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Bachmann Industries, Inc. Philadelphia, PA www.bachmanntrains.com May 2001 VOLUME 31 NUMBER 3 FEATURES 20 ▼ GP40: The First 645 Geep — Part 8: Georgia Group Railroads & Illinois Central by George Melvin 26 ▼ The Computer as a Modeling Tool: Making Road Signs by Jeff Scherb 30 ▼ “Southernizing” an Atlas Southern GP38 by Larry J. Puckett 38 ▼ Build a Portable Dynamometer by Bob Whiting 50 Photo by Miles Hale 40 ▼ Fixing the Yard at Trinidad — Correcting a Major Operational Bottleneck 56 ▼ DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP by Bob Foltz Reading EMD GP35 Phase I 46 ▼ CONTAINERS A-Z by Rich Picariello HDMU to HKUU 59 ▼ ON TRACK by David G. Casdorph It’s Still About Time 50 ▼ Strong Buildings by Jim Mansfield by Miles and Fran Hale 60 ▼ BEHIND THE SCENES 53 ▼ Another Engine that Never Was — Square Corner Backdrops: A Penn Central Steam Locomotive in O Scale Putting It All in Perspective by Jim Teese, MMR by Margaret Mansfield DEPARTMENTS 26 5 ▼ Editorial 9 ▼ Letters 12 ▼ New Products 17 ▼ Product Reviews 62 ▼ Society Page 63 ▼ Dealer Directory 71 ▼ Boys in the Basement 73 ▼ Your Trek Plan
Photo by Jeff Scherb Photo by Jeff 78 ▼ Advertiser Index ABOUT THE COVER Back in March 1992 we visited Bob Foltz’s Raton Pass Division of the Santa Fe. This month we return to see how Bob solved an operational problem with his Trinidad yard. Turn to page 40 to see how he improved this layout...before he tore is up completely and started on his new one. Photo by Bob Foltz. INSET: This month, Larry Puckett “Southernizes” one of Atlas’s new high-hood GP38s to make it more typical of some of the units that served the Southern. His article begins on page 30. Photo by Larry Puckett. •• ' 1magtne . Thi"S " a senes ", You want your model locomotives to, look like the ® get COUPLER re�t! thing --=-- even the lighting. Bl�r h?w c:�n yO�1 CCUMATE PROTO: HO ItglHs, thincrs like realistic Nlars li(rhts, bllllklllg ditch G�·alites, Rotary be;lcol�o;, and Ru1t: 17 dimming: You could buy a li.ghting module that docs � omc of . The most realistic automatic coupler this sruff. The price? Upwards to $2) or $)0. But ever produced in HO scale. Follows with DCC, it's just part of the deal. Not only can it all major dimensions of 1932 AAR do all these things, but more; such as st�obe Itghts, type E which continues to be the double strobe, firebox nicker, and stili more. standard coupler used today, yet will Yep, if you had Digital COlllmand Control, you still mate with any knuckle style could buy a decoder for just $22 to not only do all coupler currently produced in HO. Will these SI?ecial li�l�ting effects: but �Is<:> to r�1J1 you: locos With preCISion YOli can t beglll l.magll1e un t11 also mate with mosl dummy knuckles. . � you experience it. There are features for you to Imc tune your locos to 1l1:1ke them run the way YOll want Narrow couple box design simulates them to run; such as start voltage, momentum, j\lIU prototypical draft gear and spaces consisting, and more. If you're into running tr:lins ... coupled cars a scale distance apart. - you need DCC from Loy's Toys - Box can be used to effectively If you have DCC, are thinking about getting duplicate the eXlended appearance of DCC, or just want to learn luore about it, don't cushion draft gear. do anything until you send 55 (56 Canada, 58 others) for our 25 page DCC Primer, 100+ page Can also be used in HOn3 and Sn3. "Info" catalog, and sample copy of our DCC Accumate" ProtO: HO Couplers newsletter. (Add 52 to order with Visa or N!C) No. 1020 2 Pair $ 3.98 P.O. Box 88 No. 1030 12 Pair $15.98 Wesley, AR 72773 "The" l!!Y� (50\) 456-2888 �. ACCURAIL® http://w\l.. . lo)�toys.coln �t MAOE IN USA See your Dealer ToYS · LoysToys@allteLnet Specialist
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SINCE 1969 JACKSON'S SINCE 1969 INTERNATIONAL AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS OF FINE ART & ANTIQUES 2229 Lincoln St., Cedar Falls, IA 50613 • Ph. 319277-2256 • Fax 319 277-1252 • www.jacksonsauction.com ▼ TO THE EDITOR Oops...F59PHI Review One Spot Hi, Chris & Randy, Sir: We are pleased to see the positive review in the latest issue of ...I have just started to read the article “One Spot — The Modern Model Railroading magazine for the Athearn F59PHI, but we take RIP Track” and think this is a great article. Well done to you and your issue with one of author Picariello’s statements. He claims that “... magazine and the author of this article. These types of articles about the front cab steps are mounted on the front trucks and not on the car- industries on the RR are what I like best in the RR magazines. I also body as per the prototype.” This is in error. We have attached a photo like the articles on prototype cars. Please keep up the good work. of the front Paul L Hutley truck. The [email protected] ladders are d e f i n i t e l y Rock Island GP40s attached to Randy, the truck on Re: George Melvin's article on Rock Island GP40s in the Decem- each side ber 2000/January 2001 issue. of the loco- RI 392 on p.22 was not red and yellow, but rather traditional RI motive. We maroon and yellow. GP40s 382-396 (1969) were delivered in maroon think that and yellow with the large white italic ROCK ISLAND. RI 4700-4719 the fact that we made the ladder attachment correctly is an important (1970) were the only GP40s delivered in red and yellow. U33Bs 190- issue, and we would appreciate a correction. 199 and 285-289 (1969) were also delivered in maroon and yellow John Engstrom with italic lettering, and several older units were also painted in this Athearn, Inc. paint scheme (GP7 s, GP18 s, U25Bs). This is a frequently made error — even Louis Marre made it in his Sorry guys...we really blew it on this one. — Randy book, Rock Island Diesel Locomotives. Jim Eager Rio Grande GP40s Toronto, Canada Randy, Just a few corrections and additions to George Melvin’s Rio Moose River Article Grande GP40 article in the January issue: Hi Randy — 1) P. 21, caption for 3046 re: footboards. It is true that the I want to first say that I thought the photos of Joe Schenkel’s Grande’s GP30s and 35s were all delivered without plows, but all of Moose River Division were splendid. While I am a modern-era mod- them later had plows installed. eler, I was truly impressed by the great detail and small town feel he 2) P. 22, 2nd column, 2nd & 3rd lines from bottom re: warning achieved on his layout. It had a wonderful Toonerville Trolley feel to lights. On all Rio Grande EMD hood units the light between the num- it, and yet very real and true-to-era. A tough combination of fun and berboards was a Pyle “headlight.” The nose light was the signal light function. Very impressive. Fantastic! — twin Mars on all units from the first GP30s through SD40T-2 no. Less fantastic, however, was the latter half of Art Fahie’s article 5385. Subsequent T-motors, SD50s and GP40-2s 3129-3130 came about this layout. The fact that the buildings on the layout are FSM with Pyle Gyralites, and a few of the older units later got replacement is useful to know, and that was mentioned in three photo captions, Gyralites. On Rio Grande F-units the light position was reversed, which was more than sufficient. The page 43 paragraph where Mr. with the headlight in the door, and the Mars light in the nose. Fahie gets so lathered up over FSM is truly appalling, and he then 3) P. 22-23 & caption for 3091 re: extended-range dynamic brakes. drops an small editorial about new Bachmann steam locos without The extended dynamic brake blister does NOT indicate the presence even mentioning if the locos in the pics are Bachmann. If they are, of extended-range dynamic brakes. The change to the longer blister it should have been mentioned in the caption. If they are not Bach- was an across-the-board change made to all GP/SD40s in early 1971 mann, Mr. Fahie is engaging in gratuitous endorsement unrelated to to move the electrical cables away from the heat of the turbocharger. the article. I think it did Mr. Schenkel a disservice to devote space to The indicator for the presence of extended-range dynamic brakes is FSM, Preiser and Bachmann instead of expounding more on the lay- a small door on the blister. On the Rio Grande only GP40-2s 3116- out itself. Ads and reviews are the place for “product placement”, not 3128 & 3129-3130, the SD45s, and the SD40T-2s had this door, and the text of a story about a great layout. thus extended-range dynamics. I also had to raise an eyebrow over the ‘coincidental’ placement 4) P. 23, 1st column, second paragraph re: units 3129-3130. These of a 2-page Athearn ad for the PRR Highliners/Genesis F7 unit, fol- two units were NEW wreck replacement units, not rebuilds. Although lowed three pages later by a full-page editorial/review for the same they may have reused wrecked units’ trucks, everything else was new, locomotive. Log-rolling in the industry is a given, but this was a bit not remanufactured. blatant even for me. Tacky. Jim Eager Loved the one-spot repair shop article — that one is a must-build, Toronto, Canada and the Southern RS3s were nice too. Keep up the good work and best wishes for those having the personal trials you mentioned in the Bachmann Shay Review editorial. Dear Chris, Patrick Harris ...I saw your review on the Bachmann Shay in the Jan/Feb 2001 [email protected] issue of Model Railroading. The reason I am writing is that your review was one of the best I’ve ever seen. I have been reading gen- FYI, placement of the 2-page 4-color Athearn was governed by eral model railroading magazines for over 40 years. In all that time I availability of 4C on the printing form. Only three 2-page 4C spreads never saw all the background information on Shay locomotives that were available for ads in the Mar-Apr issue...pages 6-7 (Märklin ad), you presented. I really appreciated all the information on the model pages 10-11 (Athearn) and 14-15 (various). If preferential treatment too. Nothing to add, I just wanted to say thanks!! had been given to Athearn it would have been logical to give them Larry Garabedian either pages 6-7 (closer to the front) or 14-15 (immediately in front of [email protected] the review). Where would you have put it? — Randy
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MAY 2001 MODEL RAI LROADING T 11 ▼ NEW PRODUCTS THE SANDHOUSE A Product News Column HO SCALE
Atlas, 603 Sweetland Kits come with Tichy Trains brake and detail parts. No shipping Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205, charges if ordering direct. will re-release the 23,500- gal. tank car w/upgraded InterMountain, P.O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, is offering tooling and new roadnames the following new Premium Line kits: in two road numbers each for California Rail Car, Mendota and ▼ A.R.T. R-40-10 reefer (12 nos.), #41705P...$21.95 Union Carbide; re-release cars with two new road numbers are GAF ▼ Bangor & Aroostook R-40-10 reefer (12 nos.), #41706P...$21.95 Corp., Honeymead, Amoco, Mobil, Reilly Industries and Republic ▼ Re-release PFE R-40-10 reefer, UP-SP heralds (12 new nos.), Car Line. Price is $19.95 ea. An all-new American Car & Foundry #4170P...$21.95 17,360-gal. tank car is coming in June. Roadnames in two numbers New kits are: each are ACFX (Olin Chemical), ACFX (black w/orange stripe), ▼ Rio Grande F7A Phase I shell, yellow & silver scheme (4 nos.), ACFX (white w/black center band), Diamond Shamrock, Hooker #44011...$79.95 (gray), Hooker (orange/black/white), PPG and Stauffer Chemical. ▼ Rio Grande F7B Phase I shell, yellow & silver scheme (4 nos.), Price range is $19.95 to $22.95. New paint schemes for the Atlas #44511...$69.95 Classic EMD GP7 are B&M, Chessie System, CB&Q, Lackawanna, Fully assembled models are: Missouri-Kansas-Texas and Wabash. Decorated units come in two ▼ Rio Grande F7A Phase I shell, yellow & silver scheme (4 nos.), road numbers and unnumbered. Features are DCC ready, directional #49011...$89.95 headlights, wire grabirons, MU hoses, coupler cut levers, two painted ▼ Rio Grande F7B Phase I shell, yellow & silver scheme (4 nos.), crew figures and painted handrails. Undec models come with or w/o #49511...$79.95 dynamic brakes. Price is $94.95. ▼ M.D.T. R-40-23 reefer, #45504...$28.95 ▼ MDT/NYC R-40-23 reefer, #45529...$26.95 Cannonball Car Shop, C/O ▼ N&W 4750 cu. ft. 3-bay covered hopper, #45325...$26.95 Model Railroad Warehouse, Box ▼ NRC/IC R-40-23 reefer, #45518...$26.95 411, Roanoke, IN 46783, offers a ▼ NYC modified AAR 40' boxcar, #45805...$26.95 body shell kit for a GE steeple cab Regal Line powered, decorated and fully assembled: electric loco that is designed to fit on ▼ Rio Grande F7A Phase I, yellow & silver scheme (4 nos.), a Bachmann GE 44-ton chassis (not #49011WD...$134.95 included). Kit includes both arched or straight cab side window parts. ▼ Rio Grande F7B Phase I, yellow & silver scheme (4 nos.), It is cast in a light tan plastic. Trolley poles and other detail parts must #49511WD...$124.95 be purchased from other sources. Price for #197-9810 is $22.95. New Lonestar kits: ▼ Black stake bed w/o cab, #LS7021...$9.95 Custom Finishing, 379 ▼ Red stake bed w/Ford L9000, Builder Supply decals, Tully Rd., Orange, MA 01364, #LS7003...$18.95 introduces a cast pewter kit ▼ Red stake bed w/o cab, #LS7023...$9.95 with 80+ parts for the Badger Model 1085C Cruz Air Rub- LBF, P.O. Box 404, Glide, OR ber-Tired Excavator. Work- 97443-0404, is offering a kit for ing features include steerable the Trinity Industries Aluminator front wheels, stabilizer arms II® coal gondola in 48 numbers per raise and lower, rotating cab scheme. Kits are decorated for BN, and extendable boom. Kit has GEAX, TILX, TIMX, CNA and UP. interchangeable excavation and ditching buckets, detailed cab inte- Metal wheelsets and McHenry mag- rior, brass hydraulic cylinders and lines, window glazing, windshield netic couplers are included. Cars will wipers and decals. Price is $64.95 plus $6.50 S&H if ordering direct. be priced according to complexity of scheme and are TBA (see web- site at http://www.lbfcompany.com). Funaro & Camerlengo, RD #3, Box 2800, Honesdale, PA Life-Like, 1600 Union Ave., Baltimore, MD 21211, announces the 18431, is offering the follow- Proto 2000 EMD GP7 Phase I decorated in ACL, CB&Q, C&O, MP, ing cast-polycarbonate resin Erie, PRR, Santa Fe, Southern and undec. There will be three road kits: numbers for CB&Q, Santa Fe and PRR and two road numbers for ▼ 6651 Central Vermont 41000 series/GTW 583200 series 1½ door ACL, C&O, Erie, MP and Southern. Price is $100.00 automobile car w/end doors...$27.99 ▼ 6652 Central Vermont 42000 series/GTW 584702 series double- Oriental Limited, P.O. Box 4171, Evansville, IN 47724, is offering door automobile car...$27.99 brass models of a slag car as used in the steel industry. Three versions
Editor’s Note: Please talk to your dealer first regarding any new products. If you would like additional information from the manufacturer, please don’t forget to include a number ten, self-addressed, stamped envelope. This will help all concerned.
