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24 T DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP 44 T Carolina & Western Update: Southern Pacific EMD GP35 The West End of High Point Yard by Rich Picariello by Jim Six

27 T ON TRACK 50 T MODELING MODERN IN TERMODAL The Cast, the Stage, and, Oh Yes, the Props Modeling the Martrac Fleet by Jim Mansfield by John L. Becker

28 T Kitbashing Walthers Snowplows 56 T E7 - The Standard Passenger CN and CP "Shorties" Diesel - Part 3 by Bob Boudreau by George Melvin

62 T BEHIND THE SCENES 34 T FREIGHTCAROLOGY Fascia Treatments - Part II: Norfolk Southern's Freight Car Fleet - Part 2: More Than Meets the Eye N&W's Coal Car Evolution by Margaret Mansfield by David G. Casdorph 64 T Modeling SR 3805 - A U33C with a 38 T DCC UPDATE High Short Hood Model Railroading Ta kes a Look at by Jim Teese, MMR What's New in DCC for 1997 by Larry Puckett

DEPARTMENTS

5 T Editorial

13 T New Products

16 T Product Reviews

22 T Letters to the Editor

23 T Society Page

37 T Computer Applications

72 T Video Review

73 T Dealer Directory

0 T ..... 81 Your Trek Plan 0 ct 86 T Advertiser Index

ABOUT THE COVER A kitbashed Canadian National steel snowplow sees some action on Bob Boudreau's Fundy Northern diorama. It is being pushed by a CN RS 18 that was modified from an Atlas RS I I. Starting on page 28 Bob descr i bes how he kitbashed two Walthers Russell snowplows into short CN and CP plows. Photo by Bob Boudreau. INSET: The Southern was the only road to purchase U33Cs with a high short hood. Turn to page 64 to learn how Jim Teese modified this Atlas model. Photo by Jim Teese. IT LOOKS LIKE A BULLDOG. BUT IT PURRS LIKE A KITTEN.

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EDITOR I PUBLISHER Randall B. Lee Seasons Greetings CONTRIBU TING EDITORS David A. Bontrager t seems hard to believe, but another year has slipped by, and David G. Casdorph we're in the midst of the holiday season as I prepare this Doug Geiger, MMR colI umn. Thanksgiving has passed and Christmas is almost Patrick Lawson upon us (and will have passed by the time you read this!). This Jim and Margaret Mansfield has been an eventful year for all of us here at Model Rail­ George Melvin roading, and all of us here hope it has been as good for you as it Rich Picariello has been for us. It was about this time last year that I began working in earnestto put together High­ La rry J. Puckett lands Station to accomplish the purchase of Model Railroading. Your loyal support and Jim Six patience with the delays that have occurred during our start-up phase have given all of Larry E. Smith, MMR us here much to be thankful for this season. Although it doesn't take much to fall behind schedule, it is very difficult to make up lost time. We are making headway, but it will ART DIRECTORS probably be about this time next year before we're fully back on schedule... and that pre­ Donna Pacheco sumes we make up an average of five days each month ...an ambitious goal' With Christ­ Michelle Ruffner mas aod New Year's coming up during our next production cycle, we're hoping to make up three days on the next issue, but I must admit I'll be delighted if we can make up any CIRCULATION I OFFICE MANAGER time at all. Donald R. Strait Not only have we made up several days this month, but we've also increased the size of this issue to 88 pages and added more color. Whenever possible, it is my intention to provide you with more articles and more useful information. That means an increased NATIONAL SALES MANAGER page count when advertising revenue justifies it, or more article pages in an 80-page Chris Lane magazine when ad pages drop below normal. So consider the extra pages in this issue a 1-888-338-1700 Christmas present from us ... and the advertisers that made it possible. With this issue we welcome Michelle Ruffner to our team. She will be sharing the Volume 26, Issue 11. MODEL RAILROADING is pub­ responsibilities of Art Director with Donna Pacheco. Together they will be dividing pro­ 12 2600 lished times a year by Highlands Station, Inc, S. duction and design responsibilities for the magazine_ Rich Picariello, in addition to Parker Rd., Suite 1-211, Aurora, CO 80014, (303) 338- doing Diesel Detail Close-Up each month, has also taken on the responsibility of writ­ 1700. Price per single copy is 53.95 in U.S.A. Subscriptions ing the Sandhouse column for me. Their valuable assistance will help us get back on are $31.95 in the U.s.A or $40.00 in Canada (or foreign) - payable in U.S. funds. Unsolicited manuscripts or schedule in addition to helping us improve the quality of the magazine. photographs should be accompanied by return postage, Now that our first book, Diesel Modeler's Guide, Vol. 1, is out and selling well, I'm and Highlands Station, Inc, assumes no responsibility for happy to announce that we have moved up the production schedule of our second book, the loss or damage of such material. No part of this publi­ intermodai Modeler's Guide, Vol. I. It should be available in early February and will cation may be reprinted without written permission from contain the complete Modeling Modern [ntermodal series on BN America and J.B. Hunt the publisher. Printed in U.S.A by Dave Bontrager plus other articles by David Casdorph, Doug Geiger, Ed McCasLin, The information contained in the various articles in this Jim Mansfield and Ewing Row taken from 1994 and 1995 issues of Model Railroading. magazine is presented in good faith, but no warranty is This 112-page book retails for $14.95 plus $3.50 shipping, but we'll pay the shipping given, no results guaranteed, nor is any freedom from any on prepaid orders received by January 31st (call toll-free 888-338-1 700). To the best of patent or copyright to be inferred. Since we have no con­ my knowledge this is the first book ever published on intermodal modeling. (I thought trol over the physical conditions surrounding the applica­ tion of information in this magazine, Highlands Station, I'd put in this plug just in case you were wondering what to do with some of that cash Inc, and the various authors and editors disclaim any lia­ you got at Christmas.) bility for untoward results and/or for any physical injury in­ And speaking of Christmas, I hope that you had a'very merry one that was filled curred by using the information herein. with the joy of sharing. Over the past several years r have used my pre-Christmas col­ umn to encourage our readers to join in the spirit of giving by sharing our hobby with 1996 Copyright © by Highlands Station, Inc others, but this year all I can do is thank you for what r know you have already done. For those of you who gave your time to host club open houses or to help a young mod­ ADVERTISING eler... and to those who gave a train set to a loved one - or anonymously donated one For advertising information contact through a charity ...and to those of you who opened your layouts to allow neighborhood Chris Lane at 1-888-338-1700. children to get a glimpse of the magic of model railroading, a heartfelt thank you. And SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BOOK ORDERS to those of you who were too busy to do any of these things, don't despair - you now For subscriptions, please send inquiries to Highlands Station, have a whole new year in which you can do those things you meant to get done in 1996. Inc, 2600 S. Parker Rd., Suite 1-211, Aurora, CO 80014 or From the entire full-time stall of Model Railroading - Chris, Don and myself - call (303) 338-1700. Email [email protected]. Visa, Mas­ Seasons Greetings! tercard or American Express accepted. FAX (303) 338-1949.

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HO SCALE ENTERLINE 87·827 WiliameHe & Pacific Locomotives, 1993+ 87-828 42' Tank Cars, SCM Chemicals, Engelhard. Thiele, 1975+ 87-829 Canadian National S-Unil Drawbar Conneded Double Stack PRODUCTS Cars. Blue or Orange Cars. 1990+ 87-830 8urlinglion Route (C8&Q) Covered Hoppers. Gray Cars. PATENTED LIMITED-SLIP ROLLER 1958·1970 87-831 Santa Fe DL-l09 & Erie Buill Locomotives, 1941-1963 SOLID BRASS CASTING 87·832 Santa Fe Two Tone Gray Sleeping Cars, 1940-1965 N SCALE NON ABRASIVE / NON DERAILING 60-827 Willamete & Pacific Locomotives, 1993+ 60-828 42' Tank Cars, SCM Chemicals, Engelhard. Thiele, 1975+ CLEANS RAILS AND WHEELS 60-829 Canadian National 5-Unil Orawbar Connected Double Slack Cars, Blue or Orange Cars. '990+ WILL NOT DAMAGE SWITCHES 60-830 Burlinglion Route (C8&Q) Covered Hoppers, Gray Cars, 1958-1970 RUN SMOOTHER 60-831 Santa Fe Dl-109 & Erie Built locomotives, 1941-1963 Loco's 60-832 Sanla Fe Two Tone Gray Sleeping Cars, 1940-1965 SOUND SYSTEMS GET REAL 60-4103 Holly Sugar Rapid Discharge Beel Hoppers, 1990+ 60-4104 RockIsland Golden Stale Sleeping Cars, 1947-1960 COMMAND CONTROLS WORK 60-521 Castrol, Quaker Stale, 40' & 45' Trailers 60-4043 Dole 40' Refrigerated Containers IMMEDIATE RESULTS MINICALS ( ASK SOMEONE WHO HAS ONE) MC-4103 Holly Sugar Rapid Discharge Beet Hoppers, 1990+ Since 1933 'The finest Decals made." MC-4104 Rock Island Golden State Sleeping Cars, 1947-1960 MODELS IN N, HO, S, ° & G o SCALE New Catalogs for all scales!!!! 48-374 SCM Chemicals 42' Tank Cars 1991+ 48-375 Engelhard 42' Tank Car 1975+ 48-376 Thiele 42' Tank Car 1979+ 48-377 Burlingtion Route (CB&Q) ACF Center Flow Hoppers, 2 & 3 Bay Cars, 1963-1970 48-378 Santa Fe Two Tone Gray Sleeping Cars, 1940-1965, Silver lenering 2 sheets 48-379 Santa Fe Gray Sleeping Cars, 1955-1960, White le.nering SEE THEM AT YOUR HOBBY DEALER 48-380 Rock Island Golden Slate Sleeping Cars, 1947-1960 48-381 Southern Pacific Golden Slale Sleeping Cars, 1950-60 SEND SASE FOR INFORMATION 2 Sheels CENTERLINE PRODUCTS, INc. �ICROSCALE INDUSTRIES, INC� HARMONY ROAD Send lor lIlultrlted Cltaloog. NOW! 18409 HO & N Scale CltaUog - $5.00 P.O. Box 11950 MARENGO, IL U.S.A. O,G & S Selle Catalog -$3.00 Costa Mesa, CA 92627 60152 PleaM allow 30 day. for c.talog Oelinry or PUrCIUiM 'rom your (714) 434·8995 FAX 434·9607 LOCAL HOBBY DEALER.

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The scale little brother of our scale wide vision caboose has N HO Rapido Micro-Trains Roadname incredible details. Some of the features include: thin endrails; win- Version Version dow glazing; separate cylinder, triple valve & reservoir; open smoke 30200 Undecorated stack; and caboose trucks. There will be two item numbers per road- 30201 30209 Santa Fe 1 name, with one item number having factory installed Micro-Trains® 30211 302 9 Burlington Northern 30221 30229 Chicago Burlington & Quincy couplers and the other having body mount Rapid 0 coupI ers th at wiII 30231 30239 Chessie System convert to Micro-Trains® #1111. The following 30241 30249 Conrail are expected to be delivered to your locol 30251 30259 Cotton Belt �.' �3_ De_ wa_ H _ --J 02_ la _ re_ ud_ 61_ _ &_ so_ 3_ n _ 02_ 69__ _ � hobby shop in September. /1" •• I ?M�OD=-=EL-::-CRA:-::-::ILR=-OA=-D-=-=CO:--:::-:-::NC �. LOOK FOR THESE NEW BABIES AT YOUR LOCAL HOBBY SHOP! N,EW PRODUCTS

THE SANDHOUSE A Product News Column HO SCALE American Limited Mod­ wood boxcar and a Boston & Albany 34' twin hopper. Cars are ready­ els, Box 7803, Fremont, to-assemble in 4 #s. Retail $13.95 plus $3.50 S&H per order. CA 94537-7803, has re­ leased extendible container Design Preservation Models, P. O. Box 66, Linn Creek, MO chassis in single and 3- 65052, has its second DPM Gold kit (#402) available, the Whitewater packs. The chassis fit 40'-48' containers and extend like the proto­ Brewing brewery. Kit includes over 50 white-metal castings, rooftop type. Kits 7730 (single) and 7733 (3-pack) are molded in yellow details, dry transfers, smokestack, loading dock and cast-styrene wall w/decals for UP and OOCL. Kits 7740 and 7743 include decals for parts. Retail $39.98. APL, Maersk, Evergreen, Genstar, Flexi-van and Matson. Part 6230, decals for container chassis are available separately. E&C Shops, P.O. Box 567, Roseburg, OR 97470, is re leasing [he fo llowing new products in their "ESP Limited Series": ew Athearn, Inc., 190 I 0 Laurel Park Rd., Compton, CA 90220, has Haven (orange, $13.95) and BAR "State of Maine" ($1 4.95) PS- I announced that the heavy-duty 4-truck flatcar will return to produc­ plugdoor boxcars. tion in both the original roadnames; Westinghouse. C& W, Erie and PRR and new roadnames: DODX, Santa Fe, Trailer Train, TTX, UP FlIllero & Camerlengo, RD and undecorated at $6.75 each. New roadnames will be offered on the #3, Box 2800, Honesdale, PA GE moc ($33.50 pwd; $16.75 dummy): BN, L& , MP, NS, SP and 18431, has released their UP. Smooth-side 40' containers are to be re-released at $24.00/6 in ational Plate G lass covered undec. & II decorated schemes. hopper (#6370). Kit is cast Special Edition (SE) items scheduled for 1997 release are : polycarbonate. Retai I $24.99 ... January 1997 - CSX "Pumpkin" Orange MoW scheme; GP40-2 including decals and shipping. Send SASE for free catalog . & bay-window caboose, $59.95; three CB&Q 40' boxcars painted gold for 1966 Golden Freight Car Award, $24.50 Hodgdon Scale Models, P.O . ... February 1997 - CP Rail/St. Lawrence & Hudson (StL&H red) Box 180, Oakdale, CT 06370- SD40-2; I pwd, I dummy, $79.50; three U.S. Army 40' single­ 0180, has released their 10th dome tank cars; black w/white lettering, $25.50 structure kit, the "Uncommon ... March 1997 - Kaiser Steel (bright red) U30C; I pwd, I dummy, Cape." The laser-cut wood kit is $65.50; NKP 40' boxcar, oxide red w/"Rocking R" in Nickel Plate a typical New England style Cape Cod house. Several building Road; 50' gondola, black and 50' flatcar w/rare "Nickel Road options can be chosen. Laser-cut shingles, cast-metal steps and color Plate" lettering (they have a photo of the prototype !), $22.50 photos complete the kit. Retail $34.99 plus $3.00 for S&H. A fu ll­ color catalog is available for $2.00. Atlas, 378 Florence Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205, has released a new switch machine that is one-third smaller than their current switch IllIerMoul1Iain, P. O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, has added machine. It will be available to fit either the new True-Track switches the fo llowing products: or the Code 83 Snap-Switches (without roadbed). Retail $6.95 for ... 10' 6" Modified AAR boxcar as: RI and NYC (12 #s), NP (12 new remote and $2.75 for manual. #s) ...$1 3.95 ... 4,750 cu. ft. rib-side 3-bay hopper (assembled): PC (12 #s) .. Blair Line Signs, P. O. Box 2291, Lee's Summit, MO 64063-729 1, . $22.95 is shipping #156 (full color) Signs for Railroad Stations which are ... ACF Type 27 riveted 10,000-gal. tank car: Shippers Supply, Gulf printed on thin plastic. Retail $5.00/2 sheets. Also available is the Oil (12 #s) ... $15.95 #166 Billboard Kit which contains scale wood for framing (enough ... Santa Fe reefer "straight line map" scheme: Super Chief and EI fo r 2) and 6 billboard signs printed on plastic. Price $6.00. They are Capitan (12 #s) ... $16.95 also releasing wood trestle kits with scale wood (most parts pre-cut) Also available are 33" and 36" RP-25 brass wheelsets at and a section of Micro Engineering bridge flex-track. Price with $7.95/pair or in bulk packs of 100 at $0.58 per axle and 1,000 at assembled piers is $29.95 (# 167 -A); unassembled is $19.95 (# 167). $0.53 per axle; ASF Ride-Control 50-ton trucks w/33" wheel sets and Barber S-2 100-ton trucks w/36" wheelsets. Retail $7.95/pr. Classic Consrl'llcrion Models, InterMountain is 6590 SW Fallbrook PI., Beaver­ also manufacturing ton, OR 97008, is introducing an and distributing the :- - � � . . - " all-brass model of a Caterpillar new early (two-hand­ t i , 633E scraper assembled from hold) and current ; : _ . I !, ' : . . ' .. { . . . -<, . - over 85 parts and painted. Run limited to 1,000 pieces. (four-hand-hold) ver­ ! !" -, " ..' . 0 ,:} , _ • 4 • t � ! .'- - sions of Barrett cattle Cooper & Oshrel11o, P.O. Box 402, Parchment, MI 49004-0442, is trailers from LoneStar now shipping their custom-decorated Athearn Te nnessee Central 40' Models. Kits are plastic with etched-metal sides. Retail $22.95.

Editor's Note: Please ralk ro your dealerfirst regarding any new prodllcts. If YOIl wOllld like additional informarionfrom the manufacturer; please don'r jorget to inclllde a nllmber ten. selraddressed. stamped envelope. This will help all concerned. Thanks.

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING ..... 13 Jersey Limited (MER-NMRA), P. O. Box 571, Swedesboro, NJ Overland herald, WP/PRE (WP herald): R-30-9 reefers as undec. 08085, is offering a limited-run assembled Atlas PS-2 covered hopper (w/wood or steel ice hatches), SP/UP double herald, NP "Yellow­ I decorated in the 1956 CNJ "Large Liberty" scheme. Car was used in stone" herald and NP "NP" herald. All reefers are $12.75 (undec.) or sand service. Retail $15.00 plus $2.50 S&H. $14.75 (decorated).

K-Val Hobbies, 277 Hinman Sunshine Models, P. O. Box Ave., Buffalo, NY 14216, is offer­ 4997, Springfield, MO 65808- ing an Athearn SO-ton 33' 2-bay 4997, has a new gray urethane kit offset-side hopper custom-deco­ for a natural gasoline (a fuel rated by Third Rail Graphics for derived from natural gas) tank the South Buffalo Railway; 3 #s available. Retail $IO.OO/ea. or car. Three versions are offered; 1929-30 as-built Warren or $27.00/3. Add $3.00 S&H. Columbian tank cars w/wood walkways, at $29.00 each and the 1948 Warren tank car w/etched stainless steel walkways, at $3 1 .00. Kits Longview Shops, 94 1 To wnship includes decals, data sheet, brass parts & instructions. Order direct Line Rd., Phoenixville, PA 19460, only. Add $4.00 S&H fo r up to 5 kits in US; $8.55 S&H for Canada. offe rs a limited-run 3-car set of MO residents add 6.975% tax. Athearn 2-bay offset hoppers with historically accurate lettering for the Montour RR. Sets are $28.00 Sylvan Scale Models, 32229 Sylvan plus $5.00 S&H for up to 12 cars. Also offered is a decal set for Mon­ Rd., RR #2, Parkhill, ONT NOM 2KO, tour EMD SW9 diesels for $4.50 and a # I 0 SASE for return ship­ Canada, has re leased the fo llowing ping. PA residents add 6% tax. new cast-resin models: ... HO-121 CN Transfer Van with Microscale, \ 570 Sunland Ln., Costa Mesa, CA 92626, has the Tichy trucks, brake gear, grabirons following decals available in HO scale: and C-D-S dry transfers ...$29.95. ... 87-969 Gas Station Signs, Sinclair, 1935-'60 ... HO-I I Waterline canoes ... $3.95/3 . ... 87-970 B&M RS2/3 Locos, Maroon & Gold Scheme, 1950-'60 ... HO-114 Aunt Elizabeth's House is ... 87-97 1 Amtrak Amfleet Passenger Cars, Phase TV Scheme, a I'f,-story farmhouse (built ca. 1996+ 1 850- '90) with elaborate brick­ ... 87-972 PRR 40' Merchandise Service Boxcars, 1947-'57 work, gingerbread and a fieldstone ... MC-4193 Georgia Group Railroads Passenger Cars, 1940-'70 foundation (4'//' x 2'/2 ")... $2 1 .95. ... MC-4 194 ABF 28' Trailers & Tractors, 1970+ ... MC-4195 New York, Susquehanna & Western SD70M Locos, Tru cks N' Stllfj; P. O. Box 30772, 1996+ Stockton, CA 952 13, has re leased ... MC-4196 SOU Coil Steel Car, 1974-'85 their latest trucks: #202 is a KNT600 These HO decals retail for $4.00; Minicals (MC) are $2.00. tractor with 2 high-cube vans in the Swift new scheme and #203 is a Ford Monon Railro ad Historical-Techni­ Aeromax tractor with 2 modern high­ cal Society, c/o Monon Car Kit COOl'di­ cube vans in the Swift old scheme; $19.99 each. nator, Box 287, Rossville, IN 46065, is offering a custom-painted InterMoun­ Wa llhers, 560 I W. tain PS- I Monon white-side boxcar in four road numbers at $18.00 Florist Ave., Milwau- each or $70.00/4 plus $4.00 for S&H. kee, WI 5320 I, has re leased their new New England Hobby Supply, 71 Hilliard St., Manchester, CT Trainline® ALCo FA I �:���!!��!!���i 06040, has released a limited-edition (500 cars) assembled Walthers for: GN, UP, PRR, ATSF, Southern and NYC in wood-sheathed Bon Ami boxcar. Car is yellow wired roof and ends a choice of road numbers and undecorated. Model features and a red and white logo; $11.98 plus $3.00 for S&H. all-wheel pickup and drive, fl ywheel and body-mounted couplers. Retail $29.98 each. They have also announced the Spring \ 997 release Plano Model Products, 270 I W. 15th SI., Suite 113, Plano, TX of their Trees & Trains series of logging, lumber and paper industry 75075, has released the fo llowing new etched stainless-steel details: kits. Series will be offered on a subscription basis for $39.98/month for ... 354 Ford Aeromax Mirror Set #1 - Ribbed Back (Herpa/Pro­ seven months for a total cost of $279.86. Individual retail price of all motex)... $2.00 items is $389.86. The fo llowing releases are planned: the book Trains. ... 355 Ford Aeromax Mirror Set #2 - Beveled Back (Herpa/Pro­ Tra cks & Ta ll Timber by Matt Coleman (January, $49.98); Walton & motex)... $2.00 Sons Lumber Yard (February, $39.98); Mountain Lumber Co. Saw Mill ... 356 International Grilles (Herpa/Promotex) ...$2.50 /2 with Sawmill Outbuildings, Wood Chip Truck Loader, Wood Chip ... 357 International Mirror Set #1 - Curved Lower Arms Gondola Loader, Wood Chipper, Log Debarker (March, $69.98); (Herpa/Promotex) ... $2.00 Mountain Lumber Co. Planing Mill and Shed (May, $49.98); Rotary ... 358 Mack CH613 Mirror Set #1 - Bulldog Back (Herpa/Pro­ Dumper (June, $39.98); and Superior Paper Co. Plant (July, $99.98) . motex) ...$2.00 ... 359 "Lolli Pop" Mirrors - 8" round on post... $2.00/8 We slerfield, Route 21, Box 374, ... 360 Front CornerBu mper Post. ..$2.0 0/8 River Rd., Crossville, TN 38555, has released their Harriman stan­ Red Caboose, P.O. dard B-50-6 and B-50-9 boxcars with Bettendorf I-beam center sill Box 2490, Longmont, � ...... ' '-- -=.:�.. CO 80502, has the ------_ . �;;;;;,-:-:-::.-� that were built between 1910-' 13 for the UP, SP and their subsidiaries - 0:'r _,_� ::::J: . '"t.. ' J � and Chicago & Alton. Seven variations with decals are offered for following new prod­ '11 - '- - . ::1 - ' ucts: 42' flat car in &Qp ...u: ::.Ii"; =;.t $25.00 each. An undecorated -6 and -9 are $24.00 each. They are also UP, Rock Island, GN, Frisco, Northwestern Pacific, D&RGW, Nickel offering their updated computerized catalog, version 2.0 on four 3.5" Plate, PRR and undec. (black and boxcar red) - decorated $8.95, floppy disks for $5.00. Program is written for Windows 3. 1 and Win­ undec. $7.95; R-30- 12 wood reefers are available as undec., SP/UP dows 95. DOS & MAC versions nOI available.

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... R-40-23 reefers: PFE/WP, A.R.T., M.D.T., Swift, Rath, Libby's (fully assembled, $16.95); PFE Overland and Swift's Premium (12 #s, kit, $12.95) ... 50' double-door boxcars: N&W, RI, Erie and Maine Central (12 #s, $12.95).

Microscale Indllstries, 1570 Sunland Ln., Costa Mesa, CA 92626, Atlas, 378 Florence Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205, has new roadnames has the fo llowing decals available in N scale: for the Evans double-plugdoor boxcar: Aloha Shake, MN&S, North­ ... 60-969 Gas Station Signs, Sinclair, 1935-'60 west Hardwoods, Ogden Corp., Ralston Purina and TP&W. Their ... 60-970 B&M RS2/3 Locos, Maroon & Gold Scheme, 1950-'60 new GP40 will be available in undec .. BN, Chessie System (B&O ... 60-97 1 Amtrak Amfleet Passenger Cars, Phase IV Scheme, and C&O), C&NW, CN, Cotton Belt, Conrail, CB&Q, Rio Grande, 1996+ L&N, MKT, NYC and UP. Models will fe ature directional lighting, ... 60-972 PRR 40' Merchandise Service Boxcars, 1947-'57 fu ll pilots wlRapido couplers and a 5-pole skew-wound motor. All ... 60-4 193 Georgia Group Railroads Passenger Cars, 1940-'70 roadnames will have two road numbers and an unnumbered version. ... 60-4194 ABF 28' Trailers & Tractors, 1970+ ... 60-4 196 SOU Coil Steel Car, 1974-'85 AZlec Mallufactllring These N scale decals retail for $3.25. ONE·El'EDJ4C K Co., 1305 Railroad Ave., San Mateo, CA 94402, MiC/'o-Trains®, 35 1 Rogue River Pkwy., P. O. Box 1200, Ta lent, has the fo urth car in their OR 97540- 1200, has released the fo llowing: Micro Brewery Railway ... 1996 Holiday Car 40' Boxcar (Road No. MTL 1996). RTR Series: One-Eyed Jack logo on an MDC (Roundhouse) 50' hi-cube #20356 ...$1 4. 15 boxcar (#MB2047-4, $26.50): direct only. Free S&H on orders over ... MKT 36' riveted caboose (Road No. MKT 12). RTR $50.00, orders under $50.00 add $3.50. Outside US, add $12.00. CA # I 00040 ... $ 1 4.60 residents add 8.25% sales tax. ... UP 50' gondola (Road No. UP 30294). RTR #46350... $1OAO ... 1 168 coupler conversion for Bachmann 8-40CW... $1 0.95 Bachmalln. 1400 E. Erie Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19124, is releas­ ... PRR 50' auto boxcar (Road No. PRR 82023). RTR ing a second run of Bachmann Pl us® F7 A & B units. New paint #780 I 0 ... $12.20 schemes include: Santa Fe Warbonnet; WM "Circus Scheme"; SP ... "Windy City" 3-Pack; C&EI 40' boxcar (Road No. C&EI 3507), Daylight; Erie-Lackawanna and undecorated. Retail $35.00 each for C&NW 50' boxcar (Road No. C&NW 51772) and CRI&P (Rock A or B unit. Island) 40' boxcar (Road No. RI 24064). RTR #20562 ...$27.6 0

Blair Lille Signs, P. O. Box 229 1. Lee's Summit, MO 64063-729 1, S&R Models, P. O. Box 7804, Jacksonville, FL 32238, has is offering #056 (full color) Signs for Railroad Stations printed on thin announced the release of custom-printed Atlas 3-bay covered grain plastic. Retail $5.00 for two-sheet set. Also available is the #066 Bill­ hoppers as: JW Flammer, Terminal Grain, Agway, Bunge .. $11.90. board Kit. Each bi llboard kit contains scale wood for fram ing (two Also available are Delaware Valley cylindrical hoppers as: BN billboards) and six billboard signs printed on plastic. Retail $6.00. ($14.55 or $25.00/2), Canpotex... $1 5.00 or $26.00/2; CSX ($14.55 or $37.50/3). E&C Shops, P.O. Box 567, Roseburg, OR 97470, is releasing the fo llowing new products: Twin Tub Coal Cars in C&NW and UP; 6S ' Sylvan Scale Models, 32229 Sylvan Rd., RR #2, Parkhill, ONT corrugated gondolas in SP, D&RGW, L&N and Santa Fe (with either NOM 2KO, Canada, has released the following new cast-resin van Rapido or Micro-Trains® couplers). (caboose) kits with C-D-S dry-transfer lettering (less couplers and trucks): N-207 - CN Pte. St. Charles ; N-215 - CP Wide Vision; InterMollntain. P. O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, has added N-216 - TH&B Wide Vision; N-217 - ONR Wide Vision. Retai l the following new schemes: $17.95. ... 1937 AAR 40' boxcars: L&N, P&LE, T& P and UP (12 #s, The fo llowing cast-resin kit is also available: N-225 - Great $12.95); NYC (12 new #s) Lakes Tug Boat (waterline model), 6.25" long ...$24.95.

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Microscale Indllslries, 1570 Sunland Ln., Costa Mesa, CA 92626, ... 48-547 Burlington Route, CB&Q. 55-Ton Twin Hoppers, Min- has the fo llowing decals available in 0 scale: erai Red Scheme ... 48-544 Santa Fe Streamlined General Serv ice Sleeping Cars ... 48-552 Gas Station Signs, Sinclair, 1935-'60 (2 sheets) 1939-'70 (2 sheets) ... 48-553 B&M RS2/3 Locos, Maroon & Gold, 1950-'60 (2 sheets) ... 48-545 C&NW Early Hood Units 1948-'60 (2 sheets) ... 48-554 PRR 40' Merchandise Service Boxcars, 1947 Scheme ... 48-546 Montana Rail Link 3-Bay ACF Centerflow Hoppers, ... 48-555 ABF 28'Trailers & Tractors, 1970+ New Image 1996+ These decals re tail for $4.25 (single sheet) and $7.50 (two-sheet set).

----- ____ � __Z_ S_C_A__L E______'H M U L TI S CA LE Micro-Trains'", 35 1 Rogue River Pkwy., P. O. Box 1200, Ta lent, Wo odlalld Scenics, PO. Box 98, Linn Creek, MO 65052, offers OR 97540- 1200, has released the fo llowing: their "Forest in a Bag" Tree Packs suitable for N to 0 scales. Nine ... 1996 Holiday Car 40' Boxcar, (Road No. MTL 1996). RTR different packs contain either deciduous trees in green or fall colors #14133 (Marklin couplers) ... $17.75; #14133-2 (Magne-Matic® or pine trees in mixed conifer colors. Tree sizes range from '//' to 8"; couplers) ...$19 AO quantities in each pack vary by tree size. Packs are $19.98/each. �

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING .... 1 5 ODueT REVIEWS I

American Limited Ta nk Chassis by David G. Casdorph

ith a growing interest in intermodal extendibles split along the center rail toward highway movement. Many tank containers model railroading it's surprising to see the front. are used for shipping liquids that often stay at soW few kit releases of container chassis. The pro­ 20 ' Chassis - Actually most of these the customer site for unloading. A chassis totype operators use quite a variety of chassis are 23 ' to 24 ' long, but designed to carry ISO was needed that would lower the height (and for differing operations. Let's review some of 20' containers. There are straights (solid, payload weight) for greater road stability, eas­ the more common chassis in service today. fixed length) and sliders (sliding tandems to ier unloading operations, carry unloading

Standard 40' Chassis - These are still adjust for highway load limits) and tri-axles. hoses, and allow for heavier cargo loads. the most common. The greatest quantity are These are not really designed for extra heavy What developed was basically a drop-frame gooseneck versions that are designed to set in loads that often occur with tank containers. type of chassis about 40' to 45 ' long such as the tunnel on the front of most ISO standard Drop Frame or Tank Chassis - Though the recent model from American Limited. (8' 6" high) and high-cube (9' 6" high) 40 ' not solely limited to carrying tank containers, American Limited's model represents the long containers. However, there are non­ this is a relatively new type of chassis which Reinke (a specialized builder in Nebraska) gooseneck 40 ' chassis for non-tunneled (a.k.a. I'll discuss in more detail below. version. Briefly described, it's a dual-rail "straight") standard-height 40' containers, drop-frame, spread-axle chassis. The proto­ too. There are also two- and three- axle vari­ American Limited's HO Model type is 43 ' 6" in overall length, just like the eties (two-axle being far more common). As general intermodal grew in America model. Axle center spread is 9' I ". The real Extendable Chassis - Several varieties during the ' 80s the tank container emerged chassis weighs just over 7,600 lbs. (with vari­ of these that include differing extendible almost as a new technology. Nearly overnight ations). The landing gear is mounted outside lengths generally used for domestic contain­ a new transport vehicle niche was created. the frame right at the drop in the frame .. The ers. Most common are 40-45, 40-45-48, 45- The tank container has less capacity than bulk container is supported by two transverse sup­ 48 or 48-53. Other differences involve where shippers using standard railway tank cars ports located just behind the frame's drop and the actual extension takes place. Most coupled with the flexibility of rail, ship or just ahead of the front axle. The computer­ designed custom-fabricated dual high­ strength main beams are reinforced with numerous cross beams and supports. The whole thing is designed to carry a 24-ton or 48,000 lb. payload. Operators include Union Pacific, XTRA Intermodal, Agmark Foods and others. Overall the kit is nicely detailed and fol­ lows the prototype's dimensions and design features accurately. The base kit does not BlKZ 435162 illustrates what this type of chassis is designed for... tank contain­ include the quarter fenders or walkway ers. BlKZ is the reporting mark of Mid-America lntermodal Equipment Corpora­ (which are available separately from Ameri­ tion. Fremont, NE; August 1993. David G. Casdorph photo can Limited as Kit No. 77 J 5, retail $2.95) for those that wish to have even more detail. It is an excellent complement for the Ameri­ can Limited or Walthers tank containers. Kit 77 10 is for yellow UP trailers and 7720 is for blue UP, Santa Fe and three tank trans­ port trailers. Retail $8.95.

Tw o of American limited's tank chassis are seen here without the added rear quar­ Kit 7715 provides the added rear ter fenders and tank-access walkway details from Kit 7715. The Bulktainer tank is quarter fenders and tank-access walk­ also available separately from American limited. American Limited photo way details. American Limited photo

16 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 E-Z Light Kits for Athearn Locomotives by Stuart Thayer

Photos by the author

you have long wanted to add constant f lighting to your fleet of Athearn diesels, Ibut were intimidated by the idea of having to add a lot of additional electrical wiring and components, or worse yet, you have tried and found that you literally got your wires crossed, and nothing worked, well, I have good news for you. Creative Railway Engineering has in­ troduced a line of constant-lighting kits for At­ hearn diesels that makes the job a snap. They are sold under the brand name E-Z Lights. Currently they have 14 kits that range from simple bi-directional constant lighting for GPs and SDs to kits that include beacons, and Installation is literally a "snap." Just remove the Athearn motor clip and snap soon-to-be-released kits with Gyralights. the unit in place. The following is a complete list of cur­ rently available kits for Atheam locomotives: As you will notice, included in this list ... LK- 102 2-Bulbs "Headlight Only" are two kits that deal specifically with (GP and SD)... $14.95 improving the running quality of Athearn ... LK-I03 2-Bulbs "Bi-Directional" locos, HW- lOO and EK-600. EK-600 is par­ (SW7 & SI2) ... $16.95 ticularly useful fo r those of you who want to ... LK-104 4-Bulbs "Headlights & Ditch­ run multiple-unit consists with only the lead lights" (GP & SD) ... $16.95 unit's headlights on. What it does is equalize ... LK-105 4-Bulbs "Bi-Directional" the voltage drop in the trailing units to that (SWl OOO & of the E-Z Light-equipped lead unit, which SWI 500) ...$1 8.95 is .6V to l.3V, and maintains smooth and ... LK- I06 4-Bulbs "Bi-Directional" (GP even power throughout the consist. It can & SD) ... $18.95 also be used to make your Athearn units ... LK-107 2-Bulbs "Headlights Only" capable of being MU'd with Kato, Stewart, (F7) ...$16 .95 Atlas or Proto 2000 models. ... LK- 107 A 4-Bulbs "Headlights Only The kit that we will be looking at is the wlLenses" (F7)... $19.95 above-mentioned Bi-Directional Constant Kit LK-106 for GPs and SDs has four ... LK-I08 6-Bulbs "Bi-Directional" (GP Lighting for GPs and SDs, LK-I06. Upon bulbs. & SD) ...$19 .95 first looking at this kit in the package, you ... LK-144B 2-Bulbs Forward w/Beacon, want to ask yourself, can it really be this sim­ ing which funnels the light to the Athearn 2-Bulbs Reverse "Bi-Direc­ ple? The answer is yes. All of the wiring and headlight lenses. This setup facilitates easy tional" (GP) ...$28 .95 soldering is already done for you. The whole bulb replacement should one of the bulbs ... LK- 146B 2-Bulbs Forward w/Beacon, assembly simply snaps onto the motor in burn out, because they are not permanently 2-Bulbs Reverse "Bi-Direc­ place of the Athearn motor clip that makes mounted to the shell. tional" contact between the motor and the trucks. In With that you are finished, and your (SD) ...$28 .95 addition to providing constant lighting these Athearn loco is ready to roll. Creative Rail­ ... LK-I 64B 4-Bulbs Forward w/Beacon, kits will improve power pickup to the motor way Engineering certainly has addressed 2-Bulbs Reverse "Bi-Direc­ by essentially hard-wiring the locomotive. what can be an intimidating project for some tional" (GP) ...$29.95 To install this or most of these lighting modelers. Their lighting kits are simple to ... LK- 1 66B 4-Bulbs Forward w/Beacon, kits, start by removing the shell of your install and yield excellent results, and I 2-Bulbs Reverse "Bi-Direc­ Athearn loco and remove the motor clip. highly recommend you give them a try. tional" (SD) ...$29.95 Then snap the E-Z Light clip in its place and E-Z Light lighting kits can be found at ... HW- J 00 Hard Wire Kit (GP, SD, F7 & route the bulbs to the appropriate headlight. local hobby shops, or you can contact Cre­ ALCo) ...$4.95 For the loco I used, a GP38-2, 1 installed ative Railway Engineering directly at 15176 ... EK-600 Equalization Kit (GP, SD, F7 short lengths of brass tubing inside the shell Laverda Lane, Moreno Valley, CA 9255 1- & ALCo) ...$6.95 at both ends and slid the bulbs into the tub- 4099, (909) 243-8195.

