I’d like to think we all aspire to a tight well formed tunnel. Great work Gregg 👍🏻

Now the challenge is to do the tunnel same way but include a 2 percent grade , great idea, thanks

Nice job so far, can't wait to see what it finally looks like. Thanks for the video.

Excellent work on the tunnel skeleton. It’s coming along great, as usual. I learn so much from your channel. Thank you for sharing. Cheers to you Gregg.

Brilliant work cannot wait to see the next video.

Love your work Gregg, thank you for your time, got me thinking I should rip my mountains apart and re do my tunnels.

Thanks Gregg you just keep on giving good ideas

THANK YOU...for sharing. Nice idea Gregg, good tip with the spoon too. Thanks, Gary

What an excellent idea for tunnel lining. I will definitely be using that trick on my Nelson AZ tunnel in the coming months!

Great way to build a tunnel looks extremely sturdy!

Awesome idea

Another great video Gregg,well thought out and executed. Its a genuine pleasure to watch you in action as a lot of people in our hobby take things far to seriously, to me your a gem to be watched at any time...thanks for this video and look forward to Part 2 all the best mate !

Awesome video & layout Gregg!!

Very cool Gregg . Now I know what to do with all the boxes after we unpack in Colorado !

Interesting, looking forward to the next part. Terry

Very nice 👍

Looks great, Gregg! I guess I missed this video at first, but I'm looking out for part 2. I'm really interested to see how the plaster works out. Should make it quite sturdy and smooth. -Cam

“You know me, I love a good opening...” Brilliant!

Nice work, Gregg!

I crumpled up aluminum foil and then opened it up and glued it on the tunnel lining. Then "painted" on thinned plaster, let it dry and painted. The aluminum foil added a realistic look of rock walls lining the tunnel.

Great video Gregg, so glad you didn’t get tunnel vision! Lol. Plaster cloth is better than tape, tape will eventually fall off. I like this spine system, I usually use old scrape wood. With your system you could use a hot glue gun to speed up the process (gluing the cardboard to cardboard).

great ! Thanks!

Me gustó tu técnica para construir el túnel. La voy a seguir para construir el túnel de mi maqueta. Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱, Sudamérica. Rafael.

Cool idea Gregg, I've seen Railfan 220 channel, hope it turns out good. Bob

taking tunnels to a whole new level - Fishplate Films

Nice video ! Greetings from Germany Gert

Morning Gregg. Hope your keeping safe and well matey 😄 Just got up at 07.30 and saw a KZfaq notification and it was FishplateFilms 🤣 So I made a brew and got it on. Fantastic idea for building a tunnels 👍🏻 Love your tutorial videos Gregg as there really put together well and easy too follow if your interested in doing the or just watching and learning like me lol 😂 Keep the excellent work up looking forward to seeing part two 😁 Cheers Stevie 😎🇬🇧

As always Gregg, magnificent intro. Love the way you’ve shown your iteration of the how to build of tunnel liners. Great use of otherwise discarded materials. For ease of construction you could also nip the entire tunnel liner into two length wise parts. Which will accordingly allow for width adjusted on curved tunnels, or even will ease the way a removable access hatch can still be made. Curious to where you are now on your layout. Cheerio Vince

Hi, great stuff. A little bit of an overkill. But it’s your railway. I look forward to part deux. Lol.

Overkill can be underrated.

good video

Hi Gregg I have done something similar the main difference is I used crumpled brown paper as the liner stick it in place spray with a mid brown and a black along the top of the tunnel cover the surface with white glue and scatter coarse sand over the surface. it gives that more crumpled cut rock feel to it. The big problem I found is making sure you have enough clearance on the curves. watching with interest from starting to lift lockdown Neil

That is a really neat idea. Have you thought of using paper with a stone pattern printed on it. Once installed you could seal it and harden the paper with some watered down PBA glue or something like that. I also know they make paper that has stone patterns embossed on it which should also work for what you are doing. I love watching your videos and can't wait to see how this ends up.

Thanks for another video, Gregg. Got to say, I'm worried about the clearances in that tunnel...

neat! Looks fine, it should be strong, plus with a great deal of the construction going on at the work bench the result should be better, faster, and stronger than the old way of building a tunnel on the layout itself.

Neat. I'm honestly thinking I'll just carve some foam for my tunnel walls. The mines in my layout probably can be painted cardboard

great video Gregg,I could make a joke about ,not touching the sides of the tunnel,but I think it best to keep my jokes to myself,some of your viewers my not appreciate my humor. Cheers.

Good work. I am unlikely to have any tunnels. Certainly if I model Iowa/Missouri as currently planned.

Your }gonna} go nuts

Well done mate not a bad job ,but just a quick one on the track cleaning item ,I’ve always used a product called servisol 10 for cleaning track seems to be ok but I live in uk and have trouble getting what you use ,so was wondering if you are familiar with servisol 10 and would it be a suitable alternative, many thanks ,regards john

well. that is one way to keep the track clean.. looks good, auto racks fit? Question is. did you eat your cereal first , then use the spoon?

I'm about to do the same thing you are doing,,,,I thought I would use balloons to form the arches for the inside of my tunnel

haha, wet spoon teaser !!

Visually it appears to do much improvement to the looks. The aspect of a derailment inside and access gives me concern. Is there a prototypical sound reduction? [thumbs up]

Just how many SD40-2 's do you have? I recognise the 2 Katos (I have those as well - Kato's almost fall apart when you take the screws out. No wonder you managed to replace the motors in 10 minutes!!!) It's about time you fessed up and told us what's in your fleet...... there's another one for the FAQ. The only Altases I haven't seen on your layout are the B23-7 and C30-7 (never seen the C30 for sale either). It's not that we have a lot of choice if we decide to stick to Kato and Atlas :) . Kato make a Dash-9 which I haven't spotted yet either but that might be indistinguishable to the AC4400's to my untrained eye.

How many cups of tea did you stir with that spoon between layers of plaster? 😂😂

Hey I am building this for school project and I have cold glue.Could that work with cardboard

I was wondering. I you are going to build a mountain on top of that tunnel, why to go through the trouble of building the whole tunnel walls?

Have you thought of laying the plaster cloth in dry, then using a wet brush to get it to stick to the sides, rather than struggling with it wet. Frank

FYI, Riot Art and Craft stores have plaster cloth at half price. $10 roll. Check out the web site.

What kind of glue are you using in that glue gun for the tunnel ribs?

Gregg you should have hired Chineses coolies to build your tunnels as the U.S. railroads did!

This tunnel is a bit tight as the bishop said to the stripper!

Nothing like a wet spoon to smooth off your finnish

That seems to be an awful lot of fannying about Greg.. You clearly have way too much time on your hands at the moment.. 🤣