Greetings Ron From Colorful Colorado, I really enjoyed this episode today. (08/28/2023) I loved watching you and "The Little Lady" build the cabin. Perhaps one of the best tool boxes is under the layout, As far as what to put in the unfinished empty corner, ask "The Little Lady" what her fantasy place in her life and then try to model it. John
Glad you enjoyed it. The Little Lady don't give me much input on stuff. I always ask her and then shoot down her idea's so she quit giving me idea's. ( I kinda blew it huh?)
I was 2 years old when I got my first train set for Christmas. It was the 2026 Lionel made in 1951. I was born in Jan. of 1951. It got left behind in the attic when we moved. Many years later (prob. 20 years ago) my cousin had the very same Lionel train set and he gave it to me. So now I have that set along with many others I have purchased over the years. I got into HO scale back in the mid 80's and set up my first layout. Then about 22 years ago we moved from Georgia to Tennessee and I had to tear it all down. I still have it stored in the storage barn (out building) but it will never be resurrected. I plan to build another on as soon as we move again. Cheers from eastern TN
Thank you for taking us into the inner world of "Engineer Ron." This video installment is one of your best. Please keep this in mind...."All of the work you do are making people smile, and your videos are refreshing to watch." God Bless.
Super. After a bad experience with a brand new Bachmann 4-4-0, which included a dying headlight on the test run, and wheels out of gauge, and then melting plastic and smoke on its maiden run, I didnt want another tender drive steam locomotive, and got the Mantua/Tyco 4-6-0 instead. 💙 T.E.N.
Only Bachmann locomotive that my railroad ever killed, and I think that it was just a made on early monday morning or late friday evening locomotive, and is also the only locomotive that I ever returned to the store instead of turning it into a dummy. However, my pike did take out a brand new Athearn Bluebox SD-45 and one of my beloved superpower F-7A units. About nine months after I got it, the two rivet heads that hold the sideframes and wheel bearings onto the gear mechanism popped loose, derailing the SD-45 locomotive on a bridge, which caused it and the F-7A to dive into the river and break the coupler mount and front pilot right off the SD-45 locomotive, as well as damaging the front truck, nose, and headlight mount, but the F-7 unit took the cake, as the body completely split in half the long way, so that I had two halves of my favorite F-7. The fall broke the rear truck, snapped the driveshaft and bent the frame. It took me six months to get a new truck, glue the F-7 body back together, and fix the frame. I waited on the SD-45, but I eventually got it fixed also, and both still operate to this day on my railroad. 🙂
Thank you for this tour! It gives me some ideas of what I would like to do with my late-dads old Lionel's. Some of which, till this last week, have not seen a track in well over 60 years. They are currently with my Step-father, another Big Train collector, who this week is going through them for me (Cleaning, Oil, etc.). My 3 younger kids (8 (twins) & 9) have been watching enthusiastically and are looking forward to more train time. Not to mention a upcoming train show (5 weeks). ( I am hoping to get them a HO Set like I had as a kid) Thanks for re-igniting trains for myself and my family! Keep the videos coming!
Thanks for your kind words. Sounds like you have a lot of train people in your family. Awesome time to get your young ones started. Glad I was able to help out on your journey :-)
Many Thanks Mr. Ron for your channel and all the tips and information on model railroading. The history of the product lines you share I find interesting as well. I have had my HO trains in storage since 1988 from a small layout I had put together years ago. I retired in 2020 and recently have started a new layout project. You have become the go to guy on You tube for me for my layout and reconditioning my old school rolling stock. God Bless and Have a Great Day!
@@classicmodeltrains you are welcome sir . I'm 57 years young and my first electric train was the tyco rock island set in the brown box . Have a blessed God filled day
17:08 hello thanks for showing us your he shed lol. That’s so perfect and a great place to have your trains set up. Thank you for showing us what your layout looks like great job. I will come back to view more of your videos and updates to the trains
I saw this, and now I can't unsee it. at 14:40, the Athearn Union Pacific Locomotive is Labeled as an SD-7, however that would actually be a GP-9. SD Units had 3 axle trucks, and the GP units had 2 axle. Just thought it'd point it out to make sure its all labeled correctly. I love your videos, keep up the great work!!
Thanks for your kind words. The label has been fixed some months ago. I guess I was sitting here drinking a beer and noticed it. Very sharp eye you have there Sir!!
So much fun. If you need todo something fast at the “logging” area remove the building paint the Berkley Pit and put small plastic birds in the water. I was born in Butte so I can say that. 😢
First of your vids and subscribed. Your work is stunningly clean and well thought out. Painting on the grass is a great technique, maintains flexibility. Also the beer box construction is good (Miller light guy here). Gonna go binge now. See you over there.
