A Really Tight Curve And New Points! (For The Field Railway) 

This channel is like hidden gem of RU-vid. Love the creative railway engineering ON A BUDGET you guys are doing!

I like the railway drill press!

Many other RU-vidrs would have mad an hour long episode out of this project, but your content is always to the point. No rambling, no timelaps, no annoying music, thank you, keep up the good work 👍

This is possibly one of the best series on the telly! I am learning and I can't even feel it. What a trickster! Railways are a funny thing, they have been around in the modern form for over 150 years, with points and signals. Brunel had a line running with points switching 2 gauges at a time, 3 rails! It was all figured out on paper. But the big guns can't do it anymore. No new lines and all the old little ones taken up. However, nowadays a champion in a garden can lay more track singlehandedly than CIE! What a world! Excellent! Maybe Prodigious is a better word for it! With a capital P!

I remember seeing catch plates at points when I was a kid, and thinking they looked cool, but having no idea what they did. Thanks, Tim.

Now that you've added the catch rail it's begining to sound like a piece of mainline track with that hissing scrape sound as the flange gets side loaded.

"In order to improve my railway I first have to expand my railway" Love it!

Thanks Tim, it's more difficult and time consuming than I thought, but your knowlege and tinkering always gets you through in the end, and that's why your videos are so interesting to watch!

All the makeshift tools Tim makes are great, I like that mindset.

I'm lovin' this ride on the quagmire express!

You sure do have the mud. I am glad that you were able to make a new switch. I know the feeling of when you go to fix one thing more problem come up. You stuck to it and got the job done. You are so creative. 😀😀😀

RU-vid suggested you as "Model Railway" Content. This is so much cooler than a model railway. Can't wait for more!

You have a voice I could listen to all day.

Those bending tools would be called scrolling spanners or scroll forks

They take more time & material but these new points look so much better.

You're rapidly becoming one of my favourite channels. This is all thoroughly ingenious, and I'm loving your approach to problems. It's extremely heartening to see. The new point looks excellent and I look forward to more.

Found this by accident. Easy to understand without being condescending or arrogant. And the problem solving, such as the drill press, were inspired. Love it. Good luck with the build. And the mud.

Possibly my favourite video on RU-vid. I would love build something like this.

I am trying to catch up on all your videos and enjoying all of them. I cannot stop myself smiling while I watch them.😀👍

I really like the new switch. You probably could mess with the frog some more to get it to work smoothly. Don't forget the levers and locking mechanisms for both switches, as they might vibrate out of position when your rolling multiple cars across them. A bit late for now, but you may want to get a pipe bending press in case you have to make any more curved sections of angle iron. My dad has one (I really don't know why, to be honest), so I know they're not that expensive. And they work just like a bottle jack, so you don't need any special setups in the shop. You could even use it in that muddy field. Maybe something for the future.

gotta love how the man is just unbending steel with 4 bolts and two pipes. amazing

I've always been confused by points and switches but the way you built them has helped my understanding a bit, nice job

I must think you for the inspiration. I live on a very steep hill ending in water. It is low bank, but it's about 5 ft so it is very difficult to lift boats in and out of the water. Your videos gave me a great idea, I've built a ladder frame out of 2 and 1/2 in pipe that I managed to get from the scrap yard. I took an old boat trailer and removed the tires from the rims. The rims are a perfect fit on the pipe. It has worked out fantastically! I had to anchor a large winch, but I now have rails that split into three, with three separate trailers that live on their own line undercover. When I want to swap which boats are afloat, I just winch the trailer up the track to its parking spot, and roll the other trailer onto the track. I was very stuck on the transitions prior to your video on the same subject. I was able to cut slashes in the pipe when there is a switch, allowing the rim to pass through the slash and onto the separate track. I've lived here quite a long time, and have seen many neighbors attempt various approaches to boat launching. We have very strict laws about what you can put in the water, no concrete. This is now easily the best design on the lagoon. Several neighbors have stopped by to ask how it works, I've been referring them to your videos. I think several of them are going to make a start over the winter. Thought you might like to know that you are inspiring and informing a small island community in the Puget sound. Love the videos!

That looks like looks like a really good job there Tim. It’s also a fantastic example of why they used mini locos in the ww1 with all the mud

Greetings from Shropshire. A brilliant set of new points, you are a genius. I love the "low budget ethos", far more interesting when you make it all yourself, rather than just installing bought in rails, wheels etc..

I think this looks much better than the other point. Ok, more material is needed but the wagon drive smother over the points. I hope you build more of this points for the rest of the route.