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 17 Rail Power Products 28' Rib-side Wedge

and these are somewhat Trailer rare. NW trailers are not quite as easy to spot on the rail as the other by David A. Bontrager companies' tJ'ailers; the two best corridors fo r Photos by author spotting NW pups in intermodal service are Built and lettered stock with a slight number change the ne of the most common types of trailer on Santa Fe (BNSF) model accurately represents a specific phase of NW trai ler. used in the United States is the 28' between Southern Cali­ "frOeight pup." The primary users of this type fornia and Chicago and on Conrail between To cover individual company specifications, the of trailer are trucking companies engaged in Chicago and HruTisburg, PA . stJuctural designs of each manufacturer and the handling LTL (Less than Truck Load) ship­ Freight pups fall into three basic categories: different production phases of each manufac­ ments. In trucking industry-eze these compa­ I) rib-side (exterior post); 2) smooth-side (inte­ turer would fillat least one lru'ge book. nies are referred to as the "freight companies" rior post with aluminum exterior sheeting); 3) and the drivers are referred to as "freight FRP (fiberglass) smooth-side. Wedge and non­ The Model haulers." I'm not sure of the origin of the wedge design can be found, but the wedgies The Rail Power 28' rib-side wedge trailer term "freight pup," but it has been around for are the most common. Both roll-up and hinged very closely follows a Strick prototype, and as long as I can remember, and that's a long doors ru'e used, although the roll-up door is by more specifically, a design specified by time. Companies from small local cartage op­ far the most common choice by LTL compa­ NationsWay (NW) Transport Service. Strick erations to regional and national carriers of nies due to the number of times the trailers are Corp. is not only one of the oldest trailer man­ all sizes use this type of trailer. Many of these docked (a roll-up door can be opened and ufacturers, but also one of the largest producers companies cross both the Canadian and Mex­ closed with the trailer docked). of aluminum rib-side, aluminum smooth-side ican borders and have done so long before we What is a "wedge" trailer? It's very simple, and FRP smooth-side freight pups. The Rail ever heard of NAFTA. Freight pups are used the floor of the tJ'ai ler tapers downward from Power model wiiJ be reviewed against a StJ'ick­ in doubles and triples in highway operations, front to rear, providing a greater cubic-foot built NationsWay TranspOit Service trailer. for city pick-up and delivery (P&D) service capacity. The floor drop will range from only a As with all plastic kits, first inspect the and rail shipping. In LTL operations this a few inches to about 7 "-8 " maximum; the roof model fo r any mold flash and carefully very versatile piece of equipment. line remains level. Most wedge trailers need to remove as needed. The body is gated at two For example, a truck can be dispatched ride on lower-profile tires, not a radical low places along the right-side roof line. The best from Chicago to Atlanta, departing Chicago profile tire, just lower. Truck tire designs and method for removing the excess plastic at this with doubles, but only one of the trailers being sizes along with the wheels are a completely location is to use flush-cutting nippers such as destined for Atlanta. En route the truck can different subject that can be addressed with Xuron angle-head cutters. If needed, cru'efu lly pass through any number of terminals chang­ individual modeling projects. The wedge file it down for an even roof line. ing out single trailers moving between these design is not Limited only to the freight pup; The kit features a one-piece body and roof, other terminals and fi nally proceeding on to wedge trailers of any length are common. Inte­ separate floor and underframe and separate Atlanta with a complete Atlanta set. Once in rior cubic-foot and weight capacities are of landing gear, suspension, wheels, tires and a Atlanta the trailers are docked and the freight utmost impoltance in the LT L business. The brass axle. Tills is a very easy kit to build. worked. Local P&D drivers are dispatched out exterior-post aluminum freight pup is a very The model measures an accurate 102" W on the streets with the same trailers that are lightweight design; the prototype tare weight and 28' L. With the landing gear in the down used in highway service. The large carriers of this pruticular Strick tJ'ailer is only 7,000 Ibs. position the front of the model measures 13' 6" (ABF, CF, Roadway and Ye llow) also ship As with any transportation equipment the H and the rear about 13' 3" H. The reru' of the these trailers by rail in substantial numbers on contemporru'y fre ight pup is a product of design trailer shown measured 13' I " because I filed a numerous corridors. There is of course no en evolution that has seen two widths, about four flat spot on the bottom of the tires for a more route switching of the trailers when sillpped by different heights, and numerous lengths. To day realistic appearance. Despite this minor height rail. So no matter where one is, a small town, there ru'e three basic specifications that for the discrepancy, the model looks right. Since writ­ large city, traveling on any highway or watch­ most prut becrulle a standru'd in the eru'ly 1980s: ing this review I have built other tJ'ailers with an ing trains, the freight pup is always present. 28' L, 13' 6" H and 102" W. Older more nruTow .040 spacer installed between the suspension Of the larger freight companies ABF, CF (96" W), shOiter and lower trailers can stili be and the floor. This brought the height to 13' 6" and Roadway all use aluminum rib-side trailers found in service, although they ru'e becoming with a slight flat spot filed on the bottom of the with varying rib patterns, including the 13 rib. fewer and fewer all the time. In fact, it's still tires. However, this is a compromise as it cre­ Overnite has a substantial number of StJick rib­ possible to find an old"bull- nose" pup in "front­ ates more of a gap between the top of the tires sides, but all of these are an earlier stJ'uctural line" highway service, but it's rare (that's and the side rail, but the anti-spray skirt covers design of tills tJ'ailer with an additional post at another topic for another time). Beyond those up this discrepancy very well. Keep in mind the front and rear (of the sides) and no lower three basic specifications the vru'iations ru'e end­ that these are my own personal modeling tech­ side rail. To my knowledge the only rib-side less. Just about evelY (if not all) trailer manufac­ niques. There's certainly nothing wrong in tJ'ailers in the Ye llow Freight fleet are open-tops, turer producing dlY vans has built a li'eight pup. building the trailer stock from the package. If I

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At the rear of each lower side rail is a plates for attaching the mud flaps are cast in round wheel radius cutout above each tire, place and aCCllrate for this trailer. which is correct for the construction phase The panel between the rear bumper of this trailer. In all, there are about three uprights that supports the air and electrical designs of wheel cutouts within the NW ros­ connections is nicely done. The pintle hook ter of pups. W installs brush-type anti­ proper lacks specific detail, but the mount­ spray guards (hula skirts) above the tires, so ing plate and bolt heads are tooled in, which these radius cutouts are not actually seen on is nice. On the model, as on the prototype, it the trailers. The far-rear axle setting is cor­ appears as if the pintle-hook mounting plate rect for NW Transport Service trailers. is fa stened directly to the panel between the The rear is nicely done. Decals make it At each lower rear side corner there is a bumper uprights - not so. The pintle-hook even more prototypical. red marker light mounted on the last narrow mounting has to be extremely strong and is side sheet on the prototype; this is not on the an integral component of the under carriage. was building a trailer without the skins, I would model but can be easily added. With this Strick design the frame rails, end mount the suspension as stock and not file a flat The front of the trailer features cast-in beam, pintle-hook mount and upper bumper spot at the bottom of the tires. details such as the tractor air and electrical mounting are an integral unit. This provides The model features 13 evenly spaced ribs connections and the associated exterior air for a very strong rear-end assembly with (posts) and a lower side rail, a Strick design lines and electrical-cable cover plate. A record minimal weight gain. Other than providing for this particular trailer that began in 1990. box (plastic "King box" produced by James support for the air and electrical connec­ Prior to that year the Strick rib-side pups King & Co.) is also tooled in place at the tions, the panel between the bumper featured 16 ribs, with additional posts at the proper location. The rivet pattern on the front uprights is cosmetic. [f one wishes to do so, front and rear of each side and no lower side wall is accurate for this era Strick trailer. The a scale pintle hook could be made from a rail, such as earlier NW, Bullocks Express unique small radius (approximately a 3" properly trimmed wire or plastic eyelet and and the Overnite Strick-built trailers. There radius) front corner posts are dead-on accurate added to the mounting plate. Glad-hands are of course different construction phases for NW Transport and Strick-built aluminum were not tooled in but the mounting for for this trailer since 1990, but the structural rib-side Bullocks Express trailers, and possibly them is there. An electrical plug is also design remains constant through current pro­ some trailers of other companies. These cor­ tooled in place. The rear bumper is generic duction. The Rail Power model matches a ners can be easily modified to specifically and easily changed to match a specific pro­ production phase of approximately late 1993 match other designs, especially trailers with totype bumper for whatever phase of trailer to early 1994. The posts and upper and small flat angled front corners. An example one is modeling. lower side rails are accurate as are the rivet would be the Wabash-built Carolina Carriers patterns forboth. There are 1,326 post rivets (now ABF) trailers with angled nunt corners. Underframe per side, which matches the prototype. Upon Notice that there is a row of rivets at each edge The floor, floor sills, fifth-wheel plate, strong magnification r fo und only one side of the front corner posts and several rivets on landing-gear mounting brackets and suspen­ rail rivet tooled out of alignment. I'm being the front bulkhead just below the front wall sion frame is a one-piece casting. The floor extremely nitpicky here as it can't be found sheeting. This is per prototype and cOIl·ecl. sills have the correct spacing arrangement with the naked eye (at least my naked eyes i). On the prototype the upper front corners and a COITect fifth-wheel plate. The kingpin On the prototype each rib is 2'//' W with a at the roof and the channel beneath the roof is 24 " from the front wall, accurate for an I"riveting lip on each side. The first front rib are at a straight angle, not rounded; so it is NW trailer. It should be noted that on the is 12'/," from the rear edge of the front corner with the model. However, on the prototype prototype a shallow kingpin is usually speci­ post (measured at the bottom) to the center­ there is a small amber marker light mounted ti ed in conjunction with the axle being set at line of the first rib and the ribs are then on this flat angle. The marker light is not the extreme rear of the trailer. The shallow equally spaced at 24 " centers. If you care to tooled on the model but is easily represented pin helps to reduce the possibility of the look at it from a different perspective, the by using Microscale decals. nose weight of a loaded trailer from over­ center of the first front rib is 16" back from ['m especially impressed with the reru' of the loading the drive axle(s). The model fa ith­ the front wall, measured at the top. These trailer. The roll-up door is done velY weLl. There fu lly follows this prototype example. dimensions are faithfully replicated on the ru'e eight panels to the door with the uppeHnost Viewing the landing-gear mounting brack­ model. Notice on the model the horizontal pru1el being more nruTow than the others, accu­ ets from the side they have the correct shape, line just above the lower edge of the ribs. rate for this design phase. Note that on eru'lier but viewing them li'om the front or rear they This is the top of the 7'//' W lower side rail. Strick pups there were only seven door panels. are on the thick side. The landing-gear legs The ribs extend over the upper portion of the The braided steel cables (one each side) for oper­ are generally correct and feature the cross­ rail down to this horizontal lip. Below the lip ating u1e door are accurately tooled in place and bracing. The additional reru" bracing found on are the rivets (bolts on earlier phases) that fas­ fe ature U1e cable fa stening devices at the bottom the prototype is not on the model but is easily ten the rail to the floor sills. This design is of U1e door. Notice what apperu"S to be lru'ge riv­ fabricated using .025 plastic rod. The landing correctly replicated on the model. Also, the ets on the door. These ru'e not Iivets at all, but gear is the same casting used on their 28' con­ ribs are positioned 90° to the roof which is a instead lru'ge round-head cap bolts, a nice touch tainer chassis, therefore, it is too nruTow (legs very distinctive fe ature of this tTailer, and so it of detail for the model. The door latch is there too close together) for this trailer. The location is with the model. It should be noted that even and looks right but lacks exacting detail. How­ of the centerline of the legs measured back on late trailers with riveted side rails, bolts are ever, the enclosure for U1e actual latching device from the front wall matches an earlier phase used at the front of the rail where the fifth­ (at U1e lower edge of U1e door and at the bottom lrai ler, which makes the legs I'/J" too far for­ wheel plate is located. In HO scale it's diffi­ of the latch) is 100ied in and adds auu1enticity to ward for the phase of trailer that the model cult, if not impossible, to distinguish between the model. The end beam and steel guards replicates. This discrepancy isn't noticeable bolt heads and rivets of this size, so both early ru'ound the taillights ru-e neat, meaning of COLII"Se, on the model unless one is very fa miliar with and late phases can be accurately modeled. accurate, as is the upper light group. The small the various prototype phases. I will address

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When viewed from the side, notice that the door frame tapers Microscale 87-840 Placards and 87-852 Trailer Data decal forward from bottom to top; this is correct for this trailer. The sets the trailer easily takes on a more specific prototype prototype trailers are constantly handled in terminal facilities appearance. The anti-spray skirts were fabricated from with yard tractors, commonly referred to as goats, mules, yard Andrea Black eyelashes. These were trimmed to a scale 48" trash, etc. The landing gears are not constantly cranked up and Lx 6" H, the height being measured below the .010 x .030 down, instead the yard mule raises the front of the trailer high mounting strip. Overall the skirts were cut at 9" high. enough so the landing gear pads won't drag on the ground. Before mounting these, shave off the rivets on the sidesill When docking the raised trailer, the tapered door frame allows where the skirt is to be placed. Additional specific detailing the floor to be against the dock when the trailer is lowered. If was done to the model, but I'll cover this in a future article. the door frame was vertical, the top of the trailer would hit the dock and when the trailer was lowered the floor could be guards from .010 x .250 build date. Refer to the article on conspicuity as much as 6" from the dock - not a good situation. Freight Evergreen plastic strip, markings by John L. Becker in the September pups are indeed specifically designed for specific uses. which is just the right 1996 MRG for more details on this subject. width. If using the stock The numbers included for NW are all in this in more depth in a future article. There is mud flaps, the mounting bracket may have to be the I 1500 numbering series, which is a valid a gear box tooled in place on one leg; this leg fi led down slightly to fit easily between the series. However, aU of the liS series trailers goes to the left side (road side) on this trailer. spring hanger and the rear of the trailer. are equipped with intermodal lower lifting The entire suspension is cast in two pieces, rails, a new rear bumper and a special hand right side and left side. Each casting features Painting and Decaling grab on the door frame, along with a few other front and rear spring hangers, single leaf The model is offered as undecorated only. minor items. These are production changes spring and a alignment-adjusting ann. The sta­ New unpainted aluminum trailers are quite that we in the modeling commUluty refer to as bilizer arm between the inside of the front shiny, a difficult color to replicate. As they age "phases," keeping in mind of course that a spring hangers is not included but easily (aluminum oxidizes) the color becomes more phase is not a structural design change. How­ added using .025 plastic rod. The suspension easy to replicate with paint since it assumes a ever, the numbers can be cut apaI1 to make ear­ is easily installed on the model following the grayish appearance. My favorite paint mix for lier series trailers beginning in the nUd-8000 instructions, however, refer to my comments a weathered, but yet reasonably clean bare numbering series, which structurally match the on trailer height earlier in this review. The aluminum trailer is one '/4 oz. bottle Testors model. Also, trailers in the 11600 thru 11800 bulky looking box-type frame for the suspen­ #1 138 Gloss Gray, one '/4 oz. bottle Testors series and partially into the 1 1900 series can be sion is prototypically correct for this trailer. #1 145 Gloss White, one 'f, oz. bottle Model accurately modeled by changing around the On the prototype there are some triangular Master Aluminum. After all the paint is numbers. The last major production phase gussets welded between the outside of the box poured into a mixing bottle each bottle is change that took place with the NW trailers frame and the floor sills. These are absent on filled about halfway with dlinner to rinse all of was late in the 11400 numbering series. For the model, but I don't consider their absence a the paint residue from the bottles. This is also the sample review model I changed the num­ fault as they couldn't be seen anyway. added to the mix. Automotive lacquer thinner ber to 10937 which matches a late trailer with An air reservoir is not included in the kit. works very well with Testors paints. This mix conspicuity markings but no lower lifting rails. This is something that could be considered a is used for the main body and roof. All of the conspicuity markings in the super-detailing item as it is not readily visi­ For the underframe, front bulkhead, door decal sets are red and white. Some NW trail­ ble when viewing a prototype trailer due to it frame, door and entire rear of the trai ler and ers have red and white and some have red being located up in-between the frame rails for the wheels, the fo llowing mix is used: and silver (daytime viewing) conspicuity for the suspension. I will go into more detail equal amounts (usually I use entire bottles) of stripes. At this time my data is not complete on air reservoir variations in a future article. Testors #1138 Gloss Gray and #1145 Gloss enough on the other companies to make a The tires and wheels are typical Rai I White. This mix produces a median shade of definite statement on the conspicuity colors. Power design; they are cast in hard plastic and gray. Needless to say, color variations do exist. For general non-specific modeling and accurate. The tires represent a low-profile Decals are included with each kit. To date model intermodal operations this model let­ radial and the wheels are steel disc (Budd) four different roadnames are offered; NW tered for ABF, CF and Roadway is acceptable. type. The wheels included with this model (NationsWay) Transport Service, Inc., CF It could also fill in for numerous other compa­ feaulre five hand-holds. NW Transp0l1 uses a (Consolidated Freightways), ABF (formerly nies as well, such as Overnite (Microscale two-hand-hold type exclusively, which is by Arkansas Best Freightways, now just ABF), produces a beautiful Overnite decal set). far the most commonly type used in the indus­ and Roadway Express (which is just lettered In my opinion a contempormy 28' wedge try. However, other companies also use four­ "Roadway" on their rib-side trailers). The freight pup has been needed for a long time. and five-hand-hold wheels, and still other decals are custom produced for Rail Power Rail Power Products has appeased my fmstra­ companies use spoke wheels (manure spread­ Products by Microscale Industries and are very tions quite adequately! Having precisely accu­ ers). A-Line produces two-hand-hold steel accurate for each of the companies. Most of the rate decals included with the model is simply disc wheels and spoke wheels, so modeling a prototype data is included with the sets, only frosting on the cake - how sweet it is! The specific trailer will be reasonably easy to some of the velY obscure data is not included. modeling possibilities with this model are not accomplish. Rail Power also produces a real The number series, logos, etc., for each com­ endless, but are abundant. At $7.00 a copy these nice two-hand-hold disc wheel, but at this pany are accurately replicated. Each decal set trailers are affordable enough to be built in great time it is not offered as a separate detail part. includes conspicuity markings and taillights. numbers. Aside from the landing-gear compro­ Mud flaps are included in the kit and will When modeling specific trailers of any one of mise, this is a velY aCCUl·ate model of a specific suffice quite weB, even though they're a bit on these companies the trailer may or may not prototype, and will serve the needs of model the duck side. As a mle I make my own splash have conspicuity markings, depending on the railroaders and tlUck modelers velY weB. �

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Mailing Schedule Update Dear Randy: Ta rget Actual ] received my September issue the other day and just wanted to October 1996 MRG 11/25 11/25 drop you a line giving you my vote of confidence and to let you know November 1996 MRG 12/20 that I look forward to each and every issue of Model Railroading - December 1996 M RG 1/17 and ] couldn't care less if it arrives later than expected! I have been involved in start-up situations all my life and one thing I leal'ned some 38 years ago, something, somewhere, sometime will screw up the best laid plans. You learn to cope - give it your BN Coal Cars best shot and before you know it everything falls into place. Randy, So PLEASE' - do not change the cover date. Just keep doing David Casdorph's reply to my letter (August 1996 MRG Letters) had what you are doing ... it's just great in my books! me digging through slides and referring to a print another railfan took that Fred D.Y. Kemp day back in Janumy. Ye s, one of the car sets was from the group that is still Irricana, Alberta, Canada drawbarred according to David. But one of the others, the 53354 1 -533545 set must be from the original group. So, I can only infer that not all of the Santa Fe C44-9W original sets had been split up by the beginning of this year. SalTY Dave. To the Editor, Perhaps what led to the confusion is that the BN fleet was the only fleet Just a note of congratulations. I have been enjoying the magazine not delineated by car numbers in the entire Fleet summaries. All the other for the last couple of years and am a subscriber. It's nice to realize a owners were listed complete with car numbers! The BN listing lightly dream. Model Railroadillg has rapidly become one of my top favorites. touched on some unusual fleet oddities leaving the reader wanting more. [ Just a comment about the review in the August issue on the Kato would be interested to know the car numbers for each of those unusual C44-9W. I can state that the three I have running on my Oklahoma groups. Sub division of the Santa Fe are the finest running of any of my 50+ Another note is that reportedly two train sets of the new BNSF diesels, brass included. I am totally in love with the Kato. The only 668000 series cars are now set up fo r electronic braking. Can anyone problem was trying to install a Dynatrol receiver using the circuit out there give car numbers and where these cars are being tested? board and the DCC plug setup. I finally just removed it completely Robert R. Harmen, DDS on all three units and wired them for the Dynatrol receivers the same Colorado Springs, CO way I have wired all the other Kato diesels I have. There is one error in the review, at least from the ATSF perspective. The review stated. Late Issues "the large (long) grabirons on the nose angle sheets are correct fo r Dear Mr. Lee, CNW. If modeling a unit fo r any other railroad, except UP/ex-CNW. Hope it was okay to e-mail this note to this e-mail address. I like these should be replaced with two separate grabs on each side ..." I the idea of keeping the monthly issues in order. I for one do not mind have several good photos of the ATSF 600 class diesels, and all of the the time table to bring the issues up to date. The time period you nose photos show the grab type as supplied by Kato, not two separate describe is not unreasonable. I also like the balanced reading material, grabs. A good example is the cover photo of Rails Wesl, llie Pacific prototype and model, and although 1 am in N scale, I still benefit from RailNews Annllal 1995 of the 611 and its nose. Again this correction articles in other scales. You are really upgrading this magazine, and I applies to AT SF, I cannot speak for any other road. enjoyed the September issue the most. Robert L. Miller, MMR Irwin "Sonny" Alansky Kansas City, KS Miami, FL (YolI're parlially righl all llie ATSF grabs. ATSF IInils ill Ihe firsl order Mr. Lee, [600-649J were eqllipped willi Iile 101lg. bellI grabs on Ihe angle slopes. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my inquiry about the wliile IInils ill Ihe second order {650-699/ had Iwo separale grabs on September issue. I am sorry to hear of the delay but will anxiously eacli allgle slope. II appears Ihal all C44-9Ws buill lip Iilrollgil April await the delivery. I assume that there will be an explanation and a 1994 (regardless of roadJ IlOd Ihe single long grabs and Ihal unils bllill schedule for fo llowing issues in the upcoming issue. I wish you great from May 1994 all had two pel' allgle slope. The CSX IIllilS were bllill ill success and hope you continue putting on a great magazine. Febl'llary and March 1994 and also had Ihe single long grabs. - Ralldy) Robert Swieder Clarksville, TN Breath of Fresh Air Dear Randy, Dear Randy; I just tripped over your September issue in my local model rail­ You are wrecking your MRG magazine! Please read on. road shop. I don't remember seeing it before so I thought it was The date is Tuesday, October 29, 1 996, 4 PM and still the MRG worth a try. After digesting it I ran back and found that there were Sept 96 issue is not in sight. For all practical purposes you are now three more back issues on the shelf. I bought them all. nearly eight weeks in arrears with your publishing schedule. Your magazine is a fresh breath of air compared to your tired Regardless of one's point of view, there are just no reasonably suf­ competition. I like the individualistic spirit with which you are ficient excuses to justify such horrendous and ever longer delays. I approaching my newly refound hobby and the great detail into which believe good business practice would dictate that an all-out concen­ your articles go. I also like not having to thread my way through trated and visible effort be made to catch up ... pages and pages of dealer advertisements to get to the articles them­ My subscription runs out in Dec 96 and I am son'y to say that regm'd­ selves, although [ am not so sure you are happy over the idea of not less of the high standards and quality of your articles, I will not continue having all that advertising income. to subscribe until such time as MRG is again issued on time, i.e., each r am willing to pay more for the subscriptions to not have all that issue's cover month is received during the first week of the same month. potenlial waste paper. So, I am enclosing my check fo r my first year's I believe this is just the incentive needed to get your priorities right ... re lationship with you. I look forward to many more. G. M. Kanz Gilbert Marcus 1. Rooseveltown, NY Parma, OH

22 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 THE SOCIETY PAGE

Supportyo ur historical society - join today These are the active prototype historical societies of which we are aware.

Akron, Canton & Youngstown RR Historical Society Grand Trunk Western Historical Society T Annual Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc. T Annual Dues: T Annual Dues: $18, Quarterty pubtication AC. & Y H.S. Dues: US $12/Canadian $1510verseas $20/Sustaining $20. $18 includes quarterly Pere Marquette Rails and bimonthly News P.Q. Box 196, Sharon Center, QH 44274-0096. Quarterly newsletter, Semaphore. GTWSH, P.O. Box 611, newsletters. PO. Box 422, Grand Haven, M1 49417. American Truck Historical Society T Annuat Dues: Keego Harbor, MI 48320· 1 205. Pittsburgh, Shawmut & Northern Railroad Historical $25, Bimonthty magazine. P.Q. Box 53 1168, Birmingham, AL Great Northern Railway Historical Society T Annual Society T RD 1, Box 361, Alfred Station, NY 14803. 35253, (205) 870-0566. Dues: US $201$40 susl., others contact GNRHS, 1781 Grif­ Newsletter. fith, Berkley, MI 48072- 1222. Ann Arbor Railroad Technical & Hist. Assoc. T (atso PRR T (Philadelphia Chapter, PRR T & HS), Box 663, Wayne, covers Michigan Northern and Tuscota & Saginaw Bay). P.Q. Gulf Mobile & Ohio T Annual Dues $18.50. GM&Q Hisl. PA 1 9087-0663 . Annual dues of $15 includes quarterly mag­ Box 51. Chesaning. Mt 48616. Newsletter, $10. Soc., Inc., P.O. Box 2457, Joliet, IL 60434-2457 azine, The High Line. T (Central of Anthracite Railroads Historical Society H.J. Heinz Special Interest Group T cia Bill Dippert, Rail-Marine Information Group T Covers all railroad car­ New Jersey, Lackawanna. Lehigh & Hudson River, Lehigh & 2650 NW Robinia Ln., Depl. MRG, Portland, OR 97229-4037. ferries, carfloats, tugs, freight terminals and marine freight New England, Lehigh Valley). Annual Dues: $20, newsletter, Quarterly magazine, $15 per year ($6 to NMRA members). operations. Quarterly newsletter. Annual dues: $20. John P. Q. Box 519, Lansdale, IA 19446-05t9. Illinois Central Historical Society T Annual Dues: Reg­ Te ichmoeller, 12107 MI. Albert Rd .. 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BC Rail Historical Technical Society T Annual Dues: newsletter, $15. & Railway Locomotive Historical Society T Annual $20, quarterly magazine Cariboo, BCRH&TS, #187 25852 Kansas City Southern Historical Society T P.O. Box & Dues: $15. Railway & Locomotive cia H. Arnold Wilder, McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355. 5332, Shreveport, LA 71135-5332. Monthly newsletter, semi­ Treas .. 46 Lowell Rd., Westford, MA 01886. Boston Maine T Annual Dues: $25 US/$30 Canadian. annual magazine and free admission to convention and & T Annual Dues: $25. RCT & HS, cia Robert L. B&MRRHS, Inc. cia Membership Secretary, P.O. Box 2936, swap meets. $ 1 5. Reading Danner, P.O. Box 5143, Reading, PA 19612. Middlesex Essex, GMF Woburn, MA 01888-9998. Katy Railroad Historical Society T (also covers Mis­ T P.O. Box 314, Parker . Bridge Line Historical Society T Annual Dues: $15 reg./ souri Kansas & Te xas Railroad). 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Suite #5, New Lenox, IL 60451. 24422. susl. Foreign - send for current rate 719 Northland Avenue. Sierra Railway Historical Society (includes Sugar Chicago Burlington Quincy T Annual Dues: $201$40 Stillwater, MN 55082. Quarterly magazine. & T Annual Dues: susl. Burlington Route Hisl. Soc .. P. O. Box 456, LaGrange, IL Missouri Arkansas Railroad Museum T (also Pine, Pickering and West Side) & $25, quarterly magazine (free sample). P.O. Box 1001, 60525. covers Missouri & North Arkansas, Arkansas & Ozarks, and Jamestown, CA 95327. Chicago & Eastern Illinois T Annual Dues: $15/$25 susl. others), P.O. Box 44, Beaver, AR 72613. Magazine, $10. C&EI Hisl. Soc., cia Membership Chairman, P.Q. Box 606, Missouri Pacific (Includes Texas & Pacific) T Annual Society of Freight Car Historians T cia David G. Cas­ Crestwood, IL 60445. Dues: $201$30 susl./$25 foreign/$10 studenl. Missouri dorph, PO. Box 2480, Monrovia, CA 91017. Magazine (Freight Cars Journal), $25.75 for 4 issues (NOT per year). Chicago & Illinois Midland Technical and Historical Pacific His!. Soc .. P.O. Box 187, Addis, LA 70710. Society T Annual Dues: $20/Susl. $40. Newsletter 4 times Monon T Annual Dues: $201$25 susl. Three videos for sale Soo Line T Annual Dues: $201$30 contr. The Soo Line Hisl. & per year. Attn: Shane Mason, Membership Chairman, P.O. and annual car kit projects available. Monon RR Hisl. & Tech. Tech. Soc .. cia Michael Harrington, Treas .. 3410 Kasten CI., Box 3882, Springfield, IL 62708-3882 Soc. Inc .. cia Membership Chairman, P.O. Box 5303. Middleton, WI 53562. Chicago & NorthWestern T Annual Dues: $19/$38 susl./ Lafayette, IN 47903-5303. Southern Pacific T Annual Dues: $12.501$ 18.75 sust.! $21 .50 family of 21$40 overseas. C&NW Hisl. Soc., Lou National Model Railroad Association T Annual Dues: foreign. SP Hisl. & Tech. Soc., PO. Box 93697, Pasadena, Hamilton, Membership Chairman, P.O. Box 1436. Elmhursl. $30. NMRA Bulletin is published monthly. National Model CA 91 109-3697. 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Box 122, Wallingford, CT 06492. & Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society T Annual Dues: eign $20, susl. SPSRHS, cia Duane Cramer, 2618 NW 113th $20/lifetime membership $200. Bill McCaskill, membership New York Central System Historical Society T Annual SI., Vancouver, WA 98685. chairman, P. O. Box 2044, Pine Bluff, AR 71613. (501)541-1819. Dues: $201$30 contr./$50 susl.: $25 Canada, Mexicol $30 overseas (includes quarterly magazine). P.O. Box 24817, Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Historial East Broad Top T (Friends of the ..), cia Rulh H. Keller, and Technical Society, Inc. T Annual Dues: US RD. #1 Box 966, Three Springs, PA 17264. Quarterly maga­ Lyndhurst, OH 44124-0817. $201$35 susl./S100 contr.{$250 life. cia Larry Thomas. P.O. zine, $20. T Newsletter New York Connecting Railroad Society Box 1688, SI. Louis, MO 63188. East Tennessee Western North Carolina T Annual $10, P.O. Box 1412, Falls Church, VA 22041-04 12. & Tidewater Southern Historical Society T Annual Dues: $10. ET&WNC Railroad Hisl. Soc., cia John R. Waite, Nickel Plate Road T Annual Dues: $15. NPRHTS, P.O. Box Dues: $15 (includes biannual neWSletter). Tidewater 604 North Eleventh Street, De Soto, MO 63020. Newsletter. 38 1, New Haven, IN 46774-0381. Southern Ry. Hisl. Soc .. cia Benjamin Cantu, Jr .. P.O. Box Erie Lackawanna T Annual Dues: $20. Erie Lackawanna Norfolk & Western Historical Society T (Also covers 882, Manteca, CA 95336. Hisl. Soc., cia Dave Olesen, 116 Ketcham Road, Hacketts· VGN) Annual Dues include bi-monthly newsletter: $20/USA, Annual Dues: $121$ 15 conlr. town, NJ 07840. Canada, Mexico: $35/Sustaining: $35/Foreign, (payable in Toledo Peoria & Western T TP&W Hisl. Soc., 615 Bullock SI., Eureka, IL 61530. The Feather River Rail Society T Membership levels US funds). 2328 Orange Ave .. NE, Roanoke, VA 24012. ranging tram $15 to $300. For information contact Harry D. Northern Pacific Railway T Annual Dues: $20 regular, Union Pacific T Annual Dues: US $201$35 susl., Canada "Hap" Manit, cia The Feather River Rail Society, P.O. Box $15 NP veteran. Norm Snow, 13044 871h Place. N.E .. Kirk­ $25/$40 susl., Inll $35/$60 susl. 4 issues of The Streamliner 608, Portola, CA 96122. land, WA 98034. UPHS, cia Membership Secretary, PO. Box 4006, Cheyenne, WY 82003-4006. Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville RR T Annual Dues: Ontario & Western T Annual Dues: $21.50 including NRHS $6, newsletter. Walt Danylak, 115 Upland Road, Syracuse, $12.50 subscription. Onl. & Western RY Hisl. Soc. Inc .. Box Wabash T Annual Dues: $201$25 contr. Wabash RR Hisl. NY 13207-1119. 713, Middletown, NY 10940. SOc.. cia James Holmes, Secretary, 813 Ayers SI., Bolingbrook, Frisco Modelers' Information Group T Annual Dues: Pennsylvania RailroadTechnical & Historical T Annual IL 60440. http://www.users.aol.com/wabashrr/w abash.html $6. Frisco Modelers' Information Group, cia Douglas Dues: $30, includes quarterly magazine, The Keystone. PRR Western Maryland T Annual Dues: $201$25 outside the Hughes, 1212 Finneans Run, Arnold. MD 21012-1876. Te ch. & Hisl. Soc .. Inc., Box 389, Upper Darby, PA 19082. US. WMRHS Inc.. P.O. Box 395, Union Bridge, MD 21791. * Indicates new information.

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 23 L DETAIL SE-UP

Southern Pacific (SP) GP35

HO Scale Models by Athearn, Bachmann PlusI'M, Kato and Rail Po wer Products N Scale Model by Kato

by Rich Picariello

Photos by the author unless otherwise indicated

he Prototype GP35: The 2,500-hp GP35 was firstbuilt by Electro-Motive TDivision (EMD) in 1963. At the end of produc­ tion in 1966, 1,333 had been delivered. The GP35 set the shape of future EMD locomotives with its cab-height long hood, large single ex­ haust stack and a slant-roof cab. Blomberg trucks were standard, but some GP35s rode on trade-in ALCo AAR-type trucks. Southern Pacific once rostered over 180 of the EMD GP35 model. In later years, many were rebuilt, becoming SP model variants GP35E, GP35R and GP35D. GP35s could be lettered for either SP or Cotton Belt, all sharing a common number­ ing system. Some GP35s were never rebuilt during their service lives. A recent SP roster shows only a few remaining. The Scale Model GP35: Three HO scale Bachmann Plus™ GP35 models are almost N scale that might still be found at some GP35 models are currently available from ready-to-run with only the handrails and hobby stores. Athearn, Bachmann Plus™ and Rail Power couplers needing to be added to complete Paint and Decal Notes: SP diesels are Products (RPP). The fourth, from Kato the model. The RPP shell comes with some painted overall dark gray with scarlet on the (available in two different phase versions), is separate detail parts but requires most of the long hood end and on the nose. Handrails are a limited-production model with only occa­ detail parts on the list plus an Athearn GP35 painted white at all the step areas as are the sional availability. The Athearn model has underframe, trucks, either an Athearn or a step edges. Kato (HO and N scales) and hoods that are too wide, made to accept their can-motor and drive components. Athearn GP35s are or were available deco­ original wide motor. Both the Athearn and Kato had a limited-availability GP35 for rated for the SP.

