Name: JANIS ROGUSKIE Railroad Name: Reading Lines Location: My attic Scale: Lionel O gauge Description: I scratchbuilt a Reading Company style lattice column bracket post signal for my Lionel hi-rail layout. This slide show is a video record of the project […]
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Super O Easter display
Name: JANIS ROGUSKIE Railroad Name: Easter display Scale: Lionel Super-O Theme: 1960’s Display Layout Description: Video of my Lionel Super-O 2017 Easter Display. […]
Trains Presents: More circus trains
Join Kevin Gilliam trackside in North Carolina in February 2017 for a day when both red and blue units of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train pass by. Only from Trains! […]
Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for April 2017
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Get a quick demo of Atlas Model Railroad Co.’s new HO scale ALP-45DP locomotive and cars and a look at other new model railroading products in this month’s episode of Cody’s Office. For his modeling tip, Cody heads down to the workshop where […]
Dick Kitz’s Newton Creek Railroad
Dick Kitz started this layout in 1970. It has been moved once to the present site. The primary railroad is Union Pacific, but he also has Southern Pacific. The railroad scenery is Colorado-based with narrow, as well as standard gauge. It’s in HO and HOn3, DCC. Most of the rail is hand-laid, although the newer […]
Pacing the Empire Builder
Pacing GN’s Empire Builder westward through the Cascades and the City of Everett in Western Washington State, circa Spring of 1950 on Lee Marsh’s HO scale layout. […]
Willow Creek Railroad – Operations: Local freights
This video is part of a planned series that highlights operations on the Willow Creek Railroad, an HO-scale 400-square-foot layout set in the early 1950s. This video describes and demonstrates the operations of Local Freight trains on the layout as we follow the work of the River Job Turn. Video by Rod Vance. […]
Ask MRVP: Episode 24
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Looks like show host David Popp (and the crew too) has a case of spring fever! What a perfect reason for this episode of Ask MRVP to venture into “wild” Wisconsin! This month, David tackles Q&As from the MR workshop, the aisles of […]
Another N scale micro layout
Here is a time-lapse video of the construction of my latest N scale micro-layout project. The layout is a bit less than 24″ in diameter and features a track radius that averages around 9″. The track is ballasted and weathered Kato Unitrack, and the overall layout construction is foam insulation board on top of a […]
How-to Library: Airbrushing with Aaron – Episode 5, Prime Time
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page To prime or not to prime…that is the question FineScale Modeler senior editor Aaron Skinner addresses in this episode of Airbrushing with Aaron. It really is a tale of two tanks, as Aaron demonstrates techniques for applying primer to a model railroad […]
Video: Bachmann SoundValue HO scale EMD E7A
An Electro-Motive Division E7A passenger diesel joins the Bachmann Trains’ SoundValue line of HO scale locomotives. This detailed model features a dual-mode SoundTraxx decoder. See the E7A in action hauling a passenger train along the main line of the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine & Troy layout. […]
Canadian Canyons Series: Part 4 – Alignment pins and additions
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Connecting plates and frame sections are in place. Now watch as David shows how to install the steel alignment pins that make it possible to attach the removable section perfectly every time! As a bonus, David also shares a way to reinforce floppy […]