It is very formidable how little by little you were making the Cabin and the design for the trains, Congratulations and even more so that you are a defender of Tyco trains - Greetings from Argentina.-
Andy, Thank you very much! I follow your work as well. Those pictures of your collection you posted over the weekend.....WOW!! you have a lot of very nice items. I am jealous. Thanks for commenting :-)
Well, conventional wisdom has it that if you have the space, have two industries that compliment one another, such as a coal mine that feeds a power house or a saw mill that feeds a furniture factory. Your two industries are kinda close together, but it’s your layout so you can do what you want. Your saw mill can take logs in and ship out cut limber. Your other industry could be separated by a stand of dense trees and take in shipments of cut lumber and ship out built furniture. The empty cars of lumber can be returned to some point for loads of raw lumber to be cut to sawn timber. The cars of loaded furniture could be shipped to distributors off line. That’s the general idea, but you can figure out what industries and businesses you want and have on-line and off-line. One of your yard tracks could be used as a (simulated) interchange track to have much greater flexibility for your layout and trains that reaches industries, businesses, ports and other railroads. Nice video, nice layout and I intend to keep following your channel, Ron! Keep it up!
so the little lady did not want a train lay out taking over the kitchen floor ....lol hence the train cabin ..i hope that if he is still around your dad has time to stop by and enjoy your trains. your gonna need a bigger building. look forward to seeing how you make it all come together. stay well
The spray bottle painting is genius! Love it. So it turns out, I'm the third AV guy on RUclips who also collects model trains. Toy Man Television also has a great channel, he was a movie sound designer. I'm a commercial AV installer and collect vintage pro audio gear. Got me some circa 1976 ElectroVoice theater speakers in the other half of the basement :) Fun to crank them up when not filming!
NO WAY!!!!!!! I did commercial AV install for quite some time. Not as much fun as doing rock concerts. Did a lot of live theatre also. Sold all my concert sound and lighting a long time ago. I guess it would be "vintage" as to now. analog mixers with separate drive racks for processing. Sound guys got it easy now days :-) Still have an addiction to "feeling" my music. Neighbors hate me sometimes. Thanks for the kind words on my video. :-)
Hi big run. Once again another outstanding video. Don't worry about small, little group of people I can hear thing. Just keep doing what you're doing. The videos are very informative. They're funny. And for a new person that's messed around with trains, you know, do you think I was playing the video? There's no reason why they could **** anything up. As for more viewers. I could probably do this, they will come. If you keep doing the same thing, I just. I was just by mistake looking around different videos tonight, but I've been tell a lot of people about it. That's, that's advertisements word of mouth. So do I think they have left to ask you is, when you start selling the T shirts, make sure you put three actions and four X so I can get one. Thank you. Craig Claxton. Butcher.
Greetings Craig, Thanks for watching and commenting. I would like to have "merch" but I feel like I need a better logo. Something I have in the pipeline :-). Thanks for supporting my channel and telling others about it!
Lynn Wescott of Model Railroader Fame who invented the El girder. God I remember when all those guys were still alive and still wrote stuff for the magazines. They were guys who were there at the very beginning of model railroading.
Super video Ron! You've done an incredible amount of work and your talents are impressive! I really appreciate you showing the progression of your layout, and how it's evolving. Keep the vids coming!
Saved to my model railroadin' playlist for when I can afford my own. You really do have a lot good tips man! I think your roads look great. It actually makes me wanna reconsider using foam board for it. Love the content man, you'll reach 1k in no time if you keep the integrity up!
Thanks for the nice words Gunslinger, It don't cost a lot to get a layout going. Goto the Goodwill auction site. I bought a brand new 20 year old life like set, still in the box, unopened for $6.00. Of course they nailed me on shipping......
@@classicmodeltrains I have a goodwill in my area, but they never have any cool stuff. Especially model trains. And friends that worked there told me they had to throw away all these airsoft guns because they couldn't sell them. 😩
Thank you very much! Sounds like your saying you were the 15th subscriber to the channel? Thank you for believing in the channel in it's infancy. I'm hoping I gave you some great info over the last year :-)
In the 1970s a Tyco locomotive was about half the price of an a t h e a r n locomotive. When you're a kid making $2 an hour and you have a 4x8 layout the Tyco locomotives and cars lifelike ahm Bachman filled your roster. I remember when $67 for a fully painted brass Japanese locomotive was expensive. One manufacturer had a pile of parts saying a pretty little Japanese girl can make a motorcycle out of this can you? It was such a fun hobby in the old days still is now but you have a lot of people that do things for a living but they don't really do it in real life.
Great video, I really enjoyed it. I have a suggestion for the the blank side of your layout. I think a nice thick forest would go perfectly there. I also think the mine should be extended in place of the logging facility you have sitting in the middle. That just my opinion, you do what you want with your layout. Good luck with your model railroad journey.
Hello A&M, I agree with you. I think the mining operation could look better and not take up so much space. Thick tree line is another great idea. Thanks for the nice words on my video :-)
Gracias por mostrarme tu rincón de juegos es excelente trabajo bien organizado todo,me impresiona mucho tu dedicación y el trabajo en los detalles,me asombra y encuentro formidable que con poco dinero y mucho ingenio logras obtener unos videos muy profesionales,disfrute mucho este video desde la fabricación del estudio de trabajo hasta la confección de la maqueta de trenes,admiro mucho tu trabajo y siento admiración y asombro por tu espacio de juegos ,de verdad todo es genial ahiii ,gracias por compartir la magia y la historia qué hay detrás de cámaras y de forma sencilla y humilde ,lo encuentro formidable ,y agradecido ,me encanta ver tus videos y disfruto mucho viéndolos ,también los comparto con un amigo,al que también les gusta las locomotoras tyco,muchas gracias y saludos desde acá de chile 🇨🇱,gran trabajo y felicitaciones por tus videos geniales
Hola Ruben, Gracias una vez más por sus amables palabras sobre mis videos. Es realmente genial que vivamos tan separados, pero que tengamos los mismos intereses en el modelismo ferroviario. Es un pequeño planeta en el que todos vivimos. Espero que tú y los tuyos se mantengan felices y saludables.