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Southern Pacific GP35 Detail Parts for HO Scale: DA2S07 Speed recorder (Delrin) ...... 1.50/4 SE H300 Speed recorder, cone - SP . . . . 1.65/2 1- DW154 Air filter ...... • . . ... l.OO/ea. 43 - DW200 SP-style nose headlight array . . . .. 1.25/ea. 2 - CS420 Air hom (brass). .4.95/ea. 44 - AL29210 Sunshade (photo-etched brass) . . ..2.3 5/6 DA1601 Air born (Delrin)...... •..... 1.7512 DA1301 . . 1.50/6 DW175 Air hom (brass)...... 2.95/ea. Sunshade (plastic) . DWlS8 . .. 1.00/4 0M9004 Air horn (brass)...... 3.20/ea. Sunshade (plastic) . . . PSC39047 . ..2.25/4 3 - DA3203 Air tanks, 15" GP35 (plastic)* .. ..2.25/4 Sunshade (brass) . . 45 - CCll03 • TP44 Air tanks, 15" GP35 (metal)* ...... 1.30/2 Short hood, SI"* ...... 6.95/ea. 46 - AL29235 4 - DAlS02 Antenna, whip (plastic)...... l.00/6 Steps, RPP GP35 (etched see-thru)' .. . ..3.1 5/set 47 - AT42010 0M9055 Antenna, whip (brass)...... 1.60/ea. Truck, Blomberg B, rTont powered*. . . .6.50/ea. AT42020 5- DA2302 Armrest, cab ...... 1.25/S Truck, Blomberg B. rear powered' ...... 6.50/ea. 6 - DA2902 Beacon (plastic) ...... l.50/2 Note: Trucks needed for the RPP GP35 shell only. 48 - CF1l2 DWI06 Beacon (metal) ...... l.OO/ea. Underframe/step light (brass) . . . 2.9512 DWl72 OM9101 Beacon (brass) ...2. S0/ea. Underframe/step light ...... 1.25/8 7 - DA1201 Bell, roof mount ...... 1.50/2 49 - DA2312 Wind dellecLOr, straight (clear plastic) ...... 1.2514 S- RPP512 Body shell only. GP35 w/dynamic brake . . . 14.00/ea. OM9327 Wind denector. straight (brass)...... 2.50/4 9- DWl32 Brake ratchet* . 1.00/ea. UP77 Wind deflector/mirror (brass) . . . 2.0012 PSC39082 Brake ratchet" ...... l.5012 50 - GD WG-1 Window-gasket decals, Cannon EMD cab . . . 3.25/set 10 - DW195 . . 51 - AMB245 Window glass, RPP GP35...... 3. 95/set � e�f �� eilot (oPtionaI fo rAthearn) • . •••• 11 - CC1502 � � � � . �:��;;a. RUN1S63 Window glass, RPP GP35...... 2. 00/set 12 - CC120l Cab sub-base kit, EMD 35 line". . . 6.95/2 52 - AL29200 Windshield wipers (Delrin) ...... 2.95/S 13 - CC1203 Cab sub-base doors, SP...... 2. 95/6 CS419 Windshield wipers (brass)...... 3. 50/4 14 - ASM OI03 Chain, 2S,42, & 56 1pi (etched brass) . 10.00/sheet ME W5 Windshield wipers (brass)...... 2.9S/set DA2210 Chain, blackened...... 2.2511 2" PSC3968 Windshield wipers (plastic) ...... 1.50/4 PSC48237 Chain. . ..2.75110" UP94 Windshield wipers (beryllium copper) ...... 2.00/4 15 - MV300 Classification lenses ...... 2.00/4 UP97 Windshield wipers (pla�tic) ...... 1.5014 16 - DA2211 Coupler lift bar, AAR ...... 2.0 012 OM9151 Coupler lift bar, AAR ...... l.95/2 Detail Parts for N Scale: 17 - OM9171 Door handle (brass). .. l.6712 1- ME NF5 Air filter ...... 2.50 /set PSC3998 Door handle (plastic) ..... l.50/6 2 - DA8204 Air hom. 3-chime ...... •...... 1.25/2 18 - DA1402 Drop step...... 1.50/2 JNJll3 Air hom, 3-chime ...... 3. 50/2 19 - DWI07 Electrical filter box ...... 1.00lset SE N700 Air hom, 3-chime ...... 1.65/ea 20 - DW142 Fan, 36 " pan type" ...... 1.2514 3 - SE N346 Air tanks, GP fuel tank mount ...... 1.8512 PSC3990 Fan, 36" pan type wlopen ribs* ... .2.25/4 5 - DAS215 Armrest, cab ...... 1.25/4 21 - DA2001 Fan, 36" flattop* ...... 2.74/4 6 - SE N301 Beacon, rotary ...... 2.00/ea. 22 - DA2006 . ..7.9 5/3 Fan, 4S" f1at w!blades (plastic)*' .. 7 - SE N350 Bell, roof mount ...... 1.65/2 0M9216 Fan, 48" flat w!blades (brass)" ...... 3. S5/ea. 14 - ASM 0103 Chain, 28, 42 & 56 1pi (etched brass) .....•...... 10.00/sheet 23 - DA3102 Fuel ti ller (plastic) . . . ' ...... • . . . 1.00/set 1' DA2210 Chain, 40 Ipi ...... 2.25112" DW166 ,Fuel tiller (metal) ...... 1.00/4 IS - DA8206 Drop step ...... 1.0012 PSC39080 Fuel filler (plastic) ...... l.50/4 19 - SE N501 Electrical fiJter cabinet. EMD ...... 1.6512 24 - DA3101 Fuel gauge, round, side tank mount ( lastic) . . . 1.0016 p 20 - IN.J104 Fan, 36"* ...... 3.00/2 0M9251 Fuel �auge, round, side tank mount (brass) ...... 1.70/ea. 22 - JNJ105 Fan, 48"*...... 3.00/2 25 - AL29100 Grablrons (fanned wife) ...... 3.25/50 23 - ME NF4 Fuel filler & level gauge ...... 3.35/set DA2202 Grabirons (fonned wire) . . ..2.50 /24 31 - PSC6704 Hose. air line (brass) . . . . 1.50/6 UP54 Grabirons (cast brass) ...... 5.95/12 PSC6705 Hose. air line (plastic) ...... 2 .50/24 26 - DA2217 Grabiron, curved ...... 1.50/3 35 - ASM0101 Lift lugs/eyebolts/u-bolts (etched brass) . . ..S. 29/set 27 - RDP1l8 Handrail set, RPP GP35 .9.95/set 39 - SE N550 ...... 3. 95/4 SV214 Handrail set. RPP GP35 ...... IS.95/set MU hoses 42 · SE N499 28 - DAI024 Headlight, front wlvisors, vert * ...... l.00/2 Speed recorder . . .. 1.65/2 43 - SE N603 29 - DA1007 Headlight, horiz ' ...... 1.0012 Nose light, SP ...... I.S512 44 - DA8201 ...... •...... 30 - MV22 Headlight lenses' ... 1.15/4 Sunshade (plastic) 1.2514 ME NS6 31 - CS227 Hose, air line (brass) ...... 2. 1 5/4 Sunshade (brass) ...... " 2.00/2 SE N310 DA6206 Hose, air line (Delrin) . . . . 1.25/6 Sunshade (metal) . 1.8512 52 - ME NWI 32 - CC1302 Inertial filter, 35 Line" ...... 2.95/4 Windshield wipers ...3. 3314 33 - CC1351 Inertial tilter hatch, early 35 line' ...... 2.9512 34- CC1353 IneI1iai filter hatch. late 35 line*. . ...2.95/2 The fo llowing parts must be fabricated by the modeler: 35 - DA2206 Lift . ...3.00/36 A - Drain pipe - make from wire. rings ...... B 36 - CC1l51 Long hood end, EMD 35 Line* . . ...3. 50/2 - Underframe piping - make from various sizes of wire. 37 - DA1503 MU stand ... 1.25/2 38 - DAI027 MU stand w/ditchlights...... 1.00/2 " Similar parts, either separate or molded on, are included with the listed HO or N scale 39 - CF257 MU hoses, 3-per bracket (brass) ...... 4.95/4 models: replacement of any or all original parts is left to the discretion of the mod­ DAl50S MU hoses. individual (Delrin) ....2.00 116 eler. The HO scale RPP GP35 shell will require the addition of most of the listed OM9350 MU hoses, 3-per bracket (brass)...... 6. 1 0/4 detail parts. 40 - CC1402 Radiator grille. 35 line* . . 3.50/4 41 - DA3001 Sand-tUi hatch, EMD (plastic)" ...... 1.25/6 # DA3 J02 Fuel Tank Fittings (set) contains other parts that may or may not be needed 42 - CF196 Speed recorder (brass) ...... 4.39/4 for this detailing project.

Decals Paints Floquil: 414182 SP Lark Dark Gray HO Scale: AccuFlex: 1100 11 Reefer White 414183 SP Scarlet Champion EH-I 06 16-02 Reefer White 110132 SP Lark Dark Gray Pro Color: Herald King L-600 16-37 SP Scarlet Red 110136 SP Scarlet 103 SP Gray Microscale 87-177 16-40 SP Lark Dark Gray MODELt1ex 104 SP Scarlet Walthers 934-889 10 Accu+Paint: 16-02 Reefer White 412 Flat White N Scale: I Stencil White 16-37 S P Scarlet Red Scalecoat: Microscale 60-177 65 SP Lark Dark Gray 16-40 SP Lark Dark Gray II White 66 SP Scarlet Polly Scale: 28 SP Scarlet 4141 13 Reefer White 29 SP Dark Gray

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26 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 The Cast. the stage.

and. Oh Yes. = the Props by Jim Mansfield The cast is going through its paces. As an SP train (with an UP Dash 8 in the lead) enters To rtilla Flats Ya rd, a JWRR road-local train sits in the clear on the Photo by the author south ladder with the crew on the ground for a roll-by inspection. Even the engineer is out of the cab. With this kind of action, it is easy to see why trains can be considered as actors in a play. " ll the world's a stage ..." With this philosophy, I suppose William ShaAkespeare would have been a superb ers to shift their viewpoint. This shift to the Now, the actor-operator will continue to miniature railroader. A layout is an ultimate Shakespearean school might well cause a talk to the engine, swing off the bottom, Line stage: some are theaters-in-the-round (the shift in the players' operating procedures the bad rail and continue in a similar manner island type of layout) and others are the­ and philosophies. For you see, by definition, for the rest of the play/operating session. aters-ali-around. the props amount to the trains, while the The cast of wee folk can be found not "The play's the thing/Wherein I'll catch cast of characters becomes a guild of quite only as switchmen and engine drivers, but the conscience ..." A play's director must small, rather invisible folk who can be seen also climbing into yard offices, towers and perceive as a whole the entire feeling of the only when they are absolutely still. They do company cars and assuming personalities play and must picture, in his mind's eye, the exist in the minds of the operators of the from trainmaster to cub-switchman. The setting (i.e., stage) to support not only the miniature railroaders who attest to this style actors assuming the roles of trainmaster and play, but also the cast of characters. This of theater. yardmasters must know their lines well to latter element, the cast, is ultimately the A crew which follows this philosophy, set the pace of the play. They must be able to most critical responsibility of the director. when asked to couple up in yard track 3 ad lib as required to get other actors in pace He must decide which personality best fi ts and shove the cut out and down the lead on when a mistake is made. each character and then must find the best the other end of the yard, doesn't enter the The Jersey Western is a personable lay­ actors to fi ll the roles and develop the char­ track with the idea of bumping into the cut out that focuses on the operators being the acters to their fu llest. Closely coupled to the to see if the couplers are centered, checking cast instead of the trains. I mean, can an cast are the supporting props. While neither idiot lights on a panel and starting to shove inanimate object really be considered as a character nor setting, props are media to at speed. Instead, the educated crew eases true cast member? Generally, cast members express personality traits and perhaps sym­ into the track, the switchman checks the have speaking roles. While R2D2 speaks, is bolize some of the characters' reasons for coupler alignment (stops and adjusts the it really a cast member of the Star Wa rs being on stage and in the play. couplers if required), and the engineer then movies? I think not! It is actually a prop, This school of thought yields four ele­ eases the engine into the coupling at like the X-fighter, that helps to set the scenes ments needed to successfully bring the play switching speed (4 mph). The crew then so the cast may perform. This is what the to life. First is the director's interpretation of slacks off to ensure the coupling and then trains do on a layout - they let the cast per­ the script. Each director will handle the play sits while the crewman walks to the bottom form in their various roles. in a different way. The experiences the of the cut. At this time, the crewman checks The only real exception to trains not director takes to the play, be they hands-on the lead turnouts by "reading the points," being cast members is Thomas the Tank or through reading, will influence how the throws any "bad rails" (turnout switch Engine and his friends. Here, engines, cars, play develops. This influence starts from the points in the wrong position) in close prox­ buses and crews are characters with "speak­ time the planning begins until the last actor imity to the bottom of the cut and then sig­ ing" lines. Now, there's a thought: with is finished with curtain calls. nals (hand or radio) to shove. As the cut onboard sound now becoming common, The remaining three elements are listed gets underway at switching speed, the maybe some techie could develop a system as the stage, the props and of course the cast switchman "catches the bottom" and rides that could place headphone (read: radio con­ of players. Each play has diffe rent identities to the next bad rail or to the location where versation on the layout) output to the for these four theatrical elements. In minia­ the cut is to be left. onboard speakers of locomotives. Then the ture railroading, two of the elements are What has transpired is that the operators trains would really show evidence of the cast easy to define. The director's interpretation have taken on the characteristics of some of members. Remember, you heard it here first! defines the methods the trainmaster (stage the cast of characters and are now operating So, you see, to join the Shakespearean manager) uses to keep the play to the script. a miniature railroad. school of miniature railroading, one must The layout, with track, scenery, etc., is natu­ "107 switchman to the engine." read and play the script from the perspective rally the stage. "107 engine." of a railroad worker. At times it is hard to But, alas, the remaining elements of "We are still good for about ten cars 'til a coax the wee folk onto the layout, but when prop and cast, although easy to define in bad rail." one does attract them, all is defined. themselves, may well force model railroad- "Ten cars." Ye s, even the props. .1

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 27 �iNG WI LTHERS SNOWPLOWS by Bob Boudreau Kitbashed Walthers Russell snowplow, modified to appear like a short CP Rail steel plow, in action on author's Fundy Northern dio­ Photos by the author rama. Diesel pushing plow is an Atlas RS11 modified into an RS18; the "snow" is cooking flour.

- anadian National and Canadian similar manner, differing mostly in details. painted red to match the blade. I found Flo­ Pacific have had a large fleet of The completed models are reasonably close quil Signal Red to be a good match for snowplows to keep the country's extensive to their prototypes, but their Russell heritage Walthers' red. Also, the hand rails and grab­ railC- lines open in the seemingly endless win­ shows in several places. The most obvious irons should be yellow. I removed the letter­ ters. Many are nowbeing scrapped as lines difference is that cupolas on the prototype ing on my plow using Solvaset® and cotton are being abandoned all over the country. CN are farther forward, and the roof over the swabs, as the lettering will be on the new has had the greatest variety of plows, with plow is at a higher level. The shape of the wings on the modified plow. models from many manufacturers and some blade is much straighter than the larger ver­ made in their own shops. CP made most of sions too. Unless you are an expert on SHORTENiNI THE IODY their all-steel snow fighters in their Angus plows, these differences will go unnoticed An undecorated model would be best to Shops in Montreal, beginning in 1909. These by most modelers. use, if you can locate one. First, the body CP plows were made in several different ver­ Please note that measurements given in needs to be shortened by Plio" . Measure this sions, including one type without a roof over the text and in the drawings are ones used in distance from the end of the side-wing the plow area, and a double-track model. making my models. Your work methods, tools enclosure forward, then make the cut with a They were all shorter than the familiar Rus­ and abilities may diffe r from mine, so please razor saw. This cut will be just behind the sell-type plows used on many U.S. railroads. use my measurements as starting points for cupola opening. Make the second cut CN also had many of these shorter-style your work. Measure [l rst, cut second! through the body again at the end ofthe plows. For most modelers, the only feasible side-wing enclosure, as shown in Figure 2. way model railroads could have this type THE ep VERSiON File and sand the front and backpieces, trial plow has been to buy expensive brass The CP plow is the simplest to convert, fitting them together until they will meet models, if they could be found. so we will begin with that one. Much of the squarely. The joint across the roof will have conversion work is common to both plows, to be smooth, but the joint along the sides THE 1I0DEloS as will be pointed out as we go along. I will be covered by the wings, so it requires I kitbashed versions of these short plows started with a Walthers model already deco­ less attention. previously, shortening plastic Russell plows rated for CP Rail, with a black body, red Glue the two body parts together with made in England by Tri-Ang 20 or more plow blade and white lettering. I have not liquid cement, firstplacing pieces of styrene years ago. As can be imagined, these older seen any evidence that CP had modern steel on the inside to reinforce the joints and to models are becoming quite scarce, and cut­ Russell plows like this, but modelers don't help keep the pieces properly aligned. Don't ting them up does not seem practical any­ seem to mind. The CP number on the deco­ place these reinforcing pieces too low on the more. I am not sure if they were ever sold in rated model was from a plow the railway sides, as the floor has to fit up inside. Fill in the U.S. Walthers' release of their model used in Ve rmont, and was one number dif­ any gaps in the roof area with plastic putty Russell plow has now made such conver­ ferent than a local short CP plow. If you and sand smooth when dry. Use care when sions more practical. I made models of CN intend to keep a fu ll-sized version in CP col­ sanding, so as not to remove any cast-on and CP short plows, which can be made in a ors, the end wall and cupola ends should be rivet details.

28 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 CN IND CP �� SHaRTiES��

Kitbashed Canadian National steel snowplow in action on the author's Fundy Northern diorama. CN RS18 pushing plow is a modified Atlas RS11.

Cut the 13/16" piece out of the floor, after measuring the interior length first. The filing and fitting of the body pieces together may have altered the interior distance. Glue the floor pieces together, reinforcing the joint with a piece of styrene. The supplied weight will have to be shortened as well; I used a cutoff wheel in a motor tool. It can then be glued in place on the new floor with contact cement.

filE PbOW HOOf Prototype Canadian Pacific short steel plow 401 017 in Saint John, New The roof over the blade on the CP ver­ Brunswick, May 1995. sion comes to a point, so the Walthers plow roof will have to be cut to match, see Figure fHONf DEf&ibs to fit down between and on each side of the 5. Glue the two kit roof pieces together first, The front tip of the prototype plow has rails. Separate blades with their fronts cut at using liquid cement. To maintain the gap movable ice-cutting or f1anger blades on the an angle should be placed on each side of between the top and the bottom of the roof outer edge. These blades are hinged and are the 'Is "� piece that was not cut out. The proto­ in the cut-out area, I used the razor saw to raised and lowered by air-operated mecha­ type blades are fastened with nuts and bolts cut a space. The walkway will not be used nisms under the plow. To simulate these so they can be adjusted and replaced when on the roof over the plow, so the mounting blades, cut a '//' deep slot out of the front of worn. I cut off I '//' nut/bolt/washer (NBW) holes should be filled with plastic putty and the plow, leaving 'Is" on each side. This will castings from their sprues with a single-edge sanded smooth. Cut off the extension piece allow individual pieces of styrene strips to razor blade for use here. With tweezers they at the upper tip of the plow front and file the be glued in the opening, looking like the can be dipped into a little puddle of liquid cut to match the existing contour. Glue the individual steel ones on the real plow. A cement and applied to the blades. Prototype roof over the plow. piece of styrene strip should be glued along blades have four NBWs each, and the outer The walkway will be used on the roof the bottom of the opening on which the indi­ ones have nine each. I didn't have enough behind the cupola, so it should be cut to fit vidual pieces will be fastened. Cut individ­ interest to try to duplicate this, so I applied the newly shortened roof. The hole in the ual blades from 2" x 12" styrene strip, and six NBWs on the outer ones and two on the roof for the stack should be filled with plas­ file the front of each to a chisel point. others. The choice is yours. When cutting tic putty. To prevent the putty from oozing Temporarily install the floor with trucks off the NBWs from their sprues, cut off out of the bottom, the hole should be cov­ and place the plow on a piece of track so more than you will need, as they have a ten­ ered with a piece of styrene on the inside. you can locate where the shorter blades can dency to fly out of the tweezers while trying Sand smooth when dry. be placed, as the blade assembly is supposed to place them. I use a lamp with a built-in

NOVEM BER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 29 Making closely spaced rivets in a thin styrene strip will cause it to curl up, causing problems trying to handle it. I found the best way to make these riveted strips was to do the rivets away from the edge of the sheet styrene, and then cut out the strips when done. The hinges and bottom strips can be fastened to the wings with liquid cement. Hinge pins can be made with little pieces of plastic rod. I used these pins on the CN model, but not on the CP version. When fastening the hinges to the body, first scrape off the cast-on rivets where they will be attached. Note the wings have an extension at the back, and the bottom rivet strip extends to the extension. CP wings have a red indicator bar that extends above the roof line from the upper rear corner. I assume this allows the Rear three-quarter view of prototype CP plow. plow operators to see exactly which position the wings are in when the plow is in use. Previous attempts to make this indicator bar with small styrene strips were not too suc­ cessful, as they would break off with the slightest touch when handling the plow. On this model, I glued a piece of brass wire to the back of the plow, making a very sturdy indicator bar.

The cupola roof received angled hand rails at all four corners made from brass wire. A set of air horns can be placed on the left side of the roof, and a styrene shield placed in front of the horns. Such a shield keeps the snow out of the horns. Thecenter of the roof gets an antenna. The lights on the CP plow I modeled were a challenge to scale down, as they appear to be just a pair of sealed beam lamps held up by some metal conduit pipe. I solved this problem by gluing short pieces of brass wire to the back of MY lenses, using CA. A square of styrene was Canadian National short steel plow 55198 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Feb­ glued on to the front part of the roof, with ruary 1992. two holes drilled in the front edge to accept the brass wire. The lights were glued in magnifying glass to help me keep track of simplify matters, I did not bother to make place after the model was painted, and the what I'm doing with the minuscule NBWs. the wings operational on my plows, but brass wire and back of the lenses brush­ All snowplows require front couplers so please feel free to devise a method of your painted black. they can be handled when in railroad yards. own to make them swing. As can be seen, Don't glue the cupola into its opening, as I scratchbuilt the mount on my CP plow there are many rivets on the wings and their it has to be painted inside and out before the from pieces of strip styrene and a dummy hinges. J am fortunate to have a NWSL glazing is installed. In fact, on my models plastic coupler, using prototype photos as a Rivet To ol to make my rivets, given to me the cupolas fitted in rather tightly, requiring guide. Overland Models offers a brass cou­ many years ago by Nelson Timken of Roller no glue at all. pler mount made specially fo r the Walthers Bearing Models. Thanks Nelson' Russell plow, a fact I found out after I made In my earlier conversions of Tri-Ang my own. It is intended for a plow without plows, I used a not-so-sharp push pin to make An angled grabiron can be placed on the ice cutters, but it can still be used, as my rivet impressions, a method that also the roof walk, just above the side ladder. A shown on the CN version described later. works well. Just remember to draw guidelines new caboose stack should be installed at For the front brake hose, I cut a small first, and impress the rivets on the BACK side the extreme back end of the roof, opposite square access hole to the left of the coupler of each wing (a voice of experience speak­ the side walkway. A brass-wire handrail and simulated the door with a small square ing!). Rivets should be 6" scale apart. If you runs from the back of the roof to the of styrene. The actual hose was made from a push a little bit too hard and the point breaks cupola, with a support midway and one piece of small-diameter solder, with a con­ through the other side, the hole can be rubbed next to the stack. Install the cupola and nector glued on the end. It was painted down and closed without showing. drill a hole for the end of the handrail and Grimy Black and glued on later. The riveted hinges and the reinforcing place the wire in the hole after the model is strip along the bottom of the wings can be completed. made in the same way, making the rivets on CP plows have their brake wheel I made new wings out of .0 I 0 sheet the back side. The hinges were made in a located on the end, near the roof. I sal­ styrene, as per dimensions in Figure 3. To single strip, then cut to required lengths. vaged a freight-car brake wheel, stand and

30 ... MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 brake rod from my spares box and glued it in place. While working in the area two wire grabirons can be placed on the rear Manufacturer Part No. Description sill. I chose not to remove the cast-on hand rails, grabirons and ladders because doing Walthers 932-5750 Russell snowplow kit (undecorated) so could damage many of the cast-on riv­ Juneco C3 Caboose smoke stack, or ets. I also left on the stirrup steps, but they Trackside Parts 192 Smoke jack could be replaced with fi ner plastic details. Detail Associates 1003 Dual Pyle headlight The choice is yours. The last detail for the 1803 Antenna back is a DA air hose, set into a hole 2505 Brass wire dri lled next to the coupler. The actual air Grandt Line 5066 1'//' NBW castings hose was not installed until the model was Evergreen Styrene Various thicknesses of sheet styrene, strips, clear painted. sheets and plastic rod. Kadee® #5 Couplers Overland Models Inc. 2270 Coupler assembly for Walthers Russell snowplow Since my model was already painted MV Products LS22 Lenses black and red, my painting needs were dif­ Custom Finishing RSL-3L Three-chime air horns ferent. If you use an undecorated model, it Microscale 87-567 CN Diesel Locos (for CN plow) will probably be easier. Wash the model in C-D-S 18 CP caboose dry transfers warm water and a little dishwashing soap, Walthers D690 FRA Lube Plates rinse and let it air dry. The model should be primed, and any imperfections fixed and re­ primed; I prefer to use Floquil Foundation as a primer, but any suitable primer will do. Paint the plow blade, end of the body, the front and back of the cupola Floquil Signal Red. After this has been allowed to dry for a suitable length of time, mask off the red and paint the rest of the plow a glossy black. I used AccuFlex Hi Gloss Black. The horn snow deflector and wing indicator bars can be brush-painted red. The roof grabirons, the cast-on grabirons and handrails, the top of the stack, and the stir­ rup steps can be brush-primed and later painted Floquil Railbox Ye llow. The rear trucks, couplers and the front ice cutters can be lightly brush-painted Floquil Rust to simulate use. C-D-S dry transfers were used to add the lettering and number on the wings, as well as the number on the back. CP has the word "Service" below the railroad name, but I haven't been able to find this word in a suit­ able size yet. There should be a stencil-type letter "R" below the plow number. I used a Walthers plow with center piece cut out and removed. Both CP and CN models letter from the decal scrap box, and marked are modified in the same way. out part of it with a fine marker pen to simu­ late this type of lettering. A lube stencil against the previously installed end strips. decal can be placed on the side of the plow The shortening of the Russell plow is the These will form the outer edges of the blade, completing the lettering. same as in the CP version, as is the front ice wings. To make the molded pieces, cut strips The interior of the prototype plows, cutters, roof handrails, stack and handrail of .005 sheet styrene to the shapes in the including the cupola ,is painted a pale between it and the cupola. The roof over the drawing, and glue them on with liquid green. While I didn't paint the plow inte­ plow does not have to be changed from the cement. They can be curved with a finger rior, I did brush-paint the interior of the stock one, and the walkway can be installed after they have been glued to obtain the cupola, including the side walls and floors. on it. streamlined shape. Glue the top and bottom

The seats were brush-painted Floquil Roof Th e Side Wings - The major difference pieces on first, then the end piece, fi tting it Brown and installed later. I sprayed the in the CN plow is the larger wings, see Fig­ in properly before gluing. Don't use too entire plow with some AccuFlex Satin Fin­ ure 6. The basic wings can be cut from .0 I 0 much liquid cement, as this very thin styrene ish to seal the dry transfers and dull down styrene, with the rivets added from the back can be easily distorted. Also, glue seeping the gloss black. When the interior paint is as on the CP model. To achieve the molded out around the edges can be picked up by well dried, I cut and installed clear styrene shape of the wings, a piece of scale 2" x 8" your fingers as you smooth down the pieces. on the interior cupola windows and the strip of styrene must be glued on edge to the The wings can be glued on with the hinges three windows in the body. The floor can back end of the wing. Cut pieces of the same as on the CP plow. I did not make mine now be glued into the body. A Kadee® #5 strip about three quarters the length of the operational on this plow either. coupler will fit into the coupler box with top and bottom of the wings. These pieces Details - The rear window should be the cover glued on. The previously made should be cut or fi led from one cornerto the fi lled in with some sheet styrene. Glue a headlights can be glued onto the piece of opposite corner, making a long wedge­ piece on the i nside to cover the opening, styrene on the roof. This completes the CP shaped piece. These can now be glued onto then cut and fit a piece to fi ll the window version of a short plow. the wings, with the largest ends butting up area. The prototype window was also filled

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING ..... 31 Completed CN plow, side view.

Model CN plow with body shortened and front ice cutters added. Note hole in roof for original smoke stack has been filled, and the new stack has been temporarily installed.

Completed CN plow, three-quarter rear view.

CN plow with new wings under construction. Wing on the right has hinges installed, less the plastic rod hinge pins.

in, so the edges do not have to be filled with ters. The supports for plastic putty to conceal the seams. The CN the coupler can be plow I modeled has its brake wheel mounted glued to the ice cutters. at the end of the roof; I got one from my CN plows have exte­ spares box, mounted it on a piece of brass rior mechanisms to lift wire and set it into a hole drilled near the the ice cutters, so these edge of the roof. To simulate the brake rod supports will resemble going to the bottom of the car, another piece them. A hole for the of brass wire was glued to the side of the brake hose and the body under the brake wheel. hose itself can be mod­ Close-up of completed CN plow, showing Overland Models Many current CN plows have had the eled as in the CP plow. brass coupler and mount, ice breakers and wing details. front of the cupola modified to be at an Finishing - The angle to allow snow to keep on flowing over CN plow is easier to the top (see prototype photo). I chose not to paint than the CP version, as it is one color. CP model. To obtain this pale green, I added do this modification on this model, as I have After priming, I airbrushed Pro Color's a drop or two of green paint to some white. already done it on one of my earlier conver­ CN/GT Orange over all of the model. This After the decals have been applied, the sions. Hand rails can be made for the roof acrylic paint goes on smoothly and dries overall model can be given a coat of clear similar to the CP ones. A three-chime horn quickly to a nice glossy fi nish, ready for satin acrylic fi nish to protect the decals. can be glued in the center of the roof. Some decals. It is somewhat a darker orange than Install the window glazing in the cupola CN models have the horns pointing to the the Accu+paint or Floquil CN Orange I and doors, add the MY lenses in the head­ sides to keep out the snow, but the prototype normally use, but prototype colors vary light and install coupler and trucks. The I modeled had them facing front, which T with age too. stack, roof railings and stirrup steps can be followed. The CN logo came from a Microscale brush-painted black, with the grabirons The headlight is easier in this version ; diesel set, as did the numbers. The plow and handrails on sides and ends painted a Details Associates' Dual Pyle casting number should have a "CN" in front of it white. The couplers, trucks and NBW cast­ was fastened to a piece of strip styrene and an "R" after it; I pieced mine from dry­ ings on the ice cutters can be touched up which moved it away from the front of the transfer sets from my scrap box. There is a with some rust. windows. "Danger" legend and a warning not to get That completes two distinctive Canadian As mentioned previously, the front coupler behind the wing stenciled in front of the snowplows for your layout. Join me in the and mount on the CN model is a brass casting wing, but I was not able to duplicate this let­ next issue when I convert yet another by Overland Models. It requires a hole to be tering. A lube stencil goes on below the Walthers Russell snowplow to a double­ cut at the base of the plow "Y"; it can be fas­ plow numbers, with various stencil legends track CN version like used by many other tened with CA. This casting is actually made as shown in the photos. The interior of the railroads in North America. Keep those rails for a Russell plow without the front ice cut- cupola can be painted a pale green as in the clear! �

32 .... MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 Horns mounted sideways (Optional) / / Antenna Dual Pyle � Lights -JLUL

D D Fig. 4 - CN Cupola Details

30' - 0"

I� Fig. 1 - Standard CP Rail Steel Plow

Fill in smoke stack hole : �

Cut & Remove 8' - 9" D Remo/ve (1 - 3/16") Extension D ' From body & frame D ---I f-- 3/16" D D 0 0 Fig. 5 - 9" Roof modification 40' � for CP Plow I� Fig. 2 - Walthers Russell Plow, less wing I

Snow deflector \ / Horns Smoke sta ck - Handrail 2 Lights -

No walkway on front, fill in hOle ���F==I1====n� Brake � II Wheel /

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- 6" 8' 30 32' - 0" I 4 I = 6 \-=Fig. 3 - Shortened Wa lthers Plow, for CP and CN I Fig. Wing for CN Plow

KITBASHING CP AND CN STEEL PLOWS o 2 4 6 8 10 Drawings by Bob Boudreau I I I I I I I I [ I I SCALE

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 33 'lEI HT· e ROLOGY

NW 38285. This short 40' 70-ton triple hopper gave way to the modern 100-ton coal hoppers introduced on the N&W in 1960. Princeton, WV; August 1985.

, NORFOLK SOUTHERN S • F r e I 9 h t Car Fiee t Part 2 N & W' s Modern Coa I Car Evolution

by David G. Casdorph

Photos courtesy Freight Cars Journal

The 2868 Period side length (also called coupled length) 34 18s by removing the offset ends and adding &W's coal-car fleet has gone through which showed in the Registers as 48' 9" extended-height sections to the carbody. a number of changes since the early (though actually it's 48' 8'/'''). N'60s. Modern N&W coal-car evolution The 3420 Period starts with the class HII which were built The 3418 Period A slight revision in stenciled cubic-foot beginning in 1960 at the Roanoke Shops. In 1963 the N&W saw the introduction of capacity began in 1967 with the H IICs each These came out of the previous five-year the square-end coal hoppers, replacing the off­ having a 3,420 cubic-foot capacity. Dimen­ building period when 8,000 70-ton set-end designs in new production. The 12' 3" sions re mained the same as the previolls (167,000 lb. load limit) triple-hopper coal height of the offset-end hoppers was measlired H I I A and H I I B classes. From 1967 to 1972 cars were brought into service (Class HI0). from top-of-the rai I to the height of the offset the Roanoke Shops produced 10,069 coal The H IIs introduced the new 100-ton end on the 1960-' 63 H I I s. The sides on the hoppers of the 3420 design. capacity (20 I ,000 lb. load limit) to the H IIs however were only II' 0" high. The new fleet. The new HIls were a full eight feet square-ended H IIAs had a fu ll end and side The 3570 Period longer (total 48' 8" OL) and featured 13 height of 12' 3 ". This new height increased the The last of new Roanoke-built hoppers for outside posts versus the previous nine-post cubic-foot capacity to 3,418. For the next five the N&W occurred with the H 12 class cars. arrangement. The height and the width years 12,200 class H I I A and H I I B coal hop­ This class retained the height and width remained relatively unchanged from the pers of the 34 18 design rolled out of the dimensions of the previous H I I A through earlier 70-ton cars. During 1960-'61 , just Roanoke Shops. H I I E classes, but increased the outside length under 2,000 cars were built (1,968). In the In addition to the new-built 34 18 design (and respective inside length) by I' 4". The next two years 4,532 cars were produced. cars, the Roanoke Shops converted most of new cars with a coupled length of 50' O'/''' Later cars had a half-inch increase in out- the original 2868 design class H IIs into (read 50' I ") increased the cubic-foot capacity

34 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 'i\� NW 230081 was originally a 2868 design. The bodies were later modified as seen here by removing the peaked (offset) ends and adding extensions to bring the height to a full 12' 3". Princeton, WV; August 1985.

to 3,570. Only 3,833 cars of this design were built between 1974 and 1979.

The Re-bodied Hopper Period In 1988, the N&W began a program that would eventually replace the bodies on most of the surviving Hil through HIIE class cars . The original 48' 8" frames (48' 8'/, " cars showing as 48' 9" in Registers) were refurbished and retained. New bodies were installed on the refur­ bished frames. The new bodies had a new 3,480 cubic-foot capacity and only ten posts (compared to the 13-post bodies of the previous cars).

The 3600 Period NW 5574. The H11As and H11Bs were the first of the 3418 design. They lacked The last new hoppers were delivered to the peaked ends of the H11 class, but had the full 12' 3" height all around. the Norfolk & Western during 1989-'90 by Princeton, WV; August 1985. Trinity Industries. These were built essen­ tially to H 12 specifications (50' I" OL, but with a 12' 4" height) and yielded a 3,600 cubic-foot capacity. A total of 2,450 cars were delivered.

The Gondola Period Two new designs of gondola cars for coal transportation came in 1991-'92. Both were of a bathtub design with aluminum bodies. Trinity Industries delivered 257 cars in 1991 as class G83. This class fea­ tured the centered double-sloping bathtub of Trinity's AluminatOI'® design. The other aluminum-bodied bathtub car delivered was the Johnstown America level twin-tub design (the Coalporter®). Both cars feature 3,950 cubic-foot capacity bodies NS 29592. Just after the official merger, the NS began replacing hopper bodies mounted on 51'0" frames. with gondola bodies in 1991. This car was one of the former H11A-H11E classes. At the same time the newly formed The bodies are steel - though painted gray with black lettering. Birmingham, Norfolk Southern began another re-body AL; May 1995. program. This time taking the frames

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING ..... 35 from the various former H II (et. al.) classes and the H12 class and adding new steel gondola bodies. The 48' 9" (remember, actually 48' 8'/''') frame, for­ mer Hll classes were fitted with 10-post gondola bodies that yielded a 3,725 cubic-foot capacity. The 50' 1" frame, former H 12 class hoppers were fi tted with new gondola bodies that yielded a 3,850 cubic-foot capacity. By 1996, .' nearly 15,250 former hopper cars had been re-bodied.

Modeling the Modern N&W Coal Fleet in HO Scale Bowser's new triple-hopper model can be used as a stand-in for the H IIA through HllE classes and the Hl2 class. These were NS 337026. Class HS54. Not a former N&W coal hopper. This former Union the most prominent coal cars until the late­ , Pacific car was actually classed as a Southern car. I've shown it here to illustrate 80s re-body program began. All of these similarities and contrasts with N&W's designs. had 13-post bodies. The re-bodies have 10- post bodies. The models will not work if you're modeling the '90s era N&W/NS because of the change in body styles. E&C or Walthers recent Bethlehem/John­ stown America bathtub gondolas can be used for the Aluminum 087 class (33 1 cars). Unless you're modeling the unit trains that use the Johnstown bathtub cars one cannot accurately represent the '90s NS/for­ mer N&W coal trains. Of the former N&W hoppers most remaining cars seen in service have either been re-bodied with 10-post gondola or 10-post hopper bodies. Only the 1989-'90 Trinity H49 and H50 classes are common enough to use (again, the new Bowser is a stand-in). However, the 10-post cars are so common that a proper mixture could not be achieved. Therefore, N&W coal-train modelers can NW 4683. Class H11 BR. Re-bodied in February 1991. This is the standard re-bodied most accurately represent the mid-' 60s to 3,480 cubic-foot, 10-post hopper presently being used on the NS today. early-'80s period. �

NW 10838. Class H11BR. Re-bodied May 1989. April 1996; Kenova WV.

