This is a splendid little railway. Glad to see that station getting a run out and you’ve used the space really well. The industrial structure to hide the exit is one of the most original and best things I’ve seen in a while! Well done mate 😉 As for the second layout, what a great way to reuse a discarded piece of furniture! 🤓 💡 Superb video again 👍🍀🍻
I love Kato. I bought an oval of track which I extended with some extra straights and I run an American diesel with six coal transporters or seven coaches. My grandson ,who is five, can set up the track which he cannot do yet with Hornby and the control wires fit under the track in such a clever way. To say that the locomotives run superbly is an understatement. After a meal we can put up on the dining table, play for an hour and tear down in five minutes in safety. It is more expensive but you get lasting quality and a far better experience than the British outline train sets. That said I wish I still had my Hornby 3-rail set of The Duchess of Montrose that was my first model railway. Thinking about it, the 3-rail and the Kato track share some similarities. On Christmas day Ted and I will be playing trains and I hope many of you will be doing the same. This is my favourite source of model train films. Thank you.
Very kind of you thanks. That's exactly how Kato intended their products to be used, due to space restraints in Japanese homes. I can get a wonderful running loco with Kato for £40 but need to spend twice that to get a similar running UK loco. Their rolling stock is also very cheap, especially from train trax
Thanks for the video, a couple of great n gauge layouts looking forward to seeing more work on the second layout. I'm using Kato chassis for my 009 narrow gauge stock for my next project!!😎🚂🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧
Agreed about your Kato rolling stock. I had bought several Japanese prototype N scale models from Kato and other Japanese brands (Greenmax and Tomix for the motorized rolling stock outside Kato) and there is ZERO comparison possible to N scale in Europe : smooth running, nice looking, zero problems (I already had to deal with two N scale locomotives with faulty motors, none of them Japanese : A Sudexpress Euro 4000, non runner out of the box, replaced, and a EFE rail class 17 with a motor that tends to seize, no answer yet from the retailer), and correct price. And, in my US locomotives, Kato is far over the other brands in quality/price, period. As for your Inglenook, great classics always live. For the exit towards the fiddle yard on my projected small OO layout, I had thought of using a canal overpass to do something different than a simple tunnel mouth or road/railway bridge. You can pick my idea if you want !
I love inglenooks - so much action in so little space. If you want a change of scene don't fasten down your buildings. Then you can swap them and the rolling stock to produce British/Continental/American (and others) layouts on the same board. Your spare drawers could house the alternative stock and buildings. Make sure your sidings can handle the longer continental and American wagons. Fascinating content as always. Thank you.
Excellent video with 2 layouts 👍 I love the Ikea shelf drawer unit, that is absolutely brilliant for running, transport and storage. This could be a new standard of micro layout 😀🚂
Terrific layout. I especially like the background along with the interesting collection of buildings. You have never failed to produce an interesting video as far as I am concern. Brilliant work.
exellent layouts i have not used the oo layout for ages all locos secondhand i am building an n gauge european layout with Secondhand fleschmann arnold and roco locos and stock the quality is exellent great runners and lights i had an american n layout using kato locos and track 1st class i also use the same supplier or jadlam racing there good on n gauge look forward to seeing the other n layout running thanks for sharing
Thanks for this little video. I often watch anyway, but it has helped my think about my inglenook. It's been on the go for 8 years and is still just a baseboard. A chap on Facebook kindly did some track plans for me to get me started, however I got hung up over it as I'm really overthinking the design and it's theme. I love this, it's a simple straightforward layout, utilising what you have and I think I might well do the same.
I was the same but have been completely inspired by the simple inglenook. Just two points but endless shunting possibilities especially if you put in a third passenger siding. Even two sidings has a surprising amount of fun. I would say plonk some buildings down , get a backscene on and have some fun.
