Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Check out the latest locomotives, rolling stock, and other N, HO, and O scale model train products to arrive in Cody’s Office. In addition, Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno will show you how to install Kadee operating knuckle couplers on HO scale […]
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Tracks Ahead: Season 9 – Morris Arboretum garden railway
Visit the University of Pennsylvania’s Morris Arboretum garden railway in this segment from the PBS series Tracks Ahead. […]
Red Oak Series: Modeling a farm field
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The farm scene on Model Railroader magazine’s 3 x 7-foot N scale Red Oak layout needed a cornfield. MRVP’s David Popp shows you how he made quick work of this modeling task by installing commercial grass mats using white glue. […]
A visit to The Train Room
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Member video: Old time log loading
This video features prototypical log loading on flatcars in the Cloquet Valley, Minnesota. The homemade log jammer is modeled after a photograph of an early unit. Technique and tools are typical of the time. Also shows the process of moving logs from the woods. Was in use about 1920, but could have been used up […]
Ask MRVP: Episode 2
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page You ask, we answer! In this new episode of Ask MRVP, host David Popp recruits Kent, Cody, Dana, and Drew to help address some of the comments, questions, tips, and suggestions you left following the MR Video Plus debut of this show. If […]
Leviathan in steam
David Kloke tells Trains readers about his latest project to build a replica of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral car in the June 2015 issue of Trains. While we wait to see that project roll on rails, we can enjoy a video showing off Kloke’s major claim to fame: a complete, operational replica of an 1860s steam […]
Video: Kato Sound Box analog sound controller for model trains
The Kato Sound Box provides an easy way to add realistic sound effects to a direct-current (DC) layout without having to install Digital Command Control (DCC). Senior editor Dana Kawala demonstrates the Sound Box connected to a Kato power pack on the Model Railroader staff’s N scale Red Oak project model train layout. […]
Red Oak Series: Paving roads
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader magazine’s Steve Otte shows how to add a realistic paved roadway to any model railroad, including Model Railroader magazine’s 3 x 7-foot N scale Red Oak layout. The secret behind Steve’s success is the Woodland Scenics Smooth-It road system, but […]
MR Insider Exclusive: Printing Model Railroader at Quad/Graphics
Ever wonder how Model Railroader magazine is printed, bound, and distributed to you every single month of the year? Through special arrangements with Quad/Graphics, a rail-served American printing company, host Jenny Maaske and MRVP video crew follow knowledgeable Quad employees through the Sussex, Wisconsin, plant as a new issue of MR is published. Watch from […]