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Building trestles with Lex, Part 13: Painting rockwork and adding a sand base

2012-05-23T12:44:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 12: Reviewing the completed rockwork and planning completion

2012-05-21T12:38:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 11: Applying plaster to flat areas and embankments

2012-05-19T12:38:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 10: Protecting track, cleanup & preparing flat areas

2012-05-17T12:38:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 9: Blending rock castings together

2012-05-15T12:38:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 8: Using rubber moulds and creating the rockwork

2012-05-13T12:32:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 7: Setting up and installing the hardshell for the scenery

2012-05-11T12:32:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 6: Completing the installation and prepping for the scenery

2012-05-09T12:32:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 5: Assembling the bents on a template

2012-05-07T12:32:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 4: Assembling the deck and installing ties

2012-05-05T12:30:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 3: Completion of stringers

2012-05-03T12:17:00.000-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 2: Staining the wood and assembling the stringers

2012-05-01T12:25:00.000-04:00

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Building trestles with Lex, Part 1: Preparing and cutting the wood

2012-04-29T12:22:00.005-04:00

A series on how to scratch build and install a wooden trestle into a model railroad layout, add scenery material, trees, backdrops and finally a river with waterfalls.

This clinic by Lex is turning out to be a master course on Western scenery. Full series on his website at www.drgwrr.com under "Clinics".

Share your work with others

2012-04-20T08:28:00.002-04:00

Do you have a great Model you want to share with others ? Write about it and share you experiences with your fellow modeler. Your story can be read 1000's of times each month. Come, join in the revival of the ModelersGuild.

Some of our layout articles
http://www.modelersguild.com/layouts.html

Guild site is back, fixed and ready to continue

2012-04-14T09:48:00.003-04:00

After about a year of crippling errors and such the ModelersGuild website has been fixed and relaunched for your viewing pleasure. It cost a few bucks to get a developer in to fix it and if anyone wishes to contribute to the project to get our budget back in the green, can do so by sending a paypal donation to pare.ron@gmail.com. It would be greatly appreciated.

So without further adeux I present to you the www.ModelersGuild.com

Maine Series, Mike Hamer's B&M pt2

2012-03-04T14:24:00.000-05:00

Switching action in the town of North Dover. After arrivaal of the Maine Central Oil Can the News Boy arrives in town. The locomotives from the News Boy must do its own work as the town switcher has trouble starting. Narrated by Mike Hamer.

Maine Series, Mike Hamer's Boston and Maine pt 1

2012-03-02T14:22:00.000-05:00

Alco's are seen moving throught the gaps, bridges and towns on Mike Hamer's Boston and Maine HO Scale model railroad. Follow along this model railroad built by one of Canada's great builders.

Maine Series, Todays Maine Railroads

2012-02-29T14:19:00.005-05:00

Come along on a journey of discovery as Pentrex travels to the Pine Tree State in search of Today's Maine Railroads. You'll see all the current freight operations plus a fascinating tourist line. The beauty of the state is revealed as you follow trains through villages and across the open countryside.

The Bangor & Aroostook, Canadian Pacific, Saint Lawrence & Atlantic, Belfast & Moosehead Lake, and Guilford Transportation's Springfield Terminal are all covered. The Alco RS-11 of the new shortline, Maine Coast, puts on a show for us as we witness the new railroad's movements.

At Brownville Junction, we stay up all night to catch the nocturnal operations of Canadian Pacific and a VIA passenger train. Following a Bangor & Aroostook local freight, we watch as it works its way along the line. Locomotives on the Springfield Terminal will surprise you, as many older-model diesels work in daily freight service.

Maine is a state alive with railroad activity and variety. The wide range of locomotive types and paint schemes will captivate your interest, and the scenic beauty of the state provides a perfect backdrop for great railroad action. Join us for a tour around the state as we explore Today's Maine Railroads!

