Outdoor Model Train Layout (HO Scale) - 5 Year Anniversary Run - SP Daylight 12 Car Train
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- In this video, I am celebrating 5 excellent years of this HO Scale layout being outside in these elements. There were so many doubts, questions, and skepticism if it can be done. Well, I'm glad to say I took on the challenge and by the Grace of God it is still holding up quite nicely.
Thanks for viewing and by all means please subscribe to my CZcams channel for more video updates. I look forward to bringing you more wonderful content in model railroading.
All your passenger stations are AMAZING!
Thank you
Truly awesome I did not think it was possible to run HO on the outside happy fifth anniversary
Thanks fam. Yeah, me neither. I've been following a guy on CZcams who still his outdoor layout. It's going on 20 years for him and he runs in the snow. czcams.com/video/Sg2eN1rOV2w/video.htmlsi=LfJgrM1rWxigEwWL
Awesome job, I never believed that HO could run outside and be reliable! Truly an amazing job. This has definitely given me some ideas for expanding!!
Wow, this layout is a fantastic work of art! Couldnt think of a more beautiful train to run on it either. Great work!
Thank you for the kind words. Yes, the Daylight is my priority train in my collection to run on this layout.
Your outdoor layout is truly amazing and unique I enjoyed watching this video and I also love all of the semis and trucks you have on your layout.
Thanks, I plan to add more fairly soon. Please stay tuned and be sure to subscribe so you will notified. thanks again for watching.
Great vidio, Great layout, especially like the yard layout. Thanks for the morning coffee...
Thank you 👌🏾 😊
Thanks for subscribing to my channel. I could not believe my eyes when I watched your video, what a great layout !!!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I'm looking forward to making more videos soon. Please be sure to subscribe to my CZcams channel for more video updates.
@@blakrootz I did subscribe right away, this is such a cool layout. Unfortunately, I can not set something like this up in OH due to our climate...
@@blakrootz ...plus my wife would kick me out. I'm happy that she let's me have the basement...
I’m African American and I love to see everyone railway but this layout is amazing absolutely stunning 🤩 beautiful 😮😮😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks. Yes, we are definitely in this hobby and I can say my grandpa got me hooked at age 9. ❤👍🏾💪🏾
Wonderful Layout with SP Daylight consist. 💯👍
Thanks so much and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I have always been intrigued by the idea of an outdoor H O scale layout. You have proven the concept! FANTASTIC video!
Thank you very much. If you decide to do the same, please keep me posted.
What fun! Beautifully smooth trackage. Great workmanship. Well done!
Thanks for viewing and thank you for the kind words.
Thank You Sir....GOD BLESS!!
You're welcome, God bless you and yours also.
Wow that is absolutely awesome. You did an unbelievable job.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Great imagination and dreams! I look forward to seeing more in the future. Happy Anniversary--Happy Rail Roading!!
Thanks. Please be sure to subscribe to my CZcams channel for more video updates.
Nicely done. Thanks for posting!!
Thanks for the positive feedback and for viewing.
That is a beautiful bridge non 😮support
Thank you. I tried to give the best realism of elevation as possible.
I have never thought about ho trains out side i cant wait until you get it finished
if i finish, that means i've done something wrong in the life of model railroading. it's a puzzle that suppose to never end.... 😉😃
A great way to celebrate this anniversary! You have an amazing layout, it inspired me to get into making an outdoor HO scale layout of my own
Thank you. It's totally worth it.
Awesome layout! Happy anniversary to it!🎉
Thank you
Very nice layout. Happy Anniversary!
Thank you and please be sure to subscribe to my CZcams channel for more video updates.
Thanks for stopping by... nice channel... just signed up! T4
Thanks for stopping by, viewing, and subscribing.
Thanks for sharing all your incredible craftsmanship and modeling enjoyed everything,great operation.Candlestick Awesome!,Great accomplishment,great sound that’s a hard act to follow GS-4 May need servicing after stretching its side rods!
Best your railroad friends
Dan and Armando Vargas
Wow, thanks! Just getting a response and compliment from you guys is far beyond awesome. I'm very familiar with the work you and your brother do in this hobby nationwide in building, helping, and motivating people into model railroading. Thanks so much for the positive words, watching, and enjoying this video. Blessings...
Stunning! Candlestick is exactly how it appears after they installed ramps and elevators (but too small). Been going there since 1968. Yes saw them all and saw Willies amazing catch with Bonds. 2 year ago my son did x-rays on Mr. Mays sadly he was in bad shape, but he acknowledged my son's admiration and respect by squeezing his hand. What ya going model next, Bay Bridge in the days of lower deck being for trains? I would not be surprised you got the talent! When young that used to exite me from the Oakland side where I once again reside.
Actually I am in the process of creating Embarcadero Muni and Bart Station. I'm overdue on my progress video, but have so much to share on it.
My friend you have an awesome layout truly incredible and very inspirational too.
Nice videos on your YT channel. Thumbs up!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful train and outdoor layout. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Awesome layout my friend. Very cool scenes, quality track work and great equipment.