12 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 The following reweigh station decals (dates w/repack data in white w/3-color background) priced at $6.00/set: ▼ E52 Midwest reweigh stations ▼ E55 Southwestern reweigh stations ▼ E53 Western reweigh stations are offered: #2014 unpainted, #2015 painted aluminum and #2016 Load #J1 has bas-relief cattle w/simulated straw designed to fit in painted oxidized brown. Price is $192.85 for the unpainted car or the single deck cars; $8.00 with kit. Appropriate ARA plastic trucks $207.15 for either painted car. w/metal non-magnetic wheelsets (#TP40) are $5.00/pr. Add $4.00 S&H for up to 5 kits in the US or $15.88 for up to 6 kits to Canada. Sheepscot Scale Products, 2 Country Charm Rd., Cum- Tech Model Railroad berland, ME 04021, is offer- Club of MIT, Room ing a urethane and cast-metal N52-118, 265 Massachu- kit for the 1959 I-H F-230-D setts Ave., Cambridge, heavy truck. Kit has stainless- MA 02139, http://tmrc. steel rear view mirrors; ure- mit.edu, is offering an LBF 50' PS-1 boxcar kit commemorating the thane cab, front bumper and battery boxes; cast-metal frame, tires, first 50 years of the club and its fictitious railroad, the Tech Nickel fuel tanks, stack, headlights, suspension and fifth wheel. Price is Plate (TNP). Car is painted TMRC Red w/a gold stripe and a silver $24.00. roof. One side of the car has the original TNP logo and the other side has the current logo. Price is $12.50 ea. plus $3.50 S&H for up to 4 Sunshine Models, Box 4997, Springfield, MO 65808-4997, has cars. cast gray urethane kits for Santa Fe stock cars in six versions: ▼ #56.1 Class Sk-Q Walthers, 5601 W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53201-3039, convertible deck... Sk-Q is releasing the Budd diner and 10-6 sleeper decorated for Amtrak $33.00 (Phase I to IV schemes), PRR, CB&Q, NYC, SP, UP and undec ▼ #56.2 C l a s s S k - R ($31.98 each); a new truck loading rack kit for tankers (#933-3169, single-deck w/early $24.98); oil pump kit (#933-3170); motorizing kit for oil pump m o d i f i e d e n d s . . . (#933-1050) and 23,000-gal. Funnel Flow® tank car kit in UTLX $32.00 (Union Tank Car), UTLX-EQ (Union Tank Car), HPLX (Exxon), ▼ #56.3 Class Sk-R single-deck partition w/small side doors...$34.00 CONX (Conoco), TILX (Trinity Industries Leasing), CHVX (Chev- (Note: This car will be available at the ATSF convention in July ron), CGTX and PROX (Procor). Price is $15.98 for a single car or 2001.) $31.98 for a limited-run 2-pack (undec tank car is available only as a ▼ #56.4 Class Sk-S convertible deck...$33.00 single car). ▼ #56.5 Class Sk-T sin- gle-deck w/two “toe Westerfield, 53 River Ln., hold” ends...$32.00 Crossville, TN 38555, has ▼ #56.6 C l a s s S k - U the USRA reefer as used on single-deck w/final the Santa Fe. The USRA end arrangement... Sk-T reefer design was proposed $32.00 in 1918 but was never built. Santa Fe adopted the design, stretched it The following chalk mark decals in light gray (approx. 70 in each to 41' 3" and produced a fleet of 10,500 cars between 1920 to 1926. set) priced at $4.00/set: ▼ 8601 Class RR.W ▼ E7 Midwest ▼ 8602 Classes RR.X and RR.Y ▼ E2 Santa Fe ▼ 8603 Classes RR.2, RR.3 and RR.4 ▼ E21 Southwestern Kits feature a one-piece carbody and are priced at $30.00 each.
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Atlas, 603 Sweetland Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205, is releasing a 2 #s & unnumbered as: Alaska (blue/yellow), Santa Fe (Warbonnet), 55-ton fishbelly hopper with a die-cast underframe and slope sheets, B&O (blue/yellow), BNSF (green/orange), CSX (Bright Future), flat or peaked ends as per the prototype, plastic coal load and GM&O (red/white), New England Central (blue/gold). High-hood body, friction-bearing trucks with AccuMate® couplers as well as versions will be offered as undecorated and with 2 #s & unnumbered authentic painting and printing. Originally introduced in the 1930s, for Southern (black/imitation aluminum. MSRP Range: $89.95 to this car thrived until second-generation diesel days and formed the $99.95 w/o decoder and $129.95 to $134.95 w/decoder. backbone of some of the great coal hauling railroads. It will be offered undecorated with peaked ends and in 3 #s in each in the InterMountain, P.O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, is offering following schemes: ACL (black/white), N&W (black/white). It will the following new kits: also be available undecorated with flat end or in 3 #s for the follow- ▼ Norfolk & Western ACF 2-bay covered hopper (12 nos.), ing roads: C&O (black/white), D&H (boxcar red/white), Reading #61503...$13.95 (black/white/red), WM (oxide red/speed lettering). MSRP Range: ▼ CN modified AAR 40' boxcar (12 nos.), #61801...$14.95 $9.95 to $12.95. ▼ Undec modified AAR 40' boxcar, boxcar red, #61898...$11.50 A new GP38 will be released in June with dual flywheel-equipped ▼ Undec modified AAR 40' boxcar, gray, #61899...$11.50 5-pole skewed armature motor powering a low-friction drive, direc- Fully assembled models are: tional lighting, walkway safety tread, painted handrails, blackened ▼ Santa Fe cylindrical covered hopper, #65111...$18.95 metal wheels, dynamic brakes (where applicable) and AccuMate® ▼ PFE R-40-23 reefer w/SP and UP heralds, #65501...$17.95 couplers. It will be offered either with a factory-installed Lenz ▼ GN 12-panel 40' boxcar, vermilion red, #66005...$18.95 decoder or with a PC board designed for easy conversion to DCC. ▼ Santa Fe “El Capitan” RR-32 reefer, #66102...$18.95 Both high- and low-nose versions will be offered. Low-hood versions ▼ M.D.T. R-40-23 reefer, #65504...$19.95 will be offered as: undecorated (w/ or w/o dynamic brakes); and with ▼ Maine Central AAR 50' double-door boxcar, #65609...$17.95
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Box 404, Glide, OR 97443-0404, is offering an N ▼ Champion Oils - Sterling Fluids sin- scale kit for the Trinity Industries Aluminator II® coal gondola. gle-dome tank car (Road No. HJMX The kits are decorated for BN, GEAX, TILX, TIMX, CNA and UP. 6002), RTR #65490...$17.25 Prices TBA. ▼ Special Edition Fantasy Car - Smokey Bear 50' gondola (Road Bill Mosteller, 2813 Hogan Ct., Falls Church, VA 22043, has a No. F.P. X121053 MW), RTR new decal set for the L&N 40' blue boxcars. Set includes 12 “canned” #46360...$15.95 road numbers and dimensional data. Set #74 is $3.99 postpaid. O SCALE Downtown Deco, 4319 Rainbow Dr., Missoula, MT 59803, celebrate the 5th anniversary of production, one out of every 100 kits announces Special Limited-Edition 5th Anniversary Kits in O Scale: will include a “winning letter” entitling the bearer to a free engine house (a $150.00 value), which is their next release due out in late 2001. InterMountain, P.O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, is offering the following fully assembled models: ▼ DD19 Mahoney’s Pub ▼ DD22 Ace Auto ▼ Shell Chemical Co. ACF Type 27 8,000-gal. tank car, #26302S ▼ DD20 Mai Wah Noodles ▼ DD23 Rob E. Fulks, P.I. - scale or #26302HR - high rail...$48.95 ea. ▼ DD21 Valdez Groceries ▼ Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc. ACF Type 27 8,000-gal. tank car, Kits feature Hydrocal castings, full-color signs, an air-conditioner #26303S - scale or #26303HR - high rail...$48.95 ea. and roofing material. There will be only 100 kits of each building ▼ Shippers Car Line ACF Type 27 8,000-gal. tank car (12 nos.), made and they will never be re-run. Price is $59.95 per kit. To help #26304S - scale or #26304HR - high rail...$48.95 ea. MULTI SCALE GRS Micro Liting, 32 Woodlake Dr. SE, Rochester, MN 55904, intermodal ships using a common 5" x 30" waterline hull and a www.grsmicroliting.com, has the following new electronic products: variety of modular superstructure and deck formats to build tanker, three types of Micro Liting flashing action devices (for large scale); supertanker, bulk cargo, container and LASH/RO-RO ship designs. rotating beacons and light bars for emergency vehicles or railroad Components are composed of MDF, a sealed primer-ready machin- crossings (HO to large scale); GRS130 power supply for 3V GOR able material made from recycled cellulose products. An etched-brass bulbs ($34.95); GRS601 motor control ($27.50) for speed control of detail set (available in HO, N and Z scales) w/bulkhead doors, port- the GRS600 Micro Motor or other 1.5-3V motor; 3V Super Grain-of- holes, ladders, stairs, masts, antenna, gantry and intermodal cranes Rice/Micro Bulbs in red, clear and amber; 1.5V Grain-of-Rice bulb in along with additional parts from other vendors is needed to complete red. All bulbs are $3.95 each. a ship. The H-1 lacquered hull; S-1 superstructure and cargo formats and the B-1 (HO), B-2 (N) and B-3 (Z) etched-brass details are all InterMountain, P.O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, is offering priced at $49.95 each. new brushes from Tenax: ▼ Microbrush in regular, fine or superfine, #TN10004...$1.29/10 The Signaling Solution, W. S. Ataras Engineering, 40 Laughton ▼ Ultrabrush, regular, #TN10005...$1.29/10 St., Upper Marlboro, MD 20774, www.wsaeng.com/Signaling_Solu- tion, offers the following products: BD16 - Block Occupancy Detec- Midwest Products, P.O. Box 564, Hobart, IN 46342, is releasing tor, detects trains in 16 blocks, rated at 3-amps/block; BH16HC corrugated siding in basswood: - Block Occupancy Detector, same as BD16 except rated at 6-amps/ ▼ 4490 1/32" spacing - 1/32" x 3" x 24" block; BD8 - Block Occupancy Detector, same as BD16 but handles ▼ 4491 1/16" spacing - 1/32" x 3" x 24" eight blocks; TC4 - Three-color Controller; MSC - Master Signal Controller; GCC - Grade Crossing Controller; GCX - Grade Crossing Oddball Decals, 26550 227th St., McLouth, KS 66054, offers the Expander; TSI - Train Speed Indicator; DWS - Detectable Wheel Sets following decals in HO, N, S & O scales: and SMA - Signal Mounting Adapters. Write or contact website for ▼ 622 I&M Rail Link PS 3-bay covered hopper (3-80) further info on these products. ▼ 623 Midwest Railcar Corp. 60’ boxcar (6-99) ▼ 624 I&M Rail Link 2-bay covered hopper (5-97) Wisdom Adhesives, 874 Green Bay Rd., Winnetka, IL 60093, Use prefix 60- for N; 87- for HO; 64- for S; 48- for O. HO and N introduces Supra Spray Adhesive, a specially formulated high-per- scale are $3.00; S and O are $5.00. Add $1.75 S&H if ordering direct. formance product. The adhesive is a water-based white, non-staining, mist type adhesive that does not contain methylene chloride. It will Searails, Stone Harbor Inter- bond lightweight materials to porous surfaces such as paper, felt, modal Freight Facility, 8380 Camp cardboard and polyurethane foam with either a temporary or perma- Rd., Sebastopol, CA 95472, intro- nent bond depending upon application method used. Call 847-678- duces Searails multi-scale kits of 7750 for a free catalog. 16 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 HO SCALE REVIEW Life-Like Proto 2000 Phase 1 GP30 by Stuart R. Thayer the gap in HO GP30s with their release of features of this new model include: the Phase 1 GP30. Of the 948 total GP30s ▼ With of without drop steps depending on Photo by the author produced, 338 fall into the category of Phase prototype 1, while 610 fall into the category of Phase ▼ With or without dynamic brakes depend- he latest HO diesel offering from Life- 2. Original owners of the Phase 1 GP30 ing on prototype T Like Proto 2000 is the Phase 1 GP30. were ATSF, B&O, C&O, CB&Q, D&RGW, ▼ EMD Blomberg or AAR (Alco) trucks The prototype GP30 was first introduced L&N, NYC, N&W, Phelps Dodge, Reading depending on prototype by EMD on October 18, 1961, with the first and EMD (the two demonstrators were sold ▼ With or without nose-mounted headlight production unit built in March 1962. Over to SAL and UP). depending on prototype the course of the next two years EMD went In this first release of the Proto 2000 ▼ Three sizes of fuel tanks depending on on to produce 948 units for 29 railroads. Phase 1 GP30, roadnames being offered are: prototype GM’s Automotive Styling Department ATSF (3 numbers), B&O (3 numbers), BN ▼ Near scale sized flexible engineering plas- collaborated with EMD in the GP30’s de- (2 numbers), CB&Q (3 numbers), D&RGW tic handrails sign. This is most evident in the cab area. (2 numbers), EMD Demonstrator (2 num- ▼ Plug-and-play DCC ready circuit board The front windshield is angled with a large bers), KCS (2 numbers), L&N (2 numbers), ▼ Directional lighting sloping “brow” over the cab that extends and undecorated. ▼ Knuckle-style Kadee®-compatible cou- back into the dynamic-brake blister. This The new Proto 2000 Phase 1 GP30 is plers all combined for a sleek looking, yet func- every bit the equal to its predecessor and ▼ Subtle weathering of the walkways on tional design that is not to be confused with comes ready to run out of the box. All that is some roadnames (this means that that any other diesel locomotive. The GP30 was required is to attach the shell to the chassis. some have received a matte finish on truly a unique locomotive. There are some additional included details the walkways) and darkened grilles and During the production period for the that can be added as with the earlier Phase 2 screens GP30, EMD made certain changes and model. For the model shown, this included The drive for this model is the same as improvements in the design. To distinguish cab sunshades. was included with the Phase 2 GP30s, and these production changes, modelers and rail- There is one very noticeable improve- as mentioned above, comes DCC ready. road enthusiasts over the years have divided ment over the previous GP30 model. That The operating characteristics of the model production of the GP30 into phases. How- is the EMD Blomberg sideframes. The shown included an average starting voltage ever, it should be noted that EMD did not new Proto 2000 Blomberg sideframes are of 5.25 volts DC straight out of the box recognize or employ the use of phases to much improved over the previous ones. with no additional lubrication or break-in distinguish production changes. Instead, we Life-like has gone back and redone a lot running time. Throttle response was very modelers use phases to help identify these of the detailing on these sideframes. Some smooth. changes. GP30 production is divided into of the improvements include the brake The sample shown here is decorated for Phases 1 and 2. The most notable and rec- cylinders, leaf-spring hangers and the the Louisville & Nashville Railroad as their ognizable difference between the phases is leaf-spring shelf that has been missing up #1000. This was the first GP30 for the L&N, the length