My layout room is a hideous disaster but, even though it’s called a “shelf layout”, I try to resist having the layout itself become a storage area.
The bench work in the middle has no track yet, so it is a storage area, holding flex track, road bed, tools etc. I probably should get better organized, but then I would have to get it all out for the next work session.
Enjoy
Paul
I try to clean up as I go. Sometimes it gets a little out of hand though. Especially when working w/plaster. Dave
Mine tends to go quite cluttery and stuff piles up, but I do totally clean up everything every two or three weeks.
Well I figure this, real railroad shops have tools, parts and equipment laying all over, so why can’t my line? Haha nah I do try to keep it looking up, had you asked how my workbench looked umm well that’s a story for another time
A disaster zone is how I’d describe my layout right now. I’m in the middle of building permanent shelving for my locomotives & rolling stock, just finished ripping up & then re-laying 11’ of track & running trains to constantly check my trackwork.
As soon as I can get myself organized properly, my benchwork will stop to be a “dumping ground” for things other than model railroad stuff.
It’s been a slow process but I’m almost there!!!
Gordon
P.S.
I know this is a lame excuse, but my layout is also where the Christmas decorations are stored & takes up a lot of space under my benchwork.
now I’m not feeling so bad, typical to above comments but I’m currently focussed on re-painting the rolling stock, rather than figuring out the glitches in the wiring… the big decision was to look at it and realize that it is a construction zone. I’m closer to the starting line than the finish - therefore I’m adjusting for the fourth time, and bringing on the DCC (in 2004): yeah! cheers,
I have an assortment of tools & wood waiting to be used on the layout, although once I’m done with the layout I’ll put away most of the tools.
[#ditto] Not a pretty site! On Thursday I ripped out the Forest (100 trees or so). Then I started to install the upper mountain which was approximately 35 feet of spline ( first time). This should be completed by the end of the week, maybe. Then I’ll have to go out and buy cork and track, about 40’ of it, Then there is the plaster. It just gets messier. Hence the name of my empire It will always be the M.E.S.S.
I can’t stand to work in a messy place. Everyone is amazed when they visit that the place is so clean, even though I’m still doing benchwork/track laying. Makes working so much more enjoyable.
I have a neat layout in a room that would make the local land fill look neat.
the layout itself is as tidy as can be apart from the kind of junk that any real RR also has lying around and that I purposely put there. But don’t look under the benchwork, it looks like the stockroom of a hardware store *** LHS after the bull has been around. But I know my way around so who cares.
My layout almost never has anything that is not scale on it. No tools, garbage, no junk. It is just a little dusty.
Before I start any scenery I think I might turn my layout into an around the walls shelving unit!
Aw c’mon–what’s a little clutter among friends?[:)] My room’s pretty neat, though when I’m working it quickly becomes a mess. And, yes, I DO eat McDonalds in the train room, usually while sitting on the floor. That’s living–McDonalds & trains![^]
I keep mine clean as possible, I also keep a couple air freshners just to have a nice clean smelling room to walk in to. aside from a few boxes and a little dust it;s quite a pleasant place to go after work or dinner.
If I stuck a cotton tornado on from the layout to the roof it would work…
Just started cleaning again today
My layout is well very untidy. I really should put things away but i still have to relay some track. so i don’t really put any thing away. Besides if i put anything i can’t find it when i want. Once i get to building scenery i will probably put them away.[:)][;)]
I have noticed that now that I’m adding scenery (well, streets and sidewalks and yards–urban scenery) I am more careful about not leaving things on the layout. Things are still a mess off the layout, but I can live with that…
didn’t vote. don’t have a layout started. still waiting till my dad and i can get to the lumber yard and get the wood to start building. darn thing closes at 5 and thats when he gets home from work and its not open on weekends.
although i do have this 3x5 piece of particle board on a table that just has 2 sets of tracks on it. i took all the pieces of rolling stock and locomotives off and put them back in boxes so they don’t get super dusty.
the room my trains will be in is a lot cleaner than it used to be. before we couldn’t even walk in. now everything is in tubs or something and pushed against the wall so i can have room for a 4x8 layout. then in my room is my work station. its just my desk with my tool box on it.
everything is clean for the time being i guess.