Beautiful looking layout!

It really looks great. Keep up the good work and the great videos.

it is coming along nicely, i like the switching loading areas you are going to have

Just finding your layout. Very nice! How big is the layout?

Love the pavement method at 6:05. I'm now using it as a base method for my layout.

So glad the algorithm lead me to your channel. What an absolutely gorgeous and prototypical layout! Please do a video on your asphalt, it looks amazing. Top notch all around!

Looks fantastic. Hope you show more on how to. Great work.

Your voice sounds familiar. Did you used to have a layout called The Nashville and Eastern? If so, what happened to it. I enjoyed watching you build it. Lol. The four floors of whores. Any who. Love this layout.

I think this work is just beyond great. Keep it up. You have great standards.

now that you know how it is scrach built you can fabricate it yourself

Your layout is looking great, keep up the good work. I am looking forward to watching your progress.

Looks great. I thought I had done something wrong using Woodland Scenics water. After I put it in and then saw it had all bubbled up. I didn't notice it until about a week or so later. It is horrible stuff unfortunately.

Really nice work you’re doing…usually make signs in power point…downloaded the CANVAS app…gonna try it out…found your pulpwood supplier on Amazon and ordered some…beats cutting 100’s of pieces by hand…water puddles don’t look bad on video..I used Magic Water, worked great but unfortunately they closed shop…

Layout 👍 looks great great 👍 detail

Hi Montana Northern Railroad & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks & Friends Randy & Hello Montana Northern Railroad & Happy New Year's & Best 2025

Nice update, progress is looking good. I use the Golden for water as well, worked great in ditches, etc. That FOS crew shack turned out nice as well! Thanks!

Awesome 👏 👍😃

Wow, outstanding beautiful backdrop! Very cool layout! I like the balance and blending you've accomplished. Excellent taste and modeling! I'm a first time viewer. I just subscribed. I'll love checking your layout out from time to time. I'm on my third and final signature layout build. Its 18 3/4" wide and 17 1/2' foot long. Put together like a upside down "C" shape, with a 1 1/2' foot wide, 3' foot long extension, that serves as a interchange and open car stageing. My Company West & Katy Industrail Branchline, fictionaly connects via at a junction, 1.5 mile off the layout from, Cougar Yard Interchange. Its a point to point industrial switching layout. I built the benchwork moduler, inspired by David Burrow's Santa Fe & Cat Mountian layout style benchwork. Company West is a independent rail contracter that operates and maintains the 12 mile line, (not to scale, imaginary). The line fictionaly connectes via junction with the MKT(Katy), set loosly in the time era of the 1970's, with a bit of 1980 eqt. making a early apperance. Its HO and freelance. Located in the fictional rural area and small town of Ink Falls, Oklahoma. I was born in, grew up, and still live in Oklahoma. My current residence today is Ft. Gibson, Ok.. The oldest town in the state. It was a Fort in Indian Territory during the Civil War. The Union Pacific R.R. passes through here too. Small town America is what I love! My hometown was Vinita, which the Frisco(now BNSF), and the MKT(now Union Pacific), crosses each other in the towns center, even to this day. Many childhood Summer memories are the inspiration of my layout. I'm in the track installation stage at this time. So before I get to the modeling and detailing, I'm in a search for every layout I can draw inspiration and ideas from. Well, Happy New Year 2025🎈🎉🎊 and God Bless. I'm glad you come up in my news feed. Take care, and Happy Modeling!😊

Beautiful work. Definitely do some "how to" videos. With the quality of your work and what you've shown so far, we would all love to see them! You might be surprised how fast your channel grows then...

Love your backgrounds. Keep up the good work modeling.

Really good! Where in Florida you coming?

Very nice update! Look forward to future videos and hopefully one on the parking lot you made with 1/8th inch foam, looks awesome! Very impressed with your layout and attention to detail!

Nice update, Thomas! I've already made a sign for my lumber facility using Canva so thanks for that tip!! Love the water effects and the parking lots. Nice work! - Brian

Please let me know where I can get those log cars

Awesome update, check out how I did puddles on my layout if you don’t like the woodland scenics product-might find it useful

I logged up Immigrant back in the day. The logs went to the mill in Belgrade. Goodness that's been 40 years ago.😁 Come from a family of loggers, three generations. To bad most the timbers gone and a dead industry in Montana. I would have made them bunks a might shorter. Good luck with your scenery. Are you building the mill next? I model the Santa Fe. Oh Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Very nice layout! Not a lot of unnecessary clutter, but this makes it very realistic and believable! Feel better and Merry Christmas to you and your family!

I have a brass log car that looks like yours, Matt did an awesome job 👍

I wouldn't mind the decals

I love the log cars road names Montana Northern, Montana Raillink Southern Pacific Union Pacific Canadian National , BNSF and Santa Fe.

Look really good sir! Where did you get those lumber loads from? I need some of those for my Transloading facility.

They can not be unloaded only on one side

You have to pave both sides of that center beam car

An old editor's potion: hot tea, a dash of lemon and a shot of vodka. It probably won't cure your cold, but after a couple of these, you won't feel a thing. BTW, nice layout and video.

Custom finishing and Kaslo shops has these log bunks, it's just the car bodies you have to add the couplers and trucks and wheels..

Nice log cars. I like your lumber yard as well. The weathered cement looks realistic and easy to build. My Granddad was one of the first if not first engineers in Red Lodge until 1905. Just tinkering with building a small N Gauge with a mill and gravel pit. Got some great ideas here. Good video.

The log cars look awesome as does the layout. CSX is moving logs on relatively new AOKX flats and I have all sorts of detail shots. Currently trying to kitbash them if you want the specifications. I just found your site and will follow it for ideas for my Georgia Road. Great work!

Log cars look good. Can I get Matt's info to contact him. An what is the link for the logs? Thanks.

6:44 Custom Finishing Models kit # 318 HO. You can bash a bulkhead flat into log bunk too. Using Details West # LB-171 Log Bunks. Both of these are super fun builds and the freight cars look great when completed.

Used similar foam for parking lots and roads…great job in painting and weathering the foam…awesome cars…

Hope you start feeling better. Everything looks great.

Cars look great, Thomas! Regarding those individual lumber loads that are sitting on the asphalt - are they part of the center beam lumber loads or did you make those yourself? Great update! - Brian

Nice update, that parking lot turned out nice, and I like the log cars!

I'd like to see a tour of the. Layout, thats4 always NO 1!

Rivot Counter has more detail were the op ones has basic detail!

Yes! The wet pavement looks amazing. The Allagash guy did some convincing puddles in mud that might be helpful

You did a great job weathering those center beams…and that standing water scene looks cool even though you said it has to be further developed…happy belated Thanksgiving…

Where did you get the backdrop buildings?

Standing water on the asphalt would be awesome, looking forward to this! Your weathering on the cars is excellent and of course these lumber loads look absolutely realistic!

Lumber loads look awesome! I like the idea of modeling the standing water as well. Should look really great! Happy Thanksgiving! - Brian