Podcast: Episode 15 - Barstow, Waupaca and Railsplitter 2012
Listen to episode 15 In this episode, we visit the Barstow Harvey House, the preserved Waupaca Depot, and do a quick recap of the 2012 MWR NMRA convention. read more
Apr 27, 2012
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Podcast: Episode 14 - Announcements from Trainfest 2011
Listen to episode 14 Yes, it has been a while, but it's time to get this podcast back on the mainline. So here it is, the next podcast episode full of model railroad announcements from Trainfest 2011! read more
Nov 16, 2011
Podcast: Episode 13 - 2010 National Train Show announcements
Listen to episode 13 The National Train Show was held in July 2010 in conjunction with the National Model Railroad Association's 75th annual convention. This year I was able to talk to many of the manufacturers at the show and got some audio for everyone to hear with their new announcements. Unlike the Trainfest episode last year, this episode has all of the audio in one long chunk. This episode is about 5 times longer than usual, but here it is. read more...
Aug 01, 2010
Podcast: Episode 12 - Snow Train, Chicago Railroad Fair and building a freight car fleet
Listen to Episode 12 We start this episode with a look at the preparations for the Snow Train at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. Then, we review the legacy of the "last great railroad fair" which occurred in 1948 and 1949. Finally, in the Modeler's Moment, we discuss tips and strategies for building a prototypical freight car fleet on a model railroad. read more...
Mar 10, 2010
Podcast: Episode 11.3 - Finishing off the announcements from Trainfest
Listen to Episode 11 Part 3 This took a little longer than expected to get online ( previous posts on The Rip Track home page have all the details), but here it is. In this part, we'll finish hearing from the manufacturers that were showing their products at Trainfest 2009. So, without further ado, let's get back to the show floor. read more...
Jan 04, 2010
Podcast: Episode 11.2 - More announcements from Trainfest
Listen to Episode 11 Part 2 In part 1 of this episode we heard from a few manufacturers who were showing new products at Trainfest 2009. It's time to pick up where we left off, so let's jump right in and hear from some more manufacturers. read more...
Nov 28, 2009
Podcast: Episode 11.1 - Announcements from Trainfest, part 1
Listen to Episode 11 Part 1 There are three major model railroad shows in North America that have become known in the hobby as shows where many manufacturers announce and debut new products: the National Train Show held in conjunction with the NMRA's national convention, the International Hobby Expo held every October in Chicago, and Trainfest held every November in Milwaukee. Last weekend, I went to Trainfest and recorded quick interviews with as many manufacturers as I could to find out what w...
Nov 20, 2009
Podcast: Episode 10 - Model railroad tips from show exhibitors
Listen to Episode 10 Some people installed on an HO scale module. For this episode of the podcast, we're going to focus on model railroading and save the prototype history and data for a later show. It's October, and now that the days are getting colder and the nights longer, that means that model railroad season is well under way in North America. Model railroaders are home from summer vacations and are getting together to build, operate and just talk about their layouts with each other. Also, ...
Oct 06, 2009
Podcast: Episode 9 - A couple of railway labor unions and model railroad jobs
Listen to Episode 9 An engineer on the Riverside & Great Northern Railway in Wisconsin Dells, WI. It's Labor Day weekend here in the United States, so in this episode we'll look at some railroad labor unions and discuss some of the jobs in model railroad operations. read more...
Sep 08, 2009
Podcast: Episode 8 - Daylights, porters and passenger train consists
Listen to episode 8 Southern Pacific 4449 running past the former Sturtevant, Wisconsin, depot on August 2, 2009. Today on the podcast, we're going to take a look at the history of Southern Pacific 4449 and some of the trains it has pulled. We'll also hear a song about some "difficult" passengers that porters have to deal with. After that, we'll talk a little bit more about passenger trains and how you can model them. So, all aboard! read more...
Aug 09, 2009
Podcast: Episode 7 - The "Father of Railways", two junctions and selective compression
Listen to Episode 7 A model of the Compressed Manufacturing Company in HO scale. Never more than a day late, here's the next episode of the Rip Track Podast. In this episode, we take a look at the life of George Stephenson, "The Father of Railways." Then we hear the final installment of Randy Garnhardt's discussion of interesting juctions with a look at Clinton, Iowa, and Nelson, Illinois. Finally, the Modeler's Moment describes the princile of selective compression as it is applied to model rai...
Jul 26, 2009
Podcast: Episode 6 - speed demons
Listen to Episode 6 New York Central No. 999 on display in Chicago. For this episode, we'll take a look at the progression of speed records set by steam locomotives for various railways around the world. In the Modeler's Moment, we discuss a quick and easy way to improve the appearance of the track on our layouts. We close with a quick recap of updates to The Rip Track website. read more...
Jul 11, 2009
Podcast: Episode 5 - running trains and delivering coal
Listen to Episode 5 Model railroaders at an operating session. Okay, so this is a day and a half later than the schedule that the first four episodes have followed. Well, here it is anyways. First we hear a narration from a model railroad operating session, then we hear an 1899 musical recording describing one sad passenger train ride. We continue with an excerpt from Jerry Pfeiffer's industry and freight cars clinic where he discusses coal deliveries in the Midwest. Finally, in the Modeler's Mo...
Jun 28, 2009
Podcast: Episode 4 - locomotives and elevateds and junctions, oh my!
Listen to Episode 4 John Bull , train and crew in 1893. Photograph by Will P. Cook from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. In this episode, we take a look through history for the bulk of the content. We start with a "biography" of one named steam locomotive that operated in the United States during the early days of railroading, and that you can still go see today. We follow that with a 1904 Edison recording called "Interrupted Courtship on the Elevated Rai...
Jun 13, 2009
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