Author: mikerose

This month I have a very pleasant and engaging chat with Otto Vondrak, editor of Railroad Model Craftsman and Railfan & Railroad. We get to know a bit about Otto’s background in the hobby, what it’s like to be a

This month, in keeping with our recent trend of talking with professional and model railroaders, my guest is Reading & Northern engineer Ron Papiercavich. Ron’s been a big help with information for my own modeling efforts, and also has a

This month I talk with UP engineer Thomas Gasior, who talks about his proto-freelanced Splitrock Mining Companay Layout, life on the prototype, modeling concepts, and the small pond we’re all in from a model railroading standpoint. We also talk about

A Crew Call first: this month I speak with Jim “Hot Rod” Lincoln AND Randy Hammill from Prototype Junction. What’s Prototype Junction? Tune in and find out! We talk about how we all met, go over some modeling history and

Meet the man, the myth, the legend, none other than Ken Karlewicz! Ken and I talk about his amazing photography background (and just scratch the surface), his D&H layout, my last op session, the new Waybill plan, and enough unfinished

This month the always interesting Kaylee Zheng and I talk about our layouts. Seriously, and yep, there’s more, you’ll just have to listen to find out! As always right click and “save as”: November_21st_2019 Podcast

I welcome my old buddy Mike Confalone to talk about all the things we usually talk about: model railroads (his Allagash and mine), my latest op session and operational philosophies, ongoing projects and plans for the future. As always right

This is a placeholder for the upcoming November show, but I needed to make sure that the renamed RSS feed didn’t break iTunes. Please let me know on the Facebook group or on the e-mail address I mention in the

We welcome Craig Bisgeier to our rotating roster of hosts to kick off our inaugural show. Topics include a bit about the new show concept, some technical stuff about this being the last show distributed under the old feed and

Scotty & Mike talk about the recent New England Proto Meet, Mike does a layout update that morphs into a specific update on the Ransom paper mill and a surprise contribution from Jimmy Simmons, Scott talks about his trip to