Track Inspection at H&DS

[leialuiza2011]

Lindo video

[Adrian45738]

Awesome vid!!!

[coolshadowfan]

were did you all of this? please respond

[4everford]

@coolshadowfan

The video was made on a layout in SE,VA on the edge of the Dismal Swamp. Layout belongs to a fellow club member.

[coolshadowfan]

@4everford I was meaning the track and train

[coolshadowfan]

@coolshadowfan I was taking about the trck and train not the video

[crazyjoe1148]

nice layout .

[TheDonShowcase]

dang, I thought the county fair tracks were cool.

[4everford]

@Wazlor It's a rich guys toy train set. Most of us are rich and can afford to have these "toy" trains outside on a year-round basis. Damn, some of these comments are just too much!

[stuart1988dumfries]

@4everford just dont rub it in dude....

[lurka01]

What's the track base ?

[commanderbly1]

hey what scale is this it looks like HO

[4everford]

@commanderbly1

HO? You are kidding? Might be time to get in for an eye check.

This is Gauge 1. Scale from 1:20.3 to 1:32 will operate on this gauge track.

[RedLego391]

@commanderbly1 It's G scale, I think.

HO Track is't that big.

[HallPassExpired]

@commanderbly1 HO is what you get at walmart for kids...think hotwheels size...lol

[commanderbly1]

@HallPassExpired lol

[MegaStealth101]

LGB?

[4everford]

@MegaStealth101

LGB? What's an LGB? Good heavens no.

[LtHawk77]

@4everford Lehmann Gross Bahn train company. Made in Germany, nice stuff but they have terrible track for the outdoors

[CowsXonXcrack]

@LtHawk77 LGB brass track woulds brilliantly outdoors.

[LtHawk77]

@MegaStealth101  Thats Aristocraft track, great stuff

[Dusty754]

@MegaStealth101

Perhaps you mean G Gauge. LGB is a manufacturer of G Gauge model railroad equipment. Gauge 1 is very close in gauge to G gauge.

[gehnix]

@Dusty754 But in Gauge 1 u can buy better models like the one from Marklin in Germany. The quality of that models are so awsome...

[Dusty754]

@gehnix Wouldn't know. Don't collect them nor do I have a set up. Just some old American Flyer stuff and some HO and N gauge stuff. To me they are just toys.

[direktoriu]

its fantastik i wana have a go with this on

[direktoriu]

how big is this train are?

[fxdrdnme]

Why dont you just walk the track?

[4everford]

Three reasons.

1.We support Street Walkers, not Track Walkers.

2 Layout owners like to see their railroad from track level for better detail.

3.Watching the video and any camera shake identifies rough/misaligned track and switches. Owner's can then make necessary repairs.

[fxdrdnme]

Gotcha. I was just wondering the reason why people spend $250 to do this but you gave me 3 good ones, thanks!

[NiklasNosus]

How does it cost?

[4everford]

We charge $250.00 to do a track inspection. And that's a bargain! :>)

[glup88ab]

como debo alimentar, un juego qye tengo,....

tengo, 60 vias recatas 40 en curva 6 cambios de via...

Tengo 58 vagones y 2 maquinas

que eliminador debo colocarle para alimentar toda la maqueta??

[4everford]

The layout belongs to Joe Walls. My train doesn't show because it is pushing the camera car.

[Danskerenbent]

wow is that your train?

[Inuyasha103103]

What do you do if it rains?

[4everford]

Run in the rain. Do it all the time. This equipment works in all types of weather. Just depends on how wet you want to get.

[Tibsmar]

:48 OMG that poor leaf!!!

[pawel5163]

Ile ty masz torów?

[8LincolnMKR8]

dude how much was that?

[gavinfalconer]

how do you stop the track from rusting?

[4everford]

In this case the track is brass. There are generally two types of material used for outdoor track; brass or stainless steel. Of the two, brass is slightly less expensive. Stainless steel is gaining in popularity since it requires minimal cleaning to maintain its electrical conductivity.

[kleetus92]

Although I imagine the lack of conductivity of the SS is a downside, unless you're running feeders to it every so often.

[JBofBrisbane]

@gavinfalconer - I know it's been 2 years, but I couldn't resist.

BRASS DON'T RUST, BRO!

[Zappyguy111]

@JBofBrisbane

Actually it does... Just a lot slower than steel.

Those beautiful green statues you see in the park... They're actually rusty brass/bronze statues.

Actually what you can do is just lay a piece of iron/steel/zinc in electical contact with the track and it will make the track reletively rust proof. It's the theory behind galvanised steel, put a less rust proof material in contact with a more rust proof one, and the less rust proof one will be sacrificed in place of the other metal.

[Zappyguy111]

@JBofBrisbane

Or you can do what the QE2 does, place a negative (I think) over the track and have a sacraficial metal positive charge, and the oxygen will refuse to react with the negatively charged track and go for the positively charged.

[GHTVextreme]

g scale

[4everford]

That's 45mm Gauge 1 track. The owner runs mostly 1:22.5 and 1:29 scale equipment. When I run on his layout the equipement is 1:20 scale. There is no "G" scale. That's a term, applied incorrectly, to any scale equipment being run on Gauge 1 track.

[viljami99]

nice

[bluehachiroku]

Stone the crows! It went on for ever!! I kept thinking.. we must have come by this spot before.. does this look like the start??

Great ride. 8-)

and wait, there's more.. another 40ft?

It must be nice to plonk yourself down up the back there somewhere and wait for a long freight to pass and then it's back to quiet again.

pls post some more.

[perryj1024]

Holy Cow how long is this layout ? Is it yours?

[4everford]

I have no idea. The train was running at 20 SMPH with the speedometer car set for 1:20.3 scale. You can see the length of the video and we did not cover about 40 feet of the layout.