OPENING THE GARDEN RAILROAD!! Spring 2023. Working great. Except for the huge flood... 

I tell u what boy, the Light at the End of the Tunel is an onrushing Freight Train! thanks again for the clip. perfect as usual. regards Wolfgang

Looks and sounds great . thank you.Have a great week

what a coincidence how it opened the day before narrow gauge day!

Looks great!! You couldn't have made that landslide look more authentic if you tried!! Now it just needs a "Beware of falling Rocks" sign!!☻

nice to see the layout up and running,, always something to do with it,

You have a railroad with a WOW factor.

Wouldn’t want the mine to fly away! I could just imagine, someone coming out onto their back porch for their morning coffee, and there in the grass is a mini mine shaft!

Thank you for the recommendation of the Prospector Hotel in Ely , it was a wonderful stay and the Nevada Northern Railroad was fantastic , so glad we went. Got to meet DJ and rode the train twice, the shop tour was a great experience , thank you again and we will continue to watch your videos to get more ideas for our garden railroad.

Like the idea of using the flaking off conrete as erosion.

I'm in the hospital this morning and still watching your work thanks again guys ❤

Fine way to end my Sunday evening Thank you

I feel your pain with the lawn work. I don't have a railrod outside, but I do have plenty of grass. Had one weekend of 80 degree weather, and got my first cut. Then the weather turned cold and rainy for almost two weeks. Got my second cut a couple of days ago and the lawn is already looking like I never touched it!

That really looks good. I can't wait to see you put a GoPro on that and running around the entire course.

Too bad your cement failed, there is a cement additive like white glue, but a bit different that is used to adhere new work to older cement, also you can get crack fixer in tubes for cement. The bridge is great and your mountain is coming along. Have a good day to you both.

"every piece of rail has a drop feed to the wire bus". Way to go, Dale. That seems like the only way to roll for track wiring in general. Great to hear that works outside!!! I'm living vicariously through you when it comes to MRR'ing at the moment, but I'm learning a ton for my future outdoor layout...

Never boring. Great lazy Sunday afternoon video. Looking good on the rails.

Thanks for the video

I thought the erosion and "landslide" added an interesting feature and a lot of character to the railroad. Looking good!

Never boring. Yes great to be enjoying the outdoors. My hubby is currently out cutting our lawn too, which is still a bit soggy. Don’t know if you know the crazy glue and baking soda mix. It might be the solution for fixing your cracks.

Go with a EGo mower and life in the backyard will get much simpler. No matter how thick the grass let’s it just rips right through it.

Watching the engine make its first pass through the tunnel sure brought out the boy in me!🚂🚂🚂

There is always a prototype. The San Clemente line between Orange County and San Diego is currently closed due to a rock slide caused by all the rain this year.

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Dear Dale and Karyn, amazing to once again see the garden railroad in action. Pity that, that particular batch of cement got affected by the weather. Cool idea to use the offshoot as ballast! Also very curious about the progress on the canyon, logging railroad and all the other projects! Cheerio

I am waiting to see what type of bridge you plan on using outside

Great to see a 'Run'. IMHO, #14 has a small mechanical problem, causing it to jerk. You might want to check side & piston rod clearances.

What, NO Caboose at the end of the locomotive on its 1st run of the season, Dale?! What if you missed a Boulder on the track, who is going to call for the crane to remove it? 🤔 LOL 😆!

Great video especially love the shot of the train coming out of the tunnel. Looks great guys. Thanks for sharing hope your having a good weekend.

Love love love, your videos! You should look into Ego lawn mowers they are battery and much lighter than gas.... I love my Ego so much I am buying another one cause we have 2 acres to mow in Oregon. Next one is a ride along mower... looking forward to more videos TC.

Lots of work to be done. You will figure it out. Great idea about using the erosion for ballest. Cant wait to see the next step in fixing the garden railway outdoor side. The 2 of you make a great team. GOD BLESS 🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖

It appears to me that your outdoor scenery is experiencing what actually causes pot holes in the street and rock falls in the mountains, a little water get into a tiny crack, expands and makes the crack bigger, etc. Solving that problem should be an interesting challenge. ;-)

looking great guys! we had a huge flood here in maine after our first big rain - had to take all my G scale tracks up. insane!

Great vidio, was out Sat. Running my trains too. Was thinking mybe all that foam is expanding and cracking up the cement. Thanks for the coffee...

Your rock scenery is like the childhood story of the Indian “Falling Rock!” Like what you have done with the pink insulation. Rail on!

Looks like you have a little work but it won't take you long to get everything done outside have fun this summer hopefully I'll see you guys in Flagstaff 👍👍

Just my opinion only but why not use pink foam board outside also you can do anything can do in concrete. Before I went battery op. here in Oregon I used the no-oxide trick on the track after the spirit clean. I'm sure you thought of all the same things. More time to run trains good job though.

