Bedroom Images

Must be a bachelor bedroom as

Must be a bachelor bedroom as I seriously doubt the Mrs. would allow such a thing!

for a Son who Loves Trains

You mean you wouldn't build such a layout for your young son who has fallen in love with trains?

PS: Mom would just have to go along with the idea....ha...ha

(from an older guy who never had kids of his own, ....but had a GREAT father that indulged his 2 son's adventures/explorations)

Bedroom layout

My parents encouraged me to build a layout in my bedroom and even helped pay for lumber to relocated the bed above the closet (vaulted ceiling). The layout was a logging theme and my first attempts at laying my own rail and switches.  It wrapped around three sides of the room (including blocking off the sliding door the the exterior which I had to duck under to get directly outside - not really code compliant!). 

Living in the Pacific Northwest required a Shay so I managed to build the MDC model and it growled around the Plywood Pacific for a year or so until we remodeled the house and the layout came down. I kept that Shay for years until it was finally lost to my own children learning about trains.

(I just realized that that was 40 years ago!)

That's a nice image but the

That's a nice image but the room is no longer safe as the layout has blocked the secondary egress (windows) to a point that it is a fire trap. Also the closet looks completely blocked. Something a little less complicated would work nicely.

Kelly makes a good point

Kelly makes a good point about the room is now a fire trap. Never thought of such before.

As for me, what I see is that living with that layout in that room would eventually grow to be MISERABLE. Way too much intrusion into the needed living space, and the overall feel of "clutter and cramp" would drive me nuts eventually. Been there, done that. Trying to fix it now.

Best of luck in whatever you decide!

Andre

It looks like a person could

It looks like a person could still get out of the windows by crawling under the bench work to egress through the lower sections of the window.  As far as being too crowded - that would be a personal thing.

Second egress window

The second egress window is only required if it serves the bedroom. A storage room for a layout is not even considered a habitable space in some jurisdictions. I agree that the drawing is dated and may not have considered code issues at the time. A double hung window on the ground floor only needs 5 square feet of opening so Rick is right about being able to crawl under to the lower half. This is even true is the floor to grade is up to six feet. 

I think any kid would be thrilled to have a layout in his/her bedroom. Today’s design ideas for shelf layouts seem more practical to build and would cause any of these problems either. 

Dawson Creek Sub

A friend of mine has a great MRR in his bedroom, I have posted  his layout plan often over the years as  I suggest what he has done works well.  Yes he is a bachelor.  The scale is N.  The layout is getting close to completion as you will see in the pics he has taken. His name is Tim Horton (American translation - being named Ronald McDonald - Tim Hortons is a large coffee and food franchise). No, he is not related to those Hortons.

Scale is a primary design tool that often gets left out in the  equation. I started out in the hobby as an HO'ist, but realized my small bedroom would not allow for the RR empire of my dreams.  I then switched over to N but almost quit it when I bought my first N scale train, transition era.  I found everything to be too small, however when I moved over to the modern era, longer rolling stock became more like modeling in TT scale than N scale.  An SD90 is as long but not as high and wide as an f unit in HO, for example. Eighty five foot length rolling stock were as long as a forty foot car in HO.

http://www.bcrdawsonsub.ca/index.php/layout-design   [For some reason, I get a 404 response when I click on this link, so just type in "Tim Horton Dawson Creek Subdivision" and you'll be good to go, and oh yes, go to his layout page.

Got a 404 error

when clicking on the link.

See my edited in comment 

See my edited in comment  beside the link.

Link

There is an extraneous character at the end of the URL.

Correct link:  http://www.bcrdawsonsub.ca/index.php/layout-design

Flipping the Design?

Pretty small radius on that helix.

Made me wonder why they might have considered flipping the plan horizontally so the yard appeared on the right side, and the helix on the left??

Red Rock Northern - Reconfigured

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/t/267963.aspx

Size

Brian - I've forgotten the size of your handy shed but the width and length of this layout helps with the grade of 2% and separation between the upper and lower lines. Since you are open to a helix then these are no longer issues. A narrow or shorter space should be ok if the upper line is on an upper deck connected by the helix. Just a thought. 

Size

Brian - I've forgotten the size of your handy shed but the width and length of this layout helps with the grade of 2% and separation between the upper and lower lines. Since you are open to a helix then these are no longer issues. A narrow or shorter space should be ok if the upper line is on an upper deck connected by the helix. Just a thought. 

Size

@Neil

That layout is 9x11 and my shed is 11x15 on its interior, so yes you are correct it would fit very easy.

i just don't think it has enough space for me to locate a fair number of industries etc that I hope to put on mine?

Industries

Have you posted what you want to include? Again, if you double deck then there should be quite a bit of room on either/or both levels for mines & factories, harbors, etc. don’t let the track plan limit your imagination as much as provide inspiration. 

Givens and Druthers list

Neil, I'm actually working on my Givens/Druthers list (as has been suggested by a number of folks on this forum), and plan on making a list of structures I would wish to place on the layout. This list will probably be divided into 2 list, very hopeful, and secondarily hopeful ones. I'm thinking I will supplement the 'list' with references to photos of each example structure that I have stored away somewhere,...Givens-Druthers Photo List, in addition to a text list.

(I have so many structures both unbuilt and built that I've collected over the past 10 years, it is going to be difficult to choose...ha...ha)

I'm back to seriously looking at the Tupper Lake design, and those modifications that had been suggested to that plan by yourself and several others. It offers just a bit more variety than this Red Rock plan.

 

Bedroom Images Original Publication

If I understand the original post correctly, the original poster was looking for the reference from which he posted the images.  The original article appeared in Model Railroader magazine for November 1956, starting on page 54.

V/r,

Casey Sterbenz

OSK #8

Rick, my better half and I

Rick, my better half and I had a bedroom with a layout in it at one time because we only had a one bedroom condo.

She liked it, but preferred we had another bedroom for our hobbies.

I think it's a rad layout and

Pugatch and Son, Keep us

Pugatch and Son,

Keep us posted with updates and images of your layout's progress. Thanks for the link to it.

I'm doing something very similar

I am working on a similar project in my bedroom  -  I LOVE that you painted the edge of the benchwork the same color as the walls, I didn't think of doing that. Same sort of thing, up high over the dresser and bookshelves. Mine is starting out as 8'x5.5' "L" nominally 18" deep for this part. What are you going to do for lighting? I think I am going to put a shelf up above the layout  and run holders for LED strip off the shelves - it's a very small house so I could use the storage.

It's just an industrial switching area with the main curving around the L with spurs running off it. But I plan to expand into other parts of the room with a couple of removable doorway and window bridges. So nothing blocked permanently. It's built in two 4' and one 2.5' section anyway - designed to keep growing in sections and move someday. Theme is 1950s urban industrial, I have a bunch of Maine Central equipment I am going to run. Proto 0-6-0, Alco HH660, and a Broadway SW7, all with sound. Should be fun, I have the benchwork about 7/8ths done, all ripped Baltic birch plywood and coming along nicely. I'm going to start a thread at some point about it.

Kevin Rhodes

Port Charlotte FL / Westbrook ME