PROOF You DO Have Room for a Train Layout #2

A quick look at my 1’ x 6.5’ HO Scale switching layout that I have tucked away in the corner of my garage. Another example of how you can fit a small train layout in places you might not think you can.
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[@Thegal24]

I'm currently building a layout in my room [00 scale]

[@randytaylor1258]

The beauty of a railroad layout is that there is always some small project or another to keep you busy.

[@MarkWick]

Years ago a built a small 4x8 room addition to my house and build an American Flyer shelf layout along the two adjoining walls that didn't have doors.

[@switchpointproductions7927]

Nice layout! Love those baby hi cubes

[@davidkasparian4089]

thank you Steve!!👍👍💙

[@HaroldAlexis-bb8sd]

You have a beautiful semi big semi medium size layout. I love the arrangement on it. The engine & Boxcars love the roadnames.

[@jamesdenny4734]

Brilliant deduction! 👍🏻😁

[@THOMAS81Z]

love this idea

[@prolificpixs]

Thank you 👍 Great videos!

[@trainglen22]

Thank you.

[@ianhughes7805]

Superb

[@FreedomSquareGardenRailway]

yea front yard HO Yarden Railway is my solution- I used Bachman silver nickel plated, EZ-track it has taken the hot sun here in SoCal pretty well ! ❤ Thanks for sharing - the lizards in my garage will poop on the tracks just for kicks! 😂

[@Edward-bd8iy]

"Lizard Plate Road"😅😅😅 Maybe we can get one for an engineer

[@Sigil_Firebrand]

Just because you can fit a layout does not mean you can fit a complete loop. That said after about 15 years of never having the combination of space, money, and time, I was able to start building my 10'x4' OO layout recently, and I am very happy with it.

[@Flymochairman1]

Nice one, sir. Many thanks for the demonstration!

[@anthonylamberti8824]

thank you for showing it...great layout..

[@railway187]

I agree, there's always room for a train layout! My latest H0 layout is 95 x 85 cm 🙂

[@johngormley2192]

95 cm is like 37.4". That is a tight space. I am still not a metric person.

[@Oskarsgaminglife]

I’m building a 70x70cm n scale train layout in my room I’m just getting started this month on this amazing project and I’m so happy to be running trains😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@anthonyj.adventures9736]

I had 1 in the shed. Then moved it to the living room with 2 fold down tables sides. It was 6x4 closed and 4x8 opened. Worked great.

[@MrBTRDAYZ]

I built a 23' X 9" n scale layout in my garage alongside my 2nd garage bay. The 9" width means I can still park a 2nd car in my garage, while still allowing for 3 lines of track. I have light rail trains that travel the northbound track, switchover to the southbound side at the last stop, and then reverses to go southbound. Then I repeat at the end of that run.

[@Gabriel-t2n]

So groovy! ❤🎉

[@trainguy69]

you can also fit an n scale layout in a briefcase

[@t26e3pershingtank]

My current and first one I'm working on at the moment is a 1x4 ethanol plant, it's been a wild ride for making my first layout. Then once mine is done, off I go to make my little brother his own 1x4

[@raphealblack]

Finding a place for my layout isn’t the problem, having the funds is

[@David-yo5re]

Yes, it's getting very expensive. I miss the days of $5 kits and 25 cent track sections. And that wasn't that long ago.

[@tomstarcevich1147]

Exactly I'll stick to fishing 🎣 😄

[@IndianaNorthWestern]

​@@David-yo5readjusting for inflation, the kits are roughly the same amount and have more detail, however the track has been blown out of proportion if you aren't buying atlas snap or flex track. You're just not looking in the right places for cheap stuff, go to a train show with $100, and you can leave with 6 coaches, 3 freight cars, 2 cabooses, and a locomotive if you haggle and make deals.

[@donovanemery597]

I'm in the UK and I've seen smaller HO layouts. This is cool, though.

[@user-hj7tm4yd7g]

Used 2 run a 3 rail ; don't have it now : worse luck but I'll have 2 get a n other layout as it's sadly missed ! Keep up the good work Steve ; v enjoyable !

[@sjaakvandervrande9414]

I currently building a H0m Railroad myself Rheatian Railroad in winter with moving sleds,2,70m x 0,90m.

[@xiangabatan8915]

i wish i had that

[@imjustboredgaming]

its really nice but i like full circuts to run trains on

[@roguedragondraksis9114]

Thank you fonally a 6' layout. Ive got a 6 by maybe 2' space still drcodong if i wanna use thr full space as a freemo module or not

[@diecast_MikeEspo]

Awesome idea , does the train turn around or just straight.

