So many good ideas on track plans. The raise bed is how I would do it the knees are not as young as they use to be. 😂 Enjoy this shows. GOD BLESS 🚂💕🚂💕🚂💕🚂💕
Absolutely! Hi Dave! How are you? I’ve noticed with so much modeling that people want to do more than they really should at first. Everyone dreams of having a gigantic railroad, or if they’re starting off in radio controlled airplanes, they wanna have some sort of jet engine powered fighter plane or something. That’s just never going to work out! Best thing to do when your first starting in model railroading is just built a very, very simple shelf, layout, probably a dog bone layout so that you can do continuous running. But that way, you can really focus on getting it right and getting some fun details in there and constructing some wonderful structures that are just right there at eye level.
Well thank you. I am in the process of developing a back hill on my back yard that has been giving me a nightmare issue. To now I will be tiering it and incorporating Gauge One Track for my live steam Ruby set and having it also electrified for regular gauge one trains. Thanks again for some good ideas.
Dale - You could get creative and do paintings on your elevated railroad fairly easily by sawing out large holes (5-10”) on the deck, dropping in rimmed plastic pots so they sit below grade, create some rock work to disguise the top of those pots and drop in a plant! Rosemary would look great because they easily be shaped into small trees - and you could decorate them for Christmas!!
I thought about doing that! I get a little bit nervous for fear that I may introduce water into the decking by cutting into the roofing material. So I’m always hesitant to do that. But I think it could be done successfully.
Great vid, once again. KISS is right on point. Simple design. As fewer turnouts as you can manage. Drive in and out storage is an idea that is worth the initial outlay...I don't have it..yet. Add cement to your crusher fines/dust when you ballast then sprinkle it with the hose. That way you can hit the track with the m.o.w. blower and only blow debris. Having a loop for roundy rounds is also good thing. If nothing else , just to have a train running in the background while you're gardening, bbqíng or just sitting thinking about how you'll solve some of the world's ills. I'm also tending to think about a dedicated space just for the layout. For example adapting an indoor design, like, San Juan Central. Not having it wind it's way around the yard. So it's more, like your timber raised section, a layout that's outdoors, not so much of a garden road.
Yes, after a lot of consideration and planning, we made the decision while building wood bench work would be a lot of work and expense the idea of just having an outdoor railroad, that’s basically built just like an indoor railroad, is worth the effort. One of the great advantages here is that I can run all of my wire underneath the bench where just like I do inside. Even with an elevated planter box type railroad you’re still burying all of your cables. And this is just so much more simple when it comes to maintenance. Which is an issue cause I already have one lantern and an entire building which for some reason I’ve lost their lights. But it will be very simple once Spring comes to figure this out. Right now, I just don’t relish the idea of laying in the snow trying to figure it out!But back when I had a ground a railroad all of my cables were buried underneath the track.
At 9:00 in the video where you showed the ground level track going into the garden shed I immediately had the thought that you could have an 8' section of track inside the shed that could be raised up with ropes- build the train on that raised section of track then lower it to match up with the ground level track and roll it off.
Great advice, especially for those of us with bad knees or bad backs. Have you ever seen Dennis Serines Palos Verde and Southwest railroad. He has ground level and planter box level track that covers about one acre. He has a garage with the wire shelving to store trains and built up areas in the garage for staging. All trains are battery powered so it's one less thing to worry about. Worth the look if you haven't seen it. I think he is in Tempe, AZ. Love your videos.
I like Dick Saunders solution the best. Not only because it is raised up a couple of feet but allows for plants. You can get so creative with the plantings, used edible herbs as an example, slow-growing succulents, etc. and keep them small as they do at Disneyland’s Storybook Land. But even using annuals that fit the motif (like marigolds for a Southwest theme) would work and despite being out of scale they would look great! I have such a bed along one fence, about 50 feet long and I have often thought about doing that (but it has long been planted with small citrus trees, roses, etc so it would require a complete re-do of that area.
Only problem is part of the railroad can’t be reached from the front so he climbs up there and is back on his knees working. But a peninsula style railroad would eliminate that problem.
@SouthgateLightRailway have done a great job of elevating their track but into raised garden beds that looks like it would be much easier to operate without having to get down on their hands and knees!
When I was in California, I noticed that they did the same thing with strawberries. They have a machine for the ground just like you would normally do for gardening, but the furrows are like 2 1/2 feet deep! Then they wrapped the whole thing in plastic. Then they punch small holes and plant the strawberries in the raised parts. Then as the strawberries come ripe or almost ripe, the pickers can walk along in the furrow’s, and the plants are just barely below their waist level. Much much easier to pick, and this is important because all this picking has to be done by hand.
