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The Big Cab Ride at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

Ride in a Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive as we travel from Lakeview to Klamath Falls on the Oregon, California and Eastern Railway. This video was fiilmed at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley, Colorado. […]

B&M NH Mainline – Ballasting the Track

This is the second part of a two-part series where I demonstrate the process I used for ballasting the track on my B&M NH Mainline. This video details the four step process shared by Cody and others: Glue down cinders if appropriate; ballast the track center; light ballast on roadbed shoulders; and final ballast on […]

BNSF Coal Operations

The bulk of my layout is set in Wyoming with a bit of Colorado and Nebraska. Coal is a key source of revenue for the BD&O. Here we see a BNSF Coal Train arriving at Cowboy Coal in Campbell County, Wyoming, then departing for Power Plants to the south. Video by Brian Olson. […]

CSW CSX Rail Train

A loaded CSX ribbon rail train traverses the, in-progress, Chesapeake, Susquehanna and Western RR on HARM night. HARM (Harford Association of Railroad Modelers) is a round robin group celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Located in northeast Maryland, members meet every Tuesday evening. This train is based on the CSX prototype often seen on the […]

Jerry Fassnacht’s Pennsy & Reading RR

Jerry Fassnacht’s HO scale Pennsy & Reading RR layout is located in Palm Harbor, Florida. The two-level layout was started in 2002 and uses an NCE DCC system. […]

Uintah Mallet No. 50 at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum

In this video, the Uintah Railway Mallet No. 50 and a 2-8-8-2 Rio Grande articulated locomotive take a work train from Klamath Falls to Lakeview on the Oregon, California & Eastern. […]

Designing and setting up a removable staging cassette

This video demonstrates how Thomas Klimoski designed and set up a removable staging cassette on his Georgia Northeastern model railroad. […]

MRVP Layout Visit: Michael Schrier’s O gauge layout

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MR Video Plus subscribers will get to enjoy the highly detailed scenes on Michael Schrier’s fabulous O gauge (3-rail) layout. One look at the expansive urban and industrial sites on this extraordinary 40 x 50-foot display, and you’ll be hard pressed to call […]

Coast Daylight eastbound at Guadalupe, Calif.

Train 98, the eastbound Coast Daylight, storms through Guadalupe Calif. in the Fall of 1954. Video by Brian Moore. […]

Operating the Santa Cruz Northern, Part 1

This series covers the operations of Jim Providenza’s Santa Cruz Northern model railroad. In this first installment, we will take a tour of the layout and take a look at the operations of Train #271 the Westbound Drag freight. […]

Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward at Skykomish

Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward at Skykomish: By accident, I have a car about 2/3rds into the train where it sounds like a prototypical flat wheel on one of the cars. The light at the back top of the engine was for the fireman to check, at night, the exhaust to see how efficient his […]