I would like to know how much it would coast to build a layout with my train supplies.O and O27 scales
A fair amount.
No disrespect intended, but there are so many questions, that you don’t answer, that it is impossible to even give you a ballpark answer.
How much room do you have?
How Large of a Layout do you want?
How Detailed of a Layout do you want?
Your “I have Ten Trains” statement doesn’t tell us what other “Supplies “ you have, do you have any Track?, what Kind? Will you need more?
Do you have any power supplies?
What kind?
How do you intend to control your trains, track voltage, TMCC/Legacy/DCS?
How many of your ten trains do you plan to have on the track, or run at the same time?
There are a whole lot of questions that need to be answered, before we can even begin to advise you on anything, never mind what it will cost
There are a lot of Great members here, that will offer an endless amount of advice to help you achieve your goals, but we need a whole lot more information to do so
Doug
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Without further information it’s hard to guess, but suffice to say it can cost as little or as much as you like. The old, traditional layout on a 4 X 8 sheet of plywood’s as good a start as any OR you can shop around thrift stores for used 5 X 9 ping-pong tables as a layout base.
Costs for the same? You’ve got to get out and shop around for the raw materials, we can’t help you much there.
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Welcome aboard Dtopp! 
Fancy layouts with realistic scenery, up and down grades (hills) for the track, lots of buildings and accessories can cost thousands and take years to build. Buying a 4 foot by 8 foot sheet of 1/2" thick (ok) or 3/4" thick (better) sanded plywood, some green paint to paint it with and a couple of sawhorses to stand everything up on could cost you a couple hundred dollars and have you running trains fairly quick.
We’ll need more information to get a closer estimate as others have said.
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I can say after being around this hobby for a long time that I have…well way more than 10 trains. I have a bunch that are proper “passenger” sets with a loco and XX number of cars(2-8 typically), freight sets with factory “matched” cars, or sets that I could assemble from a loco and a bunch of cars that either make sense to be together or maybe just because I like how it all looks together(or I’m just trying to string as much as I can behind something because).
3 trains at a time is about my realistic limit of what I want to keep track of, and usually more like two. Plenty of people run more, but I like to be a little more hands on/involved with them running rather than just cranking up the throttle and letting them go.
Even a basic 4x8 layout can easily handle two loops of track and a yard area, or a bit more depending on exactly what you want to do. For someone who’s never built a layout before, a 4x8 sheet of plywood is not a terrible place to start. No, you can’t run big trains on wide curves, but there’s room for running+switching, buying track and other such is not that daunting of an expense, and it lets you play with scenery.
You may find that’s enough to keep you happy for a while, and there’s no shame in that. You may find that it doesn’t work for you for a variety of reasons, but you’ve learned some valuable lessons about what works well and what doesn’t that you can use to guide your next adventure. Best of all, if you hate the scenery or the theming or whatever after you’ve finished it, you don’t have so much invested that you will feel bad just tearing the whole thing out and starting from scratch on the same 4x8 sheet.
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That’s cold LMAO… it can also be said is TRUE
Pep