So fascinating to watch the growth of your railroad and the creative way y’all build your landscapes. I am always just blown away by it and it really gets my creative juices flowing to do more of my own creations instead of just kits or already built pieces. Keep up the great work, be safe and happy railroading!
@@ToyManTelevision I have so many ideas in my head and I think I just want to look at pictures and try to scratch build it. I know it’ll be trial and error (probably a lot of error) but I think it will be more satisfying.
Looks awesome! You guys do such a great job! The cribbing and the sand house is phenomenal! Steve did a great job on the sand house! Still can’t get over how good the ties look! Love seeing the locomotives! Also can’t wait to see how Karen’s clock will come out! Have a great day! Take care!
AWESOME GOOD VIDEO VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE NEVER BORING ALWAYS AWESOME THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR SCREWING AROUND TIME VERY GOOD MODELERS BOTH OF YOU THANK YOU BOTH YOU ARE BOTH VERY INTERESTING TO YOUR SUBSCRIBERS THANK YOU. 🚂🚂😷😷👌😁📸
YOU BOTH ARE VERY GOOD MODELERS AND YOUR COMMENTS AND OPINIONS ARE VERY GOOD AWESOME GOOD VIDEO VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE YOUR FINAL LOOK IS AWESOME GOOD. IT SHOULD BE VERY VERY INTERESTING LOOK I AM VERY IMPRESSED WITH THIS PROJECT LOOKS VERY COOL . THANK YOU BOTH FOR THIS VIDEO AND SHARING THIS SCREWING AROUND TIME WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS I APPRECIATE IT AND YOU BOTH 👍👍👍😷😷😷🚂🚂👌🚂🚂JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA
Looks absolutely amazing!! You both are so talented! Love the cribbing. Starting a HO layout and have gotten so many ideas from both of you.. Your layout is amazing! Thank you for sharing all that you do!..........
As a kid I ran the carpet central in HO... then when I was about 12-13 my dad took me to the attic of my grandparents house to retrieve his Lionel O27 from the early 50’s... it had been up there for near 30 years just waiting... and it came on a 4x8 table made by a neighbor... I still have the table... And just a couple years ago I built a 4x4 layout and it was my first go at using roadbed and ballast... ground cover etc... built a couple bridges... it was a blast! Seeing your work is on a whole nother level!!! You guys are masters!
WOW! I really enjoyed this episode. My On30 layout has lots of tunnel opening and steep sides on the hills. I never though about cribbing. I think it will ad a great visual touch to my layout. I so enjoy your shows so much. I even got my mom to subscribe and watch your shows. I got her hooked, when I showed her your bicycle show. She has the same green bicycle. She bought it new and still has the box. Hers is in a display case under the tv. I'm a huge fan of miniatures. I enjoy you show things you have and places you go. Please be safe, but don't stop doing what you enjoy.
Wow, another great video. I knew that you knew Ed Dickens, but didn't know just how well. Ed has to be the ultimate kid living the dream of being a railroader. It must be assume to get to drive 844 and 4014, when ever he wants. This I know; once you get the smells and sounds of an active steam locomotive in your head, they never leave and you can't help loving them. I'm looking forward to more great stuff, especially your logging locomotives. ;-)
Very nice series of details to add to the line. My very best friend built his home next to a creek. Core of engineers were trying to concrete the channel but Bruce stopped them and won. His solution was rock filled wire baskets called gabions. Water could drain through and plant growth could as well stabilizing the entire structure. This was on Mission Creek in Santa Barbara. Bruce is blind.
Steve's sandhouse ,wow ! love the detail interior.I did not realise how big the coal tower was. Some fine work,you guys. Be careful with that burning styro ,toxic !! Stand outside or in the garage doorway,if poss. Tricky if it's not portable. I prefer to cut and sculpt. For a black finish on wood use india ink,not that stinky stuff.Take care and look after your health.
That is looking great. A trick Al used on his logging railroad for his cribbing was a forstner bit in a drillpress with a fence that was drilled the same as the bit with bit sticking out enough to make the notch. I don't know if you have looked at the intersections of the cribbing. All the ones I've seen have been pinned together with a steel drifts.
For your notching of the long logs get yourself a 1" drill bit , put it in your drill press and sink it down below the table of the drill press . Then take your logs and push them into the drill . You will have the right Curve on them to stack them and they will be rough as if they had been gone through a wood cutter . That is what we did and it worked out GREAT . We found the Sander would BURN the logs and we went through at lest 10 drums before we went to the Drill set up .To make sure it would all line up we build a jig with a piece of 4 x 1 and drilled 4 holes into it to put a peg in so we had four holes for the different spots to drill . WORKED GREAT and down the road if we want to build more we have a TOOL for that ...
