Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP’s David Popp and Jenny Maaske are set to show you that realistic model railroad operation has never been easier to learn and enjoy! Using Model Railroader magazine’s all-new HO scale Beer Line layout extension as their “gameboard,” the two team up […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page There’s just one more job to run on Model Railroader magazine’s all-new HO scale Beer Line layout extension. In this final episode of our operations mini-series, MRVP’s David Popp and MR’s Eric White walk you through the duties that come with running […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page It’s confirmed. Our pal and Contributing Editor Gerry Leone is full of hot air! In this episode of MRVP’s Off The Rails, he puts it to good use as he dusts off an old technique/tool for applying scenery to a model railroad. […]
Download the drawings for this project here. […]
Photo 1 USGS topographic map of Wheaton, Kansas. Photo 2 Every little town along this railroad and most others in the Midwest has a “Railroad St.” or “Railroad Ave.” Photo 3 The Google Earth view of the Kansas Central line east of Olsburg, Kansas. Photo 4 Kansas Central route highlighted in red. The arrow shows […]
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SketchUp is a very popular modeling program used by thousands of people. It is free to download and use for non-commercial purposes. It is much like SolidWorks in that it is a graphical interface versus and descriptive interface like openSCAD (see my article on using open SCAD). Like most free modeling programs, there are plenty […]
Click on the links at left to download the image. Eric Brooman In this trackside photo from the February 2017 Model Railroader, a Norfolk Southern SD70ACU sits in a Utah Belt RR engine terminal. The NS has a run-through agreement on Eric Brooman’s HO scale railroad that’s always set in the present day. Click on […]
Are you ready to tackle realistic model operations on your layout? Follow this all-new MRVP mini-series and you will be! Over the course of five episodes, David Popp and the MR/MR Video Plus team will use the HO scale Beer Line project layout to share the preparations, processes, and common practices for an operating session […]
In the second stage of preparation for our operating session, David shows how to position cars and their paperwork at the industries and tracks on our HO scale Beer Line layout. Also in this video, David looks at the various jobs on the railroad and evaluates the sequence of movements required to get cars into […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page David has completed preparations for the Beer Line HO scale operating session. Now it’s time to start the session into motion so you can watch and learn how the car movements on the railroad fit into specific job tasks. The first job you’ll […]
Host Gerry Leone introduces one handy dandy tool with a couple clever model railroad applications. In this episode, he’ll show and share how an inexpensive pounce wheel can make your modeling efforts more efficient and more accurate too! […]