Thank you very much!
Cool sEt up. Thanks for posting.
Thank you very much.
great layout matey looks awesome well done happy anniversary to you stay safe 👍
Thanks so much and thanks for being my 1,000th viewer.
@@blakrootz your very welcom you deserve it well done 👌
Brilliant!
Thanks so much 👍🏾
What a layout.👍
Thanks
Very cool!! I love it.
Thank you.
Bay Area layout wow this is inspirational
Thanks. I tried hard to recreate my home town.
@@blakrootz beautiful work
Good morning, fantastic train on a great layout. Congratulations on five years of model railway layout.
Thanks
Awesome and last weekend's weather was perfect for operations. 🚂
Actually it was a bit windy. A few of my stationary box cars were toppled. You can actually see it in the video when the Daylight makes it way back in the house.
Amazing layout
Thanks
Dude, you had me at the opening shot of a GS-4! I have subbed and thanks for yours. Your layout is wonderful. Glendale is spot on!
Thanks, good sir. I appreciate the sub and positive feedback.
Now have it sitting in San Diego with a Santa Fe PA powered 'San Diegan.' I have put videos of San Diego and glendale on from my trips. So cool to see them modeled. Have a great 4th. Scott
2 things great with outdoor railroading, long trains & big curves. Do your neighbors say something (complain) about the noise (sounds)? Some times mind do, but most the time their grandkids are enjoying the trains. I run On30 & F (1:20.3) scale, my HOs are run on a club layout. I have Challengers steam.
No, lol, my neighbors aren't bothered by the trains at all.
I love this its cool what about the weather
I have a video for that inquiry also.😁👍🏾
czcams.com/video/fOKF3TqwIHQ/video.htmlsi=xNsd84jX8gba0bnt
That's great news. I'm thinking of doing something similar. Glad to know it holds up well.
I like the layout
Thank you👍🏾
Incredible!!!!
Thank you
A very Happy Anniversary to a awesome layout.
Thank you 👌🏾 😊
This is the first video of yours I’ve watched and wow! Outdoor HO is amazing. That’s something you don’t see everyday. I really like that Silver bridge! Do you clear coat your track to protect it from UV rays?
Hello, thanks for the kind words. No, the tracks are not clear coated. The weather is pretty fair where I am and it hasn't caused any major damage to the layout. I can say with it outside l, the tracks do get their own weathering; but b/c they are Nickel Silver, they do not rust. Thanks for viewing.
Wow, super impressive. Tons of questions. Where is this located, what is the climate and what is the track material? I have thought about this for my yard in NJ and have some sort of hinged covering for nasty weather. I would imagine the temp changes in NJ would be too harsh for the rail and being on the coast near the ocean it seems as if the salt air would attack the rail. I know some of the G scale outdoor layouts use aluminum rail and batteries in the locomotive or trailing car. Beautiful job and congratulations on your anniversary of the layout.
Jim
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Usually 60-102 degrees and that is only rain, sun, fog, hail, and frost. I use NECO Code 100 Nickel Silver track. I was referred this track as it holds extremely well in the elements. The guy I followed, his layout is many times under snow. www.youtube.com/@metadyneman. He has had his HO Scale Layout in the outdoors for more than 21 years.
This is such an amazing layout, you have gained a subscriber. What kind of wood did you use for the support? I see a lot of dimensional support lumber that has perforations in the edges, even the top rail of the fence, has it been treated for outdoors? Did you have to gap every rail section? Incredible layout in just 5 years.
Hello, I use all pressure treated wood. Anytime the wood needed to be cut it was treated for outdoors. As for rails, every two flex tracks are soldered together, but every flex track has drop wires connected to bus wires underneath. One of my videos shows a bit more detail in this. Thanks for viewing and thanks for subscribing.
Cool video and channel just subscribed
Thanks for viewing and thank you so much for subscribing. I just subscribed to your channel also.
Very nicely done. Great ideas. Labor of love. Did you do this yourself. Cool layout. Do you have any plans to do anymore outside details .
Yes, and yes. Please stay tuned. Thanks for viewing.
@@blakrootz Thank you for sharing.
Incrível 😁
thank you very much
Bro! Can you still open and close that garage door? if yes, then my mind is blown! I love the SP Daylight. I have one somewhere in my garage. Did you have to order special HO Tracks for outdoors?
Great Video!
Yes. My wife and I park both cars in the garage and use it quite frequently. No, I use Peco Code 100 Nickel Silver track.
