K & W HO Scale Model Railroad, Construction Update #21 - UP yard wired! What's next?
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- This is a bi-weekly updated (usually every other Friday) record of the construction progress of my model railroad layout. I conduct a poll at the end of each update asking my viewers what area of the layout they would like to see me focus on for the next video.
Details of my layout are listed below:
Scale: HO/OO
Design: Triple deck, around the walls with a peninsula and two helices
Design Inspiration: Layout style around-the-walls - David Barrow's Cat Mountain & Santa Fe Location - El Dorado, Kansas to west of Canon City, Colorado via highway routes: 254/400/50
Era: 1980's to Modern Day
Roadnames: Missouri Pacific, Southern Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Santa Fe, BNSF, Union Pacific
Style: Prototypical-Freelance
Size: L-shaped room, larger leg is 26'x15', smaller leg is 14'x5'
Construction: Combination shelf and box frame
Materials: 1/2" plywood base with varying thicknesses of extruded foam board subroadbed, over 1x and 2x lumber frame
Track: Atlas Code 83 in Staging and helices, Micro Engineering Code 83 on the main lines, Micro Engineering and Walthers Code 70 everywhere else
Minimum Main Line Radius: 24"
Minimum turnout frog: #6
Lighting: LED fixtures and strip lights
Operating System: DCC NCE PowerCab with booster(s)
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You work pretty fast, my friend. That was a lot of wiring and everyone forgets that included soldering the drop wires to the rails. You can’t use suitcase connectors for that. The layout looks really good and there is going to be a ton of switching for ops available. The backdrops made a huge difference and nice color. I would love to see you get all of the track finished so you can check everything out and work out any kinks or changes that you may want to do before doing scenery and buildings. After a couple of ops sessions there may be things that you see that you want to change. Love the layout and wish I was a neighbor. Great job.
A vote for more track! Thank you for the comments! I solder all the joints too and consider myself a soldering pro by this point! LOL. It is too bad you're not a neighbor...I need to start assembling a crew to operate this thing!
Still voting to see the town start to take shape
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Excellent progress. Fantastic layout. I vote for laying more mainline and wiring mainline
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Moving along very well. Thanks for sharing. I will get my vote in early this time. I would like to see some rolling stock weathering.
First vote!
Nice work !! Keep it up !!! Thanks for the video
Thank you!
Being from the area i love your layout. I know all the locations you are using. Just awesome. Thanks. Lift out bridge is my vote. Structure work would be good too.
I'll record your vote for the liftout bridge, but will remember your vote for structures in case of a tie! Thank you! I've not seen many other layouts that are set in Kansas, much less the Wichita area. The Augusta model railroad club has a huge layout though that has a lot of neat features. I've seen clips of it on UA-cam.
Ill vote more track/wiring. Looks awesome!
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Is there an aspect or location of the Kansas & Western Model Railroad that you would like to see me focus my attention on for the next update video? If so, then leave your request in the comments below! Below is a list of locations and aspects of the layout to refresh your memory, listed in order following the main line from the bottom up, starting from the west helix:
Royal Gorge Route
Canon City
Portland Cement Plant
Pueblo
La Junta Yard
Lamar
Holly
Holcomb Power Plant
Garden City
Charleston Elevator
Wichita Industrial Park
Wichita Yard
Towanda
El Dorado Industrial Park
El Dorado Refinery
Union Tank Car Company
Aspects of the layout that aren’t location specific that I can focus on:
Track weathering and ballast
Wiring (so I can run trains on newly laid track)
Rolling stock weathering
Structures
Backdrops
Scenery (the Royal Gorge Route…the main line between Canon City and the west helix…is the only location that is close to ready for scenery work. I will still have to lay the siding and install some backdrops, before I can start scenery work but that won’t take much time or effort)
Layout skirting
Fascia/valance
The polls for this weekend will close at midnight Central U.S. time on Sunday, April 14th. Votes will be tabulated Monday and a short video update will be posted Monday afternoon regarding the vote result and my plan to carry it out. Power to the people!...err...viewers!! I look forward to hearing from you!
Vote for the lift out bridge. Take a look at Scott Rails video on his lift bridge, personally I think it is genius. Keep going your layout is going to be stunning.
Vote recorded! Thank you, I'm familiar with his channel. I'll check his design out again. Thanks for the tip!
Looking good! Get some of those structure kits built (as I think that I really need to do the same here)...
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I'm so blown away at your vision and how it's coming together.
Thanks! Me too!
I vote for more track wiring and laying so all the track can be done before you start scenery and kits...
Thank you for your vote but I'm afraid you missed the midnight deadline. However, you'll be the first to learn that working on track is already the top vote-getter for this weekend. I'll be posting a poll result update video this afternoon. Thank you for participating!
I vote to continue track laying and wiring , you are already heading in that direction 😊👍 !!!!
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It's all coming together. 🙂
Mate ,,like i said last time - this is going to be an awesome layout when you eventually start getting it done. Iam going to be that guy and vote for variety. with so much yet to be done ,, i would like you to mix it up. looking great\awesome. =]
Thank you for your vote! Do you mean you want me to work on a little bit of everything? That counts too! That's what I used to do before conducting these polls so I get it!
