Midday Modeler — 06.22.2022. This week Kent Johnson hosts our weekly Midday Modeler video from the Kent’s own outdoor garden railroad in southeast Wisconsin.
This week, Kent gives a quick tour to the audience to show off the railroad as a whole, then dives right in with Rene Schweitzer, the long-time production editor for Garden Railways. Kent also chats with digital editor Steve Sweeney, who gives him a dwarf mugo pine, a creeping thyme, and “driveway scrapings” for the layout. Last, but not least, Garden Railways editor Hal Miller puts on the classy white gloves to show off chromed-up Santa Fe cab units as they take a spin on the railroad. All of this, along with Jenny Freeland and Ben Lake. Only at Trains.com!
Midday Modeler is a new, regular video segment, recorded live and unscripted from Kalmbach Media beginning in February 2022.
The segment features Kalmbach Media staff modeling and talking about model railroads in a casual format. It is unscripted and broadcast live via Facebook on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. Central time each week. Anyone who sees the video on Facebook can comment and ask questions, or just say “hi!”
Shortly after the Facebook live stream, the Midday Modeler — 06.22.2022 video is taken down from Facebook and posted to Trains.com where it is available only to Model Railroader Video Plus members and Trains.com Unlimited Members.
What happened to Midday Modeler? No new episodes since 6/22/2022. Has this been eliminated already?
It was an excellent addition to Trains.com
Apparently no 7/6 either. What are we paying for besides magazine archive?
Enjoying all Midday Modeler episodes. None for 6.29.2022?
Great video of garden railroading, bless you Kent for taking on this challenging part of the hobby. Steve had a great idea of using “dwarf mugo pine”, great plant to replicate modeled evergreens on your layout. The other plant I’d recommend is “Bearberry” as a nice evergreen groundcover, works in that hardiness zone and looks great at that scale, easy to take care of as well. Thanks
No 6/29 Midday Modeler? Has this feature been killed already?
Really enjoyed the outdoor segment. Thanks!
please use microphone covers or remote wireless microphones.
casus planned last year what is its name
Use LGB rubber track connectors.
make a water fall using your stone wall
Enjoyed watching! Thanks.
One effective method of ‘relocating’ ground squirrels and other vermin, is to spray a little silver fox urine into their holes. Foxes are natural predators of small mammals. They will depart to safer grounds pretty quickly. You can find such a product at hunter supply stores. I believe it’s used to mask human scent.
Hey Goffer, shove the garden hose down that goffer hole, let it rip. The expansion version should have a Cienega Creek High Bridge. I can get you more cactus.
Your audio system sucks.
Polymeric sand is great to use to hold pavers, etc together and eliminate that 4 letter word … WEED! My wife and I recently finished locking in our backyard brick patio. We’d grown tired of digging out the grasses and such that grew up in the joints. We ended up using linoleum knives to dig out all the refuse in the joints and filed them in with the polymeric sand. It’s a big patio so we did it in sections. We’ll see how we did if and when we get any rain (San Francisco Peninsula) Using the sand is a great idea for keeping your track in one place. Hopefully it will survive several frost and thaw seasons. Love those F units too!
I love this outdoor railroad. This was a great episode. You may consider getting a wind screen for you mic. When you are out in the Wisconsin countryside, wind can be an issue and if you get a wind screen it will take care of all of that flutter. They only cost around 30 bucks.
My other obsession (besides railroading) is growing cacti. I have been growing them for decades and currently have 100+ cacti in my front yard. And about two dozen HO scale cacti on my layout. The best way to weed around them is to use a variety of kitchen and BBQ tongs, as well as large tweezers. Gloves will help but some spines will get through them. Kent, if you want to unload some, I would be happy to give them a good home. They survive being wrapped in newspaper and sent in the mail very well. And for those who are wondering “Cacti in Wisconsin?” Yes! There are native cacti in all of the lower 48 states except Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. They usually occupy locally dry sandy or rocky habitats. In WI there are some native cacti near Eau Claire.
Such a nicely landscaped layout.