Another great video 👍 alittle clean up but looks great 👍

Question: Is that a bridge at 14:00 into the video? It looks like the track (ties) are suspended in space without support. Suggestion use a wooden Howe Truss which can easily span that distance. Also add proper bridge abutments and wing walls. Also, recommend taking a course on concrete materials.

Great video! I love the part where your locomotive was poking out of the portal. Perhaps a postcard moment? I'm not looking forward to the heat of the summer, but we all know what's coming next. That's the thing with weather in the month of May. It may rain, it may snow, it may be cold, or it may be hot! Thanks again for another great video!

What an awesome hobby I know it’s gonna look awesome when you guys are all done with it although are you ever really done with it?😬👍🏼

MIX YOUR PAINT IN YOUR CONCRETE AND IT WILL ADD STRENGTH TO YOUR SCENERY.

I found Scotch Brite works really good it cleans but does not scratch up the rails

+ToyMan *Is a proper bridge retrofit an option for the track that currently deadends at the tunnel mouth?* The San Pablo and Tulare (now kept in land-bank status by the Union Pacific) built low wooden trestles over creeks and irrigation ditches.

You can run DCC anywhere, although I wouldn't, but its obviously possible, I would be more prone to trying Dead Rail myself!

Was the volume of your engines sound its normal volume? Or did you amplify it for the video? My question is simply wasn’t that loud enough to bother neighbors?

Hooray! That's great to see. And... is it me or is that engine really loud? When it was far away it's still seemed louder than you talking. 😂 Great stuff. My track is currently LGB and I didn't clean it for more than two years. I do find that once it finally needed a clean, it needs a clean more often. 🤷‍♂️ I do love my LGB cleaning locomotive though as it makes the task super easy,... but it's not suitable for all track types. Now.... back to killing weeds I go....

Is state street river coming back soon?

Plaster won't work, instead of Morter?

Hello, wondering video S always, the tracked used, is it Llagas 250 nickel right? Have you ever used is 215? The 250 is hard to get now and he doesn't seem to offer his aluminum or brass versions anymore. I am doing dead rail so really it is just a question of durability and your track looks and works great! Thanks for a great inspiring video

Do they make trains that are rechargeable battery powered? Then you wouldn't need to be concerned with electrical connections corroding.

Why not go battery powered and radio control or blunami? Pretty easy to do in large scale as there is plenty of room in the tender and locomotive. Here's how we did it back when I was in to garden railroading. All the steamers are battery powered and radio controlled. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CEkep26hvRs.html Doc Tom

I was wondering what the temperature is required for the heat gun to work on the foam board I have a 1000 degree on the hot side heat gun and I was wondering if it would work?

Is all of your rolling stock the same brand? If so, what brand?

Sawyer rezarle didn't hold up over the winter must be because of cheap labor

Speaking of railroads, where is the organization that allows one to driv and engine... for a price? Your flaking coment becomes very realistic rockfall - add color, maybe acrylic? Maybe you can dye or color the cement, spread it in thin sheets and then smash it up to make rockfall with color. Such a shame your patch of scenery went bad. In my travels across the US I not that not all rock striations are in level layers. Many of the gigantic formations are tilted and the lines of deposits are offset. owing to vertical shifting. That is a huge project, Will you make a skirt of stone or ?? to hide the pilings that support the outdoor track?

Hi Dale , I've been watching you channel for a while now up until this stage have never made a comment. I strongly suggest that you never use any abrasive material EG Brite boy or abrasive track cleaning block at any time on your track, this does damage your track . Yea I know there are some RU-vid channels that think its ok to use a Briteboy on their track ,this is complete BS and typical of misinformation that comes out. There is one particular fan boy channel no names no pack drill you may know that channel operates on their RU-vid channel in the basement with his buddies huddle around him . Unfortunately he recommends using this product ,and these practices are out of date and shouldn't be use "Rock n Roll". I have been using a product called CRC 2-26 its a electrical contact spray I use on my layout in an unsealed garage which does get a lot of dust and dirt for over twenty years, this product is used in the electronic industry. Just spray it on the wheels run the loco up and back , yes you will see some film on the track but that's ok you can wipe it off or leave it ,not to mention how much time you will save cleaning just let the loco do the work for you When you have finished your running session just apply more again do a run around and just leave it or you can also apply spay to a paper towel on a wood block and go over the track. I was recommend this product buy a a group of guys who where operating DCC exhibition layout and I've never looked back. Highly recommend this product and yes it works on DCC , hope this is of some help

Dale, Looks like you got your work cut out for you this summer !!! On a more sadder note, Did you know that Malcolm Furlow passed away this March of "Long COVID" saw this news in the March issue of Model Railroader. He was the reason I got into Narrow Gauge Modeling long before I ever heard of Bob Brown and The Narrow Gauge Gazette !!! A lot of people didn't like his style of modeling but I always liked how he went against the grain and did things his own way and how he saw things, R.I.P Malcolm you'll be missed.