Train Room Tuesday

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geysergazer posted:

                          

               

There it is, guys and gals. Looking forward to seeing yours.

Lew

                           Great train room Lew !    looks very fun and relaxing !   NICE

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

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Eggcellent!!

Your helper is quite photogenic:

Bit where do you keep the Silver Mustang since you took over the garage with trains?

Lew

          I have a 2 car carport behind the train room for now,

                                          and a new 3 car garage in the near future... 

OK, at the risk of repeating some photos that my fellow OGR Forum-ites may (likely?) have seen previously, here's a tour of the train-room geography, which is what you said you  wanted to see, Lew/GeyserGazer.

The train-room (just a "glorified" basement) space sits underneath a nine-room house, sharing the overall in-ground square-footage with a 2-car garage, adjoining it, so there was plenty of room to have the room ( ), something I took advantage of once my wife declared that the two floors above the cellar were "done" and that she didn't care what I did with the wide-open space of the basement.

I filled it - and I DO mean filled it ) with the layout, not gradually, bit by bit...oh no, but in one massive effort and project. I ordered enough plywood and pre-cut 2x4's to devour every square inch available to me.

However, I did leave room for a pathway - yes, just a path - thru it all, connecting the bottom of the basement steps to the door (moved and reconstructed to where it is situated nowadays because of the layout's construction) to the garage, allowing us to have a friend construct enclosures which share the overall basement space, as follows: a small room for doing laundry; storage for Christmas decorations; space for a furnace and water heater; space for an extra stand-up freezer.

From the perspective of the bottom of the basement stairs:

+You see this in front of you, part of which is seen here, cluttered temporarily, because I had been crafting some vignettes and this is where I work on them and store them until totally completed; then, the space becomes a mini-lounge area once again.

+Look to your immediate left, and you see this first section of the layout. Look to the right and you can see into the laundry room.

+Turn back to your left and ahead spreads approx. 3/4 of the entire layout, which is under the Foyer, Breakfast Room, and Kitchen areas.

+The farthest section you see in the background is under the Family Room.

+Turn right from there, and the layout continues, as one continuous expanse, of three levels, to the door to the garage and its two cars.

+a hard-left at that point gets you into the section of the trainroom, carved from the garage space, adding a whole village area to the original layout.

Not once did my wife ever complain about the whole basement space being gobbled-up by the layout; rather, she rejoiced because it made me happy, and we enjoyed it all, because we shared it together with friends and family.Even when the small, alleged "lounge" space was heaped chin-high with projects, ...she would quietly edge and side-shuffle her way through the debris and miniatures, upon occasion, to effect her passage from the garage to the basement stairs.

It was always our playroom. And PLAY we did. WE played trains.

FrankM

It's not much.....

              Frank that was a very nice tour of your train room,  thank you !

"Not once did my wife ever complain about the whole basement space being gobbled-up by the layout; rather, she rejoiced because it made me happy, and we enjoyed it all, because we shared it together with friends and family."

                Frank,  you are very fortunate to having an awesome wife helping you create

  your "master piece",  sharing times in the train room,  creating great memories along the way !

                    " It was always our playroom. And PLAY we did. WE played trains."

                                                         VERY NICE,  Frank.

Thanks so much, Brian, Frank and Keith. This is exactly what I want to see, these overall Pics that are about the overall space.

Lew

                         very nice Keith,  really like this shot,  great layout !!

I have wanted to do this exact topic for some time now, I just never get my basement cleaned up well enough for pictures. Oh, well. 

 I got started with toy cars, and they led me to trains, so I still enjoy them. The posters were purchased at Black Sabbath and ELP concerts I attended in the ‘70’s. 

 The two large displays in the living area are 7’ x 4’ Thomas and Friends retail displays. I got them from M & G Hobbies in Delran, NJ. 

 The weird, white display on the floor, next to the fake fireplace, used to be under the layout. I built a bookcase to replace it, and haven’t decided what to do with the weird white thing.

 This is my workstation it’s in the corner of our small dining room my wife gave me the green light that I can turn our dining room into my train room now hopefully construction will start the spring.

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

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Brian, thanks for the linky to the thread about your train "room". I'm going to study the pics and try to figure out what rooms don't have trains.

Lew

                        Congratulations   Lee  

briansilvermustang posted:

 

              Frank that was a very nice tour of your train room,  thank you !

