14:18 _"As I say you could [...] skip all this, but I thought you might like to see how I'm doing it"_ *Well, the entire reason to watch your channel is because we want to see you doing it!!* :) You do so much cool stuff we are either unable or too lazy to. And it's always a delight to watch you.
Why do I like these videos so much?!? I know nothing about trains, have very little interest in machining, and will probably never have a need for a railway. This is the friendly TH-cam environment I didn't think I would find again. I love it
I watched and immediately subscribed so I can hear the next "thrilling installment" if for no other reason than to hear your voice. Your narration of anything would be interesting because of that voice. What a remarkable talent you have.
Thank you for being an inspiration to me. This helped me get ideas to build myself a model railway, a small line in a forest with 2 small diesel engines and about 9 wagons
Golf cart motors can be used to construct an electric loco. May even be able to use battery power. May also be able to use a trolley wire. Please consider electrification in some form. That's just yet another idea for you to kick around. Great work so far! Elegant, simple, cheap, robust. Nice work!
I just found this video and your voice combined with railroad content touches a deep nostalgia from watching Thomas the tank engine. Wonderful videos, thank you. I wish my property was big enough to make this worth doing.
Thanks a lot for posting this video, Tim! It's always a pleasure viewing your work and how you've gotten to where you are now. Annie sends her regards to Sandra and to you... me too!
You have a heart of Gold, your Voice is perfect as Narrator, and you have gift of Creative thinking spirit.....Your family and friends work together for the common goal of Improvement of mundane and laborious tasks by automation... EHO could not Love that?
Hi Tim, I love your creations. For your loco, have you considered an old diesel ride on lawn mower as a base. If you can find one affordabley with hydrostatic drive, would give very controlable drive in both directions as well as brakes. It would make the right noise too....... very important
This railway is a great idea! Just one point, which really doesn't have much bearing on your design.. just writing here more or less to pass around the info. On a rail-car, the wheel profile is angled down somewhat toward the center of the two tracks and the top of the track profile is crowned. Because of this, the rail-car naturally centers between the rails. The wheel flanges are not designed to contact the side of the rail at all, except on turns. Setting things up this way allows there to be some variance in the track width and significantly reduces friction as the flanges aren't rubbing or banging back and forth between the rails. Anyway, on a small scale slow moving setup, none of this is an issue and of course there is significant complexity and expense manufacturing the parts as described above. I just thought I'd mention this in case anyone was curious. Richard Feynman actually talks about this somewhere or other.. oh, I found it :-) th-cam.com/video/y7h4OtFDnYE/w-d-xo.html
I'll be rewatching videos you made in the spring and summer over this winter, firstly because they're good, informative and I earn a lot yet also because they won't be cold, wet and miserable like it is now outside. Winter has only started today (meteological, astronomical starts Dec 21st I think) and I'm frozen and cheesed off already! Got saoked outdoors today. Urgh.
I have an idea for you... When laying track. Could you setup a rail cart to carry all the tools and bits and pieces needed for the construction of the new track?.. Could save time walking back and forth from the shop to the end of the track and back again... Even building a custom train cart could be invaluable depending on how vast you are planning on building your rail cart system Another idea is to pre build sections of track inside the shop then rolling them out to the end of the track to install. just some ideas not sure if you thought about them I love the project
Love what Tim does will look forward to seeing the next installment of the railway 🚂. Love to Sandra your so lovely and kind to others.God Bless .☮️🎶🌈🌈🌈🇮🇪😊
I love the "survivalist" / junkyard vibe of how you build. All functional. Even the simplest looking parts have crazy amount of function and thoughts on how they will work, or how you will make them work. So much of to days things remove the person, the skilled operator, add safety guards and the like. This has been a great video. The background behind the why, and how. was great. But you forgot to show how much rail your workshop has? (or did I miss some videos?) This would be the reason for the gauge / size. wow, love how the pipe has so many but simple functions. I can see how the bolt is only holding the rail upright, the pipe can slip in the sleeper hole, to allow the rail to settle onto the rail. But the extra length becomes a "Ground peg" to keep the sleeper in place. I bet in the future if you found some sleepers sliding in the mud, you could remove the bolt, hammer in some rod and replace the bolt making a longer "peg". Found the barn rails video from 4 years ago th-cam.com/video/y4XUV2atyPI/w-d-xo.html
I love this. And I think hobby/toy grade yard trains could use similar building styles, they just don't have to be so rugged. Works at all levels of yard railways
Great Stuff as usual. I was told years go that the flange on railway wheels are only there for public confidence , if they touched the track they'd wear out.
