Back to see Adam Pinales and his 2 1/2 inch scale yard railroad AND his new HOn3 layout
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2021
- Our hunt for code 215 rail takes us back to see Adam Pinales who has torn out his garden railroad and said we can have as much as we need. But mostly we want to see the progress on his 7 1/2 inch gauge outdoor railroad and his new HOn3 layout.
Last time we visited Adam we saw his huge N scale Denver and Rio Grande layout. His goal was to build every piece of rolling stock owned by the Rio Grande in the 1950's. He did that too!! Anyway, the dumpster fire that was 2020, after the earthquake and hurricane his basement flooded (nothing to do with the earthquake or the hurricane or the dumpster fire) But all the sheetrock needed to be replaced and Adam saw this as a sign he was supposed to change to HOn3. So.... the new layout is coming right along, BUT the big thing we wanted to see was the arch bar wheel truck in 2 1/2 scale he 3D printed.
Now, the printed truck can not run, it going to be used to pull molds and use the lost wax process to cast the wheels and basic components in steel. YES he's plan is to sell them and you will be able to buy a pair if you want them, SOON.
ANYWAY as the 7 1/2 inch gauge railroad has taken over the whole yard, the #1 gauge was torn out. (Yes, it will be rebuilt after the dust settles on the build of the 7 1/2 gauge railroad) The garden railroad was built with #Llagas Creek code 215 rail. And the new garden railroad will be a much larger size rail so when deer step on it.... ANYWAY, I digress. He offered to give us any rail we want! But it was only when we grabbed the track that I realized it was aluminum rail... Now I knew that when he built the railroad, but it just never sank in.. Anyway will not work for us as we are using code 215 nickel steel rail...
THE SAGA OF THE RAIL...
When we started the logging layout we bought 24 feet of rail from Mike at Llagas Creek. It worked great, looks great and so we decided to buy the needed 13 pieces of rail to finish the logging line. We have a desire to support our local hobby shops because losing all a community's hobby shops is not just a shame, it often destroys the hobby in that area. SO we ordered a bundle of rail from The Train Shoppe. Who gets most of their products from wholesaler Walthers. The bundles from Walthers are only available in bundles of 10. SO we ordered 10 from the Train Shoppe - Walthers and 3 from Mike at Llagas Creek. Mike ships rail in PVC pipe with caps on the ends. Because they had so much rail destroyed or lost by Fed X or UPS. But Walthers shipped the rail loose in a large box. And by the time it arrived at the Train Shoppe there was only one rail in the box. And it was halfway out of the box through a small hole worn into the cardboard by the loose rails.
SO we moved onto building the locomotive shop. No rush. Covid lockdown for, well, A YEAR SO FAR??? Anyway. No rush. So after several weeks, the replacement rail came from Walthers. This time the box was totally empty. SO Jeff at the Train Shoppe said "I give up! Get it from Llagas" And Fed X said not our problem, bad packing, and Walthers said not our problem, Fed X screwed it up. So in trying t help the hobby shop out they were out $300. (good news, Walthers has agreed it's their problem, and will cover the loss)
AND the replacement rail just came from Mike at Llagas Creek. AND he threw in an extra rail just because. And we will continue to support the local shops because it's really important to do that.
What does any of this have to do with Adam and this week's show? Nutten. But it's a good story.
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I remember when I was that young and ambitious. I miss those days. Looks great Adam!
You two never fail to amaze me. This is so inspiring.
He just sent photos of cutting the driveway. Track will be in in front in a week or so.
At least he's using wood for the crossing. That's got to be a huge improvement.
The only thing holding the guy up is....you guessed it.....the government!
The snowy mountains in the back round of your friends house is very nice
We need to get back down to his house! Boy has he made some significant changes!
@@ToyManTelevision Wow, I can not wait to see what he has done.
Amazing workmanship
OMG. I want to be his friend. What a fun place to visit. Like Dale & Karyn's but even crazier!
I’m amazed he can fit all that in his yard...in a subdivision
Great show...see ya Tuesday!
Hi Dale, Karyn, and Adam from Jeff and the RGM&HS!
Hi!
Yes I've been waiting to catch back up on him!
Just tore out his road crossings this morning. It was a matter fact is still working on the second driveway as we speak.
@@ToyManTelevision I hope he has 4x4! Its a wonder how he can balance all of the ways that he screws around.
When does he have the time to do all this Great job Adam 👍👍
@@Husky1run Hes been off at Amtrak for several months. First with Covid, then he had surgery on his feet. Now vacation. But as hes well now back to the train soon. But he still works like 90 hours a week.
Haha! I know that guy, hi Adam!
