John Damanskas’ O gauge layout features locomotives, rolling stock, and accessories from Lionel Trains and MTH. The layout also features stunning scenery with mountains, trees, and bridges. […]
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Video: Art Williams O gauge layout
Art Williams’ 20 x 65-foot O gauge toy train layout features equipment from Lionel, MTH, Atlas O and more, as well as small-town and industrial scenes. The main level of Art’s O gauge layout boasts a double-track main line extending more than 200 feet. […]
John Damanskas’ O gauge toy train layout
John Damanskas’ O gauge layout features locomotives, rolling stock, and accessories from Lionel Trains and MTH. The layout also features stunning scenery with mountains, trees, and bridges. […]
Modeling a narrow gauge railroad in a small space
Modeling a narrow gauge railroad in a small space: Modeling a logging camp requires a variety of structures, trackwork, scenery, figures, and activities. The camp includes not only loggers involved in different pursuits, but also woodchoppers, a laundress, checkers players, engineers and mechanics, stable hands and horses, bears, garbage cans, railroad materials, and more, surrounded […]
Lionelville copes with the COVID-19 virus
Name: Joe Muscanere Location: Texas Scale: O Theme: Classic 1950’s Description: Lionelville copes with the COVID-19 Virus in March 2020 with passenger and freight still delivering the goods. Soon, the national crisis will be a thing of the past. MORAL: RUN YOUR TOY TRAINS AND YOU WILL FEEL MUCH BETTER! […]
Lionelville copes with the COVID-19 virus
Name: Joe Muscanere Location: Texas Scale: O Theme: Classic 1950’s Description: Lionelville copes with the COVID-19 Virus in March 2020 with passenger and freight still delivering the goods. Soon, the national crisis will be a thing of the past. MORAL: RUN YOUR TOY TRAINS AND YOU WILL FEEL MUCH BETTER! […]
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MRVP Insider: MRVP Underground with David Popp, Episode 5 – Wood choppin’ workshop
David gets back to the workbench for a couple quick-hitter projects. First, he shows how to add a realistic, rusty patina to metal roofing material. And then, David shares his technique for chopping up scale chunks of firewood to be stack in the shack. Feel free to ask questions, and he’ll look to address them […]
Tips for better Lionel Fastrack
Charles Angelo Irace Lionel’s FasTrack system sectional track features a built-in molded plastic roadbed. It looks good right out of the box, but there are a few things I like to do to make it look even better. I start by bluing the center rail (above left photo) with Birchwood Casey Super Blue, using the […]
MRVP Insider: MRVP Underground with David Popp, Episode 4 – Putting parts together
After checking the bond of the previously glued components, David moves to the next step — building the laser-cut pieces and parts into an O scale structure for the Olympia Logging Co. display-style layout. Along the way, you’ll see that even David has to make do with the tools and materials he has available at […]
MRVP Insider: MRVP Underground with David Popp, Episode 3 – Some assembly required
David Popp is now working weekends to give MRVideoPlus.com subscribers an exclusive episode from his basement bunker. See how the parts and pieces of the wood kit start to come apart…all to come together again! But even in the midst of offering great tips and tricks, our expert builder must still manage a few unexpected […]