36 ... MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

Train Engineer Deluxe - Will It Be Under Yo ur Christmas Tree?

by Larry Puckett

re you still sweating over what to give the weather (clear or stormy), horizon the railfan or model railroader on your scenery (hills, forest, desert cliffs, city), ter­ AChristmas list? How about a computer program rain (grass, sand, snow, pavement), time of to keep them from getting stale over these cold day (day, night, 24-hour cycle), collisions winter months. One to consider is Train Engi­ (crash, ghost, stop, reverse), number of trains neer Deluxe from Abracadata. It's been a (1-8), animation and manual train placement. couple years since we looked at the original The manual provides a very good description Train Engineer, and a few things have changed of the program and numerous pre-built lay­ in that time. First, the new program comes on a outs are provided as examples and as a way to CD, something which speeds installation and get started right away. operations, and has new graphics. Train Engineer Deluxe runs under Win­ The purpose of Train Engineer Deluxe is dows 3. 1 or Windows 95 on a computer with to provide a game "about the challenge and 8 Mbytes of RAM and 15 Mbytes of hard excitement of being a Train Engineer." The disk space. An EGA/VGA monitor is goal of the game is to complete a schedule strongly recommended and a double-speed Figure 1 - The editor window has all of pickups and deliveries within a 24-hour CD-ROM drive is required. The program is the tools you'll need to design a period. It does not provide a computer simu­ available from some local software dealers layout. lation of the actual processes involved - and mail-order houses. I've seen it priced throwing switches, coupling and uncoupling anywhere from $39.95 to $79.95 so a little cars, and all the other prototype operations shopping around may save you a few bucks. are not part of the game. (Another Abraca­ If all else fails contact Abracadata, PO Box data program, Design Your Own Railroad 2440, Eugene, OR 97402. can provide many of those features). Now for the rating (1-5, 5 is best): There are actually two parts to Train Engi­ User Friendly 4.5 neer Deluxe - creating the layout and a Technical 4.5 schedule, and then running your train in the Application 4.0 game phase. The editor window provides an Value 4.0 array of tools such as track, landscape, water, Documentation 4.5 tunnels, roads and industries that you drag Level 1-5 and drop on the screen. Once the layout is That's all for this session. Until next time, created you create a schedule by assigning stay on the right track and don't run out of each shipper to destinations, selecting the steam. Send your comments, questions, and cargo to be shipped and how much revenue programs to: Larry Puckett, 96 18 Dublin Dr., Figure 2 - Here's the view from the will be generated by the move. Now let's get Manassas, VA 20 I 09. If you want to send me cab of Train Engineer Deluxe. All to the game. email, I've canceled my CompuServe those controls can be activated with a The main window gives you a view of the account and will soon be signing on with click of the mouse. scenery ahead as you zip down the track with another internet provider. Until then, you can your train. When you get to an industry where send me mail at [email protected]. If you you need to make a pickup or delivery all you submit a public domain or shareware pro­ need to do is stop and hit the pickup button gram for review in this column please indi­ - deliveries are made automatically. If you cate whether or not you are willing to get lost or need to find an industry just take a provide copies for interested readers and the look at the radar screen or click on it to pop­ conditions for that exchange. � up a large view of the layout. As you move the mouse cursor around the layout, industry SOFTWA RE PRODUCERS: If you names will appear at the bottom of the screen. would like Model Railroading to review The cab view also has a speedometer, throttle, your software in this column please send brake, horn, whistle, bell, left and right turn the software and any promotional mater­ controls and forward and reverse controls. ial to the above address. Please note that The tum buttons are used to throw switches only fully functional and documented from the cab, and as you go through the software will be covered; demo versions switch a pop-up video of the train appears. are not acceptab le. Any materials Figure 3 - Clicking on the "radar One particularly useful feature in Train received will be considered as gratis, screen" gives you this bird's eye view Engineer Deluxe is the preferences window. unless otherwise specified.Thank you. of the track with the locomotive This window allows you to control things like clearly displayed.

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n the September 1995 issue of MRG we pre­ into the gory detai ls - suffice it to say the EPF Part VII T sented a comprehensive look at the three major includes among other things, support for four-digit Di�gital Command Control (DCC) systems available at addresses and advanced consisting. Although this RP that time. This year we're going to be looking at five was approved in July 1995, the final revisions weren't systems - a couple of brand new ones and our three complete until April of this year, a fact which delayed from last year. Since then manufacturers and devel­ fi nal releases from some manufacturers. Generally, opers have been working overtime to implement the there are two philosophies on implementing new stan­ new NMRA extended-packet format adopted by the dards and practices: 1) wait until things are "carved­ NMRA and, like last year, there are new products in-stone" before releasing a product, and 2) build a from existing manufacturers and new manufacturers product that can be easily upgraded with a replace­ entering the market. But, before we get into the new able chip containing new software. Consequently, stuff, there are a couple of items of old business to most of the new products we're going to be looking at take care of. renect those two approaches, particularly with respect to their release dates. Old Busi ness Conformance testing is required of all DCC equip­ Back in July I showed you how to build a DCC ment before the manufacturer can use the NMRA con­ decoder-controlled sound system. Recently, I decided formance seal. One thing that could get confusing in to build another system and ran into problems while the future is that the NMRA requires that each piece folJowing my own instructions. After tracing through of equipment be re-tested each time revisions are the circuit diagram I found that two connections were made to the software. This is a very logical practice, reversed which is why my TTLl27 kept getting fried! but it sure could get to be a problem when some man­ To correct the problem all you need to do is reverse ufacturers have several conformance warrants for the the F2 and common connections. Since I didn't have same piece of equipment. How is a customer or the any more TlL127s on hand I replaced them with a NMRA going to know whether the item in the box is Radio Shack 275-24 1 micro-relay which is not polar­ version 1.0, 1.2 or 1.5 and which have a conformance ity sensitive. When wiring the relay in place of the seal? To reduce some of the potential confusion, a new TlL127, the F2 and common leads from the decoder page has been added to the DCC section of the are connected to the coil and the other two wires are NMRA home page (www.nmra.org) listing all the connected across the normally open circuit path in the conformance warrants and the versions they apply to relay - the Radio Shack package has a diagram that - so fa r eight pieces of equipment have received con­ shows these connections. I also changed the capacitor formance warrants. Manufacturers are still going to be to a SOY rating and removed resistor R3. Now when I on the honor system to make sure the version in the hit the sound button on the throttle, the relay is acti­ box has passed the tests. Fortunately, all of the manu­ vated, which closes the contacts and turns on the facturers I've dealt with so far are honest enough that r sound chip. I apologize fo r the error in the drawing would trust them with my firstborn or at least my best and hope it didn't create too many problems. brass locomotive! And that's really what this all comes Also in July T reported that Keith Gutierrez had down to - does the product do what it's claimed to, said that he was not developing a DCC system. Much and is it compatible with DCC equipment sold by to my chagrin he showed off a prototype at Long other manufacturers? These are the questions I'm try­ Beach and will soon be authoring a build-it-yourself ing to address in this continuing series. series in Model Railroader magazine. Gutierrez has­ There are a few other terms that we need to be n't provided any advance information on the system aware of with respect to this issue of conformance. capabilities so we'll just have to wait for the Easy­ I've often seen advertising that claims a product is DCC series. compliant with all the NMRA standards and RPs. This doesn't mean that it has passed the conformance New Business tests, only that the manufacturer has designed it to, Two major advances have taken place in the last and he feels that it will be compatible with other DCC by year-and-a-half: 1) new Recommended Practices equipment. Finally, there's the term compatible - (RPs) have been adopted and revised, and 2) the what does it mean? Generally, compliant and compat­ Larry Puckett NMRA has begun conformance testing. The most ible are synonymous - the manufacturer is saying important new NMRA RP covers the Expanded that the equipment will operate with all other DCC Photos by the author Packet Format (EPF) functions. I'm not going to get equipment.

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One thing we also have to be aware of when com­ paring equipment from different manufacturers is the original design. For example a decoder may have advanced functions such as Fo ur-digit address and MU-consisting that cannot be programmed by an entry-level command station. This doesn't mean that either manufacturer blew it, simply that they designed the two systems fo r very different purposes or levels of operation - entry-level systems and equipment aren't necessarily meant to support advanced features. I'll try to point out these differences in the systems and equipment we evaluate in this series. Let's go ahead and begin our look at these new DCC products -just to make things fa ir we're going to go in alpha­ auto-reversing 1 betical order. booster. As with all other Digitrax ....dM. --- Digitrax Chief systems it's up to Digitrax has always had a company philosophy of the purchaser to releasing their products in a logical sequence, particu­ provide a power IDes 1001 • • larly after the applicable standards and RPs are supply. Four-digit COHFIG IlEi adopted. A.1. Ireland doesn't want to go the route of addressing allows PO�£R PROG A RAil A sending out periodic EPROM updates for his systems. you to enter over Instead of having one system capable of being 9,000 difFerent upgraded as the standards and RPs change, he would addresses although rather have several different systems capable of dif­ only 120 can be ferent levels of capability. In spite of this, should operated at one there be a major change in DCC standards, Digitrax time (assuming systems can be updated. you have enough Their first release, the Challenger, debuted as an boosters to power introductory system even before the NMRA had that many). In addition to locomotives, you can con­ adopted the basic standards, however it has received a trol up to 999 switch addresses. Several different con formance warrant. Challenger is considered an types of programming are suppol1ed including service entry-level system that provides very basic control mode, which means you can program locomotives on (direction, speed, lights, acceleration and deceleration a separate track while trains are running on the main­ rates and mid-point voltage). Control for only 16 line. Also, operations-mode programming allows you locomotives is supported in groups of fo ur. Their sec­ to program locomotives on the mainline, however ond system, the Big Boy is an intermediate-level sys­ only advanced decoders support this mode. The tem that offers control of 22 locomotives, 128 speed Chief's programmer can also read as well as write Digitrax's Chal­ steps and user-loadable speed tables. Digitrax just decoder setti ngs. 1 lenger and Big Boy started shipping their latest system, the Chief, which Multiple-unit consisting options include: I) basic systems both use the incorporates the EPF. Among the advanced functions where all decoders in the consist are given the same DB100A smart booster/ supported by the Chief are four-digit addresses, basic, address, and 2) universal where any type of decoder auto-reversing unit. intermediate and advanced consisting, ability to oper­ can be used, even a locomotive without a decoder. The CT4ha nd-held cab ate 120 locomotives, operations-mode programming Advanced consisting is basically a subset of universal on the left is used in and a lot of other fe atures I'll get to later. These conisisting. The big diffe rence here is that with the Challenger system advanced features and capacities make the Chief an advanced mode the consist address is stored in the and the DT200 on the ideal choice for large club-sized layouts. decoder instead of the command station reducing the right goes with the The most important thing about the Chief is that it amount of information the command station must Big Boy. The DT200 is incorporates the Digitrax philosophy of designing keep track of. (I'll cover more of the details of connected to the equipment that allows a user to easily move up from advanced consisting when [ go over decoders.) The DB100A through the entry-level to intermediate, and finally to an advanced Chief also has the ability to generate trinary signals LA-1 interface in the system without making their earlier purchases obso­ used by some European decoders at the same ti me as foreground. lete. In this case most of the components from the the DCC signal. This fe ature was added to provide Challenger can be used with the Big Boy, and then support for current owners of trinary decoders. There's no mistak­ the Big Boy components can be used with the Chief. Digitrax has also added a fast-clock feature to the 2 ing the Chief sys­ For example, the DB 100a boosters used with the Chief. You can control whether or not the Fast clock tem as a Digitrax Challenger and Big Boy will be right at home on a displays and the rate. There are several other options product! There rea lly Chief layout. Also, the DT200 can be converted to a that allow you to customize the system. For example is a strong fa mily re­ DT IOO cab by replacing a chip inside and the plastic you can have the key clicks and beeps on or off, bal­ semblance among all faceplate. The conversion kit will be available later listic or linear tracking, control purge times and set their systems because this winter for about $29 and will be a factory, dealer the default new decoder type. However the most inno­ the same enclosures or user installed option. vative addition is aliasing. Aliasing allows you to are used for all boost­ The basic component of the Chief is the DCS I 00 assign a fo ur-digit address to your old two-digit ers and throttles. which is a combined command station and 5-amp decoders. This means that if you have a decoder

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Digitrax Digitrax Digitrax Lenz MRC Ramtraxx Wangrow Chal lenger Big Boy Chief Digital Plus Command 2000 SystemOne

Max number of cabs 1-4 22 120 30 4 63 63

Number of locosl 16 22 120 99 10 250 250 consists controlled

Max number of 16 128 9,980 99 10 9,999 9,999 loco addresses

MU capabilities 0 22 120 2 0 4-250 4-250

Speed controls 4 pots 2 pots or keypad ? pots or keypad Keypad 3 Sliders Dial or keypad Dial or keypad

Speed steps 14/28 14/28/128 14/28/128 14127/28 14/28 14/28/ 128 14/28/1 28

Functions Lights 5 including 9 including 5 including Lights 9 including 9 including lights, horn, bell lights, horn, bell lights lights, horn & bell lights, horn & bell

Max current 4.5 amps 4.5 amps 5 amps 3.5 amps 2.5 amps 3 & 10 amps 5 & 10 amps

Basic system cost $250 $375 $450 $600 $230 $635 $879

Note: Digitrax and Lenz starter sets include a decoder, Ramtraxx and SystemOne do not.

assigned to address II installed in locomotive 1480 address, including aliases. One reason I was able to you can assign an alias of 1480 to that decoder. In do this is that many operations are similar if not effect it converts your two-digit decoders into four­ identical to the Big Boy, and A.J. and Zana came up digit decoders ! I guarantee that you'll see this option with a neat flow-chart diagram that leads you very soon in several other systems that upgrade their through the various steps required to access all these software with a replaceable EPROM. expanded functions. For new users, Zana has put The other component in the Chief system is the together a very user friendly "Quick Installation DTlOO throttle. Like earlier Digitrax throttles the Guide" that will get you up and running almost as DTlOO has two binary encoders (knobs) for speed fast as I did. My usual caveat is that once you get control and various programming fu nctions. For past the introduction things start to get pretty techni­ example you can browse through all the possible cal, pretty fast. Don't get intimidated by it though; addresses (all 9,980 of them) very quickly using the just hang in there and follow the steps just like Zana encoders in ballistic mode. (Ballistic mode means the wrote them, and you'll be okay. I've also suggested response to the encoder depends on how fast you that they consider printing a set of "cheat sheets" that turn it.) It also allows you to control lights and eight we can take down to the local Kinko's to have dupli­ functions, see switch positions, set up and control cated and laminated - especially the flow chart in The standard Lenz routes. Route selection allows you to preset up to 32 the centerfold of the manual. 3 system consists of sets of switch positions with as many as eight an LZ100 command switches in a route. The advantage of this is that you Lenz Digital Plus station, LV 100 power can dispense with diode matrices to set up switch As you can see from the photograph, the Lenz booster and an LH100 routes. Please remember that for any of the options I LZl OO, LY IOO and LH IOO haven't changed exter­ full-feature cab. All mention that involve controlling switches you'll have nally since last year, but there is something new electrical connections to install stationary decoders and in some cases, inside. Lenz put a lot of work into upgrading their are made on the back feedback modules. software in preparation for NMRA conformance of the Lenz units. All Okay, that covers all the important new options testing - Conformance Warrant 96-8 was granted changes to the Lenz available on the Chief, but how easy is it to do, and to Lenz for the Digital Plus system in November. system are internal. will you be able to figure it out from the manual? Lenz has chosen the route of upgrading their stan­ The answers are "yes" and "yes." When I first got my dard system by periodically releasing replacement hands on a Chief all I had for documentation was a chips to implement new standards and RPs or couple of pages of cryptic notes and a couple flow­ changes in the software. chart diagrams. In spite of the paucity of informa­ In addition to changes to the internal code that tion I was able to get the system up and running improved operations, Lenz added faster direct-mode in just a few minutes, and I even managed to fig­ programming, 27 and 28 speed-step mode, and ure out how to set the fast clock, browse and set MU'ing of two locomotives even if they have fIi�· decoders with different steps. The programming improvements are impressive, allowing direct config­ uration variable (CY), register mode and paging mode. Conveniently, the system will automatically _�4� • convert CY to register-mode programming for you. •• LZl00 DIGITAL • • • The 27 speed-step mode offers a significant plus ••• • � improvement in speed control for older 14 speed-step .. • • • • decoders. Basically the command station interpolates " between each of the 14 speed steps giving 13 more, - ..D\G\\�L - \l\US LV 100 for a total of 27. Current owners should check with a • DIGITAL -----= plus dealer to acquire the software upgrade. Lenz has also introduced back EMF fu nctions in their LE 130 and LE230 decoders. Back EMF is essentially "cruise

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control" for tive lights on the units with decoders that don't match MRC's Command model loco­ the command station mode, will blink. Programming 4 2000 uses the same motives. allows you to control starting voltage, acceleration generic black box that Once you set and deceleration rates, locomotive direction, address has become one of the throttle and analog operation. I'll explain how to program this their trademarks. The for a given decoder using other DCC command stations in my three sliders and but­ speed, the next article. ton pad do just about decoder will Future releases will include a walk-around throttle all the programming ...... �.. � make con- that can access four of the ten locomotives. This and locomotive con­ stant adjustments to how much power it provides by means that with the three sliders and walk-around you trol for the system. monitoring how fast the motor is turning. It's able to can easily control four locomotives at the same time, do this because even as the motor turns it generates a which is pretty close to the maximum current load of Here's the Ram­ small back voltage which the decoder can monitor. the system without a booster. A six-amp power sta­ 5 traxx command Several other manufacturers are busily adding this tion/booster combination is due in March, making the station, booster, pow­ capability to their decoders. system useful for G scale applications, and greatly er supply and hand­ Lenz offers the best warranty I've seen yet. A full expanding the HO capabilities. MU'ing is accom­ held throttles. Notice replacement is provided in the first year, even if you plished by setting the locomotives to the same the close resemblance accidently fry a part. For the following two years a address. to the SystemOne small service charge is applied for damage caused by MRC's Command 2000 will certainly attract a lot throttles shown in the user but not for equipment defects. If something of modelers who might not have otherwise been inter­ Photos 6 and 7. fails or is damaged during the next seven years only a ested in DCC, and for many it will be all they need. small service fee is charged. yep, that's a lO-year lim­ ited warranty! Ramfixx Ramtraxxl One recent development that should be of interest Wangrow SystemOne to Lenz owners is the establishment of an office in I'm going to combine Ramtraxx and SystemOne North America - the Lenz Agency of North Amer­ in this discussion for reasons that will become clear ica. Debbie Ames of Tried and True Trains is the pro­ real soon. Back in July I reported that the Rarntraxx prietor. The address is PO Box 143, Chelmsford, MA system was hung up by FCC Class B testing, and 01824, phone/FAX (508) 250-1 494. This office will that's still true. Ramtraxx is made in Canada by Ram­ take care of warranty support, problems, English-ver­ fixx and is being sold there as well as in some Euro­ sion manuals, press releases, advertising and dealer pean countries. I've also heard that there is a booming support. PacRail and Tried and True Trains remain business to Americans willing to drive across the bor­ the current US Lenz distributors. der, purchase a unit and "import" it themselves. It's too bad that this process is taking so long because MRC Command 2000 Ramtraxx is a really well-made product with a full When word began to leak out last fall that MRC array of accessories, but in this article we're going to would release a DCC system you could almost feel concentrate on the starter system. the anticipation it generated in the hobby. Natu­ Ramtraxx is part of a group of manufacturers that rally, I've been anxious myself to see just what also includes Wangrow and North Coast Engineering. they would come up with. Command 2000 is an They share development costs of some items and entry-level system that appears to be focused at the even manufacture items for common use. Jim Scorse small HO layout owner. It offers control of of North Coast Engineering does ten locomotives in two groups and two sets. \ the basic design work and soft- The user supplies a power source of 14-18V for HO/N or 19-22V for G gauge, at a maxi­ mum current of 2.5 amps. The 2.5 amp rating means that most users will be able to run five locomotives at 0.5 amps each and more after a booster is added. (I'll fill you in on my success with using boosters from other manufacturers in an upcoming article). Locomotive control as well as programming is accomplished using three sliders in much the same way as the four pots are used on a Digitrax Chal­ lenger plus a lot of button pushing. The MRC man­ ual provides step-by-step programming instructions without any of the techno-j argon that can lead to con­ fusion. Although a 28 speed-step decoder is supplied in an Athearn F7, users have the option of setting the command station for normal (14 speed-step) or advanced (28 speed-step) modes. If you mix decoders with different speed steps on the layout, your locomo-

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING ... 41 unit. The smaller throttles have fewer buttons, no dis­ play and either a pot or keypad for speed control. Ramfixx allows the user to select which throttle is best for them since you can use the EasyRamp program with a computer to do all your programming and therefore don't necessarily need the more expensive throttle normally used for programming. Unlike the others in the group, Ramtraxx has the dual 3-amp booster included in the same enclosure as the command station. This makes for a very neat arrangement since it reduces the amount of wiring that would normally have to run between them. Wiring connections are spring-loaded clamps on the rear of the enclosure which reduces the cluttered appearance common to many DCC systems. The only connections on the front of the unit are two phono jacks for throttles. All of the components in the Ram­ traxx system fo llow this same approach and are designed to stack Like audio components. Because the software is shared among the three manufacturers, there is no di fference in system func­ tions and capabilities. This is an advanced EPF sys­ tem with all the whistles and bells and has been since SystemOne was released. Don Wangrow made an early decision to offer the advanced EPF fu nctions over a year before they were adopted by the NMRA. This has kept SystemOne, Ramtraxx and North Coast ware development for the command stations, builds Engineering command stations in the lead when it some of the components such as the 10-amp booster, comes to advanced command stations. One neat new small throttles and some decoders. Each manufacturer feature added in the last software upgrade is activa­ is responsible fo r their own command station and tion of the macro function. Using macro program­ standard boosters. Wangrow builds the standard throt­ ming, you can set up 200 individual routes with as tle and some decoders. The net result is that the three many as ten switches in each route. Until the release are sharing development costs, but more importantly, of the Digitrax Chief, theirs was the only system with it means that in order to share all these different com­ sufficient capacity and fu nctionality to run large c1ub­ Wangrow's System­ ponents they must be 100% interchangeable. For their sized layouts. For example the system is designed for 6 One consists of customers it means that they can purchase any piece up to 63 throttles and 250 locomotives. However, to CSP-01 command sta­ of equipment from one manufacturer and know it will fu lly utilize this capacity you'd have to be controlling tion, SBR-01 power work with their system - even throttles. Also, as four locomotives with each throttle and you'd need booste ria uto-reve rs­ long as one of the three remain in business there will over a dozen 10-amp boosters - that's over 125 ing unit and the WCT- be a continuing source of this equipment. To my amps ! So realistically, this system should handle just 01 hand-held cab. knowledge this is the only arrangement of its kind. about any job you have for it. The Ramtraxx starter system includes the com­ systemOne, Ram­ bined command station and dual 3-amp booster, plus a Coming Attractions 7 traxx and North connector panel for throttles. Owners must supply That brings us up-to-date with respect to DCC Coast Engineering all their own power supply, although Ramfixx is the only systems and software releases, but there's still a lot use these same three manufacturer offering a dual 3-amp or single 6-amp more to cover. Next time I'm going to show you the units as their basic and power supply (please note that this power supply is latest in decoders and go over my experiences in intermediate throttles. also available for purchase by owners of other DCC attempting to program and operate just about every systems). You also have the option of purchasing one available combination of decoders and DCC systems. The basic and of four hand-held throttles, but in order to get the basic I'm also putting together some material on intermix­ 8 intermediate throt­ system price, a throttle must be purchased at the same ing boosters and other equipment from several manu­ t l es have an access time. The four throttles offered for Ramtraxx include facturers, plus tips for wiring and installing a DCC panel on the back that one they build themselves and three supplied either by system on your layout. If you have any suggestions to will allow you to drop Wangrow or North Coast Engineering. The original contribute, email me at mrgmag @msn.com or send in a radio-control unit. Ramtraxx throttle is a sLightly oversized version of the me snail-mail at 9618 Dublin Dr., Manassas, VA The manufacturer is standard SystemOne throttle but without the thumb­ 20109. In a couple months, I'll also be showing you just waiting for the wheel pot and in an ivory plastic case. Customer how to program, install and intermix stationary FCC approval to go demand convinced Ramfixx to add throttles with a pot decoders on your layout. Until then stay on the right into full production. control, thus the strong resemblance to the SystemOne track and don't run out of steam.

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Stewart fT Con-Cor MP15 Just about everybody has been anxiously await­ Con-Cor took a bold move this fall by releasing ing the arrival of the Stewart FTs - I had my own their MP 15 with a Lenz 28 speed-step, two-digit special reason since I knew they were planning on decoder installed on the circuit board over the motor. including an NMRA DCC plug, but what we ended The motorized chassis is made in China using a can up with is a real bonus ! The circuit board does motor and trucks that appear to be a copy of a Kato. have a DCC plug toward the rear, but the real inter­ The combination is a switcher that is as smooth as silk. esting part is up front where the lights are, Stewart Having the decoder already installed adds about $30 to decided to use LEDs for the headlight, number­ the cost of the locomotive. Now that Con-Cor and board and marker lights, and when you 're running Lenz have broken the ice the other manufacturers will on DC power, the headlight is directional and the be watching closely to see whether or not it's a finan­ marker lights are green when going forward and cial success. Drop by your local hobby red in reverse. With a decoder that automatically shop and give one a test reverses headlights when you change direction you drive. get the same lighting effects as in standard DC. However, if you use a North Coast Engineer- ing, Ramtraxx or SystemOne decoder it gives you some different effects because you can control the forward and reverse lights indepen­ dently. For example if you turn the headlights on they'll stay on no matter which direction the locomotive is going and the marker lights will remain green. Now if you turn on the F I func­ tion, which also controls the rear headlight, the marker lights will stay red no matter whick direc­ tion the locomotive goes or if you turn the head­ light off. Generally, this is the best implementation of a The Con-Cor DCC plug I've seen - the lights are bright and all the chassis in the middle is the wire assignments are printed on the board. My only one with the decoder_ Ta ke a close look at disappointment was that they put the plug on the the chassis in the front - it looks just like an board running lengthwise instead of across the board. Atlas RS3 to me. This makes it a little more difficult to shoehorn a decoder in. Also, there is very little headroom over MRC/Athearn F7 the board so only an N-scale decoder will fit there ­ MRC has combined with I shortened the wires and just let the SystemOne Athearn to produce a decoder- decoder hang over the equipped F7 for release with rear truck. the Command 2000 DCC system. Like the Con­ Cor/Lenz unit, the decoder is a 28 speed­ step, two-digit unit available separately for about $34. I'll try to fi nd out whether the de­ coder-equipped F7s will also be available sep­ Here's arately by next time. the Stiewart FTwith and with- MRC's initial release out a decoder installed is a Union Pacific F7 with a 28 - the one in the middle has speed-step decoder. The decoder is the decoder. the black blob sitting on top of the motor. �

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAIL ROADING T 43 Ca rolina & We stern Up da te: N The West End

44 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 Many things need to be addressed if roads are the Virginian & Ohio, Allegheny one is to build a believable model Midland, Utah Belt, and New England Berk­ railroad. To anyone who has built, or at least shire & Western, among others. Few would attempted to build, a model railroad this will disagree that these popular freelanced model ring true. But from the summer of 1980 until railroads are truly believable creations. this year I have avoided layout building and Hopefully in time I will someday capture instead directed my attention to building loco­ similar acceptance with my Carolina & motives, freight cars and cabooses. Now the Western- another dream shared by many. Carolina & Western has forced me to make I believe that I am getting there. It won't several adjustments that were long overdue. happen overnight. Good things take time. Reiterating from my earlier articles on On the other hand, I am makingprogress, so the Carolina & Western, the primary goal let me share with you some of the latest pho­ here is to build a model railroad that is both tos taken of the Carolina & Western. Note enjoyable to operate while at the same time that although the overall scene depicted in believable in how it is perceived. Pretty nor­ the accompanying pictures is beginning to mal, don't you think? I venture to say that take shape, in each case there are several there aren't too many model railroaders who things as yet unfinished. Still, you should be build layouts that would disagree. able to see where I am headed and the type One player in making a believable model of structures and scenery that will be incor­ railroad is realistic motive power. Then there porated. are the freight cars and other rolling stock which also have to be realistic in appear­ 1 - High Point, North Carolina, is a ance, while at the same time be able to stay key junction of the road's east-west on the track during operating sessions. and north-south routes. Shown here Another ingredient in making believable is a drag of empty coal hoppers model railroads is weathering. Really now, headed back north (geographically did you think that Jim Six wouldn't take yet northwest) to the Clinchfield connec­ another opportunity to promote weathering? tion at Miller Yard, Virginia. Don't be I take weathering beyond the locomotive and fooled by the head-end power. This is freight-car paint shop and try to represent an Atlantic Coast Line train and black­ the effects of mother nature on track, build­ and-yellow ACL power will soon be ings, utility poles, vehicles, roads and even needed to lend a shove to get the scenery. That's right, scenery too. The only train up the east slope of the Blue shiny plastic you will see in these photos of Ridge Mountains. the Carolina & Western are unfinished build­ Clearly seen are the mainline track ings that haven't been painted yet. How (that the train is on) and three yard many times (typically in magazine photos) tracks. Actually, the track just beyond have you seen really nicely prepared layouts, the train is a siding that serves the but the trains running on them looked like elevator and other local railroad cus­ shiny new models? It ruins the overall effect. tomers. One track closer to us than Then there are those among us that go to the the mainline is a passing siding capa­ nth degree to prepare locomotives and other ble of handling a 30-car train. The rolling stock, then operate them on a Plas­ track nearest the viewer is a true yard ticville layout! track that also serves as home for a Still another key to success in building a local switcher as evidenced by the believable model railroad is its name. Pick a sand spills from leaky sander valves name that, like your detailed and weathered of the locomotives. There is a hint of models, sounds real, i.e., believable. I red Carolina clay in the foreground. wouldn't suggest naming your railroad Though positioned on the layout, Chooch Junction if it is to represent a Class- the red brick building along with the 1 railroad. Avoid "cute" names. They may small white gas station are not yet well be entertaining, but lack believability. completed. The brick structure will Come up with a name in the same way that get an interior, some exterior detail real railroads got their names, that is, and weathering. The gas station has employ the names of the cities, regions, or been partly assembled. It will get a other geographic features they serve - sheet-metal roof (so typical of the assuming you are not modeling a contempo­ Southeast), detail and weathering. rary railroad. Then names like Conrail, CSX, Locomotives and freight cars aren't BNSF and other nondescript, non-railroad the only things needing weathering sounding names will do! Face it. Among if a believable scene is to be today's really great freelanced model rail- achieved.

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 45 takes is covering a shingle roof with sheet metal (styrene), then painting and weathering it to look like an old "tin" roof. That's what is planned for the gas station. The utility pole in the foreground is yet to be painted. I am consider­ ing "stringing" the poles, but haven't made up my mind on that one just yet. HO scale utility wires are easily susceptible to damage when reaching onto the layout.

2-The scene pictured here is relatively flat, though the Carolina & Western is not being built on a flat surface. There is about a 3" rise from front to back in the 24" of depth in this section of the layout. The subtle rise greatly enhances the scene. I prefer to have the elevation rise, even if slightly, from front to back in a setting. Seaboard Coast Line U18B 372 switches the Wayne Feeds elevator at High Point. This kitbashed little diesel shown are the was featured in the September 1996 yet-unfinished red brick Model Railroading. building and the little white gas sta­ Note that the track has been tion. I prefer using readily available 3 & 4 - One weathered, as have the locomotive, structure kits and assembling them in aspect of the Carolina & covered hopper and metal roof of the ways other than the way the manu­ Western is that the layout has to building just beyond the diesel. Also facturer intended. Sometimes all it support various time settings. As a

46 ... MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 result every effort is :: dirt collected in a being made to avoid Tu pperware" con­ detail that will spec­ tainer while on a ify a certain time. field trip into the For instance, a BP region. It was sim­ gas station painted ply spread over silver with vivid the scenery base as green and yellow any other scenery says the mid-1980s material such as and later. That those offered by would be a no-no Woodland Scenics, for the C&W. sprayed with soapy Where certain de­ water, then diluted tail such as vehi­ white glue was cles are called for, added. You see the some will have to end result. Worthy be "changed-out" of note is that when between operat­ Carolina "dirt" is ing sessions if the repre- applied in this way it sented time frame is changed . you can will not rub off, and Photos 3 and 4 are the same scene, see that Walthers Cornerstone and in fact, will be firmly only the locomotive has been Pikestuff structures have been affixed to the scenery base. changed . Photo 3 would suggest a "grouped" to make up this rail cus­ If you look closely the different date sometime between 1973 and tomer. Also note that the structures size rails are evident. The track near­ the early 1980s when the SCL baby do not exhibit a shiny appearance est to the viewe r is a code 55 yard boats had been re-Iettered, if not that detracts from plastic models. All track. Then moving away from the repainted in Seaboard System or have been brush painted with Polly S camera's lens is the code 70 siding, even CSX paint and markings. Photo and Polly Scale acrylic paints. These code 83 main and code 70 siding. I 4 shows a purple ACL SW9. The paint paints provide a very fine flat finish believe firmly in selecting scale track scheme dates the scene to 1963 or that shows almost no brush marks. that accurately represents the prac­ earlier. In fact, the old small-style let­ tices of rail roads for a specific set­ tering would suggest that the date 6 - A Seaboard RSC3 rumbles into ting. The track is all flextrack with may be sometime from 1952 to no town with empty reefers in tow. They plastic ties. When painted, that is, later than 1958 or 1959. will be turned over to the C&W for weathered, such high-quality track is forward ing back west to southern more realistic than handlaid track 5 - In another view of SCL U18B 372 California. Note the oxide-tinted which lacks scale tie plates and spike switching Wayne Feeds in High Point earth. This is real North Carolina red heads.

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 47 7 - More than Seeing a brace of a decade before diesels at the head of the General Elec­ a train without a tric U18B arrived crew bugged me. on the scene a So, I began experi­ mixed freight menting with HO rolls by Wayne scale figures. A few Feeds on its way pet peeves I have to Winston-Salem. with the way too The F-units are many model rail­ Stewart Hobbies roaders employ models that were HO people is that detailed and painted the same figures from undecorated. keep showing The trailing black­ up in one mag­ and-yellow unit is a azine photo rare - except on the after another. Coast Line - EMD F2. Just how many C&W-parent Atlantic times are we Coast Line rostered sev­ going to see that switchman eral of these "interim" with one arm out to his side and the covered wagons. detractor. After other raised. That's one guy who will getting this section of lay­ never be hired by the C&W! 8 - It wasn't until earlier out well along I began to view my Another thing that bugs me about this year that I began adding crew­ locomotives from a different per­ too many HO scale(?) figures is that men to my locomotives. Until I began spective. No longer were they the they are often too stodgy. You know, work on the Carolina & Western my center of my interest, but instead fat arms and legs. Many appear shiny locomotives were objects unto them­ were simply a key player in what which may be okay for disco-club selves. Crewmen were considered a was becoming a railroad. attire, but not for everyday clothing.