Most of us have more toy trains for scale trains than a hobby shop used to have in the old days. Most of us who have a collection of old motorcycles have more motorcycles than used to be in a shop in the old days. I Don't Like Trains on the Shelf feel like she's perfectly restored motorcycles that just roll up and down trailers into shows. That's why I like about my used Lionel stuff when I pick up boxes of it real cheap. I had an engine that the main drive here was worn out of it which means the kid who got it for Christmas or a birthday present ran the Daylights out of it enjoying it which is what it was made for.
When we were all in elementary school a long time ago and a galaxy far far away we would seek out other model railroaders at school. We would all go to each other's houses and enjoy each other's layouts. Even if people use the same plan out of Model Railroader magazine every one of them was different. Every one of them was a artistic expression like sculpture or painting. It's a shame so many Fantastic Model Railroad s died with their owners upon the sale of the house. Some people who have custom-made modular layouts can sell them back to the company that made them to resell them to someone else. Great way to get a museum quality layout without mortgaging the farm. Train nuts are born not made. You cannot make people like trains it has to be in your blood. Just like motorcycles it's something that's in your blood and it becomes a great part of your life. In an old Model Railroader there is a picture of a layout in a basement HO scale usual Rolling Stock and buildings for the period. It belongs to an Airman who was the last Airman who died in an air battle over Nazi Germany after which the Nazis had no more planes. The layout waited for him to come home and he never did. Today's excuse for people don't realize the extent of the sacrifice that was made back then. I'm sure he just wanted to stay at his regular job and run his trains but he answered a call to duty. I felt like the train layout was kind of like a monument to him. The sacrifice he made.
add more switching to that bare section of the layout for some operations like what you have already like raw wood going to a lumber mill and then a furniture factory.
You've made it to a key stage. You have running trains on a layout. Like others have suggested below, something with mixed traffic requirements, given the size of layout. Perhaps two sidings to shunt and you're in business?
You have some great videos. I have learned a lot watching them. In case I missed it, what is the size of your layout without the yard and what radius curves did you use? Also do you have a drawing of your track plan?
Greetings Frank. Thanks for your kind words. The layout is 4ft deep and 12 ft wide w/o the yard. Outside radius is 22" and inside is a 20" custom with atlas flex track. I do not have a drawing. I would call it a modified over and under folded dog bone. Grades are 2.1% or 1/4" rise or fall in a foot.
Hi Ron. I'm new to Model trains. I've always been interested and now have the time to jump in! I'm having some fun just buying all the stuff. Plan to start building my layout soon. I learned a few things today from seeing your layout. I noticed you did not use insulation board. Is there a reason why not? I'm also interested in your videos about rolling stock and converting cheap cars into $40 dollar cars with wheels and couplers for $7 bucks! Is there a reference spot I can go to for parts? I wrote down some notes while watching the videos but will go back a watch again. Just was wondering. Anyways I like your videos. You make it fun. I've watched many others, but you got the best. Take care. Someday I'll make it to Montana. Never been. Stuck in SoCal. Take care.
Hello Gary, I do not build with foam board. I used a method called "cookie cutter". Strips of plywood cut to match up to the way the track is running. Foam board and cork road bed is an illusion people follow in an attempt to make there trains run quieter. Once the ballast is glued in, all the vibrations transfer down and make noise. Now people might argue this hypothesis with me, but I found out by experience. I like a solid work table so incase I want to crawl on it to work on scenery, or fix a derailed car, I won't fall through. I picked up my parts from the local hobby shop. I showed what I was using, so a guy could find them on amazon or what not. Thank you very much for your kind words on my video's :-)
One of your very best videos, Ron! I’m amazed at how good the plywood looks with your spray bottle paint technique. As for industries, I’m a big fan of the vintage kits once offered by Tyco, Atlas, AHM, etc. I’ll suggest the Tyco 906 freight station or the AHM 5831 freight station. The AHM was also offered by Tyco as kit 7785.
Another great video! I really enjoyed the room tour. Got 2 more years of living in the city, the moving to the country. Might have to steal you idea for a train/hobby room. :) Also, where did you get that mat? I have got to get one of those for my channel.
Am in the planning stages of creating a larger layout. Sure could use the plan you used as a base plan. I already have the additional plans to add to that base plan. Biggest question is - how long and how high is the rise. Then how is the sinking of the 1 1/4 done?? After a 35 year hiatus, have to relearn everything I forgot.
I freelanced that folded dog bone layout. Used a string on a nail to make up my radius' and a lot of flex track. My rise or fall is 1/4" per foot. The over all rise was 3 1/2". I cut out notches in my "L" girder to lower the track on the cookie cutter track plywood to sink it into the layout. There is a video where I take that layout apart. it has a better view of how the track was laid and the rise and run of everything.
@@classicmodeltrains OK - Then tell me how wide that room was / is. you were running up 14 ft. to get to that plateau, over the bridge, then a drop 14 ft long; am I correct.
@@classicmodeltrains Thank You. So that makes the plateau roughly 4 X 4 with a 22" radius curve. Interestingly, I was in a railroad shop recently, and they were building a layout in the backroom for someone. Got the chance to see what my planned 28" radius was going to look like - and WOW ( I did like it ) long sweeping curve around.
