How To’s and Videos

Clinics, hints, videos and instructions. It may not be right, but its how I do it.

Building a Consist

Clinic presented on OpSig Virtual Meet-Up describing how locomotives are managed and consists built.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP4aCjRHx7w

Building a helix

How I built the helix for the French Creek Branch of the W&N.

Building a short trestle

Adding quick trestles over small streams

Building Recessed Car Card Boxes

I like to recess my car card boxes into the fascia

Building a Turn of the Century Car Fleet

A short video On how I developed my gondola and hopper car fleet I made for a 2020 Virtual RPM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u7laHLCUJw
 

Building the French Creek Branch

     Part 1 :  Roadbed

      This video shows how I built the roadbed and laid out the French Creek Branch.

      Part 2 :  Ties

       How I stained ties and applied them to the Branch.

       Part 3 :  Ballast

        How to prepare, apply and glue down ballast.

Casting Resin Gondola Cars

Process to make resin gons using flat castings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGLm0MwVT0s
Parts 1 and 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4amJIikuAM
Part 3

Handlaying Switches

Handout for a clinic I presented at the 2017 MCoR NMRA convention.

Handlaying Switches Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdFeK8FcIY

Hazardous Material Handling – Pre-1977

Handout for an OpSig Virtual Meet up, Oct 25, 2020

Kitbashed 2-8-0 Camelback video

Short video showing the construction and operation of my first kitbashed 2-8-0 camelback, with sound installed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZhxgVm465Q&t=1s

Kitbashing a P&R Class GMd Gon

Simple kitbash of a 1900-1930 era steel gon from an Athearn 50 ft gon shell and an an MDC cast metal underframe.

Last Run of the 150th St W&N Branch

3/26/2020 -Video I shot of the last run of the previous iteration of the W&N Branch on 150th St in Omaha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euKm6mWmW74

Switching the DRE

4/5/2020 -Description of how I switch the Delaware River Extension (DRE) on my layout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JDcePfcKAI

Trackage Rights – NMRAx May 21,2021

NMRAx presentation on trackage rights operations presented May 21, 2021.

Using One and Two Move Waybills, OpSig Dec 19, 2021

I presented a clinic on using one and two move waybills on the OpSig Virtual Meet Up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj_X4inwV6Q