of the cab on the left side. Phase until now. These improvements make for a and is accurate for L&N Phase 1 GP30s as 1 GP30s have matching cab side lengths. very nice sideframe that compliments the delivered. The paint quality is exceptional The Phase 2 GP30’s cab is 10" longer to the model very well. The cab has been redone with extremely crisp color separation and rear on the left side. This change took place to accurately represent the Phase 1 cab, graphics. Also, the rendition of the gray and in late 1962. This change also resulted in and consequently Life-Like has redone yellow is right on the money in my opinion the absence of a handrail stanchion at the the handrail casting on the left side of the for the as-delivered GP30s. bend in the long hood railing behind the cab long hood to accommodate the shorter cab This is another example of an outstanding on the left side of the Phase 2 GP30. Proto length on that side. This means that the product from Life-Like Proto 2000, and one 2000 has already produced an HO model of handrail stanchion that is located at the that is worthy of every HO diesel modeler’s the Phase 2 GP30, and now they are filling bend in the handrail has been added. Other consideration MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 17 HO SCALE REVIEW MRC Platinum Series EMD F7A by Rich Picariello ▼ Full cab interior w/engineer figure rectly located. The model’s most noticeable ▼ Pennsy F7 comes with rail antennas discrepancy is that the carbody sits too high Photos by Chris Lane ▼ Cast-metal underframe above the underframe. Since the trucks ride ▼ Wire grab rails on round pins mounted on the underframe, it he F7 was EMD’s best selling cab-unit ▼ Brass air horns might be possible to file away some material T model with around 2,300 A units and ▼ Etched stainless-steel grilles on the top of the pins to lower the carbody 1,400 B units sold from 1948 to 1953. Penn- ▼ Both X2F and magnetic couplers sup- by about six scale inches. Also, by using sylvania’s diesel locomotives were equipped plied this type of mounting, some flexing up-and- with prominent induction antennas. Pennsy The Pennsy roof-mounted dual-rail down sideframe movement is observable. had lost their radio license and had to use the antennas included with our sample model The model runs smoothly and fairly quietly. distinctive induction antennas for communi- are a good addition that effectively enhances Performance tests show that the 16.3 ounce cation. the basic model with a detail that has never model has about a 3.0 ounce drawbar pull MRC has introduced their Platinum been offered before with a plastic model. and should be able to pull around 35-40 cars Series F7A. The model, made in China, Mounting holes in the roof will easily accept on level track. closely resembles a Phase I F7 equipped the antennas, which can be glued from Platinum Series F7As come decorated with dynamic brakes and a steam generator, inside the shell. Alternately, the tabs extend- in two road numbers each for BN, B&O, but the 48" dynamic brake fan on the shell ing into the carbody can be bent over to C&NW, Rock Island, NYC, NP, Pennsyl- is consistent with a Phase II F7. Also, the secure the antennas in place. Couplers must vania, Santa Fe, SP, Soo Line and undec- rear roof overhang (as seen on the model) be installed by the modeler. The separately orated. They are available now without a was eliminated toward the end of F7 pro- applied grabirons and vertical grab rails are decoder and are priced at $79.00. A decoder- duction. Otherwise, the shell has very good unpainted. The paint is smoothly applied equipped version and matching B units will window and nose contours. A very visible but the color is too green to accurately rep- be available soon. seam line mars the smooth appearance of resent the almost black Pennsy Brunswick the nose as would be seen on the prototype. Green. The roadname lettering is slightly Oddly, there are no clear plastic window oversize but is well done, and the striping moldings mounted or supplied for the side is straight and sharp. Also, the Pennsy key- CORRECTION windows. The model has steam-generator stone heralds on the sides of the carbody In the Athearn Genesis EMD F7A details molded on the last panel of the roof. appear to be somewhat oversized. Lift rings review in the March/April 2001 issue A-units were rarely equipped with a steam and other detail parts available from vari- the model should have been described generator, the preferred location was inside a ous manufacturers can be added to further as being a “single-headlight with plain trailing B-unit. enhance the model. While the see-thru effect nose door” version. Features of the F7A are: of the stainless-steel grilles is good, some ▼ Motor w/dual brass flywheels of the visible interior bracing is not cor- 18 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 MULTI SCALE REVIEW Searails Ship The components can be arranged in a variety of ways. The scale of the ship will be determined by the scale of the etched-brass parts used. The HO set is shown here. by Rich Picariello plastic, metal or wood marine detail parts such as anchors, antenna, Photos by Chris Lane chocks, pulleys, bits, vents and other parts from the ship detail manu- facturers. The Internet is an excellent source of information for parts he rail-to-water interface has been a fairly common primary or availability as well as ship photos and other maritime information. T secondary theme for many model railroad layouts throughout There are some books available for detailing information on modern the years. On the prototype, a tremendous amount of switching ac- ships. tivity takes place on and around the docks. Even though they may not Prototype dimensional representations by scale for the kit are: be directly involved in the dock activity, waterfront warehouses and Length Beam Height industries also see a large share of switching. Kits to represent the (width) (above waterline) dockside scene had not been available until Walthers began offering HO 217' 35' 4" 13' 7" their waterfront series. An ore dock, dockside crane, tugboat, car ferry N 480' 4" 65' 25' and float, dockside buildings and pier kits are now available in HO Z 550' 89' 4" 34' 4" scale along with a companion book on waterfront modeling. By comparison, a typical cargo ship is about 300'-500' long, a The major problem has been finding cargo ship models of a suffi- Great Lakes ore boat is 700'-1,000' long and a tanker, container or cient size to represent the ships needed for a typical dock scene. Most LASH/Ro-Ro ship is about 1,000' long. As shown by these dimen- plastic or wood ship models currently on the market represent either sions, the ship represents a fairly small ship in HO, a medium-sized warships or ocean liners. Rarely are cargo ships offered, and when ship in N and a moderately large ship in Z. These sizes are fine for they are, they are usually too small to be usable. While some of the most layouts as they represent a selectively compressed ship model cargo ship models available might work for Z or sometimes N scale, that can fit on most layouts. they are usually much too small for HO. Searails kits available are: Searails is now producing a basic waterline hull kit that can be H-1 Waterline Hull (30" x 5" x2")...$49.95 built into a cargo, intermodal, tanker or LASH/Ro-Ro (where the S-1 Superstructure & Cargo Formats (cabin, boat, pilothouse and cargo is carried on the deck) ships. Rather sparse instructions show bridge decks; tanker piping, container loads, hatch covers, masts side profiles of various prototype ship configurations. The Searails and placement pegs)...$49.95 hull kit is made of MDF, a shellac-sealed machinable material made B-1 Etched-brass details, HO...$49.95* from recycled cellulose products. MDF planks are glued upon one B-2 Etched-brass details, N...$49.95* another and then shaped to the final hull configuration. Locating B-3 Etched brass details, Z...$49.95* holes are drilled into the hull and into each deck section allowing the * Etched-brass details consist of railings and risers, bulkhead doors, insertion of wood dowel pins to align the parts. A sheet-brass smoke- portholes, gantry and intermodal cranes, ladders, masts and anten- stack rounds out the kit. In a separate kit, shaped MDF parts for nae. cargo, decks and other structural parts and dowels of various lengths The Searails kit gives a modeler an excellent start to construct a and diameters are provided to portray cargo boom masts or tanker large ship model as the hull is close to being finished. Some skill is deck piping. White or carpenters glue can be used to fasten the MDF required for a spectacular finished product, but the modeling should parts. Separate sheets of etched-brass detail parts are available in each be an enjoyable experience. This kit therefore may not be a good of the three scales. The Searails parts should be considered a “blank choice for a novice modeler. canvas” to be used as a starting point for a fully detailed finished These products are available direct from Searails, Stone Harbor model. In order to finish a ship, the modeler will have to purchase Intermodal Freight Facility, 8380 Camp Rd., Sebastopol, CA 95472. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 19 A&WP GP40 728 was the third GP40 for that road, one of two bought in January 1969. It has extra grabirons on the front of the short hood, a larger than usual coupler cut lever arrangement and a three-chime horn. The faded herald started out as red and white. As was the case with all the GP40s in this family, it has the smaller capacity fuel tank and the bell mounted on the frame forward of the GP40: tank. Atlanta, GA; February 1982. Decals: Microscale 87-889. Bill Folsom photo, Pete Coulombe collection e resume our study of GP40s this two GP7s in 1950, another two in 1951 and W month with the Georgia Group a single final unit in 1952. The first-genera- Railroads. This simple name belies the tion road power thus consisted of four FP7s complicated existence of the three railroads and five GP7s. The first second-generation under that banner. The Atlanta & West Point unit was GP40 726 delivered in May 1967. The (AWP) operated 87 miles from Atlanta As was consistent with the three roads, the westward to West Point, GA. On the east it unit was simply attired in solid black with connected with the Georgia Railroad (GA) a white frame stripe and yellow handrails. that extended from Atlanta eastward 171 The initials “A&WP” and a “West Point miles to Augusta. This road also had sev- Route” diamond-shaped herald was placed eral branches. To the west of the AWP was on the long hood. The unit had dynamic the Western Railway of Alabama (WofA). brakes and the small-capacity fuel tank, First It operated from West Point westward 225 the trend for all three road’s GP40 acquisi- miles to Selma, AL. The Georgia Railroad tions. This unit was followed by another was not a “standalone” company but rep- numbered 727 in 1968, two more units, resented the lease of the property from the 728 and 729, in 1969 and a trio numbered Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. to the At- 730-732 in 1970. A single GP40-2 arrived lantic Coast Line (ACL) and the Louisville in November 1974 and was numbered 733. & Nashville (L&N). The AWP and the WofA This brought the total of GP40 types on the were together known as the West Point A&WP to eight. 645 Route. These roads were partly owned by The Georgia Railroad owned more die- the Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. This sels than the other two roads and also had connection with the ACL and L&N caused a bit more variety. The first switchers were the Georgia Group railroads to be swept five NW2s received in 1948-’49, followed along with the series of mergers that created by a pair of SW9s and a single Baldwin DS what is CSX Corp today. A while after the 4-4-10 in 1951. The year 1948 also saw a merger of the ACL and Seaboard Air Line single F3 arrive as the first cab unit. Next Geep in 1967, the L&N and the Clinchfield were came four FP7s in 1949-’50 and then the brought in to form the Family Lines. The backbone of the fleet, a total of 18 GP7s components of the Family Lines kept their acquired between 1950 and 1952. The first- separate reporting marks. This in turn be- generation diesel roster was completed with — Part 8 came the Seaboard System (SBD) and when three GP9s in 1954. The Georgia Railroad merged with the railroads that made up the followed the similar pattern of the AWP, Chessie System, CSX was created. With this receiving its first two GP40s, numbered thumbnail history behind us, let’s look at the 751 and 752, in May 1967. They were fol- locomotives owned by the Georgia Group. lowed by two more in July 1968, units 753 Aside from a trio of Baldwin switchers and 754. A pair of GP40-2s finished off the acquired in 1949 and 1951, the Atlanta & GP40 roster; units 755 and 756 arrived in West Point was all road units and all EMD. December 1972. These units looked similar It started with a pair of FP7s in 1949, fol- to the other two roads although the road- by George Melvin lowed by another pair in 1951, with road name was applied to the long hood in gold, switcher arrivals starting in between with and the road had its own herald, with its 20 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 Georgia Railroad GP40 752 is at Atlanta, GA, in November 1982 and from the first two-unit order received in May 1967. This unit appears to have a two-chime horn and also has a homemade sheet-metal sunshade in contrast to AWP 728. Decals: Microscale 87-889. Bill Folsom photo, Pete Coulombe collection date of organization (1834) and the slogan, arrived in 1969. In 1970, three more GP40s teen months later AWP 727, GA 753, 754 “Old Reliable.” were added to the roster as units 705-707. A and WofA 702 also had the same distinction. The Western of Alabama got into diesels single GP40-2 numbered 708 was delivered None of these engines were repainted in the sooner than its two sister roads, receiving in November 1974. The WofA units were Family Lines scheme. This total of 22 GP40 four Baldwin VO1000s in 1944 and a single lettered “WofA” on the long hood and car- types on the three roads were all renumbered DS 4-4-10 in 1948. Then came the single F3 ried the same herald as the A&WP power. by Seaboard System into the 6600 and 6700 in 1948 followed by only two FP7s in 1949. An interesting detail is that the first two series about 1986 and carried the same num- From 1950 to 1953, six GP7s arrived, fol- orders for GP40s for all three roads (and bers over to