Just curious. You should check his videos out, not train related but good. Love the videos you put out! Helps keep everyone interested in the train hobby. I grew up with h.o. Scale as a kid , I’ve had many of the locomotives you talk about. But then I changed my hobby interests to American Flyers. Great job, keep it up!
@@andrewsmith3684 I've watched every one of VGG video's. I am a mechanic by trade. I like the flyers also. would love to make up a flyer layout. There relatively inexpensive to obtain, and look quite nice! Thanks for your kind words on my vid's.
Thanks for the reply, American Flyer can be very cheap to get into. Especially if you look for the late 50 ‘s and through the 90’s . I have many and they’re not the best running, maybe you can debunk my findings, but the 80’s ones are very troublesome. I also appreciate your mechanical background, however I’m a mopar guy, so we can’t be friends.
No worrys, I re-read it a few times and picked up on what you were laying down. That Voice to Text seems like it always has to be proof read before sending ;-)
There was an article in Model Railroader this guy had his collection on shelves with fluorescent lights and the fluorescent lights faded the side of the box cars and other Rolling Stock that faced them he didn't know that could happen. H o is smaller and plastic and I would be careful about how much light I would have directed toward it.
As a fellow Model Railroader and motorcycle enthusiast in the classic tradition I'm curious what kind of bikes are you into I'm at the British bikes sidecars weird stuff small collection of communist motorcycles, what kind of motorcycles did you like?
I built a '77 shovel FLH from pieces parts purchased from eBay. Built a basket case sporty for the little lady "at that time". Owned two ultra classic's. To many friends experienced the "it's not if.. it's when and how bad" and I gave up riding.
Drop me a line, I want to donate some pieces to you. Don't expect a thing in return, just helping out a fellow model railroaded, sorta share the wealth yarrow. Can't wait to hear from ya!
Greetings. The only line I can drop is thru this here comments. Donations are greatly appreciated. My shipping information is in the description of all my video's. Might have to click on "see more" I also can be reached on my Facebook page Classic model trains. Thanks for watching and commenting :-)
I loved the ending....You're something else. LOLOLOLOL
Thank you
Greetings Ron From Colorful Colorado,
I really enjoyed this episode today. (08/28/2023) I loved watching you and "The Little Lady" build the cabin. Perhaps one of the best tool boxes is under the layout, As far as what to put in the unfinished empty corner, ask "The Little Lady" what her fantasy place in her life and then try to model it.
John
Glad you enjoyed it. The Little Lady don't give me much input on stuff. I always ask her and then shoot down her idea's so she quit giving me idea's. ( I kinda blew it huh?)
Thank you for sharing your Origin Story and the peek behind the scenes. It was very interesting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Truly awesome in my humble opinion!
Thank you Kevin!
Hi Ron love your videos thanks for sharing your knowledge thanks William Storm from Louisiana
Thank you William
I was 2 years old when I got my first train set for Christmas. It was the 2026 Lionel made in 1951. I was born in Jan. of 1951. It got left behind in the attic when we moved. Many years later (prob. 20 years ago) my cousin had the very same Lionel train set and he gave it to me. So now I have that set along with many others I have purchased over the years. I got into HO scale back in the mid 80's and set up my first layout. Then about 22 years ago we moved from Georgia to Tennessee and I had to tear it all down. I still have it stored in the storage barn (out building) but it will never be resurrected. I plan to build another on as soon as we move again. Cheers from eastern TN
Hope you have the loco's and cars stored in climate controlled space. Them unheated / un-insulated sheds reek havoc on them otherwise
Thanks for sharing. A lot of good ideas. The old 'keep it simple stupid' 👍. 'KISS'
Thanks for watching!
Heavy video Ron! And as usual, thanks for the laughs, you could probably just read a dictionary and make it fun
Thanks Danny. :-)
Thank you for taking us into the inner world of "Engineer Ron." This video installment is one of your best. Please keep this in mind...."All of the work you do are making people smile, and your videos are refreshing to watch." God Bless.
Donald, Those are some awesome words you used. Thank you very much!!! God bless you too :-)
Wow, Ron you certainly have a wide range of skills! I really enjoy the videos. They're very informative.
Thank you Rick!
#14. Enjoy your videos. Thanks for taking the time making them.
Thanks for watching!
Hi Ron, going back and re-watching some of the new or videos. This one was great, I wish more would show the behind the scenes like me this. Jeff
Hello Jeff! Thanks for supporting my channel :-). I like behind the scenes stuff also.
Super. After a bad experience with a brand new Bachmann 4-4-0, which included a dying headlight on the test run, and wheels out of gauge, and then melting plastic and smoke on its maiden run, I didnt want another tender drive steam locomotive, and got the Mantua/Tyco 4-6-0 instead. 💙 T.E.N.
Them Bachmanns from back then are no good
Only Bachmann locomotive that my railroad ever killed, and I think that it was just a made on early monday morning or late friday evening locomotive, and is also the only locomotive that I ever returned to the store instead of turning it into a dummy. However, my pike did take out a brand new Athearn Bluebox SD-45 and one of my beloved superpower F-7A units. About nine months after I got it, the two rivet heads that hold the sideframes and wheel bearings onto the gear mechanism popped loose, derailing the SD-45 locomotive on a bridge, which caused it and the F-7A to dive into the river and break the coupler mount and front pilot right off the SD-45 locomotive, as well as damaging the front truck, nose, and headlight mount, but the F-7 unit took the cake, as the body completely split in half the long way, so that I had two halves of my favorite F-7. The fall broke the rear truck, snapped the driveshaft and bent the frame. It took me six months to get a new truck, glue the F-7 body back together, and fix the frame. I waited on the SD-45, but I eventually got it fixed also, and both still operate to this day on my railroad. 🙂
Ron. You make really great videos!
