Like I said, best thing is the people. My old layout. We moved, so my new one is coming.
https://ogrforum.com/...-the-morlitz-central
Gerry
I hope to die clutching a ZW handle and want to be buried with my Big Boy( or maybe my Challenger, I haven’t decided).
Hey Jerry , good you came to the right place for fun and help.
Have you checked out any wall layouts with return loops yet ? I've seen some nice ones with main lines only a foot or two wide.
Have fun.........be safe 😷
@Jerryc41 posted:Since you know Trainland, how about The House of Mulraney? That was its original name in the 1950s.
Never heard of it Jerry. I was born in '62 so its a bit before my time. I got my first set of trains in '69 and started going to Trainland after they opened.
Bob
@RailRide posted:I also lacked the space to do a typical 'table' layout. Once I became a homeowner, I built this around-the-wall loop atop elevated 1x3 's with 1x2 supports and curves jigsaw-cut from 3/4" 4x8's in my living room to test long-boxed trains: (owing to basement clutter not owned by me)
...and over time this became my "normal" running place despite having no scenery. It's roughly 11'x17' with a lift-out module spanning the entrance in one corner, and was designed with clearances to handle long cars and large locomotives. If it wasn't for the multitude of train boxes stacked in the middle of the room it would still be able to function as a normal living room (even with that track running right behind the top of the couch
---PCJ
Patrick very long train of autoracks. Those GP38s sound like vintage Lionel with all the buzzing and humming. You still live in the Bronx?
@coach joe posted:Patrick very long train of autoracks. Those GP38s sound like vintage Lionel with all the buzzing and humming. You still live in the Bronx?
Yep, still hangin' in there.
Next time that train runs, it'll be somewhere around 36-37 cars. I was deliberately feathering the power to those Geeps trying to get as smooth a start as possible. Takes a fairly sizable load to get them to perform like that. I actually have a pair of ERR TMCC boards reserved for this duo, although it's anyone's guess when I'll get a chance to install them 
---PCJ
@Dallas Joseph posted:Hey Jerry , good you came to the right place for fun and help.
Have you checked out any wall layouts with return loops yet ? I've seen some nice ones with main lines only a foot or two wide.
Have fun.........be safe 😷
I don't even know what that means.
@RailRide posted:If it wasn't for the multitude of train boxes stacked in the middle of the room it would still be able to function as a normal living room (even with that track running right behind the top of the couch
---PCJ
I'm glad you made that comment about the living room. I mentioned to my son that I might build a train layout in the living room. He laughed. He thought I was kidding.
Jerry, Dallas Joseph was talking about "around the room" layouts such as the one in Patrick's video with loops at each end, like a dog bone, so the train would head back the way it came instead of having a liftout section to gain entrance to the middle of one continuous loop around the room like Patrick has.
@coach joe posted:Jerry, Dallas Joseph was talking about "around the room" layouts such as the one in Patrick's video with loops at each end, like a dog bone, so the train would head back the way it came instead of having a liftout section to gain entrance to the middle of one continuous loop around the room like Patrick has.
