2009 Hartford National Train Convention

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2009 National Train Show Model Railroad Hobbyist interviewed many vendors and took video footage of some of the layouts at the 2009 National Train Show in Hartford, Connecticut. Check out the free videos from the train show - we hope you enjoy watching this video footage as much as we enjoyed shooting it!
2009 NMRA Online videos ... Be patient - it can sometimes take 60 seconds or more for your browser to cache the video before playing it. *Video playback issues?* See these troubleshooting tips.

BLMA models (11:59) - Craig Martyn of BLMA shows whats new including truss bridges, signal heads, PODS and more. Jeff Shultz visits the BLMA booth at the 2009 National Train Show. As a bonus Jeff Shultz gets to talk with Matt Bown of Extreme Trains.
Click here for a downloadable version (47 MB). We recommend Adobe Media Player. Visit the BLMA web site.

ESU LokSound (9:23) - See the exciting new DCC systems from ESU along with the latest generation of sound decoders. Jeff Shultz interviews Juergen Lindner of ESU.
Click here for a downloadable version (38 MB). We recommend Adobe Media Player. Visit the ESU web site.

Leslie Eaton MMR (6:39) - Leslie tells Jeff Shultz about nano animations such as synchronizing a grade crossing's lights and bell. Leslie has manned the NMRA "Ask the MMR" table for 9 years. Visit Leslie's web site.

iwata-medea (9:41) - Les Halmos and Jeff Shultz visit the iwata booth (no they don't capitalize the 'i') and learn a lot about airbrushes. Jeff gets a lesson in the use and cleaning of a dual action airbrush! Visit the iwata-medea web site.

Miller Engineering (3:23) - Chris Miller explains to Jeff Shultz what's going on with his line of illuminated and animated signs. Great stuff for night scenes! Visit the Miller Engineering web site.

True Line Trains (5:26) - Darren Altbaum talks about their new line of Canadian freight cars and locomotives. Since Les Halmos is from Quebec he's is naturally a bit interested by these nifty models! Visit the True Line Trains web site.

Rapido (9:51) - Check out the new stuff at Rapido this year. Visit the Rapido web site.

Walthers (3:06) - Check out the Hulett ore unloaders that are part of the new Ashland Iron & Steel series! Tim Wickerham tells Les about them. Visit the Walthers web site.

NMRA host committee (3:43) - Hear what the NMRA host committee has to say about the convention (and their imminent retirement) Visit the NMRA web site.

Broadway Limited (4:54) - Hear about Broadway Limited Imports new products including a PRR centipede and SP daylight passenger cars Visit the Broadway Limited web site.

Scenic Express (9:00) - Les Halmos meets a strange railroad employee hanging around the train show and Jim Elster of Scenic Express shows some interesting products including Super-Sage and Sil-flor buffalo grass. Visit the Scenic Express web site.

Aristo Craft Trains (6:02) - Lewis Polk, the president of Aristo Craft talks about their new direct to train radio throttle system for HO scale. Visit the Aristo Craft web site.

Craftsman Structure Show (3:45) - Scotty Mason talks about who will be at the Craftsman Structure Show coming up later this year. Basically a who's who of model railroad structure builders. Visit the Craftsman Structure Show web site.

Train Cat Model Sales (6:15) - Bob Knight of Train Cat Model Sales shows Jeff Shultz some of the new brass models they have including a truss bridge, signal towers and rolling stock. Visit the Train Cat web site.

Canadian Model Trains (5:05) - Les Halmos finds out from Tom Tomblin what makes this hobby distributor unique (and they're not just for Canadians) Visit the Canadian Model Trains web site.

Comments

Interviews all uploaded

Mon, 2009-07-20 14:13 — bear creek

The final five 2009 National Train Show interviews are now uploaded.

Enjoy!

Charlie

Superintendent of nearly everything

Hey... Did you ceased with

Tue, 2009-07-21 02:01 — Thommo

Hey... Did you ceased with the practice to have link of movies, that can be downloaded and watched later?!

I do not allways have fast connection available, so this will be big dissapointment...

The Railway Enthusiasts Society "Stacion", Rijeka - Croatia • www.stacion.hr

Downloads

Wed, 2009-07-22 03:28 — KnuT (not verified)

Hey... Did you ceased with the practice to have link of movies, that can be downloaded and watched later?!

