Hand Laying Track on the Industrial Section of My Railroad

In this video, I get to work on hand laying track on the peninsula of my layout. Although I laid down a bit of track in a couple of previous videos, this is the first time I'm going to tackle getting a good amount of track in place. And, this is the first somewhat complex series of turnouts and spurs.
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00:00 Introduction
00:42 Fixing Switch
02:14 Adding Mainline
06:04 Switches
09:30 Lumber Yard Spur
12:37 Mystery Spur
14:17 Feed Mill Spur
18:44 Testing Track

[@kraigsickels3918]

Absolutely beautiful work on hand laying your track!!!! I enjoy 😊 track work because it’s a model on it’s own merit !!!! 👍👍👍Drew

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks, Kraig. Most of my modeling experience has been build stuff that looks good. The challenge of modeling something that works good can feel intimidating.

[@jackheninger5471]

Your track is looking really great. Industry choices---team track, produce or meat packing plant, cattle cars in and reefers out, grain elevator and or seed-fertilizer-farm supply.

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks. Produce could work or a grain elevator, I've already go several grain related industries planned already.

[@patrickflynn843]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that forgets to do things and then covers it up so removal is needed!

[@WhiteRiverLine]

I think we all do. Lol

[@johnjohnston2962]

This has to be one of the best set of model railroad build videos on youtube. great job Drew.

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks, John! Please feel free to share my videos with others, I'd love to increase my viewership.

[@paulc1964]

Really enjoyed this episode Drew keep up the great work - Paul Cassar

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks, Paul. Appreciate your support.

[@entitycreations825]

I look forward to each of these videos. Can't wait for the next one! I'm building a lumberyard myself, so I'm interested in seeing what you do with yours.

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks for watching! It's a fun little kit bash project, so hopefully it'll be an interesting video.

[@centeroftheearthmining4095]

Awesome job!!! For the spur how about just a freight dock and a storage track for your work train cars for the lumber company.

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks. That might work.

[@craigm7009]

Hi Drew, I'm thinking a freight house and team track, you could justify just about any type of car for a little variety in your trains. I'm really enjoying your videos, I'm about to start a 6' by 11' switching layout myself.

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks for the ideas. Thanks for watching.

[@TheTrainFreak]

Great update Drew. On that mystery track, you could put in a dock with ramp and make it a "team track" where local companies would use it to either load or unload boxcars and flat cars but didn't have a track to their buildings. - Jason

[@WhiteRiverLine]

I'd considered a team track. I'm thinking about put one of those in the rural area of my layout too.

[@RobertJThomas]

Another fine video Drew!

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks, Bob, and thanks for that wye turnout too. It worked out really well.

[@AnonOmis1000]

I think you should add some foam to that area where the track curves off the peninsula. It looks odd with the track right on that sharp corner.

[@WhiteRiverLine]

That's a good idea. I'd considered doing that on all my inside corners.

[@OTRWA]

Great vid...I just pulled up 5 points thanks to me relaying them and forgetting to drill for switch Mack...lol...Ah well it's good now. Cheers for streaming

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Having the skills to fix stuff you mess up is almost more important than having the skills to do it right the first time. LOL

[@OTRWA]

@@WhiteRiverLine it's so true...trying not to wreckmeverthing...lol...Thanks again...good vid

[@randysrockandrollrailroad8207]

😊

[@RoyEltham]

So much work, but it looks great!

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks, Roy.

[@johnbanicki7232]

Great job Drew! Love the hand laid track and switches. Thinking of building a couple of small switching layouts for my grand kids doing this. Keep the videos coming. Do the spikes hold the rail solid even though it is on cork? I did some hand laying of track but always did it with wood ties on homosote.

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thanks again for watching, John. The spike seem to hold just fine, all though I haven't really given them an extreme stress test. Seems like homosote is hard to come by these days, even though all the resources I have from the 70s and 80s seem to mention the stuff.

[@nordvesterdalmodelrailroad]

Amazing and inspirational. What does one need to get started with hand laid track?

[@WhiteRiverLine]

Thank you! There are a number of techniques, but the one I use is relatively simple. For supplies you will need the rail, ties, spikes, some white glue, and something to paint or stain the ties. The tools are relatively simple, a small pair of needle nosed pliers, track nippers, and some track gauges. A straight edge is pretty helpful too. I've got several videos documenting my process and you can find them in my trackwork playlist. th-cam.com/play/PLNjiMTKP7bxQPLisRemSSofezBJjgcGgI.html

[@AnonOmis1000]

I just noticed you bought the Y turnouts instead of buikding them. Any particular reason?

[@BRODYSAV]

hey drew love the vids keep it up why dont you use flex track

[@WhiteRiverLine]

I like the look of hand laid track and I wanted to challenge myself. Also, I didn't find too many videos on YT about hand laying track so I thought it might be interesting to learn to do it and then share that with people. Thanks for watching!

[@BRODYSAV]

@@WhiteRiverLine love the vids keep it up startig my first lay out hear soon PRR 1965