He just sent me some pictures of the railroad! Holy crap! Front loader and backhoe a really going at it. Digging footings for the tunnel lighting track in all directions. New road crossing is in and working brilliantly.
Yes I do think your friend Adam needs an intervention LOL, and your friend Steve is quite the Craftsman in his projects would love to see the update on his o gauge railroad 👍👍
YUP. We will cover the mine tear out. Moving to a guys 3 rail O sale. Hate to see it go. But the new layout is amazing as well.
ALWAYS great to see more of adam's amazing screwing around. Every time you guys visit it seems he has completely ripped up or put down something
I like Adam's out door layout. Look forward to seeing it as he progresses. To bad about the rail but as thing start to get back to some normalisation it might become more available. I always like to see Steve's master craftsmanship projects.He is a true artist. Great video and be safe. Look forward to Tuesday.👍🚅
Hi. Have rail now and we have finished the first 2 sections of railroad. Soon going to bring down the 3rd and relay that.
The future trucks from 3d printing sounds great!!!
Need to get back there. He started over on the railroad. Again. Anyway amazing progress.
Luv u guys. Keep doing these great videos. Thanks.
I am also building a 7.5 inch gauge railroad. I am also using the Accu-Tie products from Allen Models of Nevada (Steve Alley) -- Steve is an excellent person to work with and Accu-Tie is an amazing product to work with.
Have you seen our show on Van’s 10 mile back yard railroad? He took a dual axle trailer to Dayton and brought back thousands of ties. Replacing all his cement ties first. (Junk).
AWESOME NICE VIDEO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR SHARING THIS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS ALWAYS INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING NEVER BORING THANK YOU AGAIN JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA.
It's little wonder you guys get on so well - nuts that fell off the same tree!!! ;-)
YUP!!
Every time i lay out pieces of a model like that... it almost always never gets finished
Hopefully I don't buy so many kits in advance! But it is more difficult for me to not buy the new neat tool which I may have some use, maybe!
Nice to see Steve's truck in details. I'm looking forward the show on his progress.
great video
Awesome! Good to see Adams progress! And the steamers coming along. Will be fun to get down there and couple our engines together around his place. Thanks Dale.
With luck this summer. Pool keeps slowing things down
So funny. Just saw this and I am building a railroad in about the same scale as Adam and he is just about one month older than me.
Wow you two what a great video like all the others I really need to hang out with people like all of you for one day 😁
Yup. We are all nuts. But nuts together so it’s good!
He doesn't have to mow Grass 😄😄
Well he will still have a bit. Mostly the dranage basin where the trampoline is.
nope! My son does!! Go @Masonbogie07
Yup, you guys are awesome 👌. Have fun 👍
Thanks 😊
_"I need to go to the Betty Ford clinic."_
😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
Sure enjoy watching you screw around! Everything looks absolutely real. Well it is real, but it looks just like its big brother!👍✌️😊🙏🏼🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Thanks!!
So,cool!
Nice
What an awesome video. Hope you will keep posting Adams progress on his big railroad.
The natural backdrop around his home is beautiful.
Liked seeing you guys progress on your work also.
Your comment “being retired is perfecting the fine art of screwing around” 😂😂😂
Keep em coming and thanks for sharing, Cary
HI!! What a railroad! What a bunch of work!! BUT Ill bet the 7 1/2" is running this summer.
@@ToyManTelevision that will be awesome 😎
I’m not going to say he has too much time and money because I want everyone to have plenty of both but MAN he spends a lot of both lol
Two jobs too. 4 kids.. never sleeps?
Toyman!!! Your layout is really becoming A layout!!! Its beginning to look really amazing and I'm grad you chose a logging railroad.
Well the logging is up in the mountains. The D and RGW is below that.
@@ToyManTelevision true true
Hi. On the Mack truck, he has a slight mistake. If you look at the drive chains to the front rear axle. He has them on the wrong side. Look at how the chain is resting. The chain is hanging wrong because it's up side down. Swop them other to the other side and they will be right.
yup
Another great video. How do you find these people. I am always amazed. That Adam must have a very understanding wife. A roundhouse in your back yard! Come on really..... To neat.
Yup. They get on well. 4 kids. Crazy life.
well with that furnace gone ya must have room for one more log car and a siding haha...
But I actually have room for us a bunch of really tall trees on the railroad! At least that’s the plan
FWIW: To someone like me who's unfamiliar with doing this stuff, the concrete road bed thing seems like the _obvious choice._ *Surprise...😊*
Great video I so enjoy seeing how our layout is moving forward. Again I heard your feather babies, and it made me sad. For my sun Conure just died. She was my everything. She was in all my videos My house feels so empty without her here. So please love and give them attention.
