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Very inspiring for me, a total beginner that doesn’t even have a train or supplies yet. This is going to be my new adventure after learning gardening last year and then maybe bonsai. I’m very interested in scenery, wanting to have a train run through the house with each room being a different scene from around the world where my kids can make any scene they want at their “stop” and then a moveable Christmas village for that time of year in our living room. This was very easy to follow video and makes me feel more confident getting started in this crazy saturated market of information. Also watching tiny wars for their battlefield scenes etc. Thank you and on to the mountain scene you mentioned!

Definitely need a trustle bridge on my layout...the question I have is, how did you construct the center support part of the bridge. The trustles are straight forward and if one makes a jig for the uprights - like you did, the rest of the bridge magically comes together but it's that center support I think I can safely sagy that everyone who's never built a trustle before, a thorough step x step would be GREATLY appreciated!! BTW, use India ink to stain the timbers, it really adds a realistic weathered look

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This is just a great video. I am new to the hobby, and you did an excellent job explaining and showing everything. The section on the legs for the tables really helped me. Thank-you!!

It was very reassuring to see that you made a mistake!

Great video…gotta lot of tips for completing a water scene on my layout

Very nice! Made that entire area 'pop'.

Looks great! Saving this video for when I do my creek. Mine is not as long and more desert so less water but you definitely covered the basics for me to follow. Thanks for another great video.

Ben, that was a very nice project and it turned out very well. I enjoyed following the steps and seeing the progress of your work. A layout is never really finished, is it?

I used to scratch build R/C model boats and when staining multiple pieces or parts.. I used to pour the stain into a small flat oven tray/aluminium roasting tray and lay the item into the stain let it sit for a minute or so then remove it or turn it over if I didn't have it deep enough to cover the whole piece... it makes for a quicker and easier process other than painting each piece with a paintbrush and I was able to do something else while this was happening... Your Trestle bridge looks fantastic. I will be making something similar for my layout once I get to that part of the layout.

[thank, you for you're helpful video]👍

Great job, looks great on the layout

Still an inspiration! Reason being, it shows you can make a mistake and fix it without ruining the whole layout! Looks great, by the way!

upside down roadbed, im gonna use that excuse next time wife ask me not to spend so much time in train room😚...Nice layout nonetheless, glad ya sorted it out.

I'm in the early stages of planning a scratch built wooden trestle for my layout. This video was extremely helpful! Thank you!

that bridge is a masterpiece, great job sir.

This video is legendary. Very appreciative of the fact that you included the specific materials list. Thank you!!!

Marx guy here, at 76 I `ve only been R/R for three years. After viewing Benz Trainz, I dug out of the attic my Dad`s Lionels that were in storage since 1960 and began cleaning and lubing. He had three engines, six cars, his own hand made buildings and bridge that I value, and considerable track. I got the Marx vintage tin bug, thanks to Benz. To date I`ve built a dozen custom Marx loc. from E-bay parts purchases. Now I`m working on video train runs with 1940s-50s big band background music. Your`s is an outstanding layout, it doesn't need improvement, just don`t run the loc. too close to the table edge.

Enjoy the videos very much. I suggest a small stream with rapids and lots of rocks. From the looks of what you showed there now it shouldn’t be too much of a change and it would give you the opportunity to add a fishing camp, an old mill or anything related to a steam that could had been bigger at an earlier time. I am sure regardless of what you’ll do it’s going to look great. Good luck

Very nice layout Ben. I'm enjoying your videos, thanks for sharing.

That bridge is great, it is a center piece.

Very impressive layout. TIP: When you make your train move, watch the speed. Trains don't move very fast. The speed you select should be to HO scale too. Great display though!

I like your Whispering Springs and Gold Pond. The product you used for both made it so realistic. Thanks for sharing.

It’s more fun and rewarding to build something on your own..thanks for sharing…

wuaoooo congratulations

Hi thank you for sharing your video, I took lots of photos of your trestle bridge, I will be building trestle bridges for my N, OO, and G, gauge, I cant wait to get started, once again thank you and your bridge is awesome

Like the attention of moss etc and that its not a repetitve rockside it looks semi organic like nature may do

Wow those trees look fantastic ❤

Borderline giving me movie prop vibes. Just waiting to see something explode 😂

I totally feel if i got into the hobby scene making would be my primary focus. But same time the train part would get me lost fast. But as for creating a re creation or a dramatic scene would be my goal. Love that you shared a piece of yourself 🎉

What a wonderful voice 🎉❤

Ben, I just discovered your channel and have been watching your videos. I'm not very well "versed" in how to use RUclips so please accept my apologies if I'm doing this wrong. I'm working on my second (and probably last) layout after retiring. My first layout was over 50 years ago and what fun it was! After "re-starting" my hobbies I realized quite suddenly that it's "not quite like it used to be". Hobbies seem to be a thing of the past. Anyway, I'm going to fill a 3 foot gap on my layout and you have a video that is exactly what I'd like to do. I have two mainlines running side by side. To make a double track, do I simply widen the deck or is there more to it? I know prototype trestles would require more structure. Do I need to do that on a trestle like the one you built? Thanks for your exceptional videos!

its very nice looking but covered railroad bridges usually are a bit taller and have more trusses like a town lattice or double lattice but over all, you did a nice job.

Plaster cloth is all the same basic product so find the cheapest and use that, it's all basically the same... You made a mistake so why not edit it out and re-shoot???

Kudos! Very informative indeed.

Really nice job - I just watched all the videos. Very cool seeing each scene come to life. I thought the pace and the detailed camera work was really great for somebody who needs to know the details of the hobby from start to finish! Unfortunately I don't have the space for something like this but it is really cool to watch the entire process. Thanks for the time and effort you put into this - and great job!!!

That makes a nice, clean looking layout. Excellent work. Now on with running your trains👍

A couple questions did you solder each section of track and are just running DC power. right now my track is flat, but want to put in risers. I have a lot of brass track with some dating back to 1958 when I got my 1st HO set. The current track down is grey power-loc, I have some steel and silver nickel, I inherated my old trains from my younger brother just before he passed away from cancer, plus what he added.

I love these videos that are by real people not trying to make a buck. You’d think by now people wouldn’t take 3 minutes of video telling me to like and subscribe.

great job on the trestle bridge. Ben, I have made my project based on your tutorial, it was a great help. Thank you and best regards

Very creative! Nice to see you back at it, Ben 🙂

Wow, that covered bridge looks awesome. Nice work Ben! 😀👍

The main 'rounds', the dowels, are called posts or pylons, or pilings. They are pile-driven into the ground until they resist any further driving. The angle the outer pairs have on each side of the frames is called 'batter'. The angle of the outer posts would typically be between 24 and 28 degrees from vertical. The frames, with five or more posts and sway braces, are called 'bents' or 'bent frames'. The top beams running across the tops of the bents are called caps. The stringers run along the major axis of the tracks and supporting decking. Below them, also running that way, and supported by the caps at each piling/post height, are 'girts'. Finally at the very bottom of the structure, is what is most often a 'mud sill'. It's simply treated, robust, timbers embedded into crushed rock and soil, and that is what supports the entire structure. One mud sill under each bent, except where pilings are driven 10-15 feet into the ground.

Very nice resource, and very nice product. A gentle correction, if you don't mind: the first part of the name of the wood rhymes with the common name for my backside.

Very nice! I am new to your channel and I just subscribed. Awesome layout! 👍

Love this your an artist

Great work you are amazing

Love it

Love your videos

Great job brother