Hermosa - N Scale

11' x 1.4' N-Scale

You stand facing the layout from the bottom of the photo every thing past the street Hermosa is Backdrop. This is a small section of a much larger layout. Hermosa was built for a solo operator. So to fit into the larger track plan it is the other way. As per the rules only 16 sq feet. 

The mustard color is the fascia on the long edge.

The track plan software is set up in a north, south, east, west,  This section happens to be on the south wall and looking south. I cropped this out off a larger track plan image.

Hermosa construction photo - http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/29698

N Scale coffee table 3' x 2'

N-scale Freelance Dutch-based coffee-table, with all glass sides and lid, built c1980. This coffee table layout is still operational in my lounge room.

All track - Fleischmann Picolo pre-ballasted set track - Electro-magnet uncouplers at station adjacent to turnout, adjacent to coal crane, and near first village house at right. All turnouts fitted with Fleischmann point motors. All curves #1 radius = 195 mm.   

Structures - Kibri modern village kit, 2 small windmills kit, large windmill kit, goods shed kit, station plaform with awnings kit, farm kit, and small coal bunker with crane kit. Volmer single stall locomotive shed kit. All buildings fitted with internal lights and with separate street lighting circuit for station and plaza area in front of church and village houses. Kibri weight-activated boom gate at road crossing.

Original rolling stock - Fleischmann P8 4-6-0 steam locomotive lettered for NS, 3 passenger cars and 1 luggage/brakevan, all 6-wheel versions, 5 mixed European freight wagons with the passenger brakevan acting as brakevan for the freight train.   

Late edit - trackplan added.  

Ummm...

Why is R&K and the Tank & Team track so far in the back? How do you reach around the backdrop?


(sorry... I couldn't resist)

Long Valley Track Plan

An over view of the layout with labels for a general idea of the scenery and structures.

The layout is 24" x 80"  or 13.6 square feet.

This is an N scale track plan, drawn using the Atlas right track software.

The layout is built on a standard Hollow Core Door.

The smallest radius is 9.75"

The Largest radius is 11"

All track is Atlas code 80

All turnouts are Atlas Standard line #5.

The black marks on the track represent the approximate location of tunnel portals.

On the current layout a hillside runs down the middle of the layout, but a two sided backdrop could be used as well.

The track beside the Midland Mine spur serves as an interchange track to the rest of the world.

Long Valley layout

16 Square Foot Switching Layout

Here's my layout, built on 3 modules. I rent, live in Los Angeles, and have had to reassemble the layout 3 times.

More info at my Youtube Channel, the MRH Blog and the Burbank Branch Build thread.

Thanks!

Los Angeles area-based layout

Thanks Wendell

Thanks Wendell

Layout update

Hi Wendell, Thank you for the compliment on the track plan. I added some photos to my post to give eveyone a general idea of how the scenery and structures look on the layout. This layout is still a work in progress and a few scenery items have been added since these photos were taken.

A small track plan from a UK magazine

Small layout in September/October 2017 Model Railroader

Oval circuit on a 20" x 79" door

This is a temporary layout I built on a 18" x 79" door to test the feasibility of 9-inch radius curves for HO equipment.

Track is Bachmann E-Z roadbed track, except the end loops are flex-track shaped to 9" radius and the curve fixed with super-glue. Preceding sections of 18" radius track provide easements for the tight end curves. The widest parts of the oval overhang the table edge so it's actually about 20" overall width with a total area of about 11 square feet.

A Kato NW2 loco handles the 9" radius curves just fine, as do a variety of "train set" type cars with truck-mounted knuckle couplers. Some 50-foot cars (with truck-mounted couplers) can handle it but for appearance sake I prefer to limit to 40-foot cars. That 10-car train can run backwards around the oval without derailing.

Do trains look awful on curves this tight? It doesn't bother me with shorter cars and curve easements and suitably slow speeds. Tight curves offer expanded track plan possibilities for small spaces.

compact yard on a shelf

This plan is a compact storage yard on a 12" x 79" shelf to supplement another small layout. The shelf is made from a bi-fold door panel supported on adjustable-height shelf brackets. The layout area is less than 7 square feet.