48 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 SOUTHERN B 4 J 9

I do like Preiser figures. ing avail­ They are more believable able at your than most and are local hobby painted with flat finish shop. That's paints. To avoid uncon­ one of the vincing colors and also Longs Hobbies to have C&W "employ­ (InterMoun­ ees" not look just like tain) Santa Fe everyone else's, I reefers set out hand-paint each with at the frozen­ either Polly S or foods plant. Polly Scale acrylic Note that the paints. The gentle­ tower building man in the Sea­ is set into the board ALCo is ground that slopes reading the daily newspaper slightly down to­ while the engineer awaits a clear sig­ ward the viewer. nal to proceed out onto the main. as is one of I do not like set­ the lower-priced pieces of ting structures on

9 - Here is a freight car that a good real estate in High Point! Once again, flat ground. In- many model railroads would love to by changing out locomotives and stead, by slightly have - a Southern Big John covered rolling stock different time periods sloping the ground, buildings can be hopper. This car was kitbashed, can be utilized realistically during dif­ set into the ground making for a detailed, then painted with a couple ferent operating nights. more believable appearance. of evenings' worth of effort. It is the Neither structure is yet complete.

lead car in a westbound freight that 10 - The brick building is an as-yet Electric service and other detail has to will pull up in Winston-Salem in unnamed tower that controls the west be added to the tower, and some another hour. A frozen-foods busi­ end of the Carolina & Western's High parts of the frozen-foods plant ness is located just beyond the train Point yard. It is part of a taxi-cab build- haven't even been painted ...yet. �

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 49 NI MODERN MODAL

Modeling the Martrac Flee

by John L. Becker Curbside view of MAR 534183. The Ford 19000 twin-screw tractor is based on a prototype assigned to the UPS hub at Photos by Butch Eyler Harrisburg, PA. It is mainly used in TDP (bulk) service.

n my last article, I presented the prototype information on the the taillights and running lights red. On each side of the trailer, at the Martrac fleet. Intermodal reefer trailers are one of my favorite sub­ lower rear, you want to paint the marker light red. Now, go back to jectsI to study and model, and being a huge UPS fan, researching and the nose of the trailer and paint the right glad hand red. UPS paints modeling the Martrac trailers is like having my cake and eating it too. the glad hands on their trailers red (emergency line) and yellow (ser­ Trying to model the Martrac reefers a year ago at this time would vice line). Okay, we are done with d1e red paint, and we now need the have proven to be a real challenge, but now, thanks to A-Line, yellow paint to paint tbe left glad. The last color we need to complete Athearn and Microscale, it is real easy. Microscale offers Martrac the body detail painting is amber or orange. Personally, I use orange, decals (MC-4171), and A-Line's decals are coming soon. The Mar­ bnt amber is the better choice. Use the amber/orange to paint the trac decal sheets will do all current Martrac trailers - 42' insulated, other marker ]jghts. We can now put away our paintbrushes and get 45 ' reefers and the new 48' reefers with the conspicuity stripes. A­ out the water and decals because this is our next step. Line also offers a set of Budd/disc rims to correctly duplicate the Of all the models I have ever decaled, this has to be the easiest rims on Martrac trailers. These are available as A-Line #50121. model yet. Thanks to A-Line and Microscale, we modern intermodal Athearn has now released a set of two prepainted/unlettered 45' trail­ modelers now have prototypically correct decals. Just follow the ers for which I thank tbem immensely. r am not the best at painting instructions enclosed with the decals and you shouldn't have any and with Athearn doing the painting for me, it solves a major prob­ problems. When you are done decaling, set the body aside until you lem for me. get done with the underframe. A Bill of Materials is included for each Martrac trailer built for Up until now, this trailer has been easy. Now we have to decide if this article. Now, let's get out our trailer kits and start modeling! we want a sliding tandem assembly or a stationary tandem. For either version, r recommend using A-Line's Sliding Tandem Assembly 45' Fruehauf Reefers (#50122). If you have decided to go with a stationary tandem, go As I mentioned earlier, using Athearn's prepainted 45 ' trailer to ahead and assemble the suspension according to the instructions, model one of the Martrac Fruehauf reefers is quite easy, so let's start adding a mud-flap bracket made from a piece of .030 x .030 strip there. Of course, tbe first thing you will need is one of Athearn's trail­ styrene cut a scale 8' wide. Glue the bracket to the suspension making ers(#5608), some wbite paint and a small paint brush (a 00 brush sure you have it centered side to side, then install tbe suspension by should work just fine). On the front of the trailer, you want to paint gluing it directly to the floor cross-members making sure it is cen­ the lower bulkhead white. Athearn painted this silver, but the Martrac tered side to side and located toward the rear on the floor. trailers have a solid white front and we want to replicate this. For the If you chose to have a sliding tandem, a little bit of work is detail painting, you can use a real fine paintbrush - a 000 for exam­ required, but the results are worth it. First, we have to remove some ple - or use a pointed toothpick with the tip cut off so you are left of the cross-members at the rear, as these will hinder the installation with a small flat edge. This homemade tool works better for me than of the slide rails. Remove about 'Is" from the inner portion of the a small paintbrush. The next step is to get out the red paint and paint outer cross-member. You will have to do this to 24 of the cross-mem-

50 ... MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 bers at the rear - use the existing slots as a guide for the locations. I did this by cutting down through the cross-members with a razor saw first and then going back and using a sharp #17 chisel blade and removing the little pieces. This is easier to do it than it is to explain. Make sure you notch the rearmost cross-mem­ ber as this will permit the slide rails to be located almost to the very rear. Also make sure you are left with a smooth surface for attaching Driver's side of MAR 5341 83. This trailer is based on a 45' Fruehauf reefer. the slide rails. Athearn's model is perfect for this particular Martrac trailer. Once you are done with this step, it is time to drill the holes for the slide rails: In order to correctly do this, I highly recommend using A­ Line's 53' trailer floor (#50132) as a template. This floor already has the holes in it, and by using this as a template, you end up with cor­ rectly spaced holes for the slide rails. When all the holes are driUed, test fit the slide rails. If they fit snugly, slide the previously assembled slider assembly into the rails. If everything works properly, glue the rails into place by putting a drop of glue (I use Testors Liquid Plastic Cement, but any glue should work fine) This underframe is not difficult to build if the photo is used as a guide and the on the slider rail pins where they stick up directions in the text are followed. through the floor. Now it's time to install the reefer unit and fuel tanks. You will need one of Athearn's belly-mounted reefer units slightly bevel one end of each piece (this end is glued to the leg). with the mounting ears cut off(these are the two tabs that are inserted Now that all of our pieces are cut and ready to assemble, let's do into Athearn's 40' trailer floor); also cut off the little box on the end just that, starting with the landing-gear legs. Notice on the lower por­ of the unit. (I used a piece of .0 10 sheet styrene and glued it to the tion of the legs that tIlere is a "shoe" on each leg (on the prototype open end; when dry I filed and sanded it smooth). When these items trailers, these are known as sandshoes or pads). Athearn has molded have been completed the reefer unit can be glued to the floor. these shoes so there is a front and a rear. The rear part of the shoe is INSTALL THE SLIDER ASSEMBLY BEFORE GLUING THE angled. Look on older Fruehauf trailers with similar sandshoes and REEFER UNIT TO THE FLOOR. ALSO MAKE SURE THE MUD­ you'll see what I mean. Now tIlat we know which is the rear, install FLAP BRAC KET DOESN'T INTERFERE WITH THE SLIDE the legs in the existing holes in tile floor and glue the pins on the top­ RAILS!!! Properly orient tlle reefer before you glue it to the floor - side. Glue the support plates in position, making sure that each one is proper Olientation means having the side with the two round "dials" centered on its leg with the beveled side down. Next glue one of the on the driver (road) side of the trailer. When you have the unit facing .030 strips to the front and rear of each leg, making sure the beveled the right way, glue it to the bottom offset toward tlle driver/road side. side goes to the bottom and toward the leg. Glue the other end right The unit will span five cross-members starting with the 1Jth cross­ behind the outer end of the support plate. Now drill a #76 hole in the member from the front of the floor. There should be five free cross­ support plate on the driver's side and form a crank handle out of .020 members remaining between the front of the reefer and the brass rod; insert the handle into the hole and secure with CA. Your landing-gear slots. completed assembly should look somewhat similar to tile prototype Next, take two small A-Line trailer fuel tanks (from #50 137, you photo (October 1996 MRG). will need two packs), assemble and glue tIlem to the driver/road side The last thing we have to model on the floor is me ICC bumper on of tile floor starting with the second cross-member in front of the the rear. Start by cutting offthe horizontal member of the bumper and reefer. Each fuel tank will span two cross-members keeping about fi ling it smooth. Use a piece of '/'6" Plastruct tubing/piping cut about '/'6" between them. Ta ke two 5/'6" long pieces of .010 x .030 strip "/'6" in length. I had to notch out each vertical bumper member styrene and glue one piece - spanning the two tanks - to the inside enough so that the new round horizontal piece could lay fl ush. The bottom and glue the other piece to the inside end of the two tanks last thing I did was cut two '//' long pieces of .010 x .060 styrene forming a piece of angle iron. I suspect that on the prototype this is a strips and glued them to each veltical member after I had glued the guard protecting the fuel crossover line. pipe in place (make sure the pipe is centered side to side). When the The next item we have to model on the floor is the landing gear. glue had dried, I used a fi le to slightly round the bottom edges of each While Athearn supplies the landing gear in their kit, it does not fully vertical piece to blend in the strips with the bottom. represent the bulky look that the Martrac prototype uses. To make the The entire underframe was then sprayed with a spray can of existing kit-supplied landing gear look more realistic, the first thing primer (J use Wal-Mart's brand and have no trouble witll it). After the we have to do is remove the molded-on angle supports on tile front underframe had dried, I went back and brush-painted the ICC bumper and rear of each leg. To me, these supports look more like "fins." silver, added tile mud flaps to tile bracket and brush-painted the reefer After removi ng these "fins," make two horizontal support plates. unit using Floquil Reefer White (what else!). I highlighted the inner Basically, all these plates consist of is a 7/"," long strip of .010 x .250 legs on the landing gear with Floquil Grimy Black and also high­ styrene with a slight bevel at each end (see photo in October 1996 lighted tile sight window on the reefer unit as well as the bearing ends MRG). To complete the landing gear, four pieces of .030 x 030 square and holes on A-Line's Budd rims witll the Grimy Black. The next to strip styrene cut to a length of 3/,' each are needed. Take a ti le and the last thing installed was A-Line's trailer air-hose kit according to

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING ... 51 MAR 534672 was the first Martrac trailer I built. It is based on one of the 50 trailers built by Theurer.

the instructions. This detail really makes this trailer a standout. When scale 36" from the front, drill a lis" hole in the shim and floor and all this had dried, I fit the mud flaps/rims/tires/axles onto the slider insert a piece of lis" brass rod, leaving slightly less than 1/4" sticking assembly, and voila!, a 45 ' Martrac Fruehauf reefer. If you want to out on the bottom. This should be enough to properly anchor your weather you trailer, do so now. trailer to a hirch. Next, assemble the slider assembly and mud-flap bracket just like 45' Theurer Reefer we did with the previous trailer and set asi.de to dry. While this is dry­ With Martrac having only 50 Theurer 45 ' reefers in the fleet, I ing, place the slider rails in their proper holes and glue them there. decided I wanted a model of one of these. Actually, this was my very Now assemble a set of A-Line's Wabash National landing gear and first Martrac model. To start this trailer, you will either need to glue these into position on the floor. Although I'm modeling a acquire one of the old Front RangelMcKean 45 ' trailer kits or wait till Theurer trailer, these Wabash landing gear look close enough for me. the spring of 1997 when Accurail will be re-releasing this model with Prepare the Athearn reefer next and install it and the two fuel modified/refined tooling. Start with an undecorated body, if possible. tanks as incticated in the Fruehauf segment. After the glue has dried, If not, strip a decorated body and then paint the entire body gloss paint and highlight the reefer as on the Fruehauf model. Finish this wrute. When the white is dry, mask the body sides, nose and rear trailer up by installing the A-Line trailer air hoses and mud doors and paint the upper and lower side, front and rear rails and roof flapslwheel sets just like the Fruehauf model and we are done. silver. When the silver is dry, use your paintbrush and silver paint to We ather the trailer to suit your own taste. highlight the door runges and lock rods. To finish the painting, high­ light the lights just as we did with the Fruehauf trailer. When all the 42' Dorsey Insulated Trailer body painting is done, we can decal. Again, following the instruc­ Although not as common now as the 45 ' and 48 ' trailers, I wanted tions, this is a breeze. Just remember that with 50 trailers in the fleet, a model of one of Martrac's "shorty" trailers riding on my Conrail our Theurer model's number must be in the MAR 534650-534699 Mail-9. Basically, this trailer is a shortened version of the Theurer number series. When the decaling is finished, set the body aside until trailer previously described, with the major differences being the we are ready to install it on the floor. landing gear, a rim, lack of a reefer and tanks, vent-door details and The floor that came with the kit can either be thrown away or most importantly, the length. added to your parts box because we will be using one of A-Line's 53' Let's start by shortening the body. I used another old Front trailer floors. Wait a minute, a 53' floor won't fit in a 45 ' trailer body! RangelMcKean 45 ' trailer for this particular trailer. Starting from the It will if you cut it down, and this is exactly what we have to do. Cut rear, I measured 2' fo rward and made a line on the roof and both the floor right in front of the fifth tall cross-member from the front sides and then carefully cut these lines using my trusty razor saw. (remember that this floor is designed to match the drop-sill design of This will be your 2' section that will be glued to the 40 ' section, A-Line's plate trailer, but because of the floor's design it can be used which will be cut next. From the front, I measured 40 ' back and in other trailers such as ours). My hat goes off to Joe D'Elia for his made a mark on the roof and both sides and then carefully cut the innovative thinking. Install the sawed-off rear floor piece toward the body at these lines. Before you glue the two pieces together, make rear of the trailer body. Lay the front piece that you have left in the sure you have a tight and smooth joint. I didn't and wound up with a front of the body and mark the rear piece at the spot where the front small gap, but from 6' away, it's barely noticeable. I'm happy with it piece ruts. Now you can either scribe the rear piece a couple of times and that's what counts. When everything fi ts together nicely, glue the and snap it free or saw it loose with a razor saw. Once this is done, sections together with a few pieces of thick styrene strip as splices. test fit botb pieces in the body and see how they look. If they look Putty the j0ints if necessary and sand smooth when dry. Add the vent okay, remove them and glue them together using a piece of thick doors that are present on both the right door and right side of the styrene strip for reinforcement. nose. I used a small piece of .005 sheet styrene (a scale l' wide x 1.5' The next trung we have to do is make a shim for the kingpin tall) for each vent and scribed the door opening into each piece after location at the front ofthe floor. Shave offthe existing kingpin and it was glued into place. use a II," wide xl" long piece of .040 styrene as a shim; glue it When this was done I primed my trailer with Wal-Mart gray lengthwise at the front. If you don't do this, your trailer will sit too primer before the gloss white paint was applied and had no trouble at low on your tractor andlor platform hitches. Next, measuring back a all. When I use Wal-Mart primer I also use their own spray paint for

52 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 the top coat, this way I'm using the same brand paint for both the primer and top coat. I realize some people will cringe when they hear that paint from a spray can was used, but this method works well for me most of the time - remember, I silld at the beginning of this article that I am not the best at painting. If I want a professional-looking ft rush, I'll ask one of bud- MAR 770203 is numbered for a 42' Trailmobile trailer, but the model is based on dies - who are excellent airbrush artists - to a Dorsey 42' prototype. paint my models. When you're done painting the white and silver (trim this trailer with silver as with the 45 ' Theurer reefer) and highlighting the details like the other trailers (i.e., lights, glad hands, etc.), we are ready to decal. Decaling this trailer will be the same as the other trilllers we've done so far. I messed up and put a Martrac Trailmobile-built trailer number on my Dorsey model. The number Microscale includes on their decal sheet (MAR 770203) is for a Trailmobile trailer. See the Martrac prototype article (October 1996 MRG) for some Dorsey trailer numbers. With the body painted and decaled, we can now go to work on the floor. Using the A-Line 53' floor, shorten the floor using the same method we used on the Theurer trailer; when done install the slide rails. Build the slider MAR 770203 is being hauled away by a UPS Ford tractor. If you look closely you assembly/mud-flap bracket at this time and set might be able to see the UPS rim inadvertently installed by the shops. it aside to dry. Because this trailer is an insu­ lated urut, we can omit the reefer unit and fuel tanks and go directly to the landing gear. To replicate the Dorsey style of landing gear, A-Line's Wabash landing-gear legs were reversed to create a flush outside sur­ face, i.e., the right leg became the left leg and vice-versa. The small diagonal brace on the front side of each piece was trimmed off as were the little pins on the ends of the cross­ brace. Then the whole landing-gear assembly was glued together per the instructions. When this was dry, I glued it into position on the trailer floor. Next I cut a piece of styrene for The floor of this Martrac 42' Dorsey trailer doesn't get more complicated the kingpin slide plate and made a new king- than this. pin (use the same method used for the Theurer reefer). At this point, install the slider assembly onto the slide rails and paint the underframe primer The ideal trailer to use for this reefer is the Walthers 48' Stoughton gray just like the previous floors. trailer, preferably an undecorated trilller, but a decorated trilljer that The one detilll that,I think, sets this trailer apart from the others is has been stripped will suffice. Starting at the rear of the trailer body, the use of one UPS rim on the tandem. Using the method for painting measure forward a scale 46' and mark a line on both sides and the UPS rims that Carter described in his article on modeling UPS' 28' roof and cut the body, leaving a little extra material so you can sand drop-frame pups, pillnt one of A-Line's disc rims this way, and when down to these marks and have a nice, square surface left. Next, take a dry, install it and the other three white rims on the slider assembly. piece of .010 sheet styrene that measures about a scale 9' wide by 10' When all the wheelsltires m'e on, glue the mud flaps to the bracket high and glue it onto the front (temporarily insert part of the floor and install an A-Line trailer air-hose kit. You are now ready to toward the front so you millntain a square opening) and when this is weather the whole trilller accordingto your taste. dry, carefully trim this piece flush with the outside of the body. Now remove the floor from the body and (after properly orienting The New 48' Dorsey Reefer it) reinsert it into the body. Mark the front of the floor where it meets When I fr rst saw these radically different Martrac trailers last year the "new" body front and cut the floor at this mark - you should in Galesbmg, IL, I intrnediately wanted to build one for my collec­ have removed about a scale 2' from the floor front. Take the floor, tion. This was one of those trailers that would prove to be a challenge install the slide rails and build the sliding tandem assembly according to build, but as I progressed, it wasn't that tough of a job. KEEP THE to the directions. Add a mud-flap bracket, just like we did with the PROTOTYPE PHOTOS HANDY - WE WILL BE REFERRING other trailers. Since we are working on the floor, we might as we)) go TO THESE A LOT DURING CONSTRUCTION!! Now, let's get ahead and install the reefer unit's fuel tank a used Athearn's trillier stmted! reefer fuel tank, using the prototype photos as a guide) and modify

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAI LROADING T 53 A driver's side view of MAR 525003, a new Dorsey reefer. The Ottawa jockey tractor is based on prototypes received by UPS at the Harrisburg (PA) hub in 1996.

.0lO x 060 strip styrene. Use the photos as a guide to glue them into phlce and let dry. We need to remove the horizontal piece from between the taillight frames and the top part of the light frame. A # 17 chisel blade works just fine for this. When these pieces are removed, a ] '/'6" long piece of .010 x .020 strip styrene needs to be installed across this area. Two additional lock rods with handles were installed next. These rods/handles were cut from .020 brass rod and CA'd into place. I next cut a vent door out of .005 sheet styrene and installed it on the right door between the two lock rods. I basically used the same method for making this vent door as I used on the 42' insu­ lated trailer. The last trung we have to make for the rear is a new ICC bumper. New-built Dorsey trailers A UPS jockey tractor prepares to pull away this new 48' Dorsey reefer. Note the have a very distinctive, and massive looking, unique nose design with the inset reefer and the conspicuity stripes. bumper. I used two 3/,' pieces of .040 x .080 strip styrene for the vertical members and a scale 8' 3" piece of .060 square strip for the horizontal member. Insert the floor back into the body before you glue the vertical pieces into place. When the floor is in place, lightly glue the two vertical pieces into place. I kept each piece 3/'6" in from the outside edge of the trailer. Now, carefully remove the floor without disturbing the two freshly-glued pieces. When these pieces are dry, glue the horizontal mem­ ber into place, making sure it is centered side to side. With the ICC bumper installed, we are fin­ This underframe requires parts from A-Line. Athearn and Walthers. They all com­ ished with the rear and can move to the front. plement one another when used on this trailer. The first piece to install is the "floor," and this is nothing more than a piece of .060 sheet styrene measuring a scale 8' 6" wide x I' lO" the landing gear. I modified mine by trimming off the existing brac­ long. This was glued on and left to dry. Two pieces of .060 square ing on the Walthers landing gear and making new ones out of Plas­ strip were then cut a scale 8' 10" long and glued vertically to the front ' truct / '6" channel, gluing them into the proper places (see the corners at a 45° angle to the corners. When dry, the corners should prototype photos in October 1996 MRG). We aren't ready to install a have an angled or "beveled" appearance to them. We don't want a new kingpin yet although there will be a new one installed. Go ahead square or rounded corner. Two 9' long support brackets for the corner and paint the tl oor primer gray and let it dry. posts were cut from .0 lO x 060 strip styrene and glued to the top and Let's get back to work on the body, starting with the rear. I took front of the corner posts. These should form a 90° corner angle if two 1.5"long strips of .0lOx 060 styrene and glued one to each side properly installed. When the support brackets are dry, tlim them off of the door frame, trimming them to length when dry. Next I shaved flush with the corner posts. The top piece should be cut on an angle off the existing hinges and made ten new ones (five per door) from to match that of the posts.

54 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 Bill of Materials 45' Fruehauf Reefer Mannf. Part No. Description A-Line 50121 Van dress-up kit (disc rims) 50122 Sliding tandem assembly 50132 53' trailer floor Cut two pieces of .010 sheet styrene, each measuriog 8' high by 50 137 Thermo King underbody reefer & fuel 1.75" wide. I used a felt tip marker to lay out the holes to be drilled in tanks (2 needed) the sheets. On the prototype, these holes serve as ventilation ports for 50142 Trailer air hose the reefer. There are eight holes per side and they are staggered. Use 5020 1 Parcel Equipment Decals (Martrac) the prototype photos as a guide for locating the holes. I used a #62 bit Athearn 5608 45 ' owner operator trailer (2 per box) to drill these holes. It might be wise to lay the sheets one on top of 51515 Trailer reefer unit the other and then drill them. When you get done drilling, lay the Evergreen 101 .010 x .030 strip styrene sheets side by side so the holes are in a "V" pattern. Ta ke the l.eft 103 .OJ 0 x .060 strip styrene piece (the holes should be in "\" slope) and glue it into place on tbe 109 .010 x .250 strip styrene right/curb side of the trailer - again, look at the prototype photos to 131 .030 x .030 sttip styrene see where this is placed. Now go back to the remaining piece - the 9010 .010 sheet styrene left/road side - and measuring up 3" from the bottom and centering K&S 159 .020 brass rod it side to side, cut an opening a scale I'wide by 11" high. This open­ MicroscaIe MC-4171 Martrac Reefers ing is used, on the prototype, to check the reefer unit's gauges. When Plastruct 111002 '/'6" round styrene this hole is open, glue this sheet into position on the left/curb side. To fInish up the nose, we have to fabricate a new lower bulkhead. Theurer 45 ' Reefer First cut a piece of .010 sheet styrene measuring 7' 9" long by l' 2" A-Line 50121 Van dress-up kit (disc rims) high and glue this into place; this will serve as the back of our bulk­ 50122 Sliding tandem assembly head. The edges of this piece win actually sit behind the cornerposts; 5OJ32 53' trailer floor tbere should be a shallow ledge at the front. Now cut a piece of .010 x 50133 Wabash National landing gear 080 strip styrene to fit between the corner posts, my piece measures 50137 Thermo King underbody reefer & tanks 7' 3" long, and glue this on top of the bulkhead back we just installed. (2 needed) This strip is the top lip of the bulkl]ead. We should now have a shal­ SO 142 Trailer air hose low-looking box. Now cut three pieces of .010 x 060 strip to fi t 5020 1 Parcel Equipment Decals (Martrac) between the top lip and floor. Center one of the strips between the Athearn 51515 Trailer reefer unit corner posts and glue it into place. Measuring a scale I' 6" on each Evergreen 9040 .040 sheet styrene side of the center strip, glue the remaining strips at these locations. Front RangeiMcKean (AccuraiI) Let this dry before going to the next detail. 45' Trailer Kit For the trailer-light receptacle, use a square MU receptacle cover K&S 127 '/s " brass rod or make one from a square piece of plastic and glue onto the fa r right panel on the bulkhead, making sure it is centered. Next, glue a glad 42' Dorsey Insulated Trailer hand on each side of the receptacle. Use the glad hands from two MU A-Line 50121 Van dress-up kit (disc rims) hoses or make them from bits of scrap plastic. 50122 Sliding tandem assembly The trailer is now ready to be painted. Use the photos as a guide to 50132 53' trailer floor see what gets painted white and silver. I brush-painted all four sides of 50133 Wabash National landing gear the door frame, hinges, lock rods and handles and the ICC bumper 50142 Trailer air hose primer gray. Decal the trailer, using the prototype photos as a guide 5020J Parcel Equipment Decals (Mattfac) (you'll need them for the conspicuity stripes), with the A-Line or Evergreen 9009 .005 sheet styrene Microscale decals. I inadvertently used A-Line's #50 138 reefer and 9040 .040 sheet styrene numbered my trailer in the Thermo King series (MAR 525000- Front RangeiMcKean (AccuraiI) 525049). I would recommend using A-Line's #50 135 (paint the yellow 45 ' Trailer Kit pieces white) for a modern Thermo King unit or A-Line's #50 139 (not K&S 127 'Is"� brass rod released as of this writing) for a modern Carrier unit. When the trailer is decaled, highlight the details the same way as we have done with 48' Dorsey Reefer the previous trailers. I installed one of A-Line's #50 123 document A-Line 50 121 Van dress-up kit (disc rims) boxes on the far left bulkhead panel, turning itsideways to make it fit. 50135 ModernThermo King reefer unit, or Install the floorin the body and glue the mud flaps to the brackets 50J39 ModernCarrier reefer unit and install the wheels and axles. I used A-Line's #50121 set and 50142 Trailer air hose wrapped the axles with masking tape until l achieved a non-sloppy fit 5020 1 Parcel Equipment Decals (Martrac) in the Walthers slider assembly. Install A-Line's trailer air-hose set Athearn 5 IS 16 Trailer reefer fuel tank and you are almost ready to roll. We have to reinstall the k.ingpin, and Evergreen I 00 .01 0 x .020 strip styrene to do this, measure back 36" from the front of the trailer and drill a 103 .010 x .060 strip styrene 'Is"� hole - make sure it is centered side to side. Now insert and glue 104 .010 x .080 strip styrene a short length of 'Is"� rod, leaving about '/4' sticking out on the bottom 144 .040 x .080 strip styrene so you can attach the trailer to a u·actor or hitch on an intermodaI car. 153 .060 x .060 strip styrene When the glue is dry, paint the pin Grimy Black. Weather according 9009 .005 sheet styrene to your tastes. Now, you are ready to roll with these Martrac trailers. 90 10 .010 sheet styrene "Mail-9 calling Harrisburg Terminal Dispatcher, we're leaving 9060 .060 sheet styrene Harrisburg Yard and request permission to occupy the controlled sid­ K&S 127 '/8" brass rod

ing to CP Rockville, on the roll at 09:45 ..." 159 .020 brass rod In closing, I would like to the thank Butch Eyler for his expert Microscale MC-4171 Martrac reefers painting skills that made some of these Martrac models possible. I Plastruct 110302 '/'6" charmel would also like to thank him for photographing the models for this 111002 '/'6" round styrene atticle. .1 VVaIthers 933-1 900 48' Stoughton trailer, undecorated

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 55 The St anda rd Diesel

he st. Louis-San Francisco, better T known as the Frisco, was not a pioneer diesel operator; it owned no pre-War road diesels, and its purchase of E7s in 1947 was its first purchase of such units, predating freight-service FA 1 s and F3s by one year. These E7s, six units numbered 2000-2005, arrived in a single order in March 1947. The units arrived concurrent with a pair of E7s bought by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas to power a new joint Katy-Frisco streamliner, The Texas Special introduced between St. Louis and Dallas, Forth Worth and San An­ tonio. The Frisco units also were assigned to the St. Louis-Oklahoma City Meteor. They were lettered for The Texas Special and sub­ Brand-new Frisco E7 2000 models Th e Te xas Special scheme at Tu lsa, OK, in April lettered for the railroads which operated the 1947. Note grabirons in lieu of vertical handrails above the stirrup at the rear of trains; the six Frisco units and pair of Katy the carbody; these broke up the lines of the side fluting less than handrails. This units having the same scheme but with the shot offers a good detail view of the retractable coupler with the coupler heralds reversed on the Katy pair. The Frisco extended and the doors open; note the pin puller and small step built into the left units had the Frisco "beaver skin" herald on door. The plate which concealed the steam piping has been removed in this view. the forward flank ahead of the Katy shield. The pilot striping extended across the coupler door for a very smooth appearance. The final touch of ornamentation was a Can any Frisco experts confirm if the small plate under the Frisco herald is a name­ Texas star on the nose under the dual head­ plate? This engine was named "Fair Play." Decals: Microscale 87-455. light housings. The units were a bright red Photographer unknown, Lou Marre collection with yellow upper nose and stainless-steel fluted lower side panels and silver lettering, Frisco E7s were externally modified to the appearance of their E8 brethren, with trucks and fuel tank - very flashy! four properly spaced portholes and full-length grilles over the radiator open­ By the early 1960s, this scheme gave way ings, but with the forward ventilation louvers extending out from under the to a standard passenger scheme shared with louvers; along with the more-modern paint scheme, an admirable job indeed! the more numerous ESs on the roster, solid Unit 2001, the "Ranger" demonstrates this. Early versions of this scheme fea­ target red with gold nose and side striping, tured metallic-gold striping edged in white; this was later changed to yellow edged in silver, with simple "Frisco" name striping edged in white. Note the five-chime horn replacing the earlier pair of heralds on the nose and "Frisco" name on the single horns, coupler doors permanently removed and ladder-only grabirons sides. Later the gold striping was changed to added for roof access. The rear grabirons remain even though the side fluting is yellow. In common with the ESs, they were gone. Springfield, MO; 1961. Decals: Herald King L-463, 463A (gold striping) or all named for famous race horses, such as L-464 (yellow striping), Microscale 87-455. Lou Marre photo

56 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 Frisco 2004, the "Dan Patch" displays the left-side appearance of the rebuilt E7 at Fort Smith, AR, on August 20, 1960. Despite the extensive side mod­ ifications, this and unit 2001 carried the old-style sand-filler covers, and this unit still has its coupler doors intact. Note canvas sunshade and wind deflector folded back against the cab window. Four years later, this unit would become l&N 784. Decals: Herald King l-463, 463A (gold strip­ ing) or l-464 (yellow striping), Microscale 87-455. Lou Marre photo

GN 501 models the as-built appearance of the ten early E7s in the short-lived 1945 modified paint scheme. Note sin­ gle headlight, passenger pilot with retractable coupler and nose MU receptacle doors, although there is no evidence that these units were used trailing other units in their early years. No date or location. Decals: Microscale MC-4014. Photographer unknown, Lou Marre collection

National Geographic, the inaugural run of the new Empire Builder, with a 12-car con­ sist, took place in February 1947 on the Chicago-Seattle run. It was brought from Chicago to St. Paul by the Burlington. In August 1947, three more E7s arrived, num­ bered 5l0A-5 1 2A. These were built with the later 45° numberboards which were also applied to the 1945 units by the early 1950s. Despite the air of anticipation, the E7 pairs were not successful as power on the fashionable new train. In 1950, five F7Bs were acquired to operate between the pairs Kentucky Derby winners. In late 1964, three World War II for this equipment. In April of E7s. These were numbered 500B-504B so units (2000, 2002 and 2004) were sold to the 1945, four E7 A units arrived (ON bought no the E7s numbered 500B-504B were renum­ Louisville & Nashville. The other three were E7 boosters). These were numbered as pairs, bered to 500C-504C, forming A-B-C num­ off the roster by 1968. 500A,B-50 lA,B. They carried a variation of bered sets of E7A-F7B-E7A. This Since it has been nearly 27 years since the the Omaha orange and Pullman green used arrangement too was deemed a failure at Great Northern became part of the Burling­ on the Frs, with a red "Rocky" herald under powering the transcontinental train and the ton Northern; it may be hard for other than the numberboards marking the start of the B units were soon renumbered. Following true ON followers to grasp the importance of green band down the side and "Oreat North­ this, the E7s began what could be called passenger service on this major system. With ern" spelt out in script across the nose in yel­ their second, but this time, successful career; its nearly 1,800-mile mainline between the low. Three more pairs came two months later, they were broken up and used system wide Twin Cities and Seattle and numerous numbered 502A,B-504A,B, also in the same on a variety of secondary trains, from the branches and secondary mains, the road dom­ paint scheme. This provided the five sets of Seattle-Vancouver, BC, Internationals to the inated the northern tier of states from the power planned to haul the five train sets St. Paul-Duluth Badger and the St. Paul­ Oreat Lakes to the Pacific, offering premier needed to cover the daily run of the Empire Winnipeg Winnipeg Limited. passenger service throughout the region. The Builder, trains No. I and No. 2, across the The St. Paul-based regional trains had ON embraced conversion of its passenger system. It would be nearly two years, how­ been dieselized with dual-service FTs and operations to diesel power early on, ordering ever, before the lightweight cars in matching other F units which were now replaced by their first Frs in 1941 with steam generators paint would arrive. During this time, the ten "real" passenger engines, the E7s. Ironically, for passenger and freight service. The Empire units hauled the old version of the Empire however, the E7s were displaced to this posi­ Builder name train had been around since Builder and other trains, wearing their innov­ tion by sets of newly built F units on the 1929, but with the coming of the age of light­ ative paint version. This proved to be very Empire Builder; the ON was to become one weight streamlined passenger equipment, the sholt-lived as it was phased out and the units of those roads which rejected the E-unit con­ ON wanted an "all new" Empire Builder to were repainted in the standard colors with the cept, along with Santa Fe, Northern Pacific, initiate its entry into the post-War era of pas­ circular herald on the nose and the green Western Pacific and others. Although the senger trains, hopefully linked to post-War bands brought to a point around the nose. E7s enjoyed much success on such regional prosperity that would bling increased leisure Also added during this period were additional trains, the Oreat Northern neverordered any passenger travel to such on-line points as headlights. more E units. Glacier National Park back to prominence. As Accompanied by full-page ads in In 1952, the group was renumbered 500- with the E7 itself, ON would have to wait out national circulation magazines such as 512, dropping the letter suffixes. The first

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING .... 57 Great Northern's E7 fleet did not thrive in the mountainous part of the road; this view of units 511 and 503 with the overnight St. Paul-Winnipeg Th e Winnipeg Limited demonstrates the typical usage of their E7s for about 15 years - regional service on the flatter parts of the GN. Unit 511 is in the "blunt-arrow stripe" version of the standard colors dating back to 1941, with the green bands tapering to points below the numberboards. This angle shows the bracket affairs fore and aft of each set of exhaust stacks on both units. Also note the louver set behind the cab door is in a hinged door. As with the rest of the E7s from sometime in the 1950s, the fuel-tank skirting is removed. By 1966, this unit was in the last paint version like the 508. Winnipeg, MB; June 30, 1964. Decals: Microscale 87-45 (nose striping must be modified). Bob Geveart photo, Bill Linley collection

GN 508, from the second 1945 order, is at St. Paul, MN, in August 1964. It is in the GM&O (formed in 1940) with the Chicago & Before some roads had even bought a pas­ last orange-and-green paint variation. It Alton in 1947; the latter having been a Balti­ senger-diesel, the GM&O had fi nished buy­ now has the 1947-style 45° number­ more & Ohio affiliate running between ing theirs. This small fleet of passenger boards and its forward radiator appears Chicago and Kansas City. GM&O trackage power, wi th one of a trio of passenger­ raised up compared to the rear. Despite totaled over 2,700 miles and, with the excep­ equipped F3Bs (numbered B-80 to B-82) its good looks in this view, this unit tion of Kansas City, served the same area as often appearing between a pair of E7s, was would not survive until the BN merger in the Illinois Central. Both the early GM&O well known on the road's primary passenger 1970. Decals: Microscale 87-45. and the Alton were diesel pioneers, the for­ route from Chicago to St. Louis. In 1956 the Photographer unknown, mer owning a pair of ALCo DL I09s and the road fielded five pairs of weekday trains on Bill Linley collection first FA I s built in 1945 . The Alton already this 284-mile route, such as The Midnight had 25 ALCo S2s and RS Is, a hand-me-down Special, Th e Ann Rutledge and The Abraham BN 9906 and 9904 are two of the ten ex-B&O boxcab switcher, the B&O pre-E­ Lincoln, and a connection was made at St. E7s that survived to the BN merger. unit box cab passenger diesel and two E units Louis with the overnight Gulf Coast Rebel to They are seen here in July 1970 in when joining with the GM&O in 1947. Mobile, AL. By this time its line to New Denver, CO, looking quite worn. The The E units were significant; number Orleans, the bailiwick of Illinois Central, fresh orange paint under their new 100A was an EA, originally B&O 52, built was freight only. The road's E7s were numbers shows just how much the in 1937 and rebuilt to an E8Am in 1953, painted red, continuing a tradition of red original paint had faded. Decals: becoming the GM&O's only E8. For a passenger trains dating to the Chicago & Microscale 87-45. Stu Sutton photo, photo of this unit, see Part 3 of the E8 series Alton in 1899! Tra inmaster of Denver collection in the September 1995 MRC. The other E Although an earlier scheme might have unit was E7 101, which, with GM&O E7 been used on the E7s, by the early 1950s, the 10 I A carried builder's numbers lower than E7 fleet was in the classic maroon and red unit to leave the roster was 504; it was B&O 64, the fi rst E7, built in February with gold striping and lettering. An early ver­ scrapped in November 1960. By the March 1945. The 101-IOIA were built in March sion included "The Alton Route" slogan in 1970 BN merger date, 507 and 508 had left 1945 along with four others, numbered 102, script below the roadname on the side. This the roster; the remaining ten were numbered 102A, 103, 103A. A single unit, the 100, would be superseded with a solid-red scheme 990 1-99 10, below CB&Q E7s. They contin­ fo llowed in May 1946; the newest E7 car­ with gold lettering in the 1960s. The two-tone ued to serve the BN wearing GN colors and ried the lowest number! scheme, however, would remain on some E7s BN numbers until Amtrak's inception in Along with these seven E7s, a group of until the demise of GM&O passenger opera­ 1971 but were retired thereafter. passenger-equipped F3s, 12 A units and tions at the inception of Amtrak in 1971. The diesel-era Gulf Mobile & Ohio was three B units, completed the road's passen­ Two E7s, the lOlA and 103A, are known formed by the merger of the southern-based ger diesel roster, arriving in 1946-'47. to have been leased briefly to Amtrak. The

58 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 GN 512, their last E7, illustrates the much-modified appearance of the fleet in later years. It is wearing the simpli­ fied orange-green scheme with a white frame stripe, also known to have been applied to units 500, 503, 508, 510 and 51 1. This scheme was a simplification of the standard nose design which brought the green band around the nose in a "double point" between the upper headlight and the buffer plate. It has an integral snowplow pilot with built-in stirrup and two grabirons for riding the corner, as well as a "ladder only" grabiron and row of grabirons for roof access, rotary beacon and three-chime horn atop the cab and an unidentified bracket just to the rear of the horn cluster. At the rear, it appears that the unit has TWO steam genera­ tors; any experts care to comment on this? The grilles behind the cab door are replaced with a louver set and ven­ tilation has been added in the form of a screened louver aft of the last stan­ dard radiator opening. The fuel ta nk skirting is also removed. Duluth, MN; July 22, 1967. Decals: Microscale 87-45. Photographer unknown, Lou Marre collection

GM&O 101 shares storage tracks in St. Louis, MO, on October 10, 1966, with another E7 and one of the passenger F3Bs, unit B-80. Note pinstripe sepa­ rating the black roof area from the side, ending at the forward corner of the first radiator opening behind the April 1972 formation of Illinois Central Gulf and EMD in March 1936; it had a turret-cab­ cab. It has extra ventilation screening was more a takeover of GM&O by IC than a design power unit containing a Winton 20 1- at the rear beside the steam genera­ merger; it found units lOlA, 102, 102A and A diesel. It was a contemporary of the tor. Passenger pilot and lack of nose 103 retired, 102 as a result of wreck damage CB&Q and B&M-MEC shovel-nose stream­ MU were standard for GM&O E7s. in late 1971. Three of these units "donated" liners which became fa mous. The IC's Decals: Microscale 87-43. their engines to a program to rebuild RS Is effort, named the Green Diamond, operated 1. W Stubblefield photo, with a 12-cylinder 567. The remaining three between Chicago and St. Louis. Despite its Bill Linley collection units, 100, 101 and 103A were assigned ICG lack of fa me today, it certainly led the road numbers 4005, 4006 and 40 I I, respectively; to early standardized passenger-diesel pur­ GM&O 102A shows off the later solid­ the 4000 series being the IC E-unit numbers. chases, namely the E6. Its first E6, num­ red scheme. Note side-panel replace­ I found no evidence that they were actually bered 4000, came in October 1940 wearing a ment eliminated the vents in the renumbered and suspect they were retired special orange-and-green color scheme and forward engine-room area and three soon after the merger. was lettered City of Miami. This was fo l­ portholes have replaced the rectangu­ In contrast to the GM&O, the Illinois lowed by four more brethren, numbered lar windows but not in the same loca­ Central had been around since 1851. Its 400 1 -4004 in late 1941; they were lettered tions. Oddly this unit lacks extra interest in internal-combustion passenger for the Pa nama Limited. ventilation at the rear. It has silver power dated way back too. They started Like many other roads, the IC dabbled grabirons in the nose area and silver acquiring motorcars in 1914 and continued with "alpha suffix numbering," changing these numberboard frames. Springfield, IL; up through the 19305 when they purchased four to 400 I A,B-4002A,B in 1942 but chang­ May 25, 1969. Decals: Microscale 87-43. the five-car articulated train built by Pullman ing them back to their original numbers four R. R. Wa llin photo, Bill Linley collection

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 59 GM&O 103A, highest numbered but not the newest E7, is paired with a rather dirty mate on a ten-car train at Springfield, IL, in November 1968. It has a black five-chime horn and extra ventilation screening at the rear; the trailing unit has louvers for this func­ tion. The overall condition of the E7s here portrays the sagging state of pas­ senger service in the years leading up to Amtrak. Decals: Microscale 87-43. 1. W. Stubblefield photo, Bill Linley collection

This early 1960s view of GM&O E7 101 and another E7 forming the "F38 sandwich" running light out of Chicago Union Station affords a study of the E7's typically clean roof line, broken by a wraparound grabiron extending from side to side, a fire­ cracker antenna (note conduit extend­ ing to it up the window pillar). a five-chime horn and roof vent above the cab area. Further back are two sizes of lift rings with larger ones at the corners of the radiators. Modifica­ tions are primarily in the nose area; it has had the late-style numberboards added; the retractable coupler is extended and the doors are removed, with the buffer plate extended. An arrangement of walkway ledge and grabirons provides roof access. Note the gold separation stripe just in front of the windshield. The fuel-tank skirt­ ing has been removed. Decals: Microscale 87-43. Photographer unknown, George Melvin collection