CSX. lowed by a pair of GP9s in 1954. The WofA perhaps subsequent locomotive orders) were The Illinois Central (IC) billed itself as received a single GP40 numbered 701 in group orders: AWP 726, GA 751, 752 and the “Main Line of Mid-America.” With its May 1967; another, numbered 702, came WofA 701 were all built in May 1967 and 921-mile mainline running almost exactly in 1968. Two more numbered 703 and 704 carried consecutive builder’s numbers. Four- north-south between Chicago and New WofA GP40 701 is the first of eight “40 types” for that road, built in May 1967 and shown at age 14 at Montgomery, AL, July 24, 1981. The paint has weathered to the point that the herald is indistinguishable. It possesses a five-chime horn and a slightly different homebuilt sunshade. Despite the unit’s overall appearance, the builder’s plate looks like it has spent time in storage and not in the elements with the rest of the engine! Decals: Microscale 87-889. Michael Reid photo, Pete Coulombe collection MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 21 Georgia Railroad GP40 753 is mated with A&WP GP40 731. It is one of the two last GP40s received by the road in July 1968 and has a rectangular builder’s plate. It still has its factory-applied footboards in this view at Montgomery, AL, in 1973. Decals: Microscale 87-889. John Cloutier photo, George Melvin collection WofA GP40 701 is the road’s first GP40 and is among the first four GP40s built for the three roads of the Georgia Group. The unit has the typical (for all three roads) options of dynamic brake and a small capacity fuel tank. The amount of different details present on this fleet is small; there is a rerailer hanging above the rear truck. This angle shows the position of the “West Point Route” herald. Montgomery, AL; 1973. Decals: Microscale 87-889. John Cloutier photo, George Melvin collection Orleans, the road was true to its slogan. In 1950, the flagship trains City of New Orleans and its overnight counterpart, the Panama Limited covered this route in 16 “deflected” through St. Louis, adding 113 6,500 miles in 14 states with routes to the hours. Rival Gulf, Mobile & Ohio (GMO) miles to the route. The IC was more than this north into Wisconsin, westward to Omaha operated between the two cities as well but well-known through route. It operated over and even into Minnesota and South Dakota. To the east, lines fanned out to Indianapo- lis and Louisville. In the south, a branch ran southeasterly to Birmingham and an east-west route linked Meridian, MS, with Shreveport, LA. The beginnings of the diesel era on the IC is a bit of a contradiction. In the case of early switchers, the road ran well ahead of the majority of big roads, operating 18 die- sels in the Chicago area by 1936. This num- ber included six boxcabs, nine Alco High Hoods and three large experimental transfer units. In passenger service, an articulated lightweight train named the Green Diamond was built in 1936. After the first E6 in 1940, came E7s, E8s and E9s with the road accu- mulating a fleet of 59 EMD passenger units This fireman’s side view of IC GP40 3031 shows a small grabiron above the cab by 1961. door and the canvas sunshade in the extended position. Note the two extra lift- In the road freight department, the IC ing pads on the sidesill, closer to the ends of the unit from the pair of standard could have been called a diehard steam ones. Photos of all the units in this group indicate these were standard through- road, not becoming fully dieselized until out. Decals: Microscale MC 4002. George Cockle photo, George Melvin collection January 1962. It completely skipped the 22 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 IC GP40 3013 is modeling a decent coat of the orange and white paint at Chicago, IL, on September 3, 1973. There is no nose herald on this unit. It still has its as-delivered footboards and lacks the hole in the stairway well as seen on unit 3003 and others. It has a pair of wind deflectors and a canvas sunshade. Decals: Microscale 87-27. George Cockle photo, George Melvin collection freight cab unit era of the 1940s and early GP28. This model amounted to a “non-turbo windows around the cab and the length of 1950s. In 1950, the first of 47 GP7s arrived. GP35”; the IC bought 12 of these units new the unit. The road number was centered on This group was followed by 348 GP9s and acquired another with the acquisition of the long hood in white. The only attempt at built between 1954 and 1958. Keeping to shortline Mississippi Central in 1967. color was the famous IC green diamond her- the non-turbocharged power after the GP9 Finally opting for turbocharger-equipped ald on the cab side. The equipment furthered production run changed to GP18; the road road power in 1966, the road received 40 the plain approach to motive power stated acquired 29 GP18s with the change from GP40s numbered 3000-3039 in January and by the paint scheme; they had footboards, high-nose power to the modern low-nose February. They were, well, very “IC-ish”; small fuel tanks and lacked dynamic brakes. style occurring in the middle of this group of solid black with a white frame stripe and a One year later, in February and March 1967 units. The GP18s were followed by the rare single pinstripe running from the front cab another 20 similar units followed, numbered This rear view of nearly new IC GP40 3019 shows the tiny bit of white stripe between the rear numberboards. It has a rerailer hanging above the rear truck. There is a curved metal strap extending below the coupler; it is be used to prevent the air hose from dragging on the ground when not coupled to another car or locomotive. Unfortunately, it is not being utilized in this view! No date or location. Decals: Microscale MC 4002. Basil Koob photo, George Melvin collection MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 23 IC GP40R 3129 was rebuilt in August 1988 from GP40 3069, one of ten from the August 1969 order. An engine water level sight glass has been added to the long hood, but the unit appears much as originally built. Note the small badge on the frame to indicate the front of the locomotive. Chicago, IL; April 14, 1989. Decals: Microscale 87-528. John C. Benson photo, Pete Coulombe collection 3040-3059. Two more small orders finished up the roster of 75 GP40s: ten units delivered in August 1969 and a final five units built in February 1970. These units were numbered 3060-3069 and 3070-3074, respectively. These last two groups were a bit flashier, with the plow pilots, full-size fuel tanks, dynamic brakes and warning lights in the cab face. The black livery was retired in favor of the orange-and-white scheme dur- ing this time, and the last two groups arrived new in that scheme. During this time, the IC tried several other types of road units from EMD as well as from Alco and General Electric. IC GP40 3026 may have had its white frame stripe renewed, judging the condi- Six U30Bs and six SD40s arrived in 1967. tion of the rest of the unit’s paint. This angle shows the smaller fuel tank clearly They were followed by ten U33Cs and and also the rerailer hanging in the gap just forward of the fuel tank. This six C636s in 1968. In 1969-’70 a group of engine also has a canvas sunshade. Homewood, IL; July 29, 1973. Decals: Micro- unique SD40As were built for the IC. These scale MC 4002. Lee Hastman photo, George Melvin collection units were custom-built for the road, using a Now 18 years old in this view, IC GP40 3003 is quite threadbare in the original livery at East Hazelcrest, IL, on July 7, 1984. It has a sunshade and two wind deflectors and also an extra grabiron above the engineer’s front window. Note the cutout in the stairway well, perhaps to allow a light to shine onto the steps. Decals: Microscale MC-4002. Paul Hunnell photo, Pete Coulombe collection 24 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 IC GP40 3010 is from the first order of 40 units built in January and February 1966. It has been repainted into the newer orange-and-white image, but by this 1986 view, the paint is in terrible condition. It has a small three-chime horn set and the bell mounted on the side of the long hood. The small “Split I” herald on the low nose is worn to a circle. East Hazel- crest, IL; September 1, 1986. Decals: Microscale 87-27. John C. Benson photo, Pete Coulombe collection frame for an SDP45, making the SD40 about group of 40 GP40 units were rebuilt in 1987- a year later with dynamic braking added. Of five feet longer, thus allowed for a larger 1991 into model GP40R and renumbered the final 15 on the roster, ten were rebuilt space between the trucks to accommodate a into the 3100-3139 series. The next group to GP40Rs and renumbered into the 3100 bigger fuel tank. of 20, units 3040-3059, were sold to the series. In 1995, 35 of the GP40Rs were still With the merger with the GMO in 1972 Kansas City Southern, except for unit 3043 on the roster. forming the Illinois Central Gulf, the GP40 which was wrecked and scrapped, and unit Next month, we will resume our series fleet kept its IC numbers. Thirty of the first 3057 which was wrecked in 1969 and rebuilt with the Kansas City Southern. IC GP40 3067 is from the group of ten units numbered 3060-3069 built in August 1969. Delivered in the orange-and-white scheme, it has several differences from the previous units, such as the plow pilot, warning lights in the standard headlight position, dynamic brakes and the full-size fuel tank. The location of the regular headlights in the low nose causes the herald to be located rather low. The lettering on the low hood is slightly further aft than that on unit 3010 illustrated in this article. Council Bluffs, IA; May 9, 1972. Decals: Microscale 87-27. George Cockle photo, George Melvin collection MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 25 The Computer as a Modeling Tool: Making Road Sig ns by Jeff Scherb Photos by the author US Route 30 in Silver Creek Valley is a scenic place for a Sunday drive. ig ns are a g reat way to add setting and context to a layout and you may find that you can use these graphics by resizing and — they can help establish the location and time modeled, and printing them. Sthey always add interest to a scene. There are a number of com- Another excellent resource is the Shannon-Baum Signs site mercial sign products on the market, but what if you need a par- (http://www.shannonbaum.com/) — Shannon-Baum is a supplier of ticular sign that isn’t available? With the right bits and pieces, you prototype road signs, and they have a downloadable catalog in PDF can make your own — this is yet another way your computer can be format that not only shows all the common road signs but lists dimen- a valuable modeling tool. sions as well. This is a very useful resource for determining prototype Signs for commercial businesses are fairly easy to make — dimensions. logos for most popular current products are available on the web, If you find an image of the sign you need on a web page, the next and many past logos and artwork can be found as well. If it’s a step is sizing it to your scale. If you’re an Internet Explorer user, a fictional business you need signage for, so much the better — with right click of the mouse on the graphic will bring up a menu. Select the wide array of graphics and fonts freely available on the web Copy from the menu and you now have the graphic in your clipboard. today, you can find virtually anything you might imagine if you’re If you’re using Netscape, a right click brings up a menu, but in this creative in your searching. case there’s no Copy command on the menu, so you’ll have to use the But what about road signs? I recently needed a specific “No “Save Image As...” menu choice. This enables you to save the graphic Parking” sign to add the finishing touch to a scene, and not finding as a file on your disk. Later you’ll need to open this file in your favor- any readily available, began a search for all the graphic elements ite graphics tool. needed. It turns out there are actually quite a few free and inexpen- A quick note about graphics software — I’m using a number of sive resources available for road signs on the web. Microsoft Windows tools to make the signs in these articles and the There are a number of ways to make road signs with your com- techniques I describe in this article use those tools. In many cases the puter. The easiest way is to be lucky enough to find a graphic of same tools exist on the Macintosh, and most of the techniques will be the sign you need somewhere, copy it, resize it and print it. If the the same. sign you need isn’t to be found, you can find many of the fonts Once you’ve got the image, you need to paste it (or open it from and other raw materials on the web for making your own. First disk if you saved it from Netscape) into a tool capable of resizing we’ll take a look at some of the places on the web to find road sign graphics. Virtually all graphics programs can perform this function, graphics. and many other tools such as Microsoft Word and Excel can also resize graphics. Some tools make scaling easy and let you enter a “Found” Graphics fraction — in the Microsoft Visio drawing program I can specify the Before you start creating your own signs, a must-visit site on height of the image to be 36/87", which results in a 36" sign in HO the web is the Manual of Traffic Signs. This is a listing of the most scale. In other programs, such as Microsoft Word, you’ll need to do commonly used traffic signs in the United States. The signs are the math yourself and specify a decimal, or in this example, .413. listed by type (regulatory, warning, marker, guide) and examples of Most of these programs also let you preserve the aspect ratio, which all signs are shown in color. This site can be found at: means you only have to enter the height and the program will calcu- http://members.aol.com/rcmoeur/signman.html late the width for you. This site is a great reference for planning your roadside signage, You can also use the Microsoft Paint program to resize graphics 26 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 Figure 1 — This sign was made by resizing a bitmap image found on a website. Figure 2 — The US 30 sign was made by resizing a US 40 (the “Image/Stretch and Skew” menu option), but this option requires bitmap found on a website and changing the numbers. you enter a percentage of original size, which is a little harder to com- pute to your scale than simply entering the final height. ▼ Larabie Fonts offers two freeware fonts named Blue Highway The Shannon-Baum signs site provides dimensions for all