The N-scale project, week 2

[@johnkennedy827]

I am really enjoying these videos.

[@markschumacher6630]

Really enjoy your work Peter, a true pro.

[@brucegiroux]

Beautiful work Peter. It's always enjoyable to follow along as a layout is built. I look forward to watching more.

[@adriengadson3544]

You got a lot done , and make sure you enjoy your time off. Keep up the good work.

[@davidpost428]

A belated Happy 55th Birthday, Peter !!

[@mpeterll]

Very belated. I've been 56 for a few months now. lol

[@chrisdraper5067]

Happy Birthday young fella (by a few short years). Enjoy your videos!

[@fentoncentral-ngauge]

Another excellent video.. great to see it progress and an excellent plan.

[@robertblack3452]

Happy Birthday Peter, this layout is coming along very nicely in deed. I really like your homemade risers, they look great. Plus they are in much longer sections than the manufactured ones, makes a much better surface to lay track on.

[@jolliemark6294]

You have got a lot done in a short time, but hat is definitely not as small layout by any means. It's interesting the paper layout. Thanks for sharing....Jack And yes Happy Birthday too, 🎂🎉you are 55 years young!

[@bobbywright2100]

Happy Birthday, and what a great job it looks fantastic!!

[@LTBROYT6A]

Peter, I hope that you had a great Birthday !!! The work that you do is amazing, I wish that I could half as much track that you get done in a day !!! Barry.

[@normanrowe2831]

Peter, first off, happy belated birthday 🎂 . You’re right, that is a big n scale layout. It would be a very nice sized HO layout. You do get a lot done in a short time. See ya next time with a new location, layout, and scale.

[@joeraderblackrockcentralrr]

Thats alot of work in a short time. And Happy Birthday young man!!

[@andrewabbot1380]

Happy birthday. Amazingly quick precise progress

[@JoeG-firehousewhiskey]

This layout is coming along very nicely.

[@ottobettcher7025]

Happy Birthday , Hope you had a good time at Outback.

[@AndyCrawford_NorfolkWestern]

Happy birthday man! Thanks for sharing, as always...

[@Jstroman221]

Looks great happy birthday!

[@jimtedesco]

Happy Birthday! The layout is really starting to take shape.

[@pongignacio6705]

very nice layout sir! Happy Birthday!

[@ralphgreenwood5857]

Layout looks great-those out-takes happen-lol-Happy Belated Birthday!!

[@jamesmartin3431]

Looking good

[@BALD8BIL]

Happy birthday and love the layout

[@modelrailroader5619]

Oh man, new layout construction is so exciting and so much fun (especially when you don’t have to redo a bunch of stuff!😉) Happy Belated Birthday, Peter.🎉

[@stmichaelshill7421]

Really interesting to see the project coming together. And happy birthday!!

[@MrBsHiawathalandRails]

A great week 2!

[@markarnold8160]

I hope your birthday was a good one Peter. I've missed it by a long way! I'm looking forward to the next episode on this layout and also your next video on something else.

[@FLEOsMOBATraum]

A great work that you have done. I'm impressed of the large layout. I will follow your chanel now. Best regards from Switzerland Klaus

[@DiggerEvans]

Best wishes for your birthday, your layout is fantastic

[@chazco]

Happy Birthday. That is a really large N Scale layout. Wish I had space fr something like that. Chuck

[@DenisineD2]

happy bday!!

[@TheAdventuresofMrMrsB]

Hope you had a great Birthday!

[@nedmerrill5705]

What do you use for feeders? Do you directly solder to the track itself? Do you solder to each bit of rail?

[@randysrockandrollrailroad8207]

Happy Birthday!

[@gregbowen617]

Thanks for the update...i'm curious about the risers and inclines - are these styled after the W.S. inclines? It looks as if they are home made.

[@mpeterll]

They are cut on a CNC router by the company I'm working for at the moment.

[@gregbowen617]

@@mpeterll Thats a pretty handy saving as the W.S. can add up on a large layout!

[@mpeterll]

@@gregbowen617 There's another reason too... The WS inclines are only available in 2%, 3% and 4%. More often than not, we need something different. To make their product more versatile, they also need to do 0.5%, 1% 1.5% and 2.5% at the very minimum.

[@gregbowen617]

@@mpeterll True...

[@AffordableModelRR]

We produce the risers at AffordableModelRailroads.com at the precise grade called for in the cad layout plan on our cnc router and then cut the kerfs by hand on a bandsaw

[@Chris-BognorRegis]

I should have read your above comments, DUH. how did you end up having that wonderful job over there? One question, do you solder all your track joins? Regards Chris

[@Chris-BognorRegis]

Hi Peter, I am based in the UK near Chichester, West Sussex and came across your site as I am extremely interested in N gauge. Currently converting the loft in our bungalow to take my layout. So when I came across your site I was truly blown away by what you build, the size especially. Also intrigued that your job appears to be building layouts for other people, wow what a job to have. I guess I am being nosey having watched all your videos to this stage but is it your business or are there a group of you, especially when you say no one has been in over the weekend to carry on with the layout. It's just something as far as I am aware that just does not happen over this side of the pond or not that I am aware of. Yes I have been to very nice mansions that have huge layouts but these have still been built by the owner with friends assistance, not like the service you offer. So yes I am curious but aside by that I love the way you plan and build your layouts and the detail is unbelievable. Wish someone over there employed you to build a massive BR layout in N gauge around the 1960 period, would love to see that. Anyway all the best and may you long continue with your videos, I cant get enough of them. Regards Chris.

[@mpeterll]

So are you planning to hire me to design that "massive BR layout in N gauge around the 1960 period" for you? That's a project I would really look forward to. BTW, I do have a very small N-scale BR layout design in the works at the moment.

