I love your inventions. Railways have a particular affection in my family. But the best part of this video is the enthusiastic marching.

@arlingtonhynes

3 жыл бұрын

I loved the marching.

An Irishman and a brilliant "seat of the pants engineer" Is building a railroad in his field without any fear Using his noggin and hands he conjures a crafty switch Clonky and waggled but still gave him the hitch Diverts the trolley from hither to yond A bit curious as I watch Tim across the pond Somehow he tells us while being so bold That his tinkering will lead to a big pile of charcoal.........

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

He's done it again : - )

You've always made home railways look good, but this design is particularly tempting to build. If only I had a need for it.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Build it and the need will become clear : - )

@thedeloachsdoyoutube8377

3 жыл бұрын

Yes now I’m looking in the backyard wondering where exactly I can put mine. Awesome

@c.finley9660

3 жыл бұрын

I live in a rented semi-attached duplex in New York City. I will find a fucking need for this.

@fritanke2318

3 жыл бұрын

You need one. Then you add a wood gas locomotive to it. 😂😂

@superspooky4580

3 жыл бұрын

@Jeremy Timothy lol stop with these little people scams lol. Typical India. If you think making 2 accounts and using 1 to support the other will do anything then your a sad person.

Fantastic!!! I could not figure out how it would work until you laid it all out at the end. Just fantastic! Peace.

Better then anything on telly. 👍

My homies gonna have a full fledged estate railway by december, i'm calling it now.

You may have been brought up in England (guessing by the accent) but you've definitely acquired the Irish talent of bodging.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Brought up in Wales - where bodging is an art too

I think you would make a very good children's TV show Voice actor. Your voice is very engaging soft and friendly.

I love your voice, listening to your voice is so good ~ it is like singing when you are talking.

@thomasm1964

3 жыл бұрын

That’ll be Tim’s Welsh heritage seeping out!

Tim the mad inventor.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel has been reincarnated in the west of Ireland! Great work and a LOT of fun to see.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! Thanks!

@robinforrest7680

3 жыл бұрын

I'd advise against installing IKB's atmospheric system to power your trains though 😂

Terrific. Great way to understand railways - build one. Didn't know about the wider gauge for corners.

I have seen videos of DIY railways where they use two separate point blades. One straight piece and one curved for the diverge. Either one or the other is positioned according to direction of travel.

I love it and as you fill with ballast it will become easy to walk between the rails. Should look some handsome in three years after a morning trim!

I must say, well-played sirrah! It's as crude as a mudball, but I think it shall work...which IS the important part. 👍

Not to get too far off track here (pun intended lol) but, the way you talk and with your accent you would make an awesome reader for audio books. Love your channel! God bless.

ANOTHER EXCELLENT video!! Thanks very informative and interesting not to mention entertaining.. great stuff! I'll await the next installment! 👍

Tim, are you sure you didn't graduate from M.I.T ? You've got one huge brain in that noggin of yours and it just keeps pumping out all these fantastic gadgets. Loving it. Blessings to all folks 🌻

You guys are soo fun and Smart ! I’m so glad I found your channel! I wish you all the success you seek!❤️😊

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You too!

This video comes at a perfect time for me, I'm in the process of setting up a garden tram. A single point switch would be just the thing for my tram. My thought on the roughness of the angles in the switch is to make the diverging angle less, and then put a curve past the diverging route if you need more divergence from straight. :-)

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly - and make the blade as long as you can

I am finding this fascinating.

@brian.7966

3 жыл бұрын

I can`t stand the way he talks. it's a bit over the top. nobody speaks like that,

@danutplesu3352

3 жыл бұрын

@@brian.7966 They are Good-hearted people, working hard, who went thru the worst tragedy a parent could have.

@josephmiller997

3 жыл бұрын

@@brian.7966 It's hilarious, hugely entertaining, and probably 95% of the reason that I subscribed and hit the notification bell.

You guys are so funny and clever. Love your work 😀

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

I loved the marching

As always, a wonderfully elegant solution and very much in the "narrow gauge spirit!" Looking forward to the next instalments!

Love it ! Can't wait for the next episode 😁

I like fish, frogs and railways. I subscribe.

When I laid track in a tin mine in my late teens we had a similar principle and was called a sword and V junction, the sword had a loop on the V end that bolted down to a plate that the short section of V rail was welded to. They were light and quick and easy to fit and repair when they wore out. Simple solution to a diverging rail track system. Well done to you with the idea your using, again simple but usuable.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Adrian. I like the name too.