of the and Blue Highway D Type. The latter font is all caps. These fonts signs they produce. You’ll see they supply most road signs in three match contemporary road signs. I used the Blue Highway D Type sizes. The smallest, generally around 24" high, would be used in for my Route 30 sign. You’ll find these at: lower speed roads and around town. The medium sizes, generally http://www.larabiefonts.com around 36" high, would be used on higher speed roads, and the larg- ▼ Sawblade 5 Fonts offers freeware fonts named Road Sign C and est, around 48" high, would be used for highways and hazardous situ- Highway Arrow. The latter of these is a series of straight and ations. I’ve been using only the small size on my layout. curved arrows. These can be found at : Another great site to check for route marker signs is James Lin’s http://www.crosswinds.net/~sawblade5/fonts.html Highway Route Marker site, found at: ▼ For older style signs, the US Highway Old Style font is useful; this http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jlin/signs one is shareware and carries a small fee. You’ll find it at: This site offers current route marker signs for most states and http://www.buildingtechnology.com/bcba/hsotw/UShwy_font/ 1940s route marker signs — great for those transition-era layouts. In the Route 30 example, after I added the white boxes and the If you find a sign you’d like to use from an online catalog based “30” digits I used PowerPoint’s drawing tools to “Group” all the in Adobe Acrobat, you won’t be able to simply cut and paste the sign items into in one object. I then ran into a slight problem — the resiz- unless you have the full version of Acrobat. What you can do in this ing object command didn’t work properly — the font wasn’t being situation is use Acrobat Reader to zoom the page up to 400% and scaled as I expected. The solution to this is to select the grouped sign, press the Print Screen key on your PC (usually labeled PRTSC) — copy it to the clipboard, and then paste it back using the Paste Special this copies the current screen image to the clipboard. Then paste this command, selecting “Picture (Enhanced Metafile).” This converts the image into your graphics program, and use the graphics program’s object from a group consisting of a bitmap, a white box and a font tools to cut the sign image out from the full screen image. Then you into a simple graphic. This simpler graphic can be sized as you’d can resize it as you would with any other graphic. The 400% zoom expect. On the Macintosh, this Paste Special command also exists, before copying will usually give you an image that will resize better but the option to use while pasting is simply “Picture.” than one copied at 100%. If you need an interstate highway exit sign, you’ll want to visit the You may find almost the sign you’re looking for, but some detail Signmaker Site at http://www.kurumi.com/roads/signmaker. This needs to be changed. For example, you may find a route marker sign Java applet formats freeway signs automatically for you. You provide for the state you’re modeling, but it’s got the wrong route number. I the route numbers, town names, exits, and your choice of arrows — needed a US Route 30 sign for the road shown in the lead photo of and SignMaker draws the sign. Once you’ve got the sign you want, this article, and managed to find a US Route 40 sign on the web. I use the Print Screen key as before to copy the sign to the clipboard, copied the Rt. 40 sign into my graphics program (in this example and then paste it into your graphics program for resizing and printing. I used Microsoft PowerPoint), blocked out the “40” by drawing a In all the examples so far we’ve worked in one way or another white borderless box over the numbers, and then added the “30” dig- with graphics that are bitmaps — but in some cases bitmaps may not its. These steps are shown in Figure 2. scale or print as well as you’d expect. There are basically two types If you’re going to modify signs like this, you’ll need the correct of graphics on computers — bitmap graphics and vector graphics. fonts to match the type styles of the signs. There are a number of Bitmaps are used to display virtually all images you’ll see on the web places to find free or shareware fonts for road signs on the web: — these graphics are fixed in size, and represented internally in the MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 27 these cases, you can simply format the text color in your word pro- cessor. The stop sign gets a red text color; the handicap signs get a blue text color, and so on. A few of these, however, need to have the background colorized. If your word processor allows you to set the text background color, you’re in business. Signs in this category railroad crossing warn- ing sign in Figure 4. If you can’t set a text background color in your word processor, you’ll need to put a color graphic behind the sign. In Microsoft Word, you can use the “Format/Borders and Shading/Shad- Figure 3 — The SignMaker site ing” feature to set a background color behind the text. automates the creation of high- I generally draw my signs at a very large scale — this enables me way signs. to be very accurate about the placement of lines and other objects that must intersect. In Figure 5, I’ve redrawn a Pennsylvania route sign from the 1940s, this time using Visio. I wasn’t happy with the computer as a series of bits in a file that map to specific pixels on way the bitmap I found on a website was scaling down — I was get- the screen (hence the name). The two most common types of bitmap ting a more jagged look than I wanted. Using the bitmap as a pattern, graphics are GIF and JPEG files, and almost any image you’ll find on though, I was able to recreate the sign by “tracing” the lines on the the web will be one of these two types. Windows Bitmap, or BMP, is bitmap with new lines in Visio. The original bitmap is on the left, and another common format produced by the Windows Paint program. the redrawn vector graphic is on the right — I originally traced the The problem with bitmaps for our application is that they are gen- new graphic directly over the bitmap, then I moved the new graphic erally not scalable with high quality. If you want the bitmap scaled to away from the bitmap for further refinement. Notice that the bitmap another size, the computer must approximate the mapping of the col- is jagged, while the new vector graphic on the right is clean. ors to the pixels of the screen, and this often results in objects being I used the US Highway Old Style font mentioned before, but with very jagged are they’re scaled up or down. two tricks. First, the “PENNA” lettering direct from the font was a This problem is virtually eliminated with vector graphics. Rather more condensed type style than on the sign. Since Visio doesn’t have than being stored as a series of bits, vector graphics are stored as a any text manipulation tools that let me change the aspect ratio of the series of drawing instructions, which can be recreated at any scale font (how wide each individual letter is with respect to its height), I by the computer. An example might be something like “Line from selected the word PENNA, cut and used the Paste Special command 100,100 to 400,400, color red”, or in other words draw a red line from again. This converted the word PENNA from letters in a font to a the x,y point 100,100 to the point 400,400. This is an oversimplified vector graphic. Grabbing one of the side handles of this new object example, but the point (no pun intended) is since these drawing and dragging it wider resulted in wider lettering that matched that instructions are executed when the object is displayed, and change in on the original sign. I also did this with the “180” digits, so that the size can be calculated as changes to the drawing instructions, so very entire sign would scale down properly, a trick I’ve mentioned in ear- clean scaling results with little or no “jaggies” except at the most lier examples. extreme smaller scaling. Using this “tracing” technique, you can recreate almost any sign So, if you can’t achieve the output quality you’d like with scaled you might need. The Interstate 95 and 5 signs, as well as the Route 66 bitmaps, the next step would be to create the sign from scratch in a signs provided in the “RTR” signs included with this article were all vector drawing program such as Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft created by tracing existing bitmaps to make new vector graphics. Visio. You may want to experiment with different paper types for printing these signs. Depending on the size and type of sign, I Making Sig ns from Scratch use normal white paper, 80-lb. white cardstock, or in some cases The first stop in making signs from scratch has to be the Railfonts photo-quality inkjet paper. The sign is cut out from the paper, and site at http://www.railfonts.com. Benn Coifman has created quite glued to a piece of .030 brass wire. The wire was painted silver, a number of useful fonts for model railroaders, including the Street and “planted” in a hole in the scenery. For larger signs you might Signs Font. This is a font in which the characters are not letters, as print them on normal paper and glue the paper to a backing of you’d expect, but road signs, e.g., a small “a” generates a Stop sign. .010 brass or styrene for more strength. Depending on the color You can purchase this font and others for a small fee from the site. of the sign, you might want to use a felt-tip marker of an appro- Many of the signs you can generate from this font are directly usable — the speed limit signs, for example, are simply black against a white background, and size down just fine. You can type characters in this font into your word processor at an appropriate type size and print them out. I’ve found that sizing these as a 22 point font will result in a printout that’s a 24" high sign in HO; a font size of 30 point will print out as a 36" sign in HO. Some of the signs in this font require colorization. In many of Figure 4 — Signs made with “characters” in the Road Sign Figure 5 — Redrawing a sign using the original bitmap as a font (shown in Microsoft Word). template. 28 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 Figure 6 — These signs are full-size for HO scale. license and compensate the creator. All of the “RTR” signs in this priate color to touch up the white edge of the sign. article were drawn from scratch, and resources for which shareware or license fees apply have been paid. “RTR” Sig ns Included with this article are signs I created using the above “make from scratch” techniques. The signs are provided in two sizes in HO and N scale — generally the 24" and 36" sizes, since the 48" sizes would probably rarely be used on the average layout. The Fine Print It’s one thing to use these techniques to create signs for your own personal use, but it’s quite another to use graphics and other resources you might find on the web in a business endeavor. Most of the graph- ics and other resources on the web are subject to copyright, so be respectful of the intellectual property of others. Also, a few of the resources noted in this article are “shareware,” which means that if you use the product you are expected to pay some sort of fee. Please respect the terms of these shareware resources — the creators of these things put in a lot of effort to provide a useful product to you so if you use a shareware product, please abide by the terms of the shareware Figure 7 — These signs are full-size for N scale. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 29 “Southernizing” an Atlas Southern GP38 y the early 1960s many railroads were by Larry J. Puckett lisions at road crossings. Actually, this could B starting to replace their aging fleets of not be further from the truth. First, with the F-units and early road switchers with higher Model photos by the author exception of switchers and Alco RS units, powered, turbocharged, four-axle road Prototype photos by Robert Graham all Southern road switchers ordered prior to switchers. EMD met this demand with their the SD45s and GP38s came with the short popular GP30 and GP35 series, and then in hood end designated as forward and the con- 1965 introduced the 3,000-horsepower, tur- Georgia in 1971 (#2879) and seven more in trols set up for the engineer to operate the bocharged GP40. However, there was still a 1973 with the acquisition of the old Norfolk locomotive from the right hand seat in that need for a more moderate horsepower loco- Southern (2880-2886). The Norfolk South- orientation. In the early diesel years it was motive to handle local switching and other ern units were unique in that they arrived common practice for crews to turn locomo- light duty chores. To address this need, in with low short hoods and were not equipped tives so that the front end (which mostly January 1966, EMD introduced what was to with dynamic brakes. In the spring of 1974 meant short hood end) was facing the direc- become one of their most popular series of the NS units were rebuilt with high short tion of travel. This allowed the engineer to locomotives, the GP38. Between 1966 and hoods and were painted in the standard tux- be on the right hand side of the locomotive December 1971 EMD produced 733 GP38s edo scheme (black and imitation aluminum where he could easily see signals and other (including the GP38AC model). The 16- with metallic gold lettering, numerals and signs along the track. However, management cylinder 645E engine was essentially the stripes). Although most Southern GP38s adopted the belief that road switchers could same as the 645E3 used in the GP40, but were still in service at the time of the merger run in any direction and it soon became without a turbocharger it was only rated at and formation of the modern Norfolk South- Southern policy that the lead locomotive 2,000 horsepower. ern, only a few remain in use today. The would operate with whichever end was fac- Having purchased GP30s and GP35s as original Norfolk Southern units were retired ing in the direction the train needed to go. late as 1965, the Southern Railway delayed between 1993 and 1996. At some terminals there were prohibitions ordering GP38s until 1969. However, dur- against crews turning locomotives to achieve ing 1969 and 1970 a total of 107 GP38s The Southern Long Hood Myth a particular orientation, and I have even been (2716-2822) arrived on the property. These This brings me to a mistaken belief that told that some wyes and turntables were were followed in 1971 with an additional has appeared in the