Union Project: Adding Aldershot - An Unplanned Layout Addition
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- I had every intention of building control panels, but an empty wall was too good to pass up... so I've added Aldershot Station - a passenger terminal near Burlington, Ontario. In this video, I take a look at benchwork, track, and Arduino turnout/relay control. Thanks for watching!
Music courtesy of: midsummer
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This project continues to amaze me and being able to watch it grow is quite entertaining and it's really nice to see the layout getting expanded. Now I'm wondering if we'll eventually get a video down the line, where you end up explaining that you realized that you could still cram in Niagara Falls Station into your layout, by removing the master bedroom.
This stuff makes for great watching, even for someone like me, who's not a train guy, cause I love seeing people sharing their passion for a hobby.
This channel in general is amazing: N Scale Dystopia with awesome dark synthwave music and this project, which I'd label as N Scale Utopia with its laid back lo-fi music.
The production value of your videos in general is only matched by the quality of your dioramas!
N SCALE UTOPIA!!! Thanks for the awesome feedback... I am stealing that Utopia comment!
Several years from now the expansion has taken over the entire house lol.
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I've seen it before!
@@NScaleDystopia Imagine the N Scale Dystopia spanning an entire basement. Every wall showcasing N Scale trains slinking through the desolate aftermath of the end of the world. That would be awesome and fitting with your original vision of the Dystopia.
2043: The End of the World. Now the survivors forage for supplies and travel by rail.
Dream big! 😁
Not a modeller, but enjoyed watching the combination of craft, artistic design, engineering etc of model making while recovering from heart attack in 2020. Just found your site.
You are rare among modellers in being confident and competent at the larger scale of carpentry and joinery (my thing). Most modellers seem unconfident, diffident, and frequently unsafe in handling full size tools and materials. At the other end, there's a similar gap of feel and know how between internal finish carpentry, furniture making, etc, and construction timber work like framing and roofing. Different levels of precision, load bearing, mass, and power of tools. This leads to different neuromuscular instincts: important for safety considerations
I miss your older content of building and dioramas but I also really like the new content. Excited to see how your project turns out, so far its pretty cool!
I appreciate this comment. I'll still build dioramas, but I need a better 'home' for them!
This is slowly turning into one hell of a project. Look forward to each update.
Hell of a project... Project from hell? Time will tell...
Glad to see how your project is growing video by video. Love the passion that you have creating every step and transmites to us editing and explainig everything you do. Excellent job. Thanks to share your passion.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm enjoying myself and I'm happy that people like yourself are having a good time as well. Interests are for sharing!
As a newbie who has been thinking about getting into model railroading for about 5 years (although, only recently deciding to actually construct a small 2x4' n scale layout as a PoC and to get the inevitable errors out of the way), I find this series to be one of the most informative, concise, well-written and well-produced on youtube. There's no filler, no rambling... it's straight to the point. I very much appreciate this. Cheers!
Comments like this are really welcome and very meaningful. Thank you. I do try to be efficient as I feel I have a responsibility to someone who's going to give me a few minutes of their time to make sure that I tell a story efficiently, and that I'm mildly entertaining. Thanks again!
I'm very happy to have found your channel. Simply amazing. From videography to implementation I see excellence.
Thank you very much Brian!
Enjoying seeing this project come to light. Great video. Maple leaves in the ground for the framing shots 🍁🍁🍁 no snow, though
Awesome job Dystopia looking forward to more on the build. Never have enough to add more thing to do to the layout 👍🏻🚂🛎️
Thanks! Your recorded live streams (along with streams from the rest of the crews) make for good company while I'm charring the ends of my fingers with a soldering iron.
Union 2.0 finally takes form!! Awesome work as always!
If I may make a suggestion: you could hide the incline to the upper deck behind a backdrop of some sorts. I noticed in the photos of the real Aldershot station, the area is surrounded by trees. You could hide the transition behind the backdrop behind some trees maybe!
