That is the figure put forth in the MAR 07 MR. That is a 15 x 15 room.
I don’t know if that is room size or the layout square footage. Either way it seems on the large size to me.
Is yours bigger or smaller.
My current layout is 40 sq ft. The one I’m just starting is room size: 88 sq ft–add staging and it is 106 sq ft. Actual Benchwork sq ft. 44 sq ft–with staging 56 sq ft.
I only have a 4 x 8. I have alot of catching up to do. I have a BIG basement but I dont think the wife will like it if I take it all. [sigh]
I have just less than 10x12 feet for a layout, and the layout occupies all that except for 3 foot aisles.
That does seem fairly large. My room size is 12 by 24 my layout is 8 by 20 around the walls with a 2 by 6 yard. By the way its HO. Dave
120 square feet for me. Then again, there will be the two foot deep Dept 56 diorama with the Marx O under the HO layout so we could say 160 sq ft. I’m still well under average. I feel so inadequite.[sigh]
only 70 sqft of garage-based nscale bliss for me. The statistics prove it, time for a new house!
My wife gave me the entire basement. That means that even tho the utilities and laundry room take a quarter of it, and the bar and pool table area and the lounge area and the mini office and the game table area. Well, I still have a 12x24 foot space. Since I neede access to the storage under the layout(s)I split it up unevenly. Two feet aisle along the wall. Four feet from the laundryroom door and from the aisle down the center of the basement. No space from the sofa in the lounge. Leaves me 6x20. Simple. Now if I can only get this moving at a visible rate of progress
(hey, you changed your avatar!)
For HO I have 16 square feet.
There is a small upper level on it that is 8.4 square feet.
I hope to add a hinged fiddle/staging yard that will be about 3 square feet- 3.8 square feet.
So I hope to have a total of 28 square feet.
It is all the space I can use right now, and I am thrilled to be back in the hobby and have that much!!!
I should sell condos…
After you said something about it, I said hey, it doesnt look right blue. This avatar is alot better.
There’s another thread mentioning NS and their black and white design. I thought you were campaigning for a change.
I get to see a few NS trains in my travels. Blue and white reminded me of the BTHS model railroad club from back in the 1970s.
My current layout is in a room 11’4" x 18’8" or about 210 sq ft - the actual bechwork occupies 114 sq ft, but I am going to replace it with one that expands into more of the basement. Actual benchwork will be about 190 sq ft in a basement area that is about 800 sq ft.
Enjoy
Paul
And just where does MR get the data upon which they based their statement? They must be going solely on the average size of the monster layouts that they feature in their magazine and not the average size that most of us have. I don’t recall their ever conducting a poll of their readers to see what size layouts we have. If they did, I certainly missed seeing it. The 15 x 15 foot figure would mean that the entire room is nothing but layout, with no open space to move around in, so the actual room would have to be much larger than that.
Well, I’m average! [:D] My layout room is 15’ x 15’ exactly.
Don Z.
I would say the readers have larger layouts than the overall hobby. A smaller layout owner may not be as deeply involved as larger layout owners would be and therefore not subscribe. If I wasn’t doing the storage and dept 56 diorama I’d have a helix and two levels bringing my layout to 240 sq ft.
My room size is 9x13 (117 sq ft). The layout is around-the-walls, with a 2’ depth for the most part so actual layout sq ft is much lower (and no second level to make up for it).
I am so below average [8D]
Sweeyhome Chicago is only 34 square feet, little more than a piece of 4 by 8. Shucks!!
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Jon
My benchtop surface area is about 101 ft sq, while the area occupied by the benchwork is 124 ft sq. The differential is in the operating pit.
I’m undersize too!!! 4x8=32SF Someday I’ll move into that larger retirement home!![:D]
Mine is 12x16 so that comes out to be 192 sq. ft.
My layout room is only about 100 sq ft. Subtracting the aisles and counting the various layers ( 2 - 4 layers) gives me about 350 sq feet of actual layout. I have 300’ of track and 34 turnouts in that area.