Mail Call - And New Kato Layout Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- Mail call - New Kato parts from Midwest Model Railroad, and the start of the new layout!
Special Thanks to Roy Eltham for all his advice on Kato Unitrack - Find his channel at:
/ royeltham
Looks really good!
Thank you!
Seeing that huge package of kato track, brings me back to starting mine! Those are great mail calls! Haha. Looks great, looking forward to watching it progress. Great work brian!
Thanks Lehigh! Yeah, the only downside to that package was the price tag, but I think it will be worth it for me.
Sometimes you have to make things work. Well done. Can't wait to see more progress. Thanks for sharing, David
Thanks for watching, David!
It's always interesting to see other solutions. I think diversity is one of the things that makes this hobby so fun. Thanks!
I agree - Back a few years, I thought that Kato track looked "toyish", but it sure runs great, and now I love it!
hi Brian... that's what i call "adapt & overcome" good job...👍👍😊👌..thx 4 sharing.. vinny
Thanks, Vinny!
Thanks for all the great information and the laughs as well! We always look forward to a new post from you. We built the same gravel company while watching you build yours! 😃
That's really cool - Thanks for watching!
That was fun, Brian. I look forward to seeing how your trains run on the Kato track. ...Roy
Thank you, Roy! I'm looking forward to that also. So far, I'm really impressed with the Kato track, it's really easy to work with.
I love the new layout at the beginning! Very minimalistic! Keeps operations very simple and too the point! ;)
Yeah - Unfortunately, it's all the space I have, so it has to stay on the smaller side.
Seeing The Package Causes Train tardedness which is Good quite the Toxication Of trains.
As always I loved your video and I was so excited when the track came. I was amazed how fast and easy the track goes together . I'm so looking forward to watching the trains go around our city. I never knew how much work goes into making a track layout. You're working on 2 levels here and our Christmas train layout wow can't wait for all of them to be running. Again great job on your video and love you honey 💕.
Thanks for letting me have time to goof off - Love you!
Hey Brian! That was a whole lotta track packs! Thanks for the shout out in the description too!
You're welcome Roy, thanks for all the help!
That little rotary tool works not too bad Brian. It, and you did a good job on the short piece of track. Thank you for sharing your problem solution. I. Sure it will help those who run into the same situation. Take care. Sean.
Thanks Sean - Hope so!
Thank You for your videos, Mr. Page. Nice box that came in the mail.
The turnouts are suppose to come with 2 angle adapter tracks, a left and a right. That way you can put it on either the straight track or the turn track. Then you can put a regular piece on the other track. A thing I found out about Kato switches, my train sometimes derails when making the turn right after a curve. I put the smallest piece they make between the curve and the turnout and that helps a lot.
Good idea! I only have one #4 turnout with tight curves, but it's for a slow moving spur, so I've had good luck so far. I custom cut the short piece so I could get the two tracks closer together, and it's working ok - I wasn't able to use the angle adapters because they were too long. But it all worked out - Thanks!
that brand of track isnt cheap at all nice vid
No, it's not cheap, Dwight, but so far, I'm liking it a lot!
Nice start! I’ll be anxiously waiting to watch this develop. I’m wondering where you got that blueprint of the layout.
I haven't made much progress on the main layout yet. The blueprint came from Anyrail, a program for making layouts. I designed the layout, then printed it on regular pieces of paper and taped them together. Nice thing is, with programs like Anyrail, you can always go back in and change something if needed.
Nice package of track Brian! Adjustable faux dremel nice, my faux dremel is on or off haha. Adapt and over come.
Yes sir, JD! That Hart rotary tool actually turned out to be very useful, I got it for the slow speed for building plastic models.
Ah Brian, what it is to waste time on Utube. Anyway, channels like yours are a help for those of us who are looking for the least painful methods of track laying. I wonder if folk are being to 'literalistic' with their interpretation of set geometry track. They are an aid, not a prescription. Bear in mind I am the kind of nuisance who could buy an etched metal kit and respecify half of it - I suspect the approach most kit designers would approve of. Thinking a lot recently lately of home made transition for easing into and out of set geometry curves, and in your case here, a piece of home made for that difficulty you had. Of course most of these things could be made in a few minutes from appropriate rail sized flex track. There you are: the advantages of set geormetry track with fewer of the usual disadvantages.
Incidentally, that 'Hart' rotor tool. Bought a 'Harp' points file for just a few dollars. Points files are great for preparing rail ends so as not to catch wheels.
Enjoyed video; thanks for the effort.
Thanks for watching! My videos aren't so much "how to" as they are "what happened..."
Great update...rotary tools are the best!
Thanks, Steve, I'd be lost without that tool!
Good job on getting the track to fit. sometimes ya gotta take a chance and fix it yourself. Well done
Thanks Joe! This is my first time using Kato, but it worked out well.
Hmm #4 turnouts. You may have fun with those.
I hear you - That number four is a shorty. I only have one in a spot where the traffic is slow, so it's ok.
The Fun begins, great update
Thanks for watching, James! Yes, the fun begins...
