Hello everyone, need some ideas please!

[trainsteve2435]

Hello everyone, its been a while since i posted here, but as some of you will remember, i lost my job this past February and still havent been able to find one that pays what i was makeing before. So with that said, my wife and me have decided to let our big house go and find a smaller apartment due to lack of income. Right now i have a layout that takes up my 22' x 24' garage. Im going to rent a big storage building to store my layout in, but i need some ideas on a nice simple, yet operable module type layout that will fit into an approximetly 2' wide by 8' long shelf. I dont want to give up my railroading, so i need to find something that will fit on a wall and out of the way. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks!
steve

 

[CRed]

Well if your doing HO scale you'll probably be relegated to a yard and doing switching operations and such.If you switch to N scale you'd be able to do a lot more with that space of course.

Chris

 

[steamhead]

Steve...Sorry to hear things aren't working out for you. Keep pluggin' away, something will come up. As to your need for something small, someone posted this here a while back. Take a look..It's got literally hundreds of good ideas...
Mike's Small Trackplans Page

Good luck..!!

 

[zachary]

trainsteve ill try and come up yith something in the next couple of days zachary

 

[MasonJar]

Steve,

Best of luck with the job search!

Another small track plan page belongs to Carl Arendt -> Micro/Small Layouts for Model Railroads

One of the local clubs also has a 2x6 module of the TimeSaver that is (getting to be) quite detailed and is fun to run. See St. Lawrence Division Web Page (home page) or St. Lawrence Division Module (module page) but beware of pop-ups!

Andrew

 

[Russ Bellinis]

On a 2' x 8' shelf you could take a timesaver and stretch it to make the sidings hold a more reasonable train length. Do some scenery and structures and you would have a fun switching layout.