I love watching and listening to the details of your building on your railroad. Your attention to detail and just everything. One of my very favorite things is your and Karen's lovely relationship. Take care of your cold Dale. 🥶
Thanks for all the great ideas building the tunnel portal. Will look for some of that foil wrote it down so I don't forget. Excite for the next step in mortar does and don't. GOD BLESS 🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖
Great instructional presentation making it idiot resistant for people like me. Thanks for telling us where to get items that were not designed for model railroading but are essential for a professional job.
The snow may slow down progress but it sure made for some beautiful pictures of your outdoor railroad! Love how the Cinefoil works to create the tunnel's interior "rock" walls.
Never boring! Not only did I enjoy this video, more than most, I also learned something and got two great ideas for my train scene. Thanks so much Dale. 👍👍
@@ToyManTelevision Not sure if you were asking for an idea or just commenting. In any case your portal gave me the idea to build one for my diorama. Maybe I could build one side with wood and the other with stone to look like it is going through a mountain. I would love to recreate the Telachapi Loop.
Great vidio guys, squarle defense, run a couple a loops of wire around the opening and a 12vdc auto light in circuit . you get a magnetic field and most animals wont naturally cross cross the hole...
The key to double stick tape is knowing when to use it and when not! This is the best double stick tape I’ve ever come across and when it’s used appropriately, it’s brilliant
Great idea using the fence slat to make timbers for the portal. Another great source for weathered wood if you've not explored or tried it is wood pallet skids. Some are made from a low grade oak which I've found work great for making timbers, slats, boards and sheathing. And the best part is usually you can get the pallet free. You just have to sort through the pallet stacks to find the oak ones. I made my avelanch snow shed and a trestle I use to display locomotives. Just thought I'd share that little source since I saw you doing something similar. Keep up the great work fabricating all the bits and pieces!
I use a lot of old wood. The trick is it needs to be good enough to cut and use. I have a bunch of dowels I left out in the yard years ago just to weather. They are the power poles on the inside part of the railroad. Real mold!! And yes it looks good!!
Thanks for sharing a great video you guys are awesome have a greatly weekend. I have that same table saw or at least looks similar and I like it I got it at harbor freight.
I’m amazed with both your creativity. I can’t wait to see more updates on this tunnel. And hopefully trains running. But yea, as we’re in the middle of Winter now’s not a good time to update this project. But you could fix some of your model trains. Karyn is doing great with her R. Duck caboose featuring the recently passed away Dirt the cat. Please do a garagemahall video on that caboose when finished.
You're doing a magnificent job on this outdoor project! With everything seemingly going so well, I am looking forward to seeing the finished results. I wanna see when your trains running on the outdoor railroad...that will be neat! By the way, in this particular video, you whet my appetite by showing my weakness at 15:26. 🍟🍟🍟 😋 Fries, is this what you snack on while working on your outdoor railroad? I spotted some unfinished fries in the portal. Fries are my absolute weakness! I had to go find me some after watching this video. Anyway, keep up the "excellent" work! Everything looks GREAT so far! 👍😉
Excellent work as always! I learn a great deal from these videos. What is the name of the roofing material you use as a base? Thanks for the education (and entertainment).
Lived there for two years. Incline Village. Best of times.. worst of times. Anyway 4 feet of snow at one point… oh Donner…. There’s a reason why it has that name and reputation.
Dear Dale and Karyn, awesome tunnel portal! Love the way you made the pet-safe door fit to your ‘tunnel-door’ purpose. Very interesting how you did the inside of the tunnel. Absolutely agree it’s important to line such an opening with both insulation and a permanent cover. Even though it’s located inside the wall portion, one can imagine it still has to withstand the outdoor influences. Just wondering about the trackbed transition from outside to the inside; did you put it on slight grade up into the building? If not, do you consider to add a tiny ‘barrier’ parallel to the sleepers to keep moisture out? Oh, and I’m aware this one will be for next week; on adhering to the EPF or EPS. A first coat of outdoor and weatherproof cement based tile glue with some sand added will form an excellent base to put your mortar on. Even though the mortar will also grab on the foam, such tile glues tend to stick better. Plus they form a watertight layer. Thus your sub-structure will be better protected. Even though EPS or EPF is a kind of closed-cell insulation, which keeps out water all by itself, it might be worth it to protect the different glue layers. Looking forward to your next episode, cheeerio!