It's ultimately up to you what you do and I look forward to seeing what comes next! 😄
The backdrop idea is a good one. A highway and a backdrop might work really well. Thanks!
Well worth the extra effort, this is looking great!
Thanks!
Slick. Like that single button/2 switch setup.
It seems obvious now... I don't know what took so long to implement it?
Fantastic that benchwork is really impressive
Thank you. I was happy with my first installment of benchwork, but this update was an improvement. I appreciate the comment!
A layout is always evolving. I'm sure your gonna enjoy having the extra running space.
100% - I'm already enjoying it!
Looks great, liking what you are doing with the arduinos. Cheers
great addition to the plan
Wow, this is amazing. I loved your video and all of the wonderful detail that you provided both for your layout and background information on Aldershot.
Thank you so much - I'm glad to enjoyed it. I do try to make the videos have some useful context. 😊
This will be so great 😍
'Aldershot' and 'Dystopia' - how apt, I thought. Then I read further - not my local dystopian town (UK).
I wish I had the imagination, talent, time and space that you have - making very slow progress on my latest boxfile layout. Keep up the good work, mush!
I live in Canada and just about every street, town , and city name has been borrowed from the UK! The lockdown gave me some spare time to make pretty rapid progress and I'm grateful for that. Thanks for stopping by, and the kind words!
Aldershot is a perfect “unplanned addition” seeing as they just finished adding a pocket track to accommodate the new routes along the lake towards Niagara Falls.
Thanks to that pocket track, I've accidently taken the train to Hamilton. Really nice station!
Hi. Typical model railroader. Always expanding. I really like the new plan. I look forward to seeing your progress. See ya.
As always, thanks Norman.
One of the reasons I started to think about another layout is due to the additional space I now have in my modelling room in the house... Similar to yours I have the two walls and potentially the 3rd as well.. Good to see you expanded it, to get a bigger layout!! :) However, I did notice you never mentioned putting in a join between the old and new section, just in case you move... (You did it on the main two sections, but not this 3rd one.. Unless I missed it.) Craig.
I didn't mention it, but I did design the benchwork so that it could be separated. I never want to do it - but it can be done!
Hellz yeah - great update and way to extend that layout bro.
More concrete walls to try my hand at graffiti...
Are you going to model the Death Star destroying Aldershot? It was a sad scene but the effects were well done. Wait… I may have that wrong. Great work as always. Can’t wait for wireless mechanisms for our layouts. No more mess.
...I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Watching you build his monster almost make me want to get into trains, even though im not particularly fond of trains in any way. lol I do lik how you go over the wiring aspets but it ultimately seems like of lost on me at points. Maybe if you include a small wiring diagram it might help make it better? 11/10 content though!
If you want to get into trains, there one key point to remember: If you have trains, you have no money. As for the wiring, I appreciate that it seems like a lot. There are lots of great videos on the 'how' part of what I've done, so for the curious, there are resources available. Thanks for the comment!
Very different Aldershot from the UK version I was expecting !
We may have borrowed the name... :)
I'm very impressed with your work. Just curious why you didn't chose to model your new station using a prototype that was actually located east of union station to match the location on the layout.
The aldershot station is the station I've been using my entire life. I want a model it for sentimental reasons. Thanks!
I see you used Arduino. I am very knew and very green to program, so do you have a example or the programming to used the reverse relay ? Thank for the help and time .And is a great layout and very good.
I don't have an example of that particular request, but if you search "DIY and DIGITAL RAILROAD" my friend Jimmy has good examples.
@@NScaleDystopia Ok Thanks
I will. Keep with the good work
This is all a foreign language to me but I love it
And there was me thinking it was Aldershot, Hampshire
In Canada, we have no original names... 😉
Will u be doing all the stations in between union and aldershot?
That would be great, but I think I would need an airport hanger to have enough space... 😊