What’s in your Train Room? Mine has the model railroad, railroad posters and pictures on the wall, NASA Posters, Train Collection, and my Hot Wheels cars collection.[8D]
Besides my layout (under construction), a whole big mess…
i have the layout of course, pictures of railroad memorabilia, my diploma, honorable discharge from the u.s. navy, and all my boy scout stuff from when i was a scoutmaster…
only thing in my train room is my model railroad and my work area for my Nitro rc car. but for the time being my trains have overtaken my rc work area.
My “Train Room”, …sigh… I should be so lucky. My small layout is temporarily setup in one part of our bedroom. And I’m thankful to our VP of Real estate and Finances (also known as my dear wife) for allowing me to keep it there this long and for not making me tilt it up against the wall when I’m not actively engaged in working on it.
All my model railroad magazines and most of my railroad books are in the bookcase in the bedroom also.
Regards
Ed
Ed
well the layout, three shelf units to hold rolling stock / some of my locos. an old union pacific calendar (50s) a painting of the mount hood railroad… i have an old up stock cert and pic of big boy to go up and i have a big blueprint of a sd40-2 in UP. and a gp30 blueprint. ok so i have more ‘stuff’ than wall space… go figure…
[#ditto] sigh just the layout, a bunch of boxes, and a dark basement.
I’m a cartoonist and I share my railroad with my workspace in a 20x20 ft studio above my garage.The area for my artwork is getting smaller and smaller and smaller and…
layout, workbench, tools, RR magazine, book and reference material collection, RR photo collection, RR models, RR modelling supplies, layout construction supplies, paint, adhesives, furnace, water heater, freezer chest, chairs, dust, garbage, and the occasional dog, person or cat.
my layout is in a really tiny bedroom/storage room. it was a bedroom when one of the previous owners back in the 60s and 70s had like 8 kids and didn’t have enough room for all of them. when my parents moved in in the 81 it was turned into the storage room. last year my mom and i cleaned out a space big enough for a 4x8 layout. we have rubbermade tubs lined up around 2 walls, an old dresser with nothing in that i should just have them throw away so i can add onto my layout, a book shelf that is full of teaching books and other stuff my mom had, and then a closed. so bascially its my layout with a fort of tubs around it. i want to get a desk this weekend to somehow put in there for a work station so i don’t have to use my bedroom all the time for everything.
That’s it on the left, though it does have a roof on it now, but the inside is still pretty much the same.[:)]
Garage–share the train with the lawnmower, washer, dryer, hot water heater, some toolboxes and a cat that wandered in six years ago and decided never to leave, which means a kitty-litter box that has to be changed every other day. Oh, yes, leftover lumber from the initial framing that is never going to leave either, since I may sneak out there when nobody’s around and expand the layout–and when I’m asked what happened, I can put on a Very Innocent Face and say, “I don’t know, it was there when I got up, this morning.”
Tom
It’s a 600 square foot Rec Room in the shape of a “L” with a 1/2 T on the top, which is the work shop. About 300 sq’ is layout or slated to be layout with the remainder being a TV/gaming room. There are three sunken book shelves in the wall with train, marine, transportation, gardening and some misc. reading. There are also three ship models on the shelves. On one wall is a ship’s wheel, semaphore flags and Brass Port and Stbd Nav lights from the old Pilot Boat in St John’s, Nfld.
Three walls have a sky mural painted on them as a backdrop, another has a 18" Brass Porthole mounted on it. And there are several other nautical mementos hung on the walls as well as two train posters.
And my Scouting/Cubbing Stuff is stowed under the layout!
Regards
Fergie
My wife and I just moved into a house, and one of the bedrooms (small) is my train room with plastic tubs housing my HO collection, boxes full of train books and pictures, clothing (non-railroad) that we don’t know what to do with now (donations to Salvation Army sound good to me), and I have the feeling more stuff will be stored in there until we get everything unpacked.
Of course, I planned on my train room being the last thing to shape up. There are plenty of boxes in the other rooms to unpack.
Take care,
Russell
My train room is an “L” about 500 square feet. All that’s in the train room is benchwork / layout / trains. Rolling stock stored in mobile pull-out shelving under the benchwork. My railroad art is displayed on the walls of the stairwell leading down to the basement (also a couple of pieces in my offce - I work from home). My nicer locomotives are stored in hardwood glass-front wall display cases. One of them is in my office, the other three are in the workshop room that leads into the train room.
Garage, same as twhite BUT thankfully,NO cat. Soon will be a TRIKE. Custom 80 Harley conversion. My wifes. I’ll ride SHOTGUN. Bikers know what I mean when I state-I DONT RIDE B—H!
Flip.
My railroad room is a 13 1/2 by 15 1/2 finished room in the basement. It holds the layout, unbuilt kits, small tools and supplies. I built shelf units under the layout for storage of most things, but the kits are in large cardboard boxes. Lumber, foamboard and other large materials are stored in the basement proper.
Have Fun,
Tom Watkins
Work bench , furnace,water pump, hot water tank, table saw , drill press, band saw, and lots of junk and oh yes a layout.
layout and . . . a deer head. My room is the only place my wife will allow it.
My garage. used to be shared with a kawasaki ninja, 10 rc cars, and junk, as usual[;)]