Train Room Tuesday

taycotrains posted:

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Yes! Makes me wish I had walls instead of knee-walls and sloping ceiling. Nice.

Lew

C&O Allie posted:

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:

Great use of your space! I really like downtown Chicago. And the platforms. I well remember boarding trains there.

Lew

geysergazer posted:

taycotrains posted:

.Yes! Makes me wish I had walls instead of knee-walls and sloping ceiling. Nice.

Lew

Lew here is the back wall of the train room...

This is turning into a great thread thanks for starting it Lew. Very neat stuff it’s like your going visiting everyone here that’s posting nice behind the  scenes look 

Lew,

Thanks - I designed the columns in the station and had them 3D printed at work.  It was fun putting it all together!

My Train room is full of trains. Roo.

Roo, we've all been following your steel mill construction thread. It's very nice to get views of the space and the whole layout. Supplies context.

Lew

taycotrains posted:

geysergazer posted:

taycotrains posted:

.Yes! Makes me wish I had walls instead of knee-walls and sloping ceiling. Nice.

Lew

Lew here is the back wall of the train room...

 

Nice collection. Great ambiance.

Lew

lee drennen posted:

This is turning into a great thread thanks for starting it Lew. Very neat stuff it’s like your going visiting everyone here that’s posting nice behind the  scenes look 

Ya, that was my hope in starting it. It is adding context to lots of pics we see on this forum.

Lew

PeterA posted:

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.  

 

Ok, now I'm jealous!

Seriously, that To Tickets and Trains sign is fantastic, and the wallpaper is great.

You know Lew

Two days ago you put up, in my opinion, one of the most interesting posts I've seen in a while, getting a realistic tour of train rooms

There are 26,600 or so members,and two day's later there's not a dozen or so actual tours,the one's on here were really interesting, Thank's to all,I love the tours, Something seems fishy here, 26,000 people and a handful of tours, I look at alot of these posts, sure looks like they have layouts,

Kind of a sub subject to this

Don't you wish sometimes one of the houses you go to during Thanksgiving or Christmas had a permanent layout like ours ?

I'm the only person on both sides of our family that has this, over the years there was one that had a little circle around the tree.

You know another thing, In over 20 years back into this, there has been multiple people that I have taken upstairs to see the trains,and they all seem pretty intrigued by it, but never once has any of them ever come out and asked to stop by and see the trains,or when they are here,for them to come out and ask to see the trains,it's always me that has to ask them, and they always say yes, and seem interested.

I had a 16X5 with a extention on one end layout when I was little in the 60s,and i remember when I was little one of my cousins had a layout in his basement.and when we visited,it was in the back door and straight to the basement for me

i just always imagine  if one of my brother in laws had something like we just posted on this  post, When I would go over there i wouldn't be there 5 minutes without asking if you don't mind if I go to the train room

Joe, it is the same with me. I am the only person in my extended family to "play with trains". You'd think with all the Lionel, AF and Marx we millions of Boomers found under the tree as kids there would be more layouts today, or at least Christmas under-the-tree layouts. 

Lew

Hey Chris R

I was just looking at you pictures, M+G Hobbies!

My wife and I bought a ton of stuff there, it was over the Tacony and down 130 for us

Transman posted:

Hey Chris R

I was just looking at you pictures, M+G Hobbies!

My wife and I bought a ton of stuff there, it was over the Tacony and down 130 for us

 

I did a whole lot of business there, George was real good to me. I see him often, where he works now, but he isn’t too cheerful these days. 

Pretty neat boxcar

These windows face South.

The view from those windows:

That is Mt Williams, 2900ft, at the Northern end of the Greylock Massif, the high point of Massachusetts at 3489ft. I never tire of watching that mountain in the ever changing lighting and weather.

Lew

                                     " IZZY "   in the train rooms...

Such a Good Dog!

Lew

My new CSX SD80 coming into Harpers Ferry

What's Happening Forumites !

I wanted to wait a while longer before coming onto the scene with my layout because I had no layout to show as of yet, but I'm finally coming to the end of the train room beautification project and I saw this thread and I couldn't resist.  I have more than enough track & trains, I'm just about to clear off the table top of tools and other equipment and start prepping to lay down the first of three levels of train track but for now here are some shots of my train room. MARSHELANGELO

Nice! 

Lew

Buffy is seen here engaged in her favorite train room activity.

With a South facing window she has an almost daily Solar Spa. Typically dog-like, she will lay in that sunbeam until she is so hot she begins to pant.

Lew

This layout was custom designed to fit in the upstairs train room with installation pictures up first - followed by a YouTube video (made by the customer) where you can take a ride on the Carter Family RR! Hop on the engine's front row seat of this custom layout that was; designed, fabricated, and installed by the TW TrainWorx Traingineers out of the Dallas, Texas studio for the Traintastic Carter Family!! Jim Carter made this fun video... enjoy!

Happy Tracks!

TrainDame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
Dallas, TX | Concord, NC
(214) 634-2965
www.blog.traindame.com
www.trainworxlayouts.com

Remember folks,this is a tour of the train room thread,

Where it is ,how you get there,what the room looks like,etc.

It's not a "Look what I have in the room thread" Go to Geysergazer,mine or some of the other's for examples,

Like I wrote earlier,I think this is one of the most interesting posts in a long time!

Thank You Geysergazer

Some pictures of the previous train room.

A very interesting topic.  Like others who have posted here, I am always interested in more than just the layout itself.  I like to see the setting and “ambiance” of its location within or without the family home.  I want to know how the owner dealt with such issues as lack of space and other family  needs.

With apologies to those who saw some of these pictures on the other “My Train Room” topic posted last year, this is my Train Room, all 12' by 10' feet of it (including the so-called work bench area).  These pictures are what I have available on my iPad now, and may be over a year old, but the difference would be barely perceptible to anyone sticking his or her head into the room today.

This was an unfinished fourth bedroom on the lower level of our home that I claimed as my “Train Room.”  First, I put up the drywall, installed vinyl flooring, painted, installed lighting, shelving, a work bench and finally hung some of my favorite RR and toy train prints and posters.  So much for ambiance.  

I cut down and installed some benchwork salvaged from a layout under construction in our previous home, but then other family and household needs took over, and although the room is finally back to 90% filled with train related items, it is not exactly what I had envisioned when I first moved in.  

Oh well, maybe someday....

Cheers!

Alan

Here is the grand tour: