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Hello.

Recently moved to a "new to us" home, and I have been granted a "wing" of the basement (in other words.. "please try to contain your paperwork, hobbies, reloading supplies,  mess, etc. to this part of the house").  I have a full bath, an office, and a train / reloading room that is 22' x 11.5', along with a posted "No Girls Allowed" sign in the hallway. <grin>

 

I would like a "round the room layout" with a little bit of room for my workbench by the door.  (I apologize for the picture below; I now use a mac and can't use my old version of RR-Track.)  I like seeing trains run; I am no modeler, so realism is unlikely.  I have one MTH Challenger (requires 72") that used to be run on the carpet, but hasn't been out of the box in almost seven years. I would like to run it if possible.  I also have some smaller steam engines and one Atlas diesel.

 

I currently have an unfinished layout on a 4x8 board that I started 20 years ago this month (where does the time go?!).  That is being scrapped.  I just want to run trains!

 

Can anyone offer some design ideas?  Thanks!

 

 

22' x 11.5'

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Look at choosing a table height that will permit you to put you bench underneath the table.  If you search for threads on table height you'll find that they vary from mid-thirties ti low fifties inches..  The older people seem to get, the higher the table.  A high table is easier to work under. 

 

Plan on a lift up or lift out section at the door (You didn't say if it opened in.) so you don't have to duck under. 

 

You max reach is about 3 feet so unless you have access from both sides.  The Minimum aisle with is 2 feet, but 3 feet is better and permits people to slip past each other.

 

I have an around the room layout (14' x 28') with a 4' wide peninsular in the middle.  The ATW oval is 2' wide (except for being 3' on one side).  The aisles are 2' and 3'.  My minimum radius is O72 and the largest is O90.

 

Jan

As Jan said, you might want to consider building the layout so that part of it is above the workbench -- high enough to give you work room, but low enough to operate. What I've found at the club is that our staging room's benchwork height at 54" is very comfortable for reaching and viewing equipment (the rest of the layout is at 40" to be kid friendly). When I build at home 54" will be the height of the layout deck. That would give you roughly 20" headroom over a 30" high work bench.

 

This would give you a nice around-the-walls layout you could easily duck under (or add a lift-up/drop-down if you wanted). The layout bench over the workbench could be narrower to keep things from becoming claustrophobic.

 

Just a thought.

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