That's partly true. On 'proper' trains the wheel profile is carefully designed so that the tread and 'root' of the flange do most of the guiding, but even so the flanges are needed on sharp curves. They also perform a vital task guiding the wheelset through the crossing (frog) of points, in conjunction with the checkrails. In other videos, Tim concluded that the complexity of making coned wheels isn't worth it for his simple railway, so his flanges do all the work.
Absolutely Creosote or similiar, n 2 coats in between...... And with Prices of wood why not use your natural wood tree growth you have already, very smart move! Make sure you ballast is 2 to 3 inches thick under sleepers, that'll keep water sway from sleepers. Makes a huge difference in wood preservation over time.
Since you already have a track, you should have used the same gauge so you could use the same cars.(unless you already did). Round ties or trimmed ties would also be appropriate and less work.
I predict an electric drive with a small diesel generator would work best for you. 2 separate systems make design less complicated with the generator added last after the electric drive design is worked out
I found a website selling 20 miles of narrow guage 2ft railway track but its in England I know you made all the track your self because it cheaper but if it may help you when want to extended the track.
I’m generally confused why this is re uploaded and all old videos have been removed? I may have missed something so please let me know if I’m just being stupid lol keep up the good work anyway !
This is our new channel - there are still hundreds of videos on the old channel, but we're moving a few over to this one because they are part of the railway. Hope that's ok?
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 oh okay I was wondering why I wasn’t subscribed to this one it had me confused ! Never the lees keep up the good work I think you should go steam 😉
"Railways & war Before 1918" by Bishop and Davis on monorails by Scherl, Brennan, Lartigue of how "Scientific American" 1884 described a Decauville Portable used for Bolan pass carried in pieces on elephants. Anecdotal evidence of ancient and medieval battering rams resemble steam locomotives while like polar magnets could be used for a maglev.
Square tubes have pretty much nothing that make them better than flat iron. The main problem is that they have very thin walls, often just 2 or 3 millimeters. Not only is that bad for taking on heavier weight, you have no way of bending them without having to use special tools to bend them. Only way to get any strength in them would be to fill them with something, problem with that is that then you lose all flexibility in it and it's also extra work.
How much weight do you think this design would hold? I need to get some track in our garden, hopefully over the winter, but the loco i have planned isnt exactly going to be lightweight.
Hi. how much spacing you used between sleepers? i'm doing myself a tiny narrow gauge railway for mine wagons i got. which are very heavy (500kg empty) . I planned to use 60x10mm flat bars but i don't know how many sleepers i have to put on. Thanks you for all the stuff you are sharing !
those are wagons like these: files.cults3d.com/uploaders/16554686/illustration-file/77c207c7-b04c-4887-accd-b0fe2a88808d/Wagonnet-de-mine-wagonnet-%E2%80%94-Wiktionnaire-Google-Chrome.jpg
I don't know either - but I suggest you simply experiment. Set up your flat-bar on sleepers, add half the expected weight on top (because the weight will be shared betwen two axles, and then move your sleepers around till you're happy that they're not flexing too much. Good luck!
