Great atmosphere you have created there, lovely layout.👌👌

Lovely scene & mood setting. What's the little loco btw? Tempted to get one.

What track and ballast are you using for your layouts? Recently viewed the Wrexham layout and the level of realism for the scale is something I aspire to achieve!

Yes Yes Yes :-) More please! Even with just one angle. Love the Couplings (did you make an video with how you did that?). Coupling & uncoupling is one of my biggest concern. And by the way... why dont you use DCC? I have one 2 Axle shunter running under DCC with a Stay Alive and he runs so smooth (i changed all the neccecary CV to give me max shunting Speed of 15km/h and a verry slow start and braking deceleration - did that with all my Locos). I run Timesaver and 5-3-3 or 7-4-4 Inglenook on Desktop without Landscape.

Although I only work in 00 Gauge, I’m inspired by the layout you’ve created and see myself working on something similar, but not quite identical.

Very relaxing (also inspirational and motivating). Do you plan your moves, or is it a case of just a 'what feels right'?

Awesome layout! Thanks for sharing. I love the locomotive as well. ;-)

Recieved this today and I really enjoyed/ still enjoying the format. The only reason why I buy model rail magazines is because of the pictures. Keep up the good work. I'd have paid more for more glossy pictures.

Morning James, I bought a copy at ExpoEM in Shipley on Sunday, but I haven't looked at it yet as yesterday was a bit frantic... It was my last shift working for Southern, after nearly 19 years, and 11 at the current station, so I had to get all the stuff I'd accumulated over time removed ready to handit over! Following that was some house move related stuff, the result being that we've now exchanged contracts on our new home and will be moving in a couple of weeks. Planning to have a bit of a laid back morning, part of which will be a sit down and leisurely look through the Companion, I'm sure this will help me chill out 😊 Cheers, Simon.

I'm looking forward to adding this to my library!

It sounds just absolutely amazing. And right there at the 4:01 minute mark, that full page spread of spectacular modelling. You don’t have to tell anyone this is great model railroads, it’s just there! We talk a lot about “immersion” in the hobby and this sounds like a suite of accessible layouts presented in a way that invites the viewer in. -Chris

I’ve really enjoyed “joining” you on this walk this morning. What a wonderful part of the day. -chris

james... really good stuff but it is awfully hard to hear/understand what you are saying because your engine volume is up WAY TOO HIGH !!! even the nicest layout with the best video/etc. means crap if you cannot hear the speaker !!!

Just ordered it, look forward to reading it.

Can't wait to Order it. It's going to look great next to your other two books. Can't wait to see which rabbit holes it's going to take me down. 😃 hope it's successful and leads in to book 4. 🤭

congratulations James... well done

Hi James have to agree the view is fantastic am very lucky in the course of my job I get to deliver all around this area and get to enjoy my breaks alongside the railway

You're a top tier ambassador for us small shelf layout folks. Thanks for all the great content.

It's all about shelf layouts

Real nice good job ❤

Another good shunt. I think HO scale balance to track width looks good.

An Alco graces any layout. I could sit and listen to that sound for hours.

Several times during this video, I thought to myself that I could easily believe I'm watching an O gauge layout; the paintwork, detailing and weathering are so well done!

The camera seems a long way from the action, and the quality of the running and scenery is not seen to its best advantage

By virtue of other life commitments, I always have a very focused OO collection, at present I have 4 locos, 3 Hornby 48DS and an 0-4-0 rod drive Sentinel, but I am always distracted by other new (or new to me) locos and rolling stock But I like the idea of specific stock for specific layouts I would try to maintain that focus

