running trains inside for late fall

It's hopeful to see Jr. keeping the spirit of O alive.  And they said it was all over in 1965.  BS!

The video teasingly reveals just how massive your layout is, and begs a walk around recording of the entire pike.  When it's convenient could we please see more?

Bruce

Yes.  Really impressive!

brwebster posted:

It's hopeful to see Jr. keeping the spirit of O alive.  And they said it was all over in 1965.  BS!

The video teasingly reveals just how massive your layout is, and begs a walk around recording of the entire pike.  When it's convenient could we please see more?

Bruce

I just made a video walk around but I can't stand my own voice. Hopefully, I can get some scenery done in a couple of areas to show off something more than bare plywood.

 The grandkids want a super highline route in HO scale! (above everything else?) I don't have the energy to build even more. It's full time to keep this stuff on line.

Nice... I like the Amtrak genesis,,,,, missed out on that engine

this is the other side of the basement (west side, train heading north towards front of house) when the highline was under construction

as it leaves the video it enters the yard areas with the engine service and car storage tracks. That's shown in the video above labeled Sunset 3rd Rail under TMCC.

This is the same area a little further along in construction

Many of us could be jealous of you having a son interested in the hobby.  Enjoy it for as long as possible. 

Just wish the younger set would be interested in us passing on the skills, tools and equipment to the next generation.  The males in our family have no interest what so ever in the trains or tools.  Disappointing.

Thanks Tom.

That's our grandson in most of the videos. He runs (engineer) and I help build the trains .

He started very young. His older brother liked trains very much and grew out of them. Now he has very little interest. So we are lucky that this one stays so involved. I don't push them, I just let them tell me what they like and want to do. Usually he runs me down ragged! I like the enthusiasm so I do the best I can.

 I still get into trouble trying to keep up with their wants. I remember getting several engines in. One was the MTH AFT GS4 in one gauge. As soon as he saw it he said "now you need the Daylight version". Urrggg. Teach them well and some times it backfires.

Thanks for posting the extra videos!  Dual Dreyfus' ( Dreyfi? ) is a scene not often eperienced, especially where there's room for them to gallop.  Nice, nice, nice!

Bruce

We're back at it again this week.

Joe your doing fantastic !!....  Your having FUN!!  Long trains (no traction tires)......More than one power unit........Steam pulling modern freight................Amtrak pulling modern freight........ Running smooth on good track work........Holy cow how many rules are you going to break Joe . Love the intermodal.

Stop!!!  

you are embarrassing me!  

I don't usually show switching moves. They can look boring in a video. We have fun making up the trains that can't be shown. It's just a good feeling and part of the fun. Here's a backing move into the car yard of a long train that needs to be broken down into segments to fit.

Great stuff, Joe!

Peter

Thanks all.

 I need to get some scenery done to have something good to look at. I finally got back at some of my mountain area. I'm just experimenting to see what works the best for the look I'm after.

here's another G scale for fun

What are the dimensions of your layout/basement?

Hmmm? something like 42' x 34' main house with 30' wide, 25' deep room teeing off one side.

Huge place---->huge layout---->fantastic videos---->  !

jpv in France

Excellent Joe, Great job with the videos.

Larry

Joe:  Love the videos, and love the long consists.  Great layout, great LONG runs.

Also, I've posted a few videos lately, and I always expand to full screen, videos from the guys.  A little fuzzier, of course, but a so much cooler look.

Jerry

Love the videos Joe.

Noticed one little Coil car all by itself in the second video if you have the cars and the time one day how about making up a train of coil cars they are a favourite of mine I have a few myself but not the space to run a long train of them.

Hope I'm not being out of place asking that. 

Thanks. Roo.

Roo posted:

Love the videos Joe.

Noticed one little Coil car all by itself in the second video if you have the cars and the time one day how about making up a train of coil cars they are a favourite of mine I have a few myself but not the space to run a long train of them.

Hope I'm not being out of place asking that. 

Thanks. Roo.

 

no, never. I just don't have very many. 2 or 3 maybe? I wanted the newest Atlas versions and I agreed no more trains! I don't have anywhere to put them so all the extras are stuck in their boxes. I need to make another car yard some where else so that I can get more cars onto the layout.

So I'm trying to help other posters today, but who's helping me? 

I had a brain lapse that had me chasing my tail all day. I know better, but I didn't do as I should have. When you try to match pieces together like building this mountain, you have to stabilize each piece. "Nail it in place", if you will. By leaving each piece loose, and trying to match the following pieces to each other, measurements keep changing. You can't work in thin air, unless you have a 3D modeling computer maybe?

 So I fit each piece probably more times to each other, than I should have. They even moved a bit to take this pictures!

Now a few days of carving, gluing, and changes, painting, and.....

Very Nice!!!! Love the layout!

Haven't done scenery with the sheet foam yet but I have done a lot of residential insulation work assembling weather tight pull down stair boxes using Loctite's  PL pro line premium polyurethane construction adhesive.  No wood foundation just gluing foam to foam.

Photo only for sake of displaying glue cartridge.

Wow this is bad and great! I should explain myself. My poor jokes should have some type of warning. I said "where's my help?" as a joke.

However I just got a couple of great tips to move forward. So I am grateful.

John, that RR looks fantastic. I love to see bridge work like that, especially from that perspective. I hope you'll share even more pics!

 I always have bad luck with those cans of foam dripping all over, and then becoming unusable when I need them again. I think with your suggestion, I may attempt creating a tunnel liner with that product that I could fine tune and carve to relieve any areas that intrude on the trains. That also may lock some of my mountain pieces in better. I want the smoke to look realistic too so a liner is needed to guide the smoke out the ends.

Tom, I am always grateful for your help. I have always heard good things about that PL product. I went to the store last year and came home with something else. It said it worked with foam board so I bought it. Sometimes I have to grab what I can, where I'm at. Otherwise my girl starts the rant about how much I'm wasting on toy trains. If you saw my bills, you'd know she's right. I have even now resorted to grabbing old tubes of caulk laying around. I will grab some PL for the large mountain pieces I need to still create.

 The problem posted above, is that I was not thinking clearly. I started my cutting on the foam mountain. It takes me a long time to carve the rocks and I get bored and tired. So I thought I'd keep forging ahead by creating the next piece of the mountain, without securing the one I just built. That would be OK, except that I got about four pieces ahead with nothing secured. Even the mountain base pieces would move slightly and that throws off all the dimensions. I finally noticed that the whole mountain didn't quite fit anymore and I knew something drastic had happened.

 I now have blocks screwed down that keep the general pieces in approx. position while I work.