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 meets we’ve been to, and all the changes with the meet this year. New venue, same great crew running the meet.

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Crew Call 5-3 April 22nd 2024

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

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Crew Call 5-2 February 29th 2024 2024

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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 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 modeling area and his visits included customers on my layout like Procter & Gamble at Mehoopany, the paper plant at Ransom and the Masonite plant in Towanda, among others. Listen as he tells the tale of his experiences with various jobs, consignees and railroads.

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Crew Call 4-5 November  10th 2023

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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 designers, are producing.  This is a very video podcast at several points (though I tried my best to be descriptive for the audio only folks), but I’d encourage you to watch the video version of this on my You Tube channel if you want to see models discussed in real time, along with a very interesting shop tour!

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Crew Call 4-5 November  10th 2023

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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 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 website for booking information and a clinic list.   Even some guy named “Mike Rose” is going to be there for the first time since 2019, and the plan is to do a “before and after” kind of clinic using slides from the previous presentation juxtaposed with the current layout status.   The slate of clinics looks excellent you can review them on the website also.

Dave and I talk about the history of the meet and why we go to meets in general, but the conversation ranges from there to railfanning, modeling, and his participation with the Amherst Railway Society.   One of the services they are now providing is helping to properly handle model railroads whose owners are deceased, an important thing to plan for.   But trust me, it’s not doom and gloom, a pleasant time was had by all!

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Crew Call 4-4 May  5th 2023

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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 the year (!), and his visit recently to my layout.

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Crew Call 4-3 April  7th 2023

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

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Crew Call 4-2 March 10th. Podcast

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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 un-done area of Pittston Yard and the future Pocono Northeast expansion, and we wrap it up talking about Mike’s big paper mill upcoming project (the last big area of his layout to be completed).   It’s packed with fascinating tidbits and techniques!

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Crew Call 4-1 February 10th. Podcast

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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 the show. We talk about the passing of Dick Elwell and Allen McClelland along with what they brought to the hobby, Scott talks about his giant modeling project for the Franklin Historical Society, I talk about recent ops on Neil Schofield and Mike Confalone’s layouts, plus give an update on my layout progress and plans for the winter.

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Crew Call 3-15 December 1st. Podcast

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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.

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Crew Call 3-14 August 25th Podcast

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