When I had a layout, it could generally be found under the cat! Now I have a couple of Ntrak modules stored on end with a basement full of spare furniture. Ntrak setups keep me sane (I think)!
Mine is 16' x 12' located in the basement in our house in Upstate NY where we hope to move to soon. I try to go up there as much as possible with a lot of pre-planning on my layout before we have to leave for our jobs back in a very crowded Long Island.
Hey, Mine is in a spare bedroom. It's 8 X 12 X 15. It's in the shape of a "U".I'm planning a 4 X 8 addition.I need a big yard.
What is it about cats and trains. All I have to do is set up a couple peices of flex track and I get cats lying all over them.
No John, at least not yet, but I am getting close to finally bitting the bullet and getting a good digital camera and will post pics when I can. Nelson
I have a 7'x15' room in the house. It should be a bedroom but, when Son moved out I was allowed, by the Boss, to move in from a shed in the garden. We are talking about the layout and not me, of course Regards, Dave
Mine is in the third stall of the garage--11'6" x 24'. In late summer of 2002, I split the garage, and used two extra electrical circuits for lighting and heat-A/C (a heat pump). The garage was already insulated and finished, so the wall took only a day. Because it is virtually sealed, the room stays pretty clean.
Lucky for me my wife is into trains too, our finished basement includes my 3X6 N layout and my wifes 4X14 O and N T-Trak modules.
My "works-in-a-drawer" N-scale layout is in one of the two drawers that slides under a bunk bed. It is on a 32" by 34" piece of homosote that occupies the entire drawer. We are considering building an addition of the same size which would occupy the other drawer, with tunnels to join the 2 sides. I was inspired to build this layout to fit in a drawer under the bed by an article in Classic Toy Trains magazine. It was not practical to mount the transformer inside the drawer, nor to mount it on the outside of the drawer. So instead I used an old pair of male/female plugs for a headphone jack to allow easy connect/disconnect of the power leads from the transformer to the layout.
John - Good kitty, nice kitty. That is a good photo. Glad my lab hasn't tried that one. I'm like the others in the southwest with no basement. A couple of folks in town have them, but since none of the current builders around here have ever done a basement I prefer not to be their guinea pig. The ground around here is hard (compressed sand full of great big boulders), unstable, and also is porous enough to flood out anything that resembles a basement everytime it rains. So, this house was ideal for a layout. The previous owner had converted the single car attached garage to a room, but the floor slopes slighlty to where the door used to be, there's a concrete lip around the room, there is no cooling (bad on those 105 degree days) and there is no insulation in the outer wall. So it became the layout room as well as a general work/project room - the washer/dryer are at the back. The layout is a u-shaped shelf that occupies 18 ft of one wall, 12 ft of another wall, and bows out into a 10 ft dog bone with a return loop on the 3rd wall. I refer to the place as my New Mexico basement. Works well for a layout and a project room and I'm kinda glad the previous occupant did a shoddy job on the garage conversion.
John, I will envy you whenever I need to move my layout! Nice modular concept with storage underneath. My layout is...in the back of my mind...always... It's also currently in a spare bedroom, which in the desert is almost a requirement. It's way too hot and dusty in the garage most of the year, my trains (and I) would melt. It's my dream to find one of those few homes in the southwest with a basement, or large workshop. )