 

 

"Not once did my wife ever complain about the whole basement space being gobbled-up by the layout; rather, she rejoiced because it made me happy, and we enjoyed it all, because we shared it together with friends and family."

                Frank,  you are very fortunate to having an awesome wife helping you create

  your "master piece",  sharing times in the train room,  creating great memories along the way !

                    " It was always our playroom. And PLAY we did. WE played trains."

                                                         VERY NICE,  Frank.

Frank, I agree with Brian. Likewise it's going to take me awhile studying the pics to get a picture in. my mind. Thanks for the post. 

Lew

CBS072 posted:

It's not much.....

Oh, Keith, I think it's actually a lot Beautiful work and I see lots of switching operations on your pike. The sky-blue walls works really well with the earth colors you used on the layout.

Lew

"Brian, thanks for the linky to the thread about your train "room". I'm going to study the pics and try to figure out what rooms don't have trains."

Lew

                     P S...   you're gonna have a hard time finding,  that room...

Oldcat posted:

Joe, (I assume you are the Dad in this project) yes! Great layout and great train room with the photos, memorabilia and.....more trains.

Lew

Scrambler81 posted:

I have wanted to do this exact topic for some time now, I just never get my basement cleaned up well enough for pictures. Oh, well. 

 I got started with toy cars, and they led me to trains, so I still enjoy them. The posters were purchased at Black Sabbath and ELP concerts I attended in the ‘70’s. 

 The two large displays in the living area are 7’ x 4’ Thomas and Friends retail displays. I got them from M & G Hobbies in Delran, NJ. 

 The weird, white display on the floor, next to the fake fireplace, used to be under the layout. I built a bookcase to replace it, and haven’t decided what to do with the weird white thing.

Chris, what a wonderful room! A lot going on there. Ambiance I think is the word.

Lew

lee drennen posted:

 This is my workstation it’s in the corner of our small dining room my wife gave me the green light that I can turn our dining room into my train room now hopefully construction will start the spring.

Lee, I agree with Brian. This is good news and I look forward to a construction thread soon!

Lew

Brian, this Pic of your garage got me thinking. This house we bought three years ago has a one car detached garage and a two car detached garage......The small garage is currently full of stuff and the two car garage has two cars in it. There are just the two of us and we don't really need two cars.....so if we got rid of one car and the stuff in the small garage......you see where I'm going with this? Huh. Stored in the small garage is a beautiful Heat&Glo gas fireplace that would heat a two car garage nicely

Lew

          sounds like you are on to something Lew...

                     this year the garage door is coming down,  going to be use on new garage,

                            and then stud that wall in closed...

Well, I don't have any recent pictures, but I can show you what my layout looked like in it's heyday (A few months ago

Let's hope these work, I'm not too tech savvy.
I built a small layout on a smaller table, with 8 0-27 curves and two straights, using my collection of prewar accessories. It was cute and compact, but I'm now making room on it for my new Bing-Exclusive table (Using Lionel track until I can get my hands on some Bing track), which will be the same 8 curve-4 straight loop, but with exclusively Bing engines, coaches, and accessories.

Cool topic!

My train room is in finished area of 3rd floor. 1-East, 2-South, 3-North, 4-West.

Thanks Brian and Lew 

The wife wants to turn our sitting room into a bigger dining room I ran this idea by her a couple years ago she said why do we want to do that I love my sitting room. Oh well happy wife happy life 

Mayor Magoo posted:

Cool topic!

My train room is in finished area of 3rd floor. 1-East, 2-South, 3-North, 4-West.

Nice space and a great layout! I see you are using some Fastrack with mostly GG. Visually do you like the effect?

Brian- You don't have a train room, you have a train house! And it's on my bucket list!! LOL!!!

My Man cave

GG1GUYY

O K, Let's see if I can do this as good as Lew and Frank

I live in a old house in the city,the stairs from the first floor to the second,and then to the attic (train room) are spiral,when you get to the next floor you have made a 180 degree turn,The one picture,the blue steps, is from the first to second floor,the door with the holes,is second floor to attic(train room),Very little room for visitors,Can actually seat two extra people,that happened twice in 20 years,anyway,if any it's one person in folding chair next to me, This is what I see up there,I turned to the left taking pictures, The yard area has a lot of scratchbuilt structures and pieces, kind of fuel delivery and storage stuff,But that's not what this thread is about. This a very good thread,I'm kind of tired of the "What color is your favorite caboose? style threads

geysergazer posted:

Mayor Magoo posted:

Cool topic!