A handsomely maintained E7 4006 demonstrates the pride the IC took in its passenger operations late in the game in this view at Memphis, TN, on October 24, 1965, servi ng on The Chickasaw to St. Louis. Note sheet­ metal "kick strip" above the walkway ledge for roof access, E9-style sand­ filler covers, carbody filter ahead of the first window, which is a single pane instead of double, and extra screening at the rear beside the steam generator; a small piece of the fuel­ vice before World War II would dictate that ings high on the carbody side. The standard tank skirting remains. Decals: Illinois Central would be an "EMD road" green-diamond herald adorned the nose. A Microscale 87-348, 87-655 (stripes with few exceptions for the rest of its exis­ nice color photo of this scheme in fo und in only) and Walthers 934-56910. tence. Eleven E7 A units, numbered 4005- America 's ColOifu l Railroads, by Don Ball, William I. White photo, 40 15, and three booster units, numbered Jr. (Reed Books, 1978). Bill Linley collection 4100-4 102, arrived in September 1946, car­ In 1947 the original E6, the 4000, was rying the earliest version of what would retired (wrecked perhaps) and rebuilt to an almost become an IC trademark, the E7 numbered 4000, arriving in August 1947. years later. One impetus to this renumbering orange-and-chocolate paint scheme of their In June 1948, the road's final E7s, two A matter, which seems a bit ludicrous today, was E-unit fleet. This first version differed units numbered 4016 and 40 17 and a single the wrangling in early diesel years over what somewhat from later ones; it had two B unit, the 4103, arrived. Two years later, constituted "one" locomotive as interpreted by pointed yellow stripes up the side through what became a substantial fleet of over 50 the locomotive engineers' union or railroad the windows ending just above and below E8 and E9 units started arriving, making management. Remember, two steam engines the numberboards. Matching stripes also ran their total ownership of EMD's passenger meant two engine crews; they were not MU'd! the length of the B units as well. The letter­ series in excess of 70 locomotives. Despite The success of these few passenger ing, in matching yellow, was spelt out the roads embrace of E units, it dieselized its engines and some 15 EMD switchers in ser- between the first and second radiator open- road freight operation largely from 1950

60 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 A pair of E7s, the 4016 and 4004, pause at Kanka kee, IL, on July 25, 1967. Many modifications similar to those on unit 4006 and typical of the IC E7 fleet are visible here along with an additional filter beside the rear sand filler. The 4004 has its fuel-tank skirting removed com­ pletely whereas the 4016 has a piece left. The 401 6 is one of two units delivered with the factory­ standard 45° numberboards of late E7s; not good enough for IC, it has received the E8-style like its older brethren. Decals: Microscale 87-348, 87-655 (stripes only) and Wa lthers 934-56910. To m Smart photo, Bill Linley collection

This October 1962 view of IC E7 4012 at Chicago shows a much-modified unit. The nose is reworked, replacing the pre-1947 numberboard/class­ light assembly with streamlined E8- style numberboards and class lights, the latter with visors. E6s 4001 and 4003 were similarly modified. All IC E7s had dual headlights. The roof has an odd box beside the horn and what may be a cooling coil behind that. Also appearing are box-like onward, amassing hundreds of GP7s and that time. The IC wisely spared the E units protrusions fore and aft of each set GP9s, including 14 GP7s and 26 GP9s from a variant of that paint. of four exhaust stacks. Note the for­ which were passenger equipped - the only In May 1954, E6 4004 was retired and ward side window has been other passenger power on Ie. The road never E7 4000 (2nd) was renumbered to 4004 changed to a single-pane unit, E9- purchased a freight cab unit' (2nd) to group it with the other E7s. Two style sand-filler covers and the addi­ The E-unit fleet found a lot of work; in years later, the first E7 was retired, the 40 I I tional screening at the rear. The 1956 the road operated no less than four in February 1956. The four B units were fuel-tank skirting remains daily trains on its main corridor from retired in 1 956-'57 and traded in for E9Bs. unchanged. Decals: Microscale 87- Chicago to St. Louis and New Orleans, with Five more A units were retired by 1961 and, 348 and 87-655 (stripes only), some schedules requiring 90-mph running. along with two E6s, traded in fo r new Walthers 934-56910. Included was the legendary The City of New E9As. A 1967 plan to rebuild and renumber Lou Marre photo Orleans (thanks to the John Prine song the ten remaining early Es (two E6s and "The City of New Orleans" made popular eight E7s) to 2000-2009 fell through, by Arlo Guthrie). No kids, the train was not although some newer E8/E9 units did get IC 4017 was their last E7 purchased. named after the song. This and the all-Pull­ rebuilt. In 1969, the 4004 (2nd) was Note standard late numberboards, man streamlined The Panama Limited car­ wrecked and four others were retired and passenger pilot with retractable cou­ ried consists matching the E units in the traded through equipment dealer Precision pler and walkway ledge/grabiron orange-and-chocolate colors. This scheme Engineering for five used E9s from the arrangement for roof access. A small varied little over its 24-year span; the letter­ FEC; IC really liked E units. Two more E7s louver provides extra cooling at the ing was moved down to the orange area and (and the remaining two E6s) were retired by rear. New Orleans, LA, 1950. Decals: changed to brown and after January 1967, 1971. The remaining six units may have Microscale 87-348 and 87-655 (stripes the green diamond on the nose gave way to worked briefly under lease to Amtrak. only), Walthers 934-56910. the split-rail IC which came with the Next month, we pick up our E7 coverage Elliott Kahn photo, orange-and-white livery on freight units at with KCS. � Lou Marre collection

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 61 Track Level

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Figure - A drawing for the Chupadera Loop fascias was completed "in situ," with Than Meets the fascias in their final positions. Broad landforms were sketched to blend in with the Eye the rest of the layout scenery and to form a realistic front edge for the layout. higher than 40 " from the floor. This means Defining the Landform that the height of some portions of this fascia To begin this broad fascia treatment, all will be 15 "; and this is indeed the case, as can the completed fascia panels were secured in by Margaret Mansfield be seen in the September 1996 "On Track," position against the bench work. A scenic which illustrates the completed, curved fascia boundary was then drawn across the entire Photos by Jim Mansfield ready for detailing. Such a large area of fascia surface, from end to end; this line rep­ unadorned fascia, whether Masonite or any resents the lower edge of the future scenic other material, occupies so much visible treatment. Two light coats of artists' Gesso he noun "fascia" is defined in the space that it detracts from the actual layout were then carefully brushed on the fascia Macmillan Dictionary published by scenery above and beyond it. panels above this line. Care was taken to P.T F. Collier, Inc., New York, as a "band, sash, In addition, control panels are built keep all Gesso above the boundary line, or fillet;" it also has a medical application as within this large fascia. Rather than draw since it will stain the Masonite fascia surface. the "subcutaneous sheet of fibrous tissue attention to the knobs, lights and buttons on When the Gesso had dried, sheets of tracing which holds muscles and various organs of these panels, we wished to downplay and paper were taped lightly over the fascia sur­ the body in place." Tn the world of miniature conceal these fe atures as much as possible, face. Broad scenic features above the scenic railroading, however, fascia refers to the strip drawing attention towards the layout rather boundary and below the fascia's top edge of material that extends below the outer edge than towards the fascia. were then lightly drawn on the paper. These of scenery adjacent to the operating area(s) After much "great thought," it became evi­ features consisted primarily of rolling hills and serves to conceal benchwork and wiring. dent that we had to integrate this pOltion of the and clumps of vegetation, with a couple of In a way, it is like a sheet of opaque tissue fascia, including control panels, into the three­ arroyos (dry river washes) where appropriate. that holds the inner workings of the railroad dimensional layout scenery. This was doubly It is cnlcial that this drawing be completed in place; without it, all would be exposed to impOltant in this area of the layout because the on fascia panels secured in their final layout view. The fascia also provides a fi nished edge Chupadera Loop pOltion functions as the cen­ position, since the fascia landscape features (a sash, if you will) to adjacent scenery, and tral scenic fe ature of the Jersey Westem Rail­ must correlate with existing faraway and may contain sections of control panel inter­ road. It is the primary "one-scene" visible neighboring landforms. With the paper draw­ spersed between plain, unadornedsegments. when the railroad is first experienced. ing in place, various line of sight and camera Fascia materials on miniature railroads angles can be tested for realism and adjust­ range from natural wood to modern plastics. Broadening the Focus ments made where necessary. Specific scenic On the Jersey Western Railroad, Jim and I With these considerations in mind, we fe atures can also be emphasized, if desired. On chose to use Masonite fo r several reasons. It came up with two ways to incorporate fascias the Chupadera Loop fascia, for instance, the is inexpensive, readily available, can be into layout scenery. The first was discussed rightmost portion echoes the colorful rock formed into various shapes, and is easy to in last month's "Behind the Scenes: A Case strata that occur naturally in Scorpion Canyon paint with artists' oils. This fi nal factor for Detai I." Here, a detai led layout many­ just to the east, while the arroyos are reminis­ comes into play in the Chupadera Loop fa s­ scene was constructed directly on a control­ cent of the high-deselt scenery in the far dis­ cia that is being discussed in this series. panel fa scia section using three-dimensional tance beyond the loop. In addition, the top At this portion of the fascia, the height of techniques. The Calamity Canyon cattle tun­ edge of the fascia, where it curves and dips, the track is approximately 56" from the nel enters the control panel, then extends was used as a springboard to fashion the edge floor, and the outside-loop (siding) track back underneath the track and through the of a hill sloping down to an an·oyo. Figure I runs about 6" from the edge of the operating layout scenery to fo rm an integral part of the shows this pOltion of the fascia pencil drawing. area. For the sake of realistic viewing of this scenery within Chupadera Loop. Most of the scene from the operating aisle, as well as remaining fascia surfaces around the loop The Importance of Color prototypical camera angles, scenery must were treated using a second technique, which With ti nal details adjusted per adjacent extend in a sloping fashion from the track involves two-dimensional methods. These and distant landscape features, the drawing down to the layout edge/fascia. The top edge fascia surfaces are not detailed to the extent was transferred to the actual fascia using of the fascia in this area will therefore range of the Calamity Canyon panel, but rather pencil. Artists' oil colors were then used to between 55 " and 48" from the floor. exhibit a blending of painted fascia land­ paint the broad land forms. The colors cho­ We feel it is important for the bottom forms with the layout scenery above them, sen for this step are crucial; they should edges of all the fascias that surround the oper­ such that it is hard to determine where the match the landscape colors that occur in the ating areas of the layout to maintain a straight fascia ends and the three-dimensional existing three-dimensional scenery. On the line. For this reason, the lower edge of the scenery begins. In this way, again, the fascia Jersey Western railroad, these colors are pri­ Chupadera Loop fascia cannot be raised becomes part of the layout. marily brown and tan, since the railroad's

62 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 protected using newspaper and masking tape. Then, 4" x 6 " strips of paper towel were dipped in a 1.5: 1 mixture of plaster of Paris and water and draped over the screen wire. Strips for the fillportion were naITOW enough to ensure that their weight did not collapse the slope of the fi ll inward. Once these were dry,

_-A�j' ... . _� fi nish coats of thicker plaster-of-Paris were troweled on with a spatula such that the land surface was even with the top of the fascia. Fine detail was added with a brush, and rocks were fashioned on the sharp downward slope of the landfonTI descending the escarpment. When the plaster surface had dried thor­ oughly, it was colored with thin washes of artists' oils. A darker earth color was used towards the top edge of the filland was car­ 1 - With the three-dimensional scenery in place above the painted fascia, it ried over to the actual top of the fi ll; and a is hard to tell where the scenery ends and the fascia begins. The result is to lighter color was used towards the base, to draw attention to the layout - which is our primary goal - rather than to provide the illusion of a wider surface at the the fascia. bottom. The coloring of the fill also reflects the varied colors of the dirt that was taken locale is the high desert of the Southwest. cutting the screen wire. In this particular por­ from several cuts and bOlTOW pits near the The earth tones known as Yellow Ochre and tion of the scenery, the natural shape of the trackage (coming soon in an "On Track"). Raw Sienna served as the base hues fo r the land slopes sharply downward on an escarp­ Small streams of ballast were then sifted land color, with Burnt Sienna and Burnt ment, while the two tracks continue on an down the fi ll surface to represent extra bits of Umber used for shadowing on hills and val­ upward grade on a fi ll. The distance from the ballast that find their way down the side of leys. Ye llow Ochre and Titanium White were trackboard edge to the bottom of the fill,and the fi II. The ballast for this siding track, used fo r highlights, while a mixture of Cad­ the distance from the outer edge of the fi ll to which is closer to the viewer than the adja­ mium Ye llow and TelTe Ve rde served as the the top edge of the fascia, were measured and cent mainline. is Arizona Rock & Mineral vegetation color. The paints were brushed used as the basis for cutting and fo lding the Co.'s HO scale No. 115-2 Empire Builder onto the fascias very nearly as they came screen wire. (This process will be detailed GN (BN) Basalt, mixed 50/50 with their Fine from the tube, i.e., thickly, without the use of further in a future "Behind the Scenes.") Steam Era Mix Yard Ballast (formerly Ash a thinning medium. This allows the paints to The wire was then fo lded by hand to fol­ Pit Gray), No. 122. Mesquite bushes and stick to the vertical fascia surfaces without low the proposed landform, and stapled to weeds were represented by Woodland Scen­ running, and will provide a solid surface fo r the trackboard and the footings. ics' fo liage, lichen and turf, and the roughed­ further paint andlor plaster detailing. Photo 2 It should be noted that the fill in this par­ in painting on the fascia surface was detailed, shows a portion of the fascia with this step of ticular area of the layout is more vertical in highlighted and clarified to blend with the the painting process complete. Note that the shape than would be the case in the proto­ three-dimensional scenery above. The result, land fo rms are broadly sketched in; fi nal type. We chose to model it in this way to add seen in Photo I, is a fascia that doesn't end details will be added after the three-dimen­ some foreshortening to the scene, and to fit it the scene abruptly with a strip of plain sional scenery above has been completed. into the space available. With the skillful use Masonite, but rather extends the landscape More vivid colors may be used to high­ of color, the somewhat narrow fill will appear further into space. light certain scenic features; the rock strata to be wider than it actually is at its base. Next time, we'll do some more fascia that appear on the rightmost section of the After the screen wire was installed, all and scenery detailing around Chupadera fascia, for instance, were painted in the same adj acent fascia surfaces and trackwork were Loop. See you then! � hues that occur in the related Scorpion Canyon strata - violet, olive green and vari­ ous reds and pinks. Further detailing of this particular fascia section will involve three­ dimensional rock strata, a grade crossing on the trackage above, and a bridge ... stay tuned!

And On to Three Dimensions With the painting completed and thor­ oughly dry, the three-dimensional scenery from the top of the fascia upward to the loop trackage could proceed. First, of course, track­ work was completed to include lies and rail, along with electrical work; ballast would be added after the scenery was fi nished. Small footings cut from a block of I" x I" balsa were then glued every 4" or so to the back of the fa scia, about 'I," from its top edge, using Hobsco Goo®. These footings provide support fo r the screen-wire landform - additional pieces were added where required for SUppOl1 2 - After the drawing was transferred to the fascia, the broad landforms were of specific fe atures such as slopes and gullies. painted with artists' oil colors in colors to match the landscape scenery on the Measurements were then taken from the remainder of the layout. This portion of the fascia exists about one third of the layout to serve as a guide for forming and way around the loop.

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 63 ... r Southern 3sds; a kitbashed high­ short-hood Atlas handles a , mode l Photos by the author unless otherwise Jnr:',r�'t",r1' m ixed freight on the author's layout.

eneral Electric's U33C was the first model, and began the acquisition of parts. on the body-shell casting. As produced, this model to have the overhanging radi­ One problem presented itself immediately. model has the rearmost grille (remember, we G ator grilles that have become stan­ GE used two varieties of truck castings for are talking long hood forward) at the bottom dard on all the later GE locomotives. these engines (as they had for the U30C), of the door area. The location of this grille This came about because the flush-sided one produced by Adirondack (AD) and one depended on the make and model of the grilles of the previous models did not pro­ by GSI. The original Atlas model had the accessories, and the Southern units were vide adequate radiator capacity for an engine sideframes for the AD truck, and the South­ produced with a different arrangement than of over 3,000-hp. Pleased with the perfor­ ern engines had the GSI truck. It was not the prototype for the Atlas model. Southern mance of their five U30Cs, the Southern until Atlas produced their C30-7 that the U33Cs had this grille at the top. If you are placed an order for five U33Cs which were GSI sideframes became available, and it is brave there is a simple solution - cut out delivered in April of 1970. This was fol­ these sideframes that were used on the the panel the grille is mounted on from both lowed by another order for five which were model. They required some modification, sides of the body sh�l. The cut closest-to the delivered in January of 1972. They were but nothing serious. Atlas got the nomencla­ front should be made so that the saw blade numbered from 3805 through 3814. At ture on these two types of sideframes back­ goes between the hinges on the cut-offpanel 395,000 pounds, these were the heaviest ward, but nevertheless, they do have superb and the end of the adjacent grille. The next diesel locomotives operated by the railroad. renditions of both. cut should be at the bottom of the angle All ten of the locomotives were still in ser­ The shell of this model is held to the where the wide part of the hood joins the vice at the time of the merger in 1982. The frame by six C-shaped catches on the bot­ narrow part. This should be made at a 45° January/February 1996 issue of Diesel Era tom of the body. I cut out the bottom part of angle to the side. The top may be cut with magazine has an extensive article on these each of these catches, allowing them to be repeated passes of a new #1 1 blade. Do this locomotives along with drawings of 3808. used for locating but NOT fastening the to both sides of the shell. Photo I shows the Jeffrey Capps, who did that drawing also did shell. The Kadee® #5 coupler boxes provide cut shell with the piece removed next to the 3805 which accompanies this article. The an excellent method for fastening the shell to opening. Southern was the only road to purchase the the chassis without running the risk of dam­ The solution to the revised grille location high-short-hood versions. I highly recom­ aging the shell by bending and twisting is to take the piece from the right side, invert mend the Diesel Era article to those of you every time the model requires disassembly. it and put it on the left side. To make up for who would like more information about the styrene lost in the two saw cuts a piece of these engines. Long Hood Changes .0lD styrene should be cemented to each end Atlas's production of their very nice Following my principle of getting the of the removed piece before it is fastened in U33C prompted my desire to do the South­ most difficult task out of the way first, I place. Photo 2 shows one of the removed ern version of the engine. I selected 3805, chose to change out the air-inlet grilles on pieces with the styrene shims on both cut the class engine, as the prototype for the the long hood since it involves major surgery edges. One has been trimmed and the one on

64 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 Prototype 3805 in Greensboro, NC, on June 15, 1979. Compare the differences in this 1979 view with those in the following photo from 1970. J. Marvin Black photo � ;

This April 19, 1970, view of 3805 in Valdosta, GA, shows a single-door control box in front of the engineer's side of the cab and axle indicators (possibly wheel-slip, train-handling and speed recorder) on each axle. Also note that the stair-well railings are not painted white. Other minor dif­ ferences include footboards, fewer warning labels, bolder numberboard numerals and lack of "X" after the units road number on the cab.

the angled cut has not. Trim both sides and vice, as can be seen in the prototype photos. The next major surgery is once again on file to fitthe opening in the shell. Cut a splice Note that there are only six of the large the body molding. In order to assemble the plate from .020 styrene and cement it to this doors, with another box above them. new short hood properly it should be done piece so that it will overlap the inside of the According to Southern drawings this extra on the shell. This requires that the cab be wide area. Cement in place and allow to dry. box is a control box which contains "various cemented in place, which also requires cut­ Do this on both sides of the shell. Use putty electric relays, including wheel-slip." ting off that part of the body inside the cab to repair any defects in the seams. If you do it Since the model comes with an extension so that the windows can be installed after the the way I did you will probably have a saw after the sixth door this extension must be model is painted and weathered. First, mark in the overhang area, but don't repair removed. Cut down from the top just forward assemble the running board to the body. this until the radiator top is cemented in of the stanchion hole to a line even with the With a sharp pointed tool (I use a sewing place. Photo 3 shows the left side with the forward part of the molding. Then make a needle) mark the shell where the short hood revised grille and the splice plate on the horizontal cut along this line to the lower­ meets the running board. Continue this mark inside of the right side. (Note: In Photos I & level walkway and cut the front of the section to the hole where the cab snaps in adjacent 3 the "C" latches are not cut, as this was not off at the same level. To provide a filler for to the long hood. Cut the shell at the groove done until the shell was complete.) the hole left in the lower walk we will use where the cab fits against the long hood so Next we turn to the running-board mold­ the top of the section just removed. Cut the that the base of the groove remains on the ing and the modification of the battery-box top off this section and fit it to the hole. By hood section. Cut along the marked line and assembly below, and just forward of, the using the inside edge of the top as the outside put the removed section in the scrap pile. cab. There are several variations of this edge of the walk the tread pattern will match. Check the remaining section against the run­ arrangement, and naturally the version mod­ Cement in place. Using a small piece of .020 ni ng board and file as necessary to fit. The eled is not the one used by the Southern ! In styrene sheet fa bricate and install a new front body at this stage is shown in Photo 5. fact, the railroad changed this arrangement end for the battery boxes. When dry, use When the fit isCOITect, cement the runniJlg on their engines after they were put in ser- putty to repair any defects (see Photo 4). board to the body. Remove the light and num-

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING .... 65 Remove all detail from the "front" of the hood except the round plate at the lower center. In order to get the proper number­ board/headlight positioning, part of the long­ hood end of another body must be used. Cut it off the shell along the mold parting lines. Then make a horizontal cut about 18" above the headlight opening. The horizontal cut at the bottom should be just above the recess for the door. (Don't make the mistake I did berboard assembly from the rear of the cab shown in Photo 7 so that the bottom front of and cut on a slant!) File the back of this and smooth. Remove the windshield framing the side is flush against the running board. piece until the sides match the thickness of also. Be careful not to remove the roof seam Now the two sides should be cemented to the "front" at the same place. Hold the head­ just below the top on the cab rear. Also the cab/running board. In order to get the light section against the "front" so that the remove the grabiron bolts on the lower rear of spacing correct it is best to assemble the tops of the numberboards on the new piece the cab, left side, and use putty to fill the dim­ hood, using masking tape to hold everything are just below the numberboard openings on ples. This is a good time to drill #77 holes for in place. Then place in position and tack the the kit "front" and the headlights are in the the four windshield wipers. Now cement the sides ONLY in place. When secure, remove COITect position, that is, extending above the cab to the body/running-board assembly (see the top and the "front," then cement the numberboards instead of below as they do Photo 6). sides solidly to the cab and running board on the long hood end. Mark the "front" with with Testors Model Master cement (in the your sharp marker, then cut just below the High Short Hood black plastic bottle). When dry fit the top to marked line. Cement the top of the "front" The next item is the high short hood. the sides - you will discover that it is about to the new headlight section and allow to Unfortunately there is no kit available for a 2" too low. To make up for this cement a dry. Place the bottom section in place on the high short hood for this engine. There is, piece of 2" x 6" styrene strip (Evergreen hood, then holding the top section in place however, a GE Dash 7 hood kit (Smokey 8206) to each side of the top where it is to mark a line on the bottom at the correct Valley 72) which may be modifiedto fit the be fastened to the sides. Photo 7 shows the location for the next cut. To be on the safe U33C. This kit was made for the Rail Power shell and top at this stage. side allow a bit extra, then cut with a razor Products B23-7, which does not have the Remove the bar on the top of the hood, saw. Now, alternately fitting and fi ling, same height hood as this model. This can be but do not remove the grabiron brackets, adjust the two pieces of the new end until rectified in the following manner. Adjust the sand-filler mount or the circular horn mount. you are satisfied with the fit. I wound up fil­ bottom of the two sides to fit the assembly Cement the top to the sides and the cab. ing too much off, so had to add a fi ller of

66 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 and then fabricate the triangular sides of the bracket from the same material. When all is thoroughly dry, round off the corners of the bracket to simulate bent sheet metal. Use a Grandt 5099 NBW to simulate the top of the air ringer and a piece of .008 copper wire (I pulled mine from an old round I 10V electri­ cal cord) for the air line. Next are the five walkway lights, aMI 9708, mounted in #68 holes, two on each side of the long hood and one on the right side of the short hood. Secure with CA. There is no horn that I am aware of that duplicates the horns on these engines. How­ ever, the aMI 900 1 with the two top trum­ pets re moved provides a reasonable substitute. These should be mounted in #60 holes. The firecracker antenna mounted in the brake wheel with the top of the louvers the center of the cab roof is one of my even with the top of the adjacent window. "unbreakable" versions. Drill a locating hole Cement the exhaust stack in position. about halfway through the center of the roof Now comes the added control box on the with a #68 drill and cement one of the small right side. Fabricate a box 4' 9" x 2' 4" x I'6" square blank covers from the DA 1507 M U from styrene. Scribe the door outlines on connectors onto the roof. When thoroughly one of the large sides. The hinges and the dry, drill #77 and CA a short piece of .0 15 drip strip can be made from .0 I 0 styrene music wire (K&S 498) into the hole so that rod, Grandt 390 I. For the latch use a tech­ 12" projects above the base. Then an 8" nique pioneered by Bob Hundman - cut a square-cut section of insulation from Brawa .0 I 0 styrene between the two pieces. pair of large rivets from a scrap carbody (I 3168 flex wire is CA'd flush with the top of Cement the new end together, then cement used an old AHM gondola) with a razor the music wire. If you don't want to try this to the hood. Reinforce all seams from the blade and, holding them with a small brush a OW 157 may be used. Photo 10 shows the back with Model Master cement and allow dampened with solvent, place in position on shell at this stage. to dry overnight (see Photo 8). the box and apply more solvent - Presto, a The drip strip molded on the cab is in the When thoroughly dry shape the corners nice latch to match the ones molded on the wrong position for the Southern engines, but where the pieces are joined with fi les and body. 1t is much easier than it sounds, and it can be used as a support for the awning. sandpaper. Add putty as necessary and quicker to do than to tell about. When the To fabricate the Southern awning with the smooth until you are satisfied with the box is dry, smooth with sandpaper and putty rolled-up rain gutter edge take a piece of appearance of the entire hood. Use care not as necessary. Then cement to the top of the 'I,' x 'I,' brass angle (K&S 171) and fi le (or to damage the gaskets around the number­ battery boxes as shown in the photos. grind with a Dremel tool) one edge down boards and headlights, as well as the saved Atlas failed to provide a recess for the just past the beginning of the bend. Smooth details on the top. The fi rst details to be top grabiron on the long end. This can be the cut area to a rounded shape so that it added to the short hood are the NBWs to rectified by removing the detail from an area gives the appearance of the rolled edge of simulate the grabiron mounts. This is best three squares long and five squares wide at the prototype. Trim the other leg to a length done by making a cardstock template. Cut a the center front of the radiator. This provides of 8" and fi Ie the cut edge to a 45° angle. piece of cardstock about I" x 3 ". (An old room for the grabiron. Drill a pair of #78 Cut two pieces of this shaped angle 4' 9" business card is an ideal thing to use.) Mark holes 18" apart at the front edge of the long. Trim off the ends of the molded rain the long edge of the card every 15" for a recess and install an 18" straight grab, West­ gutter so that 4' 9" of the center remains. total of six marks. Hold it on the end, short erfield I 198, with CA. When dry, bend the Fasten the awning to the cab side with CA, side against the deck and lined up with the grab back so that it projects just a couple of using the remaining molded gutter as a sup­ outside grabiron mount on the roof. Mark inches above the rest of the radiator. Remove port. Cement a stri p of I " x 2" styrene the end with your sharp marker at each of the four mounting brackets for the vertical (Evergreen 8102) above the awning as a new the marks on the card, then move the tem­ grabs on each side of the front and use pu tty rain gutter. Reinforce the joint with the plate 18" toward the center and make to fi ll the dimples. Drill alit the remaining awning with CA. Photo II shows the cab another set of six marks. Drill these 12 holes mounts at the dimples with a #78 drill and with the awning and new rain gutter with a #77 drill. It is a good idea to also drill install 18" drop grabs, Westerfield I 197, installed. If you plan on having a cab win­ out the molded top brackets and replace with CA. Drill #78 above the NBWs on the dow open, as is the engineer's window on them with NBWs to provide a more uniform short hood and install the same drop grabs. this model, cut out the sash before installing look to the end. Cement a DA2203 NBW in Do not install the bottom grab on either end the awning. each of the holes. Cement the sandbox fi ller since they will be installed after the painting The prototype photos show the standard lid from the kit to the top. The shell at this and decaling is complete The grab on the top Southern flag holders on both ends. Note stage is shown in Photo 9. of the short hood is also a straight grab. that there is some variation in location of One final item on the new short hood is There is no casting made for the GE­ the front flag holders between the two the group of four louvers on the left side. style bell on the nose, but one can be fabri­ groups of engines. The first group, which These can best be made from the early EMD cated from the bell supplied with the engine. includes 3805, has the holders on the side (shh!) louvers in DA 1905. Cut four louvers Drill a #55 hole in the long end, centered of the nose, in line with and just in front of from the top of one of the panels and trim j li st below the notch for the sand fi Iler. the top of the large grille. On the second them to abollt half length. Drill out the Round off the corners of the square mount­ group they are on the front side of the cor­ brake-wheel mOllnt on the new hood #6 1. ing pin on the bell to fit the hole and cement ner and even with the bottom of the num­ Cement the brake wheel in position then in place. When dry, make the top of the berboards. The location on the shorr hood cement the louvers to the hood centered over bracket from a piece of .0 I 0 styrene. Let dry is the same for both versions. These are

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 67 corners of the pilot. To achieve this on the model cut a piece of .030 styrene to about half the width of the bevel on the model (11 "). Taper this piece to match the bevel on the deck, then cut off four pieces 10" long and cement them under the bevels. To add the correct MU connections take the thinner of the two round connectors from DA 1507 and cement in place, one on each end. Then take the square connector and cement it to a scrap of .040 styrene. When dry, trim the styrene to a small square and cement between the large connector and the center stanchion as shown in the photos. Remove the molded-on MU air-hose nipples and drill #74 at their locations for the DA 1508 MU hoses which will be attached after decaling is completed. Also drill #66 for the Cal Scale air hose. After the holes are drilled, remove the rest of this detail from the pilot and smooth. The next item is the footboards. If you are building a later version they are not required, but they were needed for this ear­ lier version. There are two commercial foot­ board assemblies made, DA 2208 in plastic and OW 192 in metal. For this model the OW 192 was used. Drill the pilot according to the instructions in the package, but remove the section of the MU-hose box (or pilot beam) between the footboards before cementing them in place. This completes the work on the shell if you are using the sup­ plied plastic handrails, but if you want metal ones then read on. The handrails are bent from .015 music wire (K&S 498) using the plastic railings as a bending guide. The handrail stan­ chions are Utah Pacific 87. They should be assembled to the handrai Is before being attached to the shell. Unfortunately the existing holes in the shells are located too high for these stanchions. For this model these holes were plugged with .030 styrene rod (Grandt 3903) and new #68 holes were drilled just below the plugs, at the correct distance below the walkway for the new stanchions. The prototype photos show that the two center stanchions on each end are not the same as the rest. For these stan­ chions the ones trimmed from the plastic railings in the kit were used in the original holes. The tops are drilled #78 for the rail­ ing, and a #80 hole is drilled just below and toward the front of the stanchion for the safety chain. The drop steps must be installed at the best made from Grandt 5096 NBWs (2'/2' the beveled end of the drill. This will pro­ time the center stanchion assembly is nut on 6" square washer). Cut off the vide a mount of the correct size for the installed. The ones on this model were washer flush with the nut on two opposite PSC jewels. secured in the down position with CA. sides of the molding. Cement in #7 1 holes After the handrails have been fitted and in the locations shown in the prototype Pilot Details secured with CA the safety chain may be photo of the unit you are modeling. The The pilots are next. While the molded-on added. Since the prototype chains have class lights should be dimpled for the PSC MU receptacle may be correct for some links about '/2' in size it is my opinion that 48377 jewels. The ones on the front are in applications it is not for this version. even the smallest commercial chain is the right location, but the ones on the short Remove it and smooth the pilot. Notice on oversize. A technique for simulating this hood need to be relocated. Refer to the the prototype photos how the beveled part of smaller chain is to take a piece of the .008 photos for the location. Drill a #70 hole the deck which extends over the front of the wire referred to earlier and twist it tightly, halfway through the end and, with a #50 pilot is extended downward to a line even then loosen the twist just enough to look drill, make a dimple the full diameter of with the bottom of the cutouts at the upper like the prototype safety chain. Shape into

68 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 These two photos were taken August 3, 1979, in the Pomona Ya rd in Greensboro, NC. J. Marvin Black photos

the proper curve and CA in place in the #80 holes. This completes the work on the shell.

Chassis Modifications Now for the chassis. Drill #50 holes for the coupler mounting pin, then tap 2-56. Remove the weight on the cab end and saw off at the place where it narrows to fit into the cab. This is done for two reasons: I) the stock weight will not fitunder the new hood, and 2) it also opens the cab up nicely! Remove the truck sideframes and install the new C30-7 sideframes with the two top brake cylinders. The snubbers on the center journals should be removed as they were not present on the Southern engines. Form new brake-cylinder air lines from .012 brass wire (DA 2504) since the ones furnished with the trucks are the wrong shape for this engine. Use DA 2206 eyebolts to hold the lines in Rear three-quarter view of the fireman's side of 3805 at the Citico Shops in Chat­ position on the sideframes and secure with tanooga, TN, April 2, 1977. Footboards are still present. M. B. Connery photo CA. Drill a '/'6" hole in the center and rear journals of the rear truck, engineer's side plan on double-heading the model it may be ing residue ( and oil from the hands) is (remember - long hood forward !) and wise to go with a #5 .) Be sure to trim removed. Air dry overnight. Carefully install DA 2808 GE speed recorders. Follow enough off the front of the #5 pocket to clean the sideframes and fuel tank with the instructions for simulating the cables. allow the coupler to move freely. Install the alcohol. Airbrush the chassis with Pactra Drill a pair of #74 holes in the frame at the shell on the chassis and use the coupler M-I Scale Black, and when dry airbrush appropriate locations to hold the upper end boxes to hold the assembly together. Put the with Dullcote to protect the paint. Protect of these cab les. engine on the railroad and run it in, check­ the gearboxes, light bulbs, motor and all With CA fasten the large air filter from ing to make sure that everything works rotating parts with masking tape before the OW 139 air filter set to the front of the properly. Photos 12 and 13 show the model painting. Now spray a thin coat of your fuel tank at the location shown in the pho­ at this stage. favorite black on the body shell. For this tos. Add any desired piping with .033 brass model, Floquil Military Gloss Black wire (DA 2509). The crankcase drains are Paint and Decals 303 168 was used. Inspect the shell for any made from .040 styrene rod (Grandt 3904). Disassemble the model and prepare for apparent defects and correct them before Prepare a pair of Kadee® 23 couplers painting by washing the shell thoroughly airbrushing the final coats. Once the paint according to the directions. (The #23 gives with Dawn and warm water. Use a soft is thoroughly dry (overnight at least) begin very close prototypical coupling. If you brush to make sure that all the manufactur- the decal process.