@@KandWRailroader yeah defs i vote for a little bit of everything.
G'day from Oz!!
looks great lots of mainline...but no grades?? (I don't count the helixes...)
I am laying track at the moment on my layout too. Its a single level very large oval style with 2.6% ish grade with a main yard (the Eastern yard) and engine facility which works its way around the outer wall of the rumpus room climbing up to a second yard (the South yard). I added a staging/storage level about 6inches below my smaller yard with a fairly steep descent (about 3 % ish) and a gentler climb out. The other trick is I am renting so its all modular!! All the wire for track power turned up today and laying down the mainline has started, just finished putting the track down for the staging tracks and I want the mainline down then I can finish the smaller yard and then the main yard and loco yard...The price of turnouts is the only thing slowing progress at the moment. There are a couple of test track vids of my DDA40X's to test radius clearances as the DDA's like to toss the first car behind off the track if the bend is less than about 26inches. The only way around it is to run a car with a long coupler or an autorack behind the loco... or have 32"+ curves!! I worked for hours on the PC using anyrail6 to get the track plan sorted......then made changes after the baseboard framing was finished as some areas on the plan did not quite match the actual dimensions of the room! It's very stress releaving coming home from work and getting some track down!!
I'm surprised that you're the first to point out the "flatness" of my layout. I have no grades partially because of the geography that I am modelling, and partially because I didn't really know how to plan for meaningful grade changes beyond using different thicknesses of foamboard as subroadbed. You can chalk that one up to "limited imagination" on my part. I didn't realize it at the time, but someone else pointed out that my track plan is clearly "operations-focused" which I suppose it is, and I have no problem with that at all. Good luck with your build and thanks for watching! Oh, and very cool naval models on your channel!
@@KandWRailroader Thanks mate, RC ships are loads of fun we have a great club. I have too many hobbies and not enough time!! But switching between hobbies has helped me get a bit of motivation back for diff projects too..
@@Wolfe351 Makes sense to me!
After all that wiring, might be an idea to do some kits so you can mix it up a bit?
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Making steady progress. Agree the backdrops (and front fascia) really finish and focus viewers. Question: What brand of LED light strings did you use? The ones I bought are not bright enough. 😢
Here's the link on Amazon to the lights I ordered: www.amazon.com/Onforu-Dimmable-Daylight-Lighting-Non-Waterproof/dp/B07DZQ1WW6?pd_rd_w=ZazqO&content-id=amzn1.sym.54a4b70b-6e28-4876-928a-df4db2e325f5&pf_rd_p=54a4b70b-6e28-4876-928a-df4db2e325f5&pf_rd_r=B9XQ3PCDNBT05SRDFHPC&pd_rd_wg=8czV2&pd_rd_r=f540769e-86c7-4c02-bfcf-873e0037c7e3&pd_rd_i=B07DZQ1WW6&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_d_grid_rp_0_1_ec_pd_rhf_ee_s_rp_c_d_sccl_1_1_i
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Looking fantastic, great progress, what brand of track and turnouts are you using, how did you wire the yard
Thank you! I was using only Micro Engineering flex and turnouts (Code 83 on the main lines, Code 70 everywhere else) until I couldn't find any more turnouts online in pretty much all of North America, then I switched to using Walthers turnouts which are working very well thus far. Fortunately, Walthers rail joiners work very will with Micro Engineering flex track so the transition has been seamless. I wired the yard to a common bus wire pair, blocking only the engine service areas so I can kill power to where locomotives will be parked when I'm not running them in and out of those areas. I was going to build mini control panels for each of those engine service areas but decided to run each set of service tracks to a single on/off toggle. I didn't see the point of having a switch for each track. I added plenty of feeders and soldered every connection to ensure reliability. I hope that answers your question.
Portland Cement Plant
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Suitcase connectors
Thank you!
How about building a few more structures What is the paint color you used I would like to use it in my room?
Vote recorded for structures! Thank you! The color is called, "Bluish" It's Valspar brand from Lowes, the number on the can is 2000 (the cheap stuff), interior paint + primer, flat finish. Good luck!
@@KandWRailroader Thank you from Ne Kansas
@@meflog2 You're welcome! Fair warning though, I am partially color blind, specifically greens, reds and blues, so I would definitely get a sample jar first and try it out. I have no idea how well the color translates from reality to video (and back again), but I feel like the videos represent the actual color pretty well. My colorblindness allows me to see greens, reds and blues, but I have trouble distinguishing between like colors. I had to pick the color based on the name, and I confirmed it by holding the sample up to the sky on a clear day.
where did you get those revell model kits of the refiner and coke units
Those are actually German-made Faller kits. They are getting hard to come by. I got mine from Trainworld, but they were the last ones. Maybe they have restocked by now though. There are multiple pieces to those Faller kits and I know Walthers has some of them, or at least they did.
@@KandWRailroader ty im going looking for them now