Wow. So satisfying to see it work in the end. Well done 🌟 seeing all this mud makes a railway seem the only way to get along with it. It’s so good that you recovered.

There is quite a large gap in the frog that the wheels have to ride over. You could put a small, moveable piece of rail in that gap for a butter smooth ride. I love how you make something daunting, like building a railway network, seem accessible for an average guy.

A fab watch, such ingenious solutions. I am drawn to Elon Musk's comment: "One of the biggest mistakes smart engineers make is optimizing a thing that should not exists." But you obviously love it and its a delight to watch. Thanks for sharing!

Your ingenuity never ceases to impress me, Tim. I like to think that I have a mechanically inclined brain/thought process, but yours is on another level. I love watching your projects whenever they are posted.

I love the creative solutions like the sideways drill machine and the bendy bars! I'm learning a lot from you. Thank you!

What fun you have 😊 I will be watching for more.

I keep watching Tim and Sandra because I keep learning things that I would never come across in real life. :)

New tool: called a bending fork in blacksmith shops in the US. We use them a lot for both hot- and cold-bending. Great videos!

i can forsee an old ride on mower becoming an engine possibly.. erm maybe... lol .... i love this Tim...Thank you very much ;)

You are a true metalworking artist! That new point looks superb, even if it was more of a faff than the single blade point. And as for the new tools, especially the drill squashing machine, pure genius!

I use similar bars to that to bend rebar for concrete, amongst other things. We call them hickey bars

Thank you for humoring us train nerds with a more conventional Switch, Tim! Always a pleasure to watch =)

Shims, straps, jigs and clamps, you sure know how to extend the reach of your two hands!

Your just so clever. Nothing is beyond you!! 🤩

Wow! I do my own points for model railways but this takes it to the whole new level.

Working in all that mud would wage a psychological warfare on me. Good job overcoming it, and making a really fun, and completely functional RR Tim!

Your straighten tool is just like the tool I used make on jobs to bend wire with, but my handles are of course much shorter. and I weld the bolts to the pipe instead of drilling holes thru the pipe. Been about 10 years since I made one but you definite brought back some old memories here!

Very impressive. That looks like a lot of work, but the kind of work that a person might half-way enjoy. Bravo!

Absolutely fantastic. I was transfixed and could not stop watching. WELL DONE MATE

A tractor could not be going through all that mud. This is brilliant!

I quite like the simplicity of the wheel catch to fix the derailing!

Things are really comming along well. Great work! :)

I'm a volunteer at the railway maintenance department of a standard gauge heritage railway and this is more or less the same way how we build the railway track there. We just use bigger tools and heavier rails and sleepers. Nice video.

Ah man, I am in awe of your handiwork!

In the rebar world to bend rebar we call that tool a "hicky" or "hicky bar"

Amazing. You make it look easy, even though I'm sure it was hours in the shop, drilling holes and fabricating your own tools. Simply amazing!

What a lovely little project! I, at one point, want to do things like this. It all ways seems so fun.

At 6:30, you literally have the ANVIL CHORUS, as the hammer strikes the steel. And it changes pitch to higher notes!!, so get that sampled on a hard drive, and you can mix up a great tune!!!!!

I like the drill squeezing thing; I might steal that idea. Those tools you made are called “bending forks”. The plural of “radius” is “radii”. Nice work.

Wonderful. The first car I made for my railroad was a gondola car precisely because I knew that I would be moving ballast. Still waiting on the second car.

First recipe vlog that I have seen, to build your own railway.

Great job, Tim. Good grief, what a muddy mess. I would suggest you put a keeper rail on the straight side as well, just to prevent a derail if you should happen to push one of the cars unevenly through the points.

These points are absolutely great! If you ever build a loco, you might want to convert old points and build new ones in this style only. Straight curves are really bumpy and poor.

Hi, there! That's a very cool thing, the backyard railroad! Now, when I see how muddy is the soil this becomes absolutely clear that you one can do nothing when it's rainy. And only the railroad helps. Good luck to you and your road!

Sweet episode. I like the drill rig thing you made. That is some good work there! The new switch is really nice and you are right it does look much smoother. Takes a bit more work for sure yet in the end I think you will be happy. I look forward to see how you start the ballets. I look forward to seeing how you plan to do this.

Love your videos. Thanks for posting this too. Have a nice day now.

This is awesome. I think you should probably stick with the single rail switch for the long stretch of tracks. If you ever have any short turns pop up again, you should probably use the more complex design. You are doing an amazing job and you are doing real working railways justice. I can't wait to see you build a new rail car design.

