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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My guests for the show are Alec Herman of Bridge Line Design and Matt Herman of 3D Central. (https://3dcentraltrains.com/) With the inflection point for 3D printing now achieved, it’s amazing what these two, along with a host of other talented
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Our buddy Dave Owens is back, and we talk about the upcoming New England RPM Meet (http://nerpm.org/index.html) coming June 16 & 17th in Springfield, MA. NERPM has always been a great event and it seems like it’s getting better and
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This month we have a lively chat with Nick Santo of Nixtrainz, and talk about his unique business model and history of how his company came about, what his products do, his penchant for roaming the country for 3/4 of
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Friend of the show Gerry Schaefer, aka Hunter Hughson, returns to the podcast after a three year hiatus, and we catch up on all of the interesting things he’s been up to, including the Hindsight virtual RPM meet he’s associated
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Our good friend Mike Confalone returns for a lively conversation about operating on each others’ layouts, Mike describes his latest project at New Vineyard, we have a lengthy discussion about backdrops, I talk about new projects including finishing the last
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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
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Our buddy Lance Mindheim comes on the podcast to talk about his professional model railroad building business, and we chat further about photo backdrops and using photos ON the layout, plus some railfanning yarns. As always right click and “save
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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
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The news that the New England Proto Meet is back on after a two year hiatus prompted me to ring up my old buddy Dave Owens to find out the details. Dave and I go over the events leading up
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Where the heck has Mike Rose been and what has he been doing all this time since the last podcast? Tune in to find out! We welcome our returning champion and friend of the show Craig Bisgeier to do the
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This month Mike Confalone of Allagash fame returns for our usual lively conversation about (what else?): OPS! We talk about our ongoing solo layout operations, upcoming future small op sessions with close friends, what he’s doing new with train audio,
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This month we pick up right where we left off last month, talking with AND viewing pictures with my friend Tony Verbyla Jr., aka “Tony V”. You’ll even get to see me genuinely astonished at some of the photos Tony
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