My G Scale Garden Railway: July 2023 Update (Major Renovation Work) 🚂🚧🛠️
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- My wife and kids went on a trip for a week and it fee me the chance to get some much needed work done on my layout.
In this video, I go over issues I had with my old layout and changes I'm making on my new layout to improve it.
For those who are interested, I found the Crest Rail Clamps to be VERY easy to install and the price is great;
www.rldhobbies.com/rev-57102....
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:52 What I am doing
05:45 Ranting about curve radius
07:45 Ranting about switches
09:35 Layout walkaround
12:05 Airplane interruption
12:30 Track Cleaner goes to work.
13:03 Track/Power Issues at switches
13:30 Oh for !@#$ sake
14:26 New layout at the train shed
16:38 Running trains on the new layout
18:05 Sonofa biscuit.... (derailment)
20:43 Running the Mikdao and more commentary
22:48 Running the LGB Santa Fe F7 and more rambling
24:43 Epilogue 
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I like the new plan because it will give you options coming out of the yard to go left or right. I agree with what you said about railclamps. I have them around my switches so if I have to pull one the rest of the track does not have to be disturbed. Half of my RR has clamps the other has joiners and it works. I have had the same issues with engines stalling on long switches. It is rare one of those bars underneath breaks loose but it does happen. I used small screws to fix them. More than likely it is a short wheel base loco that is stalling on the frog as was the case with your LGB grinder. Nice upgrades.
Most of my switches I bought used to save money. In hindsight, this is the one thing I don't think I'd buy used again. In fact, I just bought some new piko switches to replace the troublesome ones.
@@ShadowVFX Most of my switches are used. New ones are so nice with their shiny rails but they are usually lots of money. I have seldom had issues with used LGB16000's but it all depends on how much they have been used. I think your problems might be stemming from either a dead rail or the short wheelbase not being able to make it over the frog. Your RR looks great.
Have you ever posted your track plan? i'd love to see exactly what curves are used in each spot.
Here is a map I made about 1 year ago. It's still pretty close to accurate, but as you can see in my video, I did rework the low end of the layout a bit from what you see here:
photos.app.goo.gl/mapB72EDj4bBrn2R8
Time to go battery/radio! Railpro would do fine with range, but is pricy. Revolution is the next best, but MU'ing on the Railpro trumps all. Sadly RP only has about 25-40feet of range, strange for 2.4Ghz, but likely due to its poor radio inside the g-scale unit in the loco. You could sell your LGB track cleaner and have enough to invest in RP ;)
Installing those systems in a single locomotive with a battery average about $200. Maybe more depending on the battery. I have 12 locomotives, so that's definitely not within my budget.
What track program did you use for your update? Love the new look
I used SCARM. It's a pretty good track planning tool. I had to google some things to figure it out, but once I got the hang of it, I found it to be a really useful tool.
www.scarm.info/
Hand held cams sucks
It must be nice to throw out criticism without producing anything of your own. I make these videos for fun. Sorry I didn't go try hard mode and make a curated video for your viewing experience. I'm not going to invest in a pro setup and spend thousands of dollars on better equipment for my YT channel that literally earns me zero bucks.
Move along to another video, bro. Plenty of videos out there for you to enjoy.