TSG Multimedia

The TSG Multimedia Podcast

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Video producer John Abatecola discusses model railroading, prototype rail fanning, historic preservation, and his experiences making documentaries about railroads as well as model railroads. Topics range from railroading, model railroading, commentary, events, and the technical and logistical aspects of video production, as well as occasional guest interviews. You can experience a lot more of TSG Multimedia's content on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/tsgmultimedia You're invited to help support the content you love by making a donation at the paypal link below or signing up...

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Episode 103: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast | July 2026 | CF7s Op Sessions Grand Scale Fun and More 04.07.2026 51:36

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 1:04 Intro/Welcome 1:47 Please SAVE TSG CH. 2! https://www.youtube.com/@TSGChannel2 3:25 Grand Scale Fun | Redwood Valley Railway 9:18 You Never Know Who You’ll Run Into | Dave Peterson 11:33 Talking Trains https://www.youtube.com/live/QtRcGQeMrok?si=LeZymGA76HQhXTQK 14:3...

Episode 102: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast | June 2026 | Railroaders History and More 06.06.2026 59:58

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 1:05 Intro/Welcome 2:11 Fireside Chat 5:38 You Never Know Who You’ll Run Into | Darius Zbojniewicz 6:28 The Iron Horse Trail 9:15 Model Railroading 201 Shoot 10:31 Lantern Hand Signals Shoot | Saugus Depot https://youtu.be/s0mYmN2lpq8 https://scvhs.org/visit/ 14:11 Sierra Pacific | P...

Episode 101: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast May 2026 All Things Trains 03.05.2026 1:29:11

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 1:04 Intro/Welcome 2:27 Arrival In Reno 7:26 Layout Tour Shoot | Jim Petro’s Rio Grande 10:07 Day Of The Big Boy’s Arrival | Portola 14:07 A Cool Piece Of Memorabilia 16:10 An Old Friend 18:10 Big Boy Arrives 20:18 Western Pacific Railroad Museum Big Boy Celebration Event 23:27 You N...

Episode 100: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast | April 2026 | All Things Trains 04.04.2026 59:08

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 1:04 Intro/Welcome 1:49 Op Session | Seth Neumann’s UP Oakland Sub 1999 6:07 O Scale West https://youtu.be/pMFfg77oKt4 7:38 A Tribute To Bob Brown 10:22 SBHRS | Members Meeting | Square Foot Challenge Winners 11:22 You Never Know Who You’ll Run into | Ray Swift 13:15 Having A Grand T...

Episode 99: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast March 2026 All Things Trains 07.03.2026 55:07

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 1:06 Intro/Welcome 2:03 SBHRS | A Rare American Flyer Find 5:22 Santa Clara Tower | Foaming 6:45 Obscure Railroad Museum Revisited 8:30 West Side Lumber Company No. 12 Arrives At YMSPRR 16:40 Sparky107107 Caboose Tours SVL & SBHRS 20:24 Talking Trains https://www.youtube.com/live...

Episode 98: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast | February 2026 | All Things Trains 07.02.2026 22:22

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 1:06 Intro/Welcome 1:43 SBHRS 3:30 San Francisco Railway Museum Shoot 6:12 Talking Trains https://www.youtube.com/live/z1oDrgpUtHA?si=Qep2tVEIBLWsxOPC 10:42 Op Session | Dave Loveless’s R&D 15:02 Bay Area Layout Design & Operations Weekend | Day 1 17:16 Bay Area Lay...

Episode 97: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast | January 2026 | All Things Trains 03.01.2026 36:24

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 1:03 Intro/Welcome 2:12 2025 In Review 3:03 Commentary | Hybrid Events 3:50 2025 In Review Continued 7:35 December Recap | Robin’s Diorama 11:03 SBHRS 11:39 Taking Caltrain to San Francisco 15:31 San Francisco Railway Museum 20:04 Op Session | Dave Loveless’s R&D 21:05 The Pacifi...

Episode 96: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast December 2025 All Things Trains 06.12.2025 1:03:01

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:53 Intro/Welcome 1:55 Reno Area Layout Open Houses | Day 1 13:31 Ethan’s Geeps 17:05 Reno Area Layout Open Houses | Day 2 25:10 Reno Area Layout Open Houses | Day 3 33:15 Reno Area Layout Open Houses | Conclusion 35:21 NCRy | Yosemite Valley 330 Gets Some Cool Stuff Installed 40:34...

