Model Trains

This series of how-to videos gives you plenty of ideas about expanding your current layout and how to do it. The three volumes cover benchwork, roadbed and trackwork, tying new layout sections into your existing railroad plus upgrading topics likeinstalling DCC with sound, photo mural backdrops and operation. An added bonus includes a layout plan you can print on your PC. Purchase Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (each sold separately) for the complete .....
...more about the Greenfrog Productions VHS -- Vol3 Expanding Your Model Railroad

Provides an introduction to the entire project. Describes design, construction and operational .....
...more about the Greenfrog Productions Video -- Designing the Apple Valley Branch 30 minutes

...more about the Greenfrog Productions Video -- Apple Valley Branch - Benchwork 2 30 minutes

Covers track laying techniques for smooth operation. Laying roadbed, placing turnouts, cutting and flex track, installing bridges and .....
...more about the Greenfrog Productions Video -- Apple Valley Branch - Laying Track 30 minutes

Building different types of freight cars and how to air brush and letter them. Also, weathering and the installation of .....
...more about the Greenfrog Productions Video -- Apple Valley Branch - Rolling Stock 30 minutes

Shows operating possiblities and traffic movement around the layout and disses how real railroads would do .....
...more about the Greenfrog Productions Video -- Apple Valley Branch - Operating 30 minutes

Learn how to construct a garden railroad as a weekend project, from laying track to picking the right plants. Clear, step-by-step presentation assures your success and lots of family fun! 19 minutes; VHS; .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Video -- Building a Basic Garden Railroad (VHS) - G-Scale

...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Video - World's Greatest Hobby -- Building Your First Model Railroad (VHS)

Aimed at the modeler just starting out, this DVD covers all the basics in creating one's first model railroad. Just about every question an inexperienced railroader might have is .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing DVD - World's Greatest Hobby -- Building Your First Model Railroad - All Digital Format - Color, Stereo Sound

Covers everything you need to build layout scenery, as well as use an airbrush to apply scenery paint. Covers tools, applications and special techniques. 120 minutes; stereo sound; .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing DVD -- Scenery & Airbrushing Made Easy - All Digital Format - Color, Stereo Sound

...more about the Motorbooks International Video -- A Lionel Christmas

...more about the Motorbooks International Video -- Lionel-The Movie Vol 3

...more about the Motorbooks International Video -- The Re-Making of the 1949 Lionel Showroom Layout, 50 min

A twenty year look at the Utah Railway. Alcos, Rio Grande Zephyr and Rio Grande freight, including video from the 1990s. Covers Price to Provo, pool power, run through and trackage rights, trains and solid sets of Rio Grande power. Also features huge helper sets, snow, sunshine, scenery, tough grades and curves like nowhere else. History, maps and informative narration. 90 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Videos - VHS -- Soldier Summit Reflections

This two-volume set begins with Joshua Lionel Cowen's first train and ends with the magnificent scale Big Boy. In between you'll see all the classics including the State Set, Blue Comet, Hudsons, Streamliners, F3s, GG-1s, Daylights, Turbines, and accessories. VHS, 60 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Video -- A Century Of Lionel Trains- Two Volume Set

...more about the Motorbooks International DVDs -- Empire of The North

WP freight and passenger actions from the 1950s to 1980; late steam to early diesel. Covers Sacramento Northern, California Zephyr, Oro Dam reroute, Las Plumas, Oakland Mole, Canyon, High Line and desert action. FTs, F7s, Geeps to U-Boats and muchmore. 90 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- WP Vintage West

See the Key System from its early days with ferryboats to the Bay Bridge era. Visit all the lines and cross the bay by ferry and bridge-rails to San Francisco. Streetcars, Bridge-articulated units and many surprises, plus cameo appearances of early Muni and IER make this a great story. 61 .....
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...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Diesel Power on the Southern Pacific

Action from early 90s to the end. Heavy Shasta action and Donner Pass with floods, snow storms and blue skies.Lots of old power and great coverage of rotaries, flangers, snow-cats and spreaders. 112 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Extreme SP

Vintage film of freight and passenger. Rare Pasadena Sub., Franklin Canyon, Stockton, Cajon, Tehachapi, Mojave to Barstow, Illinois and much more. See PA, F-units, GP9, ALCO, SD24, GP30, FP45, U-boats and lash-ups. Super-C trains, street-running, history of diesels, passenger trains and more. 91 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Diesel Power on the Santa Fe

Visit numerous locations from 1985 to 1997. Elvas tower, Stockton Jct. tower and lots of older SP power such as Geeps and SD9s. Beet trains, Oil-cans, manifest freights and intermodals. 90 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- SP Scrapbook

Sacramento Northern, SP-IER and Peninsular Railway history and action in B&W and beautiful color film. See early passenger, ferry and the freight of the SN in the Oakland Hills. Fifty years of great electric filming. 61 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Electric Rails Around the Bay

...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Donner Pass Thunder

Helpers, foreign power, 10,000-ton trains and more battled three percent grades on this stretch of rugged mountain railroad back when it was a busy stretch of line. Covers Pueblo to Dotsero including pacing shots and two-camera views, plus maps, graphics and .....
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Tennessee Pass

A look at the SP between 1965 and 1979 from Charles Smiley .....
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- SP-When the Empire was Intact

...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Electric Rails of Utah

Features all the Milwaukee Road favorites including Bi-Polars, Quills, Little Joes and Boxcabs on passenger and freight trains. Also looks at the lineside scene along the Milwaukee including structires, wrecks, snow and MOW. Includes NP, GN and Butte, Anaconda & Pacific electrics and .....
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Milwaukee Road Scrapbook

Revised and rereleased on DVD, see commuter action onthe San Francisco Peninsula. Features the last of steam plus FM Trainmasters, GP9 and EMD and Alco freight and local .....
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- SP by the Bay

Details original Shelby and Cobra models and covers the competition among replica owners to capture the spirit of these popular cars. With very few models left for enthusiasts to buy, collectors turned to clones to replicate the cars they loved. This informative book includes GT40s, prototypes and clones and illustrates the creativity of replica owners in modifying their cars to capture the originals. Covers the glory years from 1962 to 67, the fall from fame and their .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Iconografix Photo Archive Series Book -- Cobra and Shelby Mustang 1962 - 2007