James, so glad you like the layout. I don't currently have any plans for tutorials, the methods I used to build it have been well documented by many others over the years. I have not done anything I would consider unique I just strive to do everything as well as I can. As for the mountains, I hand carved all of them using Hydrocal and molding plaster.
A keep alive is a series of capacitors and diodes that store power while the locomotive is on powered tracks so that should the loco come to a dirty spot or dead frog in a turnout the keep alive releases power to kep the loco moving.
@@arcadialogger Ah, that's really cool as I was wondering what the issues might going through switches and the like with this new DCC and how to overcome them. Your replay generates another question. How in the world do you squeeze all that "hardware" inside the tight spaces in an HO loco?
@@alanglasscock4242 Fitting all the pieces into some locos is quite a challenge but with the size of the componants getting smaller all the time it gets a little easier and a little creativity helps. For example, the speeder # 12 has the speaker under the hood, the decoder in the cab and the keep alive is in the water tank behind the cab. Skip
Very well done video, beautiful layout. The backdrop especially reminds me of my time spent in the Pacific northwest-misty mountains!
Thank you very much!
Nice
Are you thinking of doing any tutorials on your awesome work? The mountains in your early videos are particularly impressive.
James, so glad you like the layout. I don't currently have any plans for tutorials, the methods I used to build it have been well documented by many others over the years. I have not done anything I would consider unique I just strive to do everything as well as I can. As for the mountains, I hand carved all of them using Hydrocal and molding plaster.
What is "keep alive"? This is something new to me.
A keep alive is a series of capacitors and diodes that store power while the locomotive is on powered tracks so that should the loco come to a dirty spot or dead frog in a turnout the keep alive releases power to kep the loco moving.
@@arcadialogger Ah, that's really cool as I was wondering what the issues might going through switches and the like with this new DCC and how to overcome them. Your replay generates another question. How in the world do you squeeze all that "hardware" inside the tight spaces in an HO loco?
@@alanglasscock4242 Fitting all the pieces into some locos is quite a challenge but with the size of the componants getting smaller all the time it gets a little easier and a little creativity helps. For example, the speeder # 12 has the speaker under the hood, the decoder in the cab and the keep alive is in the water tank behind the cab. Skip
Great looking locomotives! I am surprised that the Bachmann locomotives are still running. They had a horrible gear failure rate.
Yes, those gears were horrible! I replaced them all with the steel gears from NWSL. Skip