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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 3 -- Dean Freytag and C.J. Riley show you their home layouts. Dean's South Ridge Lines is an industrial line based on the steel industry. C.J.'s Kanawha & Western Allegheny hauls coal from the mountains of West Virginia to the steel-making furnaces of the Ohio Valley. 60 minutes
0101-108327..........Retail $39.95 Sale $29.97
Great Model Railroads, Vol. 4 -- Al Lindop's Utah Midland mimics the dry look of the Utah high country. It's a 20 mile coal hauler featuring beautifully detailed HO scale steam locomotives and first generation diesels pulling long strings of hoppers through a canyon and across high trestles. 60 minutes
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 5 -- The M&K Division of the B&O Railroad is the result of 20 years of work by Don Cassler and an informal group of his friends. This is a railfan's railroad, well-known for its mountain countryside and smooth-running locomotives. The track detail has seldom been attempted. 60 minutes
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 11 -- Those looking for a legendary layout look to W. Allen McClelland's HO scale Virginian & Ohio. Its careful planning and prototype fidelity are only two reasons for its fame. McClelland has built a following among modelers because of his innovations, like walkaround operation. 60 minutes
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 12 -- Howard Zane's free-form approach to model railroading has resulted in a railroad that is art. Structures, signals, and trees on his Piermont Division of the Western Maryland are selected and placed for color and aesthetic enhancement. The Piermont models 1955 on a West Virginia coal hauler. 60 minutes
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 19 -- Bill Henderson's HO scale Coal Belt Railroad is a free-lanced version of several eastern railroads representing Pennsylvania in 1910, because Bill likes Camelback locomotives. Bill's built an exceptional layout in a small space, proving that anyone has the space to do it. 60 minutes
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 21 -- Ron Kuykendall's Western Eclectic and SP are just two of his five layouts. Three of them are HO standard gauge, the other two are HO and S narrow gauge. Ron runs equipment from AT&SF, GN, D&RGW and SP. 60 minutes
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 22 -- Roger Russell has Sn3, On3 and 3/8"n3 layouts. He's won Best of Show awards and numerous First Places at national Narrow Gauge Conventions. Roger passes on tips on scenicking and detailing, combining scales, and tweaking model steam locos for maximum performance. 60 minutes, live audio with narration.
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 23 -- Lou Sassi's West Hoosic Division serves the New England of the 1950s. This HO road features Boston & Maine and Rutland trains running through fabulous scenery created by the "Tree Group". You'll enjoy the group's 20 minute clinic on ground goop, trees, and pulverized leaves. 60 minutes, live sound with narration.
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 24 -- Modelers have continually asked for more video of George Sellios' magnificently detailed Franklin & South Manchester. Now there is a sequel to the first tape Allen Keller made of the F&SM. And George has more than doubled his HO scale layout with new towns since the last video visit. On this one, George and his friends give clinics on detailing, weathering, and structures. The F&SM is the world's most famous model railroad. Shouldn't you see it? 60 minutes, live sound with narration.
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 25 -- This year is the 50th Anniversary of the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society, and its New England Berkshire & Western is 25 years old. This video is a sequel to Keller's first visit to the NEB&W 10 years ago, when only 40% of the layout was finished. Now 90% is done, and this tape concentrates on the new parts. You've seen so many stills of the NEB&W, see it in action here along with segments in which John Nehrich demonstrates techniques of ballasting, mold-making, and casting. 60 minutes, live sound with narration.
0101-108349..........Retail $39.95 Sale $29.97
Great Model Railroads, Vol. 26 -- Narrow gaugers will love this tape of Bob Hayden's HOn2 1/2 Carrabasset & Dead River. Bob is one of modeling's best scenery and structure artists, a man who has popularized many of the recent scenery techniques through his books. The quaint C&DR is a narrow gauge Maine lumber hauler set in the year of 1941. In addition to hosting a trip 'round the C&DR, Bob shows the viewer how to rejuvenate scenery, how to make structures removable, how to use building mockups, and how to create model water with artists' gloss medium. 60 minutes, live sound with narration.
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 27 -- Lee Nicholas' HO scale Utah Colorado Western runs from Denver to Salt Lake City. It models area railroading during the sixties. The road features smooth-running first generation diesels and great Rocky Mountain scenery. The UCW is all about operation, camaraderie and great scenery. Its rolling stock must operate well or die. Lee (one of the founders of Pro-Rail) and his modeling friends demonstrate how to make cheesecloth scenery and carve mountains, paint backdrops and operate a staging yard. 60 minutes, live sound with narration.