Hi. Yes grade right into the wall. Water runs out. As for the tile glue… may yet try that. Some failure in plan A. And B. But C seems to be working. Show that next week. Daniel Smith who builds outdoor railroads loves the dog door and in order to avoid calling it a dog door as given it a much better name!! Guillotine door!! I love it it’s very expressive and sounds important and dangerous. And it’s generally much more impressive than dog door. So, from this point on this type of door will be referred to as a guillotine door!
This is really looking great! But gosh has that pink foam board gotten expensive! My local Lowe’s (in Orange County, CA) is was $53 for a 4x8x2” board - wow! Woodworkers often use this as a sacrificial base when cutting down plywood rather than trying to balance it on two sawhorses as it is more stable and doesn’t effect the cut when using a circ-saw.
Awesome job! I'm new at this, so bare with me. What dimensions did you use for the timbers and overall portal size. Any light you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Well I’m now building a trestle. Same size for the large Timbers. 5/8” square. Or 12.5” in scale. The planks are 1/2” tall. About 1/8” thick. About 10” tall in 1/20 scale. Some trestle Timbers are 3/4” square. Or 15”.
Oh… we have colds. Or RSV. Or? Anyway the minor things that come along in the winter. Great excuse to drink hot coffee (don’t really need an excuse for that…) anyway all good.
It’s fine. I still could but generally it’s fine. It times ice forms around the track and then I can’t run. But 90% of the time all I need do it clear the snow.
Dale, love the Inside portal shot with the hanging rock-work and pine tree, it reminded me of a old company who sold Model Railroad Art Work called 'Cliffhangers".
I love watching and listening to the details of your building on your railroad. Your attention to detail and just everything. One of my very favorite things is your and Karen's lovely relationship. Take care of your cold Dale. 🥶
Thanks!!! Boy we is having a time. Chest cold. Probably RSV. But this too will pass.
Cool modeling of this for the tunnel. You have a cool layout.
Thanks!
The end result looks neat, well done.
Thanks!!!
At last, thank you! Video is all I hoped for. Looking forward to the future installments.
Thanks for bearing with us!!!
Thanks for all the great ideas building the tunnel portal. Will look for some of that foil wrote it down so I don't forget. Excite for the next step in mortar does and don't.
GOD BLESS 🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖
Thanks!!!!
Super cool!
Hi!!! Thanks!!!
Thank you guys! So interesting and wish I had that kind of talent. But I enjoy seeing you guys use yours! Take care and happy Sunday!
Hi Tom! Thanks as always.
Great instructional presentation making it idiot resistant for people like me. Thanks for telling us where to get items that were not designed for model railroading but are essential for a professional job.
Some fun products. That black wrap works for lots of things. And fast cap too
What a great idea for the tunnel. Fascinating the way you did it. Excellent!!! Genius using the doggy door. Great idea!
Hi again!!!!! Thanks. Lots of thought. Worked as planned. Odd. It usually doesn’t
The snow may slow down progress but it sure made for some beautiful pictures of your outdoor railroad! Love how the Cinefoil works to create the tunnel's interior "rock" walls.
Yup. Yup on the photos and on the Cinefoil
Sunday Foist watching another great video.
Hi again!!!
Nicely done, looks great! 😊👍
Thanks!!!
Yaaa I’m so happy I loved what you did with your layout
Thanks!!!!!
Lookin' good so far!
Challenging. Some things fail. Some things work the second time… many work as planned.
Looks great. Lots of fun
Thanks!!
Lookin awesome 🚂🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks!!!!!
Thanks!!!
Never boring! Not only did I enjoy this video, more than most, I also learned something and got two great ideas for my train scene. Thanks so much Dale. 👍👍
Ideas!! I love to get hit with inspiration!
