Table Building Help/Plans

D> Greetings, D> D> I can nail and saw but I have no plans nor ideas on how to build a D> train table. Or what extras are essential (e.g. a drawer?).

Welll..... A table is a table -- two saw horses and a sheet of plywood does work -- crude by effective Otherwise, there are books available (visit

D> D> My wife has allowed a space of 11 x 13 feet of which to work. Please D> recommend at will.

You probably *don't* want to have a 11 x 13 feet table. What you want is an 'around the room' type layout (an open rectangle with a 'duck under'). Or something like a capital C shaped layout, with yards or reversing loops at the ends of the C. The benchwork should be narrow enough to allow reaching across it. Maybe 2' if only one side is accessible, 4' if both sides are accessible.

D> D> Greatly appreciated, D> D> Darryl and children D>

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Darryl and Children wrote: I can nail and saw but I have no plans nor ideas on how to build a train table. Or what extras are essential (e.g. a drawer?). My wife has allowed a space of 11 x 13 feet of which to work. Please recommend at will.

----------------------------------------------------- Here's how I built all of my train tables:

Is it my eyes tonight, or are the photos on your site out of focus? I tried checking out your Circus page.

Will wrote: Is it my eyes tonight, or are the photos on your site out of focus? I tried checking out your Circus page.

--------------------------------------------------- Yes. The photos are a combination of 110, 35mm snapshots and videocaps.

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad:

Will wrote: Is it my eyes tonight, or are the photos on your site out of focus? I tried checking out your Circus page.

Go to your nearest hobbyshop and buy one of the books on the basics of model railroading. It will answer the above question, plus a whole lot more that you don't yet know you need to ask. You could also google on "model railroad benchwork," but a printed book is handier - for one thing, you can read it anywhere. For anotherm by the time you;'ve printed out all the info online, you've spent more money than for the book. NB that in N. America we build benchwork, not train tables. You'll find out why when you study the information.:-)

BTW, don't put a layout in the middle of that 11'x13' sopace. You will waste a lot of space around it. Build a doughnut shaped layout instead.

Have fun!

Thanks Bill, but first I have to buy a digital camera. Heck, I don't even have a "film-based" camera anymore.