Layout Visits

These videos feature model railroads from around the country.
The Big Cab Ride at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

The Big Cab Ride at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

Ride in a Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive as we travel from Lakeview to Klamath...

B&M NH Mainline – Ballasting the Track

B&M NH Mainline – Ballasting the Track

This is the second part of a two-part series where I demonstrate the process I...

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...

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...

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...

Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward at Skykomish

Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward at Skykomish

Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward at Skykomish: By accident, I have a car about 2/3rds...

UP 8500 turbine at Tye

UP 8500 turbine at Tye

Check out this UP 8500 turbine at Tye. Video by Sam Parfitt.

Video: HO scale Johnstown & Gerryville

Video: HO scale Johnstown & Gerryville

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How to build an operating gate and derail

How to build an operating gate and derail

This video highlights how Thomas Klimoski built an operating gate and derail for his Georgia...

David McLean’s HO scale model railroad

David McLean’s HO scale model railroad

Take a tour of David McLean's HO scale 5 x 10 tabletop model railroad. He...

Extreme Trains at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum – The Oil Cans

Extreme Trains at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum – The Oil Cans

The January 2018 Extreme Trains event at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum starred the Southern...

Sonora Pass – SP Daylight

Sonora Pass – SP Daylight

Take a trip with the Southern Pacific Daylight over the fictional N scale Sonora Pass....

Sundance Central RR

Sundance Central RR

Sundance Central Railroad is comprised of four different railroads: one Fn3 scale and three On30...

Sweeper train on the Gopher Canyon Line

Sweeper train on the Gopher Canyon Line

Name: Steve Seidensticker Railroad Name: Gopher Canyon Line Location: San Diego Scale: #1 (1:32) Description:...

B&M NH Mainline – Preparing to Ballast the Track

B&M NH Mainline – Preparing to Ballast the Track

I finally started to ballast the B&M NH Mainline. I learned a few things about...

HO scale Grand Valley

HO scale Grand Valley