Mike and Scotty Live

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 The post Download the September 2024 Crew Call (Vol. 5-4)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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 The post Download the April 2024 Crew Call (Vol. 5-3)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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 The post Download the February 2024 Crew Call (Vol. 5-2)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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 The post Download the January 2024 Crew Call (Vol. 5-1)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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 The post Download the November 2023 Crew Call (Vol. 4-5)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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 The post Download the May 2023 Crew Call (Vol. 4-4)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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 post Download the April 2023 Crew Call (Vol. 4-3)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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 The post Download the March 2023 Crew Call (Vol. 4-2)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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 The post Download the February 2023 Crew Call (Vol. 4-1)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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 post Download the December 2022 Crew Call (Vol. 3-15)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

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. As always right click and “save The post Download the August 2022 Crew Call (Vol. 3-14)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

Right out of the blue, Scotty Mason materializes with tales of modeling in different scales, and we talk about my modeling adventures and plans. Plus there’s an update for all my Dartmouth Locomotive Works customers. And all right in time The post Download the June 2022 Crew Call (Vol. 3-13)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

The news that the New England Proto Meet is back on after a two year hiatus prompted me to ring up my old buddy Dave Owens to find out the details.  Dave and I go over the events leading up The post Download the February 2022 Crew Call (Vol. 3-12)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

Where the heck has Mike Rose been and what has he been doing all this time since the last podcast?  Tune in to find out!   We welcome our returning champion and friend of the show Craig Bisgeier to do the The post Download the November 2021 Crew Call (Vol. 3-11)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

This month Mike Confalone of Allagash fame returns for our usual lively conversation about (what else?): OPS! We talk about our ongoing solo layout operations, upcoming future small op sessions with close friends, what he’s doing new with train audio, The post Download the April 2021 Crew Call (Vol. 3-4)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

This month we pick up right where we left off last month, talking with AND viewing pictures with my friend Tony Verbyla Jr., aka “Tony V”. You’ll even get to see me genuinely astonished at some of the photos Tony The post Download the March 2021 Crew Call (Vol. 3-3)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose.

This month we have the pleasure of talking with AND viewing pictures with my friend Tony Verbyla Jr., aka “Tony V”. View? Yes, once again this will also be on You Tube at the following link: Tony and I talk

This month we have the pleasure of talking with AND viewing JT Burke of Scale Sound Systems. View? Yes, once again this will also be on You Tube at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=217QaWfVxgw JT and I talk about his background

This month we have the pleasure of talking with AND viewing Blaine Hadfield of Arrowhead models. View? Yes, this will also be on You Tube at the following link: https://youtu.be/Ica6FAu79UU Blaine and I talk about his background in model railroad

Join me this month for a most engaging chat with my old buddy Brian Banna. Brian has a well deserved reputation for extremely accurate prototype modeling, but he’s come full circle and I think you’ll find the story of his

Join me this month for a most engaging chat with my old buddy Brian Banna. Brian has a well deserved reputation for extremely accurate prototype modeling, but he’s come full circle and I think you’ll find the story of his

Join me in a wide ranging conversation with modeler, musician, author and all around Renaissance Man Gerry Schaefer, aka Hunter Hughson (you’ll have to listen all the way to find out why there are two names). Gerry has a couple

Join me in a wide ranging conversation with modeler, musician, author and all around Renaissance Man Gerry Schaefer, aka Hunter Hughson (you’ll have to listen all the way to find out why there are two names). Gerry has a couple

Join me as I get to know fellow D&H modeler Justin Jankauskas as we discuss his Penn Division HO model railroad. Justin talks about his layout concept, construction and scenery techniques, along with operations. In other words, it’s two model

Join me as I get to know fellow D&H modeler Justin Jankauskas as we discuss his Penn Division HO model railroad. Justin talks about his layout concept, construction and scenery techniques, along with operations. In other words, it’s two model

This month I have a lively conversation with my old friend and modeling buddy Jim Dufour, where we talk about his beautiful B&M Cheshire Branch model railroad, railfanning and how we originally met, and lots of modeling techniques and foibles!