Nice job folks . Years ago I mentioned to a fellow model train builder on using Kitty Litter . Well you guys confirmed my idea though not original but it works and looks authentic for the cribbing fill . The litter is $4.95 for 25-30 lbs and useful for many other intent and less expensive than the quart at $9.95 of medium grit ballast . I enjoy your videos and sharing .
So far we don’t see a down side.. several people have said it’s bad. Changes colors and so on. But it’s clay. Just clay. Dirt. Just don’t see a down side.
Amazing progress on the layout toyman!!! I would call my little layout at home nothing fancy, but I like to call it a work bench... the classic 4 x 8. My true layout is the columbia gorge model railroad club layout AND THATS SOME NICE TRACK!
the square cribbing reminds me of a retaining wall setup my dad and I put on part of my his outdoor garden railroad 20+ years ago. Instead of small square blocks, we staggered the layers. Where they overlapped, the crib members were drilled and large galvanized nails driven through (guessing around 6d). This technique was used due to the area it was installed was located along a curve. I do not remember what we put behind the cribbing to keep dirt from spilling through as the gap between layers was around half an inch.
Wow, everyone is being pretty productive. Nothing like staying at home to get our projects done. I know you were showing off your goose's (or are they called geese?) But do you have any rail speeders for your new model railroad?
Rotory grinders are available for shaping the logs. I have seen 2 sand houses in use. One was on the L&NW RR at Gibsland, LA and the other was on the Reader RR at Reader, AR. Both of them had screens at the bottom of the cones to let the dry sand of the correct size fall through into catchmets for collecting the dry sand. The tube you have for the sand to go into the buckets comes from the wet sand area not the dry sand area. Unless you have a drawing or photograph of the sanddrier stove, I remember the area for the screen to be smaller in diameter than you have depicted it. The sand drying house was where everyone would gather to shoot the breeze and warm up. I will try to find a photo of one of the sand drier stoves.
This is based on a model seen in I think the gazette. no idea what’s correct or not. And it had no system to blow the dry sand. But it had that “drain tube” dumping into buckets.
Well yet another piece of screwing around considering that there is a pandemic going on. You two are logged down again this week. I will be waiting for your next video Tuesday.
HI. Yup, stil in. Still locked down mostly. BUT getting a lot done. Strange times.... Im assuming in looking back the the layout builds these things will recall some really strange memories. STAY SAFE!
Seeing the sand shed, reminded me of the one we had in Cloncurry outside the Diesel Servicing Sheds. It looked like a boiler stood on end, with a funnel at the top and a chimney pipe that ran through the roof( to let the smoke out) down through the middle of the barrel to the firebox at the base. Around the chimney was a spiral so the Cleaners and Labourers would shovel sand from the bunker (which was outside the shed, sand being brought to the Depot in special designed wagons and allowed to flow into the bunker) into the top of the sand dryer and as it cooked it would flow by gravity to the base of the dryer, where a Shute was opened and compressed air used to blow it up into the sand tank on top of the sand spider. Unfortunately, I didn't take any photos of this before the majority of it had been dismantled... and Yes Ed is absolutely right, the Steam era guys would hide in the sand shed on night shift during winter as it was the best place to had a sleep.
@@ToyManTelevision i will try see if there are any inadvertent photos that show the Service shed, and I will email them to you. Cloncurry is a town 8.5hrs drive west of Townsville in my state of Queensland. It was one of the first steam depots to Dieselise. Diesels being introduced to the Queensland Government Railway in 1950 a 90t GE product with a Cooper Bessemer Engine. Your layout is coming along well too by the way. Oh I came across a shay loco that was plinthed near Toowoomba just the other day. A bush tramway used to exist near Hampton.
The sanding tower looks dainty next to the coaling tower - looks great though. I know you're not short of projects and Karen's a dab hand with the room dioramas (amongst many things) but have you tried doing a book nook? I'm currently doing one for my granddaughter - shhh - she doesn't know about it! ;-)
Oh gee... first it was “nesting” and now it’s “cribbing”...🤣, But seriously... Why back in the day did they need to build this elaborate sand tower instead of just a simple conveyor belt that could lift the sand up and into the locomotive?
