 You are alive coming on live. Sorry about that you guys. You got disconnected. Yeah. So hopefully you can you can leave part two and move over to part three since this is now a separate streaming session. So hopefully you guys can keep up with us moving around because we lost the for some reason it like froze and was gone and there's nothing we could do to get it back so yep it froze we'll try this again and if it freezes we're going to the phone yeah the tablet well it's like totally the Bermuda Triangle down here it's only lost entire ships in this one part of the house. It's definitely like having more like breathing moments than your phone did okay yeah so we're doing the tablet the tablet probably will give you a better picture but uh yeah so I basically when I I started dismantling the layout actually a year ago and I got the staging area dismantled and uh Dillard Mill area dismantled and it took 10 loads of my van hauling stuff to the dump and uh you know it's $25 a load and it just adds up so I thought if I'm going to do this again wait till the weather gets good and I'm going to get a dumpster this time so that's what we did so we got a dumpster and uh we have the next several days to fill that dumpster with pieces of the Siski line. Totally. So do we have anybody on this one? I think it takes a while for people to kind of like realize what's happening so Joey yes you've done a lot of work here there we go hey guys welcome back sorry about that we have such a bad Bermuda Triangle going on down here for internet so we lost it earlier but yeah so you were saying you're gonna actually give away a piece or no you're gonna put a piece up on eBay yeah I'm gonna take it's the 10 mile creek trestle okay and a little bit of the scenery around it okay and uh we'll put it up on eBay and that was featured in a video series a 15 part video series I did that shows all the way from bare bench work to the finished scene so awesome you too could own a beautiful cherished piece of the wonderful Siski line layout and I don't really have a place in the new track plan for that trestle so um you know I'm saving the bridges and the trees and the structures as much as I can but um that one I can't see any place where I would probably use it on the new layout so if anybody wants it I'll put it on eBay we'll start at a fairly low bid price and then we'll see who wants it and you're gonna sign it every piece that goes on eBay you're signing sure I'll sign it if you check um uh John Taylor if you check the first video he goes over why he's dismantling yes I can I can give you the give us the light 30 second the light version yes in a in a sentence I'm moving uh there's actually more to it than that uh but the the other thing is the layout's 28 years old and so much has changed in the hobby for the better um so I want to build a sectional version of the layout this time using what's called Toma or the one module approach we talk about it in model railroad hundreds magazine and so now I can eat my own dog food I can actually do the this great new method method that I'm talking that I've been preaching and I can actually do it myself so and I will document all of that in books and videos and articles so and stuff like this so that people can can see okay so we have a couple comments okay howdy I'm here howdy from David Dain Robert Cooney says I'm here Larry Harper says here Kyle's Chessie Chamberlain Division hello hello Caleb Kenplay says yep how's it going Brad Lowe I can't say that name Brad L goes hi from Ottawa hi everybody Robert Cooney I still want my rotary dial phone I don't know you're the best Joe from KSM M8 and then another person asked why you were dismantling I'm moving yes although not necessarily right away but I don't want to feel rushed yes so I'm taking my time taking the layout out I'm going to refinish the room but I'm going to build a second layout this time it's going to be sectional modular using toma methods so I can take it with me when I move Kenneth almost junior says much better video on tablet Robert Cooney says time for renewal John Taylor ah thank you um Ray Aslan says hi from Quebec City Canada wow wow hi you get the prize for the farthest away John G. Sackett says photo bud here uh hi guys it's great to see you all on here yes and uh get a little share a little bit of this uh sort of epic moment of the cisco line coming down like I have said earlier I started to dismantle the layout a year ago but it took 10 dump loads I got maybe 15 percent of the layout done took 10 dump loads and all summer and uh $25 a load and it's like okay I'm gonna wait through the winter and when the warm weather gets here again I'm getting me a dumpster yep and we're gonna finish this sucker up so here we are willing dummy with a drill so and then we have buck says hello everyone Brad says who's behind the camera um that's my daughter tana happy me and tana does this sort of thing all the time with her makeup stuff so she's an old pro John Taylor says New York here hi guys uh let's see hello the big apple we have William Brillinger says hi Joe video looks better tonight good John hi Bill 93 says hi from Wisconsin