Author: mikerose

Listen (or view on my Mike Rose Hobbies You Tube channel (https://youtu.be/uyAsBVkrz9U) as I have a lively chat with Dan Notley of Yelton Models. Dan has a very interesting and diverse background in modeling in general, but has also developed

Our buddy Brooks Bentz comes on the show to talk about his interesting and diverse background in the railroading and transportation businesses, giving frank commentary about the various jobs he’s done starting back with the New Haven-into-PC transition, and including

It’s that time of year again, when the daffodils are popping out and I’m talking with old buddy Dave Owens about the upcoming New England Proto Meet in Springfield, MA (May 30th and 31st.) We discuss his recent trip to

Scott and I chat about building large structures, we do some real-time brain trust planning and opinions on certain things about my Foster Wheeler structure that’s under construction, and we talk about Scott’s giant project for a museum in Franklin,

Scotty Mason is back, grabbing Mike by the lapels he doesn’t have on his T-shirt, and demanding straight answers as to why it’s been so long since the last podcast. In other words, Mike had some “splainin” to do. And

It’s spring in New England, sort of anyway, at least what passes for it around these parts, and that means it’s time to start talking about the New England Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet again! Our old buddy Dave Owens is

It took a Leap Day, but I managed to squeeze in a podcast for February! My guests this month are Bob Sprague of “bobscustomtrackplans.com” and other interests, and his friend and returning champion Scott Mason. We explore how I managed

My guest for the first show of 2024 is Robert Stafford, who saw me on the Second Section podcast and reached out to me. Bob has an extensive railroad career in areas that we don’t normally hear much about, including

Somehow this is another one of those two-podcasts-in-one week things! But my Tuesday appearance on the Second Section podcast is soooo last month, it’s December now and here’s another edition of Crew Call with old compadre Scott Mason back on

Right out of the blue, Scotty Mason materializes with tales of modeling in different scales, and we talk about my modeling adventures and plans. Plus there’s an update for all my Dartmouth Locomotive Works customers. And all right in time