we're gonna talk about five more mistakes that new modelers make whenever
they're starting out their model railroad so let's get started with this
right now I'm Tom Kvichak and this is Toms Trains and Things this channel
was created to help other modelers who are need of guidance in pursuing their
dream of building a model railroad and when you're starting out building your
model railroad you want to avoid the all the mistakes that all us other modelers
have made throughout the years now just a few weeks ago I gave you ten common
mistakes that model railroaders make and today I'm going to give you five more
that most modelers make and the reason I'm going to tell you this is so you
don't have to go through all the agony of redoing your model railroad because
of these mistakes now that's why I do these videos in the first place to help
you out with your model railroad and if you would like to see more of these go
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now with five more common mistakes that model railroaders make when they're
starting out in my last video I told you that you're gonna need patience
knowledge commitment and time and I had some comments about money too but
money's not the real big objects in it the the the most common things that
you're gonna need is the patience knowledge commitment and time in your
model railroad so I'm going to start out with number one here and number one is
wiring I've done a lot of videos on wiring and you should take a look at it
I'll put a link up here for the wiring projects on my railroad and you could
find now what you need to know about wiring
but that's where a lot of modelers make their biggest mistake on not knowing how
to wire their model railroad whether it be DC or DCC now DCC has a lot of
improvements and advantages over DC but there are still some of you that are
doing DC and I have a video we did a collaboration with Mark from M&M Rails
on that one go take a look at that video there how to wire your DC model railroad
with Atlas components it's a very good video and Mark does a great job of
introducing you into wiring your DC layout but anyway even with DCC you have
to know what you're doing with the wiring on there and if you take a look
at some of my other videos on DCC wiring you'll avoid these mistakes this first
mistake at least on wiring your model railroad you have to pay attention to it
and you have to know what you're doing with it before you get started so you
don't make that costly mistake of miss wiring your railroad where you turn it
on and nothing happens or you turn it on and beep beep you get a short right away
if you have any questions about wiring whether it be DC or DCC leave a
comment down below or go on to my web page and leave a question there in the
comment section I'll be glad to answer any questions that you have on wiring or
anything else about model railroading now number 2 lack of maintenance just
like an automobile you got to do some maintenance on it now on the newer
automobiles it's less maintenance all you have to do
is change the oil but on your model railroad you still have to do a lot of
maintenance on there and the biggest thing is cleaning your track nickel
silver is the most common rail today and it needs to be cleaned because it picks
up a lot of garbage it picks up oils it picks up dirt it picks up dust it picks
up every little thing on there especially if you're running your trains
on air because you have the the electromagnetic force between the wheels
and the rails and that makes it even easier for dust particles to go on those
rails so you have to keep those rails clean and you could use bright bores you
could use woodland Scenic's stick clean and stick for that you could use
anything you could use a track cleaning car any method you use but you got to
use it you got to keep it clean and the other thing is the locomotives they need
to be lubricated and not over lubricated either
now each locomotive that you purchase they'll have a little section on there
about lubrication read it and heat it because you're gonna need it
hey that was pretty good read it and heat it because you're gonna need it
yeah ok I'm a poet and I didn't even know it
so anyway lubricate those locomotives but don't over lubricate them because if
you're over lubricated it's gonna get down on the tracks on your wheels and
everything and you're gonna have more problems and not only with the the
locomotives with the rolling stock also especially if you have the plastic
wheels on there it's gonna get crud on the wheels and you're gonna have to keep
on scraping that stuff off of there so you won't have your rolling stock going
down they're looking like this so maintenance
lack of maintenance you got to keep up the maintenance on your model railroad
number three buying the wrong equipment I know you're in a hurry to go out there
and buy every component that you possibly think that you need but be
careful because some brands especially in DCC some brands will not work with
other brands even though they all work on the same standards put out by NMRA
if you buy and I had a question from one of my viewers they wanted to know how to
program DS64 with their NCE throttle and I
said you can't do it you got to do it with a Digitrax throttle so there
are components that will be interchangeable with manufacturers but
there are other components that will not so you have to be careful with what you
purchased don't just go out there and purchase something because you say oh I
think I need that you're gonna be running into problems if you do that
make sure you understand what you're buying before you buy it as far as the
electronics go because not all components will work with other
components if they're from different manufacturers now I can't tell you all
of them that all the mismatches or anything like that what they are there
are mismatches out there so if you're going to work on say Digitrax try to
keep everything Digitrax so if you're gonna do NCE try to keep everything NCE
try to keep everything as far as DCC in the same brand and if you have to go out
into different brands ask questions before you do it ask if anybody has
and if they had any problems doing it you don't want to run into the problem
of incompatibility between manufacturers because that's gonna get you in trouble
and you're gonna spend a lot of money for nothing 4 lack of organization
know where everything is and what you are going to do with it
I have totes and little boxes of stuff and I got them all marked and even
though I have them all marked I still have trouble finding them because I
don't mark them enough I don't put down every part so if you have to just take
some painters tape and masking tape on the boxes that you have and write
everything down what you have in there the contents or even if take a tablet
and mark down everything on that that you have in a tote and tape that to the
side of the tote so you could find it so you know that you've got all your parts
in there for Rock molds and plaster of Paris and oh dude do I have the cloth in
there oh man where did I put that write it down make a list put it on
there you don't want to be unorganized when you're doing your projects you want
to keep everything together and try to to think about what you're going to use
for a specific task and put all those pieces together all those tools together
now sometimes you're going to run into situations where you're going to use
some tools for one project and you're gonna also use it on another project on
those things you need to keep those things out separate in a separate spot
where your most common tools and supplies that you can be used on
multiple projects like files like pliers like screwdrivers like
cause anything like that you're going to be using that on different projects no
matter what it is keep them separated and organized together so you can find
them easily because you don't want us to be spending most of your time trying to
look for stuff for hours on end just to get something done on your model
railroad so remember that be organized that's most important you got to keep
everything organized and labeled so you know where you have it nah number 5
indecision I don't know how many times modelers and even myself that I have
done something and I ripped it out because I was undecided about what I was
going to do with it I couldn't make up my mind what I was gonna do and I've
seen a lot of other modelers do the same thing that they'll spend hours weeks
months on doing track work and scenery and then all of a sudden just pull it
out and start over again because they were undecided about what they wanted to
do whenever you do something on your model railroad stick to it
even though if it doesn't look good stick to it anyway because that
indecision is going to cost you money it's gonna cost you time it's gonna cost
you effort it's gonna cost you everything that you have done all that
good work that you have done even if you do have that indecision stick with it
modify it make it work so it works for you so you don't have to go back and do
it all over again from scratch and then once you get it done and start it over
again you're gonna say oh my god why didn't I keep that there that
was good anyway so indecision is a big thing that you have to avoid because
even though you think you're doing something wrong
it may not be wrong it's gonna be okay you could use it somewhere on your
layout it's gonna be placed somewhere on there you could use it for parts or
anything but just because you have something and you're undecided about
what you want to do with it or you don't know where to go with it keep it keep it
going get rid of that indecision about what
you want to do so there you go that's 5 more mistakes that you can avoid
just by listening to what I have to say that's all you got to do I had 10 before
and here's 5 more just pay attention listen try to avoid all those mistakes
and you're gonna have a good time with your model railroad with your hobby so
have fun with it like I said before if you have any comments or questions about
anything about the first 10 or this 5 mistakes leave a comment down below
in the comment sections and I'll be glad to answer them that's what I'm here for
to answer your questions and if I don't have the answer for your questions
I'll direct you in the right or I'll point you in the right direction so you
could find out what that answer is and you can also not only on the comment
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