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Hello EB, Just a quick post about Layout 9, which I just posted Part 1 of to YouTube. I actually designed this in BlueBrick before building it physically, which was quite fun and allowed me to finalize the design without having to rebuild the track after it was set up. Part 1 features 7740, 7750, 7810 (motorized with 7865), and 7820. Also, I found a way not only to put the weights in the front and back of 7810 (previously I had them both in the back which made it back-heavy and it would detail going over curves too fast), but also add lights to the front! It's not the prettiest solution as the light brick is partially exposed, but I'll take that if it has lights. The layout has a long passing line and a complex switchyard, which I put a lot of thought into. It has 2 stub-end sidings, each secured by a signal, and a decoupling area where engines can deposit wagons to be picked up and then drive to the stub-end sidings. Remote shunting is so cool... I added some custom buffers to the ends of each track that has no connection on one end. At some point I'll order parts for nicer buffers based off of 7777 but for now these ones will do. I installed lights in both stations (7740's platform has custom double light posts) and the control tower for 7866, which look good at night (hint: there will be a video of the layout at night). This might be the first time that I actually did good cable management, you can see that I installed custom "brackets" on the near side of the layout to hold all of the extra cable, as I use the original ones which are almost always not the right length- either too long and there's extra, or too short and I have to extend it with a spare cable (and then there's extra). Some of those brackets are stuffed full of cables since I just ran the extra ones up and down the row of brackets... cabling was definitely the most time-intensive part of the layout but I think the final result looks much better than having a bunch of extra wires all over the layout, so I will probably do this more in the future. I'll update this thread when I upload more videos about Layout 9. Without further talk, here is part 1- I hope you enjoy!
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Hello EB, For those of you that watch my videos, today marks one year since the beginning of my channel. I reconstructed Layout 1 from the original video, reshot all the clips (with some minor changes, but as close to the originals as possible), edited everything, and re-made the first video I uploaded, Layout 1. Just a small layout featuring 7745 and 7730, as those were the trains I had at this time last year. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this short video! -
Hello all, I wanted to share Layout 8 with you guys- this might be my best layout yet, it's got 2 passing lines and a unique design for the switchyard. Part 1, which I just uploaded, features the 7740 that I got recently along with 7745 and 7750 with 7820. @BillytheKid I know you requested without music but I always do music for layout videos, I might do a third video on this layout without music (part 2 will have freight trains)... music definitely helps the view count! I will link part 2 when it's out. Enjoy the video!