Clearing the snow on the Smoke & Oak RR

Yellow garden-scale railroad snowplow cleaves through snow on an outdoor layout.

Name:    Charlie Zimmerman Railroad Name:    Smoke and Oak RR Location:    Central Pennsylvania Scale:    1:29 Theme:    Reading Railroad Description:    Three Reading GPs work a snow plow around the mainline so that freight and passenger service can be restored. […]

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Ask MRVP: Episode 10

David Popp sitting at a table with various freight cars.

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page So many questions, and so many answers in this month’s Ask MRVP! In this episode, David Popp, Cody Grivno, Dana Kawala, Drew Halverson, and Steve Sweeney of Trains magazine help cover topics ranging from prototype railroad operation to T-Trak trackwork to painting techniques, […]

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Ask MRVP: Episode 10

David Popp sitting at a table with various freight cars.

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page So many questions, and so many answers in this month’s Ask MRVP! In this episode, David Popp, Cody Grivno, Dana Kawala, Drew Halverson, and Steve Sweeney of Trains magazine help cover topics ranging from prototype railroad operation to T-Trak trackwork to painting techniques, […]

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A Big Boy on the North Western Railroad

Lionel Vision Line Union Pacific Big Boy 4014

Name:    Adam Matthews Railroad Name:    North Western Railroad Location:    Ohio Scale:    O Gauge Theme:    Freelanced Hi-Rail based on Northeast Ohio Description:    My Lionel Vision Line Big Boy 4014 hauls a string of 29 reefer cars around the new mainline on the Lower Level of the North Western Railroad. […]

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Tour the Fern Creek and Western Railroad

Tour the Fern Creek and Western Railroad

Name:    Trevor Park Railroad Name:    Fern Creek and Western Railroad Location:    Santa Cruz, CA Scale:    1:20.3 with some 1:22.5 mixed in. Theme:    Logging, mining and short line freight and passenger operations. Description:    Come join us for a layout tour of my Fern Creek and Western Garden Railroad that I built with my friends. This video […]

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Trains, trains, trains event

Trains, trains, trains event

Name:    Chris Haon Railroad Name:    Georgia Garden Railway Society Location:    Kennesaw, GA Scale:    1:29 Theme:    Display Layout Description:    Over the weekend of Jan. 30 & 31 The Georgia Garden Railway Society setup a G Scale display layout for The Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History during their Trains, Trains, Trains event. Over the […]

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