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[thank, you for you're great helpful video]👍

First time I've heard of diluting Elmer's glue, nice tip and a lot cheaper than buying Woodland Scenic glue.

Hi Nick, Your Layout is looking real good I wish I could have seen a little more detail about your project. In the meantime I had to resort to find other videos for help and if I wasn't able to find the best possible answers to the subject they were talking about. I moved on with my Layout too pray that things will be better. Anyway my question is about the roadbed. Is there a easier way to go from the mainline to the yard using the roadbed? Thank you for your time Sincerely Allan

Hi Nick, Thank you for explaining this subject. I have a follow-up question about the track and roadbed situation. When the train leaves the yard and goes to the branch line is there a transition from a mainline track to a branch line track?

I model ho scale and use playbox sand that I get @ our local building supply store.

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Do I need to glue the ballast?

Not a good choice for music. Incredibly annoying

Nice

Thank you it's very help full for me and my son on the layout we want to biild

To be honest, my decision to use a cork roadbed or not would depend on the material the track will sit on - if foam, I would not use cork; if plywood/OSB, I would use cork.

why white glue

So liquid nails works well as an adhesive on foam?

I had to check the date of this video… 12 years old and still very relevant and useful. I’m not a carpenter and your video Nick, has me thinking…maybe even I could benefit from subscribing. Calming narratives with awesome background music. Thanks Nick, time to make a table…

why white gllue>?

the wood is soft enough to sink flush with the wood by them selfes

He is making this over-complicated. You don't have to mark both sides of the cross members, just mark the centers and match up the marks. Takes less time to do. Even carpenters will not mark both sides of joists or cross members, they will either mark the centers or one side and place an x or another mark to show where the joists or cross member is placed.

Simple and effective...like it. Some of them WAY over-complicate this. Since mine is 6x7, I'm using two modules of 3x7 on an el-girder base much like you have here, so it can be easily disassembled and transported when necessary. With locking casters on the legs, it will be super easy to move around or lock in place.

Perfect timing. Starting to ballast today!!

You can`t bough a 2x4 for $15 .

Just found your channel and have watched the episodes of building a table to laying track doing ballast etc. Very interesting videos and I like how you're using the throw switches bcuz I'm considering getting those for my 1st h.o.scale layout too. Thanks for sharing your videos and I'm viewing them from Delmar, Delaware.

Nice what size is it...

I am looking at using some sheets of 3/4 inch plywood I already have, but I guess for the side pieces and the cross pieces I am going to cut from one sheet I would still drill pilot holes, correct?

Thanks. That was insightful. It added another dimension to the art and skill of model railroading, ie in addition to personal preferences like noise and looks, the closeness to the prototype or reality makes it even more exciting.

Thanks for posting this video. It will come in very handy when I start building my layout.

I really enjoyed the video, largley, in part because he was straight, to the point, no wordiness (unlike many other videos) educational and more.

This is great!

Excellent Mate Thank you, and the good music in back we tough is Joe Satriani with his Wah Guitar....good!

I'm sorry and I don't mean to be confrontational but I am a long-standing locomotive engineer in real life. I have to completely disagree with your opinion on ballast size for HO scale. Fine shouldn't even be considered, it is way, way too tiny. Medium is slightly small and coarse is definitely too large on average. The best option is medium perhaps with a slight amount of coarse integrated into the mix. I see this video was posted nearly 10 years ago and maybe hobby ballast has changed during that period but I can guarantee you that there are indeed chunks ranging from 4" to 6" on the railways of today which in scale, for HO coarse runs from 4.4" to 7.2".

Fantastic - 11 years later!

Should you use glue and screws or it doesn’t matter

Very nice. The pylon are looking good.

Have you ever listened to a real train going over to turnout or interlocker sounds like a gun going off

It makes sense for your situation. Here in Australia the cork would make it more realistic looking, but every country would be different in the approach. Is sound deadening really that important? Just curious on that as most trains make a lot of noise going over points in real life, at least that is my experience here. Thanks for the video and explanation.

wow perfect the sound is real and the details are wonderful so I learn for my HO Scale table 👍

The intro music is awful why so aggressive and loud

Thank you your video is very informative and I’m gonna use it to build my Layout thank you for sharing

Nice, except for the boring, repetitive noise pollution, which some would call "music."

What happened to the roadbed? There isn't one.

Shouldn't the legs be fastened to the table frame with carriage bolts, washers and wing nuts to allow the legs to be detached for moving?

I've seen video of spraying glue/water mix or scenic cement on the track then just clean tops of rails I've been extra cautious getting anything on the rails but I'm seeing it doesn't harm as long as you wipe them down?

Whatever brand ballast you're using looks good to my eye because it is a mixture of light and dark. I personally prefer that look then all light grey color...What brand is it? Thanks.

Good tips, I'm working on a small layout due to size of room; what is the smallest radius of an ho scale

You say you use 50 1" 5/8" wood screws but they come in different diameters so what number screw do I use?

Hope no one needs to ever use the fire escape as when they get to the last ladder it will not come down to the ground as the roof of the loading door blocked it. Bad placement of the fire escape.....

Got as far as 2:00; Couldn't stand the music. Far, far better without it

why pilot holes ?

I realize this is an old video, as I type this in November 2019. Over the years I have started, and sadly had to abandon layout projects due to household moves. My latest endeavor was going along well, (until I moved to California) but my point here is? I really wish, back in 2010, I had thought of using glue instead of track nails. Would have made my life easier, with less cussing. Hah! Back then I used pre-cut Homasote for roadbed (1/2 inch ply for sub-roadbed). Today, next time....if Homasote is available, going that way...but cork works fine, and less expensive. No basements in California, though, and that's a bummer....

How do you get the track to stay on the foam board? I tried the foam board on my new layout and the nails don't stay in the foam.

9 years later I was just at Home Depot the wood was double that price,