Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Custom layout builders Dan and Armando Vargas highlight several of their model railroad and racetrack re-creations in this PBS Tracks Ahead segment. […]
Section: Videos
MRVP Video Vault – Airbrushing for Model Railroaders: Basic techniques and cleaning
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this 1980s vintage video, MR Contributor Allen Keller demostrates specific techniques used when painting and weathering railroad models with an airbrush. He also shares tips for cleaning an airbrush after use. […]
Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for January 2016
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Check out new HO and N scale freight cars and locomotives with Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno. Cody will also give you tips for weathering roadways with paint and an airbrush as he puts the finishing touches on his N scale T-Trak […]
Tracks Ahead: Season 9 – Images of the Past
Custom layout builders Dan and Armando Vargas highlight several of their model railroad and racetrack re-creations in this PBS Tracks Ahead segment. […]
DCC Programming: episode 18 – speed table programming
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Hosts Dana Kawala and Ben Lake continue the discussion on JMRI DecoderPro. In this video, the guys will demonstrate how to fine-tune locomotive speed control and share tips on speed matching. You’ll see just how much easier and quicker these steps are to […]
Rehab My Railroad Sidetrack Series: Madison Depot, Part 1 – Here’s the plan
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this sidetrack video series of Rehab My Railroad, host David Popp shares some of the plans and processes he’s using to build the Madison passenger station for Chuck Sable’s HO scale C&NW basement layout. David gets things started by talking through the […]
MRVP Video Vault – Airbrushing for Model Railroaders: Basic techniques and cleaning
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this 1980s vintage video, MR Contributor Allen Keller demostrates specific techniques used when painting and weathering railroad models with an airbrush. He also shares tips for cleaning an airbrush after use. […]
MRVP Video Vault – Layout Tour: Don and John Santel’s HO Ohio, Michigan, & South Shore RR
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Allen Keller hosts a visit to Don and John Santel’s OM&SS HO scale layouts. You won’t want to miss seeing Don’s operating hump yard! […]
Video: Rio Grande in the Rockies
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Mike Danneman’s N scale Moffat Road model train layout is set in the Colorado. Watch Rio Grande freight trains and they run through the detailed scenes on this 18′-6″ x 24′-9″ model railroad. […]
T-Trak Group Project: Video Blog – Recap
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page As a fitting finale to the T-Trak Group Project efforts, MRVP’s Kent Johnson sits down with each builder to inspect his/her completed module and talk briefly about the lessons learned! […]
Track and wiring for the HO scale Eagle Mountain RR
Associate editor Eric White continues his behind-the-scenes look at building the Model Railroader staff’s latest project model train layout. In this installment, Eric describes how he laid out the track plan full size on the benchwork tabletop, including how he used curve and turnout templates. He’ll also show you the basics of how he laid […]
Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 29 – Fraser River Foray
Host Drew Halverson heads to the Northwest and back across the Canadian border to begin his most ambitious railfan outing yet! Drew enlists MRVP’s Kent Johnson and pilot pal Charlie Conway to help capture railroad action in one of the most picturesque river canyons in North America. Drew and the crew also catch BNSF street […]