Two thumbs up for sure. There are many good garden railways on the internet, but this is one of the rare excellent garden railways. Great job Tom and Mrs Gap.
Hi Tom. I love watching your garden railroad video. I've watched it several times now and will probably continue to look at it every few days. Terrific layout and what a fantastic hobby. Jim
I'm still building my first LS layout. I've never met a battery-powered tool that was any good, especially in the heat of Phoenix, so I've bought brass track and a DC 10amp transformer. Your track plan and landscaping are quite the inspiration, though.
Very nice video loved it gave me great Ideas for a layout I would have in mind thank you for sharing always looking forward to you videos you fan Michael Massey
PS Many years ago, I remember MR running a layout feature of the Alturas and Lone Pine, by Whit Towers, if memory serves, which was also an inspiration to me at the time for my journey into HO. FYI
We had one club member bring a live steamer but as luck would have it, it ran out of fuel just as it entered the 35' long tunnel and died about half way through the tunnel. There are access ports into the side of the tunnel at 3' intervals, but they are too small to work on or extract a live steam locomotive so we had to get an battery electric locomotive to couple on and drag the live (dead?) steam back out. After that, he lost interest in running his steamer on my railroad.
Tom what a fabulous layout. The forethought that went into this layout had to have been ineradicable. Can you tell me what material your track is? Brass, Nickle Silver or stainless? I am considering a combination of both track and battery power.
my wife likes this adn after much thought and a bit of going down perhaps the wrong road, have decided that modern diesels need heeps of rolling stock, and that cost MONEY!!!!! So as we will have 1/2 acre [including the house] to play with, am going to do what you have and concentrate on the landscaping and track etc. Cant afford Brass unfortunately, so am ordering alum [still Sunset Valley]. we will see how it shapes up. Cant afford points yet as they are 210AUD plus P&P!!!!! Rather spend the money on conversions to R/c and battery. cheers. cheers Andrew
If your plan is for a DISPLAY railroad, then you can save a lot of money on battery-R/C conversion by putting all of the electronics in a trailing [box] car with a power and lighting cable from this car to the locomotive. You can connect this trailing battery-R/C control car to which ever locomotive you want to run. You can have as many locomotives as you want and switch the car from locomotive to locomotive. If you want to run more than one locomotive at a time, then you need extra power/control cars. Three of these cars will let you run any combination of three locomotives at the same time. However, if you plan on doing operations, with lots of switching, then having to drag around a power/control car behind the locomotive and not being able to disconnect the locomotive from the car while switching can be a bit of a restriction on the operating session. The power/control car is a quick way to get lots of locomotives running on battery-R/C and over time you can move the electronics from the power/control car to a specific locomotive and eliminate the need to drag this car around everywhere the locomotive goes.
All of my switches are Code-250 from Sunset Valley and I have all #6 switches, or #4 Wyes. I use Sunset Valley ground throws for the switches that are easy to reach and I use pneumatic switch motors, also from Sunset Valley, for the switches that are out of easy reach. The pneumatic switch motors are mounted on the bottom of the switch, out of site. They sit in a half pipe of black PVC to protect them. I use Sunset Valley switch stands, with the control handled removed, on all of these remote switches to give me feedback visibility of the switch setting.
Two thumbs up for sure. There are many good garden railways on the internet, but this is one of the rare excellent garden railways. Great job Tom and Mrs Gap.
Yes it is one of the nicest we have visited.
Great narration Tom! you've got an excellent voice for public speaking and keep your listeners interested. I wish you well in your hobby adventure!
Thank you kindly!
Bravo sir !
What a beautiful, labor of love.
Cheers from Detroit 🇺🇲
Hi Tom. I love watching your garden railroad video. I've watched it several times now and will probably continue to look at it every few days. Terrific layout and what a fantastic hobby.
Jim
What a great layout! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
One of the most interesting G scale layout I've ever seen. Outstanding video!
A really great garden railroad - fantastic!
greetings from Vienna
Peter
Kerosene heat! I love the simple design. It definitely compliments the plants and is not toy-like with a bunch of cars, buildings and roads.
It is a sweet set up.
I'm still building my first LS layout. I've never met a battery-powered tool that was any good, especially in the heat of Phoenix, so I've bought brass track and a DC 10amp transformer. Your track plan and landscaping are quite the inspiration, though.
Holy crap dude. That's awesome.
Very nice video loved it gave me great Ideas for a layout I would have in mind thank you for sharing always looking forward to you videos you fan Michael Massey
Lone pine is also a name of a town west of death valley. Theirs a TV cowboy muesum there too. Nice layout.
PS Many years ago, I remember MR running a layout feature of the Alturas and Lone Pine, by Whit Towers, if memory serves, which was also an inspiration to me at the time for my journey into HO. FYI
THats really cool i wish i were you!
stunning track, all it needs is some live steam ;)
We had one club member bring a live steamer but as luck would have it, it ran out of fuel just as it entered the 35' long tunnel and died about half way through the tunnel. There are access ports into the side of the tunnel at 3' intervals, but they are too small to work on or extract a live steam locomotive so we had to get an battery electric locomotive to couple on and drag the live (dead?) steam back out. After that, he lost interest in running his steamer on my railroad.
Haha typical Murphy's law
Tom what a fabulous layout. The forethought that went into this layout had to have been ineradicable. Can you tell me what material your track is? Brass, Nickle Silver or stainless? I am considering a combination of both track and battery power.
All of the track and switches are Sunset Valley Narrow Gauge Brass.
my wife likes this adn after much thought and a bit of going down perhaps the wrong road, have decided that modern diesels need heeps of rolling stock, and that cost MONEY!!!!!
So as we will have 1/2 acre [including the house] to play with, am going to do what you have and concentrate on the landscaping and track etc. Cant afford Brass unfortunately, so am ordering alum [still Sunset Valley]. we will see how it shapes up. Cant afford points yet as they are 210AUD plus P&P!!!!! Rather spend the money on conversions to R/c and battery. cheers.
cheers
Andrew
If your plan is for a DISPLAY railroad, then you can save a lot of money on battery-R/C conversion by putting all of the electronics in a trailing [box] car with a power and lighting cable from this car to the locomotive. You can connect this trailing battery-R/C control car to which ever locomotive you want to run. You can have as many locomotives as you want and switch the car from locomotive to locomotive. If you want to run more than one locomotive at a time, then you need extra power/control cars. Three of these cars will let you run any combination of three locomotives at the same time.
However, if you plan on doing operations, with lots of switching, then having to drag around a power/control car behind the locomotive and not being able to disconnect the locomotive from the car while switching can be a bit of a restriction on the operating session.
The power/control car is a quick way to get lots of locomotives running on battery-R/C and over time you can move the electronics from the power/control car to a specific locomotive and eliminate the need to drag this car around everywhere the locomotive goes.
Ok Tom. Not going to display anything to anyone and cant afford lots of Locos.
So how did it all turn out?
you could just have a portable heater in the shed. It draws less power and you can take it anywhere!
insulate it . cheaper and more enviro frendly
How do you set up your remote switches and where do you buy them? are they all hand thrown or remote? do you have links to buy them?
All of my switches are Code-250 from Sunset Valley and I have all #6 switches, or #4 Wyes. I use Sunset Valley ground throws for the switches that are easy to reach and I use pneumatic switch motors, also from Sunset Valley, for the switches that are out of easy reach. The pneumatic switch motors are mounted on the bottom of the switch, out of site. They sit in a half pipe of black PVC to protect them. I use Sunset Valley switch stands, with the control handled removed, on all of these remote switches to give me feedback visibility of the switch setting.