Layout room storage space

Kevin Anderson Sep 3, 2015

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  1. ppuinn

    ppuinn Staff Member

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    I also have some under-layout storage that is much less attractive...so I've covered it with skirting. The shelves and aisles look pretty good when the skirting is in place, and definitely less so, when the skirting is raised.

    I've got some plain metal shelves holding scenicing materials, tables holding boxes, and bookshelves holding magazines.


    The skirting also hides ugly shelves holding some power tools, wooden cabinets in which I store unmade railcar kits or railcars that need some repairs, several plastic drawers with model structure details, and a number of mismatched cardboard boxes containing empty jewel cases, packing boxes filled with all kinds of wire (bell wire, phone wires, 2-, 3-, 4-, 6-, and 8-conductor wire, lamp wire, 12 gauge bus wire, and loconet cables, and boxes of flextrack and roadbed for both HO and N scale.

    There are several places around the layout where I store items directly on the floor, behind the skirting.

    Under the Bartonville Helix, I have several boxes of dark, medium, and light Woodland Scenics Fine Leaf Foliage Trees, several boxes containing bags of different colored lichen, a box with packages of MRC/JTT wire foliage tree branches, and Grampa’s antique rocker which needs a little repair work before returning to our guest bedroom.

    Under the Peoria Helix I’ve stored several milk crates holding small scrap pieces of Homasote, Masonite (hardboard), and short lengths of 1x2s, 1x3s, and 2x4s, a small table I use when spray painting outside, and some supplies/materials I use when making kaleidoscopes. Near the Pekin Helix, I store the foam board sheets I use for making tree flats for my own and others’ layouts, and pieces of Styrofoam I use for making small hills on layouts. Under the Kellar Helix, (near where my HO switching layout runs), I store packing boxes with all of the boxes that my HO cars/locos/structures came in.

    And under the Kellar Branch benchwork, I have stored all of the N-Scale models that I’ve collected over the years, but haven’t gotten around to building, yet.
     
    ppuinn, Nov 6, 2015
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  2. Alan

    Alan Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Over the years I have used various shelves, cabinets, etc. to house construction materials, stock boxes, etc. Luckily now I have a small switching layout and most construction is finished, I have much less to store!
    What I do have is either on shelving above or in clear plastic crates on wheels under the layout and hidden by skirting.
     
    Alan, Nov 8, 2015
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  3. jhn_plsn

    jhn_plsn TrainBoard Supporter

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    I used the space under my garage payout of ten years for general household storage. The previous home owner had five levels of shelving on three walls so I used the leftover wood to build storage and added casters for easy access under the layout. They made nifty table tops for projects and cutting too. Crude, yes, but accomplished what I wanted.
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    jhn_plsn, Nov 8, 2015
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  4. subwayaz

    subwayaz TrainBoard Member

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    That's what I have those Clear Plastic Draw things on wheels pushed under my layout. Cheap, mobile, organized, and dust free which is a Biggie here in the Southwest.
     
    subwayaz, Nov 10, 2015
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  5. montanan

    montanan TrainBoard Member

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    I feel quite fortunate that I don't have this problem. I do have a few items that aren't build, but for the most part, everything, locomotives, rolling stock and buildings are on the layout. I have to use hidden staging tracks to store some rolling stock that I don't have room for at industries or in yards, but these are used for inbound freight trains. Boxes, GONE, years ago,

    My hobby work bench is upstairs and what few unbuilt kits I have are on a couple of shelves above the bench. Being that the layout has all of the track down an almost all of the structures in place, I don' have much to store. I do have one box of various scenery supplies that I keep under the layout. Not a very big box at all.
     
    montanan, Nov 10, 2015
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  6. Kevin Anderson

    Kevin Anderson TrainBoard Member

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    I have been slowly going through my pile of stuff and have condensed it down quite a bit and got rid of lots so my room is cleaner. Still have some stuff to go through. With my latest addition I can now store rolling stock not being used on the layout in a much easier to reach location. I have added a mobile staging yard where these will be stored. [​IMG][​IMG]


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    Kevin Anderson, Nov 10, 2015
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