You might wanna set up field telephones to connect different rooms 😊

Attatch a brush to the lead car to constantly brush the tracks ahead of it!

Wooden sleepers, also known as railroad ties or crossties, are traditionally used to support and secure the rails on the track bed. You need some cute little scale-model wooden steepers to secure into the sand . Also consider misting it with a spray bottle and packing it down

One suggest for the sand vac, make a box on top of the wagon and use the wagon as the dump of a shop vac dust collection system.

After you get the train track all leveled and the sand smoothed and packed you need to spray the whole of it down with watered down white glue and a little rubbing alcohol. it will lock everything in place and make it a lot easier to clean. Normally you would have to avoid getting it on the rails but since you are not powering the train through the rails it shouldn't be an issue. Also, as someone else suggested you should make a cover for the dump cart and use it as the first container in the vacuum system. Suck the sand right into the cart.

Man that sandstone look so soft! Barely harder than the industrially compressed sand professional sandcastle folks use at competitions. I've always been a little jealous of people with geology like this where they can just build their own caves. Where I live its all some of the hardest gneiss in the world that shrugs off normal blasting techniques.

I've been imagining how cool the Sand Bar train would be and its turning out even funner than anticipated with dinosaurs and skeleton caves in the tunnels! Can't wait to see whats next. I hope you have fun with it.

This is simply amazing. The tunnels have come a long way since the ill-fated Sandfest over a decade ago. I would love to walk around those, much easier on the back than the crawling. Gotten old since then. LOVE IT!!!!!

Looks like it’s coming along great! If wood does ok down there maybe try raising the tracks with 2x4s? Also, has anyone tried tunneling a staircase as deep as they can go? Also also, can that LiDAR scan be converted into a 3D object/stl? Might make an interesting challenge for the printer 🤔

Merry Christmas, SaveItForSideProjects!!

We can't stop here, this is Skeleton country!

That's just a super-cute train layout. Nicely done. I like the choice of background music--it reminds me very much of "Sandstorm" for some reason. Which, you know, is kind of appropriate...

you could probably spray glue on the sand to keep it down off the tracks like what you do when you ballast a model train layout

My neighbor Rob would love this, we live in the driftless Region South West Wi, and I have a Micro sandland started. Same sandstone as sandland, Love the videos!

I think the trains are charming and add a nice ambience to the room/bar. 🎄 ☮

wow this is super cool! thanks for sharing!

nice

I also use those EIOT club cards. They work great for automotive Android radios because they use all 3 networks. So I always have a signal as I'm listening to Spotify.

Merry Christmas!!!

For the shop vac I suggest looking into a dust collector/separator. It will extend the life of your vacuum and put the sand into a external bucket. Might even be able to join two or more shop vacuums for extra power.

Merry Christmas. 🎅 73 Leo.

That scan was slick. Love LiDAR

stick a trolley on there and you'll have a good start on a neighborhood of make believe:)

I always daydreamed of this in subway stations!

I hear you can use aerosol glue to adhere the sand to the tracks for ballast. Then use air to rid the tracks of debris. The funny thing to me is when I worked in a switchyard, we filled the locomotive with sand to use it for traction. 😂

A truly lovely idea with the train and such a beautiful old steam locomotive, I really like that. I wonder if you can also print the LIDA model with a removable cover, the layout has already become quite large. I'm curious to see what it looks like when the railroad line is finished.

You should package up the sand you remove and sell it as Sandland Collectibles. Offer from different soecific rooms and let people collect the entire set.

Have you thought about using like a Harbor Freight Dust Collector? Also, I saw someone mention something about field telephones in Sandland.... If you can find some old mine telephones I will donate a phone system and weatherproof cabinet :)

Soon you’ll be able to pass beers from the bar room to other rooms. Choo choo! 🚂 🍺

So cool. I love this content.

that is amazing progress on this project. btw, an idea i had is to add little mustache to the train, in the front, like brush or something. this way it an clean its track on its own. it also adds a bit of personality to it ig, so thats W. happy new year and merry christmas man. love from india ❤

I live next door, in Michigan (near Detroit), and this 50+ degree December weather is crazy, lol.

