Ballasting the Yard - Weekly Update UPRR Evanston Sub - HO Scale Model Railroad in Action s2023e43 

Thanks Daryll, its looking good, making progress one day at a time. love your layout

The wife is very important to a layout. It’s looking great as always.

That is cool, i think the tractor you want gone is the perfect size, there are big tractors all over for big jobs..

Man Darryl this is a masterpiece you are creating

Keep adding construction equipment makes it look really good 👍

Great stuff, the yard looks really good. Arizona Rock and Mineral makes a yard ballast that is a really dark dirty looking color if you are still looking for darker ballast. Don't forget all the railroad tie piles and discarded ties in the yard. Plenty of them around. - Steve

The layout is coming along very nicely . I really liked the MOW equipment with the port-o-potty. A cab view video sounds great.

Thanks Daryl ,another outstanding video to Cheer me up after I watched my Jets crash and burn again (Friday your time, 6.00am Saturday Aussie time. ) You have given me more ideas and help, Thanks look forward to the next one especially if you doing another cab view .👍🇦🇺

Looking awesome I enjoy seeing your progress can't wait to see Echo Canyon

Great ballast work.

Looks really nice, Darryl!!! It’s coming along really nicely…keep it up!!

Praise God, it was so nice to hear

Looks really good! You should consider dry brushing different colors on the ballast. I did that on my layout, It was quick, easy and exceptionally effective. Thanks for your efforts you share with us all! Scott

Very nice! yes, the engine facility looks much better. I think you will have some fun adding details, vehicles, workers, etc. I don't know about the UP in Evanston, but the BNSF in my area uses a lot of little Kubota ATVs for light duty around the tracks. You also need several of the white UP pickups and Suburbans. These have been made, but I forget by whom. Modern Ford trucks have been made by River Point Models - they can be a bit pricey, but a couple might make nice foreground trucks, with cheaper trucks further away from the viewer.

Love how this is turning out!! I do miss your n scale layout

Your layout turned out tremendous. I use hot wheels for the cars because they’re like a buck 18 at the store and you can get a lot of them for pretty cheap and they’re not too bad and size and they’re pretty good detail.

Hi Daryl, I remain in awe of your progress as ever 🙂 What are your top tips and tricks for keeping ballast out of the moving parts of turnouts as you ballast ?

I spent most of the week from the inside of a locomotive cab and a hotel room lol

Nice great video

Nice work! The porta-potty cart is terrific. My question would be, where do you have space to park a MOW train? Or would you just run it from staging to staging during an op session? :D

love it

You should put in to mow slideing tracks so you can put your rails an ties next to them

it’s been my experience just to glue the track down because the nails tend to pop up a little and catch a train. De rail or make it stuck

The layout looks great! Do you use spray cans for your two colors of the track painting or do you use an airbrush?

Great work again!! Do you vacuum the tracks after to remove what could be loose ?

wax paper works great

Looking absolutely amazing, im in the UK & just getting into the American Scene so ive subscribed. I'm learning alot from your videos, thank you for sharing. Im going to be basing my much smaller set up in the Santa Fe in the 90s just b4 the BNSF merger. Is yours based in the current scene or earlier?

That excavator is the right size, you clearly haven't been around them. They have many large size excavators that dwarf dump trucks. I'd leave it on the backdrop.

Get with Mike Buddy from the what's neat show he nows all those HO cars

Need to weather the concrete on the fueling pad

another Great video. I'm catching up. Is that track loader powered?

hello darryl & it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks darrryl friends randy thanks ,,,,, & i am enjoy yours video is cool and super cool darryl thanks friends randy

Detail to eye "less is more." Too much little detail piece, robs from watching layout operations. Looks really good seeing both levels train on them. Background photos are perfect level of clearity (sense of distance).

who makes theporta potty cart as i have blma portpotties i just need the cart

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