Trains in Trinidad

2012-02-24T01:00:00.000-05:00

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Found this on facebook

The Train system of The Trinidad & Tobago Government made it's final journey on August 30th, 1965. Here is a youtube video of this last train's journey on that memorable day. The Rail system was terminated then and most of the railway track bed were replaced with Roadways. Within recent years there has been plans to introduce a Rapid Rail System in the Island of Trinidad. The following is the youtube video of "The Last Train To San Fernando" with music of a calypso dedicated in song of the termination of the Railway.

A Texas Model Railroad

2012-02-22T08:30:00.000-05:00

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Visit a large layout in Texas.

The late R.D. Moses and his friend Jack Luck spent over 30 years creating and building a fabulous HO gauge model railroad layout that depicted the Texas & Pacific Railway in West Texas in the 1950s. The layout was housed in a 14 x 48 foot building in Moses’ backyard in Fort Worth, Texas. This superb model railroad was published in the May 2002 Model Railroader magazine. Even before this publication, R.D. Moses model railroad was known both locally and nationally as one of the best in the hobby. It created in miniature the wide-open spaces of West Texas with buttes, outcroppings, mesquite trees, mine villages, oil wells, cow towns and ranches. The intricate design and craftsmanship in the scenery is masterful. The main line track on the layout has 193 feet of rail that curves around mountains and emerges from valleys. Trains roll by, disappear from view and then reappear from behind scenic objects.

http://jeffersonrailway.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=73

Model Trains in the News, Hornby (UK)

2012-02-20T08:22:00.000-05:00

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On reading that Hornby, the maker of Scalextric and model trains, had lost out badly in Christmas sales to iPads and computer games, I thought of Pete, a friend from my 70s boyhood in York. He and his father, a draughtsman on British Rail, ran "N" gauge trains through a pretty landscape (gently undulating, thanks to papier-mache) that occupied the entirety of their box room. Being jealous, I would take the mickey: the little plastic figure of a porter had tipped over, as had the lady-with-shopping-basket. A massacre had occurred within a scene supposed to be as quotidian as possible. Pete, a shy lad, would go red as he stood them up. I myself had to be content with a bog standard "OO" gauge Hornby oval with one siding, a signal and a coal bunker.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/27/hornby-tracks-of-our-tears

Making Pine, Spruce and Fir Trees

2012-02-18T16:04:00.000-05:00

First in a series of 4 videos for our YouTube Channel on Making Realistic and Inexpensive Pine, Spruce and Fir trees for your model railroad. This is one in 4 videos for our YouTube Channel. Due to the size of the video being produced we had to break it up for YouTube. The complete video is available for purchase on our website under our Scenery Videos selection from our store. www.shorthillwestern.com
Let us know what you think....

Howard Zane knows his stuff

2012-02-16T23:43:00.000-05:00

Howard has a write up in a newspaper.

Howard Zane's passion for model railroading is obvious.

The walls of his Columbia home are lined with glass cases filled with row upon row of model engines. Shelves are stacked with boxes of train kits. An office has been converted to the workshop where he creates not just the trains, but the buildings, scenery and electronics.

But the real treat is in the basement, where Zane, 74, has been meticulously crafting a nearly 3,000-square-foot HO-scale layout since 1983. When he finishes one section, he revamps another, so "most of the original is gone," he said.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/howard/news/community/ph-ho-go-train-show-0202-20120130,0,480342.story

Next Generation DCC system

2012-02-14T18:40:00.000-05:00

Craig Bisgeier of the Model Railcast Show describes and demonstrates the all new Battery-powered radio control DCC system by Tam Valley Depot. The system utilizes an on-board Lithium Polymer battery and a small radio receiver that works in concert with your standard DCC decoder and throttle, and enables you to control all of your locomitives without regard to power on the tracks. This is a prototype being demonstrated, the system will be available sometime in 2012.

Making bottle brush trees

2012-02-10T16:00:00.000-05:00

In another video we link you to one more tree clinic on video.

I could not find a how to video online on how to make Bottle brush trees so Here is mine....These are very easy to make

Here is how i made the tree trucks...