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I found Ojus Park to be well done and very immersive. One solution to the problem of being unable to start benchwork would be modular/sectional construction. That would make any reconfiguration very easy, for example working your layout around a corner by adding a module with a 90 degree curve.

what a fantastic location you chose ! that bridge is awesome

Excellent video! I have a temporary “Popup” layout the same size as yours that is fun to operate…always wondered what scenery would add to it. Now I know. Thanks for posting. Good job.

The clumps were amazing. Thank you.

good stuff

The concept of "staging" is how you leave the scene (or stage) on a model railroad regardless of the size - unless you prefer to run in circles. If you care to know more about this concept try reading Ian Rice. Furthermore, Tony Koester wrote that every point-to-point railroad should have stub end staging at each end. Staging can be all manner of things, from physically removing rolling stock and locomotives from the layout by hand, or driving them off onto a staging track considered to be - off the layout - into the imaginary world we do not have the luxury to model. In theory, most model railroaders use a form of manual staging without even realizing what it means. Cheers. 😁

Looking forward to the new build PostModern . Can’t wait to see what you come up with. Remember your layout your enjoyment we get to go for the ride. Have a great day and enjoy the hobby

This is the first video of yours that was suggested on my channel page and I’m very interested. Love to see where it’s going from here, keep us informed! 😍👊

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Christian, I'm sorry to see ojus park go I learned some excellent scenery technics from this layout! can't wait to see what you come up with for your next layout!

Wow, the first 2 minutes of introduction to the video, I’m really trying to determine if it was modeling or real life scenery. A tribute to your work and skills!

I Love David Barrow’s Domino Cat Mountain and Santa Fe Railroad! I built a number of 8’ by 2’ Dominos 30 years ago that would be 1994. I just never got to putting them together into a layout. I hope to start up a layout in 2025 using N Scale KATO Unitrack. Wish me luck!

Being realistic, but for whom ? The modeler or visitors ? It´s your world ! You want a third rail in the middle with rack & pinion to climb 10% grade like Mount Washington cog railway ? Go ! You want modern D&RGW narrow gauge with SD40 ? Go ! After all, that´s what they did with our surplus SD40 in Brazil. They remove CC trucks and put BB+BB. Their own SD45 came from EMD with DD trucks like UP Centenial. Specially if you freelance. Your railroad will be right on the moon ! No mental limit. After all, big CN had also GE 44 and 70 tons and narrow gauge. Last, everything is a matter of scale. In HO we´re inflenced by magazine, YT, train show etc... and a tendancy to always more details, lights, sounds in an industry that push us to buy more, more detailed and costly. Honest, why super detailing underframe ? Except if you run your cars on their sides....sort of artistic form of modeling. But who´s right ? Picasso with its soft like melting watches, Monet, Gauguin ? When you leave HO tchou tchouing in the basement and go outside in 1/8, it´s a different game. You don´t watch tchou tchou, you sit on tchou tchou. You are part of the layout and move in it. SD40 is available, and you handlay your track and turnout. The fun is to be part of that motion. Some are very happy with their boxy plywood ugly locomotive.....that are always shiny. No weathering like in HO. Playing with trains can be so different from size to size. A good cue is to model invisible industries. Those off the layout. A turnout, a foot or 2 of track and a dock. Load, unload wood, pipe, machinery, liquid, whatever you want, keeping variety of rolling stock with enough land for truck movment. Choose the right era for your available space. I see so modern big power locomotive on layout that i´m sick. How to fit those monsters on 4 X 8 feet table pulling autorack ? 2 forty foot boxcars are shorter than a single autorack. You love covered hopper ? Fine. Haul cement instead of grain or plastic pellet. Same style, half the lenght. There was shortline with small GE 70 tons, even 44. Add 6 or 7 "short" cars. You have a decentbfreight or peddler that will take with ease 15 or 18" curves on turnout #4. It´s funny cause the freight you showed us was a bunch of different styles short hoppers around 40 feet, then bang, long flat car. Modeling an iron ore line with even shorter cars, why not ? Planet Earth isn´t only double stack behind UP, CSX and NS. Once old boxcars were used at grain elevators. 6 of them is 3 feet of track. Era = cars/loco lenght = minimum radius curve and turnout ÷ by your actual space. In plant only is an other option. Like a mine train from underground that dump before returning down. Many industries did it. EMD had its own inplant switcher, as did MLW. Steel mill, refinery, harbour etc... Your dream, your world ! Enjoy hollidays, and in 2025, the best for all with PostModerne Boomer and Chicago Crossing (and others too). What a great year !

amazing video! sounds like an interesting plan :)

You´re back ? What a cool Christmas present you offered us. Welcome back home. The family is complete now😊😊😊😊😊 And the train must go on .

