Hello everyone, I built my first train table layout about 2 months ago, it's 10'7'' Wide (127") by 5' (60") deep. Its wall to wall width wise and also sits along the back of my basement wall. This was a very big mistake on my end because its a pain to just about anything without having to pull the table off the wall and that baby is heavy. So I came here to get some track plan ideas to rebuild my layout. So with that said the layout construction of the table is limited to still 10'7'' wide however I can go from 5 deep to now 8 feet deep. I really like the idea of how the railroad club members build there mobile layouts, I got the visualization from the greenberg train show I went to a few weeks ago in NJ. I am going to start by cutting the original train table into 2 - 10'7'' sections, then I was going to buy another sheet of plywood and homasote and cut them to the size of 4' wide by 2' deep. I want to be able to stand in the middle of the layout as it surrounds me on all sides. I hope I am not making this confusing because I am not great at typing what I am visualizing.
I was thinking of making 2 loops with both having 054 curves because I would like to run longer rollingstock, I would like a maintenance yard and layup tracks for out of service trains. I am on a tight budget right now so if you can try to use what parts I have listed that will be great. If I need to buy some tracks you can note that in the track plans and when I have the extra money I will get them.
Here is a Parts List of what I have
All track is Atlas O 3 rail
53 - 10'' straights
5 - 5 1/2 straights
4 - 4 1/2 straights
48 - O54 curves
12 - O45 curves
14 - O36 curves
8 - O36 1/4 curves
2 - LH O36 switches
4 - RH O36 switches
4 - #5 high speed turnouts
1 - O54/O76 Curved Switch #6077
