Operate an N Scale Switching Layout
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2022
- An operating session on the small, portable N Scale switching layout with three camera angles and a description of how I set up and run my operating sessions.
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Awesome DCC Starter System: amzn.to/3gZVbbp
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I love the 3 camera viewpoint!
Nice video with 3 camera perspectives ! I love switching Operations sessions. Your thoughts and ideas are greatly appreciated thanks for sharing !
That switching layout looks to be a lot of fun! Who needs a big layout to have switching operations when you make it interesting with a smaller size. Cheers from Delmar, Delaware
Great switching layout Steve! One tip though, always stretch after making a hook if you are going to shove. If you cross drawbars and shove you will go on the ground!
Good tip!
Such a layout would fit well in a guitar case. I‘m interested. Thanks for sharing.
Fun to watch! It's always interesting to see other people's take on which move should come next. You were pretty efficient!
Looks like fun, thank you for the video. Looking forward to future updates.
I think your card system is very clever and intuitive. I really enjoy the vids and are very helpful as I just transitioned from HO to N.
So with the N scale cards I simply can’t read the car numbers and even road names on many of them very easily. Whenever I change my prescription on my progressive lenses I can read them for a few months but then I can’t again as my eyes transition at this age, so I have to use the pictures. I might use computer generated switch lists if I could read the lettering on the cars without having to carry around a big magnifying glass.
Looking great, Steve.
I’m sure when you finish with the different industries it’ll look very realistic. I enjoyed watching your opp session and thanks. Ron
I really like your layout and especially like the use of blank cards and that is not just having the cars in a certain order but staged at a specific spots and that certain cars must remain at their original assigned spot at the end of the session. Makes it more challenging and fun.
I combined your layout with the Inglebrook and added a 2-car spur with a run-around between the two. That way I can just do either yours or the Inglebrook or combine the two into one session. If I'm starting with the Inglebrook (which is 5 cars) I randomly select 2 of the 5 cars to be dropped off at the spur which leaves 3 cars arriving for your layout. If starting with yours, I pick up the 2 cars from the spur which then gives me the starting 5 for Inglebrook. I once spent a day continuously running back and forth between the two. Made for a long but interesting (and sometime perplexing) session.
Very cool!
That looks like a lot of fun Steve can't wait to see how you finish up the scenery on it in your family have a merry Christmas 👍👍
Thanks Charles! Have a great Christmas as well!
Looking very nice and fun .
Nice Steve ☺️
Really good, thanks for sharing
Great! Thank you!
Love this idea. I watched your build series on this layout, and I am rounding up parts as we speak. I am going with traditional DC because I personally enjoy the KATO control pack when switching. Merry Christmas !! Love your videos 👊
I’m really like the Kato pack too and will use it on my HO switching layout a lot. Sometimes I still prefer running in DC because it runs a bit smoother as a locomotive can coast across a small section of dirty track in DC but you get a sound cutout or have the decoder reset in DCC which is annoying. Having keep alive capacitors helps and I need to try putting them in my small switch engines.
Fun little video! Sound equipped locomotives don’t like any specks of dirt on the tracks do they? BTW, may I ask where you got the metal uncoupling tool from?
Cheers from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks! I think I bought it from MicroMark but it has been more than 15 years since I bought it, so I have no idea if it still exists.
What are you uncoupling cars with great video
It is like this, but a smaller version. What works great are really small screw drivers on a handle that is long enough to be comfortable. www.micromark.com/Uncoupling-Tool-for-HO-and-On30-Scale-Trains?gclid=CjwKCAjw5pShBhB_EiwAvmnNVx6r6zZCqrHftVnYKOPUZk7VPpH1zKjF9fASP3436azJWN2qoYEO_BoCzzoQAvD_BwE
I loved watching this session. It was kind of hard to tell but does that little SP switcher have sound in it? I thought I hear it when it gets close to the side of the layout that you were standing on. If so that's even cooler! lol. I'm still looking forward to your testing with those keepalives you mentioned in another video. I'm thinking about putting together a little layout similar to this one and wanted to use DCC but not without some kind of keepalive because I continually become frustrated with sound stutters and would rather use DC to avoid that. Good thing is that the wiring doesn't change much so I could go ahead and build the layout.
It does. Or used to since I broke it last week! Ugh….
@@StevesTrains Well darn it! Guess that makes for a repair video opportunity.
Nice! What size is that layout? I might try to build something similar to fit over my basement bar top/countertop.
I think it is 1 by 5 feet.
Nice! BTW, is that an Atlas S-2 you're running? I bought one last year; it seems to be really good at finding dirty spots on my layout! But when I have clean track for her to run on, she runs really nice. I'm particularly impressed with how slowly this loco can crawl. Mine is also in SP livery; I grew up in southern California and saw Southern Pacific almost everywhere growing up.
I'll be keeping an eye out for further progress on this layout.
Yes, it is an Atlas S2 I believe. Ive been wanting to see if I can put a keep alive capacitor in there to help with the sound cut outs and occasional stalling if things aren’t perfectly clean.