Thank you Don!
Thank you for this tour! It gives me some ideas of what I would like to do with my late-dads old Lionel's. Some of which, till this last week, have not seen a track in well over 60 years. They are currently with my Step-father, another Big Train collector, who this week is going through them for me (Cleaning, Oil, etc.). My 3 younger kids (8 (twins) & 9) have been watching enthusiastically and are looking forward to more train time. Not to mention a upcoming train show (5 weeks). ( I am hoping to get them a HO Set like I had as a kid) Thanks for re-igniting trains for myself and my family! Keep the videos coming!
Thanks for your kind words. Sounds like you have a lot of train people in your family. Awesome time to get your young ones started. Glad I was able to help out on your journey :-)
you're like the Bob Ross of model railroad landscaping hahahahaha
Bob Ross...... He has better hair than I do :-)
Hey Ron! Thanks for the tour. Pretty cool! Very interesting information about YouTubing . Yup watched till the end.
Thanks Steven!!
Many Thanks Mr. Ron for your channel and all the tips and information on model railroading. The history of the product lines you share I find interesting as well. I have had my HO trains in storage since 1988 from a small layout I had put together years ago. I retired in 2020 and recently have started a new layout project. You have become the go to guy on You tube for me for my layout and reconditioning my old school rolling stock. God Bless and Have a Great Day!
Thank you for your kind words, and glad to see you have re-joined the hobby :-)
Oh my gosh you are tooo funny . You make me laugh. But on a serious note I again enjoy your videos. Keep them coming 👍
Thanks Harrison, glad you enjoyed :-)
@@classicmodeltrains you are welcome sir . I'm 57 years young and my first electric train was the tyco rock island set in the brown box . Have a blessed God filled day
17:08 hello thanks for showing us your he shed lol. That’s so perfect and a great place to have your trains set up. Thank you for showing us what your layout looks like great job. I will come back to view more of your videos and updates to the trains
Glad you enjoyed it
I didn't even realize that paint and not grass. Looks good to me!
It's a quick, inexpensive way to make it look nice until you get around to doing scenic grass and dirt application for sure :-)
I enjoyed seeing your work shop and how you got to where you are thru time. It was an interesting trip. Keep up the good work.
Thanks 👍
Ron your a hoot. Love watching your videos keep up the good work.
Greg, thank you for the kind words. :-)
what a great review. The lighng is very nice as well as your trains layout. great video for sure.
Thank you James :-)
Great overview sir👍
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Thanks 4ever :-)
Nice work! I really enjoyed the tour.
Awesome, thank you!
I saw this, and now I can't unsee it. at 14:40, the Athearn Union Pacific Locomotive is Labeled as an SD-7, however that would actually be a GP-9. SD Units had 3 axle trucks, and the GP units had 2 axle. Just thought it'd point it out to make sure its all labeled correctly. I love your videos, keep up the great work!!
Thanks for your kind words. The label has been fixed some months ago. I guess I was sitting here drinking a beer and noticed it. Very sharp eye you have there Sir!!
@@classicmodeltrains Good you noticed it! Keep up the great work Ron!
So much fun. If you need todo something fast at the “logging” area remove the building paint the Berkley Pit and put small plastic birds in the water. I was born in Butte so I can say that. 😢
A Berkley pit before the flooding would make a great layout scene!!
I reckon a farm would fill that spot, there's some good scale wheat out there!
Farm is a good idea
First of your vids and subscribed. Your work is stunningly clean and well thought out. Painting on the grass is a great technique, maintains flexibility. Also the beer box construction is good (Miller light guy here). Gonna go binge now. See you over there.
Thanks for the sub and support of my channel!
It is very formidable how little by little you were making the Cabin and the design for the trains, Congratulations and even more so that you are a defender of Tyco trains - Greetings from Argentina.-
Andy, Thank you very much! I follow your work as well. Those pictures of your collection you posted over the weekend.....WOW!! you have a lot of very nice items. I am jealous. Thanks for commenting :-)
Love your layout. Great setup.
Thanks so much!
Awesome layout and cabin!
Thanks a bunch!
Well, conventional wisdom has it that if you have the space, have two industries that compliment one another, such as a coal mine that feeds a power house or a saw mill that feeds a furniture factory. Your two industries are kinda close together, but it’s your layout so you can do what you want. Your saw mill can take logs in and ship out cut limber. Your other industry could be separated by a stand of dense trees and take in shipments of cut lumber and ship out built furniture. The empty cars of lumber can be returned to some point for loads of raw lumber to be cut to sawn timber. The cars of loaded furniture could be shipped to distributors off line. That’s the general idea, but you can figure out what industries and businesses you want and have on-line and off-line. One of your yard tracks could be used as a (simulated) interchange track to have much greater flexibility for your layout and trains that reaches industries, businesses, ports and other railroads.
Nice video, nice layout and I intend to keep following your channel, Ron! Keep it up!
