The SVS is a bit bigger than a bedroom. It occupies a 22x32 basement. Here is the track plan. The plan represents work to date. It is a work in progress. Photos on my railimages alburm
Looks GREAT Todd. Wish I could run on it sometime. Maybe you could ride me around Horseshoe curve sometime. Scott
My bride has a different opinion. I incurred an enchroachment penalty when I snuck staging yards on a shelf in the room that we use for indoor exercise. I was hoping she would overlook this as I quietly schemed how to annex this room for more layout space. Let's just say that a treaty was negotiated and I lucky that I don't have to remove the staging yards. The only way I'll be able to continue to expand the layout will be to give up my workshop and store room. But I'm still looking at options...
I think of mine as not inordinately large in space, as it is a single stall of a three-stall garage, or about 11 x 23 feet. What makes it bigger is it's nolix design on three levels. There's about 1100 feet of track on the levels, and I think it does not look all that crowded, just linear, which is exactly what I wanted. I've estimated there are about 340 square feet of layout "space." I've posted the track plan here many times, and will search for it to post again.
Here's my best effort at reconstructing the track plan. First Level Second Level Third Level The images DO line up on the right wall: I just haven't had time to make this happen. And they are not all of the same scale--again, sorry! I should really photograph it and write about it more, but I just haven't had the time.
I've enjoyed your pics previously. I grew up in Vestal, N.Y. (on the old Lackawanna mainline)and my dad pastored a church in Campville (on the old Erie mainline). I remember trains running behind the church in the early 70's that were LV, E-L and D&H. It was a great time for eastern railfanning!
The P&PU in N-scale occupies a 35 by 40 foot basement. There are 2 decks connected by 4 spiral helixes. The upper deck has about 8 scale miles of the P&PU main line, the main yard and 3 satellite yards, plus most of the industries, interchanges, and yards associated with the 12 RRs connecting with the P&PU in the 1970s. The 4 helixes connect various foreign RR interchange tracks or yards on the upper level with the 14 scale miles of mainlines on the lower level that take trains to their staging yards scattered around the basement. There are over 50 trains that could be run. The Main Yard of the P&PU is 1 scale mile long: The Eastern Division runs from the Main Yard, past The AMOCO Tank Farm in Hilliards Block, Grove and North Pekin Blocks where BN Coal trains switch power with C&IM power... through connections with the P&E, ATSF, IC and C&IM in Pekin... to the Pekin Farm Yard by Corn Products in South Pekin.
The Eastern Division is connected to the Western Division by the P&PU bridge over the Illinois River. The Western Division is on the west side of the Illinois River and runs from the Rock Island Yard, past the BN Yard by the P&PU Middle Yard, the CNW Yard, Iowa Jct and the P&PU Kickapoo Yard (behind me and to my left in this picture and to my right is the Keystone Siding at the north end of the Keystone Mill Complex)... to the Keystone Steel and Wire mill complex (1 scale mile long)... Allied Mills, down the Bartonville Helix (Allied is in the background), and to Clark Oil and the CILCO Edwards Power Station (lower level in this next picture). This picture is taken with The Eastern Division's Wesley Jct showing on the upper level in the foreground, the AMOCO Tank Farm in the Hilliards Block on the upper level in the background, and CILCO's Edwards Power Station in the Western Division on the lower level. To the left on the lower level there are staging tracks for CNW South Pekin Yard (3 tracks), TPW Yard in Keokuk Iowa (2 trks), CNW Yards in Nelson Illinois and Marshalltown Iowa (4 tracks), NW Yard in Frankfort Indiana (2 trks), and ITC Yard in Allentown Illinois (2 tracks). There are also 12 industries for TPW's Mapleton businesses.
Dave, your gonna need to buy a quarry all for yourself when you get ready to balast that thing....awesome layout, more shots please.....so big it's hard to get it all in... not that that should be a problem....it's not....
I'd nominate the Pacific Desert Lines built and operated by the San Deigo Society of N. Pacific Desert Lines It is large. Large. Large. But not double decked!! And this is just one scene on the SD&AE Layout housed in the same building...only this layout is in HO. Note the person standing on the Aircraft Carrier... http://www.sdmrrc.org/SD_auxHO/StreetPrep.htm
