Filmed: 07/11,14.15/18
Here is it everyone, the giant Kansas City Eastern Model RR Club's "Great Layout Expansion 2018." For anyone following me on Facebook, you know I've been working on my own yard expansion, but this big expansion has been in the works for the last 4 or 5 years. Oh, and as I had to "speed edit" this video, I may have missed the occasional "F" or "S" bomb, so be warned and I know I overlooked editing the end credits, so there is a music credit in there which was for the Promo Video I did a couple months ago.
Ron (the guy who co-created the KCE railroad with me) designed and built the new section and with the NMRA show coming to the Kansas City area the second week of August, it became the deadline to get all this installed. Our club is on the Layout Tours (Wednesday, August 8th at 1:30pm) so all major, and most minor work (and some work still to do) needs needs to be finished before hand.
The new section turned what was a "U" shaped layout into an "M" shaped layout. It added 80' worth of new territory and is designed with operations in mind. LOTS of switching opportunities and also eliminating 3 mainlines. Line 3 merges into Line 2 for this new area, so now members have to get used to doing what the real railroads do, wait for other trains to clear. Line 1 is unaffected, but those running on 2 and 3 need to watch what they are doing. The one with the shorter train might be able to slide into a passing siding somewhere, but we'll have to see how this goes.
Still have a bit of work to do before the 8th, but the major work is done. As for my yard expansion, it just needs a few areas sceniced still, but nothing major. It should be good to go soon also. Watch for updates on my Facebook page, then I'll have a video of it when it's all done.
Anyway, my computer did NOT like rendering this video. I knew it was going to take a long time so I had to finish editing as soon as possible Saturday evening to get the rendering process started. So when I got back from the club Saturday around 5:20pm or so, I finished up with editing at 7:15pm and started rendering.
I went to bed between 2:30-3am this morning, and it was only at 60% complete. Bleh. Woke up sometime after 6:30am and fortunately it was done. So I'm guessing around 11 hours to render this monster. It's now 7:26am as I'm typing this, so a little over 12 hours later. I don't know what the deal is, this computer never used to take this long, but then Windows updated itself once later last year and ever since, rendering process took a nose dive and I have no idea what to do about it.
So this is it, we finally got this done and I'll be able to film Operations Videos in all new areas of he layout, and I'll finally have the time to film ops videos again with all this work nearing completion. So be on the look out after August for all new ops vids.
Speaking of August, I'll be going up to Des Moines on the 4th and 5th, then again the weekend of 17th-19th. It's that time of year again, the Iowa State Fair Open House show at the Central Iowa Railroad Club. So I'll have a series of videos form there as well. With everything going on, and everything that has been going on, once the Iowa trips are done, I'm going to be "trained out" and may take a week off form making any videos... it's just been non-stop the passed few months and I still have almost another month of this marathon to go. I wanted to go to this years St. Louis Railroad Prototype Modeler's meet this weekend, but I just couldn't afford to take the time to go. Next year though...
That's all for now, it's currently 7:41am and the video is at 20% uploaded now (which also means it won't make my 9am posting time), so I'm gonna go take a nap while it finishes. Thanks for watching and see you next time!
Jason
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