Just For Fun

These videos are ones we enjoyed making - just for fun. We hope you enjoy watching them!
Member video: A Set-Out and a Pick-up

Member video: A Set-Out and a Pick-up

"A Set-Out and a Pick-up" was the second place winner in the model category in...

John Brennan’s Chicago, Peoria & Western Canton Branch

John Brennan’s Chicago, Peoria & Western Canton Branch

Owner: John Brennan Prototype Modeled: Interchange with EJ&E, IC , CB&Q Reporting Marks: CP&W Layout...

Layout Tour – Willoughby Line with Guy Cantwell

Layout Tour – Willoughby Line with Guy Cantwell

This HO scale masterpiece is a double-deck proto-lance 1950s-era layout built by Guy Cantwell that...

Making of the HO scale Aerotrain

Making of the HO scale Aerotrain

This is a short segment of which many were unaware was at the end of...

Trains Presents: Big Boy No. 4005 at the Forney Museum

Trains Presents: Big Boy No. 4005 at the Forney Museum

We visit Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4005 at Denver’s Forney Museum of Transportation, one...

BNSF Days 2018 at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

BNSF Days 2018 at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

Three CMRM volunteer trains brought to Colorado Model Railroad Museum's BNSF Days are featured. There...

Trains Presents: Inside Brightline’s new trains

Trains Presents: Inside Brightline’s new trains

Join us at Brightline’s Workshop B in West Palm Beach, Fla., for a look inside...

VIDEO HO scale St George

VIDEO HO scale St George

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page John Ottman's HO...

City Terminal & Transfer Series: Episode 4 – Foam, Fascia, Fun

City Terminal & Transfer Series: Episode 4 – Foam, Fascia, Fun

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Layout construction continues...

City Terminal & Transfer Series: Episode 3 – Plywood Aplenty

City Terminal & Transfer Series: Episode 3 – Plywood Aplenty

In this episode, David and Kent top off the framework for the 5 x 9-foot...

City Terminal & Transfer Series: Episode 2 – Legs for a Layout

City Terminal & Transfer Series: Episode 2 – Legs for a Layout

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page A layout needs...

Custom HO scale Aerotrain – 1950s movie and how it was made

Custom HO scale Aerotrain – 1950s movie and how it was made

A 1950s-style documentary of my HO scale Aerotrain locomotive and observation car. Now a fully...

Trains Presents: Peru 2017 tour, day 6

Trains Presents: Peru 2017 tour, day 6

We wake up en route between Arequipa and Puno, spy Alco diesel locomotives, and end...

Trains Presents: Peru 2017 tour, day 7

Trains Presents: Peru 2017 tour, day 7

Ride with Editor Jim Wrinn through Peru's scenic river valleys and tour the Belmond Andean...

Trains Presents: Peru 2017 tour, day 8

Trains Presents: Peru 2017 tour, day 8

Join us on the ultimate train ride to the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu. Enjoy...

JLWII2000 Video: Athearn Genesis HO EMD SD70M

JLWII2000 Video: Athearn Genesis HO EMD SD70M

    In this exclusive video for Model Railroader from James Wright of the JLWII2000...

Taiwan Puyuma Express cab ride video, part 1

Taiwan Puyuma Express cab ride video, part 1

Ride with Trains author Jeffery T. Schultz on Taiwan's Puyuma Express in a tilting train!...

Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for April 2018

Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for April 2018

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page A new Amtrak...

Cody’s Workshop: Episode 26 – Modeling emergency grain cars, Part 1

Cody’s Workshop: Episode 26 – Modeling emergency grain cars, Part 1

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode,...

Off The Rails: Episode 24

Off The Rails: Episode 24

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Finally! Wally the...