Hey, nice layout! As long as it works for you, that’s good. I like that Geep! Nice sound from it! Sounds pretty realistic! Is that a real railroad and paint scheme? If you made it up, good job! I like that logo! Seems to indicate a “good service road”! You were wondering about how railroads work. It all starts with the customer. Consignee A orders a certain quantity of goods from shipper A. He orders a suitable car from the railroad and makes the product. The railroad spots the empty on the siding, the shipper loads the car and makes up a bill of loading. He calls the railroad to tell them the car is ready to be picked up. The railroad gets the bill of lading, makes up a waybill so everyone concerned knows what’s in the car and where it’s going. The railroad picks up the car and sends it on it’s way to it’s consignee and destination. If the car needs weighed, the railroad weighs the car, so they know how much to charge for moving the car based on the cars weight and published rates. Some shippers have an agreement with the railroad so the car doesn’t have to be weighed. The shippers weight will be used to calculate the freight charge. The words, “Shippers load, weight and count” or “shippers load and count” must appear on the waybill for this to apply. Otherwise, the railroad can weigh the car and all weighing charges are born by the shipper. The consignee receives the car, unloads it, and notifies the railroad that the car is empty and ready to be picked up. The freight charges are either “prepaid” or “collect”. Prepaid means the shipper pays the freight charges; collect means the consignee pays the freight charges. They work that out between them at the start as far as how they will handle absorbing the freight charge. It’s all done on computer, now, so I don’t know how much paper is involved. When I worked for the railroad back in the mid ‘70’s to early ‘80’s, there was a lot of paper typed up. Computers were just getting a good start and some things were put on it. Hope that helps. The car is forwarded via the routing the shipper chose. The car may actually be handled per interchange agreements between roads, as far as the actual junction where the exchange will take place. Which can complicate things! The railroad that receives the freight charges then must divide up that money and send it to each road that handled the car, again, per agreed upon percentages or universal published percentages. That’s all I can think of right now. There are situations where the consignee has to pay for the product ahead of time, before the car can be delivered to the customer. This is per the shippers request. I had that a lot with grain shipments from elevator to barge terminal. The bill of lading was a special type called an order bill of lading. The railroad had to note on the waybill in the consignee section that it was, “consigned to the order of shipper A Grain Co. Notify consignee A Grain Co”. The consignee had to have a sight draft drawn on his bank, and deliver it to the shippers bank, probably electronically, and notice thereof given to the railroad agent, before the cars could be spotted and unloaded. Anyway, that’s all I have. Hope that helps!

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This is real nice more of these videos please

Lovely video James. Do you follow the same processes for N gauge too? Thanks Nick

TRABANT, my first car🤩🤩🤩👍. Greeting from Eastern Germany. Nice Layout, like me 🛤️🚂🛠👍

10:50 “if anyone recognizes it”…mine’s a Golf as they were branded in Canada. I sure am impressed with that railfan’s practice of staying still to calmly follow through on their photography instead of trying to run between photos.

A good shunt, with some very good long shots down the track. As Mr.Jaw tooth would say, " & wait there's more", & " live action"

Hello, super nice little layout! All the best for the finishing line!!!

I haven't watched this channel b4, its great and some good ideas as well, I have hit a wall with my layout and you have given me some food for thought, Thank's, subscribed in a flash.

This is a great showcase that you don't need a lot of space to enjoy model railroading!

Glad to see this little layout is still around. I had wondered what had happened to it.

Brilliant👍

Where did you get the kits for the oriestein and koppel locomotives

That's a fab little layout. It's not helping my want for a 9mm gauge layout myself, considering I can't not justify it when it's so small!

SWEET!

That's a super little layout!

One of my favourites amongst your layouts, good to see it out again. The same format would work in a variety of gauges and scales. A tram museum on 16.5mm would work well, motorised 1/64 Corgis or even Bachmann and Smallbrook Studio On30 trolleys.

Wow this is a LOT of friday inspiration thank you for this one 😊👍

Beautiful modelling! An enjoyable and relaxing few minutes! The authentic sound overlay just adds to the scene.

What is the depth of the layout at its deepest ( front to back)?

The pace of the operating session is so comfortable. You’ve described its candence before and I find it easy to feel in this video as the crew works their way along the spur. Thanks, again, for inviting us to join in.

The Trabant brings a lot to the scene for sure, its weathered excellently too, your friend should be very pleased with his efforts!

This is nice I want to make me one

I walk along the Dartmouth Terminal line every morning (seriously). I was wondering where the switcher had gone. 😂

A nice three steps Sunday afternoon shunt. Your voice over volume is low.