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These videos are ones we enjoyed making - just for fun. We hope you enjoy watching them!
East Broad Top No. 16 Debut

East Broad Top No. 16 Debut

Leaving Orbisonia, Pa., on a rainy day in February 2023, EBT steam locomotive No. 16...

Midday Modeler for February 22, 2023

Midday Modeler for February 22, 2023

The behind the scenes action on the freemo-org.com layout continues, as David and Eric provide...

Build a brake system for a resin car kit

Build a brake system for a resin car kit

Host Eric White demonstrates how to assemble an underbody brake system for a resin car...

Big Skies & Iron Rails, Hauling Freight

Big Skies & Iron Rails, Hauling Freight

With our intrepid railfan Tom Danneman behind the camera, even a seemingly mundane manifest or...

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 8 | Time for trackwork

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 8 | Time for trackwork

Host David Popp has the track and cork roadbed in hand, so he’s all set...

Atlas HO scale Electro-Motive Division MP15DC

Atlas HO scale Electro-Motive Division MP15DC

Atlas HO scale Electro-Motive Division MP15DC. An Atlas Model Railroad Co. end-cab diesel locomotive decorated...

Santa Maria Valley No. 205 at Work

Santa Maria Valley No. 205 at Work

Newly restored Santa Maria Valley 2-6-2 number 205 is under steam at the Albany and...

Midday Modeler for February 16, 2023

Midday Modeler for February 16, 2023

David chats with Eric about wiring specs on the latest project model railroad. Cody explains...

Trains LIVE – Ridin’ the Rail Gliders

Trains LIVE – Ridin’ the Rail Gliders

Trains LIVE: Ridin' the Rail Gliders — 2-15-2023 — On tourist railroads, railcycles are gaining...

Soo Line No. 1003 Photo Special

Soo Line No. 1003 Photo Special

In coordination with the Kalmbach Media sponsored TrainFest hobby show in Milwaukee, Wisc., the Steam...

Hitching a ride on the Lionel Hobo Sounds Boxcar

Hitching a ride on the Lionel Hobo Sounds Boxcar

Chris from Chris's Trains and Things on YouTube takes us inside the Lionel Hobo Sounds...

Menards Fury Motors, new O gauge test track on Bob’s Train Box 87

Menards Fury Motors, new O gauge test track on Bob’s Train Box 87

Welcome to the first Bob's Train Box of 2023! On this episode, Bob and CTT...

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 7 | Ambient sounds for Sand Creek

Olympia & Sand Creek, Episode 7 | Ambient sounds for Sand Creek

David works to put all the right sounds in all the right places on his...

Spaces to Places III | Making a highway, part 4

Spaces to Places III | Making a highway, part 4

Work on the highway underpass settings concludes. Watch as host Gerry Leone shares techniques for...

Ask Trains.com compilation February 2023

Ask Trains.com compilation February 2023

Ask Trains.com compilation February 2023: In this new format for Ask Trains.com, Cody addresses reader...

Midday Modeler for February 8, 2023

Midday Modeler for February 8, 2023

David Popp is back hosting this week's Midday Modeler. Eric and Steve begin laying track...

N scale General Motors Diesel Division GP40-2W from Atlas

N scale General Motors Diesel Division GP40-2W from Atlas

An N scale General Motors Diesel Division GP40-2W from Atlas recently toured our Milwaukee, Racine...

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Better rail joiners for your layout

Better rail joiners for your layout

Working with rail joiners is difficult for many model railroaders. Rail joiners are the weakest...

Operating the layout — State Line Route in N scale, Episode 26

Operating the layout — State Line Route in N scale, Episode 26

Operating the layout | In the previous Episode 25 (Car routing with JMRI OperationsPro), you...