3 Year Anniversary of our Model Railroad Layout!
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- In this episode we celebrate the 3 year anniversary of our model railroad layout. We talk about how the layout got started and future plans for it. ALSO lots of train action since the lower level of track is complete.
A big THANK YOU to all who have supported me and the layout!!!
Hope you enjoy the video and happy modeling everyone!!!
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Every video is such a joy. In fact I love to save your videos to watch Saturday morning at 10 to get up early while the rest of the family is asleep have a nice cup of coffee and just enjoy your video in peace
WOW 3 years, time going fast its about the same time i discover your channel and following you every week your video. Jason you are to much fun to watch and helpful, so last year i dispose my first layout to improve with a second one to the next level. I wiil repeat my self but you are so helpful and you are so much a source of inspiration and watching you my structurs are so great with your technic thanks again.
Please do not stop your great work and your video you are my inspiration and a good teacher. To much to say but this channel is so fun see you next time Jason i am addicted now thanks again.
Thank you for the three year anniversary tour. I look forward to what the next three years will bring. Especially when you add the water.
This is so amazing 👏 😍. I want to see this in person. 😍🤩😇 ... Great creation Bro 👏👏👏💙💙💙
Amazing layout. Really incredible! I am gona watch this episode on my big screen to enjoy again and show my wife. Thanks!
Oh and i would say loos the tresselbridge its to outdoorsy. And replace it with a steel, brick and or concreet bridge.
As I have said before…Amazing and realistic. Now as for the tressal, it has to go. With the realism you have created the railroads hated bridges and tunnels unless absolutely necessary. I would suggest that a rock face that extends from your track to the lower level. Maybe with a roadway tunnel. Congratulations on 3 years. I loved every video. Keep up the great work.
Congratulations on a great piece of art. As much as I do WWII 1/35 models I still thoroughly enjoy watching your work and I will be using a lot of your painting and weathering techniques.
Fantastic layout and I will continue watching the great videos and structure building that you will be doing in the near future. Thanks and keep up the good work.
3 years of watching the videos! And still loving them Jason
I'm a rural landscape kinda guy but am totally blown away by your awesome structures' work...WOW--!!! Thank you for posting this excellent video.
As beautiful as that wooden trestle is, I’d like the land/structure plan. Trees would be a nice rest for the eye. Some clean, green stretches of life to contrast with the dreary city scape.
God bless you and your grandfather for this amazing job, Jason. Greetings from Italy.
Jason, thank you for all your videos. I have learned so much on weathering buildings. As you said in this video, we improve over time, and I now look at some of my earlier buildings and think that I really need to either upgrade them, or replace them with something better.
As for the trestles - get rid of most (I am sure you will find somewhere else to eventually put them). I would leave just a short trestle near the corner, maybe over a creek that feeds into the harbour. It would also need another bridge for the road to cross the creek, but a little lower down. Perhaps the road could be heading down the hill to the area around the pier, winding down the valley side.
Jason, your artistic talent shows in all your structures. You are doing an excellent job teaching many of us how to build and paint structures.
Hi Jason love the videos keep them up :) I deffo think should remove the trestles and put a unquie bridge maybe a viaduct with a steel section ior something. Love thr idea of more buildings amd trees and rocks etc keep up can't wait for the next one
Jason Jensen: "Should I get rid of these trestles and add more structures?" Also, Cookie Monster: "Should I lose this broccoli for more cookies?" :) Congratulations on the anniversary! And Yes, you should get rid of the trestles and add more structures! Replace the trestles with one small and funky looking bridge, and fill in the rest with structures - you already know that's what you want to do.
What a fun and happy video Jason, love your work. Congrats on your anniversary. Perhaps one bridge and maybe not a trestle if it looks out of place with the 'look' you are developing in that area.
Jason you are the best. Thank you for the informative and entertaining videos. If you start a kit company respectfully please don’t forget us N Scalers.
Beautiful layout! Magnificant structure work on all of it, secenry, buildings, bridges, and thr water front! WOW!! Any chance of a quick video on a boxcar? Thank You for sharing with us all here. Best Wishes on the Business venture. I will be watching Your work!
