Ocalicreek's Garage Layout Planning Thread

[ocalicreek]

How open are you to the idea of 18" radius? I know you've said that you have some equipment that needs larger radius but perhaps you can put that on a display shelf inside for the time being. If not 18", how about 22"? 26" radius sucks up a lot of space.

Not very open to 18" radius, but 22 may work. The equipment in question has been packed away far too long and is aching to get out and run, so putting it on a display is a hard thing to do...but may be the course I have to take. We'll see. I'm going to work really hard to make it possible to run 4-8-4's and 4-8-2's. I don't own any articulateds, but being a VGN & N&W fan they are on the wish list (along with the VGN's BA class 2-8-4's...aka Berkshires).

Also, you can't quite come all the way down to the wall on the south side of the drawing because of the garage door right? How far out does the garage door stick into the room?

The garage door track sticks out, I believe, 4". I've been working off a 19' distance from the corner of the room opposite the garage door in order to account for the discrepancy of a few inches.

Forgive me if you have already answered this somewhere else... at the top of the graphic, you have 8'3" marked but then you've got a little bit mo' over the top of the freezer???? Does the lid of the freezer open up or out? ..and if up, is that still going to work having part of the layout above it?

From the corner out toward the water heater is 10' 3". The freezer is tight up against the WH and measures 24". It opens on the top with hinges on the back side so if I pull it away from the wall a few inches, I could probably get a narrow (6-8") shelf across the wall at about 48" high. I'll get a few more precise measurements asap.

Also, will this be DC or DCC and have you ever seen the Jerome and Southwestern & are you open to reverse loops? Yes, you guessed it... I'm workin' on some ideas.

Thanks for the ideas...gotta run but I'll look a the drawings more closely in a bit. I've seen the J&SW but I need to jog my memory on that one. That's Furlow, right? Also, DCC.

Galen