wow oh dot com says uh Robert Cooner still have a function functioning rotary wall phone good for you um I love rotary phones I'm gonna walk around John Garver says hello from DFW Rock Island wow hi guys I'm the one behind the camera hi so does anybody have any questions yeah questions any questions this is a good time to ask is anyone out there uh doing any new updates to their layout and have any thoughts or suggestions or what are you guys doing facings hi everyone love seeing you on the Ken thanks for all you do for hobby oh you're welcome I love doing it Robert says she's gorgeous oh thank you Jeff Johnson well thank you I just love it when you comment about my luck yep and then um Jeff Johnson hi from Toronto Canada whoo Toronto hey Jeff Johnson John Taylor I'm in the planning process with my in scale whoo in scale nice John Taylor how large of an in scale layout are you making hi bye bye bye bye all that going to the garbage in the burn pile garbage in the burn pile and no that's not an album right so there's a step up because this was um what did you call it a mushroom mushroom design mushroom and that means it's a double deck layout but the upper deck faces the opposite direction and to kind of demonstrate we're actually standing on a raised floor you want to show this is a 15 inch raised floor and this is the upper deck of the mushroom so you can see here's the upper deck there's actually another deck down here that just comes off of the regular floor and it's facing the opposite direction so this is the backdrop see a lower deck and by doing a mushroom you get a deck layout that doesn't look double decked and both decks are the same relative distance from the floor but you do have to build a raised floor and you have to build something solid enough that it's not going to collapse if people walk on it and build a good raised floor is not cheap no so we have somebody says nope stuck in a small apartment no room here for trains maybe once I buy a house it will happen oh another one says I'm a retired fireman and was the chief in the fire service would you like to copy in my cookbook yes thank you for your service by the way that's awesome cookbooks are awesome we love cookbooks especially fire cheeks you guys got some chili that is out of this world yes yes john says worked on my resurrected layout today and got all the yard turnouts flick operating today show oh wait wait slow progress online congratulations john that's not easy work yeah so uh there's another one okay I am I am RRO.com mitura layout made with sheet metal two times four studs with a or two by four studs about a year ago talk about an exercise in sharp edges and pointing metal screws lots of blood oh man that sounds horrific Robert says chef we need the dykes I'll get the dykes also known as tent snips Robert says I competed in the world food championship in place 38 out of 450 from around the world what did you cook Robert yeah 38 out of 450 that's pretty good that means he needs to come that means you're in the top 10 percent yes need to come cook for us now yeah as you can see these guys like to eat yeah yeah if you haven't noticed we're you know working on our girlish figures yeah firehouse chili oh man that's the best stuff too make you so good i'll make you slap your mama john taylor says I don't know if I want to use kato kato track although unicrack or flex track okay although the um the official way that they say their name is kato kato excuse me just just so you know i'm i'm not a train no you're not you're not but i'm the idiot behind the camera we'll have to train you nice they're right there okay uh yeah um kato track uh it's it's good uh probably for the first time i don't use it because i want to have really fine type plate and spike head detail on my track so i use micro engineering flex track um the the spike heads are near scale and i do a lot of photography close-up photography is it that stuff right there yeah that's stuff right there i do a lot of close-up photography um for the magazine and whatnot so i want really fine looking track kato track and and those other types of track they have bigger spike heads and in terms of scale you're probably talking spike heads the size of tomatoes the worst is atlas code 100 spike heads are the size of cantaloupes so it just depends on your sensibilities and you know as far as mechanically the kato track is fabulous track so you can't argue with that uh but it depends on the aesthetics and for me the aesthetics i like microengineering track and then of course i like the look of a natural handmade ballast slope too nice okay so we have hastings middle of nebraska working on a module in scale using extruded foam as base oh that's trying to replicate ken p's methodology um brad says lol probably about you guys talking about working on your girlish figure um robert cooney says it's okay you can trust me and then john taylor is i talked to my hobby shop they said i can use the kato rail oh it always disappears rail joiner on flex track for my dcc yes and then um i am our ro.com or just atlas code 80 flex track and in scale and then andrew andrew just jumped on and said hello