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 thanks for your responses ! i will send you updates. where i can send you photos if you're instered in ? you inspired me very much with the work you've done and i almost live the same way. got donkey and goose comming to every thing i build in the backyard ^^
I think you are just trying to replicate multiton railroads while for small cargo rail track you can make it with rammed earth, and a bit of geopolymer concrete on top and use only a 1cm wide metal string as rail contact or just screwed stone profile and using wooden wheels instead steel Granite tram tracks where built in britain and you can read about it, and i think its the future of road transport because is free and available everywhere and can create a revolution of pedal powered vehicles with little resources and no need for dirt road infrastructure
Rather than short pipes, why not cut slots in the ties and jam the rail into the slot? I've seen this done with 7-1/4 and 7-1/2 inch gauge live steam hobby railways.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 How much have you built in metres (approximately) and (approximately) how much did it cost. I wish to use these statistics to Promote Railway Construction
@@n1thmusic229 I'll some calculations next time I make some rail. But you can easily work it out for yourself and your location - 2 lengths of flat-bar steel + 18 lengths of 2x3 timber + 1 length of 1/2" pipe + bolts + ? That makes 6m track.
@@n1thmusic229 ?? I guess there are very few places on the planet that doesn't have access to those materials. Just look up your local suppliers. You don't have to buy them - just ask for a price..
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14:18 _"As I say you could [...] skip all this, but I thought you might like to see how I'm doing it"_
*Well, the entire reason to watch your channel is because we want to see you doing it!!* :)
You do so much cool stuff we are either unable or too lazy to. And it's always a delight to watch you.
Why do I like these videos so much?!? I know nothing about trains, have very little interest in machining, and will probably never have a need for a railway. This is the friendly TH-cam environment I didn't think I would find again. I love it
I watched and immediately subscribed so I can hear the next "thrilling installment" if for no other reason than to hear your voice. Your narration of anything would be interesting because of that voice. What a remarkable talent you have.
I find this man's relentless good cheer and positive outlook to be a boon to a weary world.
Lovely man, he has my subscription.
Tim, you are an international treasure!
thank you algorithm this is actually a good series
Loved returning to the start of the project!
No freaking way, my dream of building a small railway can become a reality!! And it's way easier than id expect!!!
Thank you for being an inspiration to me. This helped me get ideas to build myself a model railway, a small line in a forest with 2 small diesel engines and about 9 wagons
Glad to hear it!
Golf cart motors can be used to construct an electric loco. May even be able to use battery power. May also be able to use a trolley wire. Please consider electrification in some form.
That's just yet another idea for you to kick around. Great work so far! Elegant, simple, cheap, robust. Nice work!
I’d go for a rororvator, then you could use small ‘normal’ wheeled wagons on areas without rails.
Some of this footage is recycled but it’s so nice to see it all compiled. Well, some of it, including donkeys
I think what he’s been doing is uploading old videos from the main channel, after they split this one off from it
I just found this video and your voice combined with railroad content touches a deep nostalgia from watching Thomas the tank engine. Wonderful videos, thank you. I wish my property was big enough to make this worth doing.
This is a great video. As an railway club member you just invited a new way of the hobby.
Thanks a lot for posting this video, Tim! It's always a pleasure viewing your work and how you've gotten to where you are now. Annie sends her regards to Sandra and to you... me too!
What a brilliant way to build a railroad. I will be following this with interest as I can see the use of something like this at my farm.
You have a heart of Gold, your Voice is perfect as Narrator, and you have gift of Creative thinking spirit.....Your family and friends work together for the common goal of Improvement of mundane and laborious tasks by automation...
EHO could not Love that?
Thank you so much
Hello from Detroit Michigan USA brother great video 👍
This could have been a 'scrapheap challenge' in the day. I like how you use materials on your property. I am in favour of re-use/recycling!
Hi Tim, I love your creations. For your loco, have you considered an old diesel ride on lawn mower as a base. If you can find one affordabley with hydrostatic drive, would give very controlable drive in both directions as well as brakes. It would make the right noise too....... very important
This railway is a great idea! Just one point, which really doesn't have much bearing on your design.. just writing here more or less to pass around the info. On a rail-car, the wheel profile is angled down somewhat toward the center of the two tracks and the top of the track profile is crowned. Because of this, the rail-car naturally centers between the rails. The wheel flanges are not designed to contact the side of the rail at all, except on turns. Setting things up this way allows there to be some variance in the track width and significantly reduces friction as the flanges aren't rubbing or banging back and forth between the rails.