@@BudgetModelRailways Glad I've been a help in return! No you are right. I just need to shove a simple backdrop down, some buildings and a simple track plan. It's dead easy to overcomplicate matters. I was aiming for 1970's London based on the North London line, so many scenic ideas at play with a small board and I just put myself off. Will make it a bit more ambiguous but fun, exactly the right tonic!
Nice shunting. Kato and also Tomytec have an interesting range of models and although they lack European style buffers these can simply be added later. Also no issues with scale since it's the same as in the UK.
Lovely as always! I am especially intrigued by the second layout with the integrated fiddle yard. You've placed the typical Inglenook head-shunt off into the fiddle yard, AND how it fits together in drawers, both of which I quite like! Blessings to All!! 😌💜 (PS: my spouse is home from the hospital and is recovering nicely 💚💙💜)
I like so much about this layout, the fueling point entrance, the industrial buildings and back drop, the chain link fences, the rail cars, and of course the scale and size of the thing, excellent 😊👍
I've come back to this particular episode as I'm trying to think beyond 'the loop' now. I'll be having a go at this kind of design this week. My only worry is decoupling, particularly with my big sausage fingers!
This is a great layout. I'm in the process of building a small layout based on the Kato pocket line series myself. I'm using the compact track packs as well as the tram and the goods train that you showed there. You are right that it is the cheapest way to get into n scale. It's also even cheaper if you buy direct from Japan even with postage included. (I'm in Australia so maybe postage is cheaper for me)
Thanks as ever for your interesting clips. I second your comments on Kato though I do wonder how you'll get over the conundrum of the couplers when trying to shunt? 🙂
The compactness of your system where a whole layout and everything that goes with it can be sitting inside a small drawer unit is fantastic. Great idea. How do you get on with uncoupling when shunting N Gauge? Monique from Brisbane
Big fan of the Inglenook, and the Kato pocket lines! I got the same 3-car pack, but then I "Americanized" the locomotive to make it similar to a GE-44 Tonner. I don't normally go around promoting my own stuff..but the similarities are uncanny here ... so thought I would share my Inglenook with Kato Pocketline switcher. th-cam.com/video/Cu6eTIytg2c/w-d-xo.html (I used a local-to-me pipe making facility for my scenery. the whole thing is 23in x 32in )
Leaning more and more towards doing on of these inglenook type layouts, just because of space. Your upcoming series will be useful to see. Nice layouts. Is the wiring complicated, assuming these Katos are not DCC units.
Please, Mike - Knock yourself Out ; lose your mind & go Absolutely Mad with N-Gauge ! There's no such thing as too much N (treble 000) in my book - - -
Excellent video once again!.....love the drawer idea!! Used to model in n, and changed to oo ostensibly because back then it was cheaper.....with today’s ridiculous second hand prices, I’m seriously thinking of changing back!......keep up the good work.🚂🚃
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This is a splendid little railway. Glad to see that station getting a run out and you’ve used the space really well. The industrial structure to hide the exit is one of the most original and best things I’ve seen in a while! Well done mate 😉
As for the second layout, what a great way to reuse a discarded piece of furniture! 🤓 💡
Superb video again 👍🍀🍻
Thanks I was pleased with the fuel depot entrance. Thanks for your comments and support, happy Christmas.
I love Kato. I bought an oval of track which I extended with some extra straights and I run an American diesel with six coal transporters or seven coaches. My grandson ,who is five, can set up the track which he cannot do yet with Hornby and the control wires fit under the track in such a clever way. To say that the locomotives run superbly is an understatement. After a meal we can put up on the dining table, play for an hour and tear down in five minutes in safety. It is more expensive but you get lasting quality and a far better experience than the British outline train sets. That said I wish I still had my Hornby 3-rail set of The Duchess of Montrose that was my first model railway. Thinking about it, the 3-rail and the Kato track share some similarities. On Christmas day Ted and I will be playing trains and I hope many of you will be doing the same. This is my favourite source of model train films. Thank you.
