2008 National Train Show in Anaheim - MRH Theater

2008 National Train Show

Model Railroad Hobbyist interviewed many vendors and took footage of the layouts at the 2008 National Train Show in Anaheim. Here's almost two hours of free video from the train show - we hope you enjoy watching this video footage as much as we enjoyed shooting it!


2008 NMRA Online videos ...

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Click to play the NTS 2008 interview. (you may need to allow popups)MRH Visits the National Train Show  (10:06) - We visit with modelers waiting in line, and then chat with Chris Palomarez of Free-mo. Click image to play our exclusive video coverage of NTS 2008. Visit Free-mo web site

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Click to play the Microsoft Train Simulator 2 interview. (you may need to allow popups)Microsoft Train Simulator 2 (12:32) - First public showing of this exciting new product that's coming for the 2009 holiday season. Click image to play our exclusive video interview! Visit MSTS2 web site.

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Click to play the Fast Tracks interview. (you may need to allow popups)Fast Tracks (3:32) - Fast Track's Tim Warris tells us about their new "Infinite Track" system! Click image to play our exclusive video interview! Visit Fast Tracks web site.

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Click to play the Athearn interview. (you may need to allow popups)Athearn (9:41) - Athearn's Michael Stephens gives us the rundown on their new products! Click image to play our exclusive video interview! Visit Athearn web site.

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Click to play the Proto:87 Stores interview. (you may need to allow popups)Proto:87 Stores (3:20) - Proto:87's Andy Reichert tells us about his exact scale trackwork products for HO! Click image to play our exclusive video interview! Visit Proto:87 Stores web site.

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Click to play the Moon Dog / Intermountain interview. (you may need to allow popups)Moon Dog Rail Cars / Intermountain (3:10) - John O'Donnel of Moon Dog tells us about his custom-decorated Intermountain cars. Then Jeff Shultz gives an overview of Intermountain products. Visit Moon Dog web site. Visit Intermountain web site.

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Click to play the SoundTraxx Diesel Tsunami demo. (you may need to allow popups)SoundTraxx Diesel Tsunami (4:18) - Hear the new SoundTraxx Diesel Tsunami! Jarrett Ireland demos the Diesel Tsunami and explains its features. Click image to play our exclusive video demo!
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Click to play the Rapido interview. (you may need to allow popups)Rapido (4:29) - Jean Seo of Rapido Trains tells us a bit of their history and shows us Rapido's exciting product line and new products! Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the Tangent interview. (you may need to allow popups)Tangent (4:37) - We interview Tangent founder, David Lehlbach, and learn about their new Pullman Standard 4000 series covered hopper. Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the Atlas interview. (you may need to allow popups)Atlas & Atlas O (7:19) - Jeff Shultz gives us a quick look at some new products in the Atlas booth, and Les Halmos interviews Bob Lawrence of Atlas O. Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the Dapol interview. (you may need to allow popups)Dapol (4:18) - Jeff Shultz interviews Dapol, a firm new to the US, and learns about their killer track cleaning car (coming this Christmas). Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the Micro-Trains interview. (you may need to allow popups)Micro-Trains (4:41) - Micro-Trains tells us about their latest Z and N-scale offerings. Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the Bachmann interview. (you may need to allow popups)Bachmann (6:32) - Bachmann's Doug Blaine gives us an overview of the many new offerings from Bachmann Trains for the Anaheim show! Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the CVP interview. (you may need to allow popups)CVP (8:42) - We talk to Al of CVP about their many new DCC offerings for the Anaheim show! Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the TCS interview. (you may need to allow popups)Train Control Systems (6:22) - TCS tells us about their their latest decoder releases, and they reveal some exciting news on their product direction for 2009! Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the BLMA interview. (you may need to allow popups)BLMA (5:17) - Craig Martyn of BLMA gives us the rundown on their latest products! Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the Marklin interview. (you may need to allow popups)Marklin (4:32) - We interview Marklin and learn the details about their new products at the Anaheim show. Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the Walthers interview. (you may need to allow popups)Walthers (3:23) - Jeff Shultz gets an overview of Walther's new products at the Anaheim show. Click image to play our exclusive video interview.
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Click to play the NTS layouts collage video. (you may need to allow popups)National Train Show layouts (10:41) - We present a collage of the many display layouts at the 2008 National Train Show in Anaheim. Click image to play our exclusive video coverage of these layouts.

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Comments

joef's picture

Delighted

Les, delighted to have you as part of the MRH team!

Les, BTW, is our Advertising Account Manager - and a passionate FREMO modeler.