@@ToyManTelevision Not sure if you were asking for an idea or just commenting. In any case your portal gave me the idea to build one for my diorama. Maybe I could build one side with wood and the other with stone to look like it is going through a mountain. I would love to recreate the Telachapi Loop.
Great show and beautiful solution!
Thanks!!!
Very cool 😎!
Tunnel's lookin' good!
Great vidio guys, squarle defense, run a couple a loops of wire around the opening and a 12vdc auto light in circuit . you get a magnetic field and most animals wont naturally cross cross the hole...
I’ve tried some things. But only a door seems to work. They are relentless. 😮
For fun you should paint the inside of the tunnel on the door in Loony Tunes style!
And Wiley coyote splattered in the center!!
Thanks for the FastCap link!
The key to double stick tape is knowing when to use it and when not! This is the best double stick tape I’ve ever come across and when it’s used appropriately, it’s brilliant
@@ToyManTelevision You should do a little sub-piece on that - when to use & not use. I think a lot of people would be interested in when why where.
Great idea using the fence slat to make timbers for the portal. Another great source for weathered wood if you've not explored or tried it is wood pallet skids. Some are made from a low grade oak which I've found work great for making timbers, slats, boards and sheathing. And the best part is usually you can get the pallet free. You just have to sort through the pallet stacks to find the oak ones. I made my avelanch snow shed and a trestle I use to display locomotives. Just thought I'd share that little source since I saw you doing something similar. Keep up the great work fabricating all the bits and pieces!
I use a lot of old wood. The trick is it needs to be good enough to cut and use. I have a bunch of dowels I left out in the yard years ago just to weather. They are the power poles on the inside part of the railroad. Real mold!! And yes it looks good!!
Hello from Kansas🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing a great video you guys are awesome have a greatly weekend. I have that same table saw or at least looks similar and I like it I got it at harbor freight.
Yup. Works well. Not as good as a real table saw but not $1200 either!!
Love this update!!
Thanks!!!!
Looking Great!!
Thanks!
I’m amazed with both your creativity. I can’t wait to see more updates on this tunnel. And hopefully trains running. But yea, as we’re in the middle of Winter now’s not a good time to update this project. But you could fix some of your model trains. Karyn is doing great with her R. Duck caboose featuring the recently passed away Dirt the cat. Please do a garagemahall video on that caboose when finished.
we will follow up for sure! Thanks!
Thank you very much.
You're doing a magnificent job on this outdoor project! With everything seemingly going so well, I am looking forward to seeing the finished results. I wanna see when your trains running on the outdoor railroad...that will be neat! By the way, in this particular video, you whet my appetite by showing my weakness at 15:26. 🍟🍟🍟 😋 Fries, is this what you snack on while working on your outdoor railroad? I spotted some unfinished fries in the portal. Fries are my absolute weakness! I had to go find me some after watching this video. Anyway, keep up the "excellent" work! Everything looks GREAT so far! 👍😉
Oh fries! We shouldn’t. But…… but….. burger and fries. French? French fries? Naw. I lived in France. Them things are American.
What! No roll up door like the Moffatt tunnel? Nice work!
Same idea though 😀
I'm freezing!
No way to run a railroad. Er… not time to… okay. This is not the time to be running a railroad. Accurate but boring.
Excellent work as always! I learn a great deal from these videos. What is the name of the roofing material you use as a base? Thanks for the education (and entertainment).
Not sure… isle one at Home Depot. Get the guy to lift it because it’s really heavy. Their basic rolled roofing. In tan. Works great!!
Oh wow that's neat yeah I'm stuck in Nevada near Reno i-80 been closed since yesterday
Lived there for two years. Incline Village. Best of times.. worst of times. Anyway 4 feet of snow at one point… oh Donner…. There’s a reason why it has that name and reputation.
Here in Cheyenne Wyoming we might as well be in the Arctic Circle with the cold snowy days we keep having every couple days.
No kidding. We are hitting around 8° at night. Not as bad as there.
Lots of work! But the results speak for themselves.
What was this? 6 or 8 months in the making?
