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M&M Rails
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My GOAL is to entertain you. If you learn something, bonus!
Mark and Mike Rails started many years ago, in an age before YouTube and social media. He and I would spend Friday nights building our U shaped HO scale layout that took over most of our parents' basement. It was DC, with a working turntable, numerous electric switches, lighted buildings and a sweet cemetery scene. Running trains with my brother was a ton of fun and it's the only time we didn't fight.
Mike joined a band, Jimmy quit and Jody got married. Skip ahead 20 years and I resurrected part of the layout in early 2016 thanks to my loving wife. You can find videos about my 4x8 DC layout in the playlists. How-to videos on building, wiring, turntabling and lighting a DC layout.
Now, my wife and I live in a small apartment and I have a DCC layout with 2 loops and a small yard. Come along with me as I journey into this new and fun system of model trains. This hobby is living proof that you can have your cake and eat it too.
Mark and Mike Rails started many years ago, in an age before YouTube and social media. He and I would spend Friday nights building our U shaped HO scale layout that took over most of our parents' basement. It was DC, with a working turntable, numerous electric switches, lighted buildings and a sweet cemetery scene. Running trains with my brother was a ton of fun and it's the only time we didn't fight.
Mike joined a band, Jimmy quit and Jody got married. Skip ahead 20 years and I resurrected part of the layout in early 2016 thanks to my loving wife. You can find videos about my 4x8 DC layout in the playlists. How-to videos on building, wiring, turntabling and lighting a DC layout.
Now, my wife and I live in a small apartment and I have a DCC layout with 2 loops and a small yard. Come along with me as I journey into this new and fun system of model trains. This hobby is living proof that you can have your cake and eat it too.
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PeterCPRail8748
(4 minutes ago)
Mark nice work on the tunnel and mointains, I like what you did with locking mechanism, simple but nice, well dome.
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2012Bougie
(9 minutes ago)
Very cool Mark!!
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kitchentabletalks
(18 minutes ago)
Nicely done!
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dacuzzz
(27 minutes ago)
hi Matt.. i use the same exact method to do my mountains... awesome vid... i like the shack on the mountain.. thanks for sharing.. vinny
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cuppajoe2
(32 minutes ago)
Great vid! Finally found a style of making mountains that i like!
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GoViaorgohome
(47 minutes ago)
great work. Love that access panel. keep it up
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riondoesthings1988
(51 minutes ago)
Found this very interesting and very helpful thanks for sharing!
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RayThunderheroes
(1 hour ago)
this is so cool!
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frankbullitt4556
(2 hour ago)
nice work
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babs1450
(2 hours ago)
Hello from Florida
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EmeraldKnight4611
(3 hours ago)
“No dogs in the train room”
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Tinfoil.Hatter
(23 hours ago)
Thanks Matt..you sound like that dude Cain from Robocop 2
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kargandarr
(15 hours ago)
Sections of drop-ceiling tiles can also be used as a means of constructing landscape in a train layout.
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derekalexander4030
(12 hours ago)
Great jog on the tunnel and access hatch but I have a question. How the hell did you get the invisible paint off of the mountain? They don’t make an invisible paint remover and it was obvious that everyone else knew they didn’t make it because everyone I asked made it really CLEAR that they don’t have it and then they wouldn’t help me anymore. Crazy!
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freshpack8928
(5 hours ago)
On the risers why not just use masking tape? It’s smoother, cheaper , and you will be covering it anyways? I see everyone doing it the way you did . I am almost at the stage where I will be doing this . I thouht the tape seals it and gluing the track would add the rigidity.
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