Around The Layout - A Model Railroad Podcast
Join us as we bring you stories from model railroaders just like you. We talk to enthusiasts across the hobby and learn about their beginnings, challenges, accomplishments and ultimately what excites and motivates them. Come hang out with us Around The Layout and be inspired to create your own model railroading story to share.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 254
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Talking Ops with Don Irace - Elements Of A Great Operating Session
What components help make an operating session great? That's the question that Don Irace helps to answer on this edition of Talking Ops. Don takes us through his list of before, during and after oper…
00:49:21 |
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Freelance Forum at CORPM with Christopher Palmieri
Every RPM seems to have it's own flavor, and for the Colorado Rail Proto Meet this year, the Home Shops Freelance Forum will provide an experience like no other. Home Shops owner Christopher Palmieri…
00:25:01 |
Mon 08 Sep 2025
ATLP Rewind - Chris Gilbert & The Brownville & Ashland - September 3, 2024
ATLP Rewind - Originally Released September 3, 2024
We've seen many prototypical railroads bought and sold over the years, but how about a freelance model railroad changing hands? That's how current o…
We've seen many prototypical railroads bought and sold over the years, but how about a freelance model railroad changing hands? That's how current o…
00:55:18 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
2025 Colorado Rail Proto Meet Preview with Michelle Kempema
You'd be hard pressed to find someone in the model railroad hobby with the enthusiasm and ambition of Michelle Kempema. It's probably why it was no surprise that she, along with the team at the Color…
00:47:21 |
Mon 01 Sep 2025
Iron City N-Scale Modelers with Bradd Williamson & Patrick Moore
Bradd Williamson and Patrick Moore are proving that when you find your people, big things can happen, even if it's about 1:160 scale. After an accidental hijacking of a fellow N scalers group, they s…
00:59:23 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
ATLP Rewind - The Theatrical Approach To Model Railroading with Scott Thornton - August 27, 2024
ATLP Rewind - Originally Released August 27, 2024
What if we looked at our layouts like they were the stage of a grand performance? On this episode, the talented and thought provoking Scott Thornton c…
What if we looked at our layouts like they were the stage of a grand performance? On this episode, the talented and thought provoking Scott Thornton c…
01:00:53 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
What's Happening In Model Railroading - August 2025 - Tony Cook & Matt Stern
A product line that spans generations for over 190 years - that's what Bachmann has brought to our hobby. Matt Stern joins Tony Cook and Ray Arnott to tell us the latest news from this legendary comp…
01:01:40 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
2025 Mid-Atlantic RPM Preview with Bernie Kempinski
We keep the RPM theme going on Mondays as we head from St. Louis to just outside our nation's capital and talk to Bernie Kempinski about the 2025 Mid-Atlantic RPM. Bernie gives us a brief history of …
00:37:57 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
The OPSIG Achievement Program with Paul Weiss
Getting more model railroaders to discover the magic of operations - that's what OpSig is looking to accomplish as they roll out their new Achievement Program. Executive Producer Paul Cassar and I ta…
00:47:19 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
ATLP At The 2025 St. Louis RPM - Part Two
For the second year in a row, we were back at the St. Louis RPM in Collinsville, Illinois. ATLP host Ray Arnott made his rounds, talking to numerous attendees of the show and learning why they made t…
01:21:37 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
Alan Schroeder & The Marias Pass
How can the gift of a single locomotive change layout plans? That's what we'll find out on this episode of Around The Layout Podcast as we head to Wisconsin to talk to Alan Schroeder about his Burlin…
00:53:48 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
ATLP At The 2025 St. Louis RPM - Part One
For the second year in a row, we were back at the St. Louis RPM in Collinsville, Illinois. ATLP host Ray Arnott made his rounds, talking to numerous attendees of the show and learning why they made t…
01:18:02 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Model Railroad Estate Planning with John Sacerdote & Dave Owens
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but, someday, you're going to die. Before that happens, it's time to make a plan, and that's the message Dave Owens and John Sacerdote deliver on this episode of …
00:52:58 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
ATLP Rewind - Talking Ops with Don Irace - Freelance Railroad, Prototypical Ops with Tim Garland - September 10, 2024
ATLP Rewind - Originally Released September 10, 2024
We head back to Tim Garland's Seaboard Central to cover what we didn't get to when we interviewed him the first time; operations on his freelance r…
We head back to Tim Garland's Seaboard Central to cover what we didn't get to when we interviewed him the first time; operations on his freelance r…
00:58:17 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
What's Happening In Model Railroading - July 2025 - Tony Cook & Alex Hoffner
Ever loved a product so much that you just wanted to buy the company? Meet Alex Hoffner, the new owner of ABR Model Works. Alex comes by the ATLP studio to tell us how subscribing to the newsletter w…
00:42:50 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
ATLP Rewind - Car Routing: The Road To Realism with Matthew Freix - July 30, 2024
ATLP Rewind - Originally Released July 30, 2024
Matthew Freix has a passion for car routing, and that might be an understatement! Matt shares the lengths he has gone to research the Gateway Western an…
Matthew Freix has a passion for car routing, and that might be an understatement! Matt shares the lengths he has gone to research the Gateway Western an…
01:06:31 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
Talking Ops with Don Irace - Somerset & Raritan Ops with John Farrington
After a two-parter with Thomas Klimoski on small layouts and the potential they hold, it was perfect timing to talk about operations on John Farrington's Somerset & Raritan. Don Irace joins me in the…
00:59:02 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
2025 Spring Creek Model Trains Biennial Open House & Train Show - ATLP Coverage from Deshler, Nebraska
Now that we're back home and rested up from an amazing weekend in Deshler, Nebraska, it's time to catch up on the rest of the folks we talked to during Spring Creek Model Trains Open House & Train Sh…
00:45:58 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Robin Felder & The Jackieville Switching Layout
Even when you're thousands of miles away from your prototype, you might not be that far from your people. That's what we find out on this episode of Around The Layout as we talk to Robin Felder from …
00:56:46 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
ATLP Rewind - Michael Ostertag & The Farlin Terminal II - August 6, 2024
ATLP Rewind - Originally Released August 6, 2024
After spending quality time with Michael Ostertag out in St. Louis, it was time to get him back on the show and hear about the major changes he's made …
After spending quality time with Michael Ostertag out in St. Louis, it was time to get him back on the show and hear about the major changes he's made …
00:59:53 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
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