In a previous video, I introduced you to Maddox, the young boy that lives next door to me.
He got a kick out of playing with my model trains for the first time.
Today, I thought it would be fun to make an all-new layout...
that takes the trains down the sidewalk and over to Maddox's house.
We started by running my Amtrak passenger train.
Maddox always enjoys controlling the trains himself
which is really easy to do on a DCC layout, by running some software called Engine Driver
on an Android phone or tablet.
Having wireless control of the trains is perfect...
for a layout that goes all the way from my house over to his.
Sit back and enjoy the view now as we do one full loop around the new layout.
Maddox is 6 years old, so playing with an Amtrak train is all well and good, but...
His favorite train in my collection is Thomas The Tank Engine.
So, we put Thomas on the layout...
And Maddox had some fun with Thomas as he headed down the tracks.
One of the things I really enjoy about my model trains
is that I DON'T have a permanent layout.
I get a kick out of designing and building a slightly different layout every time I set up my trains.
I started building the wooden road bed, for the garden portions of the layout, on Friday.
I finished the wooden road bed and laid out all the tracks on Saturday morning,
Had fun with the trains all Saturday afternoon...
and by 8 o'clock that night it was all torn down and put away again!
Lots of work! But I find that more fun than getting locked in to some permanent garden layout that never changes.
That's about all for this video, but I've got something interesting saved up for my NEXT video.
In this one, I showed you everything running smoothly.
But that's because I edited out all the crashes and things that went wrong!
Next time, I'm going to just edit out all the parts where the trains ran flawlessly
And make a video that shows all the problems that occur during the testing phase of a new layout!
I'm Jim Zim.
In the mean time, I'll put up links on the screen
to a few of my other model train videos that you can watch.
And if you don't want to miss that next video of all the crashes
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