I'm currently constructing my third and final signature layout. Its 17 1/2' ft. long and 18 3/4" inch wide. Its a freelance HO scale modular style, inspired by David Burrow's Santa Fe & Cat Mountian benchwork. Set loosly in the time era of 1970's. Fictionaly and not to scale, it repersents a 12 mile rural industrial branchline, that connects via at a junction connection, 1.5 miles south of the Cougar Yard interchange, with the class one railroad MKT(Katy). Its point to point style and Cougar Yard Interchange serves as open car stageing as well. I'm modeling a small rural town business area with the basics, a cafe', three store bldg. merchant row, a gas station, and a small Safeway Store. This will be compressed into a corner on a upper level, with tracks passing under it. The town is the fictional Oklahoma town of Ink Falls. Theres five industries varying in size. The two largest is Union Tire Mfg. and Crimson Scrap & Steel. The medium one is a coal fired steam generated electric powerhouse, pumphouse, cooling towers, and electrical sub station.The selective compressed backdrop industries is a steel coil Alloy mfg., and a warehouse. This layout will have a perfect balance of alot in the largest facilities, to less and compressed in the smaller plus backdrop facilities. With a touch of a country business district rural town, the kind you find in rural Oklahoma. You know, if you blink passing through the one yellow flashing light intersection, the town is in the tailights in a matter of seconds! Lol😁 The branchline railroad is Walthers code 70 track and turnouts. Its name is Company West & Katy Industrail Branchline Railroad. A combonation of Autumn scenery, and photo backdrop rural Autumn scenery, and a few negitive spaces with rocky hills and trees, just a couple of main roads and service roads, ect., will set up the layout to look larger than it is, with a combo of taste in industrial, rural, and small town America variety. With just enough super-detailing that it pulls the eyes of the viewer into the scenes, before they've a chance to realize how small the layout actually is. My last layout was a large city and industrial scenes with spagetti tracks going everywhere. It was difficult to maintain and I eventually become burned out and overwhelmed, with too many unfinished projects. After 6 years of work, I had to move, so down it come and I sold out everything. Now 13 years later my approach is simplicity. The size of the layout allows me to remain old school DC. Letting me enjoy the way less expense that DCC involves. I do have a stationary sound system and will have misc. animations and constant loco lighting. Just because its DC, you don't have to not have some enjoyment from digital devices. Theres alot of products out there so DC modelers can enjoy sound and such from the digital world. My advice is stay simple, stay reasonable, mix in selective compression with extreme super-detailing in your larger industries. You'll acheive balance. Your pics of your old layout was fantastic modeling! I believe you've got the artistic mind and ability to acheive what your reaching for this go around. I'll subscribe. I'd enjoy watching you create. I might even be inspired with ideas I never thought of from viewing your work. God Bless my friend, and most of all, if Model Railroading isn't fun anymore, and is more like the burden of work, its not Model Railroading! 👌👍

Looking forward to the journey!

Thank you for the detailed scenery photos and design suggestions. Happy New Year.

Very interesting thought process and perspective. Looking forward to future updates.

Ojus Park was visually outstanding, can't wait to see what you create this time around!

I appreciate your insights. I've been struggling with the same design issues - I think most of us want our cake and eat it too! It's becoming more and more clear that less is more with a small shelf layout.

Very interesting and well done

I thought this was brilliant! Taking the shelf layout and zooming in instead of zooming out. Makes perfect sense. Looking forward to the build. Enjoyed the look back at the Park. You did good with that layout. Snazzy intro, btw 🙂

Gives me something to think about when I start laying track on my 8 foot long layout .

Nice setup. Good to see ya back.

i like my storage things amd it has a handle to carry it around i think they are called finger nail polish holder and they are not cheap and i cut some of the dividers so i can put the bigger bottle of paint from walmart i have maybe 3 different sizes of paint bottles in them

Great way to organize and store all those paint supplies.

Very cool Christian I need to do something like this too. Built a lot of shelf’s to put the paint on. Just running out of room for it all. Well organized for sure with this paint holder. Merry Christmas to you have a great week take care

I use clear acrylic storage trays, 6"x8" and 6"x6". From the dollar store, they cost me $1.50 each and are cheaper than custom alternatives. When using Tamiya bottles, they are stackable, and stable. If you have some on-desk shelving, this is the perfect option as you can store just about all of your supplies without issue. Thanks for sharing your great content!

Your storage unit looks fantastic, something I need to

It looks like it definitely meets the need.. I do need to look into organizers, my work bench is literally a pig sty.. those look great 👍 Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

Thank you!

I really like your layout!

No suggestions so thanks for wasting my time and ban width!

Pretty cool rr bridge . Nice catch. 😎👍🏼

Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.

outstanding catch! cool bridge scene there :)

Nice catch, great little spot to model..

Looks warm there Christian nice catch hope your well good seeing a video Enjoy the captures Happy RailFanning 😎🚂🫵TSM

Nice job! What are you using for the base of your building?

Great video! Very cool! I'm just getting into the hobby and I've discovered that I like this style and the gp38-2

And the Model Railroad Category is: Best Looking Garbage & Trash And the Winner Is?😮 I can see the King Rats scurrying around!!!

Hello, I love the photography Ken Burns effect. How did you do that? I would like to be able to do something photo wise in the future. Many thanks and love your set up. As soon as I watched the first one I knew you must've been a fan of Boomer as I am as well. Cheers.

Can’t find earlier videos what are the dimensions of your layout, very nice work i model the earlier version the ACL

Great looking trees and nice tutorial, looking forward to the pine tree.

I got interested in making a small detailed model train railroad from watching some small Japan model railroads. I tried to build a room filling - layout ,but it just turned into a drag. I could never create interesting scenes, I was only worried about filling in blank spaces and the scenery stunk and was too booring ! Now I create a switching layout and have more fun with a 4 x 6 layout ! I love it NOW !

you make some really nice trees man :)

Took me about two weeks to build this very same kit. Was fun.

Finding parts on the floor? Highly unlikely in my experience These look like really nice cars.