Terminus and Magma Railroad

You're going to have great potential for scenery with that over under section!

The hill top area is where I see a copper mine, along with a couple of miner's shacks. Plan on embedding a web cam at the crossover, should make for some dramatic videos! This will be a pretty rural type layout, no big cities or industries!

That camera is an interesting idea. I never thought to do such a thing but I will have some areas you can't see on my layout. Will this just be like a USB camera?

A standard USB logitech web cam since there will already be a connected computer on the layout for JMRI, so I thought why not?

darrel, I like whats going on here, but what is the blue thing in the first image and where is the door in your layout room?

Lol, that's my bed! Since I need to get up for work at 4 am, I sleep in the train room so I don't disturb the cfo!

There are 2 doors,  one in the very top left corner, the other 1 just under the desk at the top right corner.

It seems like those would be tight aisles to get around the layout. It might be a good idea to tape out on the floor the dimensions of your benchwork to confirm that you have enough room to move around and are happy with it. Other than that, I'll throw out the idea of an around-the-walls layout that could be just a single track around the bed/desk area and deeper on the other wall for more scenery. Just an idea.

I know, the top wall has the mini-split head that needs service access, a window, the 3D printer table and the corner computer desk. The right wall has the door to the outside, window and dresser. The bottom wall is two large closets with 2 sliding doors each with a single door linen closet between them. The right wall has the door to the bathroom, my bed, then turns into the kitchenette area and up to the entry door from the garage.  I think this was added to the house as a mother in law suite. I thought of around the walls but the need for so many access points meant lots of lift outs, not what I feel like doing! And I really want to use all this K line shadow rail 072 and 054 track I've been collecting the last few years . Once I retire in a few years the bed can go which will open up some more room.

Darrell, congratulations on the new layout planning.  The whole concept for the layout sounds great.  I downloaded the SCARM version and would have to agree with bigboy25 on a couple of tight spots.  My guess is you have that covered, but we can't see it.  What engines are you going to run.  For a mining oriented layout, I am guessing small engines.

Thanks Mark! I have RS's, a shay, some S4's, F3's, my big steam are a Hudson, a J, and a GS4. All traditional/railking size.

Those will all work great!!

Ok, I went back and improved my floorplan to hopefully clear up the aisle size around the layout.

Here is the near term, and yes it looks tight.

And the future after I remove the lower cabinets and create a workspace out of the kitchenette.

It will open up quite a bit, may even allow for expansion!

That looks better!  Very nice plan, Darrell!

Now that the kitchen is done for the CFO, I can get started on the next big project--- The train room!

Removed cabinets from kitchenette and moved the computer, workbench, and 3D printer into that corner space.

Then started to clear out the main room, it's amazing how much stuff can hide under a 4x8 table!

The bed and dresser has to stay for now, so all that's left is to reduce/organize everything that is stacked against the walls. and then construction of the new bench work can start!