And the last comment you said was, "and we're going to build...... My whole family watching all said in unison.... A DIGGER! 🤣 🤣 🤣

Absolutely brilliant man, G'day from Australia. I'm considering building a railway on my property and you've certainly become a source of sound information for me, thank you very much for your straight forward videos and willingness to share your knowledge

I was wondering how you could bend flat bar steel that much! This helped me, thanks!

The simple guardrail is so deceptively elegant in practice.

It’s amazing that you do this stuff

great demonstration of point fundimentals

I think that’s brilliant Tim, I can appreciate that these points are a lot of extra work but aesthetically pleasing compared to single blade. How about building a “rocker shovel loader” to load your ballast onto your ballast wagon? That would be really cool!!

Iam enjoying your projects mixed with humour and common sense. Cheers 🇨🇦

8:34 this is one of the things that I feared about with these cheap rails. I still can't believe that it was possible.

Love the horizontal drill contraption! Amazing how you find solutions to obstacles, ingenious! Great filming considering the mud

Tim your perseverance has perseverance. Moving stone……my first thought was a conveyor system powered by your hit n miss engine. So that generates another thought…. Could the HnM engine drive a cable pulley spool system to pull the carts along the track and back…..instead of a locomotive engine???

The second tool you made to bend the rail back reminded me of a blacksmith's bending fork, but handheld instead of in a hardy hole on the anvil.

The gadget used to bend rails is called a CROWE. and from it we get the term Crowe bar now meaning any long steel bar . I used these things as a fettler on the NSW railways as a young bloke just out of school. 1960 seems a long time ago............ Stavros

I love watching these. A friend asked... 'are you going to put a railway in your garden now?' Then realised, I already have one !

Hey Tim, I just had a couple of ideas for your future locomotive I wanted to share :) The simplest you could do would be a flat waggon with an engine mounted on it and some sprockets & chain to drive the wheel shafts with. But another idea would be to find an old ride-on lawnmower or garden tractor and convert it to run on the rails. And if you go for a gasoline engine, you could convert it to run on wood-gas and build a wood-chip gassifier to fuel the engine, that would then give you free fuel for the locomotive. I'm also looking forward to see the ballast hopper cart you are planning. Will it have chutes to allow the ballast to both go down the centre of the track and to the sides aswell, or only one of the two?

THIS GUY IS REBUILDING THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY ONE PEACE AT A TIME

WOW...Excellent Video! Thumbs Up!!!

Looking forward to see what you come up with in doing a ballast wagon. Great video by the way. Safe travels

Brilliant. Looking forward to seeing how you lay the ballast.

amazing as always! i love were this railway is going. I would call the tool "arm powered streightner" or "arm pliers"

pain in the ass to make the curved turnout for sure, but in the end, i think its very impressive and well worth the effort. That curve will be a point of bragging for years to come!! Great job!! Impressed here in Alabama USA!!

I learnt so much about rails in this one, amazing video, great work Tim!

Finally an appropriate use of the RU-vid algorithm! This is great stuff! New subscriber right here!👍

Tim is rebooting the industrial Revolution!

This is wonderful. I reckon the two-blade design was probably essential in this space, I can't imagine the single-blade version working well with one straight road and another with such a tiny radius.

Fantastic as ever. Well done. The drilling jig is genius.

Just as amazing as the big lines,all in the backgarden, homemade, like back when it started

Your turnout frog is very similar to streetcar (tram) frogs. They are designed so the car wheels roll through the frog on their flanges to reduce noise and wear. You may want to add a guard rail to the straight side of the turnout, too. When cars are pushed instead of pulled, they will tend to skew at an angle between the rails and can derail on the frog when entering the turnout points-first.

The curves is getting better, great job sir.

That works nicely, well done Tim. I can see that a good pair of wellies is extremely important in West Ireland!

Love watching your journey through life thanks for sharing 👍

That flat "drill press" you made to drill into the rail is a bomb idea sir. I hope you dont mind if i borrow that idea for my work. Haha

TYAT CATCH RAIL IS A GENIUS SOLUTION!! LOVE WATCHING THIS COME TO BE!!

The track tweaking tool is generally referred to as an "F" bar.

Excellent. Well worth the extra work. When you build a loco… you’ll need rods and levers for point operation…

wish i lived next-door to you big thumbs up keep up the good work

Bending forks. I have a few pairs in my forge. Most of them made on the spot, when something needed bent.