What's Neat This Week in Model Railroading
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This week we have Denny Jelsma, Mike Budde, Daniel Coombs, Campbell Rice and Dan Mycio from TCS. We discuss foam usage for scenery along with foam shrinkage. Wiring for your layout and locomotives. Dan makes a Bluetooth speaker/decoder set up with Wow sound from TCS. Mikes shares his latest auto load in crushed cubes. We talk about the NEW What's Neat this week podcast/show index at whatsneat.com. we discuss a DCC Wi-Fi product for the NCE DCC System.
We also Talk about the What's Neat video index for all 102 What's Neat videos at Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine. Search What's Neat Index on the internet or visit the site at wnindex.theconsist.com.
We share N scale buildings from Walthers Trains and Woodland Scenics. Austin Allard builds his new Micro Engineering 85ft girder bridges for his river scene. Daniel shares his 7 inch gauge switcher locomotive. We look at the Rapido Horizon Amtrak passenger cars. Denny talks about his brass passenger cars and his amazing stitched jackets and logos for all railroads. All this and more in 50 minutes this week..
Thank you soo much for this Ken and crew. I have been out of the hobby for almost 20 years and have learned so much about what has happened during this time away, like the Shinohara family retiering. I am currently working my way thru the entire set of podcasts, just finished #56 and will continue watching a few at a time until caught up. Again, thank you and the crew for your great work.
Great to see Denny Jelsma, the Flying Frisian, on the show again. Great show. Love the topics, every week, and I love the banter!!
Haha! I knew It! I saw the name Jelsma....and i thought. He must be from Frisian origine!
But anyway, great show as always! Keep It up!
Greetings From Leeuwarden. The Frisian capitol (The Netherlands)
It's called Dutch bingo, and played too often in Pella, Iowa. :)
I used to belong to a modular HO MRR club and we tried all kinds of building methods. I placed a 10lb or so rock on the tracks (I'm always short of flat spaces) to apply latex to make a rock mold. This was a module built with just foam roadbed. When the rock was done it took three layers of cereal box cardboard to get rid of the dip in the tracks. Also why is there a kitty cat picture on the front of the table/desk? Great show
Thank you for 150 great shows. Best hobby in the world with the best people. Go ahead, please for further 150 shows.
Congratulations on 150 WNTW shows! Ypu are excellent, but your true talent has been to find all those delightful members of the hobby and in bringing them together to share and be positive about the "Best Hobby In The World". Thanks Ken.
150 shows a significant milestone. Keep it going. I never miss a show!
I always enjoy seeing Mike's toys.
Congrats on the 150 shows. And hats off to the person who is categorizing all you shows on the web. That is a lot of work but as someone who builds website that is going to offer long term benefits to all your listeners. I know I'll be access it a lot. Thank you for all you have done for the hobby over your 150 shows! Here is to another 150.
Mariaska Model Railroad Society (Pella, IA) congratulates What's Neat on the Big 150! Of course, we are a tad partial to your special guest, the Flying Dutchman, Denny-J! We love Ken and the crew of the best hobby in the world!
150 shows! Great milestone!
Congrats on your 150 show!
WNTW crew,
Thank you! Great Show...
Thanx Thom...
Congratulations on 150 Shows! And thank you and the guys for coming into our homes every week. Well, almost every week. 😆
Hello from the South Side of Chicago. Thanks for making an index. It has been so frustrating trying to find the video, and the discussion. Thanks a bunch, all ya all!!!
Congrats on 150 shows. They are great and lots of information of the hobby. Keep them coming! Robert M Martin, UPRR Engineer retired.
First of all...Congratulations on your 150th show! I like it when Dan Mycio talks about his products & that Bluetooth speaker/ decoder...Wow! The owner of Jelsma Graphics...Mr. Denny Jelsma talks about his neat railroad clothing! How cool is that! "A Stitch Above The Rest" That load that Mike brought for his gondola looks so real! Outstanding job..Mike! I'd like to thank..Randy Hook for the index for the What's Neat video's! Thank You! This is the "Best Hobby In The World" Till Next Time! MoPac Jack Back to my "Train Cave" in Kirkwood,Mo. Please Be Safe! P.S. I'll visit Campbell's website! I Don't Do ...Facebook. I'm a You Tuber! Best people in the hobby! Rock N' Roll I need to run some trains! Seriously!
What a thrill to see my GRI logo on your show. Congrats on a 150 excellant broadcasts.
Heard you mention Homasote roadbed as a subject coming up. I've been using the Homasote roadbed (Homabed) for over 10 years now. The train room is located in Simi Valley CA and has a window AC unit only. Temps in the winter get down under 60 at times and in the summers can get into the low 90's indoors when I'm not running the AC. I have yet to have any issues, no sun kinks and no other issues; I use Atlas code 83 flex with Peco turnouts, and laid it all knowing about expansion and contraction from previous layouts. The Homabed came with sliced edges for use where one needed curves and without slices for the straightaways, you can have pretty much any radius curve you wish this way. Everything is glued down to either plywood or homemade spline using Locktite Power Grab out of a caulking gun. All one need do to run anytime of year is to clean the track as the room is not well sealed and the track gets a bit dusty between run sessions. I think the outfit I bought mine from is history, but somebody else makes the same thing, in both shoulder angles nowadays. I'm very happy with this material.