@adrianbew9641

3 жыл бұрын

@@WayOutWestx2 . If you find your present design doesn't work as well as you would like welding the tube to a piece of steel plate along with the V section will work admirably and did for decades underground. I enjoy your blogs and keep up the good work.

I did this about the same way 9 years ago. I made a 5” gauge railway this is how I did it. If the rail starts to spread on you because the ties are spaced to far apart I found you can simply put in another tie and two nails on each side of the track will keep the rails from spreading apart.

Hurrah and thank-you!

Well done Tim. Can’t wait to see the finished train loaded up and running!

This is just great! Seat of you pants railway engineering!

Cool, its colloquially know as a "kickswitch", bravo

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

I learn new stuff everyday - thanks!

🎵🎵Fish plates, Fish Plates, ..Rolly Poley Fish Plates...Eat them up, Yum!!!😁😁😁🎵

Very interesting! Love it! Looking foward to the rollig stock! Maybe I will make a railway like this too!

Can I suggest lock-nuts on the rail-fishplate bolts, as thermal creep might loosen them, which would really spill your tea! :)

Loving this series, problem solving, railways and, best of all creosote!

@joethompson11

3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly! Creosote is just the best smell to me :)

@mb2k100

3 жыл бұрын

@@joethompson11 One of those you either love it or hate it smells, fortunately we are in the love it category! And holds an odd nostalgia for me, for some reason.

@joethompson11

3 жыл бұрын

@@mb2k100 it's very nostalgic for me too! Reminds me of the rescue farm I grew up on, my Dad would paint anything that went outside with it, and I was always hanging around him seeing what he was getting up to 😊

You are a brilliant man👌👍

I feel like I could build this, just from watching the videos! :D

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@andycoombes

3 жыл бұрын

So is this one. Choo! Choo!

tim love your videos anything can be made your mind at a different level we all have it but you unlocked it for us

Frickin' awesome...!

This is amazing! I would love to build my own railway where I live in the mountains for logging. This just gave an idea for the track!

Really god idea, i know that some farmers build narrow gage railways for use on rancho, but i sar reusing old coal mines cars and rails. They are not good for heavy work to move coal, but for easy work as field railway - good enought.

So far, so good! Looking forward to seeing it in action.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

You and me both!

Awesome 👍👍👍Thanks for sharing

This is looking good Tim!

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Yes, I think so too : - )

Why on earth do I find this railway series so INTERESTING?!! Could it be my paternal gramps worked for the National Railway here in Mexico? Or could it be because I'm ALWAYS DAZZLED by that Irish Ingenuity Sandra and you show us on this IRIE Channel, probably both reasons, thumbs up, thank you for sharing and LOL.....gotta love Sandy and you running up and down the railway, too bad the rails are too thin you could do like us kids did back then and put pennies on the track and marvel at how flat they became the next train came roaring down the tracks! ;D

Great ingenuity an imagination like mine

Awesome idea thanks for it been wondering how to make a private railroad myself

Loving this idea! Thank you for sharing! Just discovered your channel, and your work is very interesting!

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

This is truly fascinating. I know next to nothing about railways, but I love following this particular story :) Thank you Sandra and Tim for the awesome updates. Cheers, Craig

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Craig : - )

Love it, hope the comment helps!

I'm loving this being a secret train enthusiast as a kid 😁... Hopefully if the restrictions get lifted me and my granddaughter would love a spin, you are bring the line up to Bweeng ain't ya

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Meet you half way

This is a really neat project! I think I'm the future you might be able to reduce the clunkiness of the switching section by making it so that both sides are clunky. In your current setup, you have one direction that clunks hard, and one direction that is smooth. By making both sections turn at the junction, you will trade the smooth transition to have both directions be clunky, but less so.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

You're right, Kineth - that's exactly what I'm planning to do when I have a chance..

This is incredible.

dont foget to test the wheels on the track because they may hit the pipe steel plus dont forget to put some gravel or concrete under each sleepers as its wet where you are and the tracks will sink in the ground

Excellent, nice to see that you went with the single blade design. For what you are doing that is more than adequate. Keep up the good work.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, as long as it works I don't mind how clonky it is

Fantastic, I've been looking at doing something similar but with RHS for the rails as I have access to a large quantity of it. I work at a heritage railway and I can confirm our curves are normally +5-10mm over gauge (1067mm gauge). We have some fairly long wheelbase machines and relatively tight curves and if you bring a curve right into gauge then the extra friction is very noticeable on our underpowered machines. On the other hand, at very slow speeds (walking pace or less) on cambered curves the extra gauge can feel very unsettling as the loco repeatedly shimmies sideways around the corner, particularly when the rails are wet.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Yes, wheelbase length is another factor to consider - complicated, isn't it?!

