The N Scale Union Pacific Railroad Geneva Sub Layout Update 4 29 17

[@mikehowey4869]

I can understand the frustration, haven't started my N scale layout yet.hope mine turns out half as good as yours! Thanks for the update.

[@WEUSANDCORR]

Thanks for the update Daryl. Really appreciate you taking the time to do it. Better have a box o choccies on hand just in case. mate. Cheers Les

[@trainmanbob]

Great layout, great video. Always look forward to your videos. Cheers, Bob from UK.

[@garykcs5532]

The whole layout looks really really good Daryl you give me inspiration to keep going on my layout thank you

[@kropotken]

Very nice - especially the bridge scene and that computerised track schematic. Understand your frustration but keep plugging away. Look forward to seeing more progress. Thanks for sharing.

[@RichadTheLionHeat]

Excellent, informative, extremely encouraging, inspiring, breath taking, creative, humorous, and darn right pretty cool! 👍🏻😉🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸

[@EvanstonSub]

Wow, thank you!

[@ATSFVentaSpurNscaler]

Layout's looking good! I like your new monitor set-up. -from Tom Pilling

[@michaelgrant9293]

You have an excellent, inspirational layout, thank you for posting.

[@giulius7176]

Daryl......I grew up in Forest Park Il, Just half a mile from the River Forest Line you are modeling and I spent a lot of time as a kid in those woods by the railroad bridge....You said in your video that you did not know the name of the street next to the elevated line...Well there are actually Three streets....The tracks and bridge over the Desplaines River would run next to Lake St. Just further east you would see Central Ave on the North side and Hawthorne Ave on the south side of Elevated line. The street you are modeling as the underpass could be one of three streets...Franklin Ave, Ashland Ave, or Lathrop Ave. Also of interest is that the CN has trackage that crosses over the top of everything (at 90 Degrees) there as well . Its looking good...looking forward to the next update.

[@richfiles]

Impressive job with the triple monitor computer setup. I run a similar setup just as my main computer. I'm only just getting back into the hobby, but It amazes me how far computer control has come. I started out with a parallel interface controller that was perpetually incomplete (based on the old Bruce Chubb's book). I had visions of my Commodore 64 controlling everything, but life happened, multiple moves forced me to lose track of my pair of modules, and stuff was never finished. Now I'm getting back into the hobby with a more defined focus. I'm modeling four fallen flags as if they were still around today: DME (and sister road ICE), CNW, and Rock Island. On my layout, the mega-mergers never happened. There's no CSX, no BNSF. UP is just UP. My first DME covered hoppers are sitting at the post office right now, and I'm swarming with Rock Island rolling stock. I'm looking forward to seeing what today's tech can offer in terms of control!

[@HorseMasterBricks]

Great Update, we are all waiting for the more !!

[@geomodelrailroader]

thanks for the update Daryl keep them coming.

[@Perfusionist01]

Lookin' good! I have to remind myself that these are N-Scale. The N-Scale models have sure improved oer the years. I will be retiring in a month and hope to go visit the real Geneva Sub later this summer or fall.

[@EagleValleyModelRailroad]

Even with a three year set back, the layout looks great. Lookin forward to seeing your progress. Just subed.... Ed

[@ATrainGames]

LOVE your layout. Wish you would do updates a little more often. Not a UP fan but am a FAN of your layout, Daryl.

[@foreveryourself1216]

Thought you might like to know that last month the UP bought the old CN&W Station as part of it's bridge realingment project. Really like the layout and wish you were still in Rochelle.

[@StevenJam]

Cool to see an update to the N Scale Geneva Sub, while a real update is coming to the Geneva Sub. Union Pacific is finally getting the triple track all the way from Chicago out to Elburn!

[@garrisondelgado7386]

I live in Atlanta too! awesome layout I hope someday I can build a layout as great as yours.

[@Toddgillilandfan]

i love the detail with the buffer cars

[@EvanstonSub]

Tank trains are indeed very cool.

[@towny72]

More more more! Thanks for the update!

[@Rightwinger1982]

Outstanding! could you discuss perhaps, in your next update, microtrains true scale couplers. Will you be converting?

[@caseyeskridge]

Nice work!!! Great inspiration!!!

[@corygarner9424]

True, fvm is by far the best I've seen in n scale as many of my Kato models have stopped running even though I haven't run them much. Great video

[@williamarseneau1575]

Well, if I didn't live in the Sand Point, Idaho area, I'd gladly volunteer. Good luck in your quest for an ops crew.

[@thomasjustavick9084]

Beautiful layout!

[@MrZeldalove]

Hi Daryl. I am awed by how N-scale has evolved since I had to saw up my N-scale, free-lanced "Texas Central and Pacific Railroad" in 1994 and move elsewhere. Long story - wont bore you here, but I got out of the hobby - had no choice. I have learned a lot about operations, having watched all of your Union Pacific videos. I was the sole operator of my empire and your videos confirm that how I was operating my 12' by 15' layout were accurate. I am on a disability payment now and in an apartment, so I can't get back to where I was with the trains. I'd never be satisfied with a coffee table setup. If you have time sometime, check in with me and let's chat. Wow, I'd sure love to operate again and maybe, if you get to know me, you might be able to let me attend a session. The T. C. & P> was a simple wiring layout, just a Tech 2 power pack with Pulse Injection ( great for that low-speed switching I loved so much.) I know nothing of wiring and this DC stuff today. I could stand to learn a lot. I had it all - big metropolitan Texas cities (they were fiction), intermodal terminal, Amtrak, oil can unit trains - you name it. I also had an excuse to operate my Bachmann F9's on the T. C. & P's officer's specials ("The Administrator") in the modern era. My big road power was Bachmann SD 40-2's - great runners and Kato GP 50's on intermodal. Well, sorry, I've written a magazine article here -lol! My E-mail is [e-mail] and, of course, I am on Face Book. Thank you so much on your wonderful Geneva Division Series. Got me interested again and this is the only way I can enjoy this hobby today.

