layout building

Here's a little bit of the story of how my layout came to be. I've been into model trains since I was a little kid, Lionel sets and Thomas the Tank Engine got that ball rolling, but I didn't have any place to set anything up and kind of walked away from it for a little while. Eventually, I...

Hi everyone, I have been wondering for months exactly how i could fit a reasonably sized layout in my apartment. I have thought of everything from lowering it from chains (with fold out legs), folding down from the wall (not ideal for non glued stuffs) having shelves running round the room (with...

Hi all, this is a continuous thread that I hope to keep going for the next year and a half, pertaining my building of a Wisconsin based layout, going from Milwaukee to Hartland. Currently I am in the planning phase, crunching numbers, making sketches. Over the next year and a half, I'll post...

Hello! I've posted on here in the past asking for help 'redesigning' my yard, but I never went through with building it. I (quite foolishly) started laying my mainline tracks immediately when I got them, and as such I sort of limited my future possibilities. It's an HO layout, 10 x 5 ft...

For those who like to see layouts in progress, here is a video of the progress I've made on my layout the past 4 or 5 months. https://youtu.be/l74Swb4jiUs