Episode 95: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast November 2025 All Things Trains 01.11.2025 32:05

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:59 Intro/Welcome 2:07 Product Spotlight with Seth 2:55 PCR Coast Division Meet 5:48 Layout Tour Shoot | Richard Eberli 9:06 Archiving Artifacts | SBHRS 11:34 Talking Trains https://www.youtube.com/live/eiMRkSyi8Mk?si=U2N9sgSeT_H6J3cm 13:48 Trails to Rails Event | Sunnyval...

Episode 94: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast October 2025 All Things Trains 04.10.2025 51:47

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:52 Intro/Welcome 1:56 Western Pacific & Rio Grande Convention 19:53 Chasing Trains | Sacramento Southern 23:33 Chasing Trains | Nevada County Narrow Gauge 26:17 Chasing Trains | Colfax Railroad Days 28:26 Talking Trains https://www.youtube.com/live/Mx9r4FpVV1A?si=Pl12...

Episode 93: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast | September 2025 | All Things Trains 06.09.2025 1:03:21

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:52 Intro/Welcome 2:40 SBHRS | Archiving Artifacts 4:06 Santa Clara Depot | Caltrain Camp 14:43 Op Session | Southern Pacific Monterey Branch | Operating Tip: Flagmen 20:42 Op Session | Sierra 1923 | Operating Tip: Learn the Layout https://youtu.be/xq8TKUI3wpE?si=5Ruz_dCpB...

Episode 92: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast August 2025 All Things Trains 02.08.2025 1:00:58

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:52 Intro/Welcome 1:37 The TSG Podcast | Audio And Video 2:11 TSG Live Talking Trains https://youtube.com/live/VV5HEwImgNA?feature=share 7:25 San Benito Southern Garden Railroad | Open House https://youtu.be/E_0-4EgcUAk 14:41 Archiving Artifacts | SBHRS 17:41 Roa...

Episode 91: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast July 2025 All Things Trains 05.07.2025 1:05:12

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:53 Intro/Welcome 1:38 June Summary 2:17 On30 Layout Tour Shoot 5:35 Archiving Artifacts | SBHRS 7:51 Chasing Trains | Railtown 1897 9:24 Official Return of Sierra No. 3 Announcement 21:12 West Side Lumber No. 2 | Tuolumne CA 22:55 TSG Live Talking Trains https://www.youtu...

Episode 90: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast June 2025 All Things Trains 07.06.2025 58:15

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:51 Intro/Welcome 1:57 Railtown1897 6:57 West Side Reunion https://westsidereunion.com/ 10:00 Amazing 3D Printed Peterbilt Trucks 11:26 Fn3 Scale 4-Truck Shay 12:56 Sierra Seminar | A Donut Dilemma https://tuolumnerailroad.org/ 16:17 Model Railroading With Jack B...

Episode 89: TSG Multimedia Podcast May 2025 All Things Trains 03.05.2025 56:30

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:58 Intro/Welcome 2:09 Hiller Aviation Museum | Planes & Trains Event 14:05 What’s New at MRCS | Seth Neumann https://www.modelrailroadcontrolsystems.com 19:21 TSG Live Talking Trains https://www.youtube.com/live/8nb17zFuY4o?si=5YvllEACji0cyvHM 20:56 Op Sessi...

Episode 88: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast April 2025 All Things Trains 05.04.2025 1:07:24

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:52 Intro/Welcome 1:27 SBHRS | Archiving Artifacts 2:52 SBHRS Spring Open House | An Invitation 4:21 SBHRS | A Special Train 5:11 Random Train Catch 5:22 Op Session | Dave Adams’s Durlin Branch https://youtu.be/mWRZhIfwFPU?si=4T4zR59PCAwC4cMS 12:38 Reedley Railfest 22:12 W...

Episode 87: TSG Multimedia Podcast March 2025 All Things Trains 01.03.2025 54:05

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:51 Intro/Welcome 1:39 Layout Design & Operations Weekend | Showtime! 10:23 Toy Train Show | Mountain View 20:32 Op Session | BNSF Pink Lady Sub 30:00 Op Session | ATSF 4th District 38:44 TSG Live Talking Trains | Stephen Priest 39:36 Op Session | Rawhide & Duct Tape 42:39 T...

