Music and Band (Cheap Therapy) recordings as well as some tech and equipment reviews. NEW to the channel is the development of my Lionel train set that's been in storage for 40 years!
Nice design on the layout. If you add power drops on the further ends of the E layout your locomotives will run more consistently as they get farther away from the transformer. Great looking layout going to be fantastic when you do the scenery
Nice set up with the switch and routing options. Now I know your space is limited maybe but for me I like to have my train main line on a level place when possible. On yours every path it takes there is a hill. The super '''0" track is nice, the only thing that concerns me with the super "0" track is that thin middle rail. Now on your Williams if it has a DC motor, I assume it does, you should not have much amperage and sparking like a normal Lionel AC motor so your rollers on the center rail should not wear badly. I have see way to many rollers with a thin narrow grove in their center, and I can only assume they were run on the Super "0" track for a long time.
OBTW: wearing center rollers is a myth as long as you keep the center rail clean. Even traditional 0 gauge can wear the rollers. It is from arcing, so rubbing it once in a while with Scotch Brite will prevent this. I have operated on Super 0 for decades and do not have this proble.
My friendship with Super 0 goes back to the sixties. You have a nice design to your layout. Have you ever considered 2 track mains? If you ever have troublesome 112s, just let me know. I have repaired hundreds of them 😁
Very nice! Keep up the good work! It's nice to see a Super-O track layout going together. A little bit at a time is better then nothing at all. Have fun and enjoy your layout and trains!
A very nice layout. I have plans to expand my own HO-scale layout (and put in switches and reversing loops as well), though as I'm somewhat limited in terms of space, don't believe it will be quite as massive as yours.
I like the track plan. Looks like a nice start to a very detailed layout. I have the same exact Rico station. I got it when I was just a kid around 1976. My dad glued the station together for me. I was pretty young to be glueing together an expensive toy. Fun watching your engine pull the incline.
I was watching it and hoping you would also run the train on the outer track, but you never did. Food for thought, those Santa Fe double motor units suck a lot of power and with that thin center rail, you will wear through your center rail rollers, connecting both the main and the dummy unit center rail contact connection with a wire from each unit will save wear on the power side of these diesel engines, but that track is hard on center pickups..
Thanks for your comments. I'm working currently on the landscaping and layout of the tunnels, etc. I plan to use several different locos, mostly steam. The Santa Fe is probably not going to be ran very much. Also have the Alco diesel units. I'll post a newer video soon showing my progress. Thanks ☺️
Interesting layout. I use reversing loops myself but man you have a boat load of Super O track and switches. If you are going to make future train videos you should consider using your music in them. I find music greatly enhances the enjoyment of watching the trains.
Is there a grounding problem? Are those single coils disguised as humbuckers? Just that there seems to be an awful lot of hum for humbuckers. I was surprised to see a set neck on it. I’ve owned a Gibson and Gibson copies. The copies played way better. Two different Deans and a Parkwood. Brand means little to me.
Too many working parts; a traditional spindle with record holder might've been safer. Even the ELAC Miracords and the Technics SL-1350 did it perfectly. (I own the latter.)
At the end of cycle is a rough "click" releasing the mechanism and the tonearm would sometimes skip into the first grooves of the record as this one seems to. I serviced a couple of these years ago and it was touchy to get it just right.
Some years ago I had the opportunity to service a TD-224. The works underneath are a sight to behold. The release at the end of the cycle was rough and had a loud click, which sometimes caused the tonearm to skip into the first groove of the record. I have a TD-124 with an SME3009 Series II Tonearm mounted on it as my second turntable. Still running after over 50 years.
