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Is this better than using sawdust? You know what? I'm going to do both.

Look forward to part two. You did great job . Thank you for doing this

Absolutely brilliant vid! Thank you!

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Oooh triangulation!! 😁

Looking forward to meeting you in person!

🤩They look great!

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Could you use Acrylic paints to color the foam?

You know it’s funny about two weeks ago I just started doing almost this exact thing except I was using acrylic paint from Walmart for around $.53 a bottle. The Kelley green looked really good. Except I was taking larger chunks and cutting them up with the scissors, consistently over and over again and I often try to figure out what would work to make them finer. Thank you for the video. This helps a lot!!!

Blend cheap car cleaning sponge in a little WATER. then you can SEE the scale of the chopped sponge. Colour with acrylic paints later!

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Nice video!

Thank you, dude from 13 years ago.

Great information. Thank you for sharing this. Technical suggestion: Audio levels need to be better balanced. The transition music just blasts our ears. Also, your narration with the blender open was drowned out by the blender motor. Most video programs allow you to do overdubs and/or mix audio channels. Cheers.

Awesome idea for the budget minded like myself. Looks easy enough to build. I'm going to get going on one this week. Thank you for sharing this video.🚂🚃🚃🚃

2nd Layout, 1st time using a circuit breaker, had my doubts of me actually needing a circuit breaker but on the flip side I can’t see where it will be a negative. Thanks for sharing!

Do you use plastic rail jointers for each block

Would this make a decent looking topsoil if chopped fine enough?

What could be an alternative to Tints all? I'm in Canada and have never seen it here. Blenders must be the number one wedding present everyone gets but never uses, see them at second hand stores and yard sales all the time.

Amazing work! That bridge recently got renovated from a decommissioned rail line to a walking/bike path which connects Philadelphia to Bala Cynwyd.

Another source of foam to grind up is that old lounge someone is throwing out. I use it all the time.

Great layout of the Lehigh Valley railroad that Ralph DeBlasi built & operates. I’m very impressed with it. 7 members of my family worked for the Lehigh Valley railroad out of Coxton Yard. My great grandfather Stephen Kearney I was an engineer for them, 4 grand uncles & 2 second cousins all worked for the Lehigh Valley railroad from about 1868 up to when it became Conrail in 1976. I’m an N scale model railroader & my. N scale model railroad is the Pacific West Coast railroad. My layout will focus on the West Coast of North America that will focus from 1974 to the present from Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada & it will focus on the railroads that have served & service the West Coast.

Doing reruns Ron, very much love the way you show your track build method in this video. Very clear and concise!

Took my eye of my blender for a few seconds and the foam blew the top right off it. What a freakin mess! Well, it’s a learning process right? Thank you for the video it’s gonna look great on my grandsons Zelda shrine diorama

I like the color you got from the avacado tint. I made quite a bit of this ground foam ground cover last year. I got a huge amont of foam from the left overs of the apartment next door's new carpet project. I still have several coffee cans full of uncolored foam that I ground in a coffee bean blender (no water for that technique). I used regular artists acrylic paints for coloring my ground cover. I got that avacado color by adding some burnt umber to the grass green blend I had already mixed for several batches. Thank you Ron, your tutorial turned out very nice.

"It'll be a spectacular wreck!! It's too bad no one will be around to see it." - Dr Emmet L Brown Back to The Future 3, the train off the trestle scene! Which admittedly, that's kind of what I was hoping for but this was still good. 😁👌

Thanks. Very helpful. Very straight forward which is great.

I wish I saw this video before I through out the foam I had laying around for years. Oh well!! Great video!! I'm just getting started on my N scale layout. This video was very helpful!!

I'm getting ready to order Micro Engineering's Steel Viaduct and build on a curve too just the opposite of yours. Going to sub so I can see the rest, Chris

Your video was very informative. I'm at a point in the construction of my N scale layout where seeing this video made me aware of something that I really wasn't aware of. I also have a Power Cab System so this seems like a perfect solution for this problem. Great Job! Looking forward to any more information you might have!

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How many steam locomotives do have? or stations for that matter?

Hi Ron. Just found the videos on the Garden State Division web site. Nice work. Suggestions. 1. File the ends of cut rails in the following ways: the bottom as you showed, square the ends you showed , plus bevel the tops if the base flanges each side of the web and taper each side of the flange. The rail join ers will slip on easier without spreading and hold better. Has your NMRA gauge to check your track. One side of the gauge has a center probe that you can use to check the centering of your rails against your pencil centerline.

One could probably get a similar effect by using pigment powders in certain areas, though you'd have to brush it on exactly where you wanted it.

Nice bridge

Nothing much left there these days. The old derelict cars were privately owned and have been sent to different places to be restored

Now that is real modelling very impressed with that track work well done indeed!

Hi just found this video and it was exactly what I was looking for, so thank you for that. I have a question for you that I hope you can help me with, I now thanks to your video understand power districts but do you use the feed from the output of each breaker to power the turnouts as well as the track? Or do you use a separate breaker to supply power to the turnouts? Hope this makes sense.

How do you calculate the distance if the bearings from each other please

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The top of the "slider" is a tiny bit higher than the top of the rest of the unit, so the roller on the slider must be a little higher than the 2 stationary rollers, or did you correct for this with a washer?

Not sure, but it looks like your not leaving enough expansion room at each joint, expands .015 per 3 feet

Well done Ron. Definitely worth doing it once I get an old blender. Not sure where I'll buy the tint locally however as all I have around here is Home Depot and Lowes. Hope they sell it. All the small hardware stores around here were forced out of business by the huge stores unfortunately.

Looking great....What ME kit is that you used? Is it more then one kit combined. Thanks. Philip

What kind of paint should I use ? That's painted right ?

Looks good I have a picture of my dad as a young guy with one of these in the background near his home.