My dream layout space is reality!

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Hi all,

I’ve been dreaming of a decent layout space for a while. Over the last few months I have been building a new garage. It is 19ft long by 24 ft wide. That’s basically a 3 car garage for my trains. It is brick and plaster, with ceiling, lots of power points and my wife says its all for me!

the basic benchwokr shape is fixed as in the plan here
(I need to share this space with my other interest - space to store my classic mercedes’)

Anyway it still gives me a lot of HO real-estate.

I’m open to ideas, but I want :

  • Union Pacific in about 1950
  • passing sidings, so therefore single track mainline
  • point to point operation
  • possibly a helper district
  • minimal (or preferably no) hidden track

Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks, Ryan

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your link to the pic isn’t working (for me)

i suggest you start by reading all the other posts here by people designing layouts , read the books we all recommend , and then go looking for books or websites specific to the UP to find an area or areas you’d like to model . after all that try to come up with a basic plan and ask for help from there .

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Hi, y’all.

I have a spare room for a layout. What will fit?

LOL

Darrell, not being quiet enough…for now

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Try http://www.up.com/ for Union Pacific. Site has a map section under General Public → History and Photos.

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Can’t see it.

Hmmm, I don’t know if helping someone do a UP layout is indirectly supporting their stupid licensing policy. That might be hypocracy. [;)]

Any ideas on a setting? I don’t know the UP well enough to know where its helper districts were. I would guess Sherman Hill, somewhere in Oregon (Grants Pass?), and that SF, SP, and UP pass (Cajon Pass?) into the Los Angeles.

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That was an EXPENSIVE link, I found the store, got a Challenger and a set of glasses. Thanks, I think! [:D]

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They also sell a bunch of promotional stuff.

You KNOW Union Pacific doesn’t MAKE all this stuff themselves. Just wondering how much they charge their suppliers for using their logo?

Darrell, quiet…for now

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YOU GOT A REAL UP CHALLENGER??? Wow, that must have cost you a few bucks!!!

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Darrell, quietly LMAO…for now