Nice rounded update , have followed you for a long time now , love your shelf style layout , an you mentioned Boomer Diorama. You both are definitely my favorite YT MRR channels ... Hopefully we will see more on your ideas on the expansion peninsula. Cheers nice job , looking forward to seeing the next video , stay warm .
Ideas for the scrap yard: 1. You should add a few scrap cars. There are some model scrap cars that are aliened in a row that would look cool in the scrapyard. 2: what would also be cool would to have a semi that has a flatbed on the back carrying old rotted out pipes that would have been picked up from a construction site. 3: Old parts to a house that was abandoned in the 50's that was scrapped to be able to build something where it would have been. There are more things, but I am too lazy to type them all lol....
#3. How ‘bout an old house AT the scrap yard? It doesn’t have an office yet; and a clapped out relic would be just one more thing to piss off the Hoity-Toities at the Saddle Club. 😉Remember - Fred Sanford was cheap! 😏
You may try a spray can product called CRC 2-26 which is available in the USA. It is an electrical conductive spray you apply with a "wet" cork and wood block (glued together) and as you wipe it on you wipe off the cork every so often to remove gunk. When it dries it leaves a micro conductive coating on the rail heads. Will last for 6 to 12 months in wet/dry environs.
We have used WAHL clipper oil on our home layouts and the club layout, it is conductive and keeps track clean, you put a couple drops on the rail run the trains including cars over we haven’t cleaned our tracks in years!
I have enjoyed this layout for a while. I forget it is "only" a shelf layout in 1/2 of a garage. It always looks and feels so HUGE. Tнαnкs for the tour
close but its pronounced Knee-eh-toes which means grandchildren love your videos nice and non complex layout i love it thinking about doing something like it for my 15 yr old since he his kinda gettting into it. Ive taken him to a couple of train shows with me and he really liked the HO scale. keep the videos coming.
My dog is always also in my train room, shes called ,,tunnel motor,, right now im completing my curvo,utah n scale layout, 12 feet sq, i think im the only guy in south afrisa who is aware of such a place as most are ignorent, greetings to benjamin!
Sanford & Son needs a rusty old Ford pulling up. [Artistic license] Good ol' Fred still drives his original truck, nursing it along comes for a visit to see how Lamont is running things.
Excellent overview Rick! Your layout has given me a lot of great ideas to implement on my own switching layout. Really enjoy watching your ops sessions too.
It seems you can expand your layout closer to your hobby table/sofa. I would jump on that opportunity, although I’m sure you’re good with the size of your layout. I’m just starting the bench work of my layout. This and wiring is the part I hate the most about this hobby! I’m sure it’ll pay-off soon, though! Cheers!!
Hi, I use Inox too and as you say sparingly, I find I get a black build up occasionally, I polish the rails with a champagne cork, which fits across both rails. This seems to work for me, cheers, Peter.
Nice update, you know I have a wild ideal put a helix at the end of Huntington Beach just run the line down to the lift out bridge and that way you can have a longer mainline and space out the industries I know it sounds crazy
I think I've asked you before but forgot :). What did you use for the blue fencing on Sanford and son? Like some tissue paper maybe soaked in Matte Medium?
@@socalscalemodels LOL maybe I didn't ask, I think I would have remembered that. Good idea though, so many industrial fences have those blue or green things in them.
Rick, we think the same, I'd rather have a switching layout with challenges instead of an oval that puts you to sleep, and if I wanted to have an oval I would have bought a slot car race track! Once I get my layout up and running I've decided that one of the main commodities getting shipped out will be magnesium chloride for use in dust control in the warmer states and warmer months in the year! I'm always looking forward to seeing your next videos!
Dear Rick, watched your vids before, but then didn’t see how you did your backdrop behind the flats. Really love how you did the parallel road on the lower end of the backdrop, kinda ‘statically’ passing the flats on the imaginary side. Very cool how that adds to the perspective of depth. Cool layout, curious for your new addition!
Thanks for the tour. Love your layout. Would be happy with one that size if I had the room. Found your channel a couple weeks ago and watch it all the time. Keep up the great work. Love how you use street view to get your buildings. Never would of thought of that.
I really like your layout, been following your layout progress for a bit now. Appreciate you sharing, I have a separate channel in the works for my layout I’m finally starting, beginning with the room prep. Also into the stuff that goes boom, I used to live in CA for 41yrs, enjoy that hobby even more here in NV now, going in 10yrs.
Great track plan, and loved the wooded area concept. I really enjoyed your fences which you did not highlight but I noticed. Especially the blue view block. The razor wire also was interesting. Feature your fences in a future video. Very creative backgrounds and photo work adds so much depth in a small space. By the way, I’m local to you. Come visit our club in San Gabriel called the Highland Pacific.
Your backdrops are awesome. And the way you do it you make it sound so easy. But the way at all scales out into a dimin😅ishing view, it's all amazing. I think your backdrops are the number one item on your layout. If you were going to expand I could see you going to a second level. Now as you walk under/thru your lift up bridge to get into the middle of your layout, the back left hand corner is where I would put the helix just behind the backdrop that runs from your exterior wall up to the area that has the portal to get to your yard. I'd enter the helix cutting across the helix turning to the right. You'd exit the helix closer to the back corner into a wye, one line running to the right and the other to the front. Both lines have a return loop that could travel to the opposite return loop or get switched back down the helix. I don't know what additional actual railroad it could be, but you could really increase your switching possibilities.
great layout i notice you do not have any bridges for the trains to cross my 16x20 is the same way flat land with no bridges just a lift out section, i love your down to earth commentary thanks for an inspiring video.
Very nicely set layout, and very efficient. I have being following you for some time now and really enjoy your ops..\ I am also from LA and model UP and BNSF. I noticed a P59 on you top shelf which looks odd, blue and Orange. What railroad is it?
Thanks for watching! The P59 is an Amtrak anniversary that use to run up and down the coast from San Diego on up. Here's the real one: www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5358553
@@socalscalemodels Tanks a lot for the picture. I just set it as my backdrop picture on my computer. It is different for sure. Now, next question: When are you going to use it on your layout? You don't have to respond, just do it. Do you have surfliner coaches?
