After taking a summer “off”, I reconnect with Scott to talk about the just-completed subterranean staging yard project. Mike talks about some pros/cons and different characteristics of some commercially available track products, along with the trials and tribulations of building

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Scott joins me again for a detailed walk-through of a proposed big layout addition! Think my layout is big enough? Tune in to find out. Scott also talks about his ongoing work to recreated the entire town of Franklin, and

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Listen this month as I chat with Scotty Mason and Dave Owens about the upcoming New England Proto Meet, as well as reminisce about past meets. Dave talks about military modeling, where to find the meet website and what to

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Listen (or view on my Mike Rose Hobbies You Tube channel (https://youtu.be/9ldFgi9F5XI) as I chat with Scotty Mason about his visit to my layout to see for himself what’s been going on with the Crestwood area, the final portion of

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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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