As usual, another excellent video. I’ve watched some of the series 6-8 times especially when I’m moving on a stage. So this week I’ve laid 2 double slips and a single slip with Tortoise motors for the station throat. This is the first track, first soldering, etc, etc. Your help has been invaluable. I just thought you should know your hard work, and clear explanations are being put into practice and are much appreciated.

Great explanatory video Charlie. Thanks.

A masterclass in tracklaying, Charlie! Yes, it’s frustrating at times and some foreword planning is required. Super job. Cheers, Bob

Excellent video, always enjoy watching your presentations! This have given me some ideas on trackage in a couple of areas I have planned for my layout. Thank you so much for sharing with everyone. D. Muse

Thanks, Charlie. Well done and helpful.

Absolutely brilliant video, very informative.

Very impressed with the way your installed the diamond crossing................great video. Cheers Greg

Always good to watch your videos. Looks like the track work is coming along well. A lot to look forward to in future videos as well.

Yet another informative video thanks Charlie 👍

Thank you for yet another excellent & informative video.

Hi Charlie, excellent video, must get to grips with my layout after watching this.

Hi Charlie, hope you are well, great professional YT clip as always and demonstrated beautifully raising all the issues you may come across with such a track setup etc... always a great pleasure to watch and educating those whose may lack confidence in attempting such modelling work. Thumbs up to that! 👍

I do enjoy your videos a lot. Thank you

Another fun and exciting video. Thanks

Great video Charlie! I've been looking forward to your next update! You making wiring seem to make a lot more sense than most people!!

Good to have u back Charlie! Hope ur holiday was good n u enjoyed it whilst we ur adoring public have been sitting here on our hands bored waiting for ur next video to appear! 😆 Great detail to ur video as per usual mate n l really like that crossover idea as it adds just that little bit more interest to the layout. All the best. John

Great tutorial Charlie! Cheers, Dan

¡Hola Charlie! Why didn’t I watch this video earlier in my layout assembly? Learnt today: You can insert a piece of track and slide steel fishplates over the join. I know, it’s something everyone should know - hand up, I didn’t. Great video and, yes, extremely helpful. Off to order some Copydex......Gary

Another good one. Thanks.

Not keen on diamond crossings but great instructional video . Thanks for sharing. Cheers Matt

10 out of 10, Charlie, great video.

Very good video Sir!! Hello from Winnipeg , Canada.

Hi Charlie Great instructional video again ,my gran swore by Copydex so i have my order in on Ebay and will be using it from now on ,look forward to your next video ,take care.

As always another great How-To video. -Jack

Top five and one worth everyone's time!!

Excellent how to Charlie, I've no diamond crossings myself and no thoughts of having one, as I have enough trouble with points as it is. thanks for sharing.........John.

Enjoyable and informative video, I am planning to use 4 turnouts and a small crossing to make a double scissors crossover and it will be OO finescale. I think the electrical side might be interesting :-) I also think I may have to modify the crossing to keep my track centres at 52mm.

Here in the states we have something called a "stay alive" that goes in the loco and it keeps the engine powered for 5 to 8 seconds. this lets me use the real cheep turnouts with plastic frogs without the engine stopping or my having to worry about powering the frogs. I love this system...

Hi Charlie very interesting video thanks for posting. Dave

maybe the problem people are having with the cross over is only one track feeder attached to it. very smart using the track setter to keep the tracks perfectly straight. really does look nice

btw “Copydex” is the similar compound as a product called “Maskol” - an ammonia/fishy smelling liquid glue used to mask areas of modelling paintwork, usually applied in minute form with a cocktail stick. Just a tip, if you’ve already got a bottle of Copydex it can be used for masking paintwork detailing - it must be removed though after a couple of hours.

Hi Charlie Ouch, hope your noggin is okay. Being one of those people who had issues with the insulfrog crossing I found this an interesting video. Ive now changed both mine to code 75. I got to the point I was pulling my hair out due to locos stalling for a fraction of a second or worse case shorting out (this tends to be my Hornby models ie class 31 or 50 and lima stock with chunky metal wheels) the smaller locos were an issue, 08, 03 and 07. It also convinced me I needed stay alives, however Im not so sure now as so far the 07 on test hasnt had any issues on the code 75 crossing. When I find the 08 I will be giving it a thorough testing too. I havent tried glue yet but it seems to have advantages over pins, if a little slower due to the waiting time, Im going to try it out on my next board. Look forward to your nect videos. Regards Paul

Very therapuetic watch. No crazy muzak 👍

Wear a helmet next time :-) Thanks again Charlie for this video!!! Cheers Onno.

Was working on my track today and found myself trying to slide a fish plate (rail joiner here in the US) onto a short piece of track like you were doing at the 2740 time line. i kept squeezing the joiner to much and it would bind. I then went to using a small screw driver (flat blade) and pushing the joiner one way or the other and I found that this was faster and (I feel) better...

i love your videos. Here I solder like you do and can not understand why there are so many people that think they have to remove several ties (sleepers) so that they won't melt. I have never had a tie melt. I guess that they are using an iron that is just to hot.

I just noticed in your video that you had four on one side of the crossing . My thought. Was you only used isolated joiners on the crossing between the tracks . And not the straight through track.

Another wonderful video, thank you! I'm slowly getting the board ready for my own small layout in the garage. I'm looking at starting with an end-to-end terminus station with a sort of fast line potential should I expand around the corner past the door (which will be a tricky one) and create a loop in the future. Any recommendations on good terminus layouts? I'd like a goods point as well as a twin platform. Thanks again.

