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Now Available
    on DVD!   

HOT Trains Volume 1 - ALCO MANIA - A day of trains on the BC&SJ

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You've been READING about the Bear Creek and South Jackson,
now you can EXPERIENCE the 'Bare Creek' in action!

HOT Trains   -  Volume 1
ALCO MANIA

This DVD lets you experience my vision of the Bear Creek and South Jackson. Check out haulers
and hot shots, see helpers in action and solve the mystery of switching Oakhill.

Featuring:

  • The trains and scenery of the Bear Creek and South Jackson from an on-the-layout point of view.
  • Mastered in Hi-Def - hi-quality audio, the trains rumble if you have the speakers!
  • Narration by The Superintendent of Nearly Everything
  • 90 minutes of great viewing (and listening)!
Bonus extras:
  • Clinics: Track Ballasting, Basic and Advanced Greenery.
  • Take a guided tour of the BC&SJ mainline with the Superintendent of Nearly Everything.
  • The South Jackson Gazette comes alive!

Don't miss Horace Fithers, Manitz Daarck, and Gaston Aridelyte wise cracking about the movie production crew in the ending credits!

Click here to watch the video preview!   What they said on the MRH forum.




What's New?

Changes and updates to this site.

BCSJ III
My Layouts

Bear Creek & South Jackson III - my current layout Nov 23, 2012
Dioramas - indoor / outdoor diorama photos Nov 14, 2012
Bear Creek & South Jackson II - R.I.P. - version 2 in my old garage.
Jallen Branch - connecting the 1st BCSJ with the Timesaver
Timesaver - my John Allen timesaver
Bear Creek & South Jackson I - the 1st, 4x8, BCSJ railroad.

Operations
The Gazette
The South Jackson Gazette
All the news that's fit to print - and then some! Certified USDA prime malarkey!

The leading (and only) news paper of the Bear Creek area.
Check out layout life from an HO scale person's view point.
4/25/09
Friends' Layouts

Jim Barta's HO Black Canyon Railroad. 11/20/07
Jim Reardon's On3 D&RGW masterpiece.
Pete Vassler's HO Portland and Willamette.
Ralph Livermore's HO Union Pacific.
Joe Fugate's HO Siskiyou Lines.
Shaun Toman's old HO Union Pacific.

Prototype pictures and info

SP&S 700 - a large Northern class steamer.
Albany & Eastern - the old Mill City branch
Mill City - on the Mill City branch
Shelburn - on the Mill City branch

Layout design

BCSJ III my basement filler.
BCSJ II my around the wall helix design.
BCSJ I my 4x8 HO twice around.
South Pacific Coast On3 version of California narrow gauge

How To
Pages


Model railroad FAQ list.
Building Masonite Spline roadbed.
Building roads with drywall compound.
How to brace roadbed at the ends of a bridge.
Notes on model railroad photography.
Outdoor model railroad photography - natural light on my timesaver.
Scale operating switchstands - I scratch built some operating switch stands.

Train fun

Top 10 lists - don't even think about taking these seriously!
Railroad Jokes - So, did you hear the one about...
Inneresting train pictures - Doh!

Links to other train sites

Links to model railroad sites.
Links to vendors and suppliers.
Links to clubs and organizations.
Links to railroad related magazines.


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