Hello 13thBear, Thanks for the great idea's on paired up industries. Also the nice words on the video. Thanks for following!! :-)
so the little lady did not want a train lay out taking over the kitchen floor ....lol hence the train cabin ..i hope that if he is still around your dad has time to stop by and enjoy your trains.
your gonna need a bigger building. look forward to seeing how you make it all come together. stay well
My Dad is still kicking. He lost his passion for model trains many years ago. I agree... BIGGER building!! :-)
😊great job
Thanks! 😊
The spray bottle painting is genius! Love it. So it turns out, I'm the third AV guy on RUclips who also collects model trains. Toy Man Television also has a great channel, he was a movie sound designer. I'm a commercial AV installer and collect vintage pro audio gear. Got me some circa 1976 ElectroVoice theater speakers in the other half of the basement :) Fun to crank them up when not filming!
NO WAY!!!!!!! I did commercial AV install for quite some time. Not as much fun as doing rock concerts. Did a lot of live theatre also. Sold all my concert sound and lighting a long time ago. I guess it would be "vintage" as to now. analog mixers with separate drive racks for processing. Sound guys got it easy now days :-) Still have an addiction to "feeling" my music. Neighbors hate me sometimes. Thanks for the kind words on my video. :-)
Another good video. My son lives in Billings. Next trip may try and find the hobby store. See if you’re there. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! Currently I'm pulling Friday and Saturday shifts. (2-2023)
Great video! Thanks for the tour and tips on building a layout! Take care!
Glad ya liked it EC, Thanks :-)
I have 3 of those Athearn Hustlers.... 1 I bought new in the 70s and 2 were bought at an auction sale.
Right on! There cute little things!
Hi big run. Once again another outstanding video. Don't worry about small, little group of people I can hear thing. Just keep doing what you're doing. The videos are very informative. They're funny. And for a new person that's messed around with trains, you know, do you think I was playing the video? There's no reason why they could **** anything up. As for more viewers. I could probably do this, they will come. If you keep doing the same thing, I just. I was just by mistake looking around different videos tonight, but I've been tell a lot of people about it. That's, that's advertisements word of mouth. So do I think they have left to ask you is, when you start selling the T shirts, make sure you put three actions and four X so I can get one. Thank you. Craig Claxton. Butcher.
Greetings Craig, Thanks for watching and commenting. I would like to have "merch" but I feel like I need a better logo. Something I have in the pipeline :-). Thanks for supporting my channel and telling others about it!
Nicely Done Love it. Keep on Collecting.
Thanks! Will do!
Awesome
Thanks
Lynn Wescott of Model Railroader Fame who invented the El girder. God I remember when all those guys were still alive and still wrote stuff for the magazines. They were guys who were there at the very beginning of model railroading.
Sounds like you've been in the hobby for awhile.
Thanks for this very comprehensive video. You’re a very talented fellow! Your manual skills are really impressive. Keep posting!
Greetings Regis!! Thanks for the nice words :-)
I love your layout, and love the idea of printing out the brand name of each loco :)
Thank you very much!
That's a sweet cabin brother!
Thanks. Plumbed it my self to! ( well.... with a consultation from my plumber buddy... ) :-)
Super video Ron! You've done an incredible amount of work and your talents are impressive! I really appreciate you showing the progression of your layout, and how it's evolving. Keep the vids coming!
Thank you very much!
Great video Ron! Man, you've only been at this since 2021? Very cool!!!
Back into it physically since '21. It's been in my head for a loooong time :-). Thanks for the nice words.
Saved to my model railroadin' playlist for when I can afford my own. You really do have a lot good tips man! I think your roads look great. It actually makes me wanna reconsider using foam board for it.
Love the content man, you'll reach 1k in no time if you keep the integrity up!
Thanks for the nice words Gunslinger, It don't cost a lot to get a layout going. Goto the Goodwill auction site. I bought a brand new 20 year old life like set, still in the box, unopened for $6.00. Of course they nailed me on shipping......
@@classicmodeltrains I have a goodwill in my area, but they never have any cool stuff. Especially model trains. And friends that worked there told me they had to throw away all these airsoft guns because they couldn't sell them. 😩
@@classicmodeltrains and i'll have to look into the online portion. Sounds like a good place to start.
I like your style you got me into buying more Mantua Tyco this past winter, but my grandson is helping me work on them
So your the one driving up the prices? Just kidding. Glad your enjoying the hobby with your grandson. Thanks for the kind words. :-)
dude i love your videos man me number 15 that follow you!!! heheh
Thank you very much! Sounds like your saying you were the 15th subscriber to the channel? Thank you for believing in the channel in it's infancy. I'm hoping I gave you some great info over the last year :-)
In the 1970s a Tyco locomotive was about half the price of an a t h e a r n locomotive. When you're a kid making $2 an hour and you have a 4x8 layout the Tyco locomotives and cars lifelike ahm Bachman filled your roster. I remember when $67 for a fully painted brass Japanese locomotive was expensive. One manufacturer had a pile of parts saying a pretty little Japanese girl can make a motorcycle out of this can you? It was such a fun hobby in the old days still is now but you have a lot of people that do things for a living but they don't really do it in real life.
starter cars and loco's for young ones starting out in the hobby. Hard to find "starter" stuff now days
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video, I really enjoyed it. I have a suggestion for the the blank side of your layout. I think a nice thick forest would go perfectly there. I also think the mine should be extended in place of the logging facility you have sitting in the middle. That just my opinion, you do what you want with your layout. Good luck with your model railroad journey.
