Proud to be part of the test car crew!! Great progress and I love the clearance testing you did with the K-Line heavyweights. Reminds me when I was designing a big corner of my layout. But the flexibility you get from the tubular track really gives you a lot more options. Very cool!!
It’s a dangerous but important job that box car does! I’m glad I thought to check with those specific cars because otherwise there may have been an issue! And that would have been a bummer.
Make the power box a power station back drop maybe a subsation or run towers and fake cables coming from the panel box as a fake power station for a town near by, what a funny thought either paint or picture on the panel box I'm not sure but that would be neat
Coming along nicely Dave! As far as clearances are concerned my attitude's always been as long as they don't touch I don't worry how close the cars get. I've seen an old movie of a New York Central yard where the passenger trains were so close together it looked like you couldn't get a sheet of paper between the two! But hey, you do what makes you comfortable, it's your layout! Looking forward to the next installment!
Thanks! It’s not necessarily the distance between these cars that’s the issue, I want to hopefully avoid something I don’t have yet causing a clearance issue.
Excellent build Dave! It’s coming along very nicely. You’ve really got great ideas that you’re pondering with. In that open area, have you thought about having a working switcher yard? Adding some cool operating accessories like an operating milk car and platform, operating cattle car, operating horse car, operating barrel car, operating water tower, or what about an operating oil Derrick and oil field? The ideas are endless. An area like that could be fun to play around with a bunch of switches, and different accessories to play with too. Just another idea for you. Tom
3d print a false warehouse front for the electrical sub panel. Glue a door sized part of the warehouse to the door and make it so h panel is accessible
Very nice! The layout expansion is coming along quite swimmingly. You may find that if you put the O54's on either end of the curve and the O42's' in the middle, it may give you the clearance to run the longer cars without interference. That's how I do my curves, when I have to 'hybrid' them. Either way, I think that the expansion will be a great addition to the layout. An excellent video, as always.
Been away a few days up in the Poconos and also a side trip to Steamtown so I've missed a few of these layout expansion videos. Great job as always ! You're inspiring me to work more on my 4x8 and maybe make it a bit bigger as well. Thanks !
Good update, nice to see the thinking in the track design and despite the extra space that constrictions are still there in the choice of radius, it’s always a compromise
Great solution to a potential problem, Dave. Making the curve tighter makes the overall sight much safer and is actually, IMO, more appealing. Keep on movin'!
Nice to see all the progress you've made in such a short time, Dave. Judging from your ink , it looks like your a Jack Sparrow fan. Or maybe pirates in general.
I just got done watching your video I know you posted it maybe 4:15 hours ago but no it's pretty cool I just started my own new line on layout and I purchased a I purchased a 611 I do like your videos I love watching it I will when the money is right I want to buy one of your t-shirts
Looks like you are building a nice layout there. I wish that Manards quality was better. I actually prefer tubular track and I know a lot of it is available on the secondary market, still that source will not always be there and it would be nice to have a good source of new tubular track, Thanks for sharing.
Hello Dave how do you feel about soldering pieces together I've heard people doing it with the tubular track how much are you going to paint the background on the walls?
I 100% agree that for the price point of Menards track that you should expect some flaws. I am slowly working on a layout that's going to use Menards track on the lower level and have the same expectations! Progress looks great! 😃 👍
I can’t believe one would expect a product to be defective just because it cost less than another product. Would you buy a Toyota if it was to have features that were defective and accept it just because it is less expensive compared to a Honda? No I think not. Knowing something would be defective tells me to avoid it.
@@genemanno1533 well at a 1.25 a piece (in stores last time bought some) I can't complain. I've had no issues and have been very happy. I haven't had a defective piece yet but I expect it eventually. Also with all due respect I have had experience with Toyota and have had many problems and to top that, nothing is easy to work on if you do it yourself 😂 But back to the point, a Toyota is very expensive and model train track from Menards isn't. Especially in a time when a Coke cost over 2$, if I had problems with FasTrack at 7 dollars a piece I would have a problem but for track that is not made by Lionel I am very impressed. Also from what I've heard Menards is great for standing by their product and will replace any defective trains or track.
@@TrainBanditThen that is what I do, get it replaced by Menards. Definitely not accept it defective just because it was cheap. Toyota/Honda was just a means of making my point, glad you are satisfied with your costly Toyota. My opinion fast track is less than desirable.
@@genemanno1533 well then FasTrack is something we can agree on👍😂 Well it's not my Toyota but I've had a lot of experience working on it 😂 I personally like ram 😃👍
Your curves not looking right is due to the fact that menards measured the diameter from the center rail when lionel measured the diameter from the outside rail making the menards curves slightly wider i found this out while switching to menards curves on my layout
Everybody always says Menards stuff is ok because It was less money that really is bullshit if more people Sent there items back it would force them to do a Better Job. Just saying !!!!!!!!!!! “;-(“🚂