Very nice Tim.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly

Well done Tim. You are a clever and resourceful man. I couldn’t make that.

Absolutely Bloody Brilliant!

Big thumbs up for the 'Woo Woo!' at the end!

Can’t wait till you have locomotives and lots more track. I’ll watch every video.

@WayOutWestx2

2 жыл бұрын

You know about the other channel, right? Lots more videos there..

@masonfarrell8845

2 жыл бұрын

Yes i do. I’m subscribed to both.

Good to see you having fun in the end of the video :)

Have you thought about using a "Stub Switch"? This was a popular and easy switch to make because a frog was not required. It got a lot of use on narrow gauge and mine railways in North America.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

thanks, Paul - I'm hoping to have a go at them one day.

Needs a signal box 😄

It looks like a trip hazard so you will have to build a railway crossing hehehe

That was great fun to watch from the home in the easy chair :D

Make solar charged/battery operated engine to pull your cart on your railway. With a gear box to go forward and backwards. Add a seat and you can ride on it.

Great job Tim.

Mad skilz! Love you two!

That is awesome! I wish I had an excuse to make one of those!

Great job wonderful, keep up the good work , thanks

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

Watching it now

I really wanted to see you make the fancier kind of point. You might say I was disapPOINTed.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Point taken, Mike!

When I was a kid in southeast England my parents took me to a fruit farm which had a miniature railway. As part of the fun we rode on it all round the orchards. Now I’m wondering if it actually doubled as a part of the work of the farm moving produce and equipment around. If not, I suspect it was a missed opportunity.

I can hear "duddly-dum duddly-dum" from my trainspotting youth when trains 'were' trains and made a racket!

awesome!

Ohh yes! Now this is awesome!

very good

Ingenious switch...I was wondering how you got around the flange issue with no Frog. Your industrial road is like the old timer mine tracks. Love it!

You might look up “wobbly track.” A guy in the US solved for the problem by cutting channels in his sleepers and setting the rails directly into these. He then screwed in anchors at an angle to secure. I don’t know if it’s sufficiently load bearing for your needs, but it might be even simpler than your post design. A blade with a properly sized kerf would make this a one-step design.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

You'd need a hard wood for the sleepers, I think. And that would cost a fortune here.

@bajajoaquin

3 жыл бұрын

Fair enough. I just searched, and it’s “groovy track,” “wobbly.” They seem to use pressure treated softwood, which might be similar to your creosote treated ties. But you’re building and I’m just watching so you’re doing better than me! Looking forward to updates.

@bajajoaquin

3 жыл бұрын

“Groovy,” not “wobbly,” I meant to write

Ever watch those guys that do mine exploring? The type of switch you are making/using is just like what I have seen in mines of the Western US.

Looks awesome I really want to build one if only I had the space

Genius

Waaaw thank you

The testdrive in the end didn’t seem that clonky to me! Contrary, quite smooth I must say!

im waitning for mote! i awlays wanted to have train in my backyard!

That is awsome! Im planning to Build one too! That is a very simple Design. Well i cant weld i But still Build ist wich is nice. Maybe ist is interessting for you If you search feldbahn the german Term for field railway we had Alot of these and still in Use! Keep up the awsome work! Greetings From Germany

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you - yes there are wonderful small railways in Germany. I hope to see them some time..

@klompex100

3 жыл бұрын

@@WayOutWestx2 thanks for the reply 👍 just a Idea How about you make a Gravity powered railway!

That howling in the end sounded like a train :)

You two are so sweet 😁 💕 choo choo!

......5 inch gauge guy again...also the head of the bolt won’t matter a lot the flange on the wheel will ware it smooth eventually or I suppose you can grind it a bit if needed. It will ware it a little thin but will still hold the track just fine. Gonna check out your newest video now.

Marching on!

Really enjoying this series of track building videos, looking forward to seeing it working. Are you going to link it to the rails in the shed?

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I'm still negotiating a route with Sandra..

I've only heard 'frog' used for the hollow of a brick before this channel. Now I've heard it twice in quick succession. Horse hooves and underbridges for railways. I wonder where it originates, and how many other industries use it.

@andycoombes

3 жыл бұрын

"Fishplate" too.

I like the accent

The channel I didn't know I needed.

Dam.... I though you said Fish cakes! Im hungry now.

@WayOutWestx2

3 жыл бұрын

Ha!

OK... behave yourselves there at the end with all the train play and whoo whoo sounds! Haha!

Choo choo!