Show us your transformer stand.

I use a Rubbermaid tool box/step stool combo. Do not know if they still make them? 

The stool footprint is large enough for a Z-4000.

Cart from Mianne, matches the bench work.  

I got this at Wal-Mart for 20 bucks. I think it is supposed to be a TV stand, but it works fine for transformers until I get around to building something. It rolls away nicely under the layout. 

And by the way, there have been a couple of long threads on this topic. You may or may not be able to locate them with the search feature. 

I built a little half@$$ shelf on the edge of the layout. Not particularly stable but not bad enough to make me put another bracket underneath. It does the job. The transformers themselves are under the table on a junky $20 table that previously served as a table to my aquarium during my brief experiment into that hobby (didn't work out so good...!). 

Mine is a simple wooden shelf.  It has room for CD/cassette player to listen to while working on the layout (but not while running the trains, though, as they drown it out).

Mark, your transformer stand and layout fascia look very neat and furniture-like.

Has anyone ever uesed a countertop? 

Vertical version:

I have power supplies at four locations, for different things.  

For the trains and buildings, accessories . . .  

For my two country road 'Streets loops

For my three downtown 'Streets loops . . . 

For my three uptown 'Streets loops (far three) and uptown building lighting (nearer).

I built a drop down stand on the corner of my layout, just something I thought of with scrap MDF and 2X4's.

My Space...

K.I.S.S.

My control panel and power supplies.

If you can find one, an old computer printer stand from the 1980s (green & white 15"x11" continuous form paper) works well as you can add any size top that you want to and the stand has casters for ease of movement.

From the photo, you can tell that the floor and telephone are from the 80s as well.

Paul/Matt,

    This years Christmas layout has a roll away power stand, most times however I have a complete power station, it is comprised of 2 big desks with both upper and lower sections for transformers, and a back shop tool rack.  The size of the layout determines the size of the power station with my layouts.

PCRR/Dave 

I picked this up at Target being closed out in the kids section, $10 if I remember correctly.  Yellow drawer has smoke fluids, other stuff in the other drawers.

These are located far back on the layout and are controlled with the MTH Z-4000 Transformer receiver via DCS.

My Transformer stand is a plywood box on casters .

Steve

Still in progress

panels and transformers at the club layout

Thank you, but all the Mianne stuff looks like this and it's all very nice.

The cart was $125 and I had them add the bottom shelf and extra front brace for it. I think that was an extra $20-$25 or so, but I don't remember exactly? The extra shelf was basically another top, I had to notch out the corners for the legs.

I'll attach the Mianne catalog, the cart is on page 12. If you call them they are easy to work with and will customize any of their standard stuff to your needs (within their capabilities). Some things they can't do, but if they can they will.

Their website is here Mianne Bench Work. I am sold on their products, I have the bench work too, all great stuff. I started with a 6'x16' table last year. In about 8 hours I was ready to lay track. That included a trip to Home Depot to get the plywood top (3 sheets) and have them cut it to smaller sizes I could handle.

I built this after I got the ZW-L.  12" wide oak board.  Plywood back.  3 coats polyurethane.

I used a mechanic's tool cabnet that I found on sale at home depot

You won't find anything by Lionel or MTH powering or controlling my layout.

These are 6.3V 20A transformers with 3 wired in series to make a fixed 18V to the track. There are three 20A supplies on this panel, and a second panel under the other side of the layout. I run all TMCC. No conventional, and no DCS.

Great ideas everyone.

Am currently looking for a roll-away cart type of arangement to fit under my layout.

I don't have a stand, all my controls are wal mounted for my outside suspended layout. As you can see, there is quite a mess, as I haven't used the layout for some time. The switch controls are inside the work shop where the trains used to be stored on a shelf above the work bench. I now keep the trains on shelves in the house. 

Don

Nice, I especially like your outlet strip with the individual on/off switches. I have also come to like the MTH 24 terminal blocks much better than the 12's (after starting out with the 12's). Both power & common together instead of on opposing sides.

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And to everyone else, I could look at these all day long. One of my favorite parts of the hobby is how you all do your control panels and transformer setups and wiring. This is better than looking at trains!

To add to this, I think sometimes the most creative ones are where someone had an open space somewhere and just pieced together something to fit the space and then after setting it all up everything just looks like it really belongs there. True artists at work! Of course the well planned ones are also works of art as well. Have yet to see one of any kind that I didn't like.

Here's my old one, it was just a simple shelf on drawer slides that neatly slid under the layout.....

And this is the new one, it's just a computer printer cabinet I found at an estate sale....

Paul

Shelf attached to my 9 X 5 ping pong table.

George

ZW cart; variable voltage on top, another zw below for constant voltage. Z1000 brick and circuit breakers along with puppy's toys and a few trains under the display.

Here's the main transformer table, built into the middle of my U-shaped layout.

And here's the auxiliary transformer table. The table was found at a flea market.

"More power Mr Scott!" "I'm givin it all I got capain."

Don

This transformer stand on wheels I use in the garden

Here's the control drawer we used for this past Christmas display. We had to cut out the cross members for the handles on the zw. The bottom of the drawer only cleared the floor by 1/2". It worked out great with plenty of space for the Christmas lighting, relay, power strips and bus bars.