Maiden Voyage On My New HO Scale Model Railway Layout 

The Conrail locomotive is an old 1980's-1990's Athearn SD45. My very first Athearn engine was a Union Pacific SD45 #3600 that I bought around Christmas 1985. Previous to that I only had mediocre train set engines, and I was blown away by the weight and 12-wheel drive of the Athearn SD45. I put a lot of miles on that engine, and I still have it today.

It’s nice to see a trainer that has the problems we all have. Enjoy your videos. American in the Philippines.

Looking Good.

Just found this channel. Thanks for being here.

great work Scott you are a machine LOL THX FOR THE POST.😊😊😊👍👍👍👍

When you are ready to do the final installation, place the feeder and solders the joints. The loco that you mentioned is a EMD SD40.

If you solder the track connections (even with snap track) you will get better conductivity. I usually drop a power wire every 6 feet, even with a common DC power supply.

Looking good - well done.

When you get the track laid out and level make sure to solder the rail joints as this will prevent bad connections and power issues. Another tip is to lay under the table a main power line then every few feet or so have some power lines run up to the track and solder them to the bottom of the rail "Drop downs or feeders" if you will. This will make sure you have adequate power supplied to the entire layout. Once that is done and it takes very little time you are ready to test it all out then lock it all down. I use suitcase connectors for my feeders into the main power line to make life easier. Great start here you look to be having some fun soon enough.

SD-45. Nice!

Nice job, this is looking good

You're making progress! Just a little tweaking here and there and you'll be running full trains in no time. - Jason

Your Track plan is Perfect Love it👍

Great progress! You're totally mad laying it to take it back up but then you are a Scotsman ) look forward to the next instalment

Looking good, I guess you need to solder some joints, feeder wires , buss line would help with DCC , you are making progress

What a great feeling to have a train run the entire loop. Well done!

Very nice. Its getting there. Its always a good feeling to accomplish something on the layout. Especially having trains running

Looks great Dave. You are hauling ass. At 11:11 you have a left curve going directly into a right curve which is an S curve. You should try to get a piece of straight track equal to your longest car in between the two opposite curves to avoid derails. That Bachman Chessie sounds like the drive shaft popped out, a gear would usually have a high pitched noise.

If Sean Connery was into model trains I'm sure this is exactly what it would have sounded like. Nice video.

Cool layout, you have a great attitude and your having fun. Very enjoyable to watch and looking forward to the next video.

Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.

I Use Gorilla Glue as Well Good Call👍. The Lower level you could do a Dual Railyard the Design of Angel Wings. Then put down A Feed mill A Tanker line And a Factory for Box cars.then a Another Building for Gondola cars.

I, also just found your channel. I'm in the process of designing a new layout, surprisingly in the same shape of yours. You have been incredibly inspiring to me. I did leave you a subscribe. Thank you for sharing this.

Hey Dave, just off you live stream great layout so excited to see how you get on with the scenery. Going to be amazing I am sure.

Coming along nicely Dave!! Can’t wait to see the scenery and some more tracks laid down!!!!

When Laying Track You got Track to Lay don’t sweat it. You get done when you get done. If you want to Stay Dc and Not go Dcc your Call I am Dc And I’m gonna Stay Dc My wife Is the Same. We Run Dc.

Whoa! I used to have one of those Troller power packs back in the 80's. That looks like an Athearn Conrail SD45.

Really nice video to follow your work. We almost makes same type of videos. Very nice to follow your progress! /Susanne

If you're going to eventually go DCC maybe you should consider putting in you're track feeders when you put your track down permanently. It beats doing it after ballast and scenery, ask me how I know!! You"re making great progress. Good work.

Very nicely done. I have plans to expand my own HO scale layout, though I don't believe mine will be quite as large as this.

Coming along great! Pretty similar concept to what I'm working on so I'll be following this closely. It may be a non issue, but be careful with the spacing between reverse curves, you might have some derailment issues.

Will be fine once you wire in droppers maybe renew somw fishplate, but don`t rely on them for conductivity, hae you found what the drive failure is. I`ve had the plastic UJ fail, they split over time

HI Scott nice layout new sub take care.😊😊👍👍

looks great who says you can not use brass track i find it works great and way cheaper keep up the good work👍

I think your Layout will look Awsome when Done the Lower Ground level put down a Rail yard or a Few side tracks To out Cars To pick up Along the Way.

So chasing a bad connection on an HO train is like chasing a bad ground on a hot rod.... Looking forward to seeing the scenery.

looking good hope you dont have the same problem i had when i built my incline

Nice layout ., It's going to be a great project to watch. New subscriber. Thanks for sharing David @LCRR

Thanks for the filming of this layout. With your permission, I would like to build one very similar except mine will be either "N" or "Z" scale. I hope I can make the conversion work OK.

Great stuff there. Just at the same point in my own lay-out building. The 'Time-Lapse' sections showed so much about cutting cork for the track and the use of the Woodland Scenics Inclines. Good to see what my 4% inline will handle like. Getting the droppers in will take away a lot of dependence on the fish-plates; an aside is that if you've got a small set of pincers, enough to avoid the track but give the fish-plates a wee squeeze where needed...but that may be remedial now! One wee daft suggestion, one I've said to a few folk now, why does no-one use a 'nail punch' when laying track with pins? It lifts the face of the hammer 3" away from track, so no dings on the expensive new track. A great video anyway, and here's wishing ye the best in the build ahead! Great running session and I hope you can get the 'Chessie' back running in no time, mate! Keep safe now, Scott Rails. Cheers frae Scotland!

I'm watching your old video of the old layout when you were putting it together by the way got a great song from you by fury and I'm looking at your size of what you have built right there and your new rebuilt layout if only n scale wow plenty of room easy turns.. but we're all getting older HO scale is a little easier on the when you're putting cars on the I did my layout in engage for the fact of room but it is 4 ft by 15 ft and may have told you already going to be a co-op seen in the Canada area....

4%? You're not wanting to run to long of a train, uh? Nice simple layout.

That’s looking great! I read in your comment section in another video that you’re also a car guy…could you please post a link to that so I can follow along there too?

Nice job and lookin good!! Are you going to join the point to point to the mainline on either side of the layout? Keep up the good work! Enjoying the videos!!

Conrail sd40 dash 2

Did you ever make a track plan?

This is looking like a great start mate,I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a American ho layout,does it use the same PECO track as oo and same radius curves ?or do the ho locos require less radius due to been a small loco.also where’s a good place to buy the American locos in uk

What is the white foundation material ? Where can it be obtained ?

North American.

If I was you I would have made it double track all the way around then you would have the capability of running 2 trains opposite to each other...

Great video mate, metal music is not so great, personal taste🦘🇦🇺👍🏼😊