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I really like this layout and everything and I bought it off your page but was wondering how hard would it be to transfer the KATO unit track into atlas code 55 flex track and i couldn’t really tell off the page the dimensions of the whole bench work on widths and lengths

Very nice, thanks for your work!

It's good that there is someone who has taken the trouble to explain the issue of card cars correctly and simply. I thank you very much . Regards

Exactly what I need I only have the the corner of the conservatory. How big are each board please.

total peco bias with out a doubt micro engineering is the best turnout, any micro engineering product is top notch, peco is fine for european tie spacing not american tie spacing

What a fantastic, simple, and operationally sound branch line and mines. Very inspirational and exactly what I was looking for as I plan my iron ore layout! I love the small steam and train arrangement.

Great and unique yard design. Watching you operate has been very helpful and has given me some insights into ways to operate a yard and design my own. I appreciate the ease and simplicity of the operation and the design itself.

You can also get even more interesting operations if you do not have a run around, but instead always have two locomotives on your local. It will take many more movements and can really tax your problem solving.

There’s something really cool about incorporating a barge into a layout’s operation.

Sure looks big for HO Scale.

I am going to emulate this plan in O scale!! Absolutely the style I need for my limited space!

Now if they would just make one for steam engines!

As always, I enjoy watching your video’s, very helpful. Though, I am curious about the site name? Are you based in Dubai?

How do you do this???❤

1:53 Your example turns 2 into more of a division point yard. For a true junction yard, I'd expect that the train would run from 3 to 1, as in your original example, but would drop off the cars for 2, c and d at 2 on its way past. 6:09 There's only one hyphen in "run-around". It's a place where you run around something, not a place where a round is run (whatever that would mean). 13:40 That caboose track just looks wrong. Taking a caboose off that track to put on the end of a train is going to require multiple moves and at least one run around.

What type turnout is that?

How to easily and quickly.... LOLOL

4 tracks for such a small intermodal could be reduced. Why not use 2 of them for something else ?

Great video, very interesting. I’m working on a few complex industries, with several spots and internal moves, so this is very interesting. My industries in this category are a large leather factory, with receiving, cleaning, loading, and several different load/unload facilities (hides in, chemicals in, supplies/equipment in, coal in, finished leather out, bristles/hair out, ash out), and a similar setup for a paper mill.

Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

Can I ask a Patreon question? I see 3 Patreon plans. At what level do you get access to the plans? And/or is there an additional fee for each plans for members at the different levels? Thanks. This plan is extremely interesting as I have 2 8’ walls connected together with the 3rd wall being 12’. I’m just getting started after being away for 45 years. BTW, Outstanding work!

I absolutely love that layout plan, as it fits perfectly into my proposed takeover of a 10 by 10 spare bedroom corner. Returning after a long long hiatus to N scale, many questions. What is maximum grade ? Also the length of run appears short to accommodate the raised track over the bridges? Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Being a semi-noob (I had an N scale layout 50 years ago). I found this extremely educational. As I'm getting back into the hobby, I have layout size constraints, and thus train scale limitations. Train scales are between Z and T. I'm shooting for Z but I have a large requirement list. I'm trying to stick to a 36" x 24" size board. I was thinking of a double loop with a marshaling yard and maybe a cargo destination point or two in the middle. After watching your video, I was thinking of putting your core at the bottom of the layout for east/west traffic (right/left), and a loop for the local branch with a couple of business spurs, and a passenger terminal. Are there any software programs for track layouts, so I know the quantity of specific track pieces needed?

The colours of the railway i model include a lot of yellow

Thank you for sharing all the great ideas. I’ve been looking for a Lift bridge for mine because I’m installing my layout in a 20 feet long by 10 foot wide utility shed on the side of my house since I have no basement or attic so this is where my layouts gonna be. Again, thank you for all the ideas.

Oh my goodness! I stumbled upon your TH-cams about designing and building a layout based on Kingsbury Street. I’m the guy who wrote the original article in Model Railroader back in 1975. Just delighted to see what you’ve done. I loved what Bill Denton did with it in N scale, but always wanted to do it in HO, like you. In ’75, when I wrote the article, I was a 23-yr-old whippersnapper. Worked in the Montgomery Ward HQ in public relations. Would walk the street on my lunch hour looking at the tracks and came up with the article. Can’t believe it’s 50 years later and the article lives on in your work. Stumbled upon Bill Denton’s layout online years ago and was blown away. Got to meet him and see layout in person. He put me wise to the Erie Railroad’s water-rail transfer facility at the foot of Erie Street, as presented in Vol. 7, No.1, of The Diamond. Not having space for a layout, I’ve done a lot of wishful planning, including a 4’x8’ full-size version of the Erie yard and barge facility. Also expanded my thinking to include a stretch of Kingsbury and the bob-tail swing bridge at the south end. Actually built the swing bridge from Central Valley bridge components. No place to put it, so it lives in a box. Would like to show you the track plans if you’re curious. Thank you for giving new life to Kingsbury Street. You should see the high-rise condos sitting where rails once ran. Best wishes.

So which one is better, I have the hex frog juicer, due to our mail strike , can’t get anything from the UK at the moment, going to use on my #8 crossover x two

Very cool I am going to install a Hex frog juicer for my crossover, locomotives don’t like the dead spots

Cobblestone is a unique and rarely modeled scene. Nicely done!

Fantastic

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Thank you. Very informative. I’ve never seen so much good information explain all types of operations in such a short video.

Where can you purchase this design? I am very new to the hobby and would like to build this as my first. It has everything I would want and ability to operate with 2-3 people in a smaller space is what I am after. A parts list for Kato and some how tos is what I’m looking for Please let me know where to find this so I can get started here

Research to teach trains to not blow horns in town at all hours of the night.

I like the graphic you show of the different turnouts, is that available to download? Thank you.

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Nice plan. I was wondering how your client built the layout and handled the #4 turnouts without the 60L and 60R pieces.

My personal favorite for steam is WowSound.

Hi Bart. Great design, just wondered about where the track splits below the curved girder bridge - would that need to be wired for a reverse loop? Thanks, Alan

Great explanation of both your design process and switching principles. Thank you. 🙏🏼

Great idea, going to try it... please lower the background music level.

My dad seen it on a way to his work in Fujairah

As an engineer I love this!!

Are the track plans for this layout available via the patreon?

Do you have any suggestions for a 36"x80" tabletop design on a door? I live in an apartment and that's really all the space I have. The plan I laid out is a simple double track oval around the outside, outer for passenger trains and the inner one for freight trains. There is a small two track "yard" off the inner loop for industry. There will be two mountains with tunnels (to give the effect that the trains actually go somewhere) in each rear corner with a lake edge and bridges for trains to cross the lake on the far side. The middle is mostly a small Mayberry-like town with a highway running left to right (crossing tracks) and a vertical road from the yard to the top of the layout and beyond. This creates one paved intersection with other roads being dirt or gravel. My thinking is that this will allow me to run two trains at the same time and do a bit of switching for the industries. I only hand three rules when I began this. 1) It must fit on a door. 2) it must run two trains. 3) It must have a small town made from Walthers and Woodland Scenics kits. It probably looks boring ang to grid like as the track just runs in a loop with no curves or inclines. I've watched videos like yours and I just don't have the room for anything too elaborate. Thanks for the ride around your layout.

Hoping you don't run your trains so fast as near the end of the vid !! Slow down, bro. There's heavy tonnage moving on the rails...