Hi Dale! Since the Arizona Dust Devils like to come by from time to time with their friend: The Micro-Burst, I have to cement my track work into the ground, or they could knock the whole thing over or rip it right up!! It's like living in Tornado Alley when you least expect it!! That's why my natural plants are so hardy here!! As I build the raised benchwork, I'll install a water 💧 lines to drip feed the bushes and plantings I'll install on the sides of the continuous trestle!! I have always wanted an Herbal Garden here to sell to the general public!! I just wish that I could get help doing this!!!
@@vinnyheaphy1372 a friend cemented his track. It went badly. After about three years it broke in a couple of places. Hard to repair. But generally it was great! I had a small amount and it never had a problem.
Everything up on the trellis work is 12 V to run two complete sets of lights. Flickering lights inside the lanterns and puck lights mounted on the bottom of the lanterns for just lighting up the railroad. That way I can turn either circuit on or off. 110 V man also runs through the lattice work but the lower level.
Just complete a kiss figure 8. And you are so right what looks simple can get really complex quick
Fascinating information. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So many good ideas on track plans. The raise bed is how I would do it the knees are not as young as they use to be. 😂
Enjoy this shows.
GOD BLESS 🚂💕🚂💕🚂💕🚂💕
@@loispadgett6306 hi. Thanks!!!!!! Blessings to you too
Great advice, Dale. I always tell anyone who will listen to start small and keep it simple!
Absolutely! Hi Dave! How are you? I’ve noticed with so much modeling that people want to do more than they really should at first. Everyone dreams of having a gigantic railroad, or if they’re starting off in radio controlled airplanes, they wanna have some sort of jet engine powered fighter plane or something. That’s just never going to work out! Best thing to do when your first starting in model railroading is just built a very, very simple shelf, layout, probably a dog bone layout so that you can do continuous running. But that way, you can really focus on getting it right and getting some fun details in there and constructing some wonderful structures that are just right there at eye level.
Great vidio, would like to see some footage of your old garden railroad some day.Thanks for the morning coffee...
@@caseyvillemodelrailroad3877 I wish I had some! I have some VHS. I need to digitize it.
Great video I love the build ideas and lots of great info !
@@richardbrobeck2384 thanks!!!!!
Another great video, I wonder how you guys are doing.
@@MrBillCNW hi. Not bad! As always could be better.. but that’s getten old. Things misfire. !!! 🚀😀🚀🚂🚂
@ Hello Dale. I’m slowing down these days. I just turned 70 this year. We are trying to get it together. Talk to you later. Take care.
@ hi. Yup. Da agony of da feet. And knees. And da hips. Sigh.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your wife and family. ❤. Bob Cooney 🎉
Same to you!
Yes, and maybe some Snelgrove's Ice Cream, if it's still around!
@ at least the sign and two of the ice cream cones still survive!
@@ToyManTelevision Ahhhh....those Raspberry Hurricanes!
Sound advice for any model railway. Regards, Stephen.
@@stephenriley9084 hi!! Thanks 🚂🚂🚀🚂😀
Well thank you. I am in the process of developing a back hill on my back yard that has been giving me a nightmare issue. To now I will be tiering it and incorporating Gauge One Track for my live steam Ruby set and having it also electrified for regular gauge one trains. Thanks again for some good ideas.
@@bryantsemenza38 hi. Yup depending on how you do it terraces are not to hard to do. Can be expensive. Just depends.
Dale - You could get creative and do paintings on your elevated railroad fairly easily by sawing out large holes (5-10”) on the deck, dropping in rimmed plastic pots so they sit below grade, create some rock work to disguise the top of those pots and drop in a plant! Rosemary would look great because they easily be shaped into small trees - and you could decorate them for Christmas!!
I thought about doing that! I get a little bit nervous for fear that I may introduce water into the decking by cutting into the roofing material. So I’m always hesitant to do that. But I think it could be done successfully.
Great vid, once again. KISS is right on point.
Simple design. As fewer turnouts as you can manage. Drive in and out storage is an idea that is worth the initial outlay...I don't have it..yet. Add cement to your crusher fines/dust when you ballast then sprinkle it with the hose. That way you can hit the track with the m.o.w. blower and only blow debris.
