Making Extra Long Sleepers For The Railway Tracks 

I think that could work for the railway as it is now, but I'm hoping to make it much longer with many twists and turns, so it will need a different solution

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Geese on a treadmill?

@@bootsowen or the donkey

@@bootsowen I think you need hamsters for that.

there was about a 2mm gap by the end. Sorry if I didn't show that more clearly. I've no idea how big is should be though. I will have to measure things when if gets really cold

​@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Ah, no worries! It's a lot easier to be critical when you're sat watching the video after the fact... I think the expansion will depend on a lot of different factors, so a trial and error approach is likely the best way to getting the gaps correct if/when you run into issues later (:

Mild steel expands about 10ppm/K, so over 40*C a 6m length will vary by approximately 2.4mm. you're certainly within the correct area!

Thanks, Roy. We're getting there..

Maybe a strap around the middle will be needed

I think a simple piece of wire across the middle will work, but obviously put in before they're filled

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Aye, maybe with a turnbuckle?

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 Instead of wire, Just a strap of metal with a slot cut in both ends should work wonders. You have all of the off cuts from the plasma cutter and may have something in that.

(I think he meant things were more difficult due to covid)

@@epapuelvalve3250 "It knocked us out for a few days..." Sounds like they got sick with it :/

@@epapuelvalve3250 they did both have covid. They mentioned it on their main channel. 😊

Covid kills only 0.02% and is overhyped in the news

@@Bibibosh while it is overhyped, it still suck to get. Seasonal flu probably won’t kill you, but I’ll be damned if I wanna catch it

Ha! Maybe, if I ever make the loco : - )

Additionally, as a suggestion, there should be some way to “feature” the other channel on this one, and RU-vid will add a nice link on the channel page

I think I may have found the way to do just that! Thanks.

In fact it's eight wagons big!

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 That is even better!

Ingenuity is International, but in increasingly short supply! Les in UK

Exactly!

Thanks, Eric. Yes, it's difficult to know what's the best way forward and I couldn't find any official advice. So far this second channel seems to be working ok though

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 good to hear Tim! The only reliable info I have found on how YT works is from their official RU-vid Creators channel. I’ve stopped watching any of the ‘YT experts’ vids. BTW, YT now shows me tons of antique stationary single piston engine vids thx to you 😂 Eric.

I like the look of them too, Peter, but I'm not sure you can describe them as simple : - )

I would have thought a carriage frame - or a steel tube frame if required - with a lawnmower (or similar) engine, with chain drive to an axle with fixed wheels, and possibly chain drive to the other axle, would have it simply sorted. Les in UK

I believe he already did that once in a previous video

@@andrewreynolds4949 In that video, the angle of the frog changed. I'm suggesting adding about a meter to the length of the point being moved from side to side; whch will allow for a smoother transition where the diverging begins.

Thanks, SL. Still wobbly but not getting any worse

Who is this Douglas guy and does he realise his Fir is missing? Wood is expensive now in the UK - that is the reason I've been putting off building jobs, I'm waiting for the price to come down. I wonder how things are elsewhere?

@@VanderlyndenJengold It's the same across the Pond in North America, but from what I am hearing that the prices of wood is coming down.

I can see why wood is so expensive these days, it's not like it grows on trees

Thanks, Russell : - )

What’s the other channel?

@@zane1os ru-vid.com WAY OUT WEST with Sandra and Tim

By my calculations (which could be wrong), eight should fit in easily

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 when are you building the loco?

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 when are you building the loco?

Thanks very much : -- )

Well, why not!

Thanks, Norman. Yes that would work, but I'd need some sort of crane on wheels to lift them on and off, wouldn't I?

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 A bit difficult for me to explain in words because I am not a great wordsmith. So my concept would involve the warehouse rolling platform set at a height to just clear the top of the basic rolling stock height (on the rails and at that location. The rolling platform would be say 2/3 of the width of wood chip cage and the aim is during the docking process is that the rolling platform would enter ‘a gap’ between the wood chip cage and the rolling stock platform that once docked would enable the cage to be lowered onto the rolling platform. Still with me? So the rolling stock and or cage would need significant modification, with supports along the long edges but that will clear the platform. When empty the cage would be mounted on the rails in their ‘high’ position - but the rails are able to move from high to low by the use of cams operated by removable levers. So it would be in the high position when loading and once over the dock the cams would lower the cage onto the platform which supports the cage and allows the rolling stock to withdraw. Just sort of thinking out loud..🤣

Don't even need to take the rubber off the wheels. If the wheelbase is wide enough, you can just drive it outside the rails, just add a guide to the steering linkage to keep the front wheels pointed along the track.

Exactly. But I should have thought of that before I filled the first one.

@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 I'm terrible, I know. I think your Kleinbahn is fantastic, btw.

You're right - not much space for a path down the side, and not enough room for their feet in between. That's why I'm considering a loco

Thank you!

Me too!

Thanks - still recovering, but getting there..

Much more expensive..

Maybe cable ties or something like that would be cheap and effective to subdivide the squares? This is what I used to do a similar job.

Input *way out west chipper* into RU-vid search to find their videos.

Now he tells me! : - )

I was thinking the same. But that would indeed cost the space of one cart unless you wiggled some. Watching the current tunnel, I think you could even fit 3 tracks inside, but maybe it would cost less material to just exstend the tunnel.

Couldn't possibly afford anything else but the cheapest flat-bar. But I'm hoping that using more sleepers will give them enough support..