@coreybonsall in this case it's a frog at standard junction with a big gap. It's never caused a derailment, and I love the sound. So, no plan on "fixing" it! Thank you!
Great layouts start with great bench work! Great job. Personally, I've always stayed away from helixes in my designs; the thinking being that, for all the efforts toward prototype realism, helixes are jarringly unreal. They are, also, undeniably useful and pretty cool looking.
@CraftedJR metal wheels, yes everything on the layout has them, probably 90% are walthers metal wheel/ metal axle. Everything is kadee metal couplers - I like the whisker couplers the best but there are plenty of good old number 5's around. Weight... that's tricky. The roundhouse hoppers are insanely light. A lot of people have addressed this by gluing stuff into visible side of the car and.... I won't do that. I intend to run empties and I think it looks like hell. What I do is glue fine steel shot into the UNDERSIDE of the spaces created by the bays. This means I have a limit on how much I can add. So, they're weighted... more than stock, but still pretty light. They come in at about 3.2 Oz on average - the shot adds just shy of an Oz. The loads I make are also quite light, under an Oz- I don't want big differences in loaded vs unloaded trains operationally so the cars have to track good with our without the load. Since shooting this video I successfully added 10 more cars and pulled 60 cars up without issue. Realistically, trains will max out at 30ish in ops
Superb track laying and construction. Awesome job!
Oh baby. Those E units sound good. You're track work is beautiful.
Thank you for sharing. Very nice, F7's doing their job and sounding good as well.👍
B-E-A-utifal! Love the little click-clack of a long drag!
@coreybonsall in this case it's a frog at standard junction with a big gap. It's never caused a derailment, and I love the sound. So, no plan on "fixing" it! Thank you!
Smooth move, Ray!
Your Reply to CraftedJR was very thorough, useful and interesting.🤗 You have no qualms about going the extra mile!
🚂Lawrence
@locolorenzo thank you. Happy to share the details.
You have me considering building a helix!
Go for it! Just take your time, not as scary a people make them sound.
Great layouts start with great bench work! Great job. Personally, I've always stayed away from helixes in my designs; the thinking being that, for all the efforts toward prototype realism, helixes are jarringly unreal. They are, also, undeniably useful and pretty cool looking.
This looks very cool , impressive
one of my favorite places to watch on my layout is trains running the helix.
More a stress test on this diesels 😂😂…cool run👍🏽
@@georgiasunbelt thanks! They really didn't seem to be working that hard. I also ran it with 2 life like sd-7s that also seemed ok
OK, I'm impressed
@@trainsontuesday 😆 that wasn't the goal, but thank you!!!
Nice!
I'm assuming all of your freight cars are weighted with metal wheels and kadees?
@CraftedJR metal wheels, yes everything on the layout has them, probably 90% are walthers metal wheel/ metal axle. Everything is kadee metal couplers - I like the whisker couplers the best but there are plenty of good old number 5's around. Weight... that's tricky. The roundhouse hoppers are insanely light. A lot of people have addressed this by gluing stuff into visible side of the car and.... I won't do that. I intend to run empties and I think it looks like hell. What I do is glue fine steel shot into the UNDERSIDE of the spaces created by the bays. This means I have a limit on how much I can add. So, they're weighted... more than stock, but still pretty light. They come in at about 3.2 Oz on average - the shot adds just shy of an Oz. The loads I make are also quite light, under an Oz- I don't want big differences in loaded vs unloaded trains operationally so the cars have to track good with our without the load. Since shooting this video I successfully added 10 more cars and pulled 60 cars up without issue. Realistically, trains will max out at 30ish in ops
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@darenhamill9881 hello!