Layout Update 15 - June 2021

[@davestrains6816]

Great update! Looking good. Thanks for sharing. Dave

[@TheSwitchList]

Thanks Dave! Slowly the wheel of progress turns... 😂

[@StanFerris]

Nice work Rick! Hand-laid track-- wow, that's awesome!

[@TheSwitchList]

Thanks Stan!

[@harperlarry49]

Very nice work. I like your technique for setting the ties and placing them on the layout. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheSwitchList]

Thanks so much!

[@pdrrengineer1404]

Nice job on the track laying Rick, and obviously with good results. Thanks for the update.

[@TheSwitchList]

Thanks Art!

[@ModelTrainOutsider]

Hey, Rick! Glad to see you back on. At least you have gotten a bit done. I have gone a year without doing any work on my layout- just acquiring a bit more stock. :) Holy cow... totally laying and custom building your own track? IMPRESSIVE. Great work, sir! Really something new for me to see. Happy Father's Day... cheers!

[@TheSwitchList]

Thanks Anthony! I find hand laying track a bit cathartic but it also is a bit aggravating because in the time it takes to hand lay a yard track and turnout I could have finished the entire yard (albeit for a lot more money) with flex track and commercial turnouts... I am really looking forward to seeing how it all looks when the yard is done and scenery done. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@SFRATON]

Great update looking cool. Take care - Kevin

[@TheSwitchList]

Thanks so much Kevin. Appreciate you watching and commenting.

[@DruSteel69]

Wow, Rick. I thought I have patience with scratch building n scale but boy, you had more. 😆. I’ve never seen one built like it. Watch out companies might steal your jig ideas. Ha ha. Great work, brother. Thanks for sharing the update and shoutout. I hope you had a great Father’s Day. Take care.

[@TheSwitchList]

Thanks Drew. Pretty sure Fast Tracks already has such a thing - but it costs waaaay more than a few bits of styrene! I actually learned this technique when I was a wee N scaler 40 years ago and one of the guys in the Sun-N-Sand N scale club in Phoenix (or somewhere in the Valley of the Sun) showed me how to do it. Hope you had a great Father's Day with the better half of your 'Duo'! Thanks for the nudge to get a video out!

[@DruSteel69]

@@TheSwitchList - welcome my friend. Always enjoyed your update and it’s a good skill to have for sure building the tracks. 😎👍🏼

[@sparky107107]

looks like a very rewarding way to do track.

[@TheSwitchList]

Hi Sparky! I learned it on N scale track from a guy named Skip (last name escapes me now) when I was 13 and a member of the Sun-N-Sand N scale club in Arizona. We also did N scale turnouts without the benefit of a jig like fast tracks makes now - what a debacle that was (for me - Skip make beautiful trackwork!). Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@jstockton303]

How did attach the feeder, solder to inside or outside of each rail, what gauge do you use?

[@TheSwitchList]

Hi John - great questions, and I should have mentioned it in the video... I soldered the 18AWG feeder wires to the outside of each rail, and then they are attached to the 14AWG DCC power bus under the layout. Thanks for watching!

[@joeraderblackrockcentralrr]

is that Gwynns Falls your workin on?

[@TheSwitchList]

Hi Joe - I had not assigned a specific location/prototype to it but that is a thought - thanks! Appreciate the view and the comment.