Very kind of you thanks. That's exactly how Kato intended their products to be used, due to space restraints in Japanese homes. I can get a wonderful running loco with Kato for £40 but need to spend twice that to get a similar running UK loco. Their rolling stock is also very cheap, especially from train trax
Like your n-gauge line in the sewing box! And thanks for your heads up for Train Trax! 😃
Those Kato budget locos are a real bargain and the latest coreless motor versions run superbly
That's a great idea Mike and really clever using that little chest of drawers to :)
Great to see some N scale again on your channel! 😊
Quite a bit more planned
Nice video Mike. Great little layout. Look forward to seeing the UK N gauge layout.
Thanks for the video, a couple of great n gauge layouts looking forward to seeing more work on the second layout. I'm using Kato chassis for my 009 narrow gauge stock for my next project!!😎🚂🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧
Really looking forward to the updates, thanks for the insight into your plans.
Agreed about your Kato rolling stock. I had bought several Japanese prototype N scale models from Kato and other Japanese brands (Greenmax and Tomix for the motorized rolling stock outside Kato) and there is ZERO comparison possible to N scale in Europe : smooth running, nice looking, zero problems (I already had to deal with two N scale locomotives with faulty motors, none of them Japanese : A Sudexpress Euro 4000, non runner out of the box, replaced, and a EFE rail class 17 with a motor that tends to seize, no answer yet from the retailer), and correct price. And, in my US locomotives, Kato is far over the other brands in quality/price, period.
As for your Inglenook, great classics always live. For the exit towards the fiddle yard on my projected small OO layout, I had thought of using a canal overpass to do something different than a simple tunnel mouth or road/railway bridge. You can pick my idea if you want !
I love inglenooks - so much action in so little space. If you want a change of scene don't fasten down your buildings. Then you can swap them and the rolling stock to produce British/Continental/American (and others) layouts on the same board. Your spare drawers could house the alternative stock and buildings. Make sure your sidings can handle the longer continental and American wagons.
Fascinating content as always. Thank you.
Excellent video with 2 layouts 👍 I love the Ikea shelf drawer unit, that is absolutely brilliant for running, transport and storage. This could be a new standard of micro layout 😀🚂
Thanks, full video out soon
Two lovely looking layouts! Looking forward very much to your foray into n gauge 🙂
Thanks
wow...another fantastic two layouts....just amazing
Terrific layout. I especially like the background along with the interesting collection of buildings. You have never failed to produce an interesting video as far as I am concern. Brilliant work.
exellent layouts i have not used the oo layout for ages all locos secondhand i am building an n gauge european layout with Secondhand fleschmann arnold and roco locos and stock the quality is exellent great runners and lights i had an american n layout using kato locos and track 1st class i also use the same supplier or jadlam racing there good on n gauge look forward to seeing the other n layout running thanks for sharing
Jadlam are excellent
Thanks for this little video. I often watch anyway, but it has helped my think about my inglenook. It's been on the go for 8 years and is still just a baseboard. A chap on Facebook kindly did some track plans for me to get me started, however I got hung up over it as I'm really overthinking the design and it's theme.
I love this, it's a simple straightforward layout, utilising what you have and I think I might well do the same.
I was the same but have been completely inspired by the simple inglenook. Just two points but endless shunting possibilities especially if you put in a third passenger siding. Even two sidings has a surprising amount of fun. I would say plonk some buildings down , get a backscene on and have some fun.
In fact your comment was a timely reminder to myself to stop over complicating a plan I am working on
@@BudgetModelRailways Glad I've been a help in return! No you are right. I just need to shove a simple backdrop down, some buildings and a simple track plan.
It's dead easy to overcomplicate matters. I was aiming for 1970's London based on the North London line, so many scenic ideas at play with a small board and I just put myself off. Will make it a bit more ambiguous but fun, exactly the right tonic!
Nice shunting.
Kato and also Tomytec have an interesting range of models and although they lack European style buffers these can simply be added later.
