Layout Update - Building The Branchline Pt. 2 - Track Laid!

[@DarrenMalin]

I like your standard weight and measure, 'the Dog food tin' :)

[@malminstral]

Thank you for the tip with joining Code 100 & 75 track together. I have Code 100 track every where except one point that must be 75, because of the drop. So I did what you did (just with the toe end) with the point on top of the fishplates of the 100 track and solder. Great job, so thank you. Love following your channel, well done.

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@malminstral I'm glad you found it useful. Seems too smooth to be a coincidence. I only noticed myself when I accidently misaligned one side.

[@malminstral]

@@HorsehayRailwayModeller Well, good job at spotting it and helping us both and others.

[@EmperorsPath]

lovely update David, its going to be such a beautiful scene!

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

cheers mate

[@MaxxD86]

That’s pretty good the baseboards are really well constructed.

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

Thank you very much

[@dinmorejunctionmodelrailway]

Hi. David. It's always nice to watch one of your videos. I used that Woodland scenics foam, while if it offers a nice ballast shoulder, I would choose to use cork next time.

[@dakdak7609]

Why?

[@dinmorejunctionmodelrailway]

@dakdak7609 I've found that as the foam by nature isn't solid, the ballast crumbles of the foam.

[@LyntreeTown20132]

Great Video - showing progress step by step very interesting

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@LyntreeTown20132 glad you enjoyed

[@aarosandeinosmodelrailway3818]

Brilliant 🔥🍻

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

Cheers

[@charlesduncan3194]

It will be fine mate, it was peco foam that i saw that was breaking down

[@georgeclements2742]

Thanks for the update; It's looking good. While it's great to have the facilities at your parents' house, I bet that you're champing at the bit to get the layout settled in your own home. Best wishes.

[@KeithWheatley-o6g]

Enjoyed the video, but why didn't you use a piece of transitioning track instead of soldering the rails together . I've used them on my layout they work fine .

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@KeithWheatley-o6g Hi there, glad you enjoyed. As I show in the clip,the transition track caused a straight section which was kinking the curve. By soldering the tracks they join on a curve not a straight.

[@alantyrell41]

Dog is probably going hungry 😢

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@alantyrell41 😅she had plenty of other food downstairs don't worry.

[@jimsmum21]

Hi Where did you get the trees from, you mentioned poland Cheers

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

MBR, website is mbrmodel.eu great hand made trees . took a few weeks to deliver but well worth it

[@petertownsend8276]

Nice work, but don't forget to cut some expansion gaps in between the soldered track joints. As the layout is in the loft, it will be subject to quite a bit of temperature variation, and the tracks will buckle if not permitted to move latterly. I speak from painful experience.

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@petertownsend8276 I will be visiting again nearly next month so will most definitely cut expansion joints before the warm weather starts in the summer.

[@charlesduncan3194]

Hi there won't that track bed foam brake down and disintegrated after 10 years ? Spoiling your track work? I've seen that happen with peco foam

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@charlesduncan3194 Hi there, I believe it's a much more resilient product being a closed cell rubberised foam. I've certainly never heard of woodland scenics foam breaking down and it's been on the market for a least 20 year's according to a quick Google. Thanks for watching.

[@charlesduncan3194]

Hi i can't remember where i seen it somewhere on KZbin? So i decided to use cork instead the modern model trains are mostly quiet anyway

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@charlesduncan3194 I know peco foam has quite the reputation for disintegrating. I'm hoping woodland scenics is fine

[@Sabbath-666]

Awesome layout! But please ditch that Pedigree chum. It's one of the worst dog foods available (I'm trained in canine nutrition ;) )

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@Sabbath-666 will let the parents know. Believe she's got many different foods they've been trying her on. She's an old rescue and a little hard to feed as she only has one tooth

[@dakdak7609]

Our Vet said the same thing, but didn’t say why or what else to use. Where do canine nutritionists work?

[@martinbradshaw7877]

Hi David great plan. One thing. Do you plan on keeping your girlfriend?!!!!

[@chriskelly883]

Enjoying the build, only negative (and not to do with any of the build, is filming in vertical at the end, I work in media and it breaks my heart when people don’t film in landscape. But great all the same.

[@HorsehayRailwayModeller]

@@chriskelly883 Appologies. I looked at my footage and realised I'd filmed all the running vertical to share as short form content. I could have sworn I'd filmed some landscape too but apparently not. I would have reshot but I only have access to the railway when I visit my parents.

[@bachmannobsessed2234]

All you need now is some PECO HO/OO FLEXIBLE SL-102F CODE 75 NICKEL SILVER RAIL CONCRETE SLEEPER TYPE TRACK