Layout Update on Franklin Grove - Model Train Layout Built for Operations and Realism. S2020E26
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- The Union Pacific Railroad Geneva Subdivision is an N Scale model train layout in its 11 year of construction. The layout is built for operations with many fun ops session successfully completed and many more yet to come. In addition to realistic model train operations, the layout strives to follow the actual Union Pacific as prototypical as possible.
This episode features an update on progress made at Franklin Grove, IL.
@Union Pacific Geneva Subdivision
Thank you,very nice ,I enjoy all your videos and have learned a lot from watching your progress over the years. Of you building this fine model railroad.Thank you again for sharing.
Thanks 👍
I enjoy watching your videos. You have nice layout.
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you for posting this video. In the UK the concrete crossing slabs used on the railway crossings are made by a company called Bo-Mac. These have been used since the early 1970s. At each end of the ones in the 4ft, and either side of the 4ft there are end brackets that fasten both to the end panels and to the ties. This stops the panels creeping due to passing trains and stops gaps opening up between panels.
Thanks for that
The straight run with the manifest is so prototypical and convincing. And the pile of rock on the river bank, at 0:25 is so real. The best in N, from what Ive seen so far. Keep up the great work and keep posting. Thank you.
Thanks
What i learned if i put a building together today , 30 years from now it will be fully incorporated into the layout. Hehe, Great Video , Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome!
Love what you have done with your layout. My 1st time seeing the video with the crossing installment in Franklin Grove. Your attention to detail amazes me. Following a train is just like taking a actual journey through northern Illinois. I live in northern Illinois and like to railfan on the Geneva Sub. Yours and the prototype.
Welcome aboard!
Awesome video
Thanks for the visit
Looking forward to it! Always love your vids!
I appreciate that!
I always enjoy watching. Love the update.
Awesome, thank you!
Excellent looking work on a beautiful layout 👍
Many thanks!
The road definitely completed that area and made it look really nice. Great video.
Stay well. -Wil 👍
Thanks 👍
Daryl, the work you did looks great, added that little bit of extra it needed. Also always love seeing the trains running on the layout. Thanks for sharing and stay safe. Ken
Cool, thanks!
Wow thanks for sharing. Looking forward to seeing more.
Thanks for watching!
Great layout tour nice job keep on keeping
Thank you very much!
Midwest Modal RR is a great place. Awesome staff with tremendous knowledge of modal RR. I make a trip there ounce or twice a month. It's just off I-70 on Hwy 40 on the Independence/ Lees Summit Mo city lines. Great video Daryl !
Right on!
Looking good Darrell....thanks for sharing....Jack
Thanks 👍 Subscribe!!
Daryl, Well thats another section put to bed. So far it's been a very productive year on the Geneva Subdivision. Cheers, Chris Perry.
That whole room with Rochelle, Global 3, Franklin Grove and Mississippi River is pretty well complete. Wheaton is going to be a big challenge... lots of buildings.
Great update bud!
Glad you like it
A nice feature at the farm scene is the amount of space you allowed..too often we tend to crunch everything into a scene foot print. The background road running along behind the farm really adds dimension..and your gravel going into it blends well.. really nice job with the subtle details.
Thanks!
Some great details added there Daryl. It's got that midwest easy going feel that I always think of 👍
Thanks
Nice work on Franklin Grove, I would suggest some fencing between the RR tracks & the farm grounds to keep the cow of the tracks & maybe a couple of horses in that scene . cracking layout & always try to watch your updates.
Great idea
So pleased i found your videos, what great inspiration for the new N gauge layout iv just started in England, thank you
Welcome aboard!
The Pitzer Grain scene looks great, just go's to show that you can repurpose older builds without having to buy expensive kits, to make a great scene. The little details make such a difference, top notch.
Thanks
Looks great Daryl really impressed way that whole area came along I'm glad you showed a farm scene I'm trying to do a large farm scene myself and I'm trying to decide what I should put down for ground cover before I put the buildings. Tell them to stop showing so many commercials in the middle of your video, LOL thanks Gary
Gotta make some money to pay for more trains.
Slow and steady progress. :)
Thanks. Subscribe!!!!!
Vinegar of any kind will take care of any plaster spilled or dusted around.
Looks very good your road and layout.
Thanks for the tip
some great scenes there.
Thanks!
I remember another model train shop located in an unremarkable nondescript white cinder block building in Independence during the 1980s and 90s located about three miles west of Midwest Modelers on US 40 hwy near Crysler Avenue, a bit east of the old Blue Ridge East theaters. Must have driven by hundreds of times and before I even knew it was in there. They had some unique custom stuff that you couldn't get anywhere else. They eventually disappeared like most of the old locally owned hobby shops around KC.
There was a real good shop in KC when we lived there 1988-1997. There was also a smaller one in Independence. I just figured the small one shut down and the KC one moved out to Independence.
@@EvanstonSub That shop in Independence was kind of a hole in the wall location, but they had some interesting stuff. They took undecorated locos and rolling stock kits and custom painted, detailed, and sold them with railroad names for many smaller local and former local railroads. _Spotlight Railroad_ was just north of 75th Street on Troost Avenue in KC. They existed off and on for several decades well into the 1990s before disappearing. _PM Trains & Rocks_ was in Raytown, MO inside a residential home with a front fascia that was painted to look like a caboose. This gentleman had an impressive Lionel layout in his basement, but sold HO and N scale exclusively, while his wife sold tumbler polished rocks. They lasted until the mid-1990s. _Midwest Modelers_ are a relatively recent player according to their 'about page' on their website. *Go CHIEFS!*
Enjoy watching your running sessions and updates Darrell (sp)....what paint did you use on your road?
Woodland Scenics pavement paint.
What is the length of a train with say two engines and thirty cars, this is my first Nscale layout and was wandering about siding length, as we in England dont have the room for large layouts
Depends on the make up of the train, but generally around 13 ft.
Please tell what the coop structures are built from
styrene
I think Yankee Dabbler has the Highways And Byways road stripping systems as well. Highways And Byways just recently released a parking lot marking system.
Stay well. -Wil 👍
Good to know.
Sorry never mind previous question