Where is your trains set up? your tell me.
Is a modal railway similar to a model railway?
yes
Hmmmm…
Might want to edit the poll to eliminate redunancies.
Mine is set up in a bonus room above our garage. The only problem is the ceilings start sloping at 50" off the floor. It is a real pain because I have mountain scenery and the layout can only be so low. So I have to comprimise and have a fairly low layout and low mountains. I thus have a 2" strip of sky.
soumodeler
The Southern Serves the South!
In my old scenery book by Bill McClanahan (spelling?), he had the kneewall constuction in his layout room that you describe. In some areas, the vertical part of the wall was completely covered by mountains, which reached up and touched the sloping part of the ceiling above them. They looked fine in the photos.
Spare Room. My plan currently is to build a new set of tables for it using some old kitchen worktops/cupboards (repainted with dark woodstain - over the current “white wood grain” effect that should look good). With any luck the results will look very neat and won’t need concealing in the event of needing the spare room for guests!
Maybe he was refering to inter-modal? MMmmmm…[:-,]
Now be nice Bob!
My layout occupies 1/3 of the basement with potential for expansion.
Fergie
In my basement. I planned a section out of the way when we built our house. It’s not big enough though!
Family Room. And my kneewall starts even lower. That’s why I’m building a 5x12 layout on an open-frame table, but the whole thing is on casters, so can pull it out and work on the back side.
My layout occupies half of my attic 9X12 with room for expansion, just don’t tell my wife about the expansion part ok. [;)]
Gordon
It is in my spare room in the basement built specifically for my trains… It is just my “Train room”. So, I chose other…
Currently, I’m in part of the basement, but I am going to relocate to a spare bedroom while I fini***he basement. Most likely a two year project since I’ll be doing it myself as time and money permits.
Enjoy
Paul
In the train room of course. I built an addition on my home and included a room (really could be a spare bedroom 13X17) that ONLY has the train layout in it. Planned the electrical, sound, lighting, and network knowing that the HO layout would be in there.
Garage. This isn’t basement country (though I wish it was). Here in SunnyCal’s Sacramento Valley, nobody parks their car in the garage. Weather’s relatively mild, the garage is 3/4 insulated, and as long as I can get to the washer, dryer and hot water heater, the rest is my Empire and I can play Collis P.Huntington or William Jackson Palmer to my heart’s delight. Long live “California Basements!”
Tom [:P][:P]
Garage for me too, my house doesn’t have a real basement (split-foyer). Of course, if I’d known beforehand all the “hoops” I would have to jump thru to make the place train-friendly, I’d have bought a different property!
Yep, up here in the North East, we tend to use garages for putting cars and trucks and tractors and Log Skidders in out of the cold! So the Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western (SLO&W) is in the basement room under the master bedroom. Unfortunately the room is now full so the new part will be housed in a room next to it yet to be built. 'Nuther project for next winter…
My bedroom. It ain’t like I got any other option as I still live with my parents. That means I get to have carpet on the floor, but poor room lighting. I would kill for a two car garage to work in.
The house I moved into just a little over a year ago has a workshop detatched from the main house…I pulled out the garage door on it, bricked it up, and made it my trainroom…23’ x 25’ of nothing but trains…( i still need to remove some shelves one of these days for expansion but , that’s a long way off…got to get finished with what i started first)…Chuck