Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Hills and mountains are a dramatic feature on any model railroad. Learn how to use plaster cloth, a common model railroading product, to make the landscape on your model train layout. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Associate editor Cody Grivno shows you how to cut an stain strip wood for a model railroad project. Cody used these same techniques when scratchbuilding the freight house for the Model Railroader staff’s latest project layout. He’ll also show you some new model […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Tony Koester and MRVP’s David Popp are Hal Miller’s guests for Roundhouse episode 8. Topics for discussion include indispensible modeling tools, inspirational layouts, protofreelancing, and more. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Need a lot of tree-covered hills on your layout? In this video, MR’s editor Neil Besougloff shows you how to make common puffball trees. This technique models just the treetops, and it’s a great way to fill background hills with trees quickly. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Cody Grivno, our one-man ballasting crew, shares his tips and techniques for ballasting a well-groomed 1950s mainline track. Cody takes you through the process start to finish on our HO scale Thin Branch project, but his techniques work just as well in other […]
Take a ride on these postwar-style S gauge American Flyer passenger cars by Lionel – see them in action now! […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Our July visit to the workshop finds Cody finishing the freight house project by adding rolled roofing and final details to the structure. Along the way, Cody will also show you how to prepare a plastic shell for painting, join Atlas and Peco […]
VIA Rail Canada F40PH-2s Nos. 6410 & 6408 lead the eastbound Chaleur just west of St. Thérèse de Gaspé, Quebec, on June 28, 2008. Photo by Thomas Mik […]
Canadian Pacific train No. 493 meets opposing traffic at Reeseville, Wis., on June 14, 2014, as the last light disappears from the sky. Photo by Matt Krause […]
New England Central GP38-2 No. 3850 leads a southbound local on the Palmer Subdivision through Windsor, Vt., on May 10, 2013. Photo by William Gill […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The 2013 National N Scale Convention was held in Milwaukee the last of week of June, so the MR staff joined in the fun. This MR Insider video covers some of the events, including the train show, a tour of Kalmbach Publishing Co. […]
Norfolk Southern’s prized F-units parade through the community of Glade Spring, Va., and past the classic signals at Washington, while on a eastbound inspection trip to Roanoke from Chattanooga, Tenn., on June 11, 2013. Photo by Samuel Phillips […]
