“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: Rail ramblings 1937
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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. […]
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. […]
Cornfield collision avoidance
A robot train script with automated reversal capability is shown in this video. Automated turnouts, signals and occupancy sensors are used. Train runs from a yard and returns after turning around using a WYE track topology. Stop spots are calculated to avoid fouling turnout points. Video by Tom Stack. […]
Gunter’s HO/HOe model railroad
This video features a visit to the H0/H0e layout of my friend Gunter in Austria. The home layout is about 10 square meters large, analog operation with working overhead catenary. This allows two trains to run simultaneously on a single track. The layout requires three persons for realistic operation. During the video shooting, we had […]
Kaley Yard – Auto train
Check out the articulated auto racks on Trevor Smith’s Kaley Yard layout. […]
Computer-aided model railroad – Logging in Sacramento Mountains
“Computer-aided model railroad” uses the computer not only to help run an HO scale model railroad but also adds customer ship orders to make it feel real. A customer database is used to generate scheduled and unscheduled ship releases to the days activities. This video demonstrates how this is accomplished logging in the Sacramento Mountains […]