This month I have a lively conversation with my old friend and modeling buddy Jim Dufour, where we talk about his beautiful B&M Cheshire Branch model railroad, railfanning and how we originally met, and lots of modeling techniques and foibles!

This month I speak with our returning champion Jimmy Simmons, of Monster Modelworks, and also a former co-host with me on the Scotty Mason Show for several years. Jimmy and I catch up a bit, and talk about the saga

This month I speak with our returning champion Jimmy Simmons, of Monster Modelworks, and also a former co-host with me on the Scotty Mason Show for several years. Jimmy and I catch up a bit, and talk about the saga

This month I had the pleasure of speaking with Stacey Walthers Naffah, President of Walthers. It’s not often that you get a chance to speak to the head of one of the leaders in the model railroading industry. We had

This month I had the pleasure of speaking with Stacey Walthers Naffah, President of Walthers. It’s not often that you get a chance to speak to the head of one of the leaders in the model railroading industry. We had

This month please enjoy a lively discussion about solo operations with well known modeler and good friend Mike Confalone. Mike and I have been operating our large layouts in solo fashion for several weeks and we compare notes about what’s

This month please enjoy a lively discussion about solo operations with well known modeler and good friend Mike Confalone. Mike and I have been operating our large layouts in solo fashion for several weeks and we compare notes about what’s

This month I have a very pleasant and engaging chat with Otto Vondrak, editor of Railroad Model Craftsman and Railfan & Railroad. We get to know a bit about Otto’s background in the hobby, what it’s like to be a

This month I have a very pleasant and engaging chat with Otto Vondrak, editor of Railroad Model Craftsman and Railfan & Railroad. We get to know a bit about Otto’s background in the hobby, what it’s like to be a

This month, in keeping with our recent trend of talking with professional and model railroaders, my guest is Reading & Northern engineer Ron Papiercavich. Ron’s been a big help with information for my own modeling efforts, and also has a

This month, in keeping with our recent trend of talking with professional and model railroaders, my guest is Reading & Northern engineer Ron Papiercavich. Ron’s been a big help with information for my own modeling efforts, and also has a

This month I talk with UP engineer Thomas Gasior, who talks about his proto-freelanced Splitrock Mining Companay Layout, life on the prototype, modeling concepts, and the small pond we’re all in from a model railroading standpoint. We also talk about

This month I talk with UP engineer Thomas Gasior, who talks about his proto-freelanced Splitrock Mining Companay Layout, life on the prototype, modeling concepts, and the small pond we’re all in from a model railroading standpoint. We also talk about

A Crew Call first: this month I speak with Jim “Hot Rod” Lincoln AND Randy Hammill from Prototype Junction. What’s Prototype Junction? Tune in and find out! We talk about how we all met, go over some modeling history and

Meet the man, the myth, the legend, none other than Ken Karlewicz! Ken and I talk about his amazing photography background (and just scratch the surface), his D&H layout, my last op session, the new Waybill plan, and enough unfinished

This month the always interesting Kaylee Zheng and I talk about our layouts. Seriously, and yep, there’s more, you’ll just have to listen to find out! As always right click and “save as”: November_21st_2019 Podcast

I welcome my old buddy Mike Confalone to talk about all the things we usually talk about: model railroads (his Allagash and mine), my latest op session and operational philosophies, ongoing projects and plans for the future. As always right

This is a placeholder for the upcoming November show, but I needed to make sure that the renamed RSS feed didn’t break iTunes. Please let me know on the Facebook group or on the e-mail address I mention in the

We welcome Craig Bisgeier to our rotating roster of hosts to kick off our inaugural show. Topics include a bit about the new show concept, some technical stuff about this being the last show distributed under the old feed and