Just For Fun

These videos are ones we enjoyed making - just for fun. We hope you enjoy watching them!
BNSF Coal Operations

BNSF Coal Operations

The bulk of my layout is set in Wyoming with a bit of Colorado and...

CSW CSX Rail Train

CSW CSX Rail Train

A loaded CSX ribbon rail train traverses the, in-progress, Chesapeake, Susquehanna and Western RR on...

Jerry Fassnacht’s Pennsy & Reading RR

Jerry Fassnacht’s Pennsy & Reading RR

Jerry Fassnacht’s HO scale Pennsy & Reading RR layout is located in Palm Harbor, Florida....

Uintah Mallet No. 50 at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

Uintah Mallet No. 50 at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

In this video, the Uintah Railway Mallet No. 50 and a 2-8-8-2 Rio Grande articulated...

Canadian Canyons Sidetrack: Slide Sheds in SketchUp, Part 2

Canadian Canyons Sidetrack: Slide Sheds in SketchUp, Part 2

Eric White is back at the computer to refine his SketchUp design for a 3-D...

Canadian Canyons Sidetrack: Slide Sheds in SketchUp, Part 1

Canadian Canyons Sidetrack: Slide Sheds in SketchUp, Part 1

For his second sidetrack series to our Canadian Canyons project, MR's Eric White tackles construction...

Video 101: Talking pictures

Video 101: Talking pictures

We can do something with our videos that frontier photographers could not. We can make...

Canadian Canyons Series: Part 31 – Surfacing with Shaper Sheet

Canadian Canyons Series: Part 31 – Surfacing with Shaper Sheet

Drew and Kent have relied on paper-based Sculptamold to fill in the sloped mountainside thus...

Designing and setting up a removable staging cassette

Designing and setting up a removable staging cassette

This video demonstrates how Thomas Klimoski designed and set up a removable staging cassette on...

Bob’s Train Box: Episode 67

Bob’s Train Box: Episode 67

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Bob Keller of...

Video Step by Step: Weathering metal siding

Video Step by Step: Weathering metal siding

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page After assembling several...

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

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

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

Off The Rails: Episode 22

Off The Rails: Episode 22

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Our beloved show...

Let’s Make A Scene: Episode 4

Let’s Make A Scene: Episode 4

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Host Kathy Millatt...

MRVP Layout Visit: Michael Schrier’s O gauge layout

MRVP Layout Visit: Michael Schrier’s O gauge layout

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page MR Video Plus...

Charlie’s Trackside Postcards: West with the Sun

Charlie’s Trackside Postcards: West with the Sun

Charlie and his wife explore railroad-related sites in and around Evanston, Wyoming, before returning westward...

Ask MRVP: Episode 33

Ask MRVP: Episode 33

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page In this Olympic-themed...

Grand Trunk Western steam sounds

Grand Trunk Western steam sounds

Listen to GTW steam audio recordings from Art Weber's album, Detroit Division, recorded in 1959, accompanied...

Coast Daylight eastbound at Guadalupe, Calif.

Coast Daylight eastbound at Guadalupe, Calif.

Train 98, the eastbound Coast Daylight, storms through Guadalupe Calif. in the Fall of 1954....

Operating the Santa Cruz Northern, Part 1

Operating the Santa Cruz Northern, Part 1

This series covers the operations of Jim Providenza's Santa Cruz Northern model railroad. In this...