hobby press for some removed to enforce this policy. Management 56 GP38ACs (2823-2878). The primary time now that I would like to dispel. Spe- apparently firmly believed that time was external difference between the GP38 and cifically, it has often been stated that the money and any time spent turning a locomo- GP38AC was the 1,700-gallon fuel tank on Southern had a policy of operating locomo- tive cut into the profit margin. the former and a 2,600-gallon fuel tank on tives with the long hood facing forward and There are also reasons to doubt the the latter. Southern also acquired an addi- this was done as a safety measure to provide safety aspect of this mistaken belief. It tional GP38 from the Tennessee, Alabama & more protection for the crews in case of col- was a bone of contention with the union 30 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 Southern 2880 is still in beautiful shape in this shot taken August 1974 in Raleigh, NC. that crews were often forced to operate designated as forward and the control stand a standard DCC decoder to boot. However, yard switchers on locals butt-head forward centered on the right hand side of the cab. the model does not come without certain — that is with the rear of the locomotive This reorientation meant that the engineer compromises to prototype accuracy that had facing forward and offering little in the would be on the right hand side of the cab to be made to accommodate the fact that way of crew protection. There was simi- with the long hood forward and it would it is available decorated for the Southern, lar concern over crews having to operate not obstruct his vision. This arrangement Norfolk and Western (as the GP40) and F-units on locals with the rear end fac- still meant the engineer was on the left hand Guilford. Consequently, although the model ing forward since this greatly limited vis- side while running with the short hood fac- looks great and will be a welcome addi- ibility. Eventually the union reached an ing the direction of travel, but the short tion to many southeastern fleets, for those agreement with the railroad designating the hood was less likely to obstruct his view of wanting prototype accuracy there are a few end of road locomotives with full-width the right hand side of the track. The policy changes to be made — if you do nothing windshields (such as on an F-unit) as for- of bi-directional operations continued and else, at least move the bell and the small ward, and requiring that when operated as was carried to the extreme after the 1973 “F” on the sidesills to the long hood end. the lead unit they must be run with that merger of the original Norfolk Southern Let’s take a look at where the model devi- end facing forward. It has been speculated locomotives into the Southern fleet. The NS ates from the prototype and then we’ll get that this agreement may have been the low-hooded GP18s and GP38s were quickly into a full-blown rebuilding effort. reason the Southern continued to order shopped and rebuilt with high short hoods, There are two really obvious problems, locomotives with high short hoods long only with the long hood end now designated the dynamic brake and the fuel tank. The after other railroads abandoned the prac- as forward and the control stand relocated Southern units had extended-range dynamic tice. The reasoning being that had they as well! brakes whereas the model has the smaller purchased low-hood locomotives, the full- standard ones. This discrepancy is accentu- width windshields would have required The Atlas Model ated by the fact that when the paper air fil- they be turned to face forward when in the Atlas has a long history of producing a ters (the big square box protruding from the lead or shifted around in the consist — a high-hooded GP38 model dating back to the top of the hood) were added, the dynamic definite waste of time and money. 1970s. The new model is just that, a totally brake bulges had to be cut back to make Another problem with Southern’s bi- new mechanism, shell and details, and with room. Fixing this problem can be accom- directional operation policy was that it meant that although the engineer was on the right hand side when the short hood faced the direction of travel, this placed him on the left hand side when the long hood was fac- ing the direction of travel. In some situations it was almost impossible for the engineer to see signals on the right hand side of the track due to the long hood. At one point manage- ment developed and installed a set of mirrors in locomotive cabs. These mirrors essen- tially served as a cheap periscope allowing the engineer sitting on the left side of the cab to see out the right side window, coun- tering arguments that locomotives should be turned to operate with the engineer on the right hand side. Engineers have told me that these mirrors did not work well but were not officially removed until after the 1982 merger with the N&W. Beginning in 1965 with the SD45s (and all subsequent locomotives), apparently in order to provide better visibility, Southern Here’s 2881 from the engineer’s side, running long hood forward with the Fay- ordered locomotives with the long hood end etteville local in June 1974. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 31 This broadside view of 2881 clearly shows off the distinctive 1,700-gallon fuel tank. plished with a cut and paste operation mat- ing part of the dynamic brake from an Atlas GP40 to the paper air filter portion of the GP38. The fuel tank seems an even bigger challenge since the Southern units came with a much smaller 1,700-gallon tank com- pared to the 2,600-gallon tank on the model, however this is a VERY distinctive feature of the Southern units, which was not modi- fied until after the 1982 merger. If you’re willing to live with the dynamic-brake prob- lem or go with the GP40 insert approach then here’s a quick fix for the fuel tank — make your model a GP38AC. The only differences I could find between a Southern GP38 and GP38AC are the two horizontal ribs on the blower duct (the big bulge in the hood near the cab) and the 2,600-gallon fuel tank on the GP38AC. If you ordered the painted but unnumbered model just fix the dynamic brake, slap on the correct numbers for a GP38AC and you’re done. No. 2884 shows off the pilot details in this photograph taken in Raleigh in Sep- tember 1974. Fixing the Bugs Since I’m a glutton for punishment, I decided on a more challenging route than simply calling mine a GP38AC. As I men- tioned above, the Southern acquired seven Norfolk Southern GP38s in 1973 — without dynamic brakes! By modeling one of these units I figured I’d have a very unique model with an interesting history but without hav- ing to fix the dynamic brake — let’s go over the major modifications first then we’ll go on to the details. Because all of my other modern diesels are detailed to represent the pre-1975 era, I realized I’d have to replace the imitation gold (yellow) roadname and pinstripes with bronze gold ones. At first I tried erasing the roadname with an eraser dipped in alcohol, but didn’t like the results, so I removed the cab and all the clear plastic inserts and stripped the entire hood in 90% isopropyl alcohol, leaving it ready for the other modifications and details. The fireman’s side of 2884 seems to have picked up a little more weathering, Although in later years Southern’s GP38s especially on the side of the cab, in this photograph taken in Raleigh, October were fitted with paper air filters having a 1974. large box protruding above the hood, they 32 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 No. 2886 is in the lead running long-hood forward in Raleigh in June 1974. were delivered with the oil bath air filters accomplished by removing the wires run- remaining fuel-tank bulge. After prying the which did not protrude above the roof. Mod- ning from the trucks to the DCC board, and air reservoirs from the rest of the fuel tank eling this configuration is easy since you then the screws that hold the weights in I cut the long hood end off using a large can replace the dynamic-brake insert using a place. Remove the plastic fuel tank by gen- razor saw. I kept the cut square by placing non-dynamic one from an Athearn SD40-2; tly pulling down on it, and then take out the the saw against a block of wood during the all it takes for a drop-in fit is a little filing two motor-mount screws. At this point you process. After lightly sanding the cut end I on one end. If you want a later model with should be able to remove the weights and stood it upright on a piece of .020 styrene the paper air filter just order a non-dynamic motor — it’s not necessary to remove the sheet and flowed on some lacquer thinner brake insert from Atlas. Once I had a tight trucks if you’re careful when cutting. Now, (which I use as liquid cement). I let this dry fit I cut off the turbo exhaust stack, filled with a sharp blade in the hacksaw, make a few minutes and then trimmed the excess the resulting opening with some rectangles a vertical cut through the fuel-tank bulge styrene sheet by running a sharp knife blade of styrene and putty, then sanded it smooth. down to the level of the rest of the chassis around the outline of the tank. After sanding One trick I’ve recently adopted to get a — don’t go all the way through (see Photo the edges with fine grit sandpaper it’s almost smooth finish is applying a thin surface coat 2). Note that the cut is made through the impossible to tell that it is not the origi- of CA cement over the putty; this helps to middle of the screw hole in the fuel-tank nal cast end (see Photo 3). While working prevent sanding a depression into the putty. bulge on the end away from the cab. Next, on the fuel tank I also filled in the circular Next, I installed a pair of DA 2402 exhaust make a horizontal cut flush with the bottom fuel gauges using putty and CA cement and stacks using the original as a guide. Finally, of the chassis, intersecting the first cut. sanded them smooth (see Photo 4). to prevent it from sliding out of the opening, With the chassis cut down, I measured With all the hard work done I reassem- I glued a strip of styrene sheet to the inside how much of the plastic fuel tank had to bled the chassis and made sure it would run of each side of the insert — these fit down be cut off and still allow it to fit over the all right with only one motor-mount screw, into the opening in the hood and the friction fit helps keep everything in place. The next step is one that only the most diehard prototype devotes will attempt — replacing the cab and sub-base. According to some in the know, the angle of the Atlas cab roof is not correct which results in the side of the cab being the wrong height. Also, in order to correct for this distortion the sub- base is off a bit meaning that if you want to replace the cab with a Cannon kit, you also have to do the sub-base. Since I couldn’t see the error in the first place I left well enough alone, so you’re on your own if this is an important detail to you. The other big project is cutting that 2,600-gallon fuel tank down to 1,700 gal- lons. This seems like a daunting task but after I made the decision to go for it, it took me longer to go buy a hacksaw blade Finally, a nice shot of the short-hood end of 2886. Note that the antenna appears than it did to complete the job. First you to be located much farther forward than on the other ex-NS units. Raleigh, NC; have to disassemble the chassis. This is June 1974. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 33 1 — The Athearn SD40-2 non-dynamic insert is an easy fit on the Atlas unit and only requires a little filing and sand- ing and a few details. 5 — Here’s all the modifications I made to the end of the long hood. which it does. If you are concerned about the motor working loose, add a blob of silicone cement to the underside of the motor just in case. Now, when you try to reinstall the fuel tank you’ll notice that the bottom of the motor mount will interfere with it. A few swipes with a sharp knife blade will cure that problem. Those are the major parts of the project so now let’s go over the details. Adding the Details First let’s work on the hood details since they are the most numer- ous. On the long hood end I removed the curved grabiron and filled the small holes with putty. I also replaced all the plastic lift rings on the entire hood with DA 2206 metal ones and the Atlas straight grabs with DA 2202 drop grabs. Some units appear to have had the straight grabs but 2881 did not. The bell needs to be mounted on the 2 — Cutting down the fuel tank casting is a much easier long hood end instead of the short hood as shown on the instructions. job than it appears to be. Before doing this I modified it to match the prototype which did not have the solid area behind the bell. I carved this out using a sharp knife and glued the bell in place as shown in Photo 5. Once the bell was in place I installed a sand hatch behind it. I lost one of the Atlas sand hatches and replaced it with a DA 3001, which is identical to it. I then bent a short piece of .015 brass wire and glued it to the bell and roof as the conduit for the ringer actuator. The next step was to install a Nathan P3 horn with all chimes forward on each end of the hood. The only accurate version of this horn is the DA 1603 kit, which is a pain to build but worth the effort. As you can see from Photo 6, I filled the holes on the short hood with putty and, with the exception of the bell, installed the same details there as on the long hood end. I also cut the Atlas horn off level with the roof and installed a DW 157 firecracker antenna centered on the hood and about 1' in front of the cab. Although none of the photo- 3 — A new end to the cut-down fuel tank was fashioned graphs show the exact location of the antenna, I could tell that it was from .020 styrene. in front of the cab and found photographs of other Southern locomo- tives with the antenna mounted in this way. With the hood completed I turned to the cab. First, I removed the plastic glass insert and drilled mounting holes for the DA 2312 wind deflectors on both sides of the cab and installed them as shown in Photo 7. Next I made sunshades for each side of the cab using scrap brass left over from Atlas rail connectors. I used the small piece, which scales out to about 6" wide. I cut this so that it was about 6' long and then trimmed the ends to an arrowhead shape with double 45° cuts. I then bent these ends at a 90° angle and glued the finished product to the cab side right at the angled edge of the roof as shown in Photo 7. The wipers looked so good I kept them. Another nice detail to add is a DW 139 Salem air filter set under the walkway in front of the cab on the fireman’s side. I followed the instructions to the letter, installing the .015 piping and then glued the whole set to the underside of the walkway as shown in Photos 8 and 4 — In addition to cutting down the fuel tank it’s necessary 9. I then added brass wire sand pipes to the trucks and a DA 2808 to fill in the circular fuel gauge cast into the tank. GE speed recorder on the rear right truck (see Photo 10). On the 34 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 6 — The short hood end modifications are shown in this 7 — The brass cab sunshade should extend far enough on photograph. each side to cover the cab deflectors. 