They are great. Sunny and Sky. Sunny is the one you hear. Sky is a female amd mostly quiet, untill she cuts loose! Sunny is... well... sunny! Sky will sometimes let me pet her. Not often. Sunny will hop on my finger and DEMAND a treet.
@@ToyManTelevision That is great news. we have a train show this weekend in Garden City Ks. I know your busy but, Your more than welcome to come see it.
I’m betting that being that close to the mountains you have expansive soil there. It expands when wet and contracts when dry. It plays heck on basements (think French drains) and in-ground pools (keep them filled).
I have a suggestion for a future Karyn show - Shortwave Radio. I listen frequently with an all frequency magnetic loop antenna called the MLA30+ which I keep right in my office. It is only 26" diameter and receives signals from all around the world. I tune in to hams from all around the country, Long Island was talking to Vancouver the other night. Arnie Koro has a show called DXer's Unlimited out of Radio Havana Cuba where he describes listening techniques to get the out of your listening experience.
Sorry you did not get your rail.
Isn't he concerned that someone might mess with his equipment that's out in his front yard? I don't know what it's like with vandalism over there but based on what I'm used to, without even a modestly sized fence people are going to either get curious and poke around or just straight up vandalise whatever isn't nailed down tightly enough
Right. And no fence. Not sure how he plans that but the pool wil require a fence. So far though only deer have messed with the tracks.
@@ToyManTelevision His track is so close to the sidewalk though that at least by rough glance it looks like there wouldn't be any clearance for a train if he put up a fence beside it. Would be curious to know if he's got a plan for it.
I'm guessing he's in Mapleton, Utah which is a suburb of Provo and far from SLC. Probably not much crime there. His neighborhood looks pretty nice too, and I would think most homeowners are armed which is a good trespassing deterrent.
I am pretty lucky to date, not much happens around here. It is nice , as a firefighter for my city, the local PD takes extra good care of my neighborhood, not to mention, I'm home 90% of the week. ;)
@@AgedAxes Oh hello! Didn't expect to actually see you here, especially not this much later on. Personally I'd still be afraid some idiot takes a stab at messing with anything. The whole lot looks very exposed, and I'm used to at least some band of teenagers seeing something curious and just beating the shit out of it. Maybe I'm just too used to fences, I don't know.
Now I know why my Chevy truck only works in a certain temp range. The thermostat needs to be reset. It thinks it's still a furnace. LOL
We’d love for you two to checkout our 5” gauge layout sometime soon in San Jose, California. It will be under steam in July. Great video here. Adam seems like a great guy 😃
Which one is this?
@@ToyManTelevision This is Evan and Kelly from San Jose building our 0-6-0 Plantation style setup! You can get ahold of me Dale at evanbautista@yahoo... Maybe I can send you footage and our story so you can do what you will with if you’re not comfortable venturing out. Your call :)
I have to ask
If someone made a model railroad in 2 or 3 foot narrow gauge would the FRA have to be involved in order for it to be certified for use ?
Hum... well yes and no. The Knotts Berry farm Railroad is not certified by the FRA. Of course it’s inspected by California inspectors who examined rides because they haul passengers. And the FRA does inspect their steam engines. The Disneyland railroad is an actual corporate Railroad and falls completely under FRA regulations. If you’re going to haul passengers or cross state warrants you’re definitely going to need to be an FRA railroad. However if you’re building something on your own property for your own personal use, not hauling passengers In exchange for money, you’re pretty much on your own. But that also includes your liability!
In the shot where you were showing where the logging layout was going to go I noticed a steam locomotive on the layout and the way it was parked in front of the scenery made it look like the popoff valves were working. Was that on purpose or by accident?
Accidentally happy accident!
As always keep chugging
Actually, you definitely can use concrete as roadbed. There is a 1/4 scale railroad in Michigan that embedded all their steel rail in concrete. It seems corny, until you realize they build it like that so that when the land floods, it doesn't harm the railroad. That worked flawlessly for decades
I guess it depends on the land. A friend laid #1 gauge on cement. Used a concrete extrusion machine for edging gardens. By the end of the first summer the track was broken. Note to self. Don’t anchor the track to the concrete. Within 2 years the concrete was cracked in about 5 places. A year later the cracks were offset about 1/4”. Not much but no way to have track on it. Tore it all our and filled the channel with small gravel and no more problems. We have a trolley line in the hood where the track is set in concrete. No problems. But if you look close the slabs move all over the place. But the trolley track just moves with it I guess. But on a garden railroad of it moves 1/8” it’s a disaster.
Adam just tore out the track in his driveway this morning. The west side was about 1/2” lower than when he put it in about 2 years ago. Settled. But wrecked the rails..
@@ToyManTelevision you have to have an adequate foundation. Always.
