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Do you have list of brands for the supplies you use? Specifically road bed and flex track. It has been a few years since I have done any building. I lost all my notes from my previous train club in my last move. Very nice looking layout. I hope to start working on mine later this year. I don’t have as much room as you have.

Great minds think alike! A couple of years ago I installed a drop-gate on my N scale operation. I used a "piano" hinge that is as long as the drop section is wide and then two barrel bolts on the other end for security, one towards each edge of the drop section. That made sure that the two edges on that end stayed aligned. It's worked well for many years and it looks like yours will as well. Keep up the good work and I'll be watchin'!

Looking good

Have been following along with you on your build. Things are really taking shape now. You are making good progress. Will be waiting for your next update when you get back. Thanks for sharing. Have a good week. 😎😎 👍

So you might say youre on track😂

Following your progress from some time now, looking great. Can you show an entire picture of your track plan in one of the future videos? Thanks! I was sort of confused until this video how it was going to actually work, I guess the other room is an office, etc... and NOT part of the train room :)

I like that s curve with the big radius

Love your work and great to see some warhammer hidden away. My hobby room has hundreds of them along with the trains.

I found your channel a few months back, and was briefly disappointed by the fact that someone else already thought of doing an alternate history CNW, but we're far enough apart in era and location that it should be just fine. Mine is set in the late 1980s, and what makes it alt history is mostly the bold and slightly insane plan of revamping the Cowboy Line, extending to Salt Lake City, and merging with the Western Pacific to make a Chicago-San Francisco connection that is just slightly longer than BN's Chicago-Seattle connection, but should theoretically be faster. The changes are subtle, namely because I'm modeling an area that stays more or less the same feature wise, but still apparent. CNW's predisposition towards EMD power means that the C40-8s ordered in the late 80s in real life are a second order of SD60s, half of them standard cabs and the second half 'Triclops' 60Ms. They also order a handful of GP60s by trading EMD some mothballed WP equipment. Last and most interesting, Oelwein's 'last hurrah' as a locomotive rebuild shop, CNW acquired schematics and details of the CF7 rebuilds done by the Santa Fe, and rebuilds some of their Fs to the second model pattern. These were rebuilt in the late 70s and still saw limited local and yard service into the early 2000s.

As you know I am also a big CNW fan!, Are you familiar with or have you herd of the Illinois Railroad Museum they have an awesome Chicago Northwestern Collection of locomotives also home of the CNW historical society! Looking good keep up the great work! You inspire me.

Clever idea about using the fascia as a pattern for the curves!

If you're modeling the CNW as if the UP never took over there's a good possibility that those units had been repainted by the 2010's. UP tends to run everything into the ground and then maybe rebuild it. I think a little weathering makes everything look better but they don't necessarily have to be rust buckets.

Great CNW themed layout.

Hi. Great to see you're expending. You're a very good N scale modeler. Keep on your good work.

Awsome, just found your channel and subscribed, BIG CNW fan myself! Actually live in Mchenry County Illinois area and would love to do an opp session with you or maybe give each other help on our layouts, building 3" by 20 ' N scale layout myself.

Great work! The scale of the finished scene is awesome!

Excellent work! That fully scened shot at the end is terrific. You've come a long way from the last version of the layout!

Looks good!

Progress looks Awesome!!

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Rock on! 👍

A nice long video!!

So glad you’re back!!

The northwestern did have a super dome as part of their business train, former Milwaukee Road, then CN, then CNW, then NCDOT, now Friends of the 261 #53.

It’s always good to have friends with skills. Which always happens to be me. lol. One point for area modeled +1 Two points for the CNW +2 Bad news, being a bears fan -3 points! Go pack go! At least you do have green and yellow equipment. Have you thought using a more stable area to secure the track at section joints? You place a block of wood 2x2? At the same elevation as top of cork/ bottom of ties. Install pc board ties on either side of the joint. Solder rails to ties, cut rails. Now everything will line up. Google pc board ties for Free-moN it might give you some leads or ideas Greg

I worked for the CNW and have worked in Janesville and the Harvard sub many times. What department did your dad work in.

look forward to seeing your progress. Just curious, what area are you from? Not too often I hear town names from my area, like Janesville and the like, mentioned in railroading videos.

Very nice.

Hello Tim, hope that you’re still working on your layout! It’s been a few months since this video was posted. Eagerly waiting for an update!

Love these you should do another one!

I think you need to model a small Warhammer railroad!👍

I'm looking forward to following this. I grew up living to next to the tracks on the west branch in Winfield Il. I'm starting my 7th and final layout.

Looks amazing.

Where do you get your backdrops?

Sweet

Thanks for the video and the past history. I'm learning about US railroads and liked the context, as well as the 'what might have been' speculation.

Looking great!!

Hi, I really like the fact you are doing a large layout in N scale. I do a very different road in the Cascade mountains over White Pass which never happened. I have a N scale friend who has played a large influence on my plan both positive and negative. The plus is he very much enjoys ops and lots of switching. The down side is his stub end staging yards. Running 30 trains in an op session requires a long time rearranging trains for the next session. Therefore, I going with loop staging on the ends of the line. Since you plan on passenger trains, and they are powered on both ends, it may not be a pain to keep things moving during a session or between. The majority of my trains will be freight but they will be people movers, too. George Run8

looks good Have a Merry Christmas and I hope for the best for your family.

Cool video

Glad you’re back!!

Do the Evansville and Chemung trains exist in this universe?

Curious question, if this is based off the actual C&NW Harvard sub, will you try making things similar to current time? Like Harvard's real station, or is everything just merely fictional?

Nice work Tim! Mark did a bunch of Kato EMD F units for me this past summer in the old CNW freight paint scheme. He did a really nice job. I'm excited to see how Arlington Heights turns out. My father has lived there for the past 40 years and it'll be cool to see how you bring the village to life.

Repaint your SD45 in Traditional Yellow!

2 questions, did you make this and is this in the workshop?

I'm stuck in the mid 60s with Northern Pacific and Milwaukee Road around Spokane so I can add the older CP scheme as interchange. You are doing a excellent job on your road.

Are you on Facebook? I have a couple questions to bounce off of you for a CNW/Metra track plan that I have

Saturday morning just got even better !!

Progress 👍🤠👍

No baggage car?