Siskiyou Line Potpourri - MRH Theater

Joe Fugate's Siskiyou Line Potpourri

Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine publisher Joe Fugate talks about his large HO scale layout, the SP Siskiyou Line at the 2008 National Convention. We ran our video cameras at Joe's clinic for MRH Theater viewers, so enjoy!


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Click to play the Siskiyou Line Potpourri segment 1. (you may need to allow popups)Siskiyou Line Potpourri - segment 1 (17:06) - Watch Joe Fugate as he tells about his large HO scale layout that he started in 1991. Joe outlines how he models the prototype SP Siskiyou Line, and gives the latest updates on the layout. This segment also features a video clip of Tenmile Creek - the newest finished area on the layout.

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Click to play the Siskiyou Line Potpourri segment 2. (you may need to allow popups)Siskiyou Line Potpourri - segment 2 (14:49) - Joe continues talking about the Tenmile Creek scene and presents some photos of the scene under construction from bare benchwork to the finished result. Next Joe moves into the heart of his clinic - getting a more satisfying layout by learning to focus on a critical concept he calls "Quality of Run".

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Click to play the Siskiyou Line Potpourri segment 3. (you may need to allow popups)Siskiyou Line Potpourri - segment 3 (15:09) - Joe finishes his "Quality of Run" discussion, and then launches into talking about a secret to making maintenance easier on your layout, complete with a how-to example. Joe also talks about his videos and what they cover.

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Click to play the Siskiyou Line Potpourri segment 4. (you may need to allow popups)Siskiyou Line Potpourri - segment 4 (13:17) - Joe announces his newest model railroading media project: Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine!. Joe runs through the demo issue to illustrate the interactive nature that MRH hopes to achieve, and finally he fields some questions from the audience about his layout and MRH.

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ADDITIONAL SISKIYOU LINE RESOURCES

 

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Siskiyou segment 1

This is great. I would love to see the whole thing in person but Oregon is a long way from New York City. I'll settle for the videos which are great too. When will segment 2 be up?

Irv

joef's picture

Segment 2 will be next Monday

The next 3 Movie Mondays will be the rest of this clinic, then we'll move to the first Decoder Pro clinic segments.

Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine

Joe Fugate's HO Siskiyou Line

Chuck Geiger's picture

Hey Joe

Jimi Hendrix...Working in broadcasting, on the video with audio for the magazine, I can produce voice-over opens and closes - Let me know if you are interested and I can send some MP3 samples.

Hey Joe.

Before we did our last house renovation in 2004, we had a door bell that could be programed to play various tunes when some puched the button. I used to set it to different things like Big Ben and Mary Had a Little Lamb. But my altime favorite for aome strange reason was:

 

I've been working on the railroad.

 

I wish I had that bell these days. It was replaced with something different that comes as part of our intercom system that lets us find out who is at the door. It's one of the things one needs in post 9/11/01NYC.

Irv

joef's picture

Has to be royalty free

Whatever we use must be Royalty free - we can't use any copywritten material without permission.

If you have an interest in producing content for the magazine, go to contact us and either send us an article query for a specific idea you have, or send us a contributing editor query for how you would like to do more production-type work.

Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine

Joe Fugate's HO Siskiyou Line

joef's picture

Oh yes, and just because we're free ...

Also, just because MRH is free doesn't mean our material isn't copy protected.

We use a Creative Commons license, which means as long as content you use from us is put into another form that is also free AND you provide a link back to this site, then you have our blessing.

But you ARE NOT free to use any of our material in a paid publication without our permission.

Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine

Joe Fugate's HO Siskiyou Line

JaySmith's picture

Siskiyou Line Potpourri Powerpoint

Joe,

You gonna make the Siskiyou Line Potpourri powerpoint available for download?

Thanks,

Jay

 

Jay Smith

The Northeast Corridor-New Jersey Division HO Model Railroad on Facebook

Amtrak - New Jersey Transit - Septa

 

joef's picture

Yes, next week ...

Jay:

Yes, next week.

I did good to have something to post for Movie Monday this week, given everything going on last week ... convention, op session, work, family events - I had something every single night last week, plus Saturday was the op session - sheesh!

My wife commented on Sunday she was completely worn out from the constant go-go-go!

So yes, I'll get the powerpoint slides put up ... for next Movie Monday ...

Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine

Joe Fugate's HO Siskiyou Line

jbaakko's picture

Awesome!

Great video Joe, I liked the optimal height comment. Puts it between 3' & 4' for me. Something I had not thought of.
JaySmith's picture

Thanks

Thanks, can't wait!   It's amazing that you did get a movie posted, but I'm sure everyone is very glad you did!

Jay Smith

The Northeast Corridor-New Jersey Division HO Model Railroad on Facebook

Amtrak - New Jersey Transit - Septa

 


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