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Professor Carp’s Toy Train Emporium: Episode 5
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Video: Broadway Limited Imports Paragon2 HO scale PRR K4s
Broadway Limited Imports upgraded its HO scale Pennsylvania RR K4s with its Paragon2 Digital Command Control sound decoder and electronics. The model also features lighting effects and puffing smoke. Watch the HO scale steam locomotive as it hauls a PRR passenger consist around the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
Basic Training: Modeling damaged trees
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Add a touch of realism to your modeled forest or wooded grove by including decaying or damaged trees. Kent Johnson demonstrates a quick and easy technique for making plague pines using plastic tree kits available for layouts of any size or scale. […]
Video: Pelle Søeborg’s HO scale Daneville Sub part 2
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Contributing editor Pelle Søeborg provides more scenes from his HO scale Union Pacific Daneville Sub model railroad. This video showcases the stunning desert and town scenery of this modern-era model train layout. Watch DCC sound equipped locomotives haul freight, coal, and intermodal trains. […]
Building a 5 x 8 harbor railroad part 7
In this episode editor Neil Besougloff continues scenery work on the Model Railroader staff’s Rice Harbor project. You’ll learn about the ground cover used for the South Carolina setting as well as Neil’s tips for planting trees on a model railroad. Meanwhile senior editor Dana Kawala works on a retail oil depot. Because of the […]
Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 12 – Alberta, Canada
Follow MRVP’s Drew Halverson, Kent Johnson, and friends as they trace the Canadian Pacific main line into the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Along the way Drew and crew capture a variety of freight and passenger trains in action, railroad engineering at its finest, and astonishing natural settings that are ripe for modeling. […]
History According to Hediger: Visiting Union Pacific’s Los Angeles subdivision
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In co-operation with the railroad, MR’s Senior Editor Jim Hediger once took a trip to research Union Pacific’s Los Angeles subdivision. Upon Jim’s arrival in California, his host made a rather embarrassing discovery about the railroad operations for the day. Hear how Jim […]
Professor Carp’s Toy Train Emporium: Episode 4
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Chasing 4014: Part III
This video segment covers the time from when Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 first reached Covina, Calif., in the early morning hours of Jan. 26 to mid-morning in Bassett, Calif. Follow along as Steve Sweeney, Howard Bunte, and Brent Lane chase the 4-8-8-4 locomotive switch from the Metrolink main line to Union Pacific tracks. […]
Stan Leach’s O gauge Ruby Gold RR
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Chasing 4014 Part II
This second installment of videos from Trains’ zany chase of Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 from Pomona to West Colton, Calif., takes off minutes from where Part I ended: with the Big Boy on the Metrolink main line at 2:30 a.m., and Steve Sweeney, Howard Bunte, and Brent Lane in hot pursuit. Enjoy! […]
Professor Carp’s Toy Train Emporium: Episode 3
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