[@StevesTrains]

Just straight

[@diecast_MikeEspo]

Still cool 😎

[@Steam1937]

You should try a British layout sometime. There are lots of nice narrow gauge and industrial engines for lines like this

[@tonykane8866]

Dude u have more stuff in the garage than I have in my house.. lll😅

[@StevesTrains]

Mission accomplished. Lol

[@tomwcameron]

excellent switching layout! The British are also quite good at making short interesting switching layouts, often using a track cartridge at the neck of the turnout arrangement to allow car selections to be shuffled on and off the shelf layout

[@Dredge_Hog]

Just use N scale, or if you really don’t have space use Z scale

[@curtismorgan2318]

That's awesome. I'm working on one that goes around my ceiling. How do you make you flat buildings look that good?

[@TheCanadianRailfanner]

I have room, just not enough money

[@shawnpowell5876]

Great short video Steve especially of that little switching layout in your garage! I'm a disabled Delawarian due to a hereditary nerve disease and was wondering if you could donate a sticker to my railroad room I'm creating. Cheers from Laurel, Delaware USA

[@StevesTrains]

I don’t have any stickers at the moment, I’ll have to try and get a batch at some point soon.

[@m1ferreira465]

I run mine above the window on a shelf circling the room! Pain in the butt to maintain!

[@StevesTrains]

I’ve wanted to add something like that to my office. I’m sure the maintenance is problematic.

[@m1ferreira465]

@StevesTrains also bad when we had a 6.4 magnitude earthquake!

[@StevesTrains]

Yikes, bad for the trains and worse for your head if they fall on you!

[@JimBiddle.]

Or get T scale?

[@donthateonme30]

That’s not acceptable for me. I sold my house and I had a 27 x 24 layout and now I don’t have a basement and I only have a garage that’s not happening. I do have a backyard and I’m considering all options doing a outdoor backyard, HO scale, layout.

[@ivanrivera8597]

👍😎🇲🇽

[@AstroKnight118]

Is that Burlington Northern boxcar an old athearn bluebox kit? I have one and its great, I thought I recognized it

[@StevesTrains]

It isn’t a blue box kit but it might be an Athearn one. I don’t remember but I do have some Athearn cars but I don’t remember what is what.

[@ThebutterPigRailroad330]

Proof you do have room for a train layout n scale

[@nickcharles5891]

Would have gone N scale

[@StevesTrains]

I sort of like N scale and O scale better than HO scale for switching actually. Each of those have distinct advantages whereas HO is mostly a compromise of both.

[@1TruNub]

Meh, I could get something bigger than that in N scale

[@michaelgmoore5708]

Layout in American Flyer Is too big for closet. Land lords don't allow working layouts anyway.

[@NorthernNewEnglandRailfan]

Bro my garage collapsed in January theres no switching layout going in there

[@StevesTrains]

Oh man, sorry to hear that.

[@craigcorson3036]

I _know_ I don't have room for a train layout, not even at N gauge.

[@StevesTrains]

I’m building a T-Gauge layout on a hat that I’ll have a video on in a couple of weeks hopefully.

[@craigcorson3036]

@@StevesTrains How thrilling. Around and around and around she goes. Woo-hoo.

[@jeffhowland867]

​@@craigcorson3036wow, I can't believe you don't got what you want with an attitude like that!

[@ericcallender1575]

2 x the modeling in N scale. I'm just saying.

[@user-kn9yt2xk9q]

What railroad is that locomotive?

[@StevesTrains]

Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern Railway (Chicago area).

[@user-kn9yt2xk9q]

Thank you @@StevesTrains! Also love the layout!

[@warreninc.9485]

Not having room for a layout is a lie, take t scale for example

[@marvwatkins7029]

A closet? Really?

[@jonstokes7588]

What's the track plan, man?

[@TheRealAnakinSkywalker66]

HA! i dont have a garage

[@_ford_crown_victoria_p]

sorry but it’s just a diorama at this point…

[@7leprechaun7]

I have three kids. bought a bunk bed and moved them all into one room. It's cramped for them, but now I have just a room for my trains. My trains. They can take turns watching me play.

[@allan_the_alienXD]

I don’t have a garage 💀💀💀💀💀

[@thecpmr6276]

Lol don't have a house XD