Cody’s Workshop: Episode 15 – right-of-way details

Cody Grivno standing in front of model railroad layout

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page For this episode of Cody’s Workshop, Cody heads to Model Railroader‘s HO scale layout, the MR&T. As he completes the Big Bend remodeling project on the layout, Cody shows how easy it is to enhance a scene with small details like wood guardrail […]

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Member video: Overland Models HO scale Union Pacific Big Blow turbine

Overland Models Union Pacific Big Blow turbine

It’s sugar beet season! Union Pacific has assigned its biggest, baddest motive power to haul a record crop to themarket. This is an Overland Models three-unit “Big Blow” gas turbine in HO scale that I modified with LED lighting, two QSI Titan decoders (one in the lead unit generating the diesel sounds, another in the […]

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Member video: Overland Models HO scale Union Pacific Big Blow turbine

Overland Models Union Pacific Big Blow turbine

It’s sugar beet season! Union Pacific has assigned its biggest, baddest motive power to haul a record crop to themarket. This is an Overland Models three-unit “Big Blow” gas turbine in HO scale that I modified with LED lighting, two QSI Titan decoders (one in the lead unit generating the diesel sounds, another in the […]

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MR Insider Exclusive: Tony Koester’s Nickel Plate layout update

A scene on Tony Koester's HO scale Nickel Plate Railroad

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page World-renowned MR columnist Tony Koester stops by to discuss progress on his HO scale Nickel Plate layout with MRVP Producer David Popp. Tony shares some new photos and insights related to scenes on the layout — all in this exclusive MRVP video you’ll […]

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Olympia Logging Series: Part 1 – display-style design

Olympia Logging Series: Part 1 - display-style design

Before starting construction, MRVP’s Kent Johnson introduces the concept of an all-new On30 display-style layout. Kent touches on On30 equipment, track, and a shadow box design he, David Popp, and other MR staff modelers will use to showcase a freelance logging operation set in the Pacific Northwest mountains. […]

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Video: SoundTraxx KT-1000 DCC sound decoder for Kato HO scale P42

SoundTraxx KT1000 decoder for Kato HO scale P42

Senior editor Dana Kawala installed a SoundTraxx Tsunami KT-1000 Digital Command Control sound decoder into an HO scale Kato USA General Electric P42. Watch the DCC-sound-equipped locomotive as it hauls an Amtrak passenger train around the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]

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Video: SoundTraxx KT-1000 DCC sound decoder for Kato HO scale P42

SoundTraxx KT1000 decoder for Kato HO scale P42

Senior editor Dana Kawala installed a SoundTraxx Tsunami KT-1000 Digital Command Control sound decoder into an HO scale Kato USA General Electric P42. Watch the DCC-sound-equipped locomotive as it hauls an Amtrak passenger train around the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]

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Olympia Logging Series: Part 4 – installing the curved backdrop

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page As part of the shadow box construction on MRVP’s On30 Olympia Logging Co. layout, David Popp shows how to add a curved styrene backdrop. In this video, David demonstrates how he cuts and installs support components, makes cutouts in the styrene sheet, and […]

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