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Hey bud! Good luck with all the work 💪

Love the system. I’ve been using it for years. Makes car forwarding fun and realistic without the excessive paperwork. I also keep track of when I bought the car and when I last serviced it on the back of the card. Same for locos and also all the DCC CV values. Nice and simple.

Always takes time. Thanks for the update!

Hi Stephen. Congratulations on the move. Don't worry about the crap; Rome wasn't built in a day! Happy New Year to you and your family.

happy new year, enjoy the next chapter of your modeling career and journey😉

nice!

Go back to Home Depot etc. Get great stuff expanding foam Anti pest. There’s something in it they don’t like the smell or taste. Or whatever brand you wish. You need to fill the gap at the back towards the wall is where I mean. If you don’t a mouse will get in there and build his nest. They run along the wall and they can squeeze in there.

Steven, Happy New Year to you and your Family. I wish you good luck in your new surroundings and I've got patience enough to wait a little longer before you start your video series again. In the meantime I've been watching your past videos and taking down lots of notes before I finally decide to dive in and start building my small layout. Take your time I'll be looking forward to seeing all your new videos later this year. I'm glad you're back talk to you soon my friend. Thank you for your time Sincerely Allan Martinez

Did ya cross-member that plywood to keep it from sagging on you? One of those 2X8s running between the cabinets "I" beam style should work for ya! Hey, and bolting together milk crates make great open storage for things like those Tonka trucks! Good to see you back into the swing of things! Good luck in the new home!

Great you see you brother! Happy New Year!!! Workbench looks awesome! Are they RC dozers in front of the door?

Welcome back! Happy New Year! Maybe time to build a metal building on your new property as a train room.

Great Carpentry

Thanks for the info. That is exactly how I was going to wire my switches.

I am relatively new to model trains. I am running Kato Unitrack with DCC. I have eight switches which are of course DC. I there anything I need to do running my DC switches on DCC track? I would hate to short my system or trains on the track. Thanks, Jim

Love your track plan but it looks like quite a reach to work on anything over in the right corner. Is that DCC? I’m planning a similar design utilizing a 10 by 10 spare bedroom. Do you have other videos up?

My suggestion for the outlets Is to do conduit on the outside of the walls. It’s the easiest. If you wanted it cheaper could use BX cable. For lights I would buy the shop lights from Home Depot 11$ ea crew then to the roof and plug them into an outlet screwed into your light socket. That is what I did in my basement. Cheap.

when is the new layout comin?

Hang in there bud

Hi Stephen. Starting over is a great time to put into practice what you have learned from previous builds; e.g. make bigger holes for your power bus wire! Remind us about the reason for the move.

Nooooooo!!!!

Oh boy, if I had actually started a TH-cam channel to document my N scale layout build last year I would have lost all my subscribers already. Life just happens and gets busy, family always has to come first but we're always here to share the hobby and we will still be here when you come back!

i do love starting fresh and have many times

Here’s to new adventures. Shed layouts are awesome, they’re huge over in England. Please work on getting family life together first, we’re not going anywhere. We will be here when you’re ready.

Family first we understand life happens and things come up you’ll get there again with the layout. We will wait to see the new build. Until then have a great day and week

Sorry to hear about the disruption of you model railroad journey. What you've shared along the way was appreciated

How about next time you build the layout in modules that are bolted together. I have moved so many times that it is necessary to design and build a moveable layout.

Hi Silver State Trains , sorry to see the layout gone. Moving is a hard job. Me and wife are going to be moving in the near future. We have been here for 37 years it’s not going to be easy. But I agreed to the move if I could have my own train room and she agreed to my idea. We’re planning on getting a modular home and the Lady helping us is making sure I get my train room. I just got layout back running a couple of weeks ago. Been breaking in some new locomotives. Everything is running smoothly. If you have to start out with a small layout it’s fine. Because we all just want to run trains. My layout is a 8 x 4 . I plan to add to it. Good luck with your move and your future plans for a new layout. I’ll be looking for some updates in the future. I’m not going anywhere. You and your family have a very Merry Christmas. Thanks for sharing. Have a good week. 😎😎 👍

sorry to hear you had to move at such short notice, hoping all is well and this works out as a better situation for you and your family. I am not going anywhere, I will be here when you get around to being able to get back to your TH-cam channel, but in the meant time, take care of yourself and loved ones. See you soon!

Hi Silver State Trains & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Silver State Trains & Friends Randy

Moving and Hemerorids have similar characteristics 😮

Starting over is always a pain in the ass... It's nice that you could make the move before the holidays. Something you may want to give some serious thought to is making your next layout modular. If you're ever faced with a situation like this again they're so much easier to tear down and even reconfigure to fit the new spaces or expand. But you and the family have a good holiday and I look forward to what you come up with next!

We will be here!! Im not going anywhere. Get your family back together 1st.

You got this!

You are going to have to do a multiple layer layout.

If And When You Rebuild Think About it Very Hard.

Looking forward to seeing you after the move and establishing of a new layout! Happy holidays to you and your family!

Thank you for showing me that you can use the Kato power pack solely for the switches. I’m new to the hobby and I recently got a DCC controller. So I was scared to use both systems together.

It would be nice if Kato made DCC turn outs. I have one DCC turn out by Bachmann and it’s wireless. It gets the signal right from track power. I’m kinda spoiled by that now 😂

Hi, interested in your buss wire connectors. What are they and where can I get them ? Thanks in advance. John

Best wishes! Salvage the track; redesign a new layout in the new space. Make it modular. Then you’re ready for whatever happens in future. Thanks for your hard work & teaching.

You've got this!!

Borrow some 7th grade boys, they'll loosen all that benchwork for ya !

With all due respect, scrap it and start fresh.

When I saw you working the crow bar I wish that you would have tried to push it instead of pulling. That is if you could manage to get it in between the plank and the wall. This should give more leverage. Anyway glad you managed to get it done. Best of luck with the moving and the model railway hobby.

Good luck with the move. Going to Oregon? Wasn't sure. Thats where I moved to from CALI. What I have done is keep small portions of all my layouts for the new one. Plus lots of photos. I am starting my new build in Oregon soon! Getting the garage set up!

I helped a friend move years ago we wound up cutting his layout into sections stripping the benchwork and switch machine off just leaving the top. Then we built all new benchwork it is standing and running 20years later. We are planning on moving in a year or 2 so I'm building everything modular now

Wow so sorry you have to do this to this beautiful layout. I have had to do this in the past and it did not survive. I sure hope yours does.. would like to see you running again.. good luck..

I stopped watching at 4:10. I cannot watch what happens! Man oh man. 😅😢😂 Great luck with new house and your move bud

This is one reason I’ve been hesitant to start a build. We’re hoping to retire, sell the house, and full-time RV in a year or so. I’d need to sell or store a layout. Still thinking about a small layout, though. Good luck with the move!

Hi Stephen. My thinking is that you have invested too much time to scrap this layout. If you want to move it in one piece, you are going to need a minimum of four other guys (each end of the move) to get it in and out of the truck.