I may actually build this; the shelf is in place. The plan uses my Shinohara #4 switches left over from a previous layout. One turnout is shortened to fit in this plan.

There is no runaround because trains will back in or out from an adjoining layout. A runaround could easily be added but it reduces train length and storage capacity. A second loco can also be used in lieu of a runaround.

Nice layouts

Right Orientation

Regardless of accuracy from your perspective, it is simply good manners to orient diagrams correctly for legibility and politeness. Being obstinate when trying to convey information, when any basic graphic software can rotate an illustration easily and in less time than arguing the point and saying 'take it or leave it', is simply negative and avoidance.

Means people wont bother reading future items expecting the same confusion.  IMHO-d

drgw_samson - Be my guest and

drgw_samson - Be my guest and you can cut and flip all the little labels around.  The track plan is oriented in the direction the operator/user will be looking at it.  

http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/29698

Is this still a thing?

Cool track plan Az!

Inglenook 81.5 inches X 12

Inglenook 81.5 inches X 12 inches. HO scale.

Peco code 83 turnouts #6 Streamline. Mainline code 83 Streamline Peco. Sidings code 70 rail on Peco ties.

Before scenicked and installed.

After: (now relegated for display purposes only)

Jaxcilliest Enterprises - the ultra-mini hoist & dump layout

Hi all, 

now for something totally different that meets the maximum stipulated size with a a lot of room to spare.

Jaxcilliest Enterprises - I suppose that this qualifies as a layout in that it moves "something" from "Somewhere" to "Somewhere Else" even if the "something" is the rare white haggis and the 2 'Somewhere's" are separated by only a few inches vertically

Basic information 

• Prototype modeled (if any) - Nil - Totally freelance with "maximum squeeze" factor applied and with a significant dose of whimsy
• Scale - 1:48 On30
• Minimum radius - Not applicable layout consists of 3 pieces of straight track, upper deck, lower deck and hoist deck.
• Room size - Not applicable -the whole Jaxcilliest Enterpises "layout" has a footprint of 12" by 4" .
• Turnout sizes - Not applicable - No turnouts used in whole layout

Additional information

• Construction materials - Foamcore around a Lifelike HO #8200 "Coal Tipple" operating accessory.
• Control - either 4.5V battery (3 by AA cells) in a battery box or a 12V DC controller..  
• Hoist construction - scratchbuilt brass hoist cage braced with square hollow sections sliding in brass channel section
• Hoist Power - 3V Tamiya motor/gearbox unit driving a sprocket hauling Tamiya ladder chain.
• Total Rolling stock - 2 Bachman On30 Davenport locomotives, 1 Bachmann On30 V-tip wagon.

A plan sketch might appear in a later edit - once I have worked out how to meaningfully display in a plan view 2 tracks on top of each other, partially hidden by an overhanging hoist house. But until then here's a photo: 

To save hijacking this thread, please aim any comments about Jaxcilliest Enterprises to  https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/jaxcilliest-enterprises-the-ultramini-hoist-dump-layout-12207987 The story of the build and other details will begin to appear there soon.

"I am creating this miniature

  I wouldn't arbitrarily limit Urbanite layouts to 16 SqFt , if they had an extra bedroom or a storage closet for modules and got creative they might use more space. I'd be more interested in design quality than staying under 16 SqFt ........DaveB 

Miniature sized layouts don't get enough attention

"small layouts DO NOT get

    I think that's because small layouts are no different structurally  than a piece of a larger layout. what works for a freemo or Ntrak module will work for a small layout.  So it becomes a matter of each person's space and that varies so much that specific small layout articles are not very useful to most modelers. Building less is just doing without more so I view it as mostly a problem of how to pick what to model from a larger layout then building it. The space constraints will determine the best scale to use and the most satisfying track configuration, just like they do for larger layouts.Whether I'm building big or small I'm still the same modeler....DaveB

Nice Inglenook layout

I am giving hope to people