I just LOVE what the FREMO and RPM (Railroad Prototype Modelers) guys are doing ... when you put those two together you get some killer model railroading.

At any rate, welcome Les, and looking forward to a fun ride with a great team of folks!

Joe Fugate​
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine

Joe Fugate's HO Siskiyou Line

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ChrisNH's picture

Looks good

I like the format. Nice to be able to size the screen, something lacking in a lot of the flash video presented by other web sites.. in general I found the video to be plenty good quality for news.

The fast tracks video could have used more close shots. The Athearn video was better. Pixelation makes detail hard to resolve, so with these videos I think you are going to need to come in close to products and presentations when you can.

I look forward to more installments and hope this project takes off!

Regards,

Chris

 

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

jeffshultz's picture

Fast Tracks was one of the

Fast Tracks was one of the first one's we shot - we later got into the habit of going in after the interview and getting closeup shots of the products mentioned so that we'll be able to edit them in with a voiceover, lessening the "talking heads" effect.

Modeling a fictional GWI shortline combining three separate areas into one freelance-ish railroad.

Jeff Shultz - My blog index
MRH Technical Assistant

http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/blog/jeffshultz

jappe's picture

Vids not working for me ....

HI all,

 

seems that I am off the wagon viewing the vids.

Checked flash player, it's version 9.0.124.0 , debug player is installed

on the vids error I have ,

line:1

char:1

Error: object expected

code: 0

then on "previous" I get

line: 2

Char: 1

error: invallid character

URl

Some advice please, thank you in advance..........

 

Jappe (harley's and trains, yéééééhaw!!!)

 

Jappe

CEO, U.P.-Willamette Valley Sub aka U.P.-Eureka & Willamette Valley Branch

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Don't ride behind me, I will not lead you, don't ride in front of me, I will not follow you, just ride next to me and be my bro......

joef's picture

More info ...

Jappe:

What browser and machine OS are you using? Also, are you dial up or broadband?

Finally, have you tried watching the videos on a different computer, like at a friend's house or at work?

Joe Fugate​
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine

Joe Fugate's HO Siskiyou Line

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jappe's picture

Mr Fugate, Browser : Internet

Mr Fugate,

Browser : Internet Explorer 7

OS: XP, SP2(home)  (intel pentium 4)

Broadband ADSL

and no I, did not try viewing the videos on another location yet......will work on that later.

Thank you for the quick reply.

 

 

Jappe (Harley's and trains, yééééhaw!!!)

 

 

Jappe

CEO, U.P.-Willamette Valley Sub aka U.P.-Eureka & Willamette Valley Branch

----------------------------------Ship it now, Ship it right---------------------------------------------

                                        

Don't ride behind me, I will not lead you, don't ride in front of me, I will not follow you, just ride next to me and be my bro......

Fast Tracks's picture

Going first...

"Fast Tracks was one of the first one's we shot"

I knew there would be a downside to being the closest to the front door!

Tim Warris

jappe's picture

Happy Camper.....

Hi again,

sorry for the " non working video's " intrusion, but they are working fine now......, was a security setting my ways, I think, lol. Problem solved.

Anny way....

Thanks for the video's, would have prefered Mr fugate's doughter doing the interviews (no offence) but Mr shultz will have to do for now, I guess...............lol

 

Jappe (Harley's and trains, yééééhaw!!!)

Jappe

CEO, U.P.-Willamette Valley Sub aka U.P.-Eureka & Willamette Valley Branch

----------------------------------Ship it now, Ship it right---------------------------------------------

                                        

Don't ride behind me, I will not lead you, don't ride in front of me, I will not follow you, just ride next to me and be my bro......

joef's picture

Cool!

Jappe:

Glad to hear you got it all solved!

While my daughter might be more fun for us guys to watch, Jeff's great in that he has the knowledge of the hobby and could hold his own very well in the interviews.

Witness the Athearn interview - Jeff immediately rattled off what Athearn's doing with making some of their product line cost less and Micheal Stephens replied that Jeff's assessment was quite accurate. My daughter could not have done that!

My daughter did conduct the interview with Canyon Creek Scenics that is the special feature on volume 5 of the Model-Trains-Video.com how-to series. She would like to do more along that line so we'll probably have her show up now and then in front of the camera on some things!

Joe Fugate​
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine

Joe Fugate's HO Siskiyou Line

Read my blog

Thanks

Video works great for me too. Thank you Joe, Patty, Jeff and the others for the effort.

Living so many thousand miles away, this is the best way to experience what it was like.

I do, however, count on getting a personal report in some weeks when our traveling friend comes back


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