suzukovich posted:Mark
Nice work so far. I was looking at the track plan and looks good as laid out. I was thinking that you could actually connect everything to see how things would run. Then decide if you would have to modify. Easier said then done, but then you wouldn't have to modify the bench work. As for the suggestion of around the room option. This would be perfect timing to mock that one up then you could decide which way you want to go. The one thing you will have to do with that option is to build a either a lift away at the door or something similar to what paul2 is doing that flips up . Another advantage will be storage. You could build shelves into it and then the room might not look so cluttered. with shelving on the walls.. I think it was mike who asked about the celling central. Something to think about, but from the looks of it you could possibly do the same thing in that room and then run a spur connecting both rooms. Another option with the around the wall plan. Might need to knock a hole in the wall, but you could run a spur into the other room and along the wall have a hidden yard with four or five sidings with trains ready to go. Then you could decide what you want to run before you enter the room to operate. The work on the room itself is looking good. The lighter blue actually make it look bigger. Question the window leads to the out side or into the garage?
Doug,
Thank you for your observations and suggestions. I started mocking up an idea from earlier on in this process, but with some suggestions since I opened this topic. Yes, it would have a flip up shelf/bridge. I want to do a little more before I post any photos of it.
As to the hole in the wall to the Ceiling Central RR room, here is why I won't do that. Eleven inches of concrete block and brick. Then you can see the CCRR shelves above the clock in the other room.
This room is an addition my in-laws put on the house a few years before we bought it from Mum after Pop Pop passed. The train room was intended to be the supporting structure for the sun room above it. LOL My father-in-law loved that sun room, as his health kept him indoors a lot. So yes, this was the exterior and the big window has the laundry on the other side.
Now, that said, the CCRR is right above the top of the door opening, It would be possible to have a shelf 4" lower and it could go through the corner of the door opening, and I wouldn't hit my head. I am 6' 0". I'll ponder that some more over the summer I think.
Thank you very much, and I will post some ideas as I develop them. It is just as good I won't have time to build benchwork until fall anyway.