WFD-31 is a good alternative to the WFD-30 as it is better suited to layouts that utilize a Power Cab. Both products are sold by Iron Planet Hobbies in the US and in fact they are currently the only US dealer for Wi-Fi Trax Products. I have e-mailed NCE about these products and was told that not only are they definitely safe and compatible with NCE products but they also work very well. You can use the TCS wi-fi throttles with JMRI wi-throttle protocol, but the Wi-Fi trax products are a much simpler work around when you don't want to mess with JMRI.
Great episode whats neat crew.
Happy 150th! I have my HO scale Intermountain Tier 4 BNSF 3750 locomotive. Those units run smooth and powerful. I am planning to add the ESU version of the Keep-Alive to the decoder soon. The NCE Wi-Fi transmitter works great! I bought mine last Summer. I am planning to use it with the TCS system.
On Denny's page that L&N Pan-American passing WSM Blaw-Knox tower is neat. That tower is still in use by WSM
Excellent show...congratulations on number 150
Cork on 3/4 inch plywood and temp controlled basement as well as dehumidifier good after 25* years
before I switched to foam I used a combination of 1x3 framing with 1/4 inch plywood and homasote on my older layouts..
learned quickly that it wasn't the best combination for a modular layout....too heavy..lol
Great show.
I use expanded polystyrene (the white foam), it is more light and messy than extruded, but I don't have any shrinkage in more than 20 years. I read on a foam company website that the expanded polystyrene is very stable in dimension after a few months. To have rigid modules, I put an outer layer of MDF.
Show 150 WOW
I used one of the Scale Sound Speakers they are great
Ken,awesome idex,very helpful.Keep up the great work.
congrats
Good show I like foam mainly cost and easy to work with and in a home expansion no problem. Also diaramas are easy to work on.
Anothet great episode Ken.
That temperature swing of less than 20 degrees is not nearly enough to cause rail to grow or shrink to an extent that would cause "sun kinks" on your layout. The shrinkage that you saw was actually due to the wood subroadbed shrinking, not the rail itself shrinking or growing. The real culprit in the shrinkage was your furnace burning off the humidity in your train room (house) because it was running so much due to the extreme cold temps outside. The lack of humidity caused the wood to shrink (or swell in the summer due to added humidity) and will pull everything attached to it with it. Adding a humidifier will limit the amount of shrinkage in the wood during times when your furnace runs a lot but with those kinds of subzero outside temps a humidifier still probably couldn't keep up with the amount of humidity being burning off by your furnace and you would still experience movement on your layout.
150, wow that went fast. Congrats. Nice show as usual.
I use homabed instead of cork
Every layout I have ever had I have gone tough tack expansion. It happens first big temp change on a new layout. Wood shrinks drys out. Minor issue.
Great show! Thanks for posting another awesome video on the best hobby in the world!
Nice video! Great podcast!
Nice video, you always keep up the good work!
Foam sucks. Fine for temporary layouts, either for a photo shoots or as a beginner learning layout, but long-term layouts need more substantial sub base. Also can't spike hand-laid track to foam. I'm a fan of homasote or cork on plywood. The key is to paint all sides to seal it from humidity changes.
NCE is selling now devise for both power cab and power pro interface connect device to connect command station to computer. And thus JMRI. Allowing use of wifi phone throttles.
speaking of common names i am a mike lol
Wow! Please ask Dan to share what he did to connect a decoder to the 3.5 adaptor and blue tooth speaker? this would be great for a G-scale or HO scale sound car or under the table. what products did he use?
Thanks
I use homosote quite on plywood track on cork road bed
box frame with cork road bed
Congrats on 150!
Can we see some European trains soon?
What time of day does the East bound Empire Builder pass below your place?
Its the Texas Eagle and SB usally about 9pm
@@wheelslip Great shows Campbell, The reason I asked about the Empire Builder is because I will be coming East on it in a month and a half. Some day I will take the Texas Eagle. Many Thanks.
Best Friend of Charleston
Why the Yelling cat ?
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Campbell Rice got me that decal and we stuck Smudge on the table before the show.
@@Kensart55 check out the table where it says " what's neat" There is that "yelling cat" from the internet. See Austin's reply above.
@@charlietrain I was waiting for someone to mention the cat's name " Smudge" and they were getting a free What's Neat Show hat. But Austn let the cat out of the bag, pun intended. LoL
@@wheelslip well I did not know the cat's name but i was first to notice mention it. It appears that Ken did not know it was there.
Ken, how serious are you about wanting video from us? Shall we just put it on our personal CZcams channels?
Greetings from Australia, Congrats on episode 150. Would love to send you footage of Aussie locos running on our club layout if your think you and your veiwers would be interested....
yes
@@Kensart55 thanks Ken. Next time we run ill take the camera.
Ive also just preordered 2 UWT-50's for me and my buddy. Cant wait.
47:29 Or, as The Prof would put it, TOO DAMN LOUD!!!
I cannot wear headphones because of my hearing aids so I don't have sound in my trains.
Why don't you cover more steam era equipment? I kitbash and restore old equipment, cars, buildings and everything in the hobby.