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RBrodzinsky

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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2016, 11:59:06 PM »
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The JACALAR is 8x15. Also have about 24 feet of FreeMoN modules (multi tracked)
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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2016, 12:07:30 AM »
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  28 feet by 52 feet.








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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2016, 12:35:51 AM »
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27'x24'-ish, partial double deck.
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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2016, 12:44:56 AM »
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My "big" (12' X 15') layout is loosely based on the farmland of the southern San Joaquin Valley in California.  I was born and raised in Bakersfield.
Then I have 30" X 84" which has a date orchard and a cement plant.....just a roundy round layout with just switching at the cement plant.
Then a 12" X 96" switching layout with a produce packing shed.  Again....based on the San Joaquin Valley....kinda like Edison.

No more room for any layouts unless I move the dining room table out into the carport.  I'm single.......so it could happen.  But then my kids would probably stage an intervention...............
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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2016, 12:50:12 AM »
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7 feet by 15 feet in half of a garage
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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2016, 03:54:38 AM »
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My O scale shelf is 1' x 11', which scaled down to N would be a mere 4" x 40"  :D
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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #21 on: July 20, 2016, 06:43:46 AM »
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I use 2 30x80 HCD's placed in an "L" with a 2' extension.  T-trak modules allow a finished layout at all times and allow for changing around the layout whenever I feel like I want a change in scenery.
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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2016, 06:55:28 AM »
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Mine's a 36" wide HCD. The late John Armstrong of layout design fame argued at least once that layouts should be measured by the number of switches, not square footage.  I can see the point.
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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2016, 08:19:57 AM »
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Quote from: Kentuckian on July 20, 2016, 06:55:28 AM
Mine's a 36" wide HCD. The late John Armstrong of layout design fame argued at least once that layouts should be measured by the number of switches, not square footage.  I can see the point.

Don't you mean his "points" LOL.
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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #24 on: July 20, 2016, 09:17:05 AM »
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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #25 on: July 20, 2016, 12:23:55 PM »
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Not big enough  :D

Actually, it's under construction and will be approx. 9.5' x 10'.

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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #26 on: July 20, 2016, 12:32:28 PM »
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I voted in the poll but have been hesitating to post. So I'll qualify my response by 'fessing to special circumstances.

That said, 40'x44':

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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #27 on: July 20, 2016, 12:53:48 PM »
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10' x 20' (single-car garage), roughly 100 turnouts.  Two scenic'ed decks, one staging deck.  Here is a mash-up view:


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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #28 on: July 20, 2016, 01:28:34 PM »
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Although I could only vote once, it's also worth mentioning that my new a-building Colorado Midland Railway's Aspen Branch layout is only 2.5' by 5'.

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Re: How Big Is Your Layout?
« Reply #29 on: July 20, 2016, 02:12:06 PM »
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Quote from: Ed Kapuscinski on July 20, 2016, 09:17:05 AM
Wait, which one is that?

Chris333 knows the actual answer, but I would say it is his ERIE inspired layout.
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