The NMRA's Turntable is a monthly publication which, like a railroad turntable, will lead you in several directions on the internet. 

This e-publication is a collection of railroad and model railroad videos, podcasts, websites, and/or other information freely available on the internet that we think may be of interest to you. The NMRA claims no ownership of this information, nor do we endorse its creators or their websites. The NMRA Turntable will not promote individuals or their for-profit ventures.
2022 NMRA National Convention GATEWAY ST. LOUIS SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT (at the end) from That Train Couple.
A talented, creative modeler, Cheryl Sassi, appears here on “New Tracks” Modeling Lifestyle show. Cheryl makes amazing trees and foliage as well as other scenery. She and Lou have photographed many layouts for "Model Railroader".
Welcome to The Main Track! In this episode, LocoMotiveMike looks at some of the neat train layouts and model railroad hobby manufacturers and suppliers that were set up at the National Train Show in the St. Louis, Missouri area in August 2022.
Seth Neumann's Oakland Sub is a nicely-crafted HO Scale DCC model railroad layout. If you're from the San Francisco Bay Area, you might be familiar with a lot of the places on this layout.

The focus of this layout is prototypical operations, and Seth provides insights regarding the construction approaches he used to create this layout. Besides being a great guy, Seth is also a professional hiker, a world traveler, and a published modeler who operates an electronics business with model railroading as its focus.
In this video, RC GrabBag built a 4ft two-track trestle. He will also demo the Division Point HO Scale UP Coal Turbine #80 and as usual, he closes the video with a random topic.
This is the first-ever complete overview of the Mojave Model Railroad Tina Marie is currently working on. It is a 16' x 14' U-shape modular layout. It has 13 individual sections. It is all code 83 Atlas track with a combination of Peco and Shinohara switches.

The backdrops are all created by her in Photoshop and printed using a company called posterprintshop online. The overall height is just over 16 inches. All the sections extend out 24" except the two larger diamond shape corners. They are a bit deeper. 
Norm Stenzel is the creator of the Brandywine and Benedictine Railroad. It is an Appalachian coal hauling railroad set in Virginia and West Virginia in 1953. Since this is the "transition era" there is both steam and diesel power in regular service. All the track and turnouts, or shunts, are hand-laid which makes for an incredibly smooth-running railroad. The B&B is Digitrax DCC controlled, and all the engines have sound systems. There is a dispatcher who controls the movement of the trains through telephone communication and working signals on the railroad.

There is a job briefing that gives some good information on the layout and the operation before the session starts.
Sometimes on a model railroad--especially a small layout--kits don't fit the way they were intended to be built. Kitbashing is the term used when you use parts of a kit in ways the manufacturer didn't have in mind. In this second part of the American Can kitbash, Joe Parker will assemble the building and talk about his techniques for "gluing" window glass material to window frames, how he scratch-built a loading door to look like a retrofit and more.
In this video Lloyd Keyser, MMR® shows us several prototype transition-era Steam Generator Cars. He will also show how he built his model of a Chicago & Northwestern Steam Generator Car #150.
This is Danny Harmon's basic understanding of what defect detectors do, how they work, and why they're crucial to modern railroad operations.
Model railroad operations can be as simple or complex as you want to make them. Mike Jordan has developed a very interesting way of handling reefers on his Southern Pacific layout that represents the central California coast, where produce shipping was a huge business.

It's not enough just to have a reefer show up at the industrial spur. These cars might need to be cleaned and iced before they can be loaded. These processes take time, too. Would you clean and load cars on the same track? Maybe not! What about other coincidental commodities that need to be delivered for the industry to maintain production?
Chiltern Hills Steam, Rail & Ale Trail with Railtrail Tours - July 2022. This video is presented by Henry's Adventures and is a 4-Day Rail Enthusiast's tour of the railways around the Chiltern in the United Kingdom. 

