Looks very interesting and should garner a lot of attention. 👍👍👍👍 Tall pieces of Plexiglass or Lexan will be your friend around the trestle set section. I noticed in the video a flangeless wheel was up off of the rail on the trestles on the right end as you look at your layout towards the wall.
@@TwistedMacGyversTrains I’m taking a chance with just the little 1x4 border, but being this is an art gallery and the layout is supervised when running I’m not too worried about it. I like to keep it interactive with the billboard whistle button in reach of young and old kids alike. I’m more worried about the train taking a flying walinda off the edge, hah! Merry Christmas.
Banked and super both work for me as long as the trains can stay on the board. I think I add shims under the trestles next time to maintain a steady grade without the whoops-doos in the track.
Nice, just a suggestion based upon successful application and practice. Use 1/4” plexiglass as the border. Applied correctly by pre-drilling holes in plastic slightly larger than word screw, and use bonded sealing washers to apply pressure to the plexiglass, not the screw head, make the side plexiglass boards very strong. Be sure to alternate screw positions on center (not a straight line) to prevent a single point of failure or fracture possibility. Sand plexiglass cut edges using very find sanding sponge to prevent hand cuts (can be sharp!) It’s a shame to cover portions of such a fine layout with solid side boards including for example steam locomotive side linkages action when the train is closest to the viewers. See Daves AFTrains channel history for discussion of applying boards and other closeup shots of trains traveling adjacent to the plexiglass edge, have fun with your trains! 🚂
That figure 8 is the layout we had as kids set up on a 5x9 table. My dad told me he could by 5x9 plywood from the lumber store for ping pong tables. That's why I recreated it but with solid landscape for my home layout. Look foward to videos from the event.
Great story. Trestles are fun and I really took a chance using them on this 4x8 layout, but I learned some stuff. Mostly I should have used a 5x9 like your Dad! Less room for error and flying trains. lol.
Banked! That’s it! Super-elevated is a cool word, but banked is what I was going for. I just spent the previous four hours troubleshooting the trestles so my brain was a bit fried. The sheer fact I got that big eight wheeler to negotiate the run made me happy, but man. Not sure I’ll do it again. Hopefully folks can use the info. Thanks!
Looks very interesting and should garner a lot of attention. 👍👍👍👍
Tall pieces of Plexiglass or Lexan will be your friend around the trestle set section.
I noticed in the video a flangeless wheel was up off of the rail on the trestles on the right end as you look at your layout towards the wall.
Love seeing the progress! Looking good!
Looks neat!, I am looking forward to see it finished.
Looks so nice! The perfect size layout! I used 3/4 plexiglass for my Christmas layout. I made mine 10” high to help keep the little ones out.
@@TwistedMacGyversTrains I’m taking a chance with just the little 1x4 border, but being this is an art gallery and the layout is supervised when running I’m not too worried about it. I like to keep it interactive with the billboard whistle button in reach of young and old kids alike. I’m more worried about the train taking a flying walinda off the edge, hah! Merry Christmas.
I know exactly what you mean! Merry Christmas! 🎄🚂💯
The term for the track is "super". I did that on my layout.
Banked and super both work for me as long as the trains can stay on the board. I think I add shims under the trestles next time to maintain a steady grade without the whoops-doos in the track.
Nice, just a suggestion based upon successful application and practice. Use 1/4” plexiglass as the border. Applied correctly by pre-drilling holes in plastic slightly larger than word screw, and use bonded sealing washers to apply pressure to the plexiglass, not the screw head, make the side plexiglass boards very strong. Be sure to alternate screw positions on center (not a straight line) to prevent a single point of failure or fracture possibility. Sand plexiglass cut edges using very find sanding sponge to prevent hand cuts (can be sharp!) It’s a shame to cover portions of such a fine layout with solid side boards including for example steam locomotive side linkages action when the train is closest to the viewers. See Daves AFTrains channel history for discussion of applying boards and other closeup shots of trains traveling adjacent to the plexiglass edge, have fun with your trains! 🚂
That figure 8 is the layout we had as kids set up on a 5x9 table. My dad told me he could by 5x9 plywood from the lumber store for ping pong tables.
That's why I recreated it but with solid landscape for my home layout.
Look foward to videos from the event.
Great story. Trestles are fun and I really took a chance using them on this 4x8 layout, but I learned some stuff. Mostly I should have used a 5x9 like your Dad! Less room for error and flying trains. lol.
We always called it banked.
Banked! That’s it! Super-elevated is a cool word, but banked is what I was going for. I just spent the previous four hours troubleshooting the trestles so my brain was a bit fried. The sheer fact I got that big eight wheeler to negotiate the run made me happy, but man. Not sure I’ll do it again. Hopefully folks can use the info. Thanks!