Also no issues with scale since it's the same as in the UK.
N gauge in the drawer unit is a brilliant idea. I can see me trying that with 009. Great content as always
Thanks, I will have video out on it next week hopefully
Lovely as always! I am especially intrigued by the second layout with the integrated fiddle yard. You've placed the typical Inglenook head-shunt off into the fiddle yard, AND how it fits together in drawers, both of which I quite like! Blessings to All!! 😌💜 (PS: my spouse is home from the hospital and is recovering nicely 💚💙💜)
Excellent project. 👍 I am a great fan of inglenook layout. Gives you a great excuse to play not just watch, and without taking over all of your space.
my cup of tea :) cheers.
I like so much about this layout, the fueling point entrance, the industrial buildings and back drop, the chain link fences, the rail cars, and of course the scale and size of the thing, excellent 😊👍
It was one of those projects that just worked, unlike some which just don't seem to gel.
I've come back to this particular episode as I'm trying to think beyond 'the loop' now. I'll be having a go at this kind of design this week. My only worry is decoupling, particularly with my big sausage fingers!
I have a video on shunting with Arnold couplers if that helps. I find a coupling hook and a steady hand on the wagon help
Hello, brilliant video,I like N gauge myself,can't wait to see these two layouts working,it will give me a push to progress on mine.
Great video as always.
This is a great layout. I'm in the process of building a small layout based on the Kato pocket line series myself. I'm using the compact track packs as well as the tram and the goods train that you showed there. You are right that it is the cheapest way to get into n scale. It's also even cheaper if you buy direct from Japan even with postage included. (I'm in Australia so maybe postage is cheaper for me)
The issue in the UK is extra import tax and postage fees which they add on here, £15+ on each consignment. I have a major Kato project planned
Nice one, thanks :)
excellent
good vid thanks lee
N gauge videos are very interesting for your international viewers like me! 😊
Thanks, happy Christmas
@@BudgetModelRailways thanks, merry Christmas to all of you too!
Thanks as ever for your interesting clips. I second your comments on Kato though I do wonder how you'll get over the conundrum of the couplers when trying to shunt? 🙂
I find the couplers no worse than OO, but I do use the hand of god
The compactness of your system where a whole layout and everything that goes with it can be sitting inside a small drawer unit is fantastic.
Great idea.
How do you get on with uncoupling when shunting N Gauge?
Monique from Brisbane
Thanks. It's fiddly but as long as you don't mind the hand of god it's no worse than OO.
Big fan of the Inglenook, and the Kato pocket lines! I got the same 3-car pack, but then I "Americanized" the locomotive to make it similar to a GE-44 Tonner. I don't normally go around promoting my own stuff..but the similarities are uncanny here ... so thought I would share my Inglenook with Kato Pocketline switcher. th-cam.com/video/Cu6eTIytg2c/w-d-xo.html (I used a local-to-me pipe making facility for my scenery. the whole thing is 23in x 32in )
Leaning more and more towards doing on of these inglenook type layouts, just because of space. Your upcoming series will be useful to see. Nice layouts. Is the wiring complicated, assuming these Katos are not DCC units.
DC wiring is so much simpler, this is just two wires on the fiddle yard line
@@BudgetModelRailways and I found the old vid you did on how to wire it up th-cam.com/video/JEzxRIppwgA/w-d-xo.html
Please, Mike - Knock yourself Out ; lose your mind & go Absolutely Mad with N-Gauge !
There's no such thing as too much N (treble 000) in my book - - -
. . . i've got an Ancient ARNOLD version of that loco that's got to be over 50 years old now
Keep up the good work 👍
Thanks, I seem to have the N bug now lol
Excellent video once again!.....love the drawer idea!! Used to model in n, and changed to oo ostensibly because back then it was cheaper.....with today’s ridiculous second hand prices, I’m seriously thinking of changing back!......keep up the good work.🚂🚃
UK N prices are even more insane than OO especially second hand