[@Chris-BognorRegis]

Wow Peter that was a quick reply. Love to have you come and help me but I dont think I could afford you mate. As your no doubt aware things over here are very expensive and we haven't even got past Brexit yet, really scarey. I was born in 1956 and we backed onto a shunting yard for Express Dairy when they still used Gintys. The mainline station was behind that so I had the best of both worlds.So now into my early sixties the missus says the attic is mine so railway layout and 1960 BR, oh how lucky I am. Hoping to get roughly a 40' x 7,5" N gauge layout up there. The terminus is going to be based on Bognor Regis which was quite a large one for its location. May even open up a site on KZbin with some help from my son who is already a KZbinr but in wargaming.

[@Chris-BognorRegis]

Meant to have asked, what are you going to put in your cellar, N gauge I hope. On another note we are off to the Watercress Line tomorrow for a steam event weather permitting. Just up the road from where we live and I have never been there before.

[@IMRROcom]

0.33 what is the oval on the layout? Racetrack etc. or something else?

[@davestrains6816]

Happy Birthday. This layout your working on is really impressive. Are yall going to place all the scenery and structures? Looking forward to future videos. Thanks for sharing. Dave

[@chriscorrigan4428]

G'day mate. great show but I still haven't got a problem solved by watching you at this point so I'll ask a question. I am a first time N scaler and I am using all Peco xing's and some Atlas turnouts with Peco flex track and some peco turnouts all in code 55. Is there a transition joiner available for these tracks or is there a secret to join them successfully? many thanks

[@mpeterll]

What PECO call code-55 rail is really not. It has that huge extra web on the bottom. I do not know of anything that will satisfactorily join it to any other brand. This railroad was built using their code-80 line. I don't do much N-scale, but when I do, I don't mix PECO with any other brand for this reason. Sorry I can't be any more help. Maybe someone else knows the answer.

[@chriscorrigan4428]

@@mpeterll Thanks very much for your help. It is greatly appreciated.

[@69adrummer]

Who cuts all the pink foam? Goodness! Things are looking good! Really enjoy your videos!

[@barnfulloftrains]

Hope you had a Great Birthday.-Gary

[@rjl110919581]

thank you for detail video wish happy birthday young man as wish best further in good hearth

[@stevenmorrissett6849]

All very impressive! How do you cut your foam inclines to create the right grade?

[@willparsons32]

Wondering what you'll be using for switch controls?

[@haydnollington9197]

Nice layout, may I ask what code rail this is, and what brand are you are using for both concrete sleeper rail and your turnouts?

[@elleryparsons5766]

How Many Layouts have you Built Lately?

[@Wild-Dad]

Yes, Happy Birthday to you. I hope your wife treated you to a great dinner. That is quite the layout!!! Imagine the square footage of the room and the track required in order to have set this up in HO scale. Dumb question though and I have probably missed you describing it but is this your workshop or your client’s?

[@robertschmidt6383]

So who or how are the large paper sections with the road bed path and buildings location made? By hand or printed out on a large printer? Another business does this?

[@mpeterll]

They are printed from the CAD software on 36" wide rolls of paper. I order them from another company.

[@robertschmidt6383]

@@mpeterll I had thought so. Where I use to work they had a really wide industrial printer for designing molding dies. Love the layout prints that are used in your work. 👍

[@shaunsandiford9048]

Happy birthday 🎂 it’s my birthday today 55yrs old

[@jamescarryl9690]

Peter Happy Birthday. Oh what a Big and Beautiful layout. My question is.. How many turnouts total? Do u care to count the crossties? Lol lol. Imagine if you were hand laying each crossties and every scale length of rail?? Whew!! Not me!! Are you wiring for Dcc or will the ow no er take on that challenge? How many helpers, or extra hands do You have helping on this project? Just curious. Thanks for sharing Take really good care.

[@mpeterll]

There are about 90 turnouts in total. I am working alone on the project at the moment. The benchwork was mostly built by two of his regular crew before I arrived but neither of them worked on the layout with me for the first few weeks. When it came time for wiring and turnout controls, one of the regular crew did all of the "under the layout" stuff to speed things along.

[@fruitgums]

If I understand this right, you design and build for customers. Do you quantity survey the build so the client can buy all track etc? or do you make an estimate and bill the client at the end? This is a huge layout for N scale, how much would this cost, a ball park figure?

[@mpeterll]

I do indeed design and build model railroads for clients, however I did no design this one (I was working with another builder on this project). If you are in the market for a custom design and/or build, please contact me through my web-site: superiormodelrailroads.com

[@jasonsharpe6505]

How many people are part of putting this layout together 🤔

[@troybrodrick7208]

so your still doing work on layouts yourself not through affordable correct?

[@mpeterll]

I have my own company superiormodelrailroads.com but still do quite a lot of sub-contract work through Affordable. This project is one of theirs and I have at least one more of their builds coming up. This arrangement will continue until I have enough of a customer base on my own.

[@elleryparsons5766]

Do You Have your own Layout?

[@elleryparsons5766]

Was that a Contract Layout or was that you At home Layout.

[@mpeterll]

That was a layout I built while working for another layout builder.

[@elleryparsons5766]

How many people work on these layouts?

[@mpeterll]

On this particular layout, most of the benchwork had been built before I gt there. I had a helper installing the switch machines and hooking up the bottom ends of the feeder wires while I worked above the benchwork. All the other layouts you have seen me build on this channel have been solo efforts. I do have my own layout, but unfortunately I have not had chance to get the basement fixed up to reassemble it, so it's still crated up from the move. There are many videos of it elsewhere on this channel.

[@johnchase7667]

Never realized you were in American, I thought you was in England