[@MrZeldalove]

Oops, didn't tell you that I am down here in MIdtown Atlanta. Love it down here!

[@pongignacio6705]

awesome video darell!- pong ignacio from the philippines

[@CajonSub]

Thanks for sharing Daryl, looking forward to your future updates! Do any of your videos specifically show installing signals and connecting them/making them operational with JMRI or similar program? Thanks Steve

[@garykcs5532]

Hi Daryl where did you get your n scale k-rail for your intermodal yard???

[@EvanstonSub]

Shapeways

[@garykcs5532]

Thank you

[@ChaseaTrainIndiana]

Awesome layout!

[@jonmulholland4618]

Hi Daryl, I'm thinking of getting a Fox Valley SD70Ace but already have a Kato one. Have you put your Kato and FVM locos next to each other? And if so what do you think of the front windscreens on both?

[@mrk1075]

@13:21 Rochelle IL, is that where you are? I'm building a ho layout in my bedroom, and will post it on KZbin when I get it done. you have a nice train setup there

[@EvanstonSub]

Lived there for 17 years, but moved to Georgia in 2014. Still modelling the Geneva Sub though.

[@theubaum]

Daryl, great progress on the pike! Spectacular railroad! When do you thinks you'll start hosting operating sessions?

[@nickbarman4145]

great video like always

[@xfiles-thetruthisoutthere8038]

HI- I COULD BE WRONG HERE BUT I BELIEVE YOUR NEW LOCOMOTIVE'S ARE GP60'S!-KEN.

[@IMRROcom]

Nice work

[@mywhittleshortlinetrains3774]

Great layout! Real inspiring. How long did it take you to build this? If it was mentioned in this video, I must've not heard it because this video is so neat!

[@Rightwinger1982]

F I N A L L Y ! Daryl.

[@jamesyoung1127]

hey Daryl love your layout. glad to see you getting it back into operation. i love how you do your track looks great what code is it and what are the turnouts. are they atlas peco or what. they look really good i love the long crossovers and how you ballast them. also how big are your consist. i love long trains. i have a friend that on his layout the average train is at least 80 cars or longer. his layout is called the nys & a its on you tube also. you should check it out.

[@ThenTomorrowBand]

You didn't include Geneva on the sub? That would make for some great Metra realism

[@specopscoffee7650]

Hello, i have some qustions for yoy, the first one is your layout based on a real place? and qustion number 2 is are your buildings actul buildings in real life vs your layout?

[@harlemrivercrossways5911]

Great update, thanks a lot Daryl! Would love to see the Rochelle, IL diamond crossover back in operation again. Is that on your plan? Do you still have a separate BSNF loop?

[@azmike4202]

Daryl, we need another update Been too long

[@csnyder29]

Great looking layout! I was wondering how big your train room was and if you hand built your turnouts?

[@EvanstonSub]

Takes up the entire basement. Something like 30X60. The turnout are all hand built.

[@williamarseneau1575]

Thank you Daryl for the update. I'm sure everyone else is anxiously awaiting more videos. With a dispatch screen like yours when, are you going to start having operations??

[@EvanstonSub]

I have had two already with a third coming up. Working on getting a op crew together.

[@justinsayin3260]

William Arseneau ytggh

[@nsfan4life]

the sou pac is a GP60 ;)

[@EvanstonSub]

Oops, you are correct.

[@david.irza14]

This is a fantastic layout! I do have one question: are you sure these are N scale? They look like HO scale. I had an HO scale set up and I have seen these engines at my hobby shop, and they look like HO. But besides that great video!

[@EvanstonSub]

:) N scale all the way.

[@fostoriadistrictrailfan3907]

im getting some n scale things, and one thing that i have coming is A N scale KATO UP 1111 Powered by our people loco

[@WSOR6604]

Be mindfull of your rivet counters... You need UP cab signals on your leader on the Geneva Sub. Those CN units don't have them.

[@EvanstonSub]

Yes, I am aware of the cab signals requirement. I used to live 1/2 mile from the mainline in Rochelle. All foreign motive power on the Geneva Sub that I saw had at least one UP unit on the head. A UP road engineer who operated on the layout in Rochelle and told me about the cab signals. He also said there was talk of plans for a limited number of CN units getting the cab signals so they could make it to Rochelle on their own. I Don't know if those plans ever came about on the prototype, but they did on my modelled version :).

[@WSOR6604]

That works.

[@erinreynolds514]

this in ho scale not n scale

[@garykcs5532]

awesome video Darryl, your layout is getting better and better, check out my layout tell me what you think, that southern pacific unit 9726 should be a gp60,,,,