Episode 86: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast February 2025 All Things Trains 01.02.2025 11:19

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:53 Intro/Welcome 1:49 Layout Tour Shoot with Frank Markovich 4:22 TSG Live Talking Trains: https://www.youtube.com/live/evXDPf6SRV8?si=DhSPF9u_l9Vh8Mq5 5:06 Cataloging Artifacts at SBHRS 7:36 Catches of The Month 9:11 PCR 2025 Convention | Use Code PCR2025 https://pcrnmra.regfox.co...

Episode 85: TSG Multimedia Podcast January 2025 All Things Trains 04.01.2025 54:52

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads 1:18 2024 in Review 1:54 Clover Valley 100th Anniversary: https://youtu.be/Tg4raT5oTCQ?si=8buZml2f6MWZueRu 2:25 SMRHS Layout Tour: https://youtu.be/yEN-gnUjlLY?si=PJpH-l3Z1yMzuTMP 2:41 South West Pacific with Steve Van Meter: https://youtu.be/jxOl2RWP_eQ?si=-oulq3MKTo7ymXAD 3:10 Mike Laine’s Virginia & Truckee Lay...

Episode 84: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast December 2024 All Things Trains 07.12.2024 1:04:21

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:44 Intro/Welcome 1:36 SBHRS Fall Open House https://www.sbhrs.org 7:31 THRA Field Trip https://tuolumnerailroad.org/ 11:45 Silicon Valley Lines Open House https://siliconvalleylines.com/ 16:43 Op Session | Sierra 1923 https://youtu.be/xq8TKUI...

Episode 83: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast November 2024 All Things Trains 02.11.2024 42:43

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:00 Intro/Welcome 2:25 Central Coast Railroad Festival Day 1 5:32 Central Coast Railroad Festival Day 2 10:05 Central Coast Railroad Festival Day 3 13:26 Layout Tour Shoot | San Luis Obispo Model Railroad 19:56 Archiving Artifacts | SBHRS 22:06 Talking Trains | Holy Wars h...

Episode 82: TSG Multimedia Audio Podcast October 2024 All Things Trains 05.10.2024 1:01:36

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:00 Intro/Welcome 3:00 Op Session | Mystic Mountain Garden Railroad https://youtu.be/oz0nbMEa8Ts 6:42 An Update From Railtown 1897 8:42 Sierra No. 3 14:13 Layout Tour Shoot | Sierra Railroad 1955 https://youtu.be/DbW56UhagWQ 16:09 THRA Field Trip To Table Mountai...

Episode 81: TSG Multimedia Podcast September 2024 All Things Trains 07.09.2024 25:44

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:00 Intro/Welcome 0:57 Patreon Anniversary https://www.patreon.com/TSGMultimedia 2:01 SBHRS 10:23 Talking Trains With Lucas Woodward https://youtube.com/live/Gcb54rbVhpQ?feature=share 10:54 Layout Tour Shoot | John Petrovitz 11:49 Layout Tour Shoot | Don Burch/WB...

Episode 80: TSG Multimedia Podcast August 2024 All Things Trains 03.08.2024 1:02:21

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:51 Intro/Welcome 1:41 Layout Tour Shoot - Just Trains Concord 4:47 A Visitor From Australia 5:36 Jim Dias’s Western Pacific 1938 Layout https://youtu.be/dqzjjjx_Pys?si=98l0sscnx9ZD-qWz 7:13 Jack Burgess’s Yosemite Valley Railroad 1939 Layout https://youtu.be/EHG...

Episode 79: TSG Multimedia Podcast July 2024 All Things Trains 06.07.2024 1:08:29

#TSGMultimediaPodcast #HistoricPreservation #ModelRailroading #Trains #Railroads This month’s TSG Podcast includes: 0:37 Intro/Welcome 1:16 Op Session | Steve Van Meter’s South West Pacific South West Pacific Layout Tour: https://youtu.be/jxOl2RWP_eQ?si=MTMdeO6r38d-99sP 8:14 Bay Area Prototype Modelers Meet BAPM 2024: https://youtu.be/CNH2KcJixaQ Wright Railway Layout...