I am a 73 yr old Veteran with Parkinson’s who is on a fixed income and who is building his first layout starting with a 4x8 made from pieces from 50yrs of collecting. Many of the buildings are in the original boxes not put together, and no longer made. Due to my tremors I will have it wired. It is a freelance called the Chippewa Northern “ with connections to Canadian National and Chicago & Northwestern.A couple of add-ons are in planning; one a residential neighborhood with no trackage running through it.

Just a thought. I never scored by styrofoam and have not experienced any problem. You might suggest using more 3’ flex track to reduce the number of rail joints, which will improve conductivity. Just ideas. I find #4 turnouts work fine in a yard while saving space which means more track! Good starter video. Keep sharing it is a great hobby to promote.

This is the channel I’m going to watch on building my model railroad town

Building HO scale layout. Atlas code 100 tracks. Flex tracks. Manual switch. Bumpers. Curves tracks 22", autoracks and boxcars 86'. Good job my friend. Where is you 🐱 Binx ? Scooby Doo is a good dog.

I really enjoyed your videos, very helpful and informative.

Just found your channel. Subscribed and looking forward to watching all your videos. I don't currently have a layout, but hope to someday.

Nice work

Good video 👍

Hi - Thank you for a very interesting video. I have a question for the experts: I used to run analog Marklin trains on M tracks, and now I would like to switch to DCC: What would be the best way to go DCC in terms of tracks (M, C, or K)? Should I use Marklin or another brand of tracks? Please, I would be grateful if someone could help me with this. Thank you!!!

A 22 inch gives you 44 inch diameter fits on a 4by 8 it's always good to use the biggest radius you can

Hello I'm new to the hobby and want to dive deeper in to it and I would like to use this as my first track is it possible I can get a list of what you used, thank you greatly

Hope you will wire the switches this time and build a control panel. that was the funnest part of my dads builds

If u don’t like the sound of foam, say AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH and also, this is a cool train build

I like the shirt by the way

Ebay is great but always support local if you can good video

Yeah the train layout is cool and all, but how about that layout on your computer table? lmao tasty greens. :P Subbed!

Olf, if that doesn't give a man chills, that's a strong man 3:02

I plan on using a table for my layout

Building HO scale train layout. My layout is N scale. Atlas and Bachmann tracks. Code 80. Flex tracks. Nails for fixed. Manual and remote switch. Atlas and Bachmann. DC locomotives.

Hello Top Railroad, You build very nicely and your videos are perfect. i like it and enjoy it... what I wanted to ask: what is the name of background music at minute 4:35? Sorry for my bad English, greetings from Austria franz✨

Just subscribed I'm very interested in how you've progresed but why didn't lay the grass feilds ect first or what is your plan thanks

Did you buy a starter set from atlas or how did you determine how much track was needed

i love how you can see your cat in the background sometimes

Track mode from? Nice

Great video! Very helpful, just a question. Any good track plans for a 4x8 that has 22 radius curves?

Hobby town USA It's about 45 miles From me In Toledo Ohio

If your AC doesn’t work, just listen to this foam crunching and squeaking on repeat

Cuánto mide tu tabla está super

I like the part he try to put stuff on top of the layout just to give it some weight and only thing I'm thinking of he could have just put the girlfriend or wife on top of it just for some weight in the cat in the window slowly when I watch the second video I got to see the cat on top of the layout good job on it

I need some help, I have a 30" wide board but I need a curved angle to fit. Can anyone tell me what angle track that will fit on it.

What HO code are the switches, 100 or 83?

Thought you were gonna cut your wrist at 2:56! Careful of your blade’s line of travel sir! When the blade slips on the foam you lose control!

I found a $500 worth of stuff at goodwill so look for stuff like that there too

What is the radius for the outer loop end I understand the inner is 18 degrees but what's the outer? thanks

I got a whole box of track for 5bucks from a train store switch's straight curves bumpers all kinds of stuff

I would like links to where you got the tracks

Beginners should realize that building a model railroad this way is very counter productive. Large sheet railroads ( like 4X8) are very wasteful of space, hard to access unless taking up the entire center of a room, usually require unrealistically sharp curves, and watching a train chase its tail around and around is nothing like the real thing. Small, shelf railroads that can hang on a wall, and be expanded are much better models to make. If you want to see trains run in circles, join a club railroad and take your favorite equipment there - not on a 4X8 sheet!

Once you Start Modeling The Layout is Gonna get Bigger one way or Another.

Hello is it mehano rail?

what kind of switches do u use?

How has the dates been between your wife and the Verizon man?

The whole hobby gets expensive as I’ve learned..

Support your local hobby store. 🚂🚃🚃🚃

I really enjoyed your videos, very helpful and informative.

I am a 73 yr old Veteran with Parkinson’s who is on a fixed income and who is building his first layout starting with a 4x8 made from pieces from 50yrs of collecting. Many of the buildings are in the original boxes not put together, and no longer made. Due to my tremors I will have it wired. It is a freelance called the Chippewa Northern “ with connections to Canadian National and Chicago & Northwestern.A couple of add-ons are in planning; one a residential neighborhood with no trackage running through it.