Before the trackwork can be added to MRVP’s On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout, David Popp first makes a few modifications to the turnouts. In this video, he guides you through trimming the ties, preparing the connection points, soldering new wires, cutting the rails, and testing the modifications – steps that are intended to make […]
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Modelers Spotlight Video: Inside Cody’s Office for May 2014
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Big diesels abound in this episode of Cody’s Office. This month Cody takes a look at prototype-specific HO scale SDP45 diesel locomotives from Athearn Trains. He’ll also show you HO scale ES44AC and SD70ACe diesels decked out in Norfolk Southern heritage paint schemes […]
Modelers Spotlight Video: Inside Cody’s Office for May 2014
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Big diesels abound in this episode of Cody’s Office. This month Cody takes a look at prototype-specific HO scale SDP45 diesel locomotives from Athearn Trains. He’ll also show you HO scale ES44AC and SD70ACe diesels decked out in Norfolk Southern heritage paint schemes […]
Olympia Logging Series: Part 5 – installing subroadbed
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Now that the framework and backdrop are in place on MRVP’s On30 Olympia Logging Co. layout, work can continue on installing the plywood surface used to support track and scenery. In this video, David takes you through the cutting, fitting, and assembling steps, […]
DCC Programming: episode 7 – Programming modes
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader magazine’s Dana Kawala addresses basic DCC programming modes. Dana first talks through Operations mode programming on the main, as well as Service mode programming. As with every episode in this helpful DCC Programming series, Dana shows you the essential steps, while the […]
DCC Programming: episode 7 – Programming modes
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader magazine’s Dana Kawala addresses basic DCC programming modes. Dana first talks through Operations mode programming on the main, as well as Service mode programming. As with every episode in this helpful DCC Programming series, Dana shows you the essential steps, while […]
The Roundhouse: Episode 18
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 […]
The Roundhouse: Episode 18
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 […]
Olympia Logging Series: Part 6 – building a sector plate
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The sector plate used to transfer trains from one track to another is just one of the many intriguing features included on MRVP’s On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout. David Popp walks you through sector plate and base assembly, installation, and alignment steps, […]
Olympia Logging Series: Part 6 – building a sector plate
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The sector plate used to transfer trains from one track to another is just one of the many intriguing features included on MRVP’s On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout. David Popp walks you through sector plate and base assembly, installation, and alignment steps, […]
Video: HO scale Sandy Fork Lumber Co
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 […]
Video: HO scale Sandy Fork Lumber Co
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 […]