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Touring The Piedmont Southern (115)
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2020
- For some time folks have been asking me for a tour of my Piedmont Southern layout, so here you go! I have been doing lot DCC and related electronics videos lately and given the declining number of views you folks seem to be getting a little tired of seeing so many of them. So I am going to take that as a sign you'd like a little variety, which is fine with me as I may run out of DCC topics to explore at this rate anyway! As you'll see there still is a lot of track to lay, wires to run, turnouts and Tortoises to install, plus a LOT of scenery get done. So let's do a tour of the finished portions of the layout and move on from there.
Very nice layout !!! I liked your narration. I liked your river scene! Very cool, looks so realistic !!
Yes, that river scene is my favorite. I took a trip up there and shot a bunch of photos before building it. I also did a couple of articles in MR about 2015 on building the bridge scene and installing the gantlet track. Recently I did a video on how I control traffic flow across that bridge.
Nice overview of your railroad.
Thanks for the tour, Larry. Love the Southern and their green units and especially including N&W stuff.
You bet
Always interesting to see a layout of a fellow model railroader. Well done and thanks for sharing your railroad........
Philip
Great job, Larry. As a fellow Virginian, it is great to see how you are modeling different places in our beautiful state. Really enjoyed this video...as I do all that you make.
Larry, thanks for the tour. Your layout has a lot of potential for future operations. Thanks again.
Yes, it was designed with operation in mind as the primary focus. I knew up front that with a double deck and typical width of only about 16” there wouldn’t be a lot of room for mountains and other massive scenery but that was the compromise I made for longer runs and more industries. I always loved the way Allen McClelland made his way up to the 2 1/2% grade from Dawson Springs to Sandy Summit on the old V&O and Tony Koester used a similar approach on his old layout but to do that I would have had to give up a lot of other operations. Now with COVID I wonder if I will ever be able to get enough folks into my basement empire to even do a real op session.
Like that you included the town of Shipman !!!!
It really is there on the railroad.
Yes I know that I have relatives that live in Shipman.
Thanks for posting this Larry. Nice to see your layout. A change from your very informative DCC videos.
Very nice.
Awesome layout. As a Southern Railroad fan I've been really looking forward to a layout tour of you layout. From what I had seen in the magazine and here on youtube I could tell that it was probably a very nice layout and I'm not disappointed. Thanks for doing a tour and hope to see more when you get other work done. Stay well. -Wil 👍
Thanks for the layout tour Larry! Enjoyed it.
Larry thank you for showing us your railroad really enjoyed it thank you doing awesome job would like to see some more and progress that you're making and future videos Once again thanks for sharing Michael
Thanks Larry for the tour I very much enjoyed it.
Thank You Larry for the tour. That view of it in the background of your videos and the intro view were always tantalizing! I am starting on my own HO scale double deck layout . It will be a fictional short line l one based in the North Florida area around Lake City & Watertown with the second level in the North Georgia mountains. Many of your electronics videos are a great help to me for when I start the DCC installation. I look forward to your progress on your layout as inspiration for mine also. Pulpwood , Lumber ( a Sawmill) and Paper (a Paper Mill) will be major products on mine.
Larry, thank you for the layout tour, I was finally glad to see the progress on your railroad. I hope you get the time to enjoy it in between all the videos and articles you do!
That’s very impressive looking layout. I love what you’ve done.
Thank you for the tour, and the information on operations! My layout is set two years later and a few miles to the East in Richmond on the Seaboard Air Line. Also, enjoyed seeing all those J’s. I got to ride behind 611 when I was a kid in the 1980s.
Any relation to LLoyd Arthur? He worked for the C&O in Richmond then was transferred to Huntington WVa in the 1960s. He was my uncle though my mother’s sister.
I checked with my Dad - not that either of are aware of - but my Great Aunt did some pretty thorough genealogy and traced the Arthur's back to the 1650's in VA. He'll dig that out and give it a look. Maybe a distant cousin? I'll keep you posted.
Nice Layout Larry, the scenery that is done is nice. Bob
Thank ypu, that was a very nice tour, great looking layout
Fascinating tour! Much thanks!
Awesome tour of your layout, enjoyed it 😊
Thanks for posting this video. I heard you mention Tye River on a recent video, and was curious about the area that you are modeling. I am trying to model the essence of the current Norfolk Southern from Charlottesville to Manassas.
Not a lot in that section as I remember. There was a facility down south of Culpepper and there branch out to Warrenton just below Manassas but when I used to pace the N&W on excursion runs there wasn’t much, a pretty rural area. There’s some industries in Culpepper, Orange, and Gordonsville, and the interchange with the CSX so I’m sure you can find both local and run through traffic to model. Google Maps is a great resource for scoping out the territory and planning a trip.
