Just For Fun

These videos are ones we enjoyed making - just for fun. We hope you enjoy watching them!
Layout Visit: Signal Operations on Dave Abeles’ Conrail Onondaga Cutoff

Layout Visit: Signal Operations on Dave Abeles’ Conrail Onondaga Cutoff

Modeler Dave Abeles shares insights on the signal installations and operations on his HO scale...

Colorado’s Broadmoor, Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway is back

Colorado’s Broadmoor, Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway is back

A $100 million rebuild from the track to the trains has the iconic railroad to...

Monticello Railway Museum visit

Monticello Railway Museum visit

  Join Trains for a 2021 visit to Illinois’ Monticello Railway Museum located in the...

A steeple cab, EMD GP9, and boxcar, plus modeling tips and viewer mail!

A steeple cab, EMD GP9, and boxcar, plus modeling tips and viewer mail!

Welcome back to episode 270 of Cody's Office! Group technical editor Cody Grivno is here...

How to clean old, rusty, and dirty track

How to clean old, rusty, and dirty track

Bought or inherited a load of tubular track? CTT editor Hal Miller shows his method...

Back on Track: Planning a switching area, Episode 9

Back on Track: Planning a switching area, Episode 9

Back on Track gets back to the track! In this episode, host Gerry Leone shares...

Back on Track: Fixing a few helix flaws, Episode 7

Back on Track: Fixing a few helix flaws, Episode 7

Series host Gerry Leone is definitely playing catch up in this episode, as he works...

Back on Track: Painting & installing a backdrop, Episode 8

Back on Track: Painting & installing a backdrop, Episode 8

Bound and determined to build it better than his previous layout, Gerry walks through his...

Bob’s Train Box Episode 71

Bob’s Train Box Episode 71

On this episode of Bob’s Train Box, Bob and CTT editor Hal Miller get an...

Big Skies & Iron Rails, Summer, Episode 4

Big Skies & Iron Rails, Summer, Episode 4

The summertime heat is hardly enough to keep western rail adventurer Tom Danneman away from...

Athearn Genesis 2.0 EMD SD60M ‘Tri-Clops’

Athearn Genesis 2.0 EMD SD60M ‘Tri-Clops’

Join Eric White trackside as he reviews the Athearn EMD SD60M 'Tri-Clops' locomotive! Learn all...

How to lubricate your locomotives

How to lubricate your locomotives

In this Workbench Minute video, CTT editor Hal Miller shows the basics of locomotive lubrication...

Colorado Railroad Museum: Three in Steam

Colorado Railroad Museum: Three in Steam

The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden in May operated all three of its restored steam...

An EMD GP40 and covered hopper, a guidebook, modeling tips, and viewer mail

An EMD GP40 and covered hopper, a guidebook, modeling tips, and viewer mail

It’s episode 269 of Cody’s Office, and group technical editor Cody Grivno is here to...

Rio Grande narrow gauge action

Rio Grande narrow gauge action

The movie camera of R. R. “Dick” Wallin finds 3-foot-gauge Mikados at work in Colorado...

Nighttime Operations on Dave Abeles’ Conrail Onondaga Cutoff

Nighttime Operations on Dave Abeles’ Conrail Onondaga Cutoff

Railroading is an industry that operates around the clock, and modeler Dave Abeles proves that...

Keep your adhesive bottles ready to use

Keep your adhesive bottles ready to use

Staff member Rene Schweitzer demonstrates ways to make sure your adhesives are always ready to...

Keep your adhesive bottles ready to use

Keep your adhesive bottles ready to use

Staff member Rene Schweitzer demonstrates ways to make sure your adhesives are always ready to...

HO scale Walthers Turnouts

HO scale Walthers Turnouts

Follow along with Eric White as he works on the MR&T to replace some of...

South Dakota State Railroad Museum’s HO scale display layout

South Dakota State Railroad Museum’s HO scale display layout

Make a trek to this tourist railroad site in Hill City, SD, and you can...