Anyway, on a small scale slow moving setup, none of this is an issue and of course there is significant complexity and expense manufacturing the parts as described above. I just thought I'd mention this in case anyone was curious. Richard Feynman actually talks about this somewhere or other.. oh, I found it :-) th-cam.com/video/y7h4OtFDnYE/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Blobscott - this is what I tried.. th-cam.com/video/VG49XIr_T4Y/w-d-xo.html
Enjoying the simplicity of how you went about this bro. Safe travels up your way.
I'll be rewatching videos you made in the spring and summer over this winter, firstly because they're good, informative and I earn a lot yet also because they won't be cold, wet and miserable like it is now outside. Winter has only started today (meteological, astronomical starts Dec 21st I think) and I'm frozen and cheesed off already! Got saoked outdoors today. Urgh.
I have an idea for you... When laying track. Could you setup a rail cart to carry all the tools and bits and pieces needed for the construction of the new track?..
Could save time walking back and forth from the shop to the end of the track and back again...
Even building a custom train cart could be invaluable depending on how vast you are planning on building your rail cart system
Another idea is to pre build sections of track inside the shop then rolling them out to the end of the track to install.
just some ideas not sure if you thought about them I love the project
When i helped install the live steam at the museum in my town, we used flat bar with 2x2s and slots in them for the bar to be slid into
This was my part of my plan for our farm
Love what Tim does will look forward to seeing the next installment of the railway 🚂. Love to Sandra your so lovely and kind to others.God Bless .☮️🎶🌈🌈🌈🇮🇪😊
I hope I have a property like your to build a railway... this channel make envy 🤣
This is wonderful. I love seeing the ingenuity. Can't wait to keep seeing more of your content. Cheers
So great seeing this again considering how it has grown! The little we knew back then compared to now :^)
I love the "survivalist" / junkyard vibe of how you build. All functional. Even the simplest looking parts have crazy amount of function and thoughts on how they will work, or how you will make them work. So much of to days things remove the person, the skilled operator, add safety guards and the like. This has been a great video. The background behind the why, and how. was great. But you forgot to show how much rail your workshop has? (or did I miss some videos?) This would be the reason for the gauge / size.
wow, love how the pipe has so many but simple functions. I can see how the bolt is only holding the rail upright, the pipe can slip in the sleeper hole, to allow the rail to settle onto the rail. But the extra length becomes a "Ground peg" to keep the sleeper in place. I bet in the future if you found some sleepers sliding in the mud, you could remove the bolt, hammer in some rod and replace the bolt making a longer "peg". Found the barn rails video from 4 years ago th-cam.com/video/y4XUV2atyPI/w-d-xo.html
It really is the epitome of “industrial railway”!
Subbed.
Excellent ideas you have. I think it looks great too. Keep up the good work.
I admire your approach. I always look forward to your next video. Many thanks.
Very Beautifull with practical video for made of a simple railway track ❤️
👏👏👏👏
It might be cheap but it clearly takes alot of skill and effort
What a nice railway, keep filming :D
This was indeed a thrilling installment!
Kant vait for ze next one.
I love this. And I think hobby/toy grade yard trains could use similar building styles, they just don't have to be so rugged. Works at all levels of yard railways
Hurrah! Thank-you all!
Yes yes, join up a railway island to MN😂. And a different gauge if I did it. Nice job👍
You deserve more subscribers!
I love this idea!! Great build
Great Stuff as usual.
I was told years go that the flange on railway wheels are only there for public confidence , if they touched the track they'd wear out.
That's partly true. On 'proper' trains the wheel profile is carefully designed so that the tread and 'root' of the flange do most of the guiding, but even so the flanges are needed on sharp curves. They also perform a vital task guiding the wheelset through the crossing (frog) of points, in conjunction with the checkrails. In other videos, Tim concluded that the complexity of making coned wheels isn't worth it for his simple railway, so his flanges do all the work.