Congratulations on on all the work you’ve done and happy anniversary! Great video and wonderful to see the train running. You’ve motivated me to sit down and make some serious goals for my layout. Thank you for what you do! Stay motivated and happy modeling!
Congrats Jason on 3 years. Amazing progress !!! Keep up the outstanding work !!!
This was a great video right before i get ready to explained my layout and triple its size. Thank you
Jason, Wow, that a great inspirational vision video.
Full of so much information on planning, goals, work ethic.
Thank you for sharing, and, I think I can speak for all of us, when I say, we are really looking forward to the next part of the Journey. Your techniques have certainly helped me improve. I am looking forward to a video on rolling stock, your take on that would be awesome.
Cheers, and stay safe, Michael
Congratulations for the 3 years of your layout! You said in your video that you still have 5 years to dedicate to your project. That’s good news for us! Thanks a lot, Jason!
Jason your a real master at realism I'm so impressed .I'll be using your tips and techniques to upgrade my lay out soon.i love your water scenes and shore shops
Congratulations and happy birthday. Trains running!!! Sweet
Happy 3rd birthday Jason. It's been an enjoyable ride watching each video and seeing the progress. Looking forward to what's next. I like the idea of replacing some of the trestle with land, builds trees etc. All the best Anthony
Nice seeing a train run amongst all the buildings
I can see the Franklin & South Manchester influence in your work. Your layout is every bit as exciting. I have enjoyed your work for over a year now. Keep it up, I'll watch. Thank you.
Hi Jason ! What a wonderful documentary and prospect video again ! Thank You for that ! And the running train really still changes the arrangement into another quality ;) As to the trestle bridge: I at once had the idea to extend the harbor basin on the front edge of the layout to the backing "sky wall". Maybe let it lose a little width on the way to cause the illusion of depth ... The corner of the wall should be rather covered with structures to my mind to just avoid the hard vertical edge in the city: The bridge crossing the new "canal" or how You may call it may be either a trestle or a steel framework ...;) Since You already have some steel bridges and finished the nice trestle construction, a not so big rest of landscape left and right and a trestle might be better ;) Good luck, best wishes and may You always have a hand-width of water under the keel ! Best regards and thank You for the concentrated quality all the time !
Love the Southern Star car toward the end of the train. Live where they were located. LOL.
CONGRATULATIONS Jason Stellar job your our Model R.R. ROCKSTAR!!
I saw! Now! I was looking for the "Franklin" in UA-cam and I found it.
George's work is really amazing. The scenery ...biggest and incredible. I understood your mind and I believe your work is on the same path and in the same degree of detail.
Congratulations to three years and the great masterpiece...hugs and stay modeliiing!
OMG! It’s like traveling through time somewhere on the waterfront in seacoast town in New England!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch für 3 Jahre. Es ist Wahnsinn was du in 3Jahren geschaffen hast. Danke für die viele Tollen Filme und Anleitungen. Grüße aus Germany
Happy anniversary from France Jason Jensen! Three years of great and inspiring job. Thank you for sharing your tips and techniques.
Looks great nice to see trains running!
Great run by! Loving the layout!
Congrats on 3 Years! Your layout is amazing!! We all have our different ways of creating our railroad worlds. Your structures are AWESOME! You are an absolute ARTIST! Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely incredible!! What a masterpiece! I could spend all day looking at the details that went into this work of art and it would not be a wasted day 🥰💕🙌🏽
Hi ya Jason. Let me be the first to request an annual encore of the magnificent opening shot, on the anniversary day. Thanks for a great retrospective. In regards your question… I love the trestle bridge….. but more land form with buildings and most importantly, trees, sounds great. As always I look forward to your next update. Your Grandfather would be very proud of what you have accomplished. Happy Anniversary. And many happy returns. See ya. Take care.
I've learned a lot of painting techniques from you, which has helped me immensely in making my buildings lifelike. I can't afford anything but old (70's -80's) plastic kits, but watching you, I can sure make them look better. Thanks for all your videos.
I 2nd that !!
