Poll: Number of Turnouts Per Layout Size?

Well, mine is basically 24 x 12, and right now I have 22 turnouts (unless you count double-slip switches as two), then I have 24.  I'm adding two more on one end for some industry sidings, and I'll be adding two 4-way switches for an 8-track yard that will be an expansion.  I'll end up with 32 switch machines for all the switches.

4 X 8 Layout 15 powered and one manual

Bob

10'x16' & 11 turnouts

Still on the drawing board, but plan size is 19.5' x 9'  with 32 switches and one 22.5 degree crossover. 3 levels (w/ one subterranean) and one elevated.

https://ogrforum.com/...plan-from-new-member

Layout is 49 x 4, shaped like a a “J” around the walls.   7 turnouts, and one Ross 4-way.  2 turnouts powered, the rest manual.  JohnA

My L-shaped layout is 15x19 as measured along the "outside" perimeter of the "L."  Pix are attached. There are 11 switches on the main platform, all O42. No switches on the upper level with three short trolley runs.

Mike Mottler    LCCA 12394

too darn many.  I just got rid of my reverse loop (2 switches) and now I just loop on one end.  I still have a reverse loop on the other side.  I use manual fastrack switches which was a mistake.  I still think I'll have a heck of a time running 2 trains at once because the train will come back on the same switch it went into the loop with.  I need to replace my fastrack switches with remote switches.  I heard K-line's don't buzz when a train goes over them (I had a lionesl one and it drove me nuts).  Anybody know what K-line switch i'm looking for?

@chinatrain99 posted:

too darn many.  I just got rid of my reverse loop (2 switches) and now I just loop on one end.  I still have a reverse loop on the other side.  I use manual fastrack switches which was a mistake.  I still think I'll have a heck of a time running 2 trains at once because the train will come back on the same switch it went into the loop with.  I need to replace my fastrack switches with remote switches.  I heard K-line's don't buzz when a train goes over them (I had a lionesl one and it drove me nuts).  Anybody know what K-line switch i'm looking for?

I have 5121, 5122's on my layout and I hate the buzzing. The K-line switches are nice but hard to come across these days.

6'x16' layout with 12 switches.  Was supposed to be expanded somewhat by now, but that hasn't yet happened. 

17' x 21' around the walls layout with a yard on a center peninsula. 45 turnouts.

16' x 17'   one passing siding, one wye: 5 switches

My 48 Club 4x8 Super O layout has 6 remote and 1 manual turnout. My 7x10 Prewar Vintage Lionel layout has 2 Standard Gauge remote while the O Gauge portion has 4 manual turnouts.

10'x12' around the wall x 2.  Two independent levels.  Total Atlas switches = 16.

Five of the Atlas switches (on the bottom level) are controlled via Caboose Industries manual switch machines since they are close to the front of the layout.  I wanted more "action/involvement" in the running of the trains. The other Atlas switches are controlled via DZ-2500 machines.

7' x 21', 14 O-72 Atlas turnouts (1 Wye) with Tortoise switch machines.

47'x11' with 42 switches (too darn many! )

George

Just for some perspective, 4' x 6' and two switches.

try to keep my mains with as few as possible, just like real RRs, every switch is a potential trouble spot.

30x20 L shape. 37 Ross switches.

My next iteration of my 14' x 28' will have 81 O72 and #5 turnouts.  It is around the wall with a center peninsula and under table staging.  The 3 times around main has 24 including passing sidings and the yard has 29.  The rest are for industries and staging.

Jan

14x39 and I have 22 Ross Switches. This includes two double slips, one yard 4-Way, one double crossover, two curved, and a Wye.

12' x 15'.

Zero switches. Everything runs well on it.

Mine is 24 x 18 and has a total of 15 switches...with 8 of those being reachable and are operated manually. 🚂😉😺

Mine is 15' x 11' with 8 turnouts

Mine is 22x6 L shaped with 23 Ross switches, including a 4 way. 

@wild mary posted:

Yep, this thread needs diagrams. 😅

Our layout is an around the wall layout with an upper section that goes around three walls. The size is 12 ft x 16 ft.

We have 18 Ross scale number switches, all manual.

The more switches you have the more chances you have of derailments because thats where they happen most of the time   The club layout is 185 x 35   We have 310 Ross switches

From zero to 310!! That about covers it. What an impressive collection of layouts. Look at these track plans! Man you guys are killing me.

Don

26 Atlas switches, all TMCC remote controlled, via IC Controls  ASC (Accessory Switch Controls) switch modules. I added, later, Atlas 6924 relay boards.   All switches are controlled from the Handheld remote.

20X20 layout plus 7X10 staging area.  30 switches

@UKE KAT posted:

Mine is 24 x 18 and has a total of 15 switches...with 8 of those being reachable and are operated manually. 🚂😉😺

Paul, i like your track plan with the town as a view block and plenty of room for scenery. Is the red line an elevated trolley line? Is this built yet, under construction or still a track plan only?

But I am only counting 12 switches. Did the track plan get modified?

@Will posted:

Paul, i like your track plan with the town as a view block and plenty of room for scenery. Is the red line an elevated trolley line? Is this built yet, under construction or still a track plan only?

But I am only counting 12 switches. Did the track plan get modified?

Agreed, that is a nice plan.

Will, although some of them might be difficult to see clearly, I did count 15 switches.

9' x 12' with 13 switches. All Fastrack with command/remote switches

I have about 420 square feet of table with 52 Atlas switches.

16x24 32 Atlas switches, used tortoise switch machines. Mostly 72 in radius with larger used for crossovers.

Drone view of my layout 4/2021 - YouTube

@Will posted:

Paul, i like your track plan with the town as a view block and plenty of room for scenery. Is the red line an elevated trolley line? Is this built yet, under construction or still a track plan only?

But I am only counting 12 switches. Did the track plan get modified?

Will, yes there are 15...the 3 you may have missed might be behind the downtown buildings and under the elevated trolley track?

The layout is built and operational...including a few photos here.

My layout is around the walls of a 28x52 foot room with a 10x12 extension for Horseshoe Curve (under the breakfast nook upstairs) and staging yards in an adjacent 10x18 foot area.  Overall dimensions are thus 40x70 with 151 turnouts.

Never did a track plan but the layout is hung from 219 linear feet of  walls with 8 peninsulas of various sizes using ???? feet of track with 5 turntables,  3 levels of 2 rail and 2 levels of 3 rail with approximately 112+? turnouts.   Most turnouts are hand thrown, Some Tortoise, several sprung, some free floating which are aligned by through traffic.

The layout carefully follows the exact prototypical representation of a large elongated multifaceted linear hairball.

My planning consisted of stretching out my arm, sticking up my thumb and eyeballing what might give rise to purpose and fitment.  It's been fun, but the wife is concerned about the end game.