Terrific! Great memories. As kids, my cousin and I had trains (five sheets of plywood end to end and one more to make an "L"). 40 years later, military tours and much travel behind us we FINALLY got together one Christmas. He asked, hey, to you still have those old Lionel trains...you know what followed, track was everywhere, living room to dining room a loop through the kitchen and back to the living room. It was a perfect Christmas visit, big eyes on the children, crazy cats and woofing dogs, a smile on the faces of the wives - they had never seen grown men have so much fun. We both still have ALL of those trains, but I can now run mine standing up. And its still fun. It took me a while to open this thread - and I am glad I did - Thanks guys
Still a floor runner here, and relatively new to "O" scale / gauge. I have a two track mainline around the perimeter of an unused room in my basement, fastrack 072 curves on the outside and 060 on the inside with a couple crossovers and a small yard in the middle for additional cars and locomotives. A formal layout is in the planning stages, as well as the plans for remodeling the main part of the basement for a permanent layout. Definitely still fun to run the trains, experiment, and enjoy the various locomotives and rolling stock I've been collecting for the eventual layout.
Such creativity! I really enjoy these posts. Thanks everyone.
It's been awhile......
Christmas/Winter 72-73
Circa 2009
Peter
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I will soon run a train on my bedroom floor. It will tunnel in through the wall from the high cathedral space above my kitchen, then tunnel back out to the cathedral. I've been building it slowly, the train being a special feature of the larger project I have of built-ins (shelves and drawers) throughout the house.
@Chuck242 posted:"...track was everywhere, living room to dining room a loop through the kitchen and back to the living room."
That is my exact layout right now with lots of Menards 30" straights and 96" curves (18'x18').
Always do a small loop around the Christmas tree, but that may be considered "cheating." 
As it will be awhile before the basement is ready for me to consider beginning construction on my permanent layout (thread here), I decided to get some interlocking square floor pad mats and set up a "temporary" layout using the FasTrack I aready had so I could at least run some trains. My daughter has taken to running her Pet Shop Express set I got her 2 Christmases ago. I had included the Frozen II set in my pre-order to Pat, intended for Christmas, but he must have had one in stock as it arrived earlier this past week. As I had to close work for the ice/snow storm on Friday, I figured it was the perfect occasion to give it to her instead of having it sit semi-hidden in the basement for another 11 months.
I plan on stretching the loop a bit and bringing the spur across to the other side. Come to think of it, I'll just make a separate thread on that....
Take care & happy running to all!
- Neal
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@PRRronbh posted:
every Christmas I put up a little something, the wife allows me to take over the living room taking furniture out. I run everything from pre/postwar to modern to Century Club. I do this for the kids that come over and this way the main layout is a little to complex for the kids to run. BTW when all the trains on the layout are running the new ZW handles the entire load 1 prewar/2 postwar/1 MPC/2 subway/3 TMCC and 1proto 3 no issues. Best investment I ever made.
The scale turbine is RailSounds 1 converted over to full TMCC.
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@Fridge56Vet posted:Always do a small loop around the Christmas tree, but that may be considered "cheating."
As it will be awhile before the basement is ready for me to consider beginning construction on my permanent layout (thread here), I decided to get some interlocking square floor pad mats and set up a "temporary" layout using the FasTrack I aready had so I could at least run some trains. My daughter has taken to running her Pet Shop Express set I got her 2 Christmases ago. I had included the Frozen II set in my pre-order to Pat, intended for Christmas, but he must have had one in stock as it arrived earlier this past week. As I had to close work for the ice/snow storm on Friday, I figured it was the perfect occasion to give it to her instead of having it sit semi-hidden in the basement for another 11 months.
I plan on stretching the loop a bit and bringing the spur across to the other side. Come to think of it, I'll just make a separate thread on that....
Take care & happy running to all!
- Neal
I've never seen Frozen 1 or 2 but I almost purchased that set because it looked rather interesting. A
I got my Lionel O96 FasTrack circle yesterday. I clearly didn't think this through. I have no where to set this up. The closest place I have is the master bedroom floor. Probably should have paid the extra for the O84 circle instead.
Anthony
Attached a photo of my last floor setup… working on a permanent layout with benches… it has been 2 years of floor layouts. This setup was based upon one of the layout plans posted I the forum… with an extra loop to allow to two trains to run at once…
John
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@ThatGuy posted:every Christmas I put up a little something, the wife allows me to take over the living room taking furniture out. I run everything from pre/postwar to modern to Century Club. I do this for the kids that come over and this way the main layout is a little to complex for the kids to run. BTW when all the trains on the layout are running the new ZW handles the entire load 1 prewar/2 postwar/1 MPC/2 subway/3 TMCC and 1proto 3 no issues. Best investment I ever made.
The scale turbine is RailSounds 1 converted over to full TMCC.
Thankss for sharing. A lot of nice equipment. 
JohnBR Thats a really cool layout you have there. Provides a lot of different routes to run.
@EJN posted:JohnBR Thats a really cool layout you have there. Provides a lot of different routes to run.
It worked well for the kids… the outer loop is a bit boring after awhile but at least had the elevation and bridges over the rest of layout.
Took me awhile of searching but here is the original layout I started with… another Ken-o-scale layout.
https://ogrforum.com/...strack-o-36-l-layout
John
