Crew Call With Mike Rose

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, MA. Please note that although there is plenty of audio in this podcast, there is a section where I show and we discuss cer

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 explain I did, talking about the latest updates on the layout, future plans, and all the whys and wherefores of the past few months. Scott also

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 back, and we talk about not only how old we are and how long we’ve been doing this, but our chance meeting in Malvern last month, other proto

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 to stumble upon an article Bob did in the December Model Railroader, mentioning a layout he designed for Scott some years back, and we w

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 work as an Auditing Inspector with the Eastern Weighing and Inspection Bureau, Eastern Railroad Association. What really got my attention is that Bob covered my m

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 designers, are producing. This is a very video podcast at several points (though I tried my best to be descriptive for the audio only

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 better all the time. With 21 meets under their belt, the NERPM crew really has it down, but they never rest on their laurels. Consult the webs

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 the year (!), and his visit recently to my layout. As always right click and “save as”: Crew Call 4-3 April 7th 2023     The post Download the Ap

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 with, what he’s been modeling and modeling concepts in general, plus naturally we talk about my Lehigh Line operations and even some hole

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 un-done area of Pittston Yard and the future Pocono Northeast expansion, and we wrap it up talking about Mike’s bi