How-to Library: Operate The Beer Line, Part 1 – Getting ready for operations

HO scale Beer Line layout

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 […]

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How-to Library: Operate The Beer Line, Part 2 – Setting cars for the first session

boxcar on the HO scale Beer Line layout

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 […]

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How-to Library: Operate The Beer Line, Part 3 – The Morning Yard Job

freight train on the HO scale Beer Line layout

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 […]

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Modeler’s Spotlight Video — Inside Cody’s Office for December 2016

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Happy holidays from Cody’s Office. Associate editor Cody Grivno heads down to the Model Railroader workshop to show you the basics of setting up a holiday train set. He’ll also give you a quick demo of a SoundTraxx-equipped Athearn HO scale SD39 diesel […]

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How-to Library: DCC Installation for large layouts, Part 5 – Going wireless

David Popp holding a dcc throttle

In this concluding episode of MRVP’s Digital Command Control installation series, David Popp teams up with DCC Programming host Dana Kawala to demonstrate how to add wireless throttles to a large layout. With the railroad untethered, David offers a final overview of the upgrades he made to our HO scale Beer Line layout throughout the […]

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Tour the Model Railroader staff’s HO scale Beer Line addition

Beer Line addition

Don’t miss the latest Model Railroader staff project layout series, beginning in the January 2017 issue. The staffs adds the Snake Track branch to its popular HO scale Milwaukee Road Beer Line layout. Get highlights of the new addition, including a look at the various trackside industries and structures, with associate editor Eric White. […]

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Trains under the Christmas tree

Vintage Lionel steam locomotive

Name:    Neal Mayer Forum User Name:    NealM Railroad Name:    Trains Under the Tree Location:    Boston, MA Scale:    Traditional O Gauge Theme:    Christmas trains Description:    My Dad’s childhood train from the ‘30s, a Lionel 259, became my childhood train in the ’60’s. During my kids’ childhood in the 90’s, It became the Christmas train. The kids […]

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Ask MRVP: Episode 20

David Popp standing in front of Model Railroader's HO scale Virginian Ry. layout.

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page Host David Popp gets to enjoy his early Xmas gift – Go Cubs! But he also makes sure YOU receive a few stocking stuffers too! This month on Ask MRVP you’ll get to enjoy thorough responses to hobby-related questions regarding wiring a turnout […]

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