Day 1 - Bekonscot Model Village. 
Day 2 - Leighton Buzzard Railway and Fancott Miniature Railway. 
Day 3 - Didcot Railway Centre and Pendon Museum. 
Day 4 - Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway and Ruislip Lido Railway. 
The 2022 NMRA BR Convention, hosted by the Calder Northern Group based at Crewe will now be held at Wychwood Park Hotel, Weston, Crewe, CW2 5GP. 

If you are traveling from far away or want to stay in Crewe for the weekend, we have secured a special Convention rate with Wychwood Park. The special room rate is available for Friday November 4th and Saturday November 5th, 2022, only. We have reserved 60 rooms until September 22, 2022, you must book before this date in order to be guaranteed the convention rate and availability. Rooms may be available after that date but are not guaranteed.

Our convention team is working hard to secure tours to local layouts and prototype locations around the Crewe area, however, there are lots of self-directed railway activities in Crewe in which you can partake. Great shopping is only a train ride away with regular trains to Manchester and Chester.

Crewe really is one of the most accessible places that we could host our convention in the UK, with trains connecting most major cities. If flying in from overseas there are hourly trains from Manchester Airport, which is only 40 minutes away by rail.

Please keep checking our website for updates about the Convention and remember to book your hotel stay separately from your Convention registration.

Gordy & the Convention Team

NMRABR Events Co-Ordinator
Athearn locomotives have been perennial favorites, with their Blue Box models among the most popular. However, their ready-to-roll models are a more recent popular addition offering DCC-ready configuration and easy-to-install decoder options. In this video, Larry Puckett will show you how easy it can be to pop in a decoder and a speaker and be up and rolling in just a few minutes.
This time James reviews Rapido's three-car set of Bi-Level Commuter Cars in HO scale. Included are a cab car and a pair of coaches.
Gerry Hopkins, MMR® from down under gives us an On-Board view of this great layout. It is still under construction, but you can see where it is going. The noisy ones had left when the cameraman started filming. This was during a layout tour for NMRA AU Div 7.
This Program was presented on April 7, 2022, by Jeff Thomas to the Association of Lifelong Learners at ACC.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, several of the major railroad lines operated fleets of car ferries to transport their railroad cars across the Great Lakes. Come learn about a time when the railroads went sailing and about a mystery "half" a shipwreck that was discovered by accident!

As a local history teacher and part-time Great Lakes sailor, Jeff Thomas draws on both experiences to tell the story of Great lakes shipwrecks. He finds the small details that bring the stories to life in a story-telling experience that puts the viewer “in the moment” of these dramatic tales.
In this video, Joe is going to conduct an operating session on his shelf layout, The Grunge. This video will show essentially the entire session, including all the moves, at prototypical speeds.

For many viewers, prototypical operations is the goal of building a layout. In this first ops video for The Grunge, Joe shows that you don't need to have a completed layout to have a satisfying op session.

And Joe APOLOGIES for the bell! He knows it gets tedious! Lesson learned!
This is an audio-only podcast brought to us by the Twin Cities Division of the Thousand Lakes Region. They have several podcasts available for your listening pleasure on a variety of model railroad subjects. For the full list of subjects, together with their links, go HERE
The NMRA Partnership Program is a member benefit that truly has a tangible payback. We've partnered with model railroad manufacturers of all sizes, giving them exposure on our website in return for receiving generous discounts for NMRA members all year long. Some provide members with special codes, others prefer a phone or email order, but all appreciate the additional business from our members. And of course, our members appreciate the extra savings...savings that can actually pay the cost of NMRA membership! Be sure to check back often as new Partners are being added all the time. 
The Division Business Car column appears in even-numbered months in NMRA Magazine. It's loaded with great modeling ideas, plus useful information that can help make your Division, Region, or 100% NMRA Club even better. The information comes from articles published in Region, Division, and club newsletters. The best of these articles are posted on the NMRA website. You can read the entire archive, from as far back as 2011 right up to the latest posting, by clicking here.
Previous issues of the NMRA Turntable are available on the Turntable Archives page. You must first log in as a member at: nmra.org  After you are in the members-only section, then you must hover over 'Publications' on the menu bar, then 'NMRA Turntable', and then click on one of the list of back issues.


Executive Editor: Rick Coble

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