Well… the summer passed. I crammed as much as I could into August and September knowing snow would stop everything.
Dear Dale and Karyn, awesome tunnel portal! Love the way you made the pet-safe door fit to your ‘tunnel-door’ purpose. Very interesting how you did the inside of the tunnel. Absolutely agree it’s important to line such an opening with both insulation and a permanent cover. Even though it’s located inside the wall portion, one can imagine it still has to withstand the outdoor influences.
Just wondering about the trackbed transition from outside to the inside; did you put it on slight grade up into the building? If not, do you consider to add a tiny ‘barrier’ parallel to the sleepers to keep moisture out?
Oh, and I’m aware this one will be for next week; on adhering to the EPF or EPS. A first coat of outdoor and weatherproof cement based tile glue with some sand added will form an excellent base to put your mortar on. Even though the mortar will also grab on the foam, such tile glues tend to stick better. Plus they form a watertight layer. Thus your sub-structure will be better protected. Even though EPS or EPF is a kind of closed-cell insulation, which keeps out water all by itself, it might be worth it to protect the different glue layers. Looking forward to your next episode, cheeerio!
Hi. Yes grade right into the wall. Water runs out. As for the tile glue… may yet try that. Some failure in plan A. And B. But C seems to be working. Show that next week. Daniel Smith who builds outdoor railroads loves the dog door and in order to avoid calling it a dog door as given it a much better name!! Guillotine door!! I love it it’s very expressive and sounds important and dangerous. And it’s generally much more impressive than dog door. So, from this point on this type of door will be referred to as a guillotine door!
_"Either that, or it's a model for the Sierra Nevada."_
_"Well, that too."_
🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
This is really looking great! But gosh has that pink foam board gotten expensive! My local Lowe’s (in Orange County, CA) is was $53 for a 4x8x2” board - wow! Woodworkers often use this as a sacrificial base when cutting down plywood rather than trying to balance it on two sawhorses as it is more stable and doesn’t effect the cut when using a circ-saw.
Hum… I see where that would work.
And yes!!! Expensive!!!!!!
Awesome job! I'm new at this, so bare with me. What dimensions did you use for the timbers and overall portal size. Any light you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Well I’m now building a trestle. Same size for the large Timbers. 5/8” square. Or 12.5” in scale. The planks are 1/2” tall. About 1/8” thick. About 10” tall in 1/20 scale. Some trestle Timbers are 3/4” square. Or 15”.
Did you get a new Microphone, voice sounds different.
Oh… we have colds. Or RSV. Or? Anyway the minor things that come along in the winter. Great excuse to drink hot coffee (don’t really need an excuse for that…) anyway all good.
@@ToyManTelevision that explains it lol, hope you two get well soon.
Dale, Who made the figures you use on your layout?
Mostly Ozark Miniatures. Some I make or modify. But mostly Ozark.
@@ToyManTelevision They don't make O scale Figures, To Bad!
It might be to late but I thought of a way to automate the 'critter door'. May I send you and email about it?
Oh it’s fine. So easy to open and close. 10 seconds and we are running. Leave it open until time to leave.
@@ToyManTelevision I saw your reply after I sent the email. Sorry 😞
@@Conn653 all good!!!! I’ll take a look for sure!!
If only I'd thought of running heat tape under the outdoor track before now, I'd have suggested it a couple years ago. Sorry.
It’s fine. I still could but generally it’s fine. It times ice forms around the track and then I can’t run. But 90% of the time all I need do it clear the snow.
Here’s another piece of interesting railroad history! ruclips.net/video/Kv4yZA80LdY/видео.html
Thanks!!!
Use chicken wires before you apply the cement.
I’m using a fine mesh I’m places and cheese cloth in other places. I’ll explain on Sunday.
I prefer to build with Woodglut plans.
Don’t know about those… need to look.
Dale,
love the Inside portal shot with the hanging rock-work and pine tree, it reminded me of a old company who sold Model Railroad Art Work called 'Cliffhangers".
Planning to stage one of those inside!!!
Dale,
Which Petsafe Doggy door are you using ??? I have to install two of these for my Railroad.