L&N Industrial Rail Spur

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Hi Ed,

Happy Birthday!

Could you please explain where your layout is located and how you access it? Are you able to stand on the right side (end) or do you only have access from the front? What was the finished height again?

How did you take this picture?

Thanks, Mark

Mark;

The layout is free standing in the middle of the basement floor. Bench work is actually 42in wide, but I'm putting the backdrop down the center (18in from the front) and will use the back side as storage for my 100+ cars. The layout stands 52 inches high which of course gives me sort of an aerial view, but since I stand and walk along with the train as I'm operating it, it works just fine for me.

This particular section of bench work was left over from a previous layout I had started some years ago and rather then tear it down and toss all of it, I just went with what was already there. I have considered putting up a new shelf along the one vacant wall in the basement, but that would reduce the overall length to 16ft and would require adding a removable staging track on one end to achieve the same layout space. Might as well use what is already available.

Little known secret - there is actually a second layout down here that is a 14ft X 36ft L shape and that has a large scale switching layout on it. I haven't worked with it for some time, but the nephews and nieces play around with it when they come to visit. They actually like the large scale stuff more then the HO scale. I like it all!