I always find it interesting when someone goes from On3 to HO, considering the typical progression is the other way around. Why did you choose a smaller scale as you gained more experience?

The fact that you painstakingly covered both the rails and every tie before spraying is both fascinating and unbelievable at the same time. :-| lol! BTW, "two birds with one stone" can be a formidable adversary. *sigh*

This is a fantastic build and shows as modellers we needn’t resort to kits always

👍👍👍Very impressive work , you are very talented. Enjoy watching them keep them coming

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. Looking good !!

Another great video just really good watching you build your models 😀👍

The music made it extra good ☺️

Very nice. Yeah, scratch building forever.

Ok, so now I have 'another' use for my broken handled coffee mugs. That glue 'port' rocks!

Thanks for another great video!

I totally agree with Robert, the commentary really is priceless! It's one thing to see the finished model in such detail, but having the actual strategy of the building process explained clarifies many questions. Thanks Boomer

Those doubled beams are no doubt C channels that are bolted back to back. Doubling the web doubles the strength. It is a structural trick to create strength with a lesser height. The flat flange beams are ‘W’ beams for wide flange. The I beams have sloped flanges requiring hillside washers when bolted through the flange. Just a fyi. Love your series. I’ve watched them all so far. Rob

Great work as always!

I used to be a welder many years ago. It's two "C" channels welded back to back. It makes a stronger "H" beam. Or looks like "H" column. It takes the flex out of the cross member. I made them when I worked for Stelco Fabrications in CA in the late 70". Wow thank you for sharing. Every time I learn something new. Thank very much.

Hey Boomer, great to see another scratchbuilder on here. I love scratchbuilding, mainly because kits aren't my cup of thea. I started using Evergreen plastic, but also rather expensive. It's great material don't get me wrong. Since I build my models 98% of styrene I looked around to see if there are other manufacturers out there, found out that on Aliexpress, there are a lot of shops selling styrene and other plastics for a lot less. I can recommend to have a look there, rods, square rods, sheets, H, I and L beams. Sheets I buy here in sizes of 0,5x0,5m in 0,3/0,5/1/3mm thicknesses. I even made an organizer to store all my styrene rods, most come in lengths of 50 or 100cm. Just thought this might interest you and you're subscribers. Thanks for you excellent videos. Ohw for example H beams size 2x2.5mm 50 pieces of 50cm long €12,23 ($12,28) I think that's not expensive and well worth a try. You may find my work on KZfaq or Facebook under the name Coldwater Hotsprings Little creek.

The models are outstanding, but the commentary is priceless....Thank you again

Beware of the Bear... probably the best advice ever!!

Re your hop silo when I was a horticulture student I was at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh for the 3 year course and I stayed on for a further 2 years one of my jobs was picking up and moving garden rubbish with a tractor and trailers. About once a week we had a call from the brewery on the royal mile I would drive up there into the brewery yard back a big high sided trailer under one of two hopper/ silos and fill it with about 5 tons of spent hops. At the same time there were 32 ton lorries picking up the same thing, I think that was for farmers. What we did with it was tip into a big concrete compost yard and every time I had a few minutes I had to turn the heap to get air into it. When it had partially broken down it was then used in the garden as top dressing mulch particularly on the very large herbaceous boarder. I assume the farmers did something similar, then put it in a muck spreader to add to a field prior to cultivating. Neil

Watching River Road come to life is like watching sculpturers and artist such as, Da Vinci and Michelangelo lol, I mean it's really that impressive! Great work!👍

Just amazing to watch you fabricate. Every video Im picking up something new and usable. I know doing a channel is time consuming, editing etc. Thanks for donating your time.

Nice static grass application ..... niiiiiiiiice...

9:50 or so... I was very fortunate about 15 years ago when a saw a hobby shop having a going out of business sale. I bought "all" of the plastic sheets, strips, and stair railings they had. Well over $700 dollars worth retail and I took it home for under $100. Granted, some of the items are HO and I will never use them, but It was well worth it.

Catching up slowly

Yeah Boomer, in a former life I used to be a plumber; making bends in copper and steel pipe works the same way. The eyes we’re blessed with are magnificent instruments. Sometimes even better than the ruler. Also, like that you use both imperial and metric. Where my roots are European the metric is an accurate reference measurement. The inches are a much better intuitive scale to measure with. Example, when one needs to make a jump in pipe of 5cm the two thumbs equivalent is one which we got on our fingers on the actual bending device. Which makes it easy to repeat such a task.

Amazing work

Good job.

You actually taped over every tie. LOL You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.

Absolutely stunning work!

Get a "no swimming" sign, too ;) - should have bought myself a "no swimming sharks" sign when I saw one :(

Absolutely a Masterpiece!!

Boomer! Thanks for being a great teacher! As an engineer, I have been overthinking and attempting to be too perfect in my scratch building leading to unnecessary frustration. I now cut my pieces too long, trim to size and I just added a Boomer Board to my arsenal! THANK YOU!! I would love to share a photo of it with you.

Astonishing work Boomer. You inspire the entire community to greatness. wow!

I'm loving watching this slowly come together. Keeps inspiring me to work on my projects. Some time ago we spoke about scale wheels fort HO, if I remember I pointed you to NSWL, but I've just remembered that Intermountain also did a range of semi scale wheels in 36" & 33". I used these very successfully on my HO models. For loco wheels I turned down the original wheels in my drill with a file Keep it up mate

Nice presentation

Love hops in my beer. Alexander Keith’s is extra “hoppy”. Masking those ties looks tedious but well worth it.

Kool😎🚂❤️👍👍👍👍👍

On a swedish island they have some "look out for the hedgehog" signs. The signs worked on me, I was looking out for hedgehogs, didn not see any though. Cheers!

Man I'm surprised you were able to get back at it after a 2-hour intermission. Seems funny but that 2-hour break would have ruined my whole day 😆 by then the kids would have had to have been picked up from school the honey do list would have been brought up four or five times you know how it goes.

Just on the topic of scratch building - after i watched your series on scratch building for Glover Road way back when I first discovered Boomer Dioramas, building a kit straight out of the box really is a disappointment lol. I have tried to scratch build everything since that tutorial series and if I have to use a kit then at least kit bash it. Scratch building is much fun even the mistakes (of which there have been many) appear uniquely ok.

Great video again Boomer. Can you tell the brand name of the H0 bolt heads. It looks like there is no European maker for this items. Thanks and cheers Ronald

7:20 or so... looking at the photo, I'm thinking it's two "C" channels back to back on one side and an "I" or "H" beam on the other.

When photographing the prototype, do you have a specific distance or range of distances you prefer to be at when you shoot the subject?

Have you ever added engineers and conductors to your locos?

5:00 Have you considered removing the building-side beams completely and just making the bin part of the building?

Todays music comment: Hank Marvin would be proud.

Hi can you make sry rail link Gp9u 108-and renumber from 122 to 110? Please it’s actually from a real replica of a locomotive In real life. I don’t know if you have time. But that’s OK and yea anyways as the most realistic railway I’ve ever seen

Oh Boy wonder if brewery folks are po'ed at SRY MOW for loading up rails, tie plates and ties?

Hey Boomer - apologies if you have covered this before but what's your view on 3-D printing? Seems like a bit of a cop out to me (along the lines of the photoshop form of scratch building).

A "quick" trip to the hobby shop for me is like a "quick" trip to Harbor Freight, ain't going to happen, I going to look at everything before I leave Boomer!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We all know to good the hobby shop story. You drove 100 miles for some plastic. Leave it with few magazines, a book a locomotive and empty wallet and no plastic. But he will order...😢😮😂😅 😊