Having a loop for roundy rounds is also good thing. If nothing else , just to have a train running in the background while you're gardening, bbqíng or just sitting thinking about how you'll solve some of the world's ills.
I'm also tending to think about a dedicated space just for the layout. For example adapting an indoor design, like, San Juan Central. Not having it wind it's way around the yard. So it's more, like your timber raised section, a layout that's outdoors, not so much of a garden road.
Yes, after a lot of consideration and planning, we made the decision while building wood bench work would be a lot of work and expense the idea of just having an outdoor railroad, that’s basically built just like an indoor railroad, is worth the effort. One of the great advantages here is that I can run all of my wire underneath the bench where just like I do inside. Even with an elevated planter box type railroad you’re still burying all of your cables. And this is just so much more simple when it comes to maintenance. Which is an issue cause I already have one lantern and an entire building which for some reason I’ve lost their lights. But it will be very simple once Spring comes to figure this out. Right now, I just don’t relish the idea of laying in the snow trying to figure it out!But back when I had a ground a railroad all of my cables were buried underneath the track.
At 9:00 in the video where you showed the ground level track going into the garden shed I immediately had the thought that you could have an 8' section of track inside the shed that could be raised up with ropes- build the train on that raised section of track then lower it to match up with the ground level track and roll it off.
@@billj5645 good idea!
Great advice, especially for those of us with bad knees or bad backs. Have you ever seen Dennis Serines Palos Verde and Southwest railroad. He has ground level and planter box level track that covers about one acre. He has a garage with the wire shelving to store trains and built up areas in the garage for staging. All trains are battery powered so it's one less thing to worry about. Worth the look if you haven't seen it. I think he is in Tempe, AZ. Love your videos.
I will check it out. Wow. Thanks.
I like Dick Saunders solution the best. Not only because it is raised up a couple of feet but allows for plants. You can get so creative with the plantings, used edible herbs as an example, slow-growing succulents, etc. and keep them small as they do at Disneyland’s Storybook Land. But even using annuals that fit the motif (like marigolds for a Southwest theme) would work and despite being out of scale they would look great! I have such a bed along one fence, about 50 feet long and I have often thought about doing that (but it has long been planted with small citrus trees, roses, etc so it would require a complete re-do of that area.
Only problem is part of the railroad can’t be reached from the front so he climbs up there and is back on his knees working. But a peninsula style railroad would eliminate that problem.
Thanks Dale and Karyn! More insights and ideas, galore! BTW....what ratio of the Yellow Dextrin to "Ballast?" Thanks!
@SouthgateLightRailway have done a great job of elevating their track but into raised garden beds that looks like it would be much easier to operate without having to get down on their hands and knees!
When I was in California, I noticed that they did the same thing with strawberries. They have a machine for the ground just like you would normally do for gardening, but the furrows are like 2 1/2 feet deep! Then they wrapped the whole thing in plastic. Then they punch small holes and plant the strawberries in the raised parts. Then as the strawberries come ripe or almost ripe, the pickers can walk along in the furrow’s, and the plants are just barely below their waist level. Much much easier to pick, and this is important because all this picking has to be done by hand.
Hi Dale! Since the Arizona Dust Devils like to come by from time to time with their friend: The Micro-Burst, I have to cement my track work into the ground, or they could knock the whole thing over or rip it right up!! It's like living in Tornado Alley when you least expect it!! That's why my natural plants are so hardy here!! As I build the raised benchwork, I'll install a water 💧 lines to drip feed the bushes and plantings I'll install on the sides of the continuous trestle!! I have always wanted an Herbal Garden here to sell to the general public!! I just wish that I could get help doing this!!!
@@vinnyheaphy1372 a friend cemented his track. It went badly. After about three years it broke in a couple of places. Hard to repair. But generally it was great! I had a small amount and it never had a problem.
@ToyManTelevision
Kiss in the garden? Wasn't that Tiny Tim? (Just tiptoooooe, throoough the tuuulips, wiiith meeeeee...) 😜
@@drewzero1 oh yea! The 60’s. Weird. Tip toe on the moon.
When you upgraded the details on your Bachmann eureka, how did you make the tender wood load?
Wow, that’s a lot of electric lines overhead your railroad.
Everything up on the trellis work is 12 V to run two complete sets of lights. Flickering lights inside the lanterns and puck lights mounted on the bottom of the lanterns for just lighting up the railroad. That way I can turn either circuit on or off. 110 V man also runs through the lattice work but the lower level.