New Bright!! I've come across them while looking into New Ray for a kitbash G scale. Though all the sets I can find are prohibitively expensive and labelled "vintage" to pull the wool over people's heads. Plus import fees and it's just not worth pursuing.

You are the new Colin Furze 😁

find free source of pebbles as ballast to raise the track up from the sand. Maybe even course kitty litter.

You should try the vacuum with a Dust Deputy, it would keep the filter from clogging up so fast

Most cool would be (in my opinion) if that train could deliver a beer or two :)

@saveitforparts >>> ANOTHER great video...👍👍

I hope you have a chuffing good Christmas!

i'm a new viewer to this channel and was wondering where he has these tunnels. were they under his house? he said he left some lights at home, so i assumed not. where is he keeping these caves? fascinated. trains look sick as hell

"And of course Thomas's favorite place to visit was Skeleton Gulch, where old Mr. Bones lived... er, resided." 💀

I'm impressed by the look of that 3D scanner. Could you ask your friend Paul some info about the gear he uses?

"It may be time to throw it in the trash" Heresy :P

I wonder if you spray some hairspray or clear coat on the sand would it stay off the track better?

Please please please have the trains serve the drinks

have you ever though about making a tunneling machine for human sized tunnels at sandland?

Why don’t you get something like a 5 gallon bucket to be in between the shop vac and the hose. Maybe keep the shop vac cleaner and working?

Use HO guage and don't worry about metal track rusting.

This is all very interesting. I'm concerned that we're going to hear about a bunch of people who were accidentally buried alive somewhere in there. What about ventilation?

I wonder if an electric excavator would be able to dig through that stratum? Cool, ive wanted to do that for a while, hopefully im not too late haha

Change that sign so it says Sand Hanitizer. Don't tell anyone.

Cool video. Really enjoyed it!

god jul !

I hope you reinforce the walls. Looks like soft sandstone. This looks like a really cool and fun project!

Hey, when you're showing the video of the field at night. You see those little whispy artifacts found across the fov, those look almost exactly like cosmic rays in a cloud chamber. I'd that the case?

some future civilization is studying the train in your cave and coming up with wild conspiracies lmao

How many fossils do you all find while digging down there?

LIDAR rules.

would it be possible to set up a monorail system? like with the real monorail?

try maby claw for the train so the sand does not d-rail it

gogodod jojulol !

is the scan file available somewhere?

Do you have issues with radon in this space?

Nobody can one-up this mancave ;)

Brother,which major should i do to become an engineer like you?(mechatronics or electronic)

in a small space like that concrete will cause problems over time due to the difference in how porous the concrete and sandstone are.. dehumidifier and bare walls recommended. cool project though.

This coming summer, I'll be in that general area. I'm pretty good at manual labor, even though I'm getting older. Whenever I see Sandland videos, I think to myself that they could use somebody that's stupid enough to be content hauling buckets of sand to the surface. It didn't take me long to think of somebody who might fit that bill. I'm stupid. I still have some brawn remaining. I could lug buckets of sand! (See how my brain works?!?) If I'm headed into your region AND have time, how can I email you to offer a day or two of my labor? I'm already visiting someone nearby, as is often what happens when I take these trips. My past dozen or so bouts of wanderlust have seen me meeting people I know only from the internet. So far, I've not yet met anyone who plans to crack open my skull to eat the delicious gray matter within. It has been quite successful. No, I don't have a channel to promote. I don't need the attention. I don't need the money. The only useful thing I can give you is lugging buckets of sand.

Can we get an save it for parts discord

Too bad they didn't sell stainless steel monorail, I mean it's an underground lair. .

Put a camera on an rc car and drive it up that hole!

hand satanizer!!

Do you ever sleep???

u play real life like ppl play minecraft

Try using Lionel trains. They're more reliable.

Maybe your charger is not good.

You could pick up a job in Gaza I reccon. Love that train with the tunnels and historically accurate dinosaurs and skeleton.

Good thing the cats weren't there, they would have derailed the whole project!

Have you ever tested that mine for radon?