Whatever became of Allen Keller's Great Model Railroads videos

[jecorbett]

I know Allen retired from the business a while back. Did someone else takeover the business or did he just sell out his inventory and then close up shop. I see some of his videos offered on ebay but that’s all I’ve been able to find.

[rrebell]

Just bought a bunch on DVD, they were Kalmbach, maybe they bought the rights?

[Howard_Zane]

Allen is fully retired and has sold all inventory. There has been some noise about others carring on, but only smoke now. A major problem with doing this kind of work, is folks copying videos and the offering them to friends and even selling at shows for peanuts. This of course was illegal, but to pursue offenders would have been rather costly in many ways.

I do hope somone does continue with this series or does something similar. I have every one of his volumes and often watch them. They were well done, well scripted (well sort of as the format was the same for all volumes), informative, and above all…entertaining and a decent value.

I worked with Allen on three volumes. He was professional, courteous, and spoke the language fluently as his own model railroad is world class.

HZ

[BRAKIE]

I do hope somone does continue with this series or does something similar. I have every one of his volumes and often watch them. They were well done, well scripted (well sort of as the format was the same for all volumes), informative, and above all…entertaining and a decent value.

Another competitor is you tube… I’ve seen several model railroad videos that covered a layout quite nicely without all the unneeded fillers and all the blah,blah,yada,and more yada.

Don’t misunderstand I have several of his DVDs and still enjoy watching them.

[jecorbett]

Howard Zane
I do hope somone does continue with this series or does something similar. I have every one of his volumes and often watch them. They were well done, well scripted (well sort of as the format was the same for all volumes), informative, and above all…entertaining and a decent value.

Another competitor is you tube… I’ve seen several model railroad videos that covered a layout quite nicely without all the unneeded fillers and all the blah,blah,yada,and more yada.

Don’t misunderstand I have several of his DVDs and still enjoy watching them.

What I liked about Allen’s videos is the featured modeler would show his techniques for doing certain things as well as sharing their modeling philosophy. You don’t get that with YouTube videos although I do enjoy them as well.

[wjstix]

What I liked about Allen’s videos is the featured modeler would show his techniques for doing certain things as well as sharing their modeling philosophy. You don’t get that with YouTube videos although I do enjoy them as well.

I think in some ways that came to be a negative however. I always enjoy going back and watching trains run on the featured layout, but don’t need to see the ‘how to’ session and chat with the builder every time too. When Pentrex visited Allen McClelland’s V&O some years back, their DVD had a “railfan” setting that just showed the parts of the program with trains running without the narration or interuptions for ‘how to’ segments. I wish the GMR programs had something similar.

[BRAKIE]

What I liked about Allen’s videos is the featured modeler would show his techniques for doing certain things as well as sharing their modeling philosophy.

That was my blah,blah,yada and more yada… I’m not interested in that kind of stuff… I can buy a boat load of Kalmbach’s books on scenery or building a layout or I can watch it done on you tube…

I am more interested in their operation, types of industries,type of control DC,DCC CTC16 etc, block signal system used and their modeling philosophy.