Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Now that spring has arrived, Host Hal Miller shifts the roundtable discussion to garden railroading. Two first-time guests, Garden Railways magazine editor Marc Horovitz and MRVP’s Kent Johnson, share their enthusiasm for running big (Large scale) trains in the great outdoors. Along with […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Frank Henry Fieler’s HO scale Sandy Fork Lumber Co. is a freelanced HO scale model railroad that’s set in West Virginia in the 1960s. The layout is inspired by the Elk River Coal & Lumber Co. and other West Virginia logging railroads. Watch […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page For this episode of Cody’s Workshop, Cody heads to Model Railroader‘s HO scale layout, the MR&T. As he completes the Big Bend remodeling project on the layout, Cody shows how easy it is to enhance a scene with small details like wood guardrail […]
It’s sugar beet season! Union Pacific has assigned its biggest, baddest motive power to haul a record crop to themarket. This is an Overland Models three-unit “Big Blow” gas turbine in HO scale that I modified with LED lighting, two QSI Titan decoders (one in the lead unit generating the diesel sounds, another in the […]
Watch video of big Louisville & Nashville steam locomotives on special trains into Louisville for the 1956 Kentucky Derby from the Herron Rail Video program Reflections of American Railroading. […]
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Senior editor Dana Kawala installed a SoundTraxx Tsunami KT-1000 Digital Command Control sound decoder into an HO scale Kato USA General Electric P42. Watch the DCC-sound-equipped locomotive as it hauls an Amtrak passenger train around the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader contributing editor Pelle Søeborg installed MagnaLock air brake lines (hoses) from North American Railcar Corp. on his HO scale freight cars. In this video you can see how the air hoses work during switching moves on Pelle’s Union Pacific Daneville Sub model train […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Associate editor Cody Grivno is working on fixing up an old scene on the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. He’ll show you a handy modeling tip for making realistic roads out of styrene. You’ll also see a selection of new […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode of Cody’s Workshop, Cody tackles a quick-hitting project to enhance an N scale etched-brass fence by adding posts made from styrene stock. He also demos a compact nibbler tool designed for making window and door openings on styrene sheet material. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Dana shows just how easy is it to add realism to a DCC-equipped locomotive simply by programming a momentum effect. In this demonstration, you’ll see how the momentum function eliminates those sudden starts and stops that occur when operating a locomotive straight […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Hal Miller has guests Cody Grinvo and Drew Halverson talk about cameras, railfanning, and great trackside places to eat in this video installment of The Roundhouse. […]