@Trevessa24 When you hear a train squealing on a tight curve - that's the flanges proving you wrong.
Flanges wear on the rails. You have to inspect them on a regular basis and replace or repair the wheel when they get too thin.
Meet you somewhere in the Irish Sea ;) Love it!
The engineering scale you put forth is very achievable. I could stretch to round wooden poles thrown on the ground systematically.
The start of a saga
Wow, this is amazing😮😮!!!!!😮😮
love your videos, please keep them coming!
Enjoyed the video 🙂
My favourite channel great stuff 👍
Wow, thanks : - )
I can see there is a lot of work goes into machining all the parts for your railway. Still it should all work just fine.
Enjoyed your video very much hope there more to come.
When I am teen I am going to build a narrow gauge railway just like you
Brilliant video thank you 😊
All brilliant. I want to do something similar, I'm building a replica mineshaft and would love to have some minecarts running around.
well, really cool idea😀😀
Very interesting channel. The railroad thing is really good endeavor.
Absolutely Creosote or similiar, n 2 coats in between......
And with Prices of wood why not use your natural wood tree growth you have already, very smart move!
Make sure you ballast is 2 to 3 inches thick under sleepers, that'll keep water sway from sleepers. Makes a huge difference in wood preservation over time.
Since you already have a track, you should have used the same gauge so you could use the same cars.(unless you already did). Round ties or trimmed ties would also be appropriate and less work.
I predict an electric drive with a small diesel generator would work best for you. 2 separate systems make design less complicated with the generator added last after the electric drive design is worked out
Well done 👏
Hurry up I wanna see the railway
Your awesome 👌
You should make a donkey thread-mill-locomotive made out of corrugated steel.
I found a website selling 20 miles of narrow guage 2ft railway track but its in England I know you made all the track your self because it cheaper but if it may help you when want to extended the track.
Push
Link? Not gonna buy it, but want to have a look
Did you arrive at 15"gauge by reading about Sir Arthur Heywood and his work on estate railways?
I only heard about him later - but he's an inspiration, for sure
Nice
I’m generally confused why this is re uploaded and all old videos have been removed? I may have missed something so please let me know if I’m just being stupid lol keep up the good work anyway !
This is our new channel - there are still hundreds of videos on the old channel, but we're moving a few over to this one because they are part of the railway. Hope that's ok?
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 oh okay I was wondering why I wasn’t subscribed to this one it had me confused ! Never the lees keep up the good work I think you should go steam 😉
I would use a stationary engine and make a traction engine/ steam tractor but with train wheels instead
Agriculture in Asia and Italy depend on rail transit tracks but remember what Aldous Huxley wrote.
"Railways & war Before 1918" by Bishop and Davis on monorails by Scherl, Brennan, Lartigue of how "Scientific American" 1884 described a Decauville Portable used for Bolan pass carried in pieces on elephants.
Anecdotal evidence of ancient and medieval battering rams resemble steam locomotives while like polar magnets could be used for a maglev.
liked video
Hi. We have always wondered about your accent. Can you tell us where you come from please ? Scandinavian perhaps?
I grew up in Wales, but I've lived here (Ireland) more than half my life. No idea where my accent comes from!
What museum is that cart and rails display at?1
If you could fit in a third rail to have the 5 inch gage as well, feel free to invite me to bring my 5 inch rolling stock along
I'm thinking 1" square tube would be better. Not likely to splay apart between sleepers.
Not strong enough vertically though, I think
Square tubes have pretty much nothing that make them better than flat iron. The main problem is that they have very thin walls, often just 2 or 3 millimeters. Not only is that bad for taking on heavier weight, you have no way of bending them without having to use special tools to bend them. Only way to get any strength in them would be to fill them with something, problem with that is that then you lose all flexibility in it and it's also extra work.
