How big is your train room

[Lester Perry]

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.

[santafewillie]

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.

[sailormatlac]

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

[Len Turner]

About 12 1/2' x 10' and like most everybody else's, too small...

[AF350]

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.

[Sumpter250]

"Sumpter250" wrote: Basement, 13' X 20' ( 13' X 3' is workbench/storage/paint booth ) My primary model building area is my "dining room" table (42" dia.) The basement is cold in the winter, and running up the stairs to answer the "sales pitch phone calls", is not one of my favorite forms of exercise.

Sounds like it is time to put a phone in the train room

Better heat will be the first "train room improvement" - - - then, the sales pitch calls can go to answering machine to be used as evidence when I prosecute the "National Do Not Call list" violations.

Seriously, I can use the exercise, I just don't do all that well with the cold.

[ezdays]

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.

[RobertInOntario]

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.

[sailormatlac]

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

[Lester Perry]

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

[sailormatlac]

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

[Fluesheet]

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.

[Catt]

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.

[nkp_174]

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.

[torikoos]

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