HO scale. Track runs around the layout twice before repeating. I’m planning in continuous, out and back, and point-to-point operation with hidden staging.
So far, I’ve got an hour glass shaped 4’ x 12’, but as soon as time & $$$ permit, I’ll be adding a 2’ x 14’ yard / siding…
Man, it really sounds like you’re dissapointed with your 4x8 layout statas. I mean, you always put a [:(!] or [V]. But don’t worry, someday we’ll all have basement empires’. [;)]
My new layout will be a portable layout that can be built in a 36x18 area
My layout is 9’ x 13’ x 41". Track is HO and layout is “L” shaped. Will attempt to run two trains using tunnels and mountains. Am new at this and who knows what might happen.
My HO layout currently under construction is 1’6" by 12’, which is plenty work, to complete it in the next 9 months.
Jon
8 feet by 20 feet
It too big AND too small.
At 8’ x 20’ it eats up a big part of a 20’ x 20’ garage, I can still get the car into it but its tight.
At G gauge, 1/2" scale, its WAY TOO SMALL. If you see the plan it looks like something from Carl Arnets Micro-Layout pages.
Basically its an oval with a small yard at each end, with access ailse’s to reach switches and sidings. All the benchwork is done all the track is layed. but I’m still fighting the battle of space out there finding room for all the junk we seam to accumulate these days while accomodating the layout as well.