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Maine Garden Railway Society 2022 Holiday Train Display Part 2

 Here are some more videos of the main line trains at the Holiday Train Display at the Maine Mall Main Line Trains Video 2 Maine Train Lines Video 3

Video of 9th Annual Holiday Train Display

Thanks again to Jim Alberty from Apple, here is the video with music from the MGRS 2018 Train Display at the Maine Mall. Maine Mall 2018 Video

Videos of all eight Holiday Train Displays Available on DVD

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The videos of all eight Holiday Train Displays are now available on a single DVD. Members can pick up their copy at the Spring Meeting on March 24th or at the Annual Outing this summer The videos are courtesy of Jim Alberty and John Jackson. They will be shown at our events and used to help recruit new members.

Railroading at Cumberland Fair Septermber 27 through October 3

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The 2015 Cumberland Fair is open from 9am to 9pm from September 27 through October 3. Both the 470 Railroad Club and the Maine 3Railers have layouts and information at the Fair.

Model Train Clip from the 1951 Movie "People Will Talk"

Thanks to Al Cifelli of Australia for this clip. He said "A classic in my book.  A witty and hilariously written script with great actors. They just don't make movies like this any more" And thanks to Richmond Bates for passing it along. People Will Talk Railroad Clip

Moose River Railroad in Bar Harbor, Maine - video

Come along for an engineer's view perspective in this video tour of the Moose River Railroad, an HO scale model railroad featuring Maine Central, Boston and Maine, and Bangor and Aroostook and New Haven themes. The layout, built by Earl Brechlin, is located in Bar Harbor, Maine. Thanks to Lawrence Nuesslein (Goodkebo on youtube) of Bar Harbor for inspiring some of the camera angles and for Bob Gervais for suggesting I put my gear pro cameras on the trains Video of Moose River Railroad .

Train controling train video

I have always enjoyed the 'electrical' part of playing with trains. So it came as no surprise that I wanted to model "Yarmouth Junction" and enjoy watching my Maine Central and Amtrak trains taking turns automatically starting and stopping at the junction crossing. If Scott has the space in a future issue of the IronHorse I can go into the 'How' but for now a short video shows the 'What' of what it looks like. Watch video here:

Thanks to Buckie & Barry

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Thank you and the whole family for a great Open House! A Beautiful day and lots of good friends, food and trains! Ahhh life is good! I will add a few video clips of some of the train sights and sounds. I get a 'Laugh" out of this one!