or welcome to the dark ur enlightened side of modular model railroading i i've been party to a few permanent dismantle or dismantlements it ain't fun going free mo empowered need to take on a huge bridge and then robert cooney says i'm designing an in scale two foot by 16 foot switching layout that's cool kaleb ken play says 55 looks better in in scale oh yes it does yes and sorry guys um i have some bad eyesight so sometimes i can't read i have to really look at people's names i think it might be time to get glasses yeah so actually model railroad hobbyist magazine issue number one way back in the beginning january 2009 has a really nice article on in scale track and it looks at all the different code sizes and the different brands and i think it's probably still fairly relevant jaunta says nice just two towns away from me jeff johnson what are your future plans moving and rebuilding to a new location well all i know is that i want to move uh but we are taking care of my nine-year-old mother and we don't want to do anything to upset her health wise until she's gone but we my wife and i talked and we do know we want to relocate so i said well that means i'm working on a layout that's dumpster fodder so why don't i just tear it out now at my leisure quote unquote refinish the basement so we can sell the house quote at our leisure and then i will start a tomah version a sexual version of the layout using updated techniques from 28 years of experience and improvements in the hobby over the last 28 years so i don't know exactly what the new space is going to look like and i don't know exactly where it's going to be but it's probably someplace rural outside of salem oregano okay and that's all i know at this point so for the mra article recommendation i will take a look for sure so that's from kaylub ken play so do you have any questions for them dad um that's a that's a what was their favorite article on this month's mrh well or favorite article in model road hobbyist at all yeah or favorite video i got a question for them yeah our okay i got a question for all you wonderful followers how many of you are very familiar with my dad's train layout and if so what part or section was your favorite section oh there you go so you have to be a little bit familiar with the layout because i'm modeling southern oregon basically from eugene to south of roseburg oregon so you have to know something about oregon to know what that even means and as a modeler those of you that are watching do you model actual places here on planet earth or do you model your own like made up where you're in town call it freelance freelance thank you okay so let's see john taylor it's not nice it's a company called nce okay and then robert how can i send photos how can they send photos to the magazine or yeah robert how what kind of photos do you want to send into where if you want to send photos of the magazine the easiest way actually is we have a weekly thread on the model road hobbyist forum and that's uh mrh mag dot com m r m r h m a g dot com go there and then go to recent posts and it will show the the form for you uh the best way to send us a photo is to actually post a photo on the weekly photo fund thread we have a thread each week where forum members post pictures of either their layout or their favorite layout occasionally we get some workbench photos or some some prototype photos as well but yeah you can post them on there and then everybody can enjoy them and uh if we like the photo we may actually put it in my road hobbyist so sure so okay so john g says are you going to start some tomah modules while waiting to move yes absolutely absolutely as a matter of fact he already has no two already and if you're going to the salt lake national nm re convention i will have those two modules at that convention excellent but the first set of modules was an experiment and i tried a lot of new techniques and i was really pushing the envelope on those two modules some of it worked some of it didn't so those modules are what i call chainsaw modules so basically i use them to learn i'm gonna dismantle them as well uh and then i'm going to start the real modules because i want to build a couple of modules to figure out how to do the mating and to do a bunch of different things and my modules actually aren't just the domino style modules like you may have heard of which is just a flat board you know a flat box with track on the top that's not what i'm doing what i'm doing is i'm actually including the backdrop and the valance for the lighting so if you look at it from the side it's c-shaped right the cross section so here's the layout here's the backdrop and here's the valance so that actually makes a box and the nice thing about that box is it protects the track and the scenery or whatever's inside and then if you go to move it they're stackable and all you have to do is put a little piece of plastic or something on the front to protect the box and then it's highly movable and it's also really cool because the backdrop and the lighting goes with it and i'm using led strip lighting and i have to say the led strip lighting is one part of this