More than one layout

I have 2 three rail layouts. The main layout is in a12’ x 16’ shed and is more scale like. The other one is a 4’ x 4’ layout in our front room. It is a more toy like 027 layout in a circa1956 style. On it, I run my first train set (1956 switcher 1615 work train) and other trains from around that era.

One layout is too much for me.

Charlie

@necrails posted:

My first love is 3rail but I seem to have the let's build something bug so I have on 042 loop for around the tree, a 2 ft x 8 ft 2 rail switching layout, 2 ho micro layouts with one more in the planning stage.  Who else enjoys more than one?

How about a few photos of that 2-rail switching layout? My main layout is 3-rail but it goes through the wall to the adjacent room where I also have a smaller 2-rail layout.

Dave

Two, 3rail and S. Main layout is 3rail and a small S which comes in handy following repairs.

I guess I have that building bug also.  Besides my permanent O ga. layout which is “F” shape.  I have a double helix ( stand alone 18’ X 7’ ),  a 6’ X 12’ portable O and S gauge, two single loops.  A triple deck Marx 4’ X 4’ also portable.  A 3’ X 8’ portable Lionel Draw Bridge  bump-n- go trolley that I made this spring.  I’m gettin ready to add a second level to my main layout, dog bone shape for my O-n 30 train.                Up until a year ago July I also had a second table layout and double track going around the ceiling in Florida.  
wow, this is the first time I’ve ever written this down, I should be tired !

Doug

@luvindemtrains posted:

How about a few photos of that 2-rail switching layout? My main layout is 3-rail but it goes through the wall to the adjacent room where I also have a smaller 2-rail layout.

Dave

Not much to look at but I will pull it out next week when I get home.  Essentially an inglenook like using 4 older atlas switches.

My main layout is 4x8 so I do a lot of dreaming....does layout planning count?

I have plans drawn for 2 switching layouts- one that will fit on a door I took out of the house, and another for a long bookcase in my office at work.

Up next is either a yard extension on my existing layout or a full annexation of the corner of the basement and a new u-shape 8'x12' triple level pike.

Also contemplating adding a trolley shelf above my existing layout.

Finally a 8' oval with a passing siding under the tree is an annual tradition.

Yard off my 4x8

Switching Layouts

8x12

Lower level storage/ subway

Don't get me started on dragging my old HO stuff out.....

Bob

Well, I guess I also qualify as "multi-layout", if only barely.

My main layout, with four loops including an embedded figure-8 and an elevated line, is eight feet square:

After I upgraded to my current layout, I mothballed and then resurrected my previous layout (about 6 feet by five and a half feet), which had begun life as a seasonal around-the tree layout, first as a testbed for ongoing projects under development, and most recently as an animation showcase of sorts, featuring animated pieces too large for the main layout:

Our main layout is the Glacier Line,  which fills  basement.

In addition, we have a: Timesaver, 8-car Inglenook, 5-car Ingelnook, Christmas layout, Halloween layout, all portable.

Currently planning possibly a patriotic layout...portable.

A friend has three:

Basement HO conventionalcontrol

Living room dining room G scale conventional control

front bedroom O three-rail DCS control

I have two O gauge/scale layouts--both awaiting a whole lot more of my time and attention (grandkids seem to occupy much of whatever spare time I have in recent years, but I wouldn't have it any other way). Main 3-rail layout has a (primarily) WWII era U.S. Army logistics base theme, and a second, smaller (4x9) 3-rail layout is an all-tinplate pike with a winter theme.

I also have a small/portable Marklin HO layout that was a FAO Schwarz store display layout in its earlier life, and a couple of preformed Noch Z scale layouts--all of which are currently unused in my storage area side of the basement. Likely going to sell those layout, except for one Z scale pike) in the near future.