FiatFan Wrote:My train room is just short of 9X13 with a separate shop (about 11X11) for all my tools, both modeling and general household projects.
My wife has offered me another room in the basement but until yesterday I hadn't figured out how to utilize it since it would be out one door and around the corner into another room. Yesterday I figured out that if I put a helix in the second room I could have a bi-level layout. I'm still weighing the pros and cons on that idea. Using the second room would also involve punching a couple of holes in a block wall.
Tom
I have punched a hole in a block wall. If you do you will need to seal the hollow block above it because debris will fall onto the track. Not big stuff dust and moisture. It is a big pain in the a.... I used a piece of rubber.
20' x 32' in a new building in the yard. Since I have 15 acres, I could have gone larger but that's all I feel I can handle maintenance-wise.
A old shaped basement, about 16" x 24" with obstacles.
At home, I have about 8' x 2' of available space in my "train" room! Doesnt' count.
Matt
About 12 1/2' x 10' and like most everybody else's, too small...
Not sure about the room but it is mostly filled up with a 10' by approx 16.5' train table.
work shop is in a little room in the corner of the basement about 10'x10'. Yeah the work shop ia almost as big as layout
but it is a multi-function space trains/models, computers and electronics. It was going to be a fish breeding area but decided to leave the hobby.
I agree with Ed, train rooms are never big enough for the average person. I get jealous when I see some of those layouts in people's basements since here in Arizona, basements are scarce. I'd say that 99% of all houses here are on poured concrete slabs. I'd use the garage, but I've got my woodworking shop set up in there. :o Anyway, when this house was being built, I had them move a couple of doorways so that one of the bedrooms is adjacent to my den. It's about 13'x12', just enough room for a modest N scale layout, a workbench and some storage.
I don't have a train room per se because we live in a small postwar bungalow in the East York (east Toronto). Our floor area is about 800 sq ft so I have a small section of the basement where I've set up my 5x6-ish 00 / HO layout. I also have my office set up in our spare basement bedroom where I also have a small 1x6' switching layout.
One day, I hope we will move out of the city into a smaller urban area where we should be able to afford a much larger house.
The club layout is set in a friend's basement. About 14' x 28" with a furnace separating both side of the room. It's quite big, but maybe too much to thing we will ever finish any part in a near future.
At home, there's a shelf behind my desk which holds trains. It's about 9' x 1'. I often tried to turn it into a switching layout in the past without too much success. I have a hard time to keep focus on a project!
Matt
I think sailormatlac and I agree on this. You might look at <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6347&p=113599#p113599">viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6347&p=113599#p113599</a><!-- l --> page 3
Lester Perry Wrote:I think sailormatlac and I agree on this. You might look at <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6347&p=113599#p113599">viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6347&p=113599#p113599</a><!-- l --> page 3
Yep, I read the article after I saw your post. Lance again explained it well. It's starting to give me idea for a neglected are on the club layout.
Matt
Lester Perry Wrote:FiatFan Wrote:My train room is just short of 9X13 with a separate shop (about 11X11) for all my tools, both modeling and general household projects.
My wife has offered me another room in the basement but until yesterday I hadn't figured out how to utilize it since it would be out one door and around the corner into another room. Yesterday I figured out that if I put a helix in the second room I could have a bi-level layout. I'm still weighing the pros and cons on that idea. Using the second room would also involve punching a couple of holes in a block wall.
Tom
I have punched a hole in a block wall. If you do you will need to seal the hollow block above it because debris will fall onto the track. Not big stuff dust and moisture. It is a big pain in the a.... I used a piece of rubber.
Good advice Lester, and Fiat, if it benefits the railroad, go ahead and do it. It's more prototypical than a tunnel through plaster! My current plan calls for two holes through concrete block - which I've taken to calling "Wall Ridge"
I removed the need for two more tunnels by replacing about 7 feet of the wall with a steel beam. Now a hole in the wall seems like a minor task (I have a thread for that somewhere around here...)!
Back on topic!
My layout room is about 15x22 - 11x22 on one side of the wall, ~2x22 on the other, with a 8x12 bump off one end for the workbench area . There's a lap track (no lix) around the other (non-layout) end of the room which is not included.
Main room is 10'6"wide x 25'6"long shared with furnace and water heater.I have a smaller room that is 10'6" x 8'6' that will hold my home Z layout eventually.
The basement is a 25'x43' (7.7m x 13.2m) rectangle with an 8'x20' (2.46m x 6.16m) extension. Some space is lost to a pool table and a library. The mainline will actually go right through the library as if it were a shelf. The pool table has a 10'x5' sectional HO layout for the kids. Currently, I'm working on laying the track on this HO layout.
I haven't got a room, but part of my loft, it is (sorry it's in metric) 2.50m by 4m, but I can only use a fraction of that along the 'walls', each about 45cm wide in a U shape, on side being about 3.5m long, the other leg of the U is just over 2m, as it place is a storage place for stuff we don't use for most of the year (suitcases, christmas decorations etc etc) I can't claim it all, and due to the roof construction is impossible anyway.
I do however have two module boards under construction too. I don't really have a work desk (which I miss greatly as I can't leave stuff out to dry etc), but use the dining table etc..
Koos