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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome to the first cab-ride on the Sydney project railroad.
This run starts in the mezzanine staging and runs around the whole of the lower level before climbing to the current end-of-track at the top of the helix.
I'm presenting this a little out of sequence, so you may see glimpses of completed work that has yet to appear in a progress video.
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That is an impressive project Peter. The bench work and wiring is amazing. And the track curves are some of the nicest I've ever seen. Thank you for sharing.
Like many here, I have followed this build from the design stage. I have run out of words to describe how impressed I am. Saying it's awesome or amazing is not enough.
Wow - seeing the different elevations is so satisfying. These are exactly what I wanted!
Simply outstanding, and it gives an altogether different perspective with which to appreciate not just your carpentry skills but the extraordinary track-laying where 'straight' really is straight and the pointwork is butter smooth. You're a craftsman, quite exceptional. Have a wonderful New Year.
That superstructure is gorgeous!
Fantastic ride on an amazing railway. Cant wait till another Ride on the completed project. Utterly amazed by the sheer scale of the Railway when viewed from the Locomotive view point. Hats of to you Peter. Happy New Year. Cheers
Several more rides are coming soon.
Your track work is pure perfection!!!!
Holy crap this is a large track! :-O
And it is not even finished! Well done.
Yah, right? I think the scale is 1:1 lol
What a beautiful piece of work! 👏
The ride is so smooth 🚄
Your track layout is just perfect so straight. Everyone must also look at your wiring. Great Job. [Mike HO from Australia]
Fantastic. Excellent build quality and the wiring is nice and cleanly done. A true work of art. Well done.
Wow! Crazy amount of talent. Enjoyed the ride.
Great project you are working on! With all due respect for amateurs who is the love of their hobby, creative, self-taught skills, etc. the quality of your workmanship and layout is top-notch professional!
Nicely done Peter, always makes a difference seeing it from an engineers view point. Know from experience that this time of year can't be good when a loved one isn't there anymore, even if from a few years ago, but wishing you all the best for 2025.
Thank-you.
Yes, I still miss her.
This evening, I cooked a full roast dinner for myself, just as she would have done for me on a day like today.
@@mpeterllI never met Ellie but from your tribute video she looked like a beautiful and grace filled person
Thanks for the cab ride video, Peter! Happy New Year to you!
Wow Peter ... Just wow. Happy New Year from the UK
Thanks for the ride that layout is awesome hope to see it finish, happy new year
Thank you for all your content during 2024. Hope 2025 will be a good year in any way possible.
Happy New Year Peter.
Regards from Sweden.
Beautiful work. 🎉🎉Have a Great 2025. Cheers Peter from downunder
It is all so smoooooth! And the mainline long built turnouts look SUPER! Thanks for not putting the loco into a full double gainer off the top of the helix! 😊
Happy New Year, hope it's a good one for you. What you have created is brilliant and looking forward to seeing any progress during 2025, so much I have subscribed to your channel Your workmanship is spot on and I can only aspire to the quality. How lovely to do this for someone and get paid for the enjoyment.
Even if I had the space I just can't imagine doing all that formwork let alone the gorgeous job on cable management! Then again, if I had the space, I'd probably have all the right tools to make creating the formwork and cabling less of a challenge. For every section of track there's a significant amount of wood and wire involved. But just look at how the cabling on the helix is nicely run up the interior with drop lines concealed as reasonably as possible to reach through to the outer track. I am not much of a "scenery" person but I can see how you could end up with absolutely no cabling showing once you detail everytying. There is so much to like about how professional this all looks.
Perfection! Also enjoyed the views of the shop.
Well done layout❤
Thanks for the entertaining videos and Happy New Year, from Arizona.
Awesome mate and happy new year to you 👍
That was simply amazing! Thanks for sharing the birds-eye view!
Wooohoooo - hear those EMD SD70 ACEs 😅
That was amazing. Great work on that layout.
Not a railway modeller, but the architecture and engineering looks amazing!
Absolutely
Happy New Year Peter!
Only 85 seconds, just to get out of staging... Most impressive on size and layout. Funny to mix in the fotostop at 03:15 🙂 Happy 2025!
It would be a lot less with a long train that uses the full length of the staging track.
Very impressive
Lot's of staging. Very nice.
A model railroad can never have too much staging.
There's another full-length 9-track yard under that one (making three staging levels in total).
That was great, thank you and Happy New Year
Cool ride.
🇧🇷👏🏻👏🏻🚂🚂🚂
Belíssimo trabalho Mr. Peter!
Awesome so far. Greetings from Hamburg/ Germany.
Happy New Year!🚂🦮👍👍👍👍✌️
Très belle infrastructure bonne décoration et
Joyeuse année 😊
Excellent gonna be even better when you get the signal system working and some scenery on the open parts if you’re doing any scenery
Monumental task.
Great work! Please include answers to the questions about whether or not you will be doing scenery and if you will be able to document delivery and set up in an upcoming episode.
I've answered both of those questions at least a dozen times, but most of my viewers don't bother to read other people's questions or my answers to them.
@ Sorry, rather new to your channel. Happy New Year!
Nice wire work.
LOL! Very nice!
AMAZING!!
Is this the largest layoutyou have ever done? I've only been watching acouple of years. I must say that you are quite the master builder and designer!!!
There was one a few years ago (the Messabe & Western) that would have been larger if the owner hadn't lost interest. I only got to build phase-I of it though.
I so need a layout like that
WOW! Cheers 🇦🇺
Is there any chance to see that in reality? That would be the experience of the year and do much inspiration.
Epic!
