Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page From the biggest blades to sharp-edge, foil-cutting snippets, host Gerry Leone trims the topic of hobby saws down to size! Watch this episode of OTR to learn which saws make Gerry’s cut of the ideal products to keep at your workbench or layout. […]
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Let’s Make A Scene: Episode 7
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode, Kathy Millatt puts you on the route to successfully modeling muddy rural roads for your layout. Here again, brown floor tile grout plays a key role in making the ruts look so realistic. Watch and learn her tips, tricks, and […]
How-to Library: DCC Sound Decoder Installation for Small Steam Locomotives
In this episode of MRVP Tech, David Popp dives into adding a DCC sound decoder to a Bachmann steam locomotive. Although the OO scale model of a British shunting engine isn’t a typical MRVP subject, Dave show it’s a perfect candidate for demonstrating how to fit a few Soundtraxx products into rather tight quarters! David […]
Ask MRVP: Episode 36
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Host David Popp brings out the Hawaiian shirt and special co-host for this summertime episode of Ask MRVP! MRVP’s own Charlie Conway rides along to help answer your inquires related to trackwork, pink insulation foam board, wiring, scenery, and more. Watch, learn, enjoy, […]
Passenger service on the FC&W Railroad
Name: Trevor Park Railroad Name: Fern Creek and Western Railroad Location: Santa Cruz, CA Scale: 1:20.3 Theme: Coastal Mountain Narrow Gauge Description: Engine #3, on lease from the South Pacific Coast Railway, leads a passenger train over the Fern Creek and Western Garden Railroad between the towns of Parkston and Ericsville. Complete with station stops […]
Steaming in April snow
Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Bellflower Cricket steaming in the snow […]
Steaming in the snow
Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Live steam Regner Konrad steaming during a spring snow. […]
Summertime logging
Name: Shawn Vigggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Summertime logging with live steam Regner Class A Climax and scratch built log cars and log loader. […]
Great Northern Pacific caboose view
Ride along on a trip around Dan Flanagan’s Great Northern Pacific HO scale layout. He mounted a GoPro camera on a flatcar at boxcar height, with a caboose roof just under the lens, and put it at the end of a freight pulled by a 2-8-0 Consolidation. […]
Southern Pacific Extreme Trains at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum
Mid-1950s Southern Pacific trains are featured in this edition of Extreme Trains: a 106 car mixed freight with three cab forward helpers; The City of San Francisco streamliner with Alco PAs; and a PFE refrigerator train with two cab forward locomotives. Video by Bill Rogers. […]
Lester Perry’s Chesapeake & Ohio RR – Westbound
Lester Perry’s HO scale Chesapeake & Ohio model railroad was built in a 13′ x 17′ out building with a dirt floor and no electricity — more than 300 feet from the main building. He used an MRC DCC system. Video by Bill Fagan. […]
Trains on the Chicago “L”
Name: Robert Mayer Forum User Name: Robert Mayer Railroad Name: Robert Mayer Location: Tucson Az Scale: O Theme: Chicago “L” Description: The layout depicts trains run by the Chicago Transit Authority. […]