Mike and Scotty Live: Recent Episodes
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Scott joins me again for a detailed walk-through of a proposed big layout addition! Think my layout is big enough? Tune in to find out. Scott also talks about his ongoing work to recreated the entire town of Franklin, and working in multiple scales. This is an audio only podcast this month.
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Listen this month as I chat with Scotty Mason and Dave Owens about the upcoming New England Proto Meet, as well as reminisce about past meets. Dave talks about military modeling, where to find the meet website and what to expect at the meet, which is truly a model train event for everybody. After Dave punches out, Scott and I talk about the RMC article on my layout, and he talks about his upcoming modeling projects for the Town of Franklin. Oh, and a correction, I inadvertenly said that Otto wrote the article, when I should have said it was our buddy Brooks Bentz!
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Listen (or view on my Mike Rose Hobbies You Tube channel (https://youtu.be/9ldFgi9F5XI) as I chat with Scotty Mason about his visit to my layout to see for himself what’s been going on with the Crestwood area, the final portion of the Conrail section of the layout that’s now complete. And we then talk about, and see pictures from, a visit to Franklin MA to see the three amazing historical models that Scott did of Franklin’s railroad areas, circa 1932.
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Crew Call 5-9 January 17th, 2026
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Listen (or view on my Mike Rose Hobbies You Tube channel (https://youtu.be/uyAsBVkrz9U) as I have a lively chat with Dan Notley of Yelton Models. Dan has a very interesting and diverse background in modeling in general, but has also developed a thriving 3D printing business that you’ll hear all about. The video also has some images of some of Dan’s work. I’ve used it myself and can attest to the quality.
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Crew Call 5-8 August 22nd, 2025
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Our buddy Brooks Bentz comes on the show to talk about his interesting and diverse background in the railroading and transportation businesses, giving frank commentary about the various jobs he’s done starting back with the New Haven-into-PC transition, and including stints with the N&W, the D&H, the B&M, and BN, but that’s just the beginning. We even travel to the mideast! I give a mini-update to the always crazy goings on with layout construction too. We end up talking about the article that Brooks is doing on my layout for RMC.
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Crew Call 5-7 July 19thth, 2025
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It’s that time of year again, when the daffodils are popping out and I’m talking with old buddy Dave Owens about the upcoming New England Proto Meet in Springfield, MA (May 30th and 31st.) We discuss his recent trip to western PA for their RPM meet (which bounces from eastern to western PA in alternate years), as well as some of the trials and tribulations of finding the right venue for a meet. More importantly, we talk about this year’s upcoming meet and what to expect there. Rumor has it that I’ll be doing a clinic Friday afternoon…..
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Crew Call 5-6 April 4th, 2025
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Scott and I chat about building large structures, we do some real-time brain trust planning and opinions on certain things about my Foster Wheeler structure that’s under construction, and we talk about Scott’s giant project for a museum in Franklin, MA.
Please note that although there is plenty of audio in this podcast, there is a section where I show and we discuss certain photos. So while you can go to my You Tube channel to view this same podcast, you’ll have to use your imagination during this middle part. If you’re a Facebook Crew Call member you’ve already seen all of these photos.
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Crew Call 5-4 September 7th, 2024
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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 explain I did, talking about the latest updates on the layout, future plans, and all the whys and wherefores of the past few months. Scott also gets into the increasingly fascinating historical (gigantic) model building project he’s doing for his town. We even kick around a couple of old guy things. When you’re done listening, consider yourself caught up!
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Crew Call 5-4 September 7th, 2024
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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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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. As always right click and “save
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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August 19th, 2020 Podcast
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