K&W HO Scale Model Railroad, Construction Update #25 - Structure work progress!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 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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Continue with working on structures, they make a big difference! Good job, thanks for sharing, enjoy your updates!
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Hi K&WRailroader & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks K&WRailroader & Friends Randy & Mountion
Thanks Randy.
Amazing project. This layout is destined to be a Great Model Railroad. 😎🚂🇺🇸
Thank you for the compliment! Yours already is!
Keep going with the buildings and the refinery. The Merchant row kit, you could cut it in half, on the depth, making it into a 'Low Relief' building. these are usually effective. Therefore extending the length and still have space for a roadway. keep on with the great work,cheers.
Great idea about converting the downtown buildings to low relief! Thank you for your vote!
What a superb layout. The walk-around really shows how good the plan is. 👍
Thank you!
1:44 Rotary Kiln = Pipe Thingie. 2:44 Auhagan has industrial piping for added detail once built. Industrial Railroading. Yup, subscribed.
Thank you! I even looked it up before shooting the video and just blanked out mid-recording...like normal. 😅 Thanks for watching, subbing and for the additional pipeing resource!
@@KandWRailroader Happy to help.
My vote will be the El Dorado Refinery. Have a good day!
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As a long time industrial process person I’d like to see continued work on the refinery now that it has been started.
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Watch the video early Sunday evening. Keep up the great work. Layout is really taking shape. I would take one section of the layout, like the Tank Car Facility and would like to vote on you working on the buildings at that location. It's a neat little scene and the building would give it character. That's my for vote. Thanks.
Thank you for your vote!
Wow you got a lot going on! Gonna be great. Seems to be very well planned out too. Take care - Bill.
Thanks Bill! I really enjoy your Ops sessions and fantastic weathering!
My vote is for more structure work.
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this layout looks epic. wow! looking forward to all the scenery! 👌
Thank you! Me too!
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
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, June 9th. 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 viewers!! I look forward to hearing from you!
Very nice progress. I’d like to see you continue on with canyon city structures
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Rhings are progressing nicely.
Obviously its pretty much just structures. So i guess thsts my vote
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Keep going on the structures.
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I would suggest the kits/structures as they will help define things.. It is really coming along now.. looking great.
Thank you for the compliment! I'm sorry I missed your vote for this past weekend but you'll be happy to learn that you voted for the winning choice anyway!
Mate,,,lotta layout,lotta projects. Lookin good tho, dont know where to vote, have said it before & will say it again - share the load !! . But if i have to vote -- it will be for structures, cannot wait for this monster to be up n running. =]
Thank you!
My vote is going to be a little bit different. Work on your switches that are giving you a problem operating first before you have so much clutter that it will make it hard to reach them. Then do some of your backdrops while still working on structures which should give you a better idea of how your scenes will look. This variety will prevent burnout. It is going well but I sense that the amount of buildings you want to do is maybe a little overwhelming at the moment.
Very good point about the "trouble" switches. I will file that vote under "track maintenance". I'll also put you down for backdrops. As for burnout, I appreciate your concern and certainly understand your point about being overwhelmed with all the structures I have to build. So far so good in the burnout department though. The bi-weekly polls really help in terms of both feeling overwhelmed and potential burnout because they give direction and focus, as well as smaller, short-term goals that seem attainable. I'm also careful never to "promise" anything for each construction permit which also helps me to keep from feeling pressured in any way. I'll be taking a family vacation in July which will force me to step away from the layout for a much deserved break. Until then, I'll keep plugging away! I'm still enjoying myself and having fun every day and I enjoy sharing my journey with anyone that is interested enough to follow along!
Lamar station is waving at me.
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good work on the layout looks good keep up the good vid on the channel thanks lee
Thank you and thanks for watching!
Very enjoyable series! Thank you!
I'm glad you're enjoying it! Thanks for watching!
Another HO kit you might not know about. Plum PP080 Distillation kit in HO. I think it's on eBay.
Thank you for the tip! I will check that out!
Structure at the large refinery.
First vote! Thank you!
Take a look at the reflection in the Walthers kit at 12:41, you might know that guy. Have you looked at the backdrops yet? I would say do backdrops but if you don’t have them, I would say continue structures. You’re doing a great job on the layout.
Thank you for the compliment and the vote! Other than perusing websites and selecting candidate options for backdrops for certain areas of the layout, I have not done anything else. I am waiting until backdrops wins a poll to go further because it's going to take some time commitment to make final design decisions.
@@KandWRailroader I think the only reason that backdrops isn’t being pushed is because you don’t have them, lol.
@@derekalexander4030 That could be! You might have just made the case for me to get one!
You'll be happy to know I just placed an order for a backdrop from TrainJunkies for the Holly area (it was the easiest to select an existing backdrop for). I'm not sure yet when it will arrive, but I'll throw it up there as soon as it comes in and we'll see how it looks. Thanks again for the tip for that company!
@@KandWRailroader Nice, congratulations. It is a beautiful backdrop, glad I could help and I hope you it works for you.
Sehr schöne und große Anlage wird das, aber amerikanische Züge sind auch etwas größer, länger, schwerer als die in Deutschland und Europa. Tolle Arbeit. Grüße aus dem Ruhrgebiet
Danke for watching!
Please continue to work on structures 👍😊
That's the plan!
K&W is not short on industries 😊…Continue with what your doing (the structures)…I saw a couple houses but, do you have any small neighborhoods planned for the people to live that work at all those industries and businesses or are they part of the backdrop scenes?
Vote recorded! Thank you! Honestly, I've always been more interested in the railroad served structures because I can drive through a neighborhood or a town any time I want. I can't get up close to railroad industries to see the railroad/industry relationship up close. I hope that makes sense.
The structures are really well done with no leaked glue visible, well done! I am quite curious about how you get good thumbnails, I always get an error message about file size and have to use the three random ones from YT Studio. Yours are always clearly related to the video.
Thank you for the complement! I consider myself an average model builder but definitely credit Tamiya's quick setting, extra thin glue. I only use traditional Testor's for large parts anymore since it usually takes some time to get larger parts secured properly for drying. The secret to thumbnails is cropping your photo until you get the file size below the 2MB limit.
@@KandWRailroader Thanks for the quick reply. I'm on a perpetual digital struggle bus. Back to the basement!
@@andrewcappiello5585 You and me both! I still haven't used my new video camera for ops videos because I don't want to spend the time learning how to edit!
@@KandWRailroader I'm using the free version of Microsoft Clipchamp. It works well enough and the meat and potatoes parts are pretty easy to use.
@@andrewcappiello5585 Thanks! I will check that out!
go for finishing the structures that are under way
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Absolutely continue to work on structures 😊👍
@@KraigSickels Vote recorded! Thank you!
Looks great but where your town where workers 🤔 live
At this point, "off layout". 😁