I do not allways have fast connection available, so this will be big dissapointment...

I am also missing this. Although I have a resonable fast connection and the videos works on a couple of computers at home, they won't play well on the one I am using most. This one is old, but should not be that outdateted.

Downloaded videos, like the bonusfeatures from the last MRH, play well on this one using the VLC

Yeah.. I miss the download too

Wed, 2009-07-22 05:33 — ChrisNH

I notice that the movies are hosted through blip now too..

Problem I have is I watch on my couch.. so I usually would download the clips into my DVR software so I can watch them using the remote while I hold the baby.

Its also tough because they are in parts (thinking the digitrax one..).. so if I do bring up the browser to watch I have to get up and twiddle it every 10-15 min waking up the baby.

Chris

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” My modest progress Blog

Okay, downloadables are tricky

Wed, 2009-07-22 07:22 — joef

Okay, making the video available from blip in downloadble form is tricky - we tend to get lots of support emails on downloadable videos so if we did downloadable at all, we were thinking of charging for them because they're such a hassle.

However, blip does provide a URL to the video - try the BLMA video downloadable version and let us know how it works. If you can download and play it easily then we'll consider offering at least the vendor/sponsor interviews as downloadables for free.

The other problem with downloadable is it puts the video out in the wild and disconnects it from our web site. We need people to visit our web site so they see the clickable sponsor logo buttons, since they're paying the freight. Strictly speaking, unless we start loading the video up with ads, downloadable videos should be paid for somehow - and without ads that would mean YOU would pay for them, which kind of goes against our free policy.

Some things just aren't simple, are they?

Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine

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Play list

Wed, 2009-07-22 07:34 — ChrisNH

I understand your desire to hold onto content.

Plays great in the Adobe Media Player.

One way around some of my angst with non-downloadable would be for related episodes to come up in some kind of playlist. If I could track through all the Digitrax videos, for instance, without having to get up from the couch (see notes on sleeping baby) then I would be reasonably content..

Chris

btw- I would be willing to consider a subscription for a steady diet of nice videos of clinics and stuff.. I love model railroad clinics and think that would be well worth some scratch. Not that I have much scratch, so maybe its theoretical :)

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” My modest progress Blog

The download worked better for me

Wed, 2009-07-22 10:31 — KnuT (not verified)

Joe,

I understand your thougths and concerns about the videos

The other problem with downloadable is it puts the video out in the wild and disconnects it from our web site. We need people to visit our web site so they see the clickable sponsor logo buttons, since they're paying the freight.

The link you provided worked fine for me. I first tried "save as" and my Firefox 3.5.1 opened the video in a new tab. It played fluid. By copying the link and paste it into VLC it worked perfect.

Pity the normal way don't work well on my computer, but I can always use my wife's or son's computers when those are available. Maybe I even can sort out the problems with some reinstallation of software.

Anyway this is not a big deal for me. Thank to all of you at the MRH staff for sharing this with us!!!

Use real player

Wed, 2009-07-22 12:29 — mikeruby

I don't know if this works on a PC, but on my Mac I have Realplayer download installed. I start a video, then pause it wait for it to fully download, or go to the next step where it will be downloaded. Open the download window, click on the downloader icon, from here you click download next to the video you want and it is placed in the Realplayer download file. Then you can watch it at any time in Realplayer.

Also I did the download of the BLMA video worked with no problems.

Mike Ruby

downloading

Fri, 2009-07-24 10:29 — KnuT (not verified)

I start a video, then pause it wait for it to fully download,

Thank you, for reminding me of that, Mike, I had forgotten that. It worked better, but still the videos don't play fluid on my own computer, the Digitrax from N-scale in Portland is actually the worst

So I am wondering if this is either something with XP as I have tried the videos on a couple of laptops with Vista where they work fine.

The XP pcs are of course older, but not so bad.Hmm

But as I said, this is no big deal for me as my wife just came home with her laptop. I can occupy that laptop a little each day.....

Reinstalling Firefox

Sun, 2009-07-26 06:05 — KnuT (not verified)

Due to other problems I deleted Firefox and did a new installation.

It seems to me that the videos work better now.

Just for your information as I am not a geek in this area.

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