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The benchwork is built for the Model Railroader staff’s N scale Red Oak project. Next comes the tricky task of transferring the track plan to the foam tabletop. Get some tips from Model Railroader Video Plus producer David Popp, including a look at the layout’s styrene backdrop and the wiring channel around the tabletop. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page The Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum in Wheeling, West Virginia, maintains multiple layouts (O & HO scale) and vintage toys that you can see in this PBS Tracks Ahead video on MR Video Plus. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader magazine’s senior editor Jim Hediger returns to the MRVP studio! In this episode, he first explains how a real plant works, before describing how former MR editors Paul Larson and Gordon Odegard engineered a model for use on an HO scale […]
Gn3 Denver & Rio Grande Western track plan Name: Denver & Rio Grande Western Layout designer: John Johnson Scale: Gn3 (1:22.5 proportion) Size: 20 x 55 feet Theme: D&RGW Locale: Colorado Era: 1950s Style: Continuous-run display Mainline run: 300 feet Minimum radius: 8 feet Minimum turnout: no. 6 Maximum grade: 4 percent Benchwork: Plywood on […]
HO scale Grand Junction RR from the February 2015 Model Railroader Name: Grand Junction RR Layout designer: Rolf Malmborg Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 13 x 24 feet Prototype: Union Pacific and Southern Pacific along the former Denver & Rio Grande Western Locale: western Colorado and eastern Utah Era: 2006 Style: walk-in Mainline run: 160 feet […]
HO scale Grand Junction RR Use this image as a background on your computer screen. Click on the image size appropriate for your monitor and drag the image onto your desktop. 1600 x 900 wallpaper 1600 x 1000 wallpaper 1600 x 1200 wallpaper […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page While Santa’s Workshop hustles to build trains for good girls and boys, Cody’s Workshop stays busy enhancing freight cars with etched-metal parts! Host Cody Grivno shows how he replaced his covered hopper’s plastic roof walkway with a see-through metal component from Plano Model […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page While Santa’s Workshop hustles to build trains for good girls and boys, Cody’s Workshop stays busy enhancing freight cars with etched-metal parts! Host Cody Grivno shows how he replaced his covered hopper’s plastic roof walkway with a see-through metal component from Plano Model […]
Recently Adam Tager, the Director of Product Development for Model Rectifier Corp., paid a visit to the Model Railroader offices. In this video, Adam demonstrates the new MRC Decoder Dr. This handheld device makes it easy to program, read, and test Digital Command Control decoders. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page There’s a place to include realistic water effects on just about any model railroad, including our Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout. In this video, David Popp shows how to build a log pond, starting with the pond banks shaped from foam insulation board, […]
Now that David Popp has the Olympia Logging Co. On30 steam locomotives looking good and weathered, he’s turning his focus to the log car fleet on the display-style layout. Follow along as he demonstrates how to use a can of spray paint, various modeling paints applied with a brush, pre-mixed stains, and weathering powders to […]
MR associate editor Eric White shares his techniques for adding a corrugated roof to a wood structure on our Olympia Logging Co. On30 display-style layout. In this video, he shows how to work with styrene sheet material to form individual panels, paint and weather those panels, and then attach them to the building. […]
