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Posted by bigd13 on Thursday, November 11, 2021 5:57 PM

Will there be anymore Roundhouse Videos, Garden Railroads videos, Gere Leone Videos

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Posted by Pruitt on Thursday, November 11, 2021 7:26 PM

If you're talking about MR Video Plus, the answer is no. All those videos are now on Trains.com, for which you have to pay a lot more than MRVP.

If you're talking about YouTube videos for Gerry Leone, I'd be surprised if he posts anything about his new layout there. I used to thoroughly enjoy watching his monthly Bona Vista layout updates, but since he's doing a (paid) layout build series on Trains.com, there's nothing new on his YouTube channel. Last video posted there was about his last layout tear down, in September 2019.

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Posted by Rook2324 on Sunday, November 14, 2021 12:20 AM

If you just want to watch trains run, go to Youtube and search Elkhart Model Railroad Club. There are a couple of hundred videos of club members running trains.

 

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Posted by cold steal on Thursday, November 18, 2021 11:09 AM

Yes. Dont be nickled and dimed here. Unbelievable.

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Posted by Pauley on Thursday, November 18, 2021 2:07 PM

Pruitt

If you're talking about MR Video Plus, the answer is no. All those videos are now on Trains.com, for which you have to pay a lot more than MRVP.

I'm still paying the same as I did with Video Plus - IIRC $2.25/month.

Note that's just for the videos, not the entire trains.com offering.

To be honest, I don't know how I'm doing this as I cannot seem to find the video subscription info in my account. I only see the Unlimited Digital trial that I cancelled. (I could never access the archives and all customer support could ever tell me is to clear my cache - it never worked.)

Maybe previous Video Plus subscribers got grandfathered in?

EDIT: You know, it occurred to me that perhaps I'm not getting all the videos that are available. Most of the ones I see seem to be kind of old.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, November 18, 2021 4:10 PM

My MRVP account still works, but I do not see anything new.

I still have tons of content and lots of layout tours remaining to watch.

-Kevin

Living the dream.

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Posted by Colorado Ray on Thursday, November 18, 2021 9:14 PM

As far as I can tell, the only knock against trains.com is if you still have to have a print copy of the magazines.  I converted to digital seven years ago and had digital subscriptions to MR, Trains, and Classic Trains plus the monthly Video Plus.  

Now with a simple annual subscription to trains.com I get all of the above plus archives for all the magazines.  I just ignore the Toy Train and Garden Railroad stuff.  Trains.com had a rough rollout, but I have no complaints now.  Much better than a competitor video service which I subscribe to, but seriously considering dropping.  Trains.com so much better IMHO.

 

Ray

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Posted by TroyPhoto on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 2:02 PM

Colorado Ray

As far as I can tell, the only knock against trains.com is if you still have to have a print copy of the magazines.  I converted to digital seven years ago and had digital subscriptions to MR, Trains, and Classic Trains plus the monthly Video Plus.  

Now with a simple annual subscription to trains.com I get all of the above plus archives for all the magazines.  I just ignore the Toy Train and Garden Railroad stuff.  Trains.com had a rough rollout, but I have no complaints now.  Much better than a competitor video service which I subscribe to, but seriously considering dropping.  Trains.com so much better IMHO.

Ray 

The bigger question is: for someone like me that doesn't have interest in the other magazines (Live in a condo, so no garden railroad possible, never collected toy trains, and I'm outta time already - wasting way too much of it reading the internet for hobby stuff, I don't want to get started on videos of trains in operation).

But, I can't find the recent videos of the Canadian rockies layout David built. And there are several good parts in there I reference for my fledgling layout.

I'm at the dump MR Video plus all together, and just go back to YouTube phase. Yeah, it's only an extra $5/mo... but it's like there's too much there that I'll never hobby if I start paying the extra 

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