Scratch building can be down on the cheap. For materials use chip board. That's the material that the backs of writing tablets and cereal boxes are made out of. Available from Hobby Lobby at about 4 bucks for a 36 x 48 inch sheet. Or close to that size. Or available from print shops. Windows and doors can be made from card stock with care.
Hey Jason, I like your idea of removing some of the bridge and have land with more structures in there. Would be an excellent place to have a logging area by the river, but really whatever structures you like. I enjoy your structure builds quite a lot. Anyway, super exciting to see a train running through your layout! Thanks for the bit of history, take care.
A small 2-8-0 steam engine will look great on that layout.
Woo hoo is that a train running lol , it looks great Jason, I bet this made you smile when you first set it of running, I know it did me - great video- and thank you 👍
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Congratulations. I’ve gone back and started watching your earliest videos. All good stuff. If you ever make N scale kits, I’ll buy them!
Congratulations on 3 years.
A land mass would be a nice focal point on the layout. Keep up the great work and I am looking forward to the next 3 years. Thank You! for your channel and the time you share with us.
Happy Anniversary Jason. I look forward to another 5 years of your videos. More would be good if it takes you longer than the predicted 5.
🎉Congrats🎉 on three year mark on your layout. You have created a awesome layout with amazing structures. The structures and landscaping captures your eye when you look around the layout. There is so much detail you have made It look so realistic looking. I have been watching sense you were just starting the water side close to the sci-fi layout at least couple years I believe. I have learned a lot from you on structures builds. There has been a lot of advancements in modeling from when I started as a kid some 55 years ago. This hobby is one of the ways I get enjoyment and relaxation. Look forward to see how your layout progresses in the years to come. Thanks for sharing. Be safe and looking forward to your next video.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Congratulations on your train and layout. My Grandfather worked for and retired from Southern Railways back in the 60s. Brought back fond memories seeing that locomotive running on the layout. Also good work on weathering the rail cars. Wish you all the best as you bring it to where you want it to be.
This is my new favorite channel. I have none of these skills, but love watching a professional. Amazing. Thank you Jason!
Congratulations on three years, Jason! Looking forward to continuing to follow the progress! You are a great inspiration!
Congratulations on this milestone. Really enjoyed your accompanying narrative on this one.
Congratulations Jason , great job , and thank you for share your tips and technics, every video inject a lot motivation. My story start watching your videos. Really appreciate.
Cesar
Congratulations on your progress, anniversary, and a great layout! Thank you for following your passion and sharing - it inspires us!
Congratulations Jason! It's magnificent!
The wood trestles should be removed in lieu of land masses for more buildings. I think it would look unfinished otherwise.
Happy 3rd Anniversary for this layout!
Lisa
Nothing is more impressive than an artist who inspired. I can't wait for the future work you do. Maybe we'll get our layouts done around the same time.
Thanks to you Jason over these years for all of the techniques, tips, tricks and ideas you've given us and delivered with such patience and enthusiasm and entertainment. Also you asked for a thought on the trestle bridge at the back, I agree with your idea building up some kind of landscape but you could link the trestle bridge into some sort of preexisting remains of a brick or stone viaduct coming out of the bedrock that the trestle bridge was built to replace, it could add interest above and below on your layout. As always thank you for sharing not only your layout but your sci-fi room too. 👍❤️
Beautiful work. You’re an inspiration. I also can’t wait to buy kits from your future company.
Jason, I want to say thank you to you. You have taught me so much. Never stop learning. As for your trestle bridge, I would leave it. A steep rocky bluff behind it would look great. “Model railroad adventures with Bill” is a UA-cam channel you should check out. He has done some steep mountains in a narrow layout. You might get some ideas from his work. I’ll be watching over the next few years because I just enjoy your channel. You’re like a good tv series that I can’t wait to see next weeks episode.
Keep the corner tussle and take the other part out to make room for more land and more AWESOME builds. I absolutely enjoy your channel. 👍🏻
I vote for the more land. You have quite a few bridges and many structures in the urban environment, but it would be nice to have a bit more “green space”. But you can’t go wrong either way. Thanks for sharing what you do.
