"The ballast of choice is Woodland Scenic's grey blend."
"And now people can design any train that they want around this track and utilize it."
"One of the things that I have learned over time as a Model Railroader is that a poorly laid out or even poorly looking model railroad can be a lot of fun to operate if the track work and the wiring is solid and the trains run well."
"No Ox Id has been used in model railroading for many years."
"Wouldn't it be awesome to not have to clean track for five years?"
"Model railroading is a storytelling medium."
"He hand laid all of his track, every single tie, the rail individually spiked by hand like it's the real thing."
"Before you start laying track, you need to make sure that your baseboards are dead flat and they are level with each other."
"I absolutely love it so much that I have installed it on my main model railroad."
"What we have done is made DCC possible for those who can't and do not want to purchase hundreds of dollars of commercial products."
"You are the only one that knows what you expect from model railroading and what you expect from your model railroad."
"I want to show you how you can use block detectors like this NCE BD20 here to keep track of your locomotives and your cars and other rolling stock all over your model railroad."
"Before you wouldn't build a home without a professionally designed floor plan, so why wouldn't you start your model railroad with a well-designed track plan?"
"Think of your layout, think of your model railroad as a small portion of a transcontinental railroad system, and you're just the small portion of it."
"Creating illusions here is what we're doing."
"No matter where you stand in this room, you cannot see the whole layout."
"It's great to finally have scenery covering this entire module, which is a major step forward for the layout."
"Clearance is vitally important, never lose sight of running your longest wagon or coach."
"It gives you the ability, just like the real railway, to have a computerized system knowing exactly where all your trains are at any given time."
"Full automation whereas you can click a few buttons and the trains will go exactly where they want to go."
"What can block detection really do for you? Well, it makes your railway, if it's big enough of course, very interesting with the passage of trains that need no human intervention."
"Welcome back everybody, today we're going to be going over my model railroading software of choice."
"All you have to do is click the 3D viewer button up here, and boom, we have a virtual model railroad."
"When the glue has been applied, the ballast will look like a milky swamp, but fear not, it will dry clear and look very realistic."
"I am really pleased with how the ballast and the weathering of the track in north yard so far is coming together."
"The great thing about open bench work is it's not just like a tabletop in which to stick track and run trains, but it can be used to create some kind of interesting scenic shapes."
"By only putting plywood in areas where you absolutely need that sub roadbed, it encourages you to put a little more variation in your scenery."
"Suspending your model railroad off the wall is a great look for a model railroad."
"The layout was wired with a Digitrax DCC system with push buttons on the layout fascia that control each of the six turnouts and crossovers."
"Weathering the rail doesn't just help the color look more realistic but by also darkening the rail it helps to hide the overall height of the rail to some extent as well."
"The layout isn't signaled prototypically, but the signals still add a lot of interest to the layout."
"And the reality is, while the crossing bell signal sound is nice to have, in practice you probably aren't going to want to hear it all the time."
"The world of digital command control has arrived at three-rail O scale."
"Having these adjustable feet I think are very important for a model railroad just to make sure that your top of your bench work is as flat as absolutely possible."
"Trees can bring a railroad to life."
"MRR1 is designed to be portable and fit in most anyone's available space."
"It really makes model railroading fun and that's what this hobby is all about."
"A prominent high school in my area actually has a train club where they do model railroading."
"From humble beginnings with hard work and a passion for model railroading, an idea that revolutionized the model railroading industry."
"Microtrains uses modern CAD or computer-aided design and drafting systems to achieve the detail that they are famous for."
"Thank you for joining us on the tour, we hope you caught a glimpse of what it takes to produce a single Micro Trains car and why we take so much pride in what we believe are the finest quality model trains in the world."
"This program is intended to introduce you to and, in some cases, show you how to do cool things with your model railroad."
"It's really important if you're going to make one of these things now, you can fit your long locomotives onto the track."
"It's been really handy to have; it's not just for programming engines, it's for doing everything you want to do with DCC."
"For expanding an N-Scale layout with Thomas, we now have Thomas, Percy, James, coming out with Emily, we have Toby, and now Gordon."
"It's fun; I just finished shooting a video for Model Railroader magazine where I built out the industrial side of the town of Carlington, and it was so much fun."
"Varney's main significance to the model railroad community was his early advocacy in HO Scale Models starting in the 1930s."
"The most important thing, though, is to keep trains running at all costs."
"We just left a train running around the main circuit like this all the time, and honestly, that was all most people wanted to see."
"This green double Fairlie that's running around now was really the star of the show, and we just ran it all weekend because it was so consistent."
"The layout is not based on any particular era and therefore allows us to run locomotives and freight cars from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s."
"The layout and the bench work is so critical."
"It's so great how Bachmann is creating so many new models for the model railroad industry."
"Hello, this is Michael Gross, and you're watching what's neat with Ken Patterson."
"So let me walk you through the rest of the process that it took to finish the turntable side of our diorama."
"So next, I want to work on a little area of the layout on the other end where I plan to put a few buildings, a freight station, a train station."
"I chose to build a BTS deerlick station kit, but I wanted it to more or less be a freight depot because its lines look perfect for that."
"I'm working on the trim now on the structure, putting all the pieces of white parts that we painted."
"Once this glue sets up, and this is nice, then I'll paint the underneath eaves white to match the rest of the station."
"I'm going to take these windows that we've previously just painted white, I'm going to spray this reading green on them."
"This will add just a touch of color to the brown and white."
"I also closed in the scenery here and added some more ballast to kind of finish this off."
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"Electrostatic grass has really revolutionized how we do model railway scenery."
"Model railroading is one of those hobbies that just requires some basic tools if you're going to be involved at all."
"There's a basic toolset that I think every model railroader needs to have."
"Remember, it's always your railroad."
"This is one of my favorite scenes on the garden railway."
"Model railroading is fun, or is it? Well, yeah, it should be."
"Be sure to join me again next Tuesday as I'll be bringing you another great model railroading video."
"We celebrate regular people building their model railroads, and we have a ton of fun doing it."
"Putting a backdrop off makes a ton of difference on a layout, but getting it framed with a valance and fascia really begins to make it look like something."
"Well, guys, that about wraps up how to install a Walters 130 foot turntable from start to finish."
"So that is the Arduino multi-block signal system modified to be able to use current sensing."
"That is how you control a Kato turnout with an Arduino, and I'm really happy with the way this turned out."
"Stick around for the video, and we'll take a look at what it does, how it does it, how to program it, and get it working on your layout."
"One thing that most Model Railroaders strive for on their layouts is a sense of realism."
"Excellent weathering both on structures as well as on locomotives and rolling stock creates a sense of realism as much as anything else."
"I managed to make a better job of the Nickel Plate Line running through town."
"That's from the movie Silver Streak, and it's pretty much my number one model railroading movie."
"It's very enjoyable and it's one of probably in the Bay Area, one of the best."
"For this week's video, I am going to bow to viewer pressure and give you an update on my own railroad design."
"There are three basic components to every DCC system: there is a throttle that acts as your interface, there is a command station which generates the DCC commands to control your decoders in your locomotives, and then there is a booster."
"Operations is one of the most enjoyable aspects of model railroading for me."
"The whistle steam smoke effect is one of the coolest features ever in model railroading."
"Now that I told you the secret of what is required in order to get these to work with DCC power, I hope you'll find uses for these on your model railroad."
"Choosing the perfect locomotive and rolling stock for your layout has never been easier."
"It allows you to be as real as possible in operating your trains and with the sound that we've put in the locomotives, it makes them sound real too."