Hello A&M, I agree with you. I think the mining operation could look better and not take up so much space. Thick tree line is another great idea. Thanks for the nice words on my video :-)
@@classicmodeltrains No problem my friend.
Gracias por mostrarme tu rincón de juegos es excelente trabajo bien organizado todo,me impresiona mucho tu dedicación y el trabajo en los detalles,me asombra y encuentro formidable que con poco dinero y mucho ingenio logras obtener unos videos muy profesionales,disfrute mucho este video desde la fabricación del estudio de trabajo hasta la confección de la maqueta de trenes,admiro mucho tu trabajo y siento admiración y asombro por tu espacio de juegos ,de verdad todo es genial ahiii ,gracias por compartir la magia y la historia qué hay detrás de cámaras y de forma sencilla y humilde ,lo encuentro formidable ,y agradecido ,me encanta ver tus videos y disfruto mucho viéndolos ,también los comparto con un amigo,al que también les gusta las locomotoras tyco,muchas gracias y saludos desde acá de chile 🇨🇱,gran trabajo y felicitaciones por tus videos geniales
Hola Ruben, Gracias una vez más por sus amables palabras sobre mis videos. Es realmente genial que vivamos tan separados, pero que tengamos los mismos intereses en el modelismo ferroviario. Es un pequeño planeta en el que todos vivimos. Espero que tú y los tuyos se mantengan felices y saludables.
Most of us have more toy trains for scale trains than a hobby shop used to have in the old days. Most of us who have a collection of old motorcycles have more motorcycles than used to be in a shop in the old days. I Don't Like Trains on the Shelf feel like she's perfectly restored motorcycles that just roll up and down trailers into shows. That's why I like about my used Lionel stuff when I pick up boxes of it real cheap. I had an engine that the main drive here was worn out of it which means the kid who got it for Christmas or a birthday present ran the Daylights out of it enjoying it which is what it was made for.
Yup. wonder how Many hours that worn out engine had on it.
When we were all in elementary school a long time ago and a galaxy far far away we would seek out other model railroaders at school. We would all go to each other's houses and enjoy each other's layouts. Even if people use the same plan out of Model Railroader magazine every one of them was different. Every one of them was a artistic expression like sculpture or painting. It's a shame so many Fantastic Model Railroad s died with their owners upon the sale of the house. Some people who have custom-made modular layouts can sell them back to the company that made them to resell them to someone else. Great way to get a museum quality layout without mortgaging the farm. Train nuts are born not made. You cannot make people like trains it has to be in your blood. Just like motorcycles it's something that's in your blood and it becomes a great part of your life. In an old Model Railroader there is a picture of a layout in a basement HO scale usual Rolling Stock and buildings for the period. It belongs to an Airman who was the last Airman who died in an air battle over Nazi Germany after which the Nazis had no more planes. The layout waited for him to come home and he never did. Today's excuse for people don't realize the extent of the sacrifice that was made back then. I'm sure he just wanted to stay at his regular job and run his trains but he answered a call to duty. I felt like the train layout was kind of like a monument to him. The sacrifice he made.
I remember going to my friends house as a young teen and loving the setup they had. Sad story about the Airman
add more switching to that bare section of the layout for some operations like what you have already like raw wood going to a lumber mill and then a furniture factory.
I think a couple short legs would be a great idea! Thanks
You've made it to a key stage. You have running trains on a layout. Like others have suggested below, something with mixed traffic requirements, given the size of layout. Perhaps two sidings to shunt and you're in business?
A Couple siding sounds like a great idea. Thanks for commenting :-)
You have some great videos. I have learned a lot watching them. In case I missed it, what is the size of your layout without the yard and what radius curves did you use? Also do you have a drawing of your track plan?
Greetings Frank. Thanks for your kind words. The layout is 4ft deep and 12 ft wide w/o the yard. Outside radius is 22" and inside is a 20" custom with atlas flex track. I do not have a drawing. I would call it a modified over and under folded dog bone. Grades are 2.1% or 1/4" rise or fall in a foot.
Thanks, I appreciate the info.
Hi Ron. I'm new to Model trains. I've always been interested and now have the time to jump in! I'm having some fun just buying all the stuff. Plan to start building my layout soon. I learned a few things today from seeing your layout. I noticed you did not use insulation board. Is there a reason why not? I'm also interested in your videos about rolling stock and converting cheap cars into $40 dollar cars with wheels and couplers for $7 bucks! Is there a reference spot I can go to for parts? I wrote down some notes while watching the videos but will go back a watch again. Just was wondering. Anyways I like your videos. You make it fun. I've watched many others, but you got the best. Take care. Someday I'll make it to Montana. Never been. Stuck in SoCal. Take care.
Hello Gary, I do not build with foam board. I used a method called "cookie cutter". Strips of plywood cut to match up to the way the track is running. Foam board and cork road bed is an illusion people follow in an attempt to make there trains run quieter. Once the ballast is glued in, all the vibrations transfer down and make noise. Now people might argue this hypothesis with me, but I found out by experience. I like a solid work table so incase I want to crawl on it to work on scenery, or fix a derailed car, I won't fall through. I picked up my parts from the local hobby shop. I showed what I was using, so a guy could find them on amazon or what not. Thank you very much for your kind words on my video's :-)
One of your very best videos, Ron! I’m amazed at how good the plywood looks with your spray bottle paint technique.