Happy anniversary! Your channel has been, and continues to be, a major inspiration. Three years down, and at least five to go! Thanks for posting these videos!
Beautiful work. Thank you for continuing to share all of your talents with us.
Jason, thank you for an amazing journey.
Jason, wow only three years to get a train running! Not bad dude, not bad. Seems like filling in that doorway really did give you the extra boost you were needing. It's been a fantastic story you've been telling us. And it's looking great. The running train sure makes it all come alive. You are so right, the slow speed really pulls you eye into the townscape.
Now, well you asked: 10:30, that is a big gap in the town. If you leave the (very lovely, admittedly) wooden trestles, it takes up a lot of space. Seems to me that the urban setting really does need to stretch further round/back - I'm sure you will find some other place to use them. So yup, you should fill it in some. And trees are always good, love them trees.
Seeing the whole place laid out, and please don't take this the wrong way, it seems like the buildings so far are mostly commercial? Fair enough, it's a dockside setting, and OK some folks are probably living 'above the shop', but where do all the rest of the folk live? You have a lot of eat-out places but nowhere for their customers to come from! I guess it makes sense that there is little 'sea-front property' in this time period, but I think they'd be living only a couple of streets back? And whilst I'm not going to labour the point, you has some nice towers and turrets, but seemingly no steeples or bell towers, in fact no churches, chapels or mission halls at all? I should have thought there might be a few (if only for their architectural outlines, if not for their full on worship potential!!!) But, I'm still loving it all.
"Sit down, sit down sit down, now Chazzy you're rocking the boat!"
Looking forward to those next three (five) years.
Happy anniversary Jason and thanks for sharing it all with us, it's been great coming along on the ride.
Love the layout. Its an inspiration for my channel. For the era your depicting it would seem steel/iron bridges would be more appropriate. I doubt realistically a wood trestle could support the diesels your running. I would be excited to see what you can do modeling a railroad truss bridge.
More trees would be fantastic!
Looking really nice Jason!
Congratulations on 3 years. Really looking forward to the years to come.
Happy Anniversary Jason..!!
Nice to see your train’s running around..!!
My answer to your question is No..!!
I would like to see a small mountain behind ..maybe with some buildings..???
Keep doing your amazing job..!! 🚂🏆
I was going to say your layout is more like a huge diorama with a train running in it. IMO I think the way you've done it is great. I'm doing my first layout and started out doing the switching for days thing. I've taken it back down to almost nothing and figuring how to add scenery and so forth. Your channel is one of those reasons for doing that. Keep it up you doing a wonderful job and you're definitely helping me and others out.
incredible achievement, I have seen it from the beginning
great video and many years of fun to come !
Had to chuckle...not a real long time subscriber but I believe this is the first time I actually saw a train running on the layout. Looks interesting, nice.
Happy Anniversary number 3, enjoy your channel. Thank so much.
The layout looks great and enjoy watching each new video. I my opinion I would leave the wooden trestle it looks good and it kind of gives the railroad a feel of having been there for many years.
I'm only a recent subscriber, but your work is amazing and I really like your approach to building your layout, a real inspiration!
Love your work Jason!! Always look forward to new videos and cant wait to see more progress on your layout. You got me inspired to start my own 🙂
In a lot of cases the rail tracks were there before any buildings were erected, sometimes built up around the shanty towns that housed the railroad builders. Really like your approach to how the work on the model has progressed, and with that comes a suggestion - an area where buildings were once there but were demolished to allow for the tracks to pass through - the progression of the railroad company means money in the pockets of the land owners (regardless as to the fate of any tenants) or even a little scene whereby a building is in the process of demolition (for 'supposed' expansion of the line), amazing how much detail can be added to a building being knocked-down, only need to look at military dioramas that depict such scenes. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for sharing this journey with us! I've learned a bunch along the way. And yes, get rid of the trestle and add more structures. - Paul
Happy Anniversary, Jason! Thanks so much for allowing us to come along on your journey of building the layout. There's so much more exciting work to come, I can't wait to see it.
Merry Christmas, have a great new year, all the best for 2023.
Amazing what you've achieved, and inspired me to do, in only! three years.
