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After taking a summer “off”, I reconnect with Scott to talk about the just-completed subterranean staging yard project. Mike talks about some pros/cons and different characteristics of some commercially available track products, along with the trials and tribulations of building The post Download the September 21st., 2026 Crew Call (Vol. 5-12)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call...

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 The post Download the June 15, 2026 Crew Call (Vol. 5-11)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .

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 The post Download the April 12, 2026 Crew Call (Vol. 5-10)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .

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 post Download the January 17th, 2026 Crew Call (Vol. 5-9)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .

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 The post Download the August 2025 Crew Call (Vol. 5-8)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .

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 The post Download the July 2025 Crew Call (Vol. 5-7)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .

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 The post Download the April 2025 Crew Call (Vol. 5-6)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .

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, The post Download the January 2025 Crew Call (Vol. 5-5)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .

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 The post Download the September 2024 Crew Call (Vol. 5-4)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .

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 The post Download the April 2024 Crew Call (Vol. 5-3)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .

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 The post Download the February 2024 Crew Call (Vol. 5-2)With Mike Rose! appeared first on Crew Call With Mike Rose .