Great video again Charlie. Loads of good tips there! Glad I'm done on track laying. Copydex is a god send for virtually instant bond and noise reduction. I'm half thinking is it good to use for glueing down ballast! Wonder if it works as well if diluted down the same way as pva! That will be a near future test.

A friend of mine told me about the way he cut the hole for the switch machine. He (and now I) uses a tool that will cut a slot through the board. I cut out the entire space under the switch sleeper and this does not show at all. This give me a slot that never will let the wire up through the switch hit on anything. You can look directly down through the switch and never see the slot. I like it better that the 1/2 inch hole they would like you to cut.

Another excellent and helpful video, thanks Charlie! May I make one suggestion? The volume on your voice is quite quiet and I have to turn the speakers up a fair bit, could your dialogue be mixed a little louder? Otherwise great stuff and well thought through.

Wow! Love the use of the tracksetta. Does it work with EZ Track or Atlas? I’ll need to look for something like that over here across the pond in the USA. Really like the methodology. Thank you for sharing!

As always great tips. It might be a daft request but I have a lot of trouble getting track joiners to fit. Do you have tips to preparing them. Hope the head heals soon. Steve

Epic video, i need to learn all this point wiring before i make a start on my layout. so block detection is all about isolating each track from one another? where do the wires go to the main bus or?

Hi, do you glue your cork down with copydex too? Also, do you use pva for the ballast or something else? Thankyou

In places you have large gaps in the sleepers; do you put extra sleepers in OR do you just ballast the gap?

Q: Are those #6 or #8 points, and what angles are associated with the various point #'s? (Sixty years ago, I worked on a Union Pacific engineering (read survey) party, and, believe me, staking mainline double crossovers was the bane of our existence. Unfortunately I have lost my track tables which also had all the spiral information.)

I do have a question about the rail code you're using (code 100) you said in a prior video that this was much better for exhibition networks, considering those need moving every week end and code 100 is more sturdy. considering you're now doing a fixed network, that won't move for a while, you couldn't you have done it all in code 75 ?

Why don't you use hornby track instead of peco track? And can you run multiple power inputs in a trackline e.g. a one in the beginning and one in the end

As usual another fine video on how to lay track but please next time you are under your base board mind your head or wear a hard hat

Hi Charlie! Been watching through the videos from your change from Chadwick TMD to Chadwick Railway. Has been very interesting! I noticed on a few videos you modify the points by cutting the link and then soldering the sections together... You aren't the only person who has done a video doing the same thing... Kinda makes you wonder why Peco don't supply the points as standard in the configuration you have made... Might be worth contacting them and suggesting it?! - Richard

Another great video, Charlie! I had a similar situation, could go from the near track to the far track forward, but had to back through the turnouts to go the other way. No room for another pair of turnouts, so I had to install a railroads nightmare: a double crossover. Think of two parallel tracks with an x between them. 4 Atlas #6 (medium) turnouts and a 19 degree crossing make a double crossover with a 3 inch center-to-center track spacing. My track has 2 inch spacing. I had to do some creative "surgery" to the turnouts and crossing to get the correct spacing. Does it work? I put 35 cars behind my 4-8-8-4 Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive and pulled the cars at speed step 10 (of 28) through the crossing 3 times with no derailments, then BACKED the train through the crossing at speed step 5 3 times with no derailments. I'd call it a success. With track-work, you simply do what you have to do! Keep 'em rolling!

Hi Charlie, another really interesting video. I am slowly making my way through them all on a massive learning curve. As new to this wonderful world of Model railways I was wondering what sound chip was in your class 37 you demo ? I am about to order a 37 and have two options (legomanbiffo and Olivias). Thanks (Graham Saunders)

David. The problem comes with hornby locos some short out because wheels profile to thick

Hi Did you use 6 irj in total for the crossing? I'm sure i saw 4 on one side and 2 more on the other end. Thanks Andy Thanks Andy

Could you provide a link or website for the pico 6 foot track guide and the track setter? Thanks! Excellent video. Thanks for sharing

HI was wondering if you would show hot to use electrofrog points but just with dc only.thx mark

I was just wondering something. I notice that (on your side of the pond) you have double ended engines. I understand that this was because of the lack of space for turn tables. My question is how do you know where the actual front of the engine is for forward and backward operation?

Hi there are you using streamline or set track spacing between rails? - excellent videos! Cheers JC

Why not using a double switch cross over (I don't know if that's the right word), so that the train from chadwick can not only con into plattform 1, but also in 2?

Since both points will be switched at the same time, why not do it with only one tortoise? You can use the gadget Tortoise has available or get really devious and do it with two pieces of piano wire.

At about 1:30 you mention that you want the two points to fire at the same time. Is this a trick at the Tortoise level, or something controlled by your digitrax? I’ve got 3 such pairs so would appreciate knowing how that’s done.

Hi charlie is it possible to repair a double slip, as one of mine is faulty i thin k the spring is broke at one end is it possible replace the spring and can i get one from Peco ? regards .good video charlie.

Hi.charlie merry Christmas Do you put insulated rail joiners on all tracks 8 in total. Thanks Andy

I am having trouble on how to wire up double/single slip crossing, need help-Please Nigel Woodgate

Hi. What size heat shrink tubing would I use for 1.6 and 3.2 wire? Many thanks

Do diamond crossings need signals? if so where the heck do you fit them lol

Just looked up what you meant by Stay Alive. Why don't the trains come with a stay alive already fitted?

Camera click in intro is _still_ so loud, it killed several fish in a nearby river ;)

Why not pin the track ???

hellocharlie, what happened to your forehead? were you under the layout when your wife called you?Ihope you recoverd rapidly. best regards...