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Section: Layout Visits
Member video: Milwaukee Road 261 4-8-4
This video was one of the entries in a recent video contest of the NMRA South Central Wisconsin Division. The video features Milwaukee Road 261 4-8-4 pulling an excursion train through La Crosse, Wis., on BNSF trackage in 2002. […]
Member video: Rail ramblings 1937
“Rail Ramblings 1937,” produced by Ken Hojnacki, was the first-place winner in the recent video contest conducted by the South Central Wisconsin Division – NMRA. […]
Member video: A Set-Out and a Pick-up
“A Set-Out and a Pick-up” was the second place winner in the model category in the recent video contest of the South Central Wisconsin Division – NMRA. The video was produced by Bob Wundrock on his HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie layout. […]
John Brennan’s Chicago, Peoria & Western Canton Branch
Owner: John Brennan Prototype Modeled: Interchange with EJ&E, IC , CB&Q Reporting Marks: CP&W Layout Era: Sept. 1940 Theme: Midwestern Scale: HO The railroad is an overlay of the CB&Q from Chicago staging to Galesburg staging. There are 23 trains scheduled in three-hour session on a 4 to 1 fast clock. Power is almost exclusively […]
Layout Tour – Willoughby Line with Guy Cantwell
This HO scale masterpiece is a double-deck proto-lance 1950s-era layout built by Guy Cantwell that represents parts of California’s central valley, as well as the railroads that operated in the Sierra foothills and mountains. It features prototypes from the Southern Pacific, Western Pacific/Tidewater Southern, Sierra, Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley Railroad, and West Side Railroads. Most […]
Making of the HO scale Aerotrain
This is a short segment of which many were unaware was at the end of the 1950’s movie of HO scale custom-made Aerotrain. Video by Bruce Kingsley. […]
BNSF Days 2018 at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum
Three CMRM volunteer trains brought to Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s BNSF Days are featured. There is a combined El Capitan – Super Chief, a grain train composed of cars from a variety (most BNSF heritage roads) railroads, and a Santa Fe intermodal train from the 1990s. […]
VIDEO HO scale St George
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page John Ottman’s HO scale St. George model railroad packs a lot of detail into 12 x 16 feet. Watch trains run through the scenes of small-town Appalachia in this video. […]
VIDEO HO scale St George
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page John Ottman’s HO scale St. George model railroad packs a lot of detail into 12 x 16 feet. Watch trains run through the scenes of small-town Appalachia in this video. […]
Custom HO scale Aerotrain – 1950s movie and how it was made
A 1950s-style documentary of my HO scale Aerotrain locomotive and observation car. Now a fully DCC and sound operational locomotive, it started out as a 1960s Bowser “toy” shell. Except for the shell, all parts came from other HO and O gauge part sources and many were custom made. Though not my best work at […]
JLWII2000 Video: Athearn Genesis HO EMD SD70M
In this exclusive video for Model Railroader from James Wright of the JLWII2000 YouTube channel, you’ll see highlights of the superdetailed HO scale SD70M from Athearn Trains. Part of the firm’s Genesis series, the diesel locomotive model features a SoundTraxx Tsunami2 Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. […]
