@@BudgetModelRailways Surely it should be OO9 😀 Sorry, couldn't resist that one. Great to see another way of looking at small layouts like this. Your videos are always an interesting watch. Looking forward to seeing this one develop...
The tuning fork design can work quite well for a minimal shunting layout. You make an excellent point in that the lead should be able to hold a full consist for both siding. The sweeping curve leading to the turnout adds visual interest as does the backscene. Love the submarine pen - a nice touch of plausible whimsy! A simple but very interesting layout.
You could have your own model exhibition at this rate. Great stuff. Love the submarine base I hope you will find space for a little n gauge james bond on a mission
This is great! Reminds me of a local industry near me that makes plastic shopping bags, which is ironic because the local governments have banned plastic bags starting in January, which has 2 sidings, one for loads and one for empties. They pull the empties, move the loads off the other road and drop the loads they just brought up. It takes them a fair bit of time with no passing loop and can get complicated if one of the cars being unloaded hasn't been unloaded and has to be pulled and re-spotted.
Nice idea with the sub! While I was planning Shelvington, I was thinking exactly the same as you and having a submarine base, just like that Top Gear episode, simply because, like you, there was no where for a river to go and look 'normal'. Love it! Cheers, Andy
Another excellent video thanks Mike. The only reservation I have is that once the fun of building is over how long before the novelty wears off from an operating point of view. I have a layout that incorporates the 3 siding Inglenook shunting concept and have found that despite the large number of potential train formations it didn't take too long for it to become a bit boring.
Neat idea! I've seen others talk about this sort of layout, the "fork" or "tuning fork" model railroad. The ways to run them I've heard about are the "loads/empties" use of both sidings, or one siding but with multiple car spots on that one siding to make the work more complicated. It'll be interesting to see how this layout progresses.
Now that you mentioned building narrow-width micro layouts I do recall seeing an N scale layout plan built on a 6ft 2x4 plank, it was on a website called "Mike's Small Track Plans" or something like that. There's a bunch of other similar small-size N layouts on there if you want to check it out
At when I thought you couldn’t get any more creative you smash this one out! Have heard about this type of shunting but have never seen one running, let alone planned and built. Watching this with much interest!
Poor Mrs Budget, what's she to do since you've now chopped up her drawers for another shunting layout? 😢 You've no need to worry about getting enough BMR disciples Mike, you're a modern model railway hero with a cult following! Good for you and thank you 😊 Cheers, Dudley
Love this!! There is a whole "thing" about shunting with a single turnout that is intriguing. You could have a set of wagons; toss dice for their random starting and ending arrangements; then keep count of how many moves it takes to get it done. Also, a neat "improved" controller could simulate inertia by ramping-up to the set speed and ramping-down when you switch-off. You're using a Pulse-width-modulated controller, and it would be fairly easy to make this behavior. Anyway, it's amazing how real a simulation/model can feel if it behaves with a little physics. Blessing & Joy from Roanoke Virgina USA 😊💜
Dear BMR, interesting idea to do a 1 turnout kind of Inglenook. Love the way you incorporated the sub and its ‘secret’ penn. Think the angle at which you put the penn exit/entrance is a great example to create a more significant illusion of depth, even on such a narrow baseboard. On modeling in N scale, there’s of course the difference between the Japanese scale differential 1:150, the UK’s 1:148 and the rest of the world’s 1:160. Don’t know if Kato offers British models in 1:148. Or, for that matter if it truly makes a significant visual difference if one combines the two scale differentials. However, when the 1:148 and 1:150 are combined with the 1:160, that visual difference becomes indeed apparent. Will be cool to see this little layout in its scenic form. Definitely am looking forward to seeing your next episodes! Cheerio
Now that is something different! Really like the concept and curiously, being non-UK outline kind of helps as you can let your imagination run wild 😉 Nothing gets the attention of a young man in long trousers (holds hand up! 🙋) like a secret submarine base, so perhaps you could go a bit nuts and have a couple of tongue-in-cheek references like a bar called ‘The Henchman’s Arms’ or an evil lair over the tunnel portal 😄 Or how about making it a Soviet Sub complete with sentry boxes and an ‘information’ centre that looks mysteriously like a KGB intelligence building 😎 Whatever you do, it’s going to be excellent I am sure 🍀👍🍻
Gosh you pump out the work. This will be an interesting build and lends ideas for making it a small civilian fishing port. Doing the Nissan huts in low profile (two for the price of one) could free up some space. Cheers Stu
Nice variation. My Inglebook is 9" x 24" x 3/4" (22cm x 61cm x 1.8cm). Could be narrower, but am constrained by size of board (it folds out of a book) and 9V battery. Redoing my pop-up warehouse tonight (40mm high when up). Easily fits on a small coffee table.
Love it, "and a submarine". Well done Mike. I often wonder if all those subs moored up in Devonport are really mothballed, or just waiting? Probably better not to answer.
There were fascinating rumours around obselete kit, AFVs and aircraft, mothballed during the late 80s, and of course it turned out the soviets had mountains of old ww2 kit mothballed for the same reasons, even German stuff
Love the submarine base idea. Too much of the emphasis on railway modelling is realism at all costs, at the expense of fun in my opinion. I think Hornby were on to something with the steam punk range but the execution was lacklustre.
Nice idea to try. I'm curious to see the final result. By the way, good idea about the shunting tracks. I've found the same kind of idea for a terminus station while at work, before leaving. For the submarine, very original, I love it ! I share this military idea with you : for my mystery novels, I had the idea that, in the early 1970s, the Royal Air Force had developed and fielded Polaris nuclear missiles launchers disguised as bogie freight cars, that can be dispatched at will all around Britain using the railway network, to have a surprise deterrent in case of Soviet nuclear attack. USSR had done this with their RD-23 Molodets (SS-24 Scalpel). So, why not a Polaris in a freight wagon ? The Royal Navy had adopted this missile at the same period as a nuclear deterrent for the UK, launched from submarines. So, why not supplement it with a derivative launched from railway wagons ? That can be a nice model train project.
Great scenario, would make an interesting military train. It would need to be self contained, sleeping, eating, security detail. Perhaps copy the German ww2 idea of flat Wagons with vehicles that can be off loaded for specific tasks?
@@BudgetModelRailwaysI had seen it more like a disguised ordinary train, like the Molodets was. You put the missile and its launching ramp in a GUV-like coach, with an opening roof to erect and launch it, and you add a command post disguised as a buffet car, a sleeping car for accomodations, and so one... You can do it in the shape of an HST with everything needed inside. I also take the idea of flat cars with dedicated vehicles for specific military tasks, maybe not for nuclear missiles, but I will think about it. Thanks for the ideas !
The US had a similar idea for the Minuteman. Then realised that if they put it on Am-Track no one would know where the missiles were, including those supposed to launch them.
Excellent video and interesting comments about freelancing with Kato rolling stock and locos. I have just started out in N, and some of the prices of British locos even second hand are getting stupid. Do you loco bodies clip on and off a kato chassis? Was thinking of getting 1 chassis and just interchanging the bodies making it more cost effective. Keep up the good work !
Loving it! I'm getting strong vibes of Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth, or the underground storage pens by the Gunnislake branch, visible from the Tamar road and Prince Albert railway bridges! Or, indeed, a Thunderbirds secret base...Looking forward to seeing how this one goes.
