Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno shows how to easily work with white or light colored decals. […]
How to work with light colored decals
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History according to Hediger 6
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Senior editor Jim Hediger is the last staff member to have worked directly for the late Linn Westcott, a model railroading pioneer and the long-time editor of Model Railroader magazine. Jim shares a few of his favorite stories as well as vintage photos. […]
Modeler’s spotlight video for October 8, 2009 — Inside Cody’s office
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page This week Model Railroader Associate Editor Cody Grivno shows you how to weather your model rolling stock’s wheels using a microbrush and Polly Scale Railroad Tie Brown acrylic paint. His technique also works for painting wheel faces without removing them from the truck. […]
Kent Johnson’s O gauge hi-rail layout
Subscribers can watch these scenes filmed on location at Senior Editor, Kent Johnson’s O gauge hi-rail home layout. […]
Norm Charbonneau’s locomotive servicing terminal
Norm is back, and in our November 2009 issue he shows you the latest addition to the realistic modeling on his home railroad. […]
Ray Mansfield’s O gauge layout video
The mid-1990s were a great time in toy trains full of changes in both the trains themselves as well as in command control. For Ray Mansfield, it was the time to launch work on the layout he had been waiting all his life to build. Watch the streaming video below demonstrating some of the exciting […]
Norm Charbonneau’s Hi-rail Layout
In the November 2009 issue, Norm tells you how he built his locomotive servicing terminal to showcase big steam power. The cover story in CTT’s November 2008 HI-RAIL SPECIAL issue was on the stunning 19 x 22-foot layout created by Norm Charbonneau. A weathered Lionel New York Central L2a 4-8-4 Mohawk spins on the Bowser […]
Video: Broadway Limited Imports Paragon2 HO J1E Hudson
The Paragon2 J1E Hudson 4-6-4 features an all-new Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder and realistic synchronized smoke. Watch us run the model as it leads a New York Central passenger train. […]
Building the N scale Waterbury Industrial District part 3
In the November issue Model Railroader managing editor David Popp describes how he added ballast and scenery to the Waterbury Industrial District on his N scale New York, New Haven & Hartford layout. In this part David gives you tips for installing ground cover of varying textures, making gravel roads and paths, and installing static […]
History according to Hediger 5
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Thirty years ago on September 26, 1979, construction began on Model Railroader Senior Editor Jim Hediger’s influential HO scale Ohio Southern. Jim describes the concept and some of the challenges building his HO layout. Learn how a three and a half hour lunch […]
Lionel O gauge Congressional GG1 video
Staff comments on this train set included Roger Carp’s opinion that this is your chance to pick up a handsome classic with modern features – bringing back wonderful memories of Lionel’s second version of the Pennsy’s Congressional train. […]
Milwaukee Road 4-6-4 by Weaver Models video
Enjoy a streaming video of the Milwaukee Road 4-6-4 by Weaver Models! It retails for $1,095, and features 0-42 operation, brass construction, can-style motor, Lionel RailSounds and Train Master systems, Train America Studios’ fan-driven smoke unit and Engineer-On-Board speed control, and coil coupler. […]