Won't the narrow load bearing surfaces on top of your rails cause wear on the wheels, especially if the cars carry heavy loads?
Yes, but at the rate I use these it could take hundreds of years to do any serious damage!
hear of "groovy track" flat bar held upright by slots in the ties.....easy
Can we see more of the sawmill
there's a playlist on the sawmill on our other channel - way out west with Sandra and tim
Re-liked and re-commented to appease the all mighty algorithm overlord.
Where there’s a Will(iam) there’s a way!
How much weight do you think this design would hold? I need to get some track in our garden, hopefully over the winter, but the loco i have planned isnt exactly going to be lightweight.
the more axles you use, the more weight you can carry
I’ve already seen this video
Yes, I've moved it over from our other channel.
I remember how this was only supposed to chop logs
What are the dimensions of the wood blocks?
They're about 3" x 2" x 24"
Hi. how much spacing you used between sleepers? i'm doing myself a tiny narrow gauge railway for mine wagons i got. which are very heavy (500kg empty) . I planned to use 60x10mm flat bars but i don't know how many sleepers i have to put on. Thanks you for all the stuff you are sharing !
those are wagons like these: files.cults3d.com/uploaders/16554686/illustration-file/77c207c7-b04c-4887-accd-b0fe2a88808d/Wagonnet-de-mine-wagonnet-%E2%80%94-Wiktionnaire-Google-Chrome.jpg
I don't know either - but I suggest you simply experiment. Set up your flat-bar on sleepers, add half the expected weight on top (because the weight will be shared betwen two axles, and then move your sleepers around till you're happy that they're not flexing too much. Good luck!
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 thanks for your responses ! i will send you updates. where i can send you photos if you're instered in ? you inspired me very much with the work you've done and i almost live the same way. got donkey and goose comming to every thing i build in the backyard ^^
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299ouch seems i have only 45cm between axles (for a 60cm railway gauge), that mean a lots of sleepers i guess !
I think you are just trying to replicate multiton railroads while for small cargo rail track you can make it with rammed earth, and a bit of geopolymer concrete on top and use only a 1cm wide metal string as rail contact or just screwed stone profile and using wooden wheels instead steel
Granite tram tracks where built in britain and you can read about it, and i think its the future of road transport because is free and available everywhere and can create a revolution of pedal powered vehicles with little resources and no need for dirt road infrastructure
Rather than short pipes, why not cut slots in the ties and jam the rail into the slot? I've seen this done with 7-1/4 and 7-1/2 inch gauge live steam hobby railways.
If the tie drops a little in the mud, then the rail falls out and the train de-rails..
9.75k subs +1. so now I need a mini railway in the garden do i?
yes
also please make a train so we can have a train for it too
I would at least use angle iron, or the "I" style sometimes used as fence posts
Much more expensive, and how would you bend the angle iron?
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 it bends..... I worked in a fab shop before and we curved angle all the time
Can anyone else hear "MR BEAN?"
the only reason l want to watch this is im a kid and a rail fan and like trains that cost low
Same here
How much did this cost and how long was it?
It's getting longer every month, but the costs of materials is also rising every month too!
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 How much have you built in metres (approximately) and (approximately) how much did it cost. I wish to use these statistics to Promote Railway Construction
@@n1thmusic229 I'll some calculations next time I make some rail. But you can easily work it out for yourself and your location - 2 lengths of flat-bar steel + 18 lengths of 2x3 timber + 1 length of 1/2" pipe + bolts + ? That makes 6m track.
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299 but I don't have access to those materials and don't know their costs
@@n1thmusic229 ?? I guess there are very few places on the planet that doesn't have access to those materials. Just look up your local suppliers. You don't have to buy them - just ask for a price..
where is this Farm?
Ireland
cool
@@wayoutwest-workshopstuff6299
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Th tuis talkin allrit thku lovu co creating Gaias garden of onth other side
He sounds like 17
Lol choc choc
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I like what you're doing BUT do you guys own a broom? I would never work or have employees work OR family go threw such a harzadess area.