Cool! The mezzanine looks like you are underneath something like a highway overpass or airport terminal.
I was going to say something similar, but my thought was being on a track in a big, modern train station. Wonderfully smooth ride, as expected - I'm glad the customer seems happy!
This is the best thought out layout I have ever seen, but the plywood must have cost a fortune.
It's "Baltic birch", and it's about $100 a sheet.
Comment for the algorithm. All superlatives have already been written. Indeed, your magnus opus: "Sidney Project in OO major."
It's H0, you heretic 😂😂😂
@@maurizioalbera Indeed, tis the season for HO, HO, HO.
Peter, I'm starting to get separation anxiety. What will happen when you disassemble this masterpiece, box it up and ship it to your client. Will you be on site to unbox, assemble and do final acceptance testing? If so, will you be able to video the process and share it with your patrons?
There will be many more videos before you need worry about that.
Hi Peter how close are you to delivery, and is the owner going to complete the landscaping?
If I win lotto one day I will be giving you some work on my already planned out HO layout (on Anyrail7....I was bored during covid lockdowns...LOL)of the Rio Grande Tennessee Pass. It would need a 60m x 20m shed (or giant basement....LOL) I worked it out that a scale cliff face for the Royal Gorge section where the road bridge goes over the gorge would be approx 3m high from the base level.....
9:38 ... were you tempted to keep going 😁
Absolutely not. If you watch carefully, you will see that slowed down early to make sure the throttle hadn't lost contact.
Thanks for the ride Peter. Well done ! How is the ratio 'hidden' to 'visible' track ? Happy New Year !
I'm not sure, but I suspect that staging comprises somewhere close to half the total track.
I would think about putting in some kind of interlock so that when that movable section is not in place the trains can't run off the edge.
There's no need. Once the railroad is moved to its final location, that will be a fixture. Until then, it's only going to see the occasional test train - no operating sessions.
@@mpeterll Thanks for the explanation.
Dude.
Looks great, the wiring and benchwork is so clean. What’s the distance between each level? - Steve
It varies. Full elevation details are available in the design video.
Amazing!!!,what’s the scale mileage on this beast?👍👍✌️✌️
I don't know what the mail line length is, but total track length when it's done is almost exactly 1KM, or 5/8 mile, or 54 1/2 scale miles.
I think that if anyone takes away anything from this, its to see the stark contrast between commercially available turnouts and the ones you hand made with the jigs. The point clearance difference is so jarring that it makes me want to go insane and hand lay everything thats visible on my layout.
If properly built, these fast-tracks turnouts are about the best looking and most reliable turnouts available. For those who lack the time or the ability to build their own, they are available for sale on my web-site.
Hello.
How big is the room in which the layout is located?
It's currently in a 39x59 workshop. It will ultimately go into a 20x46 basement.
SD70? that sounds like my bnsf sd70
Eu não entendo, um galpão desse tamanho, reservado para apenas este robe, que renda isso pode gerar para o dono?
Please consider placing the camera one unit back from lead locomotive. I find it more interesting there.
Don't hold your breath waiting for one like that. The main reason I make all the cab-ride videos is to examine the track for imperfections which can't be seen from any other angle. I did however make some videos several years ago on my home layout with the camera mounted on the tender deck of a steam locomotive, so maybe you'd want to look those up.
what camera are you using?
and do you ever answer comments with questions?
It's an orange one. I've forgotten the brand name but I made a video about it a few years ago when I first bought it.
Is there anyway you could tell the owner that you misplaced it somewhere and keep it as your own ? Lol
Hmm, let's see...
Suppose when it's done, I make a video of loading it into the container, then remove it and replace it with the same weight in bricks.
Then all I've got to do is ensure that the container is lost at sea.
@@mpeterllI see you have given this some thought Peter 😂
This isnt a train layout its a piece of furniture with track!
Well... your video of "24 WWII Billboard Box Cars" has a lot of "furniture" work too..... 🙂 It is easy to criticize others, while more difficult to cast a critical eye at one's own work even if of similar quality. In short, rather than critique, we should all be giving more effort to helping and enabling all others in the hobby, as that benefits all of us. Hope this helps.
@ i thought i was giving a complement guess its all on how you look at it wasn’t trying to criticize!
Don't worry about it. I took your original comment as a compliment. Thank-you.
@@KandRCustomModels Then I must deeply and personally apologize to you. Completely, totally, entirely my error. I misunderstood your comment. Mea culpa.
I do not like the sound altough seems nice layout
It's easy to turn off the sound and put on your favorite music as a soundtrack.
to me it looks like, you train guys care more about putting down miles of track and then hiding it under framework. I want to see trains running, not guessing where the train is. this layout isn't bad on hiding like some I have seen. where the train spends more time underground than above. maybe you such run some subway trains.
"you train guys"... Hmmm... I see from your channel that you have no original content. So you have built... basically... nothing. As Andrew Carnegie generically is reported to have said: "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do." Interestingly, Carnegie also said, "But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” 🙂
It sounds to me that you don't fully understand the concept of a model railroad (as opposed to train-set), so maybe I can educate you on this.
Think of a model railroad as a live-production theater. The trains are the actors, the operating schedule is the script and the visible (sceniced) portion of the railroad is the stage. The staging yards and the various hidden connections represent the back-stage area - the wings - where the actors wait until it's their turn to perform.
I hope this helps to clarify why we do things this way.
How big is the power source needed to run this layout? Mike HO from Australia
It has a 5A command station and two twin boosters giving 25A total track power. It should be more than enough. I did a test with 12 locomotives in the same power district with no problems.