Will there be another update on Adam soon
Yup!!!!! Very soon! Pouring footings. Relaid all the front track. Crossings working great now. Big bridge almost finished. Pool going in... wow!!!
I get a strong feeling this guy likes trains. Might be wrong.
We love trains! But we also love cars! And airplanes. We could throw in ships for fun. I suppose if it moves we really like it! But generally we prefer trains
Will Adam be modeling his outdoor after a certain prototype?
D and RGW. That is what the equipment will be just running around that simple loop.
ITs the Utah & Pleasant Valley, right at the time the D&RG took over, ca. 1880
Anyone have any idea how some of the real railroads do track in concrete? It is common on rapid transit and light rail lines.
Crossings are usually a bit flexable. But on a real railroad a small amount of movement is fine. But on a small railroad 1/8" can wreck the whole thing.
Where is this?
In my backyard
@@AgedAxes Ha ! I meant what town... beautiful mountains!
2 1/2 inch scale? 7 1/2 inch gauge? Are they the same thing or how many scales does this guy have?
IIRC, 2 1/2 inch scale? 7 1/2 inch gauge.
7 1/2 inch gauge refers to the gauge of the track, ie the distance between the rails. It can represent any number of scales, depending on the gauge(or distance between the rails) of the prototype. ie A standard gauge model(56.5 inches) will scale out to roughly 1/7.5. Whereas a 3 foot narrow gauge model will scale out as 1/4.8.
Scale refers to the proportion of the model to what is being modeled. When scale is referred to in inches it usually means the ratio of inches to 1 foot. 2 1/2 inch scale works out to roughly 1 / 4.8 or a fifth of full size.
This all goes on the assumption that I have not made an error in my math or memory.
@@iannarita9816 YUP! Adam is sticking to 2 1/2" scale. Bigger. The other 7 1/2" gauge railroad we looked, about 20 miles from Adam, Van's 10 mile railroad, is generally 2 1/2" scale too. But Ralph who runs there is into 1 1/2" inch scale. On outdoor railroads its all a mix...
I have HON3, FN3, and 2.5" SCALE
How much money does this guy have??
about .72 cents
If you can, you want to remove the section listing Adam's Birthdate. I work in IT, and you'd be surprised what you can get with first and last name, city, state, and birthday. Hopefully, he wasn't hit by identity thieves. (I know I sound paranoid, but it's with good reason.)
Hi. I wish UA-cam would let me make changes even if only the o the audio. Nope. I can change text but nothing in the video. But Adam has been very very up front on his birthday. I agree. At act one time it seemed no biggie. But no one should
@@ToyManTelevision Hopefully, nobody notices. I liked his backyard railroad.
I'd rather have my Chevy made out of furnace scrap steel then have my truck made out of aluminum pop cans scrap😂😂😂 oh by the way the silver insulation in the Firebox of the furnace will be shooting out about few months from now don't be surprised I put up the same furnace
That doesn't sound good... Silver insulation?
What that guy Adam needs is something to do with all his spare time.
He is doing something. Doing his railway.
YUP! Full time Amtrak. Part time fireman. Building 7 1/2, HOn3, oh and restoring a Mustang..
I drink beer in my spare time. Im pretty good at it.
Dale, have you and Karyn opted in for the Cocid-19 inoculation vaccinations. The reason I'm so curious is that when you're out visiting your friend's railroad modeling project prograss, you and Karyn were masked's up, but he wasn't, and it just made me think about it. I have received both doses of the PFIZER vaccines, but I will continue wearing a face-covering mask, whenever I'm out and about and until further notice. I'm taking no unnecessary or unforeseen reasons for a glitch on my part. I do understand many people will be referring to me as a sheeple. Your friend's model RR project seems to be very undaunting. If his new approach to a change in scaling for the out of doors complex seems to full of back-breaking tasks. Does he have any assistance, or is he on his own for the duration?
Im up Wed and on the phone (hold) right now getting Karyn's. They dropped the age to 50 14 minutes ago. Adam has been both vaccinated AND had Covid 8 months ago. As a volunteer fireman he was required to get the shot. AND he wanted it!! In spite of being antibody positive. A year ago he was a "Trump" supporter. Thought the whole thing was the flu. But at work (AmtraK) 4 people got it.He gave it to his wife who was on Chemo. 2 of the guys at work ended up in the ICU. One died. So hes a rabid GET THE SHOT guy.
*****EDIT**** never have been a Trump Supporter. Not one bit. for a sec, long ago, I did think covid was something dumb, but quickly changed my tune with that one!!!!
What the hell is wrong with u tube?
It’s a swamp land. I like the swamp but you have to admit it’s a real swamp.