Model Railroader managing editor David Popp shows how to use insulation displacement (suitcase) connectors to wire underneath your layout. […]
How to use suitcase connectors to wire your model train layout
Section: Videos & Photos
How to wire a model train layout for Digital Command Control (DCC) part III: Feeder wires and system testing
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader managing editor David Popp shows how to test circuits on a layout with a railroad amp meter and a quarter. […]
How to add dust effects to locomotive models
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno shows how to add dust effects on your locomotives using an airbrush. […]
How to wire a model train layout for Digital Command Control (DCC) part II: Bus wiring
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader editor Neil Besougloff shows how to install bus wires when creating new power districts. […]
How to wire a model train layout for Digital Command Control (DCC) part I: Boosters and circuit breakers
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader managing editor David Popp show how to upgrade a layout using Zonemaster power supplies and Zoneshare circuit breakers. […]
Modeler’s spotlight video for November 5, 2009 — Inside Cody’s Office
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Along with a selection of the latest model train products, Model Railroader Associate Editor Cody Grivno shows you the basics of drybrushing. Cody uses this weathering technique to simulate rust on the roof of an HO scale boxcar. He’ll also answer viewer mail. […]
How to work with light colored decals
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno shows how to easily work with white or light colored decals. […]
Modeler’s spotlight video for October 8, 2009 — Inside Cody’s office
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page This week Model Railroader Associate Editor Cody Grivno shows you how to weather your model rolling stock’s wheels using a microbrush and Polly Scale Railroad Tie Brown acrylic paint. His technique also works for painting wheel faces without removing them from the truck. […]
Kent Johnson’s O gauge hi-rail layout
Subscribers can watch these scenes filmed on location at Senior Editor, Kent Johnson’s O gauge hi-rail home layout. […]
Norm Charbonneau’s locomotive servicing terminal
Norm is back, and in our November 2009 issue he shows you the latest addition to the realistic modeling on his home railroad. […]
Ray Mansfield’s O gauge layout video
The mid-1990s were a great time in toy trains full of changes in both the trains themselves as well as in command control. For Ray Mansfield, it was the time to launch work on the layout he had been waiting all his life to build. Watch the streaming video below demonstrating some of the exciting […]
Norm Charbonneau’s Hi-rail Layout
In the November 2009 issue, Norm tells you how he built his locomotive servicing terminal to showcase big steam power. The cover story in CTT’s November 2008 HI-RAIL SPECIAL issue was on the stunning 19 x 22-foot layout created by Norm Charbonneau. A weathered Lionel New York Central L2a 4-8-4 Mohawk spins on the Bowser […]