My train room is in finished area of 3rd floor. 1-East, 2-South, 3-North, 4-West.

Nice space and a great layout! I see you are using some Fastrack with mostly GG. Visually do you like the effect?

Vast majority of track is Atlas - the two mains and upper - with a spur of fastrack.  As far as the look, it is ok.  When I completed my Atlas mains I realized I had a large area that could house more track.  I had the fastrack from a layout before I started this one and decided to go with what I had rather than spend more money on new Atlas track  to complete, so $0 vs $$$.  Plus, I do like the crossing with flashing lights.

That side of the layout is still very much a WIP and I'm still deciding what to do with the track there.  But for now it works.

Transman posted:

O K, Let's see if I can do this as good as Lew and Frank

I live in a old house in the city,the stairs from the first floor to the second,and then to the attic (train room) are spiral,when you get to the next floor you have made a 180 degree turn,The one picture,the blue steps, is from the first to second floor,the door with the holes,is second floor to attic(train room),Very little room for visitors,Can actually seat two extra people,that happened twice in 20 years,anyway,if any it's one person in folding chair next to me, This is what I see up there,I turned to the left taking pictures, The yard area has a lot of scratchbuilt structures and pieces, kind of fuel delivery and storage stuff,But that's not what this thread is about. This a very good thread,I'm kind of tired of the "What color is your favorite caboose? style threads

Joe, you took full advantage of the available space. Your knee-wall is even lower than mine.

Lew

Mayor Magoo posted:

geysergazer posted:

Mayor Magoo posted:

Cool topic!

My train room is in finished area of 3rd floor. 1-East, 2-South, 3-North, 4-West.

 

 

Vast majority of track is Atlas - the two mains and upper - with a spur of fastrack.  As far as the look, it is ok.  When I completed my Atlas mains I realized I had a large area that could house more track.  I had the fastrack from a layout before I started this one and decided to go with what I had rather than spend more money on new Atlas track  to complete, so $0 vs $$$.  Plus, I do like the crossing with flashing lights.

That side of the layout is still very much a WIP and I'm still deciding what to do with the track there.  But for now it works.

Oh, I see that now (mostly Atlas track).

Lew

The photo of my wife, Terry, my son, Chris and me is about eight years old. The layout has changed quite a bit, but, the room has not.

I think that's the longest fireplace mantel I've ever seen? Cheerful people in a cheerful room!

Lew

geysergazer posted

 

 

 

 

 

Your helper is quite photogenic:

                

Bit where do you keep the Silver Mustang since you took over the garage with trains?

Lew

Who let the dog out?

Here is my layout.  It is a 12x20 with three levels loosely based on steam era Chicago.  There are four mains, an interurban line, and two super street loops (with plans to add an elevated line).  I have a 6 track passenger yard (Union Station), a turntable, and a 3 track staging area.  I've added more details/scenery since I took these pictures last year.

Overhead Looking East:

Overhead Looking West:

Downtown Chicago:

Scratch Built Union Station:

Union Station Platforms:

Rural Station:

Lower Switch Tower and Coal Dump:

Barrel and Stock Yard:

Milk Platform (on Test Track):

Ice House:

Engine Yard:

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This has turned out to be a really fascinating post, so let me join in.  My layout is in a walkout basement.  When designing our home, I was fortunate that the slight hill it is located on gave enough elevation change to do a walk out, which has proved a real boon for handicapped visitors, but particularly building it as I could most cutting and sawing outside.  So, here is what we have:

This is the door to the stairs to the basement, then, downstairs, the hallway into the train room itself.  lI like train art, so most walls not backdrops of the layout are full of it.

To the right in the hallway is a half bath.  I furnished it with as many real pullman car artifacts as I could figure uses for.  Then, continuing on the hallway, the divider separates the entry from the train room and gives me the chance to display many of the train items I have been involved with through our local clubs.  

Looking back to the hallway, you can see more displays and library.

In the main area is the lounge, more paper storage in the bookcases and a building I am constructing for the downtown area on the layout.

Finally, the layout itself with the windows to the walkout side on the left.  

What a wonderful space!

I remember those under-the-sink stainless trash receptacles. And you included the stainless steam-heat baseboard. The stuff takes me right back.

Lew