Take a look inside the Fort Wayne, Ind., hub of Norfolk Southern subsidiary Triple Crown Services. You’ll see a variety of motive power with this unique RoadRailer freight equipment that is now largely retired. Only from Trains Magazine! For another look at the Triple Crown RoadRailer trains, check out our Norfolk Southern’s Fostoria District video. […]
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Ask MRVP: Episode 22
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Back to business! Host David Popp has swapped out his Hawaiian shirt for an MR shop apron and a long list of your questions to answer. This month, hobby-related inquiries cover wiring concerns, trackwork troubles, scenery material selection, plus skirts and pan flutes. […]
Trains Presents: Winter at the Iron Triangle
Visit Fostoria, Ohio’s famous train-watching Iron Triangle in winter! See CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern freights and now-historic Triple Crown RoadRailer trains. Bought to you by Trains Magazine! See more trains around the city with Trains‘ Fostoria photo gallery! You can also follow along Norfolk Southern’s Fostoria District with our three-part video series, also part […]
Trains Presents: Ringling Bros.’ circus train in Virginia
Join Kevin Gilliam on another look at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train in 2015, this time in rural southwestern Virginia. Only from Trains! […]
MRVP Video Vault – Layout Tour: Lou Ullian’s O scale Coon Creek Lumber Co.
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP Video Vault tours Lou Ullian’s Coon Creek Lumber Co. On3 (O scale, 3-foot narrow gauge) logging layout originally featured in the 1991 premier edition of Great Model Railroads (out of print). […]
Codys Office 200th episode special video
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page For more than 8 years, associate editor Cody Grivno has presented modeling railroading tips and more than 1,200 new model railroad products. Model Railroader Video Plus favorites Drew Halverson and Hal Miller add play-by-play commentary and Jenny Maaske practices her referee skills in […]
Off The Rails: Episode 9
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page It’s confirmed. Our pal and Contributing Editor Gerry Leone is full of hot air! In this episode of MRVP’s Off The Rails, he puts it to good use as he dusts off an old technique/tool for applying scenery to a model railroad. […]
MRVP Video Vault – Layout Tour: Lou Ullian’s O scale Coon Creek Lumber Co.
MRVP Video Vault tours Lou Ullian’s Coon Creek Lumber Co. On3 (O scale, 3-foot narrow gauge) logging layout originally featured in the 1991 premier edition of Great Model Railroads (out of print). […]
Charlie’s Trackside Postcards: Dawn at the East Portal
Charlie continues his chase into Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Range. The destination for Day Two is the historic Moffat Tunnel, where Union Pacific and Amtrak trains take turns powering through the East Portal. […]
Charlie’s Trackside Postcards: Over The Mountains, Not Through Them
Our Charlie Conway skates away from a sunny day of skiing to explore the railroad action along the former Denver & Rio Grande Western (now Union Pacific) main line routing through Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, not around them! […]
Charlie’s Trackside Postcards – Breakfast at Skykomish
A heavy Washington-state snowstorm lands Charlie Conway in a snow globe setting at Skykomish. True to form, Chas still manages to make his way trackside to share Season’s Greetings… and a sleigh-full of BNSF trains too! […]
Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 34 – Iron Range Expedition
Our Boys of Summer start the year by sharing their Iron Range Expedition! Last summer, Drew Halverson, Mike Danneman, Charlie Conway, and Kent Johnson rallied in the Upper Midwest to trek from the Twin Cities to the Twin Ports to Two Harbors, Minnesota. Join them as they tour rare sights at Duluth’s Lake Superior Railroad […]