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70 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 Bill Materials Manufacturer 90 10 of.010 styrene Stripes Part No. Description 9020 .020 styrene Micro Sol Atlas 9030 .030 styrene Micro Set 8500 Undec U33/36C Floquil Overland 850200 Body, bare 303 168 Military Jet Black 900 1 5-chime forwru'd N&W, 850206 Headlight lens set (gloss) NS hom Athearn Grandt Line 9708 Walkway lights 99002 2-56 x '/. " screws 390 1 .010 styrene rod Pactra Brawa 3903 .030 styrene rod M- I Scale Black 3168 Flex wire 3904 .040 styrene rod Precision Scale CalScale 5096 2'/," nut on 6" square 39065 GP7 stanchions 277 Brass air hose washer (see text) Detail Associates 5099 3" nut on 4'/''' washer 48377 Clear jewels 1507 MU connectors K&S Smokey Valley 1508 MU hoses 171 '/,' x '/,' brass angle 72 Dash-7 high short hood 2203 Plastic NBWs 498 .0 15 music wire Te stors �------� 2206 Eyebolts Kadee® 1160 Dullcote 2504 .0 12 brass wire 23 ShOit-shank couplers Model Master cement 2509 .033 brass wire Keystone Utah Pacific 2809 GE speed recorder 3405 Plastic wipers 87 GE stanchions Details West Microscale Westerfield 139 Air li lter 87-32 SRR Hood Diesels - 1197 Drop grabs 157 Firecracker antenna Gold 1198 Straight grabs (see text) 87-527 Loco Data and Late Miscellaneous en 192 Metal footboards Builder's Plates Cyanoacrylate (CA) :I: A- Evergreen 87-539 SRR Hood Diesels - Liquid styrene cement I- J 8102 Ix2 strip styrene Dulux Gold White glue 0 A- /I) 8206 2x6 strip styrene 87-540 SRR Gray & Gold Weathering paint :.: cc 0 - 0 () ...J • I The gray and gold stripe is from these parts (except the MU hoses) should be c II 0( Microscale 87-540. Be sure to follow the painted before installation. Secure with CA. w :I: :I E directions on the package - it will take sev­ Install the shell on the chassis before weath­ 0( E eral applications of the red-label stuff ering. :.: If) 0 Z >- 1'0 (Micro Sol) to get the decals to snug down The model was weathered with very 0 ...J � III over all the irregularities in the shell. After dilute Floquil, applied in dust-like coats. III ()�-'w the striping is complete, add the road name, Remember that the whole engine should <{ numbers and heralds from 87-32 and the appear dusty, with grungy green grime ZCW)ILu �CW)IL(/) small lettering from 87-527 and 87-539. The around the trucks and pilots and soot on the ::::» ::::» 111 0 pilot and step-edge stripes are from 87-539, top and other flat surfaces. Weathering is a � :r: as are the diagonal stripes on the pilot. The highly subjective thing, and no two of us do w pilot striping is not wide enough fo r the GE it exactly the same way. Do whatever is 0 N pilots, so it must be augmented on both sides comfortable fo r you. When the weathering is en >- (/) -' with strips cut from another section of strip­ complete, seal it again with Dullcote. II -' ing. The striping on the step-ups on the Disassemble the engine to add the glaz­ => lL. walkway is also cut from an additional sec­ ing, numberboards, wipers, the class-light Z tion of pilot striping. jewels and an engineer. To get illuminated :I The builder's plates are from 87-527 as numberboards paint them with a thin are the DANGER-600 VOLTS white on red translucent white, such as Polly Scale CC lettering. The trust plates on both sides just 5050 II, then apply the numbers from 87-32, � above the center axle of the front truck are seal with Dullcote and then fit into the shell C trimmed from the late-model EMD builder's and secure with white glue. For the new plates on 87-527. Check your photos care­ short hood another Atlas long hood light fu lly to ensure that all the small lettering is casting must be used, inverted to match the in the right locations - it changed over the inverted headlight. The window glazing will life of the engines. Once the decal work is have to be trimmed to fit the modified cab, completed wash the shell again with Dawn and should be held in place with white glue. and when dry airbrush with Dullcote to pro­ The wipers, Keystone 3405, and the class­ tect the decals and make them appear to light jewels are secured with CA. The engi­ merge with the paint. neer should be placed in the cab (once again Install the prepainted black grabs in the - remember the long hood is fo rward) and gray stripe on both ends. The pilot details - the work on the shell is complete. coupler cut levers, long grabs, MU hoses Now reassemble the engine and put it on and air hoses should now be added. The sup­ the railroad. After running it around for a plied cut levers may be used, or new ones while by itself to admire your work, hitch it may be fabricated fro m .0 12 brass wire as up to a long train and let it do it's stuff. [t was done here. The mounting brackets are will haul a nice I-o-n-g cut of cars - and made from the top part of Precision Scale now you can see why Southern liked the big 39065 handrail stanchions. No long grabs beasts! The completed model is shown in are fu rnished, but they are easy to fa bricate Photos 14 and 15. from .012 brass wire. The MU hoses are DA My 3805 went into service on 17 May 1508 and the air hoses are CalScale 277. All 1�6. �

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 71 ItDEO REVIEW v

Bay Area Transit

- CatenaryVi deo Production

reviewed by Richard D. Forest, Esq.

n today's San Francisco Bay area, better which ran over the Key System to its own guided governmental policies. There are a known as the Bay area, public trans­ tracks which then cut through the East Bay few looks at East Bay trolleys. portationI has enjoyed a resurrection under hills to Walnut Creek and went north to the Good footage captures the NWP lines BART, CalTrans and Amtrak California. Pittsburgh Landing, where a car ferry con­ in Marin County, with some real good What those who are less than later-middle­ nected them to continuing trackage to looks at the trains as well as views from age don't remember is how good public Sacramento and Chico (the world's longest the train with especially memorable transit was in the Bay area before its decima­ interurban ride). footage looking back toward Mount Tamal­ tion at the hands of the automobile and its al­ The Bay Bridge, in addition to its high­ pais as the train approaches Sausalito (you lies - governmental road building projects way lanes, was designed to convey the sub­ can see the right of way today if you know (with their indifference to public transit), and urban trains into San Francisco's Transbay where to look). private management which was understand­ Terminal, build on Mission Street (one Coverage is given to the Sacramento ably forced out of a business that could not block south of Market Street) as part of the Northern, although the footage is also be operated as a for-profit operation. Cate­ Bay Bridge project. However, the rail line shown in Catenary's very excellent tape on nary Productions now gives us a nice peek at was opened several years after the Bridge the Sacramento Northern. There is cover­ what we lost. was opened to motor vehicles and much age of city lines in San Francisco, includ­ Basically the Bay area has three distinct business had been lost by that delay. The ing the four tracks on Market Street and geographjc sections divided by water and SP lines ended by 194 I, but the parallel the loop at the Ferry building. Finally, geography: a) Marin County, north of the Key System provided excellent service there are a few looks at today 's BART, Golden Gate; b) the East Bay, generally that until 1955 when the auto-minded authori­ which, fascinatingly, serves virtually the area between San Francisco Bay and the ties did away with the tracks and paved same places as its interurban ancestors. East Bay hills; and c) the Peninsula between them over, with the East Bay Terminal This production is up to Catenary's the Bay and the Pacific, with the city of San becoming a bus station. usual high standards. The original footage Francisco at its apex. This tape shows the In Marin, the Northwestern Pacific pro­ appears to be 16mm and is excellent. Film­ East Bay and Marin County along with a vided extensive service over third-rail elec­ to-tape transfer is flawless. The approach of smattering of the city of San Francisco, trified lines to the suburbs and connected to tying the whole together with discussions because much of San Francisco city transit, San Francisco by ferry service from Sausal­ by transit histori ans is very effective. and the SP Peninsula Commuter operations, ito and Tiberon. The Golden Gate Bridge Indeed, this is so interesting that I found survived and flourish today. This tape is was not designed for rail, and the NWP elec­ myself thinking that this must have been intended to show us what was. tric services died in 1940. produced for public television and for a lay, The entire Bay area was radically This tape gives us a too-short, but excel­ as opposed to a railfan, audience. The only changed by the construction of the San Fran­ lent look at the Bay area as it was before the criticism I can make is that mapwork is too cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden decimation, and gives a theme of "look at limjted and appears too late in the tape, but Gate Bridge in the '30s. Before the Bay what we had and what we lost," with several this is really a minor and picky item. This Bridge, the SP operated an extensive electri­ transit historians giving some spot discus­ tape superbly captures the "flavor" of the cally powered suburban service with MU sions. It starts with a capsule history of the Bay area in the prime of its public transit. cars. They used much traditional interurban­ East Bay service, with excellent views of the Editing is excellent. Modelers will be very type operation in streets, center malls and systems and some very effective quick looks interested in the varied structures and track private right of ways. These operations con­ at the same areas today (it's amazing how structures. This tape gets an "A" rating. nected to San Francisco from Oakland by an much of the basics survive). Especially Bay Area Transit, Catenary Video Pro­ extensive ferry operation. The Key System, interesting is the look at the Transbay Termi­ ductions, marketed by Pentrex, P.O. Box much more interurbanish in its flavor, also nal and its approaches. There is a quick look 94911, Pasadena, CA 91109, (SOO) 950- served the East Bay with greater service and at the National City Lines "conspiracy" to 9333 (order line). Color, a little black and its own ferry operation. convert all to buses, with probably too much white. 27 minutes. $24.95 plus $4 ship­ Longer-range interurban service was blame being given to that conspiracy as ping (S.25% tax in CA). Visa and Master­ provided by the Sacramento Northern, opposed to the deeper problems of mis- Card accepted. �

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ATLANTA (KENNESAW) CULVER CITY SAN DIEGO GRAND JUNCTION TRAINS & HOBBIES INC. DOWNERS GROVE ALLIED MODEL TRAINS THE WHISTLE STOP DEPOT TRAINS DOWNERS GROVE HOBBIES ALABAMA FLORIDA 2644 S. MAIN ST. 6234 S. MAIN ST. 4411 SEPULVEDA BLVD. 3634 4TH AVE. 201 SOUTH AVE. 30144 770-526-0990 60516 708-960-5900 90230 310-313-9353 92103 619-295-7340 61501 970-245-5504 770-528-0910

CLEARWATER CHAM8LEE ELGIN BIRMINGHAM (HOMEWOOD) EAST BRUNSWICK SAN FRANCISCO GREELEY TRAINS AND TREASURES. INC. GANDY DANCERS HOMEWOOD TOY AND HOBBY MEYER'S DISCOUNT STORE FRANCISCAN HOBBIES DON'S HOBBIES B & G TRAIN WORLD 2551 DREW STREET PEACHTREE SHOPPING CTR. 2830 S. 18TH ST. 1920-A OCEAN AVE. 815 10TH STREET 829 WALNUT AVE. 595 ROUTE 18 SUITE 105 5436 PEACHTREE IND. BLVD. 53209 205-879-3986 08816 908-257-8800 94127 415-564-3919 80631 303-353-3115 60120 847-88B-2646 34625 813-799-5447 30341 404-451-7425

DECATUR LAKEWOOD COLUMBUS FRANKLIN PARK CRUMP CAMERA/HOBBYSHOP EL CERRITO SAN JUAN BAUTISTA HIGHBALL HOBBIES COCOA KIT & CABOODLE DOODLEBUG HOBBIES SPARE TIME HOBBIES CUSTOM TRAINS END OF TRACK HOBBIES 806 BANK NE 1000 S. WADSWORTH #H 550 EL CERRITO PLAZA 106 3RD STREET, STE L 23 STONE 3964 VETERANS PKWY. 9706 FRANKLIN AVE. 35601 205-353-3443 80226 303-975-1349 ST. 94530 510-524-9942 95045 408-623-108B 32922 407-636-1 B08 31904 706-322-8429 60131 708-455-2510 800-353-3446 HO, N & G SCALES

ESCONDIDO SAN OAYTONA 8EACH KENNESAW HARTSELLE BRANCHLINE HOBBIES LUIS OBISPO WESTMINSTER DUNN TOYS AND HOBBIES, INC. H088Y TOWN USA KANKAKEE CRUMP CAMERAlHOBBY SHOP LAWS HOBBY CENTER HOBBY TOWN DANNY'S TRAINS AND PLANES 250 CREST ST. 166 S. BEACH ST. 800 E. BARRrn PKWAY., 138 WEST MAIN ST. F 855 MARSH 6975 88TH AVE. 678 WEST HENRY ST. 92025 619-489-5020 W. 9-6 MON-SAT CLOSED SUN SUITE 20 35640 205-773-8018 93401 805-544-5518 80021 303-431-0482 60901 815-932-2000 DAILY 10-6, TH. 12-9. CLOSED SUN 32014 904-253-3644 30144 770-426-B800

LAKELANO MOBILE FRESNO SAN MATEO WESTMINSTER PERKINS HOBBIES! MACON LA GRANGE GM&O "REBEL" HOBBIES FRESNO MODEL RAILROAD TALBOT'S HOBBIES MIZELL TRAINS NC. HOBBYTOWN USA LA GRANGE HOBBY CEtlTER INC. I COLLECTIBLES 820 AZALEA ROAD 744 P STREET 445 SOUTH B ST. 3051 WEST 74TH AVE. 225-B TOM HILL SR. BLVD. 25 S. LAGRANGE RD. 1117 S. FLORIDA AVE. 36693 205-661 -8196 93721 209-266-2805 94401 415-342-0267 80030 303-429-4811 31210 912-474-0061 60525 708-354-1220 33803 813-683-3251

LA MORTON GROVE MESA SANTA CLARA LANTANA MARlrnA TRAINS & CARS OF REEDS HOBBY TRAIN SHOP THE DEPOT HOBBY SHOP YESTERDAY ALASKA 8039 LA MESA BLVD. 1829 PRUNERIDGE AVE. CONNECTICUT 603 RIDGE RD. 353 PAT MELL RD. 7923 W. GOLF RD. 91941 619-464-1672 95050 408-296-1050 33462 407-585-1982 30060 404-333-0190 60053 847-470-9500

SUNNYVALE BRANFORD RIVEROALE SOLOOTNA LAKEWOOO RICHARD'S MODEL HOBBIES BRANFORD HOBBIES MIAMI RIVERDALE STATION MUNDELEIN CRAFTSMAN HOBBIES HOBBY WAREHOUSE ORANGE BLOSSOM HOBBIES RON'S MUNDELEIN HOBBIES 1324 S. MARY AVE. 609 BOSTON POST RD. 6632 HWY. 85 35060 KENAI SPUR HWY. 4118 E. SOUTH ST. 1975 NW 36TH ST. 431 N. LAKE ST. REMONT & MARY-LUCKY'S) WEST MAIN RIVERDALE PLAZA 99669 907-262-2839 90712 213-531-1413 33142 305-633-2521 60060 708-949-8680 �4087 406-992-0246 06405 203-468-9B65 30274 770-991-6085 LOS ANGELES (CULVER CITY) SAVANNAH ALLIED MODEL TRAINS TORRANCE MANCHESTER MIAMI STREET STATION PALATINE ALL ABOARD MODEL RR NEW ENGLAND HOBBY SUPPLY TEXNRAILS BULL PALATINE HOBBY, LT O. 441 1 S. SEPULVEDA BLVD. 151 BULL ST. ARIZONA 3667 PACIFIC COAST HWY. 71 HILLIARD ST. 16115 SW 117TH AVE. A-9 772 W. EUCLID AVE. 90230 FAX 310-313-9365 31402 912-236-4344 90505 213-791-2637 06040 203-646-0610 33177 305-255-1434 60067 847-359-7868 310-313-9353 1-800-611-8521

ORLANDO PARK RIDGE MESA MILPITAS TURLOCK OLD LYME BIG KIDS WORLD OF TRAINS HILL'S HOBBY & COLLECTORS ROY'S TRAIN WORLD HOBBYTDWN USA SOUARE ROUNDHOUSE HOBBY CENTER 1103 NORTH MILLS AVE. SHOP 1033 S. COUNTRY CLUB DR. 1465 LANDESS AVE. 1466 LANDER AVE. 151-3A BOSTON POST ROAD IDAHO 32B03 407-694-4664 10 PRAIRIE 85202 602-633-4353 95035 408-945-6524 95380 209-668-4454 06731 660-434-5309 FAX 407-694-4833 60068 847-623-4464

MONTROSE CRESCENTA VALLEY HOBBY & VENTURA RIDGEFIELD ORLANDO IDAHO FALLS PEORIA VENTURA HOBBIES HOBBY JUNCTION COLONIAL PHOTO & HOBBY INC. HATCH'S HOBBIES MIKE'S MAINLINE HOBBIES CRAFT ARKANSAS 2950 JOHNSON DR. #126 56 DANBURY ROAD 634 N. MILLS ST. 2235 E. 17TH ST. 1227 D. WESTGLEN AVE. 2230 HONOLULU AVE. 93003 805-658-8138 06677 203-436-4452 32803-4675 407-641-1485 83401 208-523-5144 61614 309-692-1909 91020 816-957-1779

SHELTON ORLANOO/WINTER PARK CLARKSVILLE MORENO VALLEY WESTMINSTER SHELTON RAILROAD SYSTEMS THE TRAIN DEPOT QUINCY BROOKS' MODEL HOBBIES LONG'S DRUG STORE #224 ARNIES TRAINS TOP HAT HOBBIES, INC. 15 ELM ST. STEW MARSHALL 107 CHEROKEE LANE 25070 ALESSANDRO BLVD. 6450 WESTMINSTER AVE. ILLINOIS 126 NORTH 5TH PO BOX 2272 900 S. ORLANDO AVE. (17-92) 72830 501-754-4936 923B6-4313 909-242-5060 92683 714-893-1015 62301 217-222-0040 06464 203-924-8761 32769 407-629-1365

ORMONO 6EACH SKOKIE NORTH LlTILE ROCK MOUNTAIN VIEW SIMS6URY HOBBYTOWN BLOOMINGTON NORTH SHORE HOBBY AND MADIJO HOBBY HOUSE SAN ANTONIO HOBBY SHOP VALLEY HOBBIES, INC. HOBBY LAND INC. 1747 W. GRANADA BLVD. COLLECTORS GALLERY 5302 MACARTHUR DR. 2550 W. EL CAMINO REAL W. COLORADO 777 HOPMEADOW ST. 616 N. MAIN ST. 32174 904-672-5441 4901 OAKTON ST. 721 1B 501-753-0495 94040 415-941-1278 06070 203-651-3234 61701 309-828-1 442 !-95; EXIT88 60077 847-673-4849

COLORAOO SPRINGS BOURBONNAIS SPRINGFIELO NORTH HOLLYWOOO CUSTOM RAILWAY SUPPLY VERNON PENSACOLA THE OWL'S ROOST SPRINGFIELD HAMMERS THE ROUNDHOUSE J&E TRAIN DEPOT BOBE'S HOBBY HOUSE 432 W. fiLLMORE MODEL RR SHOP HOBBIES CALIFORNIA 12804 VICTORY BLVD. 911 HARTfORD TPK" (RT. 30) 5719 NORTH W ST. B0907 719-634-4616 263 N. CONVENT, SUITE B 2448 S. 10TH ST. 91606 818-769-0403 06006 860-870-7311 32514 904-433-2187 1 BLOCK EA ST OF 1-25 60914 815-932-6100 62703 217-523-0265

SARASOTA 8ERKELEY ORANGE COLORAOO SPRINGS WOLcon GULf COAST MODEL RAILROAD 8URBANK BERKELEY HARDWARE fRANK'S HOBBY SHOP DIAMOND fUN SHOPPE THE HOBBY GALLERY GOLDEN SPIKE TRAIN SHOP 3222 CLARK ROAD 2145 UNIVERSITY AVE. 666 N. TUSTIN AVE. 125 E. BOULDER lBl0 MERIDEN RD. 6357 W. 79TH ST. INDIANA 34231 941-923-9303 94704 415-645-0410 92667 714-639-9901 B0903 719-520-0126 06716 203-679-2316 60459 706-596-3114 TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS

BURBANK PASAOENA COLORADO SPRINGS TALLAHASSEE CHICAGO BREMEN BURBANK'S HOUSE Of HOBBIES THE ORIGINAL WHISTLE STOP KRIS KRINGLE LTO. THE HOBBY CABOOSE CHICAGOLAND HOBBY BREMEN HOBBIES 923 W. OLIVE AV E. 2490 E. COLORADO BLVD. 2403 W. COLORADO AV E. DELAWARE 1000-24 W. THARPE ST. 6017 NORTHWEST HWY. 30B N. BOWEN AVE. 91506 616-B46-3674 91107 BI 6-796-7791 60904 719-633-1210 32303 904-3B5-9728 60631 312-775-4646 46506 219-546-3607

TAMPA CHICAGO BROWN COUNTY BUR6ANK PETALUMA COLORADO SPRINGS fREDERICA CHESTER HOLLEY MODEL NASHVILLE RAILROAD CD. THE TRAIN SHACK MODELS AND MORE PLUM LOCO Of COLORADO KATHIES TRAINS CHICAGO TRAIN COMPANY RAILROAD SPECIALIST 96 WASHINGTON, BOX 1273 1030 N. HOLLYWOOD WAY 216 PETALUMA BLVD. N. 6527 N. ACADEMY BLVD. 296 ROBBINS RD. 1922 W. IRVING PARK ROAD W. 3616 S. HIMES AVE. NASHVILLE 91 505 616-642-3330 94952 707-762-2376 60916 719-594-4123 19946 302-335-1650 60613 312-929-4152 33611 613-631-7202 47446 612-966-1556

8URLINGAME COLORAOO SPRINGS TRACKSIOE TRAINS REDOING TRAIN SHOWCASE NEWARK CHICAGO EVANSVILLE TRAIN DEPOT HOBBY ART INC. N SCALE EXCLUSIVELY 36 S. SIERRA MADRE TROST HOBBY SHOP A A HOBBY SHOP 2334 RAILROAD AVE. 215 NEWARK SHOPPING CENTER GEORGIA 3105-3111 W. 63RD ST. 2023 W. fRANKLIN ST. 1675 ROLLINS ROAD B-1 (IN OLD RIO GRANDE STATION) 96001 916-243-1360 19711 302-731-6764 60629 312-925-1000 47712 612-423-6666 94010 415-692-9724 60903 719-471-1667

CAMPBELL WILMINGTON ATHENS (WATKINSVILLE) ROSEVILLE OENVER MITCHELLS, INC. MEMORY STATION CREST HILL INDIANAPOLIS 0&J HOBBY RAILROAD HOBBIES CABOOSE HOBBIES WALT'S HOBBY SHOP N GAUGE TRAIN SHOP 2119 CONCORD PIKE PO BOX 56 96 N. SAN TOMAS AOUINO RD. 119 VERNON ST. 500 S. BROADWAY 1701 N. LARKIN AVE. 4759 N. POST RD. fAIRFAX SHOPPING CENTER HIGHWAY 441 SOUTH 95006 406-379-1696 95676 916-762-6067 60209 303-777-6766 60435 615-741-0043 46226 317-696-4683 19803 302-652-3256 30677 706-769-6986

SACRAMENTO COSTA MESA KOKOMO BRUCE'S TRAIN SHOP FORT COLLINS ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS ATLANTA OES PLAINES TOLIN K&K TRAIN CROSSING HDBBY TDWN SOUTHEASTERN HOBBY DEPOT DES PLAINES HOBBIES 2752 MARCONI AVENUE IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY 403-405 ARNOLD CT. 1069C BAKER ST. 2531 S. COLLEGE AVE. 4246 PEACHTREE RD. 1466 LEE ST. 95821 916-465-5266 0 FOR ONLY $9.00 PER MONTH 46902 317-453-9793 92626 714-549-1596 60525 303-244-5445 30319 404-262-7506 60016 647-297-2118 SACRAMENTO'S LARGEST TRAIN STORE OUALITY CUSTOMER SERVICE

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HAMMONO MICHIGAN CITY EAST WEYMOUTH LOWELL NEW IPSWICH THE TRAIN STATION B & A HOBBIES & CRAFTS SOUTH SHORE HOBBY CENTERS EARLS TRAIN WORLO fC. DUMAINE ENTERPRISES 1415 S. MORRISON BLVD. 408 fRANKLIN 1245 COMMERCIAL STREET 10560 CASCADE RO. SE MISSOURI 15 SHALON ROAD NEW MEXICO 1·55 71·12 46360 219·874·2382 02189 617·331·7275 49331 616·868·7495 03021 603·878·2163 70403·5705 504·345·7601

TERRE HAUTE BALLWIN NORTH HAMPTON ALBUQUERQUE KENNER HANSEN PORT HURON TRAINS·N·RAILS CHECKERED FLAG FITIS PHOTO & HOBBY SHOP TRAINS WEST INC. KENNER TRAIN SHOP THE BRASS CABOOSE SHOP BLUE WATER HOBBIES 1701 S. 7TH HOBBY COUNTRY VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER 6001 SAN MATEO BLVD. NE 2000 20TH Sl 669 W WASHINGTON, RI 14 4018 LAPEER ROAD 47802 812·232-4493 14755 MANCHESTER RD. US Rl l SUITE B·3 70062 504·466·5876 02341 617·447·0100 48060 810·984·8764 STORE HOURS 3 TO 8 PM 63011 314·394·7600 03862 603·964·9292 87109 505·881·2322

FARMINGTON NEW ORLEANS LEOMINSTER PORTAGE BLUE SPRINGS HOBBY TOWN USA HUB HOBBY SUPPLY THE SHEPAUG RAILROAD CO. STAN'S ROUNDHOUSE MAINLINE TRAINS SAN JUAN PLAZA IOWA 2618 S. BROAD Sl 24 COLUMBIA Sl 1622 RAMONA 807 MAIN Sl NEW JERSEY 3030 EAST MAIN 70125 504·822·3914 01453 508·537·2277 49002 616·324·0330 64015 816·224·6962 87401 505·325·51 56

ROCHESTER CEDAR FAllS SHREVEPORT MALDEN KANSAS CITY ABSECON LAS CRUCES JOE'S HOBBY CENTER CABOOSE STOP HOBBIES COOK'S COLLECTORS CORNER CHARLES RO SUPPLY CO. SPOTLIGHT MODEL RAILROAD THE ROUNDHOUSE INC. THE HOBBY HUT CAMPUS CORNERS SHPG. CTR. 301 MAIN Sl 4402 YOUREE OR. 662 CROSS Sl 7427 S. TROOST AVE. 400 NEW JERSEY AVE. 126WYATI DR. 105 S. lIVERNOIS 50613 800·642·7012 71105 318·865·7632 02148 617·321 ·0090 64131 816·444·7331 08201 609·641·8474 88005 505·524·0991 48063 313·651·8842

CEOAR RAPIDS METHUEN ROYAL OAK PARKVillE CHESTER BOX KAR HOBBIES MODELER'S JUNCTION TRAIN CENTER HOBBIES J&L HOBBIES THE HOBBY & GAME ANNEX 109 THIRD AVE. SE MAINE 88 LOWELL Sl, ROUTE 113 4508 N. WOODWARD 1362J NW HWY. 9 ROUTE 24 NEW YORK 52401 319·362·1291 01844 508·683·0885 48073 810·549·6500 64152 816·746·1282 07930 908·879·4263

NORTON DENVILLE BLAUVELT DES MOINES NORTH YARMOUTH Sl CLAIR SHORES NORTON PROTOTYPES- f&M HOBBIES HUDSON SHORES HOBBY HAVEN TRAIN & TROOPER WHISTLE STOP HOBBY TRAINS Vf HOBBIES 3118 ROUTE 10 MODEL TRAIN 7672 HICKMAN RO. 13 MEMORIAL HWY. (ROUTE 9 21714 HARPER AVE. NEBRASKA 160 TAUNTON 07834 fAX 201·361·3855 547 0 WESTERN HIGHWAY 50322 515·276·8785 04021 207·829·321 1 48080 313·771·6770 02766 508·285·6712 201·361·0042 10913 914·398·2407

GRANO ISLAND BROCKPORT MASON CITY NORTON TAY LOR HIGHTSTOWN AOVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS HOBBYTOWN USA MIKE'S ANTIQUE TOYS 'N' TRAINS EAST SIDE TRAINS NORTON HOBBIES RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP o K & B RAILWAY SUPPLIES IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY 3537 W 13TH Sl 5605 BROCKPORT 932 B E. STATE Sl 46 W. MAIN Sl 22661 NORTHLINE RD. 116 MAIN Sl fOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH IN STATE ONLY 1·800·286·3451 SPENCERPORT RD. 50401 515·423·1748 02766 508·285·2805 48180 313·287·7405 08520 609·448·5070 68803 308·382·3451 14468 716-637·9980

LINCOLN SUDBURY WESTLAND JACKSON BUFFALO HOBBYTOWN KEN'S TRAINS DAVE'S HOBBY & JACKSON HOBBY SHOP K VAL HOBBIES TV EAST PARK MALL KANSAS MARYLAND MILL VILLAGE, RTE. 20 29026 WARREN RD. 2275 W COUNTY LINE RD. 277 HINMAN AVE. 220 NORTH 66TH Sl 01776 508·443·6B83 48185 313·422·4464 08527 908·364·3334 14216 716·875·2837 68505 402·464·2858

TYNGSBORO MERCERVillE BUFFALO MISSION ARNOLO WESTLANO OMAHA HOBBY EMPORIUM, INC. Z & Z HOBBIES NIAGARA HOBBY & CRAFT MART J'S HOBBY HAVEN STAR HOBBY NANKIN HARDWARE & HOBBY HOBBY.TOWN USA TJ MAX PlAZA 116 flOCK RD. OPEN EVENINGS & SUNDAY 5303 JOHNSON DR. 1244 RITCHIE HWY., STE. 15 35101 fORD RD. 14655 W CENTER RD. 440 MIDDLESEX RD. 08619 800·586·2281 3366 UNION RD. AT WALDEN 66205 91 3·432·8820 21012 410·544·7547 48185 313·722·5700 68144 402·697·9514 01879 508·649·5055 fAX 609·586·7765 14225 716·681-1666

BALTIMORE OLATHE WARREN OMAHA PENNSAUKEN EAST ROCHESTER M B KLEIN, INC. PEACEVILLE TRAIN SHOP TUCKERS HOBBIES HOUSE OF TRAINS TEO'S ENGINE HOUSE DESPATCH JUNCTION 162 N. GAY Sl 432 E. SANTA FE BOX 1090 - 8 BACON Sl MINNESOTA 8106 MAPLE Sl 6307 WESTfiELD AVE. 100 STATION RD. 1 (INCLUDES MAIL ORDER) 66061 91 3·782·6965 01083 413·436·531 8 68134 402·391·231 1 081 10 609·662·0222 4445 716·385·5570 21202 410·539·6207

BERLIN TOPEKA LITTLE CANAOA PISCATAWAY EAST SYRACUSE DENNISON'S TRACKSIDE fUN fOR ALL HOBBIES HUB HOBBY CENTER MODEl RAILROAD SHOP CENTRAL HOBBY SUPPLY HOBBIES 2023 SW GAGE BLVD. MICHIGAN 82 MINNESOTA AVE. NEVADA VAIL AVE. & NEW MARKET RD. 716 WEST MANLIUS Sl 14 S. MAIN Sl 66604 91 3·272·5772 55117 612·490·1675 08854 908·968·5696 13057 315·437-6630 21811 410·641·2438

LAS VEGAS FERNOALE WICHITA COllEGE PARK ANN ARBOR RICHfiELD PLEASANTVILLE HDBBYTOWN USA SUSIE·Q HOBBY SHOP ENGINE HOUSE HOBBIES BURRED HOBBIES RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP HUB HOBBY CENTER BEACHCOMBER COLLECTIBLES 4719 fAIRCENTER PKWY. RD BOX 220 2718 BOULEVARD PlAZA 9920 RHODE ISLAND AVE. 115 W LIBERTY 6416 PENN AVE. S SHORE MALL BLACK HORSE PIKE 89102 PHONE 702·259·5295 BUSHVILLE·SWAN LAKE RD. 67211 316·685·6608 20740 301·982·5032 48104 313·668·8950 55423 612·866·9575 08234 609-645·1031 fAX 702·259·0166 12734 914·292·0921

WICHITA FINKSBURG CANTON SPRING LAKE PARK LAS VEGAS POMPTON LAKES GLENS FALLS HOBBY CENTER INC. TRAIN WORKS RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP UNIVERSITY HOBBIES PRC TRAINS BEN FRANKLIN STORE TRAINS PLUS 1 034 E. HARRY 2934 CEDARHURST RD. 42007 fORD RD. 8185 UNIVERSITY AVE. NE 3920 J W CHARLESTON BLVD. 10 WANAQUE AVE. 12 WARREN Sl 67211 316·269·3063 21048 410·526·0018 48187 313·981·8700 55432 612·780·4189 89102 702·258·7768 07442 201 ·835·8008 12801 518·761·0173

GAITHERSBURG DEARBORN Sl PAUL NORTH LAS VEGAS REO BANK HICKSVILLE PASTIMES JOE'S HOBBY CENTER SCALE MODEL SUPPLIES IMAGINATION UNLIMITED HOBBYMASTERS INC. HOBBY IMAGES KENTUCKY 531 QUINCE ORCHARD RD. 7845 WYOMING AVE. 458 N. LEXINGTON PKWY. 4934 EAST TROPICANA 62 WHITE Sl 89 JERUSALEM AVE. 20878 301·977·7902 48126 313·933·6567 55104 89030 702·434·5696 07701 908·842·6020 11801 516·822·8259

KENSINGTON ASHLAND fARMINGTON THIEf RIVER fALLS RENO RUTHERfORD HORSEHEADS MAYBERRY & SONS HOBBYTOWN USA JOE'S HOBBY CENTER A&E RAILROAO HIGH SIERRA MODELS CHOO CHOO EDDIES ALTOONA SHOPS TRAIN & HOBBIES 500 WINCHESTER AVE. #232 35203 GRANO RIVER HIGHWAY 325 4020 KIETZKE LANE 38 AMES AVE. 2898 WESTINGHOUSE RD. #584 10527 SUMMIT AVE. 41101 606·329·1299 48024 313·477·6266 56701 218·681·4251 89502 702·747·7444 07073 201·438·4588 14845·1828 607·739·8916 20895 301·564·9360

LEXINGTON FLINT HUNTINGTON LAUREL RENO SOMERV1LLE HOBBYTOWN USA RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP OF FLINT THE CABOOSE INC. PEACH CREEK SHOPS HOBBIES Of RENO THE BIG lIDlE RAILROAD SHOP 2329 B NICHOLASVILLE RD. 2061 S. LINDEN ROAD 208 WALL Sl 201 MAIN STREET MISSISSIPPI 535 E. MOANA LANE 5 NORTH DOUGHTYAVE. 40503 PHONE 606·277·5664 48532 810·720·2500 11743 516·427·8288 20707 301·498·9071 89502 702·826·6006 08876 908-429·0220 fAX 606·277·5816 FAX 810·720·2505 MARKLIN SPECIALISTS

WAYNE LOUISVillE FRASER JACKSON INTERLAKEN TOTOWA HOBBY SHOP SCALE REPRODUCTIONS, INC. HOBBYTOWN USA NEW ROCK RIVER MODEL HOBBIES P & 0 HOBBY SHOP 131 MI VIEW BLVD. 3073 BRECKINRIDGE LANE 31902 GROESSBECK HWY. 6880 0 RIDGEWOOD COURT 7762 ROCK RIVER ROAD us HWY. 202 40220 502·459·5849 MASSACHUSETTS 48026 313·296·6116 39211 601 ·957·9900 HAMPSHIRE 14847 607·532·9489 07470 201·696·5170

BEDFORO GRAND RAPIDS LAUREL HAMPTON WESTMONT ISLIP BEDfORD TRAIN SHOP HOBBY WORLD HOBBY CORNER NEAL'S N·GAUGING TRAINS SADlER'S HOBBY SHOP GOLD SPIKE HOBBIES LOUISIANA 32 SHAWSHEEN AVE. 2851 CLYDE PARK SW 1534 N. FIRST AVE. 86 TIDE MILL RD. 14 HADDON AVE. 189 1SlIE AVE., RI 111 01730 617·275·7525 49509 616·538·6130 39440 601·649·4501 03842 603'926·9031 08108 609·854·7136 11751 516·277·3700

BROUSSARO BElLINGHAM INTERVALE GRANO RAPIDS JOHNSON CITY RON'S MODEL RAILROAD THE MODEL RAILROAD AOVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS HARTMANN MODEL RR LT D. ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP THE TRAIN SHOP SHOP SPECIALISTS IN THE OEALER DIRECTORY BRASS CABOOSE IN THE OEALER DIRECTORY 2055 28TH Sl SE 210 GRAND AVE. 106 E MAIN STREET 395 CAROLINE DR., PO BOX 92 FOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH TOWN HALL RD., RTE. 302 116 FOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH 49508 616·247-9933 13790 607·797·9035 70518 318·837·3799 02019 508·966·2370 03845 603·356·9933

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OGOEN KINGSTON BOAR OMAN PORTLANO YORK J&B HOBBIES WILLIAMSBURG J&J'S HOBBIES, INC. AMER'S HOBBY SHOP WHISTLE STOP TRAINS G. & L. HOBBY SHOP 1581 WASHINGTON ST. NORGE STATION 37 N. fRONT 914-338-7174 6010 MARKET STREET 14037 SE STARK 1706 W. MARKET ST. TEXAS 84401 801-627-9466 7405 RICHMOND RD. 12401 fAX 914-33B-7381 44512-2918 330-758-2810 97233 503-252-71 18 17404 717-843-2520 FAX 801-627-9067 23188 757-564-7623

WOODBRIDGE MINEOLA CINCINNATI SALEM AMARillO OGDEN THE "RIP TRACK" WILLIS HOBBIES GOLf MANOR HOBBIES SKYSPORT HOBBY TIME WONDERfUL WORLD Of TRAINS RHODE 2885 PS BUSINESS CENTER 285 WILLIS AVE. 2235 LOSANTIVILLE AVE. 4564 COMMERCIAL S1 SE 1409 S. HARRISON 3061 WASHINGTON BLVD. 22192 800-790-6901 11501 516-746-3944 45237 513-351-3849 97302 503-363-4345 ISLAND 79101 806-374-6643 84402 801 -392-()391 NO. VIRGINIA HO & N EXCL USIVELY

SALT LAKE CITY NEW YORK - MIODlETDWN CLEVELAND CRANSTON AMARILLO DOUGLAS MODELS AREA HOBBIES WING'S HOBBY SHOP. INC. AA HOBBIES THE ROUNDHOUSE 55TH yEAR ···· 15 W. MAIN S1 17112 DETROIT AVE. PENNSYLVANIA 885 DYER AVENUE 800 S. GEORGIA •••• WASHINGTON 2065 E. 33RD SOUTH ST. 10940 914-343-7141 44107 216-221 -5383 02920 401-943-9990 79106 806-372-3453 84109 801-487-7752

AUSTIN NEW YORK COLUMBUS ALLENTOWN SALT LAKE CITY AU8URN HOBBY TOWN U.S.A. REO CABOOSE STRm HOBBIES ALLENTOWN TOY TRAIN SERVo SOUTH GREAT ESCAPE HOBBIES WAGNER'S HOBBY HOUSE BRODIE OAKS SHOPPING CTR. 16 W. 45TH ST.. 4TH fLOOR 3655 SULLIVANT AVE. 125 112 N. 11TH ST. 1773 WEST 4160 SOUTH 131 E. MAIN ST. 4107 CAPITAL Of TEXAS HWY. 10036 212-575-0155 43228 614-279-6959 18102 215-821-0740 CAROLINA 841 19 801-966-7785 98002 206-939-2515 78704

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OLYMPIA UTICA MAUMEE BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT CORPUS CHRISTI PACifiC SCALE MODElS VILLAGE HOBBIES J & M HOBBIES MAINLINE HOBBY SUPPLY B & H TRAINS SOUTH 503 CHERRY 2011 GENESEE ST. 1238 CONANT ST. 15066 BUCHANAN TRAIL E 2033 AIRLINE RD. STE B2 VIRGINIA NEXT TO fOREIGN AUTO PARTS 13501 315-733-0611 43537 419-893-2621 17214 717-794-2860 DAKOTA 78412 512-985-8383 98501 206-352-9261

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NITRO LEWISVillE MIDLOTHIAN MONTOURSVILLE MEMPHIS NITRO HOBBY & CRAFT CHESTERfiELD HOBBIES INC. NORTH ENGLISH MODEL RR SUPPLY MODEL RR HOBBY SHOP IRON HORSE HOBBIES Of TEXAS CENTER OREGON 3436 PARK AVE. 1400 MOCCASSIN TRAIL #5 13154 MIDLOTHIAN TURNPIKE 21 HOWARD ST. 104 21STST 304-755-4304 DAKOTA 381 11 75067 972-317-7062 231 13 804-379-9091 17754 717-368-2516 901-324-7245 25143 800-586-9572

PITISBURGH RIO GRANDE VALLEY BISMARK LA GRANDE MEMPHIS RICHMOND PARKERSBURG A B CHARLES SON STAR HOBBIES DAVE'S HOBBIES HOBBY HABIT TRAINS AND THINGS, INC. HOBBY CENTER JIMBO'S WHISTLE STOP HOBBY SHOP PORT ISABEL 200W. MAIN 411 fiR 661 N. MENDENHALL SUITE 105 8903 PAnERSON AVE. 3301 DUDLEY AVE. 3213 W. lIBERTY AVE. 78578 210-943-7546 58502 701 -255-6353 97850 1-800-963-9602 38111 23229 804-750-1973 26104 304-485-2559 15216 412-561 -3068 901-681-9401 "SEE THE P.I.&E.R.R.··