As for industries, I’m a big fan of the vintage kits once offered by Tyco, Atlas, AHM, etc. I’ll suggest the Tyco 906 freight station or the AHM 5831 freight station. The AHM was also offered by Tyco as kit 7785.
Hello Jumijo, Thanks for the kind words. Glad I could share a good little technique :-)
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Steel mill wouldn't be a bad Idea at the unfinished section of the layout
That is a great idea also. :-)
Another great video! I really enjoyed the room tour. Got 2 more years of living in the city, the moving to the country. Might have to steal you idea for a train/hobby room. :) Also, where did you get that mat? I have got to get one of those for my channel.
Hello V R & R. Thanks for the kind words on my video. I had the mat made at a sign shop. Not a cutting mat, it's just a look pretty mat :-)
@@classicmodeltrains Awesome, thanks for the info. Keep up the good work!
Great shop/layout/office building you have. Just recently subscribed and very glad I found you. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the kind words John. Also Thanks for the Sub. :-)
Am in the planning stages of creating a larger layout. Sure could use the plan you used as a base plan. I already have the additional plans to add to that base plan. Biggest question is - how long and how high is the rise. Then how is the sinking of the 1 1/4 done?? After a 35 year hiatus, have to relearn everything I forgot.
I freelanced that folded dog bone layout. Used a string on a nail to make up my radius' and a lot of flex track. My rise or fall is 1/4" per foot. The over all rise was 3 1/2". I cut out notches in my "L" girder to lower the track on the cookie cutter track plywood to sink it into the layout. There is a video where I take that layout apart. it has a better view of how the track was laid and the rise and run of everything.
@@classicmodeltrains OK - Then tell me how wide that room was / is. you were running up 14 ft. to get to that plateau, over the bridge, then a drop 14 ft long;
am I correct.
@@JimMyrhum the layout is 13’ X 4’.
@@classicmodeltrains Thank You. So that makes the plateau roughly 4 X 4 with a 22" radius curve. Interestingly, I was in a railroad shop recently, and they were building a layout in the backroom for someone. Got the chance to see what my planned 28" radius was going to look like - and WOW ( I did like it ) long sweeping curve around.
14:19 i wish you luck with the tyco UP 2-8-0 then!
2-8-0? the Consolidations with tender drive?
I was the 100th like also i love the vids
Thank you for liking my videos and cool you were the 100th. :-)
@@classicmodeltrains thanks
Love your videos! I’m a big American Flyer fan. Do you have any relation to Derek from “ vice grip garage “?
Not that I know of. Were both from N. Dakota if that counts
Just curious. You should check his videos out, not train related but good. Love the videos you put out! Helps keep everyone interested in the train hobby. I grew up with h.o. Scale as a kid , I’ve had many of the locomotives you talk about. But then I changed my hobby interests to American Flyers. Great job, keep it up!
@@andrewsmith3684 I've watched every one of VGG video's. I am a mechanic by trade. I like the flyers also. would love to make up a flyer layout. There relatively inexpensive to obtain, and look quite nice! Thanks for your kind words on my vid's.
Thanks for the reply, American Flyer can be very cheap to get into. Especially if you look for the late 50 ‘s and through the 90’s . I have many and they’re not the best running, maybe you can debunk my findings, but the 80’s ones are very troublesome. I also appreciate your mechanical background, however I’m a mopar guy, so we can’t be friends.
Base ball park.
Ice skating rink
Wow, that's so excited about writing this. I went voice to text a completely screwed the whole thing up. I'll do better next time. Sorry.
No worrys, I re-read it a few times and picked up on what you were laying down. That Voice to Text seems like it always has to be proof read before sending ;-)
Love to See Females In this Hobbies My Wife Is a Rail Roader As Well And I Love it.
It's great to have her show some interest. Sounds like your pretty lucky too :-)
There was an article in Model Railroader this guy had his collection on shelves with fluorescent lights and the fluorescent lights faded the side of the box cars and other Rolling Stock that faced them he didn't know that could happen. H o is smaller and plastic and I would be careful about how much light I would have directed toward it.
Good info!
Too cool 😎! Wait, you're 54? That means I'm... Damnit, I don't wanna talk about this anymore...
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Yup........ Were almost ready for our AARP memberships :-D. Good hearing from you Ol' Friend!!!
Roundhouse on upper level?
Thanks for the good idea!!
As a fellow Model Railroader and motorcycle enthusiast in the classic tradition I'm curious what kind of bikes are you into I'm at the British bikes sidecars weird stuff small collection of communist motorcycles, what kind of motorcycles did you like?
I built a '77 shovel FLH from pieces parts purchased from eBay. Built a basket case sporty for the little lady "at that time". Owned two ultra classic's. To many friends experienced the "it's not if.. it's when and how bad" and I gave up riding.
Some comments down below.
Did I do it right?
Well some words were left, but no comments :-)
Drop me a line, I want to donate some pieces to you. Don't expect a thing in return, just helping out a fellow model railroaded, sorta share the wealth yarrow. Can't wait to hear from ya!
I meant model railroader,railroaded, about that!
Greetings. The only line I can drop is thru this here comments. Donations are greatly appreciated. My shipping information is in the description of all my video's. Might have to click on "see more" I also can be reached on my Facebook page Classic model trains. Thanks for watching and commenting :-)