Layout in a week project

[Rene Schweitzer]

Ok, this isn't large scale, but it's still pretty neat. Model Railroader is doing a model railroad project this week by building a HO-scale railroad in a week. They are filming it (for a DVD), photographing it (for the print magazine), and you can watch it on a webcam now through Friday.

http://cam1.trains.com/

Pretty neat to see it come together. I was in the workshop on Friday myself (learning how to use a drill press!) so I might be in the highlight footage that's archived. [:p]

Rene

[Anonymous]

And they pay you to do that ,wow , what a great job that would be !

[vsmith]

I built the first part of my outdoor layout in a weekend. Should have video'ed it, I could have made up to a hundred bucks selling blackmarket garden RR DVDs on the street corner downtown!!! [(-D][:-,][D)][censored][;)][X-)][banghead]

I'll be watching to see what they do with this. [8D]

[FJ and G]

Wish you guys would do a video on building a garden RR!

[Rene Schweitzer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G

Wish you guys would do a video on building a garden RR!

Marc Horovitz has a video on this, and it's very good. Check it out here:
http://www.sidestreet.info/railways/booksvideos.html (it's the first video in the list)

The magazine will soon be doing a build-a-railway series too. . stay tuned!

[Tom The Brat]

The things they pay people to do!

[Anonymous]

Very interesting to watch the progress on a full-day basis thanks to time-lapse photography. It certainly is an excellent idea to present this on the Internet.

Regards,

Bill C.
South Jersey

[Marty Cozad]

I know I ask too many questions, but ,,,"in a week"?? As in the evenings? 8 hour day??
As in all the materials are aready there?
Man if I had 50 hours to work straight on a GRR. That would be simple.
I may eat those words later...

[Rene Schweitzer]

Marty,

Yes, the materials were ordered ahead of time and were all there. Some prep work (ie, cleaning out the workshop and getting the webcam ready) was done last week. Most every staff member is involved this week during the workday. So you'd need to take those 50 hours x about 6 other people for that week if you wanted to accompli***he same thing (or work 6 weeks straight!)

[bman36]

In a week? That's nothing...my son and I had a Garden RR up and running in two hours! Then again...the Garden was ready to use, we laid all the track on mulch, buildings were done. Hmmm.....we need to do the same for GR. That would make for a great project. GR could supply all the materials, you can use my backyard for sure, Web cam? No problem. I'll keep the dog out of the way...when do we start??? Later eh...Brian.

[kimbrit]

300 hours for the project, mmm, that's a lot of time, I can move some earth in that time, fly the track down and ballast. I'll join Marty on this one re eating words etc but 300 hours!!
Kim

[vsmith]

I did my albiet small 5'x9' outdoor setup in a weekend!

The ground was already cleared from the patio paver work. All I had to do was pre-assemble the track into a few large long track segments, put down the weed barrier, set the large rocks into place, pour the gravel bed, level it, set the track segments in place and connect them, ballast track into place using the same gravel as the bed, hose down the rock dust (hot day-so it dried fast), set down a few birdhouse structures, connect powerpack, put the work train onto the track and OFF WE GO!

Total time, started on Friday evening, ended Sunday mid-day. 1 person working not all day each day ..3 hours Friday, 5 hours Saturday, and 4 hours Sunday..

Total time 12 hours....also no plastering, no benchwork, no gluing down ballast, dam, I dont know if I'll ever go back indoors.[;)]

edit PS about the same 12 hour time frame to do the 12' long dogleg extension thats doubled the size of my layout.[8D]

[Marty Cozad]

6 staff????
Now you see these are probably white colar workers who don't usually get their figures dirty and have spent many hours planning ahead of time.
I bet 4 GRRers can change a pile of dirt and rocks into a RR twice as big in less time than those,,, office folks.

No offense,,,ofcourse[;)]

[Anonymous]

As you can see from this video clip my attitude is, hey, mon, what's de rush:


http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/BillC//evolutionGR.wmv

PS: I'm still workin' on it.

Regards,

Bill C.
South Jersey

[Anonymous]

Hey Chestnut that is a classic. I loved it! :) No rush or no hurry especially when a 9 tp 5 gets in the way.

Rene: Cool time lapse and production set up!

Here is my feeble attempt at documenting my garden train via video.
www.gardentrain.blogspot.com

Capture life and share it!,
Rick Q.

[Anonymous]

Slow but steady, Rick Q.!

BTW, I spotted the bulldog.

Regards,

Bill C.

[markperr]

Just looked at the webcam time lapse photos. It looks remarkably like the recent doritos commercial where three executives are standing at a window of a scyscraper looking down at four construction workers and only one is working while the other three are standing around. Meanwhile, the fourth office worker is doing all the office work on her laptop. Later in the commercial when she exclaims "Done!", the three slackers high five one another for a great team effort.

It seems to me like only one guy is working on that layout, which BTW, is not very big. Seems like if they all got together and did something each, that they could get most of it done in an afternoon. I suppose it takes a week because the pieces are all so small and are difficult for grown men to handle without constantly dropping.

I'll stick to playing outside.

Mark

[vsmith]

Is it just me or does the benchwork look like its covered with Astroturf?

[Rene Schweitzer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

Is it just me or does the benchwork look like its covered with Astroturf?

[swg]Haaaa! It's actually a Woodland Scenics product.

[tangerine-jack]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bman36

In a week? That's nothing...my son and I had a Garden RR up and running in two hours! Then again...the Garden was ready to use, we laid all the track on mulch, buildings were done. Hmmm.....we need to do the same for GR. That would make for a great project. GR could supply all the materials, you can use my backyard for sure, Web cam? No problem. I'll keep the dog out of the way...when do we start??? Later eh...Brian.

Yeah, well that's nothing! I once built a 400ft long brick retaining wall and filled it with 37 tons of fill with a shovel and laid down 8,000 feet of handlaid track over hand cut ties in less than an hour! Then I fully landscaped the whole thing with full sized plants and trees and was done before lunch. Ok, top that.

[markn]

TJ-don't forget to mention the foot or two of manure you just laid on top of it!

[ttrigg]

time to break out the hip boots. It's getting a little thick around here.

[tangerine-jack]

Yeah, I forgot to mention the manure bit........... I put 6 tons of that in the plant beds in 15 minutes with a toothpick by myself in the rain. Then I handcrafted a steam engine from metals I dug up in the back yard with a spoon and forged the alloys on the stove in the kitchen. Forgot to take any photos so you'll have to take my word for it.

[Puckdropper]

TJ, I think you're getting to the point of where you're hauling a whole train a manure. 2:1 scale!!!