Wonderful again Brian, I am wondering if you would do a video on how exactly you did use the plastic selves for benchmark and how you secured the foam etc? It does seem like a good idea for my situation too so I thought I'd ask about what you learned and how you might do it again if you could? Love you channel and sense of humor too.
Thank you, Lyndon. If I were to do this again, I might just make a bench out of plywood and 1x4s, the shelving was kind of a pain. It worked out in my case though. Thing is, it's not very realistic with shelving legs all through the track area. I put the plywood on the shelving with screws, then secured the foam onto the plywood with Liquid Nails Project. I used big tie-wraps around all the legs of the shelving to sturdy everything up. Hope that helps.
Nice job, Brian! I had a similar experience with my Märklin C Track. AnyRails did not register that there was a special adapter piece with a removable edge for the same reason. Once I went to lay my track, I had the problem and had to get the adapter piece (rather than cut the piece I planned to use). Through my whole design off on one side of the table.
Hi Anthony - Fortunately for me, it was just a small problem due to my ignorance of Kato products.
@@brianpagemodeltrains Indeed. Problem was the same, you found a quicker, easier solution.
Hi Brian just found your channel I like the track plan you have got for your new layout. Looking forward to seeing how the layout develops. Subscribed.- Nicholas.
Thank you, Nicholas, and welcome aboard!
good vid
Thanks Lee!
I use Kato N Scale track myself and I love it!
Me too! I always thought it looked "toy-ish" but if you dress it up right, it works great and looks good!
Hey Brian, I enjoyed many of your previous videos. Thanks for the humor. I probably don't understand why you had to cut out the road bed. The #4 TO gives you two already and there are multiple ways to to configure the TO. You could have attached the cut out on the straight track. Also, have you considered making one of the straight tracks into a flex piece ? You can even cut them down to size which I did for one of my T-Trak modules spurs. I heard those extension pieces may be problematic. Keep those video posting!
Great ideas, mrodtoo! There are different ways I could have tackled that issue, but since I only needed to get the two parallel tracks closer together, it seemed that cutting in that shorter piece was the easiest solution. It turned out to be only a 10 minute job.
@@brianpagemodeltrains So are you saying the track center needs to be smaller than 33mm? See the first example in this link of some diagrams: www.katousa.com/PDF/plans/N-plan-4-turnouts.pdf
@@mrodtoo - In this case, Kato specs won't help me. The two tracks have to fit through the two bays of the Walthers Glacier Gravel company, and the bays are closer together than a standard two track setup. But thanks for the info!
Now that’s using the model railroading 🧠 to its fullest…in the opening scene I was like Wait/What 😊 where’s he going with this 😂😂
Well you know, Anthony, I have to keep the troops entertained!
looks like you have lots of track, well straights anyway.
going for the nice long trains?
Hi Dave - Yes sir, I'm mostly a rail-fanner, so I wanted to have two loops to run longer trains on, and be able to switch them back and forth on the two loops.
Work it Slowly Think it Out Make A To Do List then Go from there out. Best game Plan.
Absolutely!
That is a lot of kato track.
Yes it is - Thank goodness my layout is only 3ft by 10 ft!
Brian, can you tell me what the tall building in your initial layout scene is? It looks like it is about 4 stories tall and has room for two tracks to run through it. I am interested in support structures like this for my layout.
Never mind, I asked too quickly and you identified it later on (Glacier Gravel Company). And thanks for telling us about the problem with using it. I would have expected it to fit the track spacing that Kato uses.
Wow, that was the easiest answer I ever gave!
What is your primary motivation to do Kato track?
Hi Alan - When I laid my Atlas track, I didn't do a very good job, and I had a lot of issues especially on the curves, so I decided to go with the Kato Unitrack to keep things a little more "pre-formed".
Hi like your video's.
question ? I just bought a set of NEW Kato 11 car California zephyr 106-1055 with display track 2006 release . in the foam inner holder But Missing outside box. they are selling for upwards of $350.00 . on Ebay. will the Missing outside box cause it to be les desirable or worth less? looks Unused. And I want to sell it cause I don't have Kato Couplers. what is it worth?
I'm afraid I can't answer how much it's worth, I don't have any of that set. I know that a 6 unit set of Silver Streak cars runs about $250 on the Kato website. I'm curious though, if it's a new set, where's the box? I would have to say that if selling it to a collector, the box would make it worth more. But another option is if you want to keep the set, swap the couplers to what you use.
Edit - I see the California Zephyr 106-055 set on Ebay, brand new in the box, and with the display track, $509.99, if that helps.
Thanks Brian just got an idea from anotheryoutuber , just replacing one coupler on one end of one car, making it an "adapter" car? This car would be at the lead, couple to your loco(s), then the rest of the train would be behind it. @@brianpagemodeltrains
@@itsmeray01 - Very cool, that works too!
Useful topics relevant to the establishment of a layout ... so slow 😔
I think taking time and fiddling with how to lay everything out is slow, but that's part of the fun - For me at least!