Thanks for the reply. You are right, mostly run-through traffic: double stacks, some mixed freight, Amtrak and a local between Charlottesville and Manassas; plus the Buckingham Branch. Enough to keep me entertained, and way too much for my small N scale layout. Richard (former CSX).@@TheDCCGuy
amazing layout wish i could do something like this but we have some space constraints due to the shape of the loft
Great layout!
love it. thanks for the tour! i like that red clay.
Thank you for the layout tour! It’s great to be able to see the layout after watching so many of your DCC videos!
Sure do wished I could have helped you build the layout. Not sure what happened but regardless. It's turned out very nice.
It’s still a work in progress, Where are you located?
@@TheDCCGuy I used to live in Weaverville. I live in east TN now. I came over alot when you first was getting somewhat started. I op on Wally browns Asheville division occasionally.
@@TheDCCGuy seems like alot of folks in the model rr community basically ghosted me with no explanation as to why. Seems a little unfair to me as I would have respected whatever reason someone would have of not inviting me back but at least to give me an opportunity to fix whatever the issue was. Rather I've been pushed outside of the community and only have a handful of folks who even have anything to do with me. I've actually got a large layout plan in the works now but with hardly no one to help. Just seems like thee opposite of the message I'd assume we'd want to send to folks in this hobby. I love this hobby too much to just up and let it go because someone had an issue with me. You may or may not reply and I respect that but just know I never really found it much fair. I've had to do alot of growing up over the last several years and I'm still being shown the same respect I was years ago when I lived in NC. Either way. I wish you luck with your layout. It looks great and I'm sure will attract many operators when finished.
Hay Larry : As a Subscriber and no doubt like many others; I have been WAITING for this Layout-Tour viddy ! It is certainly good to see a historically-based prototypic; OpS-orientated Layout ! A rather simple query .... What scale ? In closing : Much Thanks for your interesting U-TJOOB channel. Cheers For Now / Johnny Everitt
Having just gotten into DCC a few months ago (24 previous years in DC), I've watched many of your videos lately. I'm from, and live in, Lynchburg - and had no idea until now that you're modeling this area. You're pretty much nailing the scenery! Thanks for the tour! Do you plan to have an interchange with the VBR at Tye River?
Yes, the interchange track there will be a major source of traffic. I made several trips there over the years to do presentations for Bill Cox at his annual train show. Then in 2013 I went up for a photo trip to shoot location shots from Charlottesville to Lynchburg. So I have a lot of images to refer to when doing scenery. Have you ever seen Bill’s layout? He used to own Trains Unlimited and lives out near Amherst.
@@TheDCCGuy Yes, I know Bill pretty well from being a customer. Visited his layout early on, but haven't seen it or him in years. Sure is a small world, and it's always interesting to know there is some connection to the person whose video one is watching. Same for magazine articles.
I met Bill about 25 years ago when he was a member of the club at the old shop before Bill bought it. He really hasn’t done much with his layout in recent years. Last I heard he had a lot of his son’s stuff just stored in there.
@@TheDCCGuy I'd love to have that much space. As it is, I have an almost-finished logging layout in my front bedroom, and began work on a modern-day layout in my 1/3 of a basement in August. It's a huge challenge down there, what with furnace piping, water lines, washer/dryer, etc. To add to the fun, the concrete floor was an afterthought and is nowhere near level! The core of it is operating, though, in 12' x 14', and I'll expand it later
what decals and paint did you use for the N&W passenger train in the beginning scene?
That consist was done about 20 years ago using a set from a company in Roanoke VA that mo longer exists so I doubt you will find them. I don’t know who else may make anything similar any,ore.
May I thank you for shewing your Layout, looks great, where do you find the Time, guess you don’t watch much TV! Nice to see the J’s I guess your Timescale might be too late for a K1 but what about an A? Keep Safe.
I do have a K2a which was a mountain class but with the same streamlining as the Js. They were sometimes called Baby Js.
Excellent layout. I assume the connection to the GWR has yet to be built for all those tank engines to run on?
Actually the GWR layout will be a separate entity, about a 2x8’ module with fiddle yards at each end. I am planning to install traverser instead of using casettes. It will be operated as a run through instead of branch line terminus more or less like Buckfastleigh before the Ashburton connection was removed.
Larry:
Great to see what you're building. What are you using for turnouts? What code of rail?
Most turnouts are MicroEngineering #6 with some Walthers #5 in yards. Track is mainly code 83 with some code 70 for industries and pulpyards.
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Very nice.