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Tag: Videos & Photos
Canadian Canyons Series: Scenery All-Stars, Part 1 – Making a highway
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this Canadian Canyons mini-series, the entire MRVP staff gets involved in shaping up the layout scenery! To get things started, Ben Lake and Gerry Leone combine their superpowers to model a curved mountain highway using a computer, a paper template, and a […]
Olympia 2, The Log Blog: Part 15 – Quality modeling time
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page More modeling from David, as he makes a bit more progress on his Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout expansion. In this recap/overview video blog, you’ll see how he handled the log pond scenery, the steam donkey details, and that blessed A-frame assembly! […]
Canadian Canyons Series: Part 35 – Painting and highlighting rocks
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Rockwork continues on our Canadian Canyons N scale layout, with David Popp showing how he painted and highlighted the Sculptamold rocks to resemble those found along the Fraser River canyons. Grab your brushes and acrylic paints, and then follow along! […]
Member video: Milwaukee Road 261 4-8-4
This video was one of the entries in a recent video contest of the NMRA South Central Wisconsin Division. The video features Milwaukee Road 261 4-8-4 pulling an excursion train through La Crosse, Wis., on BNSF trackage in 2002. […]
Member video: Rail ramblings 1937
“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: 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. […]
Trains Presents: Inside Brightline’s new trains
Join us at Brightline’s Workshop B in West Palm Beach, Fla., for a look inside one of its new Siemens-built passenger trains. You’ll tour the cab and the engine room, and see the coaches before the first paying passenger ever stepped on board! Only from Trains Magazine! Read more about Brightline from passenger correspondent Bob […]
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. […]
