Ballasting the Yard - Weekly Update UPRR Evanston Sub - HO Scale Model Railroad in Action s2023e43

This video features Ballasting the Evanston Yard week one of a four week process.
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[@michaeltownsend5913]

The wife is very important to a layout. It’s looking great as always.

[@Castlebank_Sidings]

Mine definitely is as I do British O gauge and Norfolk Southern in HO.

[@EvanstonSub]

I think so too!

[@raybertelsen6090]

Thanks Daryll, its looking good, making progress one day at a time. love your layout

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks 👍

[@garymetzker5763]

That is cool, i think the tractor you want gone is the perfect size, there are big tractors all over for big jobs..

[@EvanstonSub]

Your the second one to comment that. I guess I'll keep it.

[@devinshufford7748]

Keep adding construction equipment makes it look really good 👍

[@EvanstonSub]

I'll keep watching for sales at awesome Diecast

[@CajonSub]

Great stuff, the yard looks really good. Arizona Rock and Mineral makes a yard ballast that is a really dark dirty looking color if you are still looking for darker ballast. Don't forget all the railroad tie piles and discarded ties in the yard. Plenty of them around. - Steve

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks for the tips!

[@RussellCurtis-db8yn]

Thanks Daryl ,another outstanding video to Cheer me up after I watched my Jets crash and burn again (Friday your time, 6.00am Saturday Aussie time. ) You have given me more ideas and help, Thanks look forward to the next one especially if you doing another cab view .👍🇦🇺

[@EvanstonSub]

Glad to help. I know how it feels when your team blows a game. Can't imagine being a jets fan. Train always makes the day a bit brighter.

[@huntercoleman460]

Great ballast work.

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks

[@jeffreyeash9720]

Looking awesome I enjoy seeing your progress can't wait to see Echo Canyon

[@EvanstonSub]

Me too

[@scottleidenberger4401]

The layout is coming along very nicely . I really liked the MOW equipment with the port-o-potty. A cab view video sounds great.

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks 👍

[@jazzlife1]

Man Darryl this is a masterpiece you are creating

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks 😎

[@canadianlocomotivelogistics]

Praise God, it was so nice to hear

[@EvanstonSub]

Never shy about that!

[@ARB4957]

Hi Daryl, I remain in awe of your progress as ever 🙂 What are your top tips and tricks for keeping ballast out of the moving parts of turnouts as you ballast ?

[@EvanstonSub]

Use less ballast and less glue at the points. Too much glue seeps down into the turnout motors and can cause havoc. Wait until the ballast is completely dry before attempting to get the points to move back and forth.

[@bertcresta6685]

Looks really nice, Darryl!!! It’s coming along really nicely…keep it up!!

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks

[@johnsthinking844]

Your layout turned out tremendous. I use hot wheels for the cars because they’re like a buck 18 at the store and you can get a lot of them for pretty cheap and they’re not too bad and size and they’re pretty good detail.

[@EvanstonSub]

Good idea

[@50windycity]

love it

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks

[@kinnywolf2862]

Nice great video

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks for the visit

[@kahunatiki6498]

Looks really good! You should consider dry brushing different colors on the ballast. I did that on my layout, It was quick, easy and exceptionally effective. Thanks for your efforts you share with us all! Scott

[@EvanstonSub]

Yes. The ballast needs to be weathered just like everything else

[@kenrosser8160]

You should put in to mow slideing tracks so you can put your rails an ties next to them

[@EvanstonSub]

Thinking of doing that.

[@matthewjones1119]

Love how this is turning out!! I do miss your n scale layout

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks so much!

[@conductorluke]

I spent most of the week from the inside of a locomotive cab and a hotel room lol

[@EvanstonSub]

Appreciate the hard work of professional locomotive engineers. Hope you get some time off now.

[@conductorluke]

@@EvanstonSub I wish I was an Engineer, I'm just a filthy conductor haha. But thank you! I plan on it!