MILTON-fREEWATER SPRING ROANOKE SHINNSTON GRANO fORKS READING PIGEON fORGE JODY'S CLOCKSI SPRING CROSSING ROANOKE RAILS THE DEPOT MCGlffIN'S IRON HORSE HOBBY HOUSE PIGEON fORGE TOY & HOBBY WHISTLE STOP TRAINS 1420 SPRING CYPRESS RD. WAREHOUSE AND GALLERY BOB'S TRAINS 'N' STUff 1200 S. WASHINGTON 60 S. 6TH ST. 2919 E. MIDDLE CRK. RD .. STE 2 6 N.E. 5TH AVE. 77373 281-353-9484 113 NORfOLK AVE. S.w. 215 PIKE ST. 58201 701-772-5311 19602 610-373-6927 37868 61 5-428-0918 97862 503-938-5785 EXCLUSIVELY MODEL RAILROAOING 24011 703-342-5930 26431 304-592-0946

PORTLAND READING POWEll ROANOKE HOBBIES UNLIMITED G & K HOBBY CENTRE DAN'S TRAINS THE RAIL YARD OHIO 4503 N. INTERSTATE AVE. 720 GORDON ST. EMORY ROAD AT 1-75 NORTH UTAH 6711 A WILLIAMSON ROAD WISCONSIN 97217 503-287-4090 19601 610-374-8598 37849 423-938-7212 24019 703-362-1714

MAGNA SPRINGFiElD ALLIANCE PORTLAND STRAS8URG APPlETON ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS COPPER BELT HOBBIES GRANDAD'S HOBBY SHOP ROB'S TRAINS VIC'S HOBBY SUPPLY CHOO CHOO BARN. INC. BESTS' HOBBIES IN THE DEALER OIRECTORY 91 15 2700 S. 5260-A PORT ROYAL RD. 333 E. MAIN 606 NE BROADWAY ROUTE 741E. BOX 130 W 2700 W. COLLEGE AVE., #8 fOR ONLY $9.00 PER MONTH 84044 801-250-7688 22151-2113 703-242-8668 44601 330-823-7222 97222 503-281-1032 17579 717-687-0464 54914 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

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ELMWOOD EAU CLAIRE COUNTY LINE CABOOSE STRATfORD ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS BOB'S HOBBY JUNCTION CANADA CHIPPEWA CREEK RAILROAD 014121 BRUCE ROAD 10, RRII IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY 3621 E. HAMILTON AVE. MANITOBA 110 MCKONE ROAD SWITZERLAND NOG ISO 519·364·1390 fOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH 54701 715·832·4445 ALBERTA ON N5A 6S5 519·271·7361

WINNIPEG KINGSTON KILCHBERG KENOSHA CALGARY THE GOLDEN SPIKE PETER MACDONALD HOBBY TORONTO MARKHAM TRAINMASTER BY WERNER MEER IRON RAILS Of KENOSHA HOBBY WEST RAILVIEW TRAINS MODEL SHOP SUPPLY 135 SEESTRASSE 2031 22ND AVE. 5011 MACLEOD TR. SW 501 ALDEN RD., UNIT 4 SOUTH AFRICA 185 STADACONA ST. 208 DIVISION ST. CH·8802 INT. 411·715·3666 53140 414·552·8075 AB T2G OA9 403·244·9990 ON L3R 3L4 905·470·6200 MB R3T 3L2 204·667·2080 ON K7K 3Z1 613·548·8427 INT. fAX: 411·715·3660

fEATHER'S US·TRAINSTORE MADISON CALGARY ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS PETERBOROUGH GOODWOOD HOBBY CRAfT Of MADISON TRAINS SUCH COSBURN'S HOBBY DEPOT LTD. THDM'S HOBBIES HAVEN HERMETSCHLOOSTR.75 & IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY 6632 OOANA ROAD 2604 4TH ST. NW 242 CHARLOm ST. QUEBEC SHOP 45A Nl CH·B010 fOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH CITY 53719 800·429·2738 T2M 3Al 403·277·7226 ON K9J 2Vl 705·743·0244 1463 027-D21·595·2059 INT. fAX: 411·433· 1464AOVERTISE YOUR PORT DOVER MILWAUKEE EDMONTON SLN HOBBIES MONTREAL ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS BUSINESS TERMINAL HOBBY SHOP ROUNDHOUSE SALES HOBBY WORLD LTD. SILVER LAKE NORTHSHORE IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY 5619 W. flORIST AVE. 6519 104 ST. NOVA SCOTIA 5450 SHERBROOKE W 90 PROSPECT ST., RR 11 FOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH fOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH 53218 414·461·1050 AB T6H 2L3 403·430·9072 PO H4A 1V9 514·481·5434 ON NOA lNI 519·583·3204

OSHKOSH HOBBYTOWN USA TRURO BRITISH UNEEDA HOBBY 2601 S. KOELLER 43 INGLIS PLACE AVIATION PlAZA COLUMBIA NS B2N 4B5 902·895·0308 54901 414·426·1840 A Listing In Our

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ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS AOVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS BURLINGTON HUTCH'S TRAINS IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY 490 BRANT ST. fOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH FOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH Deadline is January 1 for the January issue. ON L7R 2G4 905·637·3721

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78 T MODEL RAILROADING NOVEMBER 1996 What more can we say. This series has The AT&SF 'El Capitan' Hi-Level Coach been wished for by modelers for years. Now its here, developed in association with Train Station Products and in variations for all eras. The one piece bod)' kit is available decorated or undecorated. The undecorated Super Kit also includes Wire Grabs, HEP Receptacles, Coupler Lift Bars and End Yoke for body mounted couplers. This Detail Kit can be purchased separately to detail the prepainted kits. Check it out at your Hobby Shop. Includes everything ��Pt:Pt'� H&a

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FAIRHOPE Soulh Wesl Alabama RR Modelers (516) 226-8640 PHONE AND FAX T WEST HARTFORD Te mple Sinai Trainsters Greater Fairhope Fifth Annual Model Train Show. March 15-16, Hartford's Greatest Train Meel. Dec. 8. Conard High Sal. 9 AM - 5 PM, Sun 10 AM - 4 PM. Fairhope Kinder­ School, Interstate 84 Exil 41. $4, kids free. Lee Blum. ganen Center Gym, laO S. Church SI., Fairhope. $1, kids Info: 65-B Louis SI., NewinglOn, CT 061 11, (860) 667-1674. free w/adull. AClive dUly mililary, police and fire officers free. Info: Herb Kern, 6132 Scenic Wesl Dr., Mobile, AL DELA WARE 36693, (334) 660- 1659. CAnD OVERDS�DnnIES 300.000 ITEMS SHEFFIELD DELMAR The Delmarva Model RR Club's 121h T Shoals Model RRers Inc. HO Scale Meel­ IN STOCK! ing. lSI Thursday of each month, 6 PM. Info: Bob Brooks, Annual Holiday Open House. Dec. 7-8, Jan. 11-12 and 18- 234 Robinhood Dr., Florence, Ai 35630 (205) 766-9889. 19, Sal. II AM - 5 PM, Sun. I PM - 5 PM. Delmarva Enjoy the ultimate In model train Model RR Club, 103 E. State SI., Second Floor, Delmar, shopping ...right from the conve- CA LIFORNIA DE. Free. Info: Md. (410) 546-23 12, Del. (302) 875-7043. n;ence of you, home CROCKETI T Bay Area NTRAK Model RR Club's N FLORIDA computer. Browse scale modular layoul group in operalion in rei ired So. I through over 1,500 Pacific depol has openings for new members. Wed. lOAM PA LMETIO Sarasota Model RR Club Swap Meel. brass models, piUS - 3 PM and 7 PM 10 9 PM, Sal. 10 AM - 4 PM. Depol on ::::I CCC c:: Dec. 7-8, Sal. 10 AM - 5 PM, Sun. 10 AM - 3 PM. Mana­ books, videos, Micro Rolph SI. neXI to the S.P. main line, 900 Loring Ave., ( I\ tee Civic Center, One Haven Blvd., Palmetto. $4, $2 under II TrainS®, Athearn, MDC, Model Crockett, CA. Free. Info: John Marshall. 2472 Hill View 12, under 6 free. Info: Alan Reed, 212 Chardain Dr., Lane, Pinole, CA 94564 (5 10) 758-93 10. Power, Atlas, Brio, Ertl, Lifelike, Nokomis, FL 34275, (941) 966-0 III. MRC, IHC and more! LOS ANGELES T East Valley Lines N-Scale Model RR ORLANDO Central Florida Historical RR Modelers http://www.caboosehobbies.com Open House. Every Sal. & Sun. II AM - 3 PM. Travel­ Inc. Show. Feb. 8, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM. National Guard town, Griffith Park. Free. Info: Lowell Majors, P. O. Box Annory, 2908 S. Femcreek Ave., I 1/2 blocks s. of Mich. 5732, Glendale, CA 91301 (213) 662-8339. Ave. $3, under 12 free w/adull. Info: Russ Livingston, RICHMOND Coast Div. Pacific Coast Reg. MRA Quar­ CFHRM Inc., P.O. Box 62 1793, Orlando, FL 32862-1793, terly Meel. Dec. 15, 9:30 AM - 6 PM. Salesi,m High School, CAnDDS�DnBIES (407) 658-0526. (303) 777-6766 2851 Salesirul Ave., Richmond, CA. Free. Info: Rod Smith, FAX (303) 777-0028 40330 Monte Ct., Fremont, CA 94538, (510) 657-3362. PA LMETIO Sarasola Model RR Club Christmas Fes­ 500 S. BROADWAY tival of Trains & Miniatures. Dec. 7, 10 AM - 5 PM; Dec. SAN DIEGO San Diego Model RR Museum Operat­ DENVER, CO. 80209-4002 8, lOAM - 4 PM. Manatee Convention Center, One Haven ing Exhibit/Show, Dec. 1-8, 10-15, 17-22, 24-29, 31; Jan. 1-5, 7- 12, 14-19, 21-26, 28-3 1; Tues. II AM - 4 PM, Blvd. (US 41 N. of the river). $5, 52 under 12, under 6 We ekends II AM - 5 PM. Casa De Balboa in Balboa Park, free. Info: Ralph Morrison, 83 Arbor Oaks Dr., Sarasota, 1649 EI Prado. $3 adulls, discounts for seniors, students FL 34232 (941) 378-9 182. and military with proper I.D., under 15 free. Free days: GEORGIA Dec. 3, Jan. 7. Special operating exhibit/show, "Christmas on the Prado," Dec. 6-7. Museum open from 5 PM - 9 PM. AT LANTA Metro Atlanta N-Scalers Meetings. 1st Info: John Rotsan, 1649 EI Prado, San Diego, CA 92 10I, Tues. of each month, 7:30 PM. Church of the AlOnement, (619) 696-0 199. 945 High Point Rd., Atlanta. Info: Charles Leake, (404) SAN DIEGO T San Diego Model RR Museum RRiana 262-2969. Swap Meel. Jan. II, 8 AM - noon. Casa de Balboa in B al­ AT LANTA Piedmont Division Monthly Meeling. 2nd boa Park, 1649 EI Prado. $1 buyers, 55 sellers, bring table. • INFO · QUESTIONS ' CATALOGUE Info: John Rotsan, 1649 EI Prado, San Diego, CA 92 10I , Tuesday each month, 7 PM. Bldg. K, Habersham Office • Discou nt Prices (619) 696-0 199. Park, Northlake Pkwy., Tucker. Free. Info: Ed Palmer, New/Used Sales 7058 Slephens CI., Morrow, GA 30260, (770) 968- 1921. SAN MATEO T Seventh Annual 0 Scale West Meel. Feb. Trade In/Exchange 6-9. Dunfey Hotel, San Mateo, CA. $20 family. Info: MARIETIA Monthly Meeling of the Georgia Society of Club Demos LSSAE 10 0 Scale West, P.O. Box 5026 1, Palo Allo, CA Ferroequinologists and field trips. 2nd Fri. of each month, 24-Hour Service 94303. 7:30 PM. at ions Bank of Waddell SI. Free. Info: Dave Full Product Line Loco Back Shops TURLOCK San Joaquin Valley Div. TTOS 18th Muller (404) 974-4608 or Larry Smith (404) 926-0739. Onboard Support Annual Open House and Swap Meel. Dec. 7 lO AM - 5 JOY SAVANNAH Coastal Rail Buffs Inc. Eighth Annual PM, Dec. 8 lO AM - 3 PM. Bldg. I, Stanislaus County • Unequalled Support # Model RR and Train Show. Jan 18-19, 1997, 9:30 AM - Fairgrounds, 900 N. Broadway, Turlock. $2 donation, $5 4:30 PM. National Guard Armory, 1248 Eisenhower Dr. 2000,$149.95 family. Info: Jack Fisher, 642 Park SI., Turlock, CA MRC COMMAND $3, under 12 free w/parents. Ken Huffman, 414 95380-4734, (209) 632-2 187. Info: Inglewood Dr., Savannah, GA314 06, (912) 927-4976. Surprise Holidays Specials VA LLEJO Vallejo Model RR Club's Annual Holiday - TUCKER Dec. 15 Jan. 15 Open House. Dec. 6, 6 PM - 10 PM; Dec. 7, 10 AM - 4 Piedmont Div. SE Region Regular Monthly 24 Corduroy Road PM. Solano County Fairgrounds, Civic Bldg., 900 Fair­ Meeting. 2nd Tuesday of every month. 7:30 PM. Building I:ssex Jet, VT 05452 grounds Dr., at 1-80 and Hwy. 37. $2 donation. Info: K, Habersham Office Park, Northlake Parkway. Free. Fax: 802·878-7684 Vallejo Model RR Club, P.O. Box 4057, Vallejo, CA Info: Ed Palmer, 7058 Stephens Ct., Morrow, GA 30260 E·matt :[email protected] 94590, (707) 552-1768 or (707) 643-1809. (770) 968- 1921.

NOVEMBER 1996 MODEL RAILROADING T 81 ILLINOIS rf THAT'S RIGHT. IS ALL YOU EAST PEORIA Illinois Valley and River Cily RR :1tIR Clubs' Peoria Train Fair. Feb. 16, April 20, II AM • 3 PM. Illinois Cenlral College, Rte. 116 and Rt. 24. $2. under 13 l�'\ free. lables 58 in advance. Info: Bob Lehman, 21 W. Rut· Simple O A ������ ledge. Bartonville, IL 61607. (309) 697-30 12. i\ are aU you need. There's NO wiring, NO soldering, NO electricity! ORLAND PA RK Midwest Re2ion Calumet Oil'. �Air Easy to install with �.�:�,�o���:gproven re liability. Guaranteed:�I�I�a� for Life!�:l�: NMRA Meet. Dec. 15, Jan. 19. Feb. 1 , Mar. 16. I PM · 4 6 Toggle PM. Twin To wers Orland Park Historical Bldg., 144th "�'fl ' & WRITE PHONE OR FAX TODAY FOR INFO 'ur SERIES West Ave. Free. Info: Andy Hauser, 416 Price Ave .. AIR MOTORS �,\ ' Calumet City. IL 60409. (708) 868-3802.

tor ' WAUCONDA Lake Counly Model RR Club Spring �� UNDERTABLE � ... �el-AlriEProducts :������ Open House. March 8-9, II AM -5PM. 107 S. Main St., N. MRG, PA MOUNTING � 321 40th St., Dept. Allentown, 18104 Wauconda. IL 60084 (rear entrance). Free. Info: Dennis Phone/Fax 888-DELAIRE (335-2473) toll free, 24 hours/7 days Slanczak, P.O. Box 8477, Rolling Meadows. IL 60008. (847) 623-6403 after 6 PM. DEALER INQ I RI ES I MTED INDIA NA

GREENFI ELD Hancock Co. Model Train Swap Meet. Dec. 21. 4-H Fairgrounds. Greenfield. 52, under INTERMOUNTAIN GIVES YOU All THE PARTS 12 free. Info: Bert Borclen. P. O. Box 4. Dunreilh. IN 47337, (3 17) 987 -9964. d INDIANAPOLIS Naplown and While River Model RR Club Indianapolis Model RR Show. Jan. 25, 10:30 AM ; , �k -3 PM. Knights of Columbus Hall. 2100 E. 71s1 St. (71s1 p,;;=-'ir a e; ::���,O�;;��t�,�Oo ��r_t �i� and Keystone Ave.). Indianapolis IN. S3, under 12 free. � ho�� o��r�th� �/, u - ��I :s� S�ith� �'O '_' I Info : Jerry Meyers, 29 18 E. Bradbury Ave .. Indianapolis, or without oup· I 46203. (317) 787-6145. � This new coupler�?u is � � � _.�;J. magnetically ler boxes, In 2, 10, or 25-palr IOWA packages. actuated, sim- BOONE Pufferbilly Days RR Fest. Tables 515. Info: Q _ . . � Scott Magee. P. O. Box 872. Mason City, IA 5040 1, (515) pie In design - ( 424-4 187, (515) 424-8721. with integrated You will be OTTUMWA centering and knuckle springs, amazed at the simplic· Greal River RR Club's Model RR Show. Feb. 1-2, mall hours. Quincy Place Mall. Free. Info: Rich and will come fully assembled, ity of desig n and the per· Hood. 803 Jefferson, Burlington. Iowa 52601, (319) 754-4979. ready to insert into the coupler formance of this exciting LOUISIA NA box and install on your rolling new product from stock. InterMountain. NEW ORLEANS (METAIRIE) Crescenl Cily Model RR Club's Chrislmas On The Crescent Lines. Dec. 8. 14- 15. Sat. noon·7 PM. Sun. noon · 5 PM. 601 N. Lester SI.. Economically priced at 2 pair for $1.99. Melairie. LA 70003. $3, $1 under 12. Info: Mike Mule, INTERMOUNTA IN RAILWAY COMPANY 601 N. Lester St., Melairie, LA 70003, (504) 737-3723. MASSA CHUSETTS P.O. Box 839 LONGMONT, COLORADO 80502-0839 WEST SPRINGFIELD AmherSI Rway Soc. Big RR Hobby Show. Feb 1-2. lOAM · 5 PM. Beller Living Or. and Ihe Yo ung Bldg., on the grounds of Ihe Eastem States Expo· silion. Memorial Ave., W. Springfield. 55 adults. $1 under 12. under 5 free. Info: Robert A. Buck. Amhersl Rway Soc .. P.O. Box 718, Warren. MA 0 I 083-07 18. (413) 436-0242.

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PLEASE leave message with name and phone number (I Miniatures - turn of the century HO farm and town HOLLY Detroil Model RR Club's "Dickens' Old Fash· still must work), or write to Leroy Stater, 132 Tres Dr., figures. Farm animals and wagons. Wide range of ioned Chrislmas Open House." Dec. 7 & 14, noon · 5 PM. Huntsville, AL 35811. Checks or money orders accepted. buildings; accessories (wagon wheels, tools, farm 104 N. Saginaw SI.. Holly. M1 48442. (810) 634-9 167. $2, COOPER & OSHTEMO LOCO WORKS implements, etc.); trees, haystacks, corn field, fences · SI.50 seniors, $1 5- 18. under 5 free. Info: Edward Mac· 35 custom painted Athearn and MDC freight cars and 12 much more! Illustrated catalog $3.00 (refundable) includes Dowell. (8 10) 332-1600. caboose schemes of USA and Canadian railroads. Send Civil War figures. MUSKET MfNIATURES, DMR, P. O. SASE for info sheets. Cooper & Oshtemo Loco Works, BOX 1976, Broomfield, CO 80038. NOVI Model RR Expo 96 Show and Sale. Dec. 27. 5 PO Box 442, Parchment, MI 49004·0442. TRESTLES AND BRIDGES, JIGS AND KITS PM -9 PM; Dec. 28. 9 AM . 7 PM: Dec. 29. 10 AM -4 CUSTOM PRfNTED SIGNS N/Nn3, HO/HOn3, S/Sn3, 010n3. Supplies and tools. PM. Novi Expo Or., 1-96 & exit 162. $6 adults, $3 4- 12 MODELING A PROTOTYPE RAtLROAD? We will draw and $3 Catalog includes $2 coupon. Black Bear Construction years. $4 parking. Info: R.R. Promolions Inc.. Box 6094. print your designs. You determine size, fonts, color. text and Co., PO Box 2691 1, Austin, TX 78755·0911. Plymoulh. M1 48 1 70. (3 13) 455-2 110. border styles. Low prices. Send LSSAE for brochure with WATER SOLUBLE SCENERY MATERIALS PLYMOUTH color charts and samples to: THE SIGN·MAN, 500 N. Dual Paste, water gel, matte medium, sculpting mud, videos. Train and Toy Show and Sale. Jan. 18. Hwy. , Suite 429, Dept. G, Seaford, DE 19973. Dealers welcome. Instruction booklet #4 - $1 .00. II AM • 3 PM. Plymouth Cultural Or.. 525 Famler St. 54. Pofyterrain, 532 W. 6th St., Fayetteville. AR 72701. $1 under 12. Info: RR Promotions Inc., Box 6094, Ply· DETAtLlNG PARTS FOR ALL KtNDS OF DIESELS Phone/fax (501) 575·9300. mouth. M1 48 170. (3 13) 455-2 110. OVER 50 MANUFACTURERS tNCLUDtNG 3 CANADIAN BLAIR LINE SIGNS & BRfDGES YPSILANTI Ann Arbor ModelRR Club Inc.·s 261h Annual FtRMS. "A·Line to Utah Pacific" no minimums. Also detail HO/N Highway, Storefront. Industrial, Feed & Seed, Depot packages for the detail projects in this magazine. One and Billboard Signs, Store Windows and More. HO/N Ann Arbor Model RR Train Show. Feb 16, 10 AM · 4 PM. source for all HO parts. Dieset Details, 23 Massachusetts Wood Trestle kits now available toot Catalog $1.00 Ypsilanli High School. Hewill and Packard Rd. $4, under 10 Ave., Lakeport, NH 03246-2021 or call (603) 524-5109 (refundable wlorder) Blair Line, PO Box 2291, Lee's free w/adult. Info: Dave Mohler, 3487 Broad St., Dexter, MI Summit, MO 64063· 7291. (answering service). (313) 426-5100(Wed. eve), (313) 426-0829 (all olher limes).

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ST. PA UL Hennepin Overland Rway Hisl. Soc. Open ElKINS PARK Cheilen Hills Model RR Club 50lh RICHMOND Richmond Freelance and Prololype House. Dec. 7, 10 AM - 5 PM: Dec. 8, I PM - 5 PM. Free. Annual Open House. Dec. 7-8, Jan. 4-5. Noon - 5 PM. Model RRers Club 191h Annual Model RR Show. Nov. 2-3 Info: Tom Jackson, 585 Euslis SI.. SI. Paul. M 55104, 8000 Old York Rd., Elkins Park, PA 19027. Free. John and 9- 10, 9:30 AM - 5 PM. Science Museum of Virginia, (612) 646-5438. Walz. (215) 357-3990. 2500 W. Broad SI., Richmond, Va 23220-2054. Free MONACA w/museum admission, $4.50, S4 srs and youlh. Info: Ken NEBRASKA Beaver COUlllY Model RR & Hisl. Soc. Hall. 9121 Mapleview Ave., Richmond, VA 23294-5702, Annual Holiday Open House. Weekends Dec. 6-29. Fri. 6 (804) 270-3775. LINCOLN Lincoln Area Model RR Club Show & PM - 9 PM; Sal. & Sun. noon - 8 PM. Free, donal ions NMRA Division Meel. Feb. 15 9 AM - 6 PM, 16 10 AM - accepled. Info: Joe Ricker, 245 Wilson Ave., Beaver, PA VIENNA Nonhern Va. Model RRers Inc. Open House. 4 PM. Nebraska Siale Fair Park, Agricuilural Hall Bldg. 15009. (412) 774-54 14. Dec. 14. Jan. II, Feb. 8, March 15, I PM - 5 PM. Washing­

S3. S I under 12. under 5 free. Info: Charles Buswell, 2749 PHILADELPHIA 1997 Easl Coasl Hobby Show. Ion & Old Dominion RR Simion, 231 Dominion Rd. (ar Califomia CI.. Lincoln. NE 685 10. March 22-27. Fon Washinglon Expo Cenler. suburban Ayr Hill Rd.). Donarions. lnfo: (703) 938-5 157. Philadelphia. Info: (SOO) 252-4757 or hllp://www.hob­ NEW JERSEY WISCONSIN byshow.com MADISON MERCHANTVILLE Cherry Valley Model RR Club PHOENIXVILLE Schuylkill Valley Model RR Club NMRA S. CeOlral Wisconsin Oil'. Meel. 341h Annual Model RR Show and Open House. Dec. 7-8: Open House. Dec. 7-8. Jan. 4-5 and Jan. 11-12. I PM - 5 Dec. I. Jan. 5. Feb.2. I PM. Filchburg Comm. Cir., 55 10 E. Sal. I PM - 10 PM, Sun. I PM - 5 PM. Grace Episcopal PM. 400 S. Main 51. Donalions. Info: (610) 935-1126 Lacy Rd.. Madison. WI 53711. $1, $.50 sludenls, firsl lime Church. Maple Ave. & Cenler SI.. Merchalliville, N.J. Info: Tues. and Friday evenings. free. Info: Radleigh Becker, 444 Hilliop Dr.. Madison, WI Charles Jacob, 100 Gratll Ave .. Mooreslown. J 08057. 53711, (608) 23 1-ISI7. PITISBURGH (GIBSONIA) Pillsburgh Model RR NORTH HALEDON Garden Siale Model RR 391h Hisl. Soc. 91h Annual Holiday Train Show, "A Railroad MADISON NMRA S. Central Wisconsin Oil'. Model Anniv. Open House. Dec. 1, 6-8, 13-15. Fri. 7 PM - 9 PM. Joumey in Minialure." Weekends Ihru Jan. 5. Friday 6 PM RR School. Jan. 5, I PM. Filchburg Communily Cenler, Sal. & Sun. I PM - 5 PM. 575 High Mouillain Rd .. Nonh - 9:30 PM. Sal. & Sun. II AM - 5 PM. Special Holiday 5510 E. Lacy Rd., Madison, WI 53711. Free. Info: Haledon, NJ 07508. $3, kids free w/adull. Info: Jack Hours. 5507 Lakeside Dr.. Gibsonia, PA . Donalions $4, $2 Radleigh Becker. 444 HililOp Dr., Madison, WI 53711, Ol iver. 575 High Mounlain Rd .. N. Haledon, NJ 07508 under 12. Info : Mallhew Hughes. 8228 E. Van Buren Dr., (608) 23 1-1817. Pillsburgh. PA 15237. (4 12) 268-4970. (201) 387-8716. MADISON S. Cemral Wisconsin Oil'. Midwesl TA MAQUA Region NMRA Model RR and RRiana Show and Sale. NORTH HALEDON Model Engineers RR Club of Tamaqua Anlhracile Model RR Club. June 22 OCI. 12, 8 AM - 3 PM. Molm Bldg. behind Ihe Feb. 15-16, 10 AM - 5 PM. Dane Counly Expo Cenler, Norlh Jersey Annual Open House. Dec. 6-8. 13-15, Fri. 7 & PA Job Services Bldg. on RI. 309 in Tamaqua. $2, $5 fam­ Madison. S5 aduils. $2 under 12. Info: An Dawson. 1310 PM - 10 PM. Sal. & Sun. 2 PM - 5 PM. 569 High Moun­ ily. Info: C. Michael Ranck, 43 E. Ludlow SI., Summil Prairie Rd., Madison, W1 53711. (608) 273- 15SI. lain Rd .. N. Haledon, .J. 07508. $3, kids free w/adull. Hill. PA (717) 645-9 133 or email lrainnul l dlprolog.nel. Info: Paul Harbord. (201) 427-4905 before 9 PM. MADISON 1997 MRA Nalional Convenlion and N- YORK Minialure RR Club of York Annual Public Open TRAK Nalional Convenlion. Lake Monona Fare for Lake ROCKY HILL Pacific Soulhern Rway. 33rd Annual House and Model RR Show. Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, I PM - 5 Junclion '97, $97 for full fare 565 for nonrails. under 18, Model RR Exhibilion. Dec. 7-S. 1 4- 1 5. 10 AM - 4 PM. & PM. 38 1 Wheal field SI .. York. PA . $2 aduils, 50 cenls kids $35. under 10 $25 w/aduli. Final regislralion rale, SI20 for Parking al Princelon Gamma Te ch on Rle. 51S. easl of Rle. 6- 12. Info : Ivan E. Frantz Jr., 1126 Hanover Rd., York. PA regisler close 10 or aI Ihe conveOlion. Info: Ross Pollock. 206. S5 for benefil of Rocky Hill Fire Co. and Rescue 17404-62 IS. (717) 225-5470. REgislrar. Lake Junclion '97. 3539 Mill Creek Rd .. Min­ Squad. Info: Pacific Soulhern Rway. P.O. Box 4S8. Rocky ZULLINGER erai Poinl, WI 53565. (888) 525-3528. Hill. NJ OS553, (609) 921-9276. Waynesboro Model RR Club HO & N Gage Layouls Open House. Dec. 7-S. 14-15, Jan. 5, 12. 19, MONROE Green Counly Model RRers 181h Annual UNION Model RR Club Inc.'s Annual Holiday Sound 26 & Feb. 2. I PM - 5 PM. Waynecaslle Road al PA Rle. 16. Train Show & Sale. Jan II 10 AM - 5 PM and Jan. 12, 10 and Lighl Show. Dec. I. 6-S. 13-15. Fri. 7 PM - 10 PM; Donalions accepled. Info: Don Florwick (717) 352-8759. AM - 4 PM. Monroe Jr. High School, one block S. of Sal. noon - 9 PM: Sun. noon - 6 PM. Club bldg. al Ihe end Downlown Square. 1 510 131h SI., Monroe. WI 53566. of Jeffe rson Ave., off Rle. 22 E.. Union. S4. S 1.50 kids. $3 TEXA S Donalion $1. 50 cenls under 12. Info: David W. Fry., srs. Info : Ira Deulsch, P. O. Box 1146. Union. NJ 07083- AMARILLO The Amarillo Model RR Assoc. Sixlh W5077 Advance Rd .. Monroe, WI 53566, (608) 325-5865. 1 146, (90S) 964-9724. (908) 964-8808. Annual Tri Siale Train Show. March 15 9 AM - 5 PM, NEW BRUNSWICK WINSLOW The Greal Winslow Junclion Scale Train March 16 noon - 5 PM. Amarillo Civic Cenler, 401 Buchanan, Amarillo, TX. $3, $1 under 12. Info: Jerry and RRiana Meel. Jan. 12. 10 AM - 3 PM. Winslow Fire SAINT JOHN Saini John Soc. of Model Eng. nnual Michels. 27 Dewey RI. 6, Amarillo, TX 79124. (806) 354- Hall. Hall and Hay SIS. 53. under 12 free w/aduil. lnfo: Bill Mid WiOler BiasI. Feb. 22. 10 AM - 4:30 PM. Lions Club 5806 days. (806) 354-5829. Powell. 306 Broad 51.. Williamslown. NJ OS094. (609) Bldg. on Calherwood Drive, SaiOl John Wesl. $3, S I kids. 728- 1327 IiI 9 PM. LONGVIEW Junclion & E. Te xas Train Soc. Info: Bob Boudreau. P.O. Box 7122, Sial ion A, Saini John, Longview Train Show. March I 10 AM - 5 PM. March 2 N.B .. Canada E2L 4S5, (506) 672-2374. NEW YORK II AM - 5 PM. Fairgrounds Exhibil Bldg .. olf hwy. 31 on ONTARIO BUFFALO (GRAND ISLAND) Inll. Oil'. NFR. Jaycee Dr.. Longview, Te xas. $5, under 12 free. Info: Homer Fleischer. P. O. Box 6704, Longview. Te xas 75608, NMRA Oil'. 1eeling. Dec. 7, Feb. I. April 5, reg. 9:30 AM. BRANTFORD Bell Cily '97 Model Train Show. Feb. (903) 753-95 12 or (903) 297-6330. mig. 10 AM. Grand Island Rec CeOler. 3278 Whilehaven 2, II AM - 4 PM. Nonh Park Seconday School. Nonh Park Rd .. Grand Island. 52 members. 53 man-members. free if PLANO N. Texas Council of RR Blubs Dallas Area Ave .. nexl 10 Wayne Grelzky Spons Complex. Info: Gord eI1lering model. Info: Sieve Lucas, 14 E. 131h SI.. Hamil­ Train Show. Feb. 15-16. 10 AM - 5 PM. Plano Cemre. King. 90 Prospeci SI., Pon Dover. Onl. NOA I 10. (519) IOn, Onl. L9A 3Z3. (905) 575-8312 or Mike Koenig, 27 2000 E. Spring Creek Pkwy.. Plano, TX. 55, under 12 free. 583-0975, fax (5 19) 583-3994 Newburgh 51., Buffalo, NY 14211-1809. (716) 896-0393. Info : Russ Covill. 5560 Rice Dr., The Colony. TX 75056, COPETOWN Onl. & Easlern Modelers WOD-NMRA (214) 625-40 12. FISHKILL 171h Annual Old Newburgh Model RR Club Meel ''50s Canadian Prololype Modeling. Feb. 23, 9:30 Show. Dec. 14-15. DUlchess Mall. S. of Rle. 1-84. exil 13 on SAN ANTONIO San AIliOnio Model RR Assoc. Inc. AM - 4 PM. Coplelown Comm. Cenlre, Regional Rd. 99 ne 9, Fishkill. Info: Ira Sieinberg. (914) 226-8476 weekdays. 21s1 Annual Jamboree and Train Show. Feb. I. 8:30 AM - 4 easl of hwy. 52. Info: Richard Chrysler, 735 Glancasler PM. Live Oak Civic Cir.. 8101 Pal Booker Rd., 1-35 N. al Pal Rd.. AncaSler. Onl. LOR I WO, (905) 679-4279. OREGON Booker. $5. $8 fa mily. Info: Than Ta ubel1, (210) 522-9325 or HAMILTON Tom Croslhwail (210) 647-326 1. fax (210) 647-0535. Inll. Oil'. N.F.R., MNRA Oil'. Meeling. MCMINNVILLE WeSlern Oregon Model RRers Swap Jan. 4, reg. 9:30 AM. mig. lO AM. Hamiilon Speclalor, 44 Meel. Dec. 7, 10 AM - 3:30 PM. SI. James Calholic Church. VERMONT Frid SI .. Hamilion. Free. Info: Sieve Lucas, 14 E. 131h SI.. 1145 E. Firsl SI. 52.50 donmion. 12 and under free w/adull. Hamilion. Onl. L9A 3Z3, (905) 575-83 12 or Mike Koenig, SOUTH BURLINGTON NonhweSlern Vermonl S12.50 lables. Info : Brian Brown. P.O. Box 1209, McMin­ 27 Newburgh SI., Buffalo, NY 14211-1809, (716) 896-0393. Model RR Soc. Inc.·s 10lh Annual Ve rmonl Rails '97. nville. OR 97 1 28, (503) 876-3632 or (503) 472-7459. March 8. 10 AM - 4 PM. S. Burlinglon Middle School, 500 KINGSVILLE WOD-NMRA Meel. March 8, 9:30 AM. ROSEBURG All Aboard Railroad Club for All Scales. lSI Dorsel SI. £3, $1 under 12. under 6 free. Info: John B. Epiphany Anglican Church. Main & Prince Alben SIS. $3, and 3rd Salurdays HI 3 PM. 2nd and 41h Tuesdays al 7 PM. Dick. RR 3. Box 339. MOllipelier, VT 0560 1. (802) 223- $2 WOO members. Info: Roy Kreiger, P.O. Box 24 1, 427 SE Main 51. Info: Debi or Kim Wing (503) 672-0280. 0309 arrer 6:30 PM. Kingsville, Onl. N9Y 2E9. (5 19) 733-8423.

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• UPSWIO Modeling the Line '- Modern Refrigerator Cars (Part 2) MARCH 1996 • Reading fP7 I( Modern Youngstown Doors , Modeling a CP Rail GPJI " The NER Story '- Blue Island Reefeo: A Pictorial · Part I • Conrail EMD SW1200 • Mod ular Railroading .nththe Pocahontas Chapter of , N&W E·l Pacilia: A Kitbash ­ A Look at HOOIier Lift " Warren Johnson's Union Pacific A Railroaders Layout '- The Bethgon' Revisned theNRHS (Part J: The Class II-ATender) .. The St Maries ROer RR: " Beaver and Timber Springs (BAD Canadian Pacific Railway Salmon Arm Station * IB Hunt (Part 2: Modeling Trailers - If Train Fillers A Jewel in the Gem Slate (Part 2) Intro. to UPS Service Equip. (Part 2) Modeling Atlantic Coast Line 'lW9Swnchers Spel11 K Gondola Cars , Scratchbuilding Ortner Three-Bay Rapid Oi"harge' , Modeling Dixie... SCL GP40 , Modeling Atlantic Coast Line Fs '- Blue Island Reef,": A Pictorial · Part 2 " The Locust Grove & Western RR: A Oif. Concept in a Hoppers (Part 2) OCTOBER 1994 (Part I: The FJ) '" Doug Jolle1s Former TimberCreek Railway Modular Layout , GE Dash 9-44CW Examining the Prolotype (Part I) • Work Trains, Wred< Trains and Camp Cars (Rail Upgrading Watther< 40' Reefer Container • Rod .Iand GE U21B & U28B (Phase I) BN America (Part 6: Summary) Renewal: PartJ) APRIL 1996 E7 . The Standard Pa"enger Diesel · Part I , Researching Freight Cars and a Look at Modern Coal • N&Ws Twelve Pole Line (Part I) OCTOBER 1995 • Modeling Ihe Western Pacific GP20s Cars , Carolina & Western ...Changing History New York Central (NYQ fA I�BI '- Kitbashing a CP Rail Scale Test Car " The flatwheel Cleek & Western RR , CNO&TP 6J06 - A High-Hood SOlO: An Engine That • Boston & Maine EMD GP9 O&RGWs Coal Car � BN America (Part J: Modeling 48' Containers) Could Have, Should Have Been '- Ooubl�Stacking in N Scale " Bob Mazzi'l a Scale Empire Right·of·Way Detail in N Sade � Thrall Doubl�Slacks -lWell Dm

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