Here is a video when i had to repair the garage door portion of the layout. czcams.com/video/1m9PccNfg84/video.htmlsi=tBhFvrrykh2hVprZ
Wow, sir! You are very talented and I love your layout! Couple questions, how do you get the custom stations? Do you order them from somewhere that custom makes them for you or are they a line that is out out there to the public or are they all scratch built (if this option, how do you make them if willing to disclose?)? Second, the buildings, cars, and figures all look fresh and untouched by the harsh elements, even just the good amount of sun Dan fade and damage them, how do you keep them so? Do you bring them inside and set them back up when running trains, some type of cover like tarp situation? They look great and if they are newly set outside, I highly recommend using some technique to keep them safe from the elements (seen such amazing outside layouts go slowly down the drain so to the harsh realities of the outside and the lack of maintenance or prevention necessary to keep the models from being destroyed!) Well again, so happy for you and your decision to share your talents with us and happy belated anniversary! To many many years more! (Ps love the huge parking lot around candlestick, one of those things so many modelers skip over but looks prototypical!)
Thanks for the kind words and viewing this video. My apologies for the late reply but I wanted to be sure to give you as much accurate information as possible. Some of the stations were purchased already assembled from eBay (San Jose, Salinas, and Santa Barbara Stations), one at a train show (Glendale Station), and two were custom built (San Luis Obispo and San Diego Stations), and one was ordered from KATO and I personally assembled (San Francisco Station). All surrounding detail was personally my attention to detail and imagination of what I wanted. I always bring the stations, cars, and trucks in the house after each run and set them up prior to. There's so much to clean and prep before each run and the weather wouldn't be friendly to them...just as you mentioned. All water towers stay outside and the material is working very well with the weather. I am truly happy to celebrate 5 years and I'm hoping for many more. A childhood dream that has finally come true to have a large layout before retirement. Lastly, I want to add my layout is 49 inches tall and saves on my back and knees😂 whenever I need to walk (not crawl) under it from time to time. The parking lot for Candlestick Park was created with a yardstick ruler and permanent white marker. With the newly added parking lights, it really brought it to life. Be sure to see that video process when you get a chance. Again, thanks for viewing and please subscribe to my CZcams channel for more video updates.
@@blakrootz Thank you so much for your very thorough and thoughtful response! I have for sure subscribed also plan to go through your back catalog and watch all the older videos as well! Do you have instagram too? Anyways again congratulations! I love miniatures and scale models of all kinds but especially model railroads and I must say your is now one of my favorites of all time! Take care bud! - Sean
@Sean-og7zm I do have Instagram, but I need to familiarize myself with the app a little more often.
What kinda engine is that? Is it Broadway Limited? I love the smoke unit! And beautiful layout!!
Thanks for viewing. The engine, tender, and cars are all MTH.
Outstanding layout! What are the outdoor dimensions? How many switches?
Thanks for viewing. The entire fence from end to end is 240 ft (so a little more than 480 ft roundtrip). There are more than 30 switches on just the outside portion of this layout.
Looks terrific, audio and visuals. Obviously all DCC. Where are you located? I am getting the idea you could be down south as the tracks don’t do well through the winter What supports tgd track across the door?
Thanks for sharing. I subbed you and will check your site out later.
Cheers from Charlie in Toronto
Hello Charlie, I'm based out of California (The Bay Area). I used shelf hangers to keep the layout going across the garage door. Here is a video that shows a closer look. czcams.com/video/1m9PccNfg84/video.html Be sure to skip to the first minute. Thanks for viewing. I just subscribed to your channel also.
Terrific idea using the clothes hangers, I will check it out. Been to Frisco and around there., get to LA once/twice a year. Thanks for reaching out👍
Indeed a nice layout. I didn't read the part of it being HO. The smoke part threw me off making me think it was O scale. I have a question on location. What area is this layout located? And if it rains how well does the outdoor drain, handle the water flow?
Thanks for viewing. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here is the video link of my layout in the rain and answer to your question on performance.
czcams.com/video/fOKF3TqwIHQ/video.html
Have you noticed any damage from the sunlight or worry about it? I want to do something like this, but I've heard that the sunlight can cause fade and cracking on the plastic on HO trains since they're not designed to run outdoors. I thought of laying the tracks on shade only or using UV coating but I'm not sure how effective that would be. I love the layout though
Hello, I have not noticed any sun damage. I can say that I use PECO Code 100 Nickel Silver Concrete track. It was recommended by someone who I found has an outdoor layout for more than 20 years and he runs in the snow. He has given me so much advice. czcams.com/video/DDjgGJKrsK0/video.htmlsi=zuoZV-7r7l7oTzcT Oh and my area doesn't get too hot to cause damage. Please keep me posted when you get started.
I need a how to video for maintaining outdoor ho scale track.
czcams.com/video/rqvvl-f1f7E/video.htmlsi=Rw7tqyXsna1GR41U
Hope this helps. I have two more.
I love this layout but how is the maintenance for the outside for ho scale is it really bad do you have to replace track or replace buildings, scenery?
Maintenance is not that bad at all. My location is not bad when it comes to weather and besides wildlife residue and fallen fruit...it runs quite nicely. My buildings are kept in the house after each run.
Unbelievable. How do you keep the track from oxidizing? Are you using something like in-ox on it? Even if you don't get "a lot" of rain there, you must get something, and dew overnight?
Code 100 Peco Nickel Silver track is rust and weather proof.
@@blakrootz Interesting. Thanks for the tip.