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 28 -- The O scale Canandaigua Southern is a regional railroad set in the sixties which has been constructed by John Armstrong, model railroading's most famous track planner. John's been a contributor to the hobby for almost 50 years. John talks to the viewer about his vertical turnout, locomotive body mounts, and about coupling on curves. He also opines about other scales, walkaround layouts, staging yards and more. 60 minutes, live sound with narration.
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 30 -- Coming to life from the pages of the Great Model Railroads 1997 annual is Monroe Stewart's N scale Hooch Jct. Belying its small-road name, this Applachian coal hauler features trains from CSX and NS hauling coal from the hills and hollows to its large harbors. On this tape, Stewart explains painting and ballasting track, planning buildings, and painting brick structures realistically. 60 minutes, live sound with narration.
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 31 -- Ray abd Rebee Grisser's "Soo Line" us ab GI Sectional layout seen at train shows and conventions. The Grosser's are the husband and wife team who built the 1950's era layout as a way to remember their childhood in Minnesota. This video was shot under real sun and the effect is stunning. You'll like the way the sun washes over the trains. Ray and Renee willshow you about designing houses from pictures, applying a stucco like finish, making stone walls, building foreground trees, and installing a Digitrax decoder in a steam loco.
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Great Model Railroads, Vol. 32 -- "THE Model Railroad Club" of Union New Jersey is a legend in the hobby and has provided 50 years of innovation and enjoyment for its members and the public. The HO railroad is probably the largest club layout in the country. The 40 x 40 foot layout is based on railroads that served the industries and commuters of New Jersey in the 1960's. Paul Mallery, a hobby pioneer, created the orginal concept of the club. You'll learn about CTC operation, magnetic waybills, tree making, floating turnout points and installing trolley wire.
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I Love Toy Trains/Big Machines -- The I Love videos are among the most entertaining and imaginative children's videos. The stars are Lionel and American Flyer toy trains on some of the most elaborate layouts in the world. Real trains, airplanes, steam tractors, construction equipment, and tugboats are in the supporting roles. Each video is 30 minutes long.
0101-104205 I Love Toy Trains, Part 1..........Retail $10.47
0101-104206 I Love Toy Trains, Part 2..........Retail $10.47
0101-104207 I Love Toy Trains, Part 3..........Retail $10.47
0101-104201 I Love Big Machines..........Retail $10.47
I Love Christmas -- This video for 2 to 6 year olds features the happy sights and sounds of Christmas. In between those segments, a 12 year old girl reads a Christmas memory by E. B. White, recounts some Christmas legends from other countries, and interviews a group of children about Christmas time. Later she reads the story of the first Christmas. 30 minutes
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A Lionel Christmas -- A mixture of toy train action, heartwarming stories, and beautiful Christmas music. This video recalls the era surrounding World War II in film clips and interviews with people who where kids then. See prewar and postwar Lionel trains on elaborate layouts featuring the prized locomotives, the working cars and other Lionel accessories. 55 minutes
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Lionel: The Movie 2 -- Contains bloopers, old Lionel films, commercials and lots of trains.
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Lionel: The Movie 3 -- See all-new footage of the Dreyfuss Hudson, the Commodore Vanderbilt, Hiawatha, Rail Chief and more. Traces the evolution of the 726 all the way to the Century Club Berkshire. Traces the history of some Lionel diesels. 50 minutes, color and b&w, sound.
0101-105529..........Retail $10.47
The Magic of Lionel Trains -- What special magic do Lionel trains possess? In these tapes Tom McComas takes you on action-packed video tours of outstanding Lionel layouts and captures the spirit of happy toys passed down from one generation to the next. Besides the train action, there are tips and interviews. All aboard! Each tape is 60 minutes long.
Part 1 0101-105548..........Retail $19.95 Sale $13.97
Part 3 0101-105558..........Retail $19.95 Sale $13.97
Part 4 0101-105559..........Retail $19.95 Sale $13.97
Scenery Tips from the Great Model Railroads Series -- Each of these new videos shows you several different methods of creating scenery that works. At the request of many modelers, Allen Keller has created these tapes from the instructional sections of his Great Model Railroads tapes. Imagine learning how to create realistic scenery from such accomplished modelers as David Barrow, Tony Koester, John Nehrich, Bill Reid and George Sellios. And learning how more than one modeler attacks the same problem in a half hour long tape. Give yourself permission to try by watching all three of these tapes, or concentrate on one scenery subject if you need help or ideas. Each tape is 30 minutes long. Color and sound.
0101-000200 Complete 3-Tape Scenery Tips Set..........Retail $59.85 Sale $41.90
0101-000201 Part 1, Landforms..........Retail $19.95 Sale $13.97
0101-000202 Part 2, Grass and Water..........Retail $19.95 Sale $13.97
0101-000203 Part 3, Trees..........Retail $19.95 Sale $13.97
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