first two module test that is superb i absolutely love the led strip lighting but i'm going to be talking about all of that i'll i'll show you the first set of modules and what worked and what didn't work uh and then i'm going to do the basically round two or version two of the modules and then i'll show you how those are an improvement what i what i changed to make an improvement the goal is to make them not too heavy um we tore out just maybe 10 of the layout uh in the dillard mill area if you know anything about my layout that was a piece of bench work that was 12 feet long and about 18 inches wide okay and it had plaster scenery on it and all of that stuff it was 250 pounds of bench work oh my goodness the new toma version of the sissy line the goal is a six foot module will weigh no more than 40 pounds right so one person could actually okay so i am rro.com says just finished an exposed staging yard it is 12 tracks wide with yard tracks around 10 and a half feet long 24 to 26 cars with three engines and a caboose wow that's nice that's a beautiful staging yard pasting vnsf in-scale modelers said hope you share your progress in new build in new build i've read some of the articles on toma very interesting i am rro.com again says yes have all the videos of the layout and studied it a long time ago favorite part is the operations oh and then robert cooney says you folks the layout design i think he was talking about where to send pictures john taylor i want to model the csx yard called acca yard in richmond virginia oh i think i've heard of that one before that actually is an interesting yard and then marquetteo are you going to document the construction of the new layout on mrh videos yes there'll be articles videos all of that stuff on train masters that dvds you can buy i'll probably do books ebooks paperbacks the whole thing so i have a lot of ideas running around my head as far as how to do toma and uh don't give it away the most common comment we get from people is what's the big deal modular methods have been around for decades and that's absolutely true but ninety nine percent of the time the modular methods have been used for show layouts that you take to show not for homelands right so i have an idea is running around my head of how to take the best of show layout modular methods and couple them with the unique needs of a home layout and come up with a way to do home layouts using modular methods but it's evolving the methods as well so there'll be that's one of the reasons why i had a lot of failures with the first two modules because i was experimenting with a lot of these ideas some worked some didn't and the ones that didn't uh gave me enough information that i know in round two what to change so that i can get something that's much more likely to be successful the second time around so and i'm going to be illustrating all of that as as we go so definitely going to be showing number two i call it syschi line two going to be showing how that's coming together and also this dismantling i'm shooting some video and uh i have some some tips on dismantling a layout as well uh recommendations on things so find a family member that's bored and has nothing else better to do with this time tip number one yeah right so i'll take a couple more comments um kaleb kinplay says i only have room to build small photo modules so it depends what i feel like photographing usually hold on usually just freelance but i just finished an escur found in the old ogala grasslands west of crofford and me oh that actually sounds quite interesting and then i model the vine from roanoke virginia to winston sale in north carolina robert cooney says would love to meet you i'm five minutes from where the convention is being held well you'll definitely have to come to the train show come to the train show for a day uh like i said we'll have the syschi line two the the um version one modules that some stuff worked and some didn't and i can show you what worked and what didn't but i was also very encouraged with the stuff that didn't work because the stuff that did work worked quite well actually and i was quite pleased with that so and i'll be as i said once i get a chance to um what i need is i need some space to work in so i need to get enough of the layout here dismantle but i have an empty room again to work with and then i'll start doing version two of the syschi line two modules and so once i have version one and version two so i can compare and contrast then i'm going to do some articles and some videos on uh all of that so yes that's coming robert bailey says hi from northeast new york who northeast howdy i'm a blown away by this technology i tell you i mean i consider myself a pretty web savvy guy but uh this is this is really cool it's been a while though dad just like the layout the technology for internet is advanced just a little bit so joey i think at this point we should probably sign off because we're going to have to use the the saw is all the saw is all to start cutting some things into pieces and that's going to make a lot of racket and won't be able to talk so all right see y'all later and thanks for watching