I think keeping part of the trestle (probably the darker curved section) and building up the land for more buildings where the lighter sections is currently is a good idea. A valley would need the trestle, but more real estate needs you to populate it with buildings - and we all hate ;-) watching you build stuff!!!
I know you don't need me to tell you about scales and perspective, but I've used some buildings in approximately 3mm/1ft scale (TT or table top scale in the UK) to force perspective on a hillside as I don't have the depth to get away with N scale structures.
Fortunately, for us too, a layout is NEVER finished.....and you still have more to do on your sci-fi room, including G scale "trains"!
Looks really good, comes to life with the trains. A lot of work.
Your channel is one of my happy places...!
WOW, Trains Running!! Happy Anniversary Jason, a continuous layout for another 5 years so great to hear. Believe started following around “ Pop’s Country Store kit” by the Wiley’s along with your sketches and dioramas at first.
A long strange trip indeed, music, coffee and a few beers bring many of us to today’s Anniversary..CONGRATS again and into the future.🎶✌️
Congratulations on your 3 year anniversary Jason.
I love the layout and especially the structures. Ok, I have to ask. Since you have so many buildings completed, have you ever thought of putting a small camera on the front of the engine and see what the engineer would see? You should put an engineer in the engine, and caboose. Just a suggestion. Definitely not a command. That would be awesome to see a video of what it looks like from the trains point of view.
I've learned so much from watching your videos. It crosses over to 1/35 scale.
Your work is phenomenal and well worth the praise you get for it.
Where do you get your model kits? I'd like to try one and see how it goes. Thanks for sharing your videos, your expertise, and knowledge. Congratulations on a job well done.
Jason, top stuff, so inspirational. Just starting on my own N scale layout at 70. Keep up the great work.
So amazing! You are such an inspiration Jason! Cheers to many more happy years creating!!
Wow! I just went over to George's channel and looked at a few minutes of his layout tour part 2. It made my eyes pop out on stems!
Now I understand why you said it would likely take at least 5 more years to bring your layout close to completion.
How exciting it is going to be to watch you these next number of years, and it has always been exciting to see what you will do next.
Thank you very much Jason!
Lisa
Congrats Jason! Amazing journey so far and looking forward to the rest.
I think shorten the bridge and find a way to include a dramatic rocky mountainous outcropping on one side and more structures on the other. Would really love to see how you juxtapose a rocky cliff side terrain with the waterfront.
Congrats on the 3 year mark and getting trains running.
happy anniversary and best wishes for many more years !
Ok, Jason, we vote for shortening the bridge so you have room for additional modeling. That would give us a few more builds to see. (Purey selfish on our part) Keep up the great work.
Observations: This is absolutely a railfan's layout. Running trains is not as important as watching them run here. Nothing wrong with that especially as your trains are going to be running through a very rich urban waterfront landscape. The influence of George Sellios is obvious, but the direction is somewhat different without the large number of really big buildings- a refreshing change. All in all, the very "reverse" planning process has gotten you just where you wanted to go. Absolutely superb result.
Land or tall trestle? Good question. I might lean toward the trestle surrounded by a cluster of shacks, perhaps on ground rising behind the trestle.
Congratulations on your 3 year Anniversary...
Hello and congratulations Jason..there Is a lot od what I would like to write,but my not so good english Is problem..😀 As for The George Sellios layout you Are right.I saw it for The first time on UA-cam about seven years ago and it completelly changed my view to how to build my slot car layout..I started from the beginning And abou three years ago I find out your Channel and it inspired me And made me sure,that it is really the right way how to build it..I have send you some pictures (for example your Diner,that I remaked to 1:43scale) And You answered me..that Is what I appreciate.. thank You very much..And as for your question about how to make the corner with the high bridge.. I think we feel it the same way:"Cut the bridge shorter And make more buildings..that is what we love most!"😀...so.. sorry for my bad english,but I'm sure You understand all.Wishing You all the best to every single day of building the layout (And life od course),stay motivated and happy modelling, Jason!
Awesome as always !! Still holding out hope for that swing bridge where the temp foam
blocks are 😁😁
Congratulations what an amazing display of skill and architecture