Neatest train room or building you know of for a layout ? ?

There was a guy some years ago who had a cab of a F unit lowered into his basement as the house was being built. He used the cab to control his very large HO layout. There was an article in MRR but I can't tell you what year. It was pretty amazing.

The Lackawanna RR Terminal in Hoboken New Jersey.  It once housed the New York Society Of Model Engineers O Gauge outside third rail Union Terminal Railroad, one of the great O gauge railroads of all time.

 

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There was a guy some years ago who had a cab of a F unit lowered into his basement as the house was being built. He used the cab to control his very large HO layout. There was an article in MRR but I can't tell you what year. It was pretty amazing.

IT was also in Model Railroading back in the early 1990's! he also modeled a 1:1 portion of a KCS sleeper next to it as well!

The Whippany Railroad Museum had a Lionel display layout in their freight station/Museum.

 

Don't forget the traveling Lionel Layout/MTH Layout in that 3 axle trailer that toured the USA back in the 1990's

The Frederick County (MD) Society of Model Engineers has their layout in a former C&O Baggage Car. The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore now has their HO gauge railroad in a former C&O passenger coach.  Sykesville, MD has one in a former PRR Tower.

 

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David1, I saw that article about the F unit cab in the basement....also have seen

articles about a guy who had property beside tracks (think in plains states or Texas)

and had a restored caboose (MKT, T&P, or ?) sitting beside tracks with a layout in it, and, of course, another about a layout in a purchased, moved, and restored RR station...don't remember any details.  Saw another article about a narrow gauge

PRR affiliate, the Ohio River and Western, where a guy bought a really rotted out passenger car, that had set outside on private property for years,  restored half of it,

possibly, because that was the most parts that could be found, including very ornate trim,  and installed it, I think, IN an antique shop in one of the towns served by the OR&W.  Article was memorable because he described himself and others disassembling the remains in the heat of summer, it was full of tossed out junk, and up against a very smelly privy.

I think that one of the best buildings for a train layout is a remodeled barn.  The "Train Barn" in Portage, MI housed a rather large layout upstairs and a hobby store/museum downstairs.  The "Royal Gorge" (complete with custom bridge) was a scenic highlight and the gorge went all the way to the floor of the lower level.  You don't get to do that in most buildings.  I was sad when I heard that Seth had decided to retire and close the store.

The very best toy train room in China. Five 45 x 9 foot containers on top of two 40 footers.

 

 

(Actually the only one,)

A friend and I were talking about containers a couple of weeks ago as they're inexpensive relative to a steel or conventional building (you still have to put down a concrete slab, though.) I like how you did this, complete with covered parking. Do you have interior shots?

Don't Forget the life size replica of a lionel station built for frank sanatra at his request. He housed his layout in there and it was on his property I belive.

15 East 26 St. New York, New York

I am sort of partial to this old silk mill in Paterson NJ

 

 

Where in China?    I'm in Shanghai right now and soon to travel to Guangzhau and then Hong Kong.

Zhuhai, right next to Macau.  If you can pass through Zhuhai on the way to HK we would love to have you visit.

 

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Ward Kimball's European and American Train Rooms, housed in a replica station in California.

 

Frank Sinatra's layout mentioned above.

 

Boyd Mason's layout/Museum in Hazlet, NJ(since torn down).

 

Ben's SILK MILL above.

 

 

NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

Northlandz (in the Northeast).

Union Station, Denver, Colorado

 

In the basement you will find the Denver Society of Model Railroaders.

 

http://denveroscaleclub.org/

This is the best model railroad building and layout within 200 feet of my home.