Name: Frank Heynick Railroad Name: Mini-Gotham Location: Brooklyn, New York Scale: O Theme: Skyscraper City Description: The video differs from anything else you’ve seen, since it is filmed in an O-scale metropolis with scratch-built skyscrapers rising to six feet in height and involves a story, an adventure of sorts. The first half of the video […]
Name: Frank Heynick Railroad Name: Mini-Gotham Location: Brooklyn, New York Scale: O Theme: Skyscraper City Description: The video differs from anything else you’ve seen, since it is filmed in an O-scale metropolis with scratch-built skyscrapers rising to six feet in height and involves a story, an adventure of sorts. The first half of the video […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page How could we?! Truth be told, we almost forgot to get MRVP’s Jenny Maaske involved in the construction of our On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout. Lucky for us, she was willing to jump right in and get her hands dirty helping Kent […]
Name: John Forum User Name: JUSTRAINCRAZY Location: Train room Scale: O Theme: Basement railroad Description: Home layout enjoyed by dad, mom, twin sons, and daughter. […]
Name: John Forum User Name: JUSTRAINCRAZY Location: Train room Scale: O Theme: Basement railroad Description: Home layout enjoyed by dad, mom, twin sons, and daughter. […]
Name: Southern Pacific Tehachapi Subdivision Layout designer: Jerry Davis Scale: O (1:48) Size: 28 x 45 feet Prototype: Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Locale: Bakersfield to Mojave, Calif. Era: 1952-1954 Style: multiple-deck walk-in Mainline run: 450 feet Minimum radius: 72″ (main), 66″ (staging) Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 2.5 percent Originally […]
We wanted our On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout to sound as impressive as it looks, so David Popp decided to install a DCC sound decoder in our Bachmann Climax workhorse. Follow along as he shows how to disassemble the locomotive, solder the decoder and speaker wires, position and test the unit, and then re-assemble […]
We wanted our On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout to sound as impressive as it looks, so David Popp decided to install a DCC sound decoder in our Bachmann Climax workhorse. Follow along as he shows how to disassemble the locomotive, solder the decoder and speaker wires, position and test the unit, and then re-assemble […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page How could we?! Truth be told, we almost forgot to get MRVP’s Jenny Maaske involved in the construction of our On30 Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout. Lucky for us, she was willing to jump right in and get her hands dirty helping Kent […]
After kitbashing a timber snowshed for our Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout, MR associate editor Eric White decided to make good use of leftover kit components. In this video, he shows how to assemble a retaining wall using stripwood and detail parts. Eric also shares insights on adding rust effects with weathering powders. […]
Nothing in model railroading is exempt from a do-over, including the scenery we roughed in around the base of the timber snowshed on our Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout. So rather than try to finesse the terrain to better support the structure, David Popp simply used a mulligan to rebuild the area with foam installation […]
Nothing in model railroading is exempt from a do-over, including the scenery we roughed in around the base of the timber snowshed on our Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout. So rather than try to finesse the terrain to better support the structure, David Popp simply used a mulligan to rebuild the area with foam installation […]