[@Perfusionist01]

Very nice! yes, the engine facility looks much better. I think you will have some fun adding details, vehicles, workers, etc. I don't know about the UP in Evanston, but the BNSF in my area uses a lot of little Kubota ATVs for light duty around the tracks. You also need several of the white UP pickups and Suburbans. These have been made, but I forget by whom. Modern Ford trucks have been made by River Point Models - they can be a bit pricey, but a couple might make nice foreground trucks, with cheaper trucks further away from the viewer.

[@EvanstonSub]

Lots of good ideas. Gotta get the ballasting done first. Lots to do yet.

[@johnsthinking844]

it’s been my experience just to glue the track down because the nails tend to pop up a little and catch a train. De rail or make it stuck

[@EvanstonSub]

I use nail just in case I need to make adjustments before the final ballast.

[@ATrainGames]

Nice work! The porta-potty cart is terrific. My question would be, where do you have space to park a MOW train? Or would you just run it from staging to staging during an op session? :D

[@EvanstonSub]

Good question! There may be room at Granger. I saw some MOW equipment there last May.

[@johnsthinking844]

wax paper works great

[@EvanstonSub]

Good idea

[@DC-_-]

That excavator is the right size, you clearly haven't been around them. They have many large size excavators that dwarf dump trucks. I'd leave it on the backdrop.

[@EvanstonSub]

OK. You convinced me

[@DC-_-]

@EvanstonSub well that was easy lol. I like that backdrop fyi. It adds alot to the scenery. Besides, you can move the snow plow a bit further away and it won't seem as bad either.

[@amun1999]

​@@EvanstonSubhow long did it take you to build that Evan?

[@EvanstonSub]

I stared on the layout in August 2021

[@troyramberg4871]

The layout looks great! Do you use spray cans for your two colors of the track painting or do you use an airbrush?

[@EvanstonSub]

Both! But mostly spray cans. So much more convenient.

[@shaunrobertson1857]

Need to weather the concrete on the fueling pad

[@EvanstonSub]

Plus everything else. Lots of weathering to do. I'll get to it eventually.

[@markwilson8002]

Looking absolutely amazing, im in the UK & just getting into the American Scene so ive subscribed. I'm learning alot from your videos, thank you for sharing. Im going to be basing my much smaller set up in the Santa Fe in the 90s just b4 the BNSF merger. Is yours based in the current scene or earlier?

[@EvanstonSub]

Sounds cool. The layout is almost current, around 2016-17 or so.

[@vitovolpe567]

Get with Mike Buddy from the what's neat show he nows all those HO cars

[@EvanstonSub]

He is very good at doing cars, but once again not very many modern.

[@glengreenwood5424]

another Great video. I'm catching up. Is that track loader powered?

[@EvanstonSub]

No

[@brianfisher5196]

niiiiiiccceee

[@EvanstonSub]

Thanks. KZbin asked if I wanted your comment translated.

[@louisletourneau3429]

Great work again!! Do you vacuum the tracks after to remove what could be loose ?

[@EvanstonSub]

Definitely. Especially after cleaning up around turnouts.

[@louisletourneau3429]

​@EvanstonSub thanks , no problem with the contacts of the moving part of the turnouts ? I try to protect them from the wet water and diluted glue but it sometimes goes in and after it gives me problems ....

[@EvanstonSub]

The turnouts are wired so that there is no dependency on turnout contacts for power.

[@sharonfieber6458]

Detail to eye "less is more." Too much little detail piece, robs from watching layout operations. Looks really good seeing both levels train on them. Background photos are perfect level of clearity (sense of distance).

[@EvanstonSub]

You're absolutely right about too much detail. No detail in not good either. Gotta find the perfect balance.

[@randydobson1863]

hello darryl & it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks darrryl friends randy thanks ,,,,, & i am enjoy yours video is cool and super cool darryl thanks friends randy

[@EvanstonSub]

Rock on!

[@CPRRAMSEY]

who makes theporta potty cart as i have blma portpotties i just need the cart

[@EvanstonSub]

It's not for sale. Just some gut doing details for their layouts. Once he had the CAD drawings done, they printed six in N, six in HO and six in O. I got one of the six HO units.

[@CPRRAMSEY]

@@EvanstonSub i was trying tosee if anyone else made it not nesccarily buying from you

[@EvanstonSub]

I only know of the BLMA