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Very creative and unique. I really like it.

Hey James layout looking amazing as always... I wanted to let you know if case you haven't already heard of this company called Model Train Technology that makes light kits for Kato passenger cars that don't flicker like the Kato light kits. They are not cheap but the result looks really good. I just had them installed in my Kato Hiawatha cars and it's really nice to have the lights work properly. Their product is a light board that goes the length of the car and has 8 LED lights evenly spaced on the board so the car gets lit up evenly.

Fantastic!!!

Still looks great James.

Excellent!

Nice train video 🎥🚂👍👍👍🛤️👌. Best regards Gert

Love it! You dd a great job - Thanks, John

Beautiful layout, love it, inspiring. Amazing how much you can do with N scale with a relatively small amount of space ... definitely thinking 4x8 and N scale for my future retirement hobby :-)

I think your layout is great because it's exactly the way you want it and will enjoy running it. And what's more important than you having fun building and operating it. I'm building my first layout, a 4x8 N scale too. Like you I don't expect my layout to be a museum quality, high tech, rivet counting masterpiece, but as long as I continue to enjoy the construction process, and enjoy operating my trains, I'm happy with it, which is what matters the most. Happy model railroading.😀

The illuminated passenger cars are impressive. Wonderful layout.

This is utterly charming. I really enjoyed the video. It is like the cycle of life.

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I have seen a lot of your layouts James and this one, I really like, but I cant copy it for my trains. I have 3 steam engines that require a minimum of a 15 inch radius or they jump off the track. I know...bummer on my part, but still I like this layout. I am working on a layout sorta like this one but using 18 inch and 15 inch curves and it is hard to do and make ends meet, but I am not going to give up on it. Keep making all your double cool layouts.

Im almost finished building N scale senic ridge while realisim is my goal , i find your layout to very interesting and excieting , the lighting is wonderful

Wow

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This Kato set is one of my favorites! If you want more NYC passenger cars in N scale, Intermountain makes beautiful cars with lights and grab irons(!) that match the Katos and cost about $50.00 each - when you can find them.

Very nice, James. It certainly deserves the "F" word -- FUN. There's a time and a place for exquisite scenery but there is also a time and place for just having fun watching numerous trains going around tracks. With the cross-overs, turnouts, and loops, you have added interest. You have truly embraced the essence of model railroading and that is to make it fun and make it your own. Keep it up.

Hiw to get the wire to the trun outs and I only have a n scale layout is what I'm putting together and trying to figure out on how to get the power

Hi James. Wow, do I have a lot to learn. Watched all the videos in this series and so helpful. Your layout is incredible! So I'm a first timer. Downloaded Anyrail and put together a triple track layout using Kato Unitrack. My question is, to get pieces to fit together it was trial and error, maddening actually, over and over again, until I got a clean connection. Drove me crazy. Sometimes I try every possible piece and they're still too short or offest. Is there a formula for knowing what tracks will connect? Or, better yet, is there a tool in Anyrail where you need to connect say, a diagonal. Something akin to choosing two open ends and auto connecting them together by adding the right piece(s). I feel like once I get over this hump I'll be on my way. Thanks!

Followed all your videos. Well done on this layout. Looks really good. Have a happy and prosperous new year! From Scotland, UK.😀🎉🎈🇬🇧

Jim, very impressive, and very busy. Any regrets so far with just watching trains go around and around? I’m putting together a 3x8 N scale layout myself, and trying to avoid the around and around look. The quality of your work here is top notch. Keep the videos coming!

Still, in my opinion, one of the most interesting layouts I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing this update.

Brilliant

Interesting looking project, YT recommended it. I really like the way you added the lighting.

James, thanks for the update, it still looks awesome!!

So cool!

I really like temprorary layouts. I'm think to make one permanent layout and include a small fish aquarium in it somehow.

It looks really good. I like how it's reminiscent of a real railroad, but still quirky and unique, and somehow, it just all "works".

Hi James. Firstly wishing you a Blessed Christmas. Jana here from Singapore. I’ve been following your performance track layout videos. So much so I went to Japan, Osaka to buy the tracks and accessories based on your 4by8 plan in December. I must say the investment was substantial. Question: Are your trains fitted with mobile DCC decoders as I see that you used Digitrak Evolution Command station? Or is your set-up DC only as I see you use Kato turnout switches instead of using tortoise machine or DS64 stationary decoders.

Very satisfying to watch

Very cool layout. Thanks for sharing and merry Christmas 🎄 🤙

Another fish keeper in both hobbies,cool

Very creative how you made your mountain, I think it looks awesome, around the eight minute mark when I saw it reminded me of that talking sorting hat in Harry Potter, the one that told the students when they first got to Hogwarts what house they are going into. Griffendor!

Really like your southwest desert landscape, I just started my N scale layout, was laying on the couch watching TV last month and for some reason I got the idea to start a railway. Decided that the dining room was the only place to build it, Garage would have been ideal but in the summer it's around 150 degrees in there. I just received the Woodland Scenic Ridge layout today, I didnt have a clue how to start the layout that I want to make and I came across it on RUclips so I ordered it, it will give me a start I ordered the Atlas track kit for it, still being shipped, going to return it and go with KATO. I hope you don't get upset as I might try to duplicate your terrain somewhat.

Like the layout a lot, but the water is too dark. It looks black.

This is absolutely wonderful! Thank you for using our Just-Plug System.

This is what the hobby is all about! Very awesome!

Hi James. Your attitude is spot on for a new railroader: do what you want, what pleases you. The ultra-realistic, meticulously detailed, complex layouts, that we see online are usually done by hobbyists who have been in model railroading for years, if not decades. They likely started out like you and I have. Every layout is a work in progress whether by a newbie or a seasoned veteran. We all learn new things from one another. We tweak and adjust and remodel along the way. We're not trying to build a Miniatur Wunderland, just something we can enjoy and be proud of. Go for it, James!!!

Beautiful layout James - very impressed. I'm still at the planning stage of my first N gauge layaout and found your video really inspiring - thank you

Hi, James. You should very well be proud of your layout. Quite impressive for a first project. I'm working on my first ever model train layout -- a 4x8 N scale. I'm at that stage you mentioned of having to take up my tracks so to start my plastering. It is scary. Your step-by-step descriptions are a great help to me. Thank you and enjoy your trains.

I ❤ your layout. Can you let me copy it? 😊

You won't have your layout in SCARM?

Nice

Nice work.

Do I do this for HO scale train layouts too?

Great layout, would you happen to have a track list? Cheers

looks way too 'clean' to me..

Hey James thanks for the track layout video….BTW would you mind letting me know where to get the wall led light in the opening ….. it looks pretty cool…..thx Peter

Seeing the whole process step by step is amazing thanks for sharing. It is definitely one of the best layouts I’ve seen. Keep up the great work.