8 — The Salem air filters were glued to the underside of 9 — Here’s the same air filters shown from the side of the the walkway using CA cement, which caused the white walkway. dusty appearance. 10 — Modifications to the trucks include sand lines and 11 — The crew are facing in the correct direction for bi- speed recorder. directional operation with the relocated control stand. speed recorder I broke off the small whiskers provided for mounting Paint, Decals and Weathering the cable and installed a small piece of wire in a small whole drilled With the details taken care of I got out the airbrush and painted through the casting. I then used a pin tip to open the end of the cable the hood MODELflex Engine Black. I also hand painted the yellow and glued it in place. Next, I bent the wire cable to the proper orienta- handrails black since the Southern units do not appear to have got- tion and let it ride against the sideframe without attaching it to the ten this treatment until about 1977. I applied the combined imitation chassis frame. I was happy with all the details on the pilots although aluminum and bronze gold stripes to the hood from Microscale decal if you can find them I’d replace the MU stands with Overland’s 9353. set 87-540, and roadname, numerals, and medallions (heralds) from If you do replace the MU stand, be careful removing the cast-on ones the Microscale 87-32 set. Because I did not strip the walkway and since they also serve as the base for a handrail stanchion. Finally, I cab I didn’t have to paint them but did apply gold stripes from the turned the crew so they were facing the long-hood end and relocated 87-32 set on top of the Dulux Gold ones. The 87-32 set also contains the control stand panel to the right hand side facing front as well (see the check digit letters — in this case an “F” but for some reason Photo 11). they forgot to include the “N.S.” subsidiary lettering. However, I cut MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 35 individual letters from the others in the set and applied them under the road number on the side of the cab (see Photo 12). A couple other necessary decals are the lease plates and builder’s plates from a Microscale 87- 48 set, and the small “F” from the 87-32 set. The NS units were built very early in GP38 production and had the old style foot- ball-shaped builder’s plates. That completed almost all the decals except the number- boards, which I did after installing them. I suggest doing them after installation since it is very difficult to install the numberboards in the short hood due to clearance problems — I had to carve part of the plastic away in order to get them to fit. Once the decals were dry I blew on a 50:50 mixture of Testors Dullcote and Glosscote, and then straight Dullcote in areas such as the trucks, fuel tank and areas of the roof. I applied my special weathered black paint mixture to areas of the roof hood sides, fuel tank, trucks and sidesills. 12 — The cab area of the completed model. I kept the weathering to a minimum since these units had just been painted after the rebuild. With the paint all dry I installed the numberboards and decaled them with num- bers from the 87-32 set. Finally I installed Kadee® #5 couplers, programmed the decoder for 2881 and MU’d her with my U23B for some local switching duties on the Piedmont Southern. Bill of Materials Manufacturer Part No. Description Athearn 45039 Non-dynamic brake insert Detail Associates 13 — The fuel tank area of the completed model. 1603 Nathan P3/5 air horn 2202 Drop grabs 2206 Eyebolts 2312 Cab deflector 2402 Exhaust stack 2505 .015 brass wire 2808 Speed recorder 3001 Sand-filler cover Details West 139 Salem air-filter set 157 Firecracker antenna Microscale 87-32 SR hoods 87-48 Diesel data sheet 87-540 Gold stripes MODELflex 1 Engine Black Overland 9353 MU stand Plastruct SSS-102 .020 styrene sheet Testors 1160 Dullcote 14 — The long hood end of the completed model. Note the location of the lease 1161 Glosscote plate and “F.” 36 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 No. 2881 switches Grand Junction Box Works in Statesville, NC. The engineer looks back over his shoulder as he pulls away from a boxcar he has just dropped off. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 37 Build a Portable HO/HOn3 Dynamometer Measure your locomotives’drawbar pull in ounces or grams by Bob Whiting Photos and illustration by Chris Lane With a minimal investment and some scrap materials, you can build your own portable dynamometer to test the drawbar pull of your locomotives. Here a detailed Life-Like Proto 2000 WP GP7 tests out at just under 3 ounces of drawbar pull. A locomotive’s drawbar pull is not written in stone. As a unit is broken in and the wheels get polished by use, readings can change significantly. n recent months, locomotive reviews in the top of the scale slide aligns perfectly for terminal #1 with white 22 gauge wire long I Model Railroading have been including HO locomotives, while a coupler mounted enough to reach the common (left or open) information about how many ounces of to the bottom of the slide aligns properly rail and the other side of terminal #1 with a drawbar pull a particular model locomotive for HOn3 locos. Both couplers can be per- piece of white 22 gauge wire long enough has. Would you like to have your own por- manently mounted by offsetting the coupler to reach your power supply. You can solder table dynamometer like the one I built for heads to either side and leaving enough play the terminals as you make each connection. my friends at the magazine? First, you will for either to be used. Repeat this process to connect terminal #2 need a base that is wide and long enough to Before mounting the scale to the base and the eastbound (right) rail with red 22- support the track, scale and terminal block. I carefully remove the “S” hook from the slide gauge wire. (Make sure that the rail wires chose a scrap piece of plywood that I had on and secure the couplers (without gearbox or are on the same side and the power wires hand, but a piece of pine or Homasote could cover) with a 2-56 screw and nut through the are on the opposite side.) Connect the track also be used. hole that the “S” hook was in. side of terminal #3 with yellow 22-gauge The scale is the most important part of I used an 18" long piece of Micro wire long enough to reach the center narrow the portable dynamometer. The one I found Engineering code 55 dual-gauge flextrack gauge rail. Since terminals 2 & 3 are con- that met all my requirements was the Ohaus and glued it to the board, making sure it nected there is no need to wire the opposite Pull-Type Spring Scale (Item #8001-MA) remained straight while the glue set. Using side. from Ohaus, P.O. Box 2033, 19A Chapin code 55 track made the coupler heights align Mount the terminal block with screws to Rd., Pine Brook, NJ 07058; (973) 377-9000; perfectly, but because the railhead has a the base so that the rail wires will reach the Fax: (973) 593-0359; www.ohaus.com. I narrower surface, readings tend to be lower track and that the block will act as a bumper. obtained mine from American Science & because it provides less contact area for Now is the time to solder rails wires to the Surplus, 3605 Howard St., Skokie, IL 60076, locomotive wheels. For most HO applica- track. Remember the white wire goes to the 847-982-0870 (www.sciplus.com). Item tions, code 83 or 100 rail will provide more common rail, the red wire goes to the east- #23282 retails for $3.75. This scale reads off accurate readings, but you will need to use bound rail and the yellow wire goes to the the weight in grams or ounces with a scale in an offset-shank coupler. center narrow gauge rail. Use straight ter- 0 to 9 oz in ¼ oz. increments or 0 to 250 gr. The terminal block used is a 6-conductor minal ends or wire extensions and solder to in 10 gr. increments. The scale is 5½" long connector (#CON-60, $2.25) from All Elec- the top of the rails. These connections will by 13/8" wide by 13/16" high. tronics Corp., P.O. Box 567, Van Nuys CA act as a wheel block as well as an electrical This scale can be used with both HO 91408, (818) 904-0524, www.allcorp.com, connection. and HOn3 locomotives when it is mounted which has connectors 2 & 3 and 4 & 5 tied Now the final part — some of the fun directly to the board without any shims. For together. This gives you the option of add- things you can do with the portable dyna- HO a Kadee®-compatible coupler attached to ing a volt and/or ammeter. Wire one side of mometer. For a small engine, Bachmann’s new three-truck Shay displays an impressive drawbar pull of 2.25 ounces. 38 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 ▼ Check your locomotive’s pulling power (alone)* ▼ Check your locomotive’s pulling power with a deadweight car (flatcar with weights to equal freight or passenger cars) ▼ Check your locomotive’s current draw under load conditions with locomotive alone; this requires a power pack with volt and amp meters or separate meters wired to the terminal block ▼ Check your locomotive’s current draw under load conditions with locomotive and deadweight car; this requires a power pack with volt and amp meters or sepa- rate meters wired to the terminal block ▼ Use as an electrical conversion tool when converting from HO to HOn3 one power truck at a time ▼ Use as a test track for your locomotives ▼ Use to check motor performance (alone). To Power Supply THIS WOULD BE FOR ADVANCED MODELERS and would require a jig to hold the motor, and pulleys to trans- fer the load to the scale; there would be play in this setup and would only give a rough approximation on the output of the motor.† Information contained in this article is for individual use and may not be used for commercial purposes. For comments, com- mercial applications, or if you would like me to build one for you, write to: R. T. Whiting, The use of a terminal block or dual-gauge track is not essential, but is recom- PO Box 134, Wauneta, NE 69045-0134. mended. By soldering the connecting wires to the top of the rails, your connec- tions can also serve as wheel stops while the terminal block acts as a bumper. Instructions on Use The length of your track is not critical; just make sure it is longer than the lon- To use, simply hook up the dynamometer gest locomotive or locomotive set you ever plan to test. to the DC variable side of your power pack and set direction away from scale. With the record current draw at various settings. of some of your locomotives, you can deter- throttle off, set your locomotive on the test Converting drawbar pull readings to the mine how it correlates to number of cars by track and engage the coupler on the scale number of cars that can be pulled on your old-fashioned experimentation. Just keep slide. layout is dependent on a number of fac- adding cars until a particular loco stalls, Turn on your power pack and increase tors, so there is no single, definitive answer. then divide the number of cars by the loco’s the voltage incrementally. If you would like Track radius, gauge and code, as well as drawbar pull reading in ounces. For exam- to plot drawbar pull for your locomotives at how well your track is laid will affect this ple, if your drawbar pull reading was 3 oz. various voltages, you can graph the results ratio, but even more important is how your and you could pull 60 cars, your ratio would at settings of your choice. For example, if cars are weighted and how free rolling your be 20 cars per ounce. Try several other locos your power pack has speed or similar mark- trucks are. Model railroad magazines use to see how they compare. After testing sev- ings, you could plot your results at 10, 20, anywhere from about 13.75 to 23.37 cars eral locomotives you will end up with a 30, etc., for each locomotive to see how they per ounce of drawbar pull for their ratings; range which can then be averaged to give compare to each other. Readings at each set- Model Railroading uses 18.5 cars. you a reasonable approximation using your ting should be taken when forward motion Once you know the drawbar pull figures equipment. ceases and motor stalls or wheels slip. Be sure that the scale is set at 0 before each test. Be sure you don’t exceed the voltage rating of your locomotive or allow the motor to overheat or serious damage could result. (Optional) If you have a power pack with volt and ammeters or meters attached to the terminal block you can also check and/or * CAUTION — This portable dynamometer is designed to test HO/HOn3 locomo- tives with less than 9 oz. of pull. To test a locomotive or locomotive set with a higher drawbar pull, use a deadweight By mounting couplers to the top and bottom of the scale slide, both HO and car loaded with ½ oz. per inch of train HOn3 locomotives can be accommodated. To use this Ohaus scale for larger length minus 5 oz.). scales either put a spacer between the scale and baseboard or add spacer wash- † For info on testing motors see June 1979 ers between the coupler and scale slide. For N scale, the easiest way to modify it Model Railroader, pp. 93-97. would be to use spacer washers under the slide. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 39 Fixing the Yard at Trinidad Correcting a Major Operational Bottleneck by Bob Foltz Photos by the author The westbound Super Chief pulls to a stop in Trinidad while the yard crew in the background continues to work uninter- rupted. HEN I BEGAN DESIGNING W my Santa Fe “Raton Division,” Trin- idad yard was envisioned as the center of all operations on the railroad. Although Santa Fe’s famous name trains would only make brief stops at the Trinidad station, I pictured all through freights dropping blocks of cars for the division. The road power on these freights would be swapped here to add oper- ational interest and to justify my large roster of locomotives. Mail and express cars would also be exchanged by the heavyweight Fast Mail Express. In the interest of generating local traffic on my modeled version of Raton Pass, I made several towns grow and prosper much more than their real-life counterparts. Industries and businesses along the route would naturally need rail service, so a local turn would originate in Trinidad to service the towns along the line. This local, mixed in among all the high-speed traffic passing through town, would generate plenty of work for the yard crew. Trinidad was not envisioned as a major classification yard, but it would be the hub of operation on the model railroad and criti- cal to keeping things moving over the pass. In a similar scene prior to the rebuilding discussed here, the passenger train One thing model railroaders frequently for- occupies the same track as the yard engine in the previous photo, blocking all get is that switching takes real time. The work in the yard. Super Chief might easily run according to 40 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 This construction photo shows the new mainline and the relocated station. The dam to the left of the station is where the fascia used to be. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 41 The new main swings to the left on a #8 turnout. The station is at the top left, while the switcher sits on the old main. the eight-to-one fast clock, but anybody who has ever worked a yard knows that switching takes “real time.” The yardmaster would be plenty busy without unnecessary complications or design flaws, so I spent a lot of time trying to develop an efficient yard design. It became immediately apparent that I didn’t have space for a double-ended yard, but the final design had adequate capac- ity, easy access to the arrival and departure tracks and a switching lead long enough to East and westbound passenger trains can now make station stops without tying up the yard handle the trains I’d be running. Satisfied with the plan, I went to work laying track and wiring in the electrical system. As the railroad progressed, I hosted a number of open houses that required running several trains simultaneously, and the yard handled these well. When the mood struck to do some switching I even put together locals and ran them over the line — again the yard seemed to function as intended. When I began developing a schedule in 42 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 The new arrangement also allowed for a house track next to the freight section of the station to handle express cars with LCL (less than carload) freight. anticipation of starting an operating group, senger train stopped at the Trinidad station tearing up a finished section of the railroad my son, Brian, and I tried using pieces of it — an event scheduled to take place eight was breached, the dread I had been expe- to see how they worked in the “real world.” times a session — the yard lead was blocked riencing was replaced with excitement. I Imagine my dismay when I realized that the and totally unusable. This problem did not studied my options and saw how opera- yard had a major design flaw that would become obvious until we began running tions could be saved by simply laying a new cripple any operating session. trains while working the yard. Considering mainline south of the current tracks (marked Drawn in black on Figure 1 is the origi- that the yard switcher would have to clear in green on Figure 1). This new track would nal yard design. Notice that the yard lead the station track several minutes before each keep passenger traffic completely away from also serves as a passing track (21) and runs passenger train’s arrival, a good chunk of the yard lead. The old main became a pass- directly in front of the station; the main is the “day” would be spent with the yard crew ing track that could be used for meets, as the south track (20). The logical place to sitting around not being able to do any work. well as a place to stick an arriving train if board passengers is on the track closest to No matter how much I juggled the schedule the yard crew got behind (not an unheard of the station platform. Even if I had passenger to create holes for the yard crew to do their occurrence). trains stop on the main, no railroad would job, it just wouldn’t work. The only solution With the concept now set, the fascia was allow the yard crew to work with passengers appeared to be rebuilding the yard. removed to see how I could extend the exist- crossing the yard lead. Every time a pas- Once the psychological barrier against ing L-girder benchwork. Figures 2 and 3 Figure 2 Figure 3 Existing girder Existing girder New extension New extension MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 43 The west end of the main ties in at Jansen Junction. The switcher has used the #8 curved turnout in the foreground and is headed for the only industry on the south side of the main. show two methods for doing this. Extensions were spliced to the existing benchwork, ris- ers added, and new plywood sub-roadbed attached. I cut the rails on the old main and added #8 turnouts at both the east and west ends to swing the new track across the front of the layout. These long turnouts are much kinder to long passenger cars than the #6s that had been my standard. Access to Sea- bold Industries required a curved #8 turnout to match the radius of the new mainline while tying into the existing siding. Once the station was relocated to the front of the layout, there was enough room to add a house track on the east side for express and baggage cars with LCL ship- ments. Adding the new benchwork and track was surprisingly easy and only took a few days. Prior to reconstruction, all but one of the industrial sidings in Jansen fed off the main. This caused all work in this industrial area to cease when passenger trains were due to arrive. This is no longer a problem with the new main. 44 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 This dam dropped the stream enough to clear the deeper 50’ Micro Engineering deck girder bridge used to carry the new mainline. Fixing the scenery required a little more added to create two new city blocks. I filled ground foam and junk from my scrap box work. An existing stream was extended to in around the foundations with sifted dirt, and used diluted white glue to hold every- the new layout edge and a thing in place. bridge added to support the With the new mainline new track. I used a Micro complete, passenger trains Engineering 50' deck girder now come and go without kit to span the creek at this tying up the yard lead — I location. Since the girders are even gained another location deeper than the thirty-footers for meets in the process. I under the old tracks, I had to am pleased with the results, lower the extended streambed both in improved operations to make everything look right. and the added visual interest The stream’s transition to this created by the dam and new lower height was made with a buildings backing against the small dam and spillway fash- tracks. Making these changes ioned out of concrete-painted was surprisingly easy; paint- wood. The dam also added ing the new structures took visual interest to the scene. more time than everything With the depot now else combined. located between the new and As this is written, the old mains, new real estate old “Raton Division” exists became available in the no more. A new, much larger town of Trinidad. The street railroad depicting the Santa running to the depot was Fe over Glorieta Pass in New extended using plaster poured Mexico is under construc- between styrene forms, and tion in my new basement, but timber grade crossings were the lesson learned with the installed for vehicle access; Trinidad yard will be put to sidewalks were built from good use in the building of styrene. Several Design my new yard of Las Vegas, Preservation structures were New Mexico. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 45 CONTAINERS ▼ A to Z HDMU to HKUU by David G. Casdorph Photos courtesy Freight Cars Journal HDMU is for Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Ltd. of Korea (South). HDMU 201301 displays one of the earlier paint schemes with the vertical Hyundai logo. This standard-height 20-footer has the older square corrugated sides with logo panels and one vent per side. City of Industry, CA; November 1989. HDMU 206509 is a more modern all-bevel-style corrugated side with two vents per side. This container also displays the second major paint scheme, the horizontal Hyundai logo. ATSF Hobart Yard; November 1997. 46 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 HDMU 214536 represents the third major paint scheme (and the current version) that uses a large horizontal Hyundai logo. ATSF Hobart Yard; November 1997. HDMU 500094 is a standard-height 40’ refrigerated box (ISO 4332). This is a sheet-and-post sides design built by Hyundai. Port of Long Beach; November 1989. HDMU 602064 is a high-cube 40’ box. This is the current and most common design, with all-bevel corrugated sides. Note the front unit ID is vertical in the second valley from the right. Port of Long Beach; September 1989. HDMU 693168 is a high-cube 45’ container shown here at ATSF Hobart Yard in October 1997. Please note that a common characteristic on 45’ container “extensions” (beyond the 40’ ISO posts) is that there are two corrugations on the left and one on the right. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 47 HJCU is for Hanjin Container Lines, Ltd. (originally it was Han-Jin) of South Korea. HDMU 690141 is a high-cube refrigerated container equipped with a Thermo-King unit. Note the HJCL on the front. Port of Long Beach; November 1989. HJCU 702344 was built on May 12, 1979 by Hyundai. This is a standard-height 40’ box. The vertical HJCL style logo was the first to hit the U.S. shores in quantity during the late ‘70s. Port of Long Beach; May 1981. HJCU 727806 is a later paint scheme with the horizontal Hanjin and the circle H logo on the left door. There are a number of minor variations on this paint scheme dealing with unit ID location, data and other small lettering details. Also, this is a really odd container in the “container-enthusiast” world. At first sight it looks like any other — but check the square corrugations and one logo panel per side. ATSF Hobart Yard; November 1997. 48 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 HJCU 867747. Another one of the square-corrugated one logo panel Hanjin containers! Hanjin was one of the rare exceptions to the changeover to bevel corrugations during the late ‘80s. HKIU was for Hong Kong Islands Line America S.A. If you model the Southern Pacific during the 1980s you will surely want some of these on your layout because they were very common during this time. HKIU 841602 represented a typical standard-height 40’ box operated by this Hong Kong based company. City of Industry, CA; December 21, 1985. HKUU was also for Hong Kong Islands Line America S.A. HKUU 611423 is a typical 20’ box operated during this time. Note the large rectangular vents in the top of each logo panel. City of Industry, CA; November 30, 1985. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 49 Strong Buildings by Miles & Fran Hale Photos by the author 50 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 e have all been to a contest and Photo 3 shows a building that is a dyna- W watched the modelers bring in mite shed for the side of a hill. The exterior the “apple of their eye” model to enter of the building looks natural enough, but in the contest. These models have the backside (see Photo 4) reveals that the carrying or shipping cases that are structure is a block of solid wood. often as elaborate as the models Al Boos, MMR, and I did a themselves. The reason? Because hands-on clinic about constructing the models are delicate and fragile. a building around a block of wood. Many modelers have built mod- The block can be cut perfectly els for contests. These structures square and the sides applied and show how real full-sized building sanded smooth. The front and techniques can be applied back can then be added and used even in the and sanded to the sides. smallest of scales. Judges This technique makes the even look to see how well the building pro- building easy to keep square. This cess was followed in the miniature reproduction. method also makes it much less cumbersome to hold the sides while These model buildings, while looking great, have one big prob- gluing. lem: they break very easily. I have several of these contest models The advantage of being very strong is a very big plus for the build- on the South Park Valley, my On3 layout. I have moved and lived in around-the-block type of construction. This also allows the roof, which eight states in 13 years of marriage. The models have also seen all of is very often the most delicate part of the building, to be secured. these states and moves, and they show it. The operating crew of the Speaking of roofs, Photo 5 shows the roof of the D.S.P. & P. SPV spent two work nights just bringing these models back to a state Gunnison, Colorado, Depot by Model Masterpieces, Ltd. The roof where they could be placed on the layout. is not built as the manufacturer had intended. I substituted 1/8" Luan We all want the best quality models possible for our layouts but plywood for the roof and reinforced it with some pieces of ½" x ½" durability can be an issue unless you know that you will never move wood along with some gussets cut to the pitch of the roof. The gus- from your current location. I want to show some of the models that sets also hold the alignment of the roof from side to side. The shingles have made the moves of the past 13 years and are in great shape. were applied to the top slope of the roof and scribed siding was glued These are the models that were built with strength in mind, but with to the under side of the roof at the overhangs. The trim boards were small details that keep them looking like they are the real things in then applied, and it is impossible to tell how the roof was built. miniature. In Photo 1, the roof of the little house is built using .060 Ever- Building so that a model is strong does not mean that it has to green styrene. The gussets are cut to the roof pitch, and the end look clunky or like it has out-of-scale details. The first thing to gussets again are used to hold the roof in place from end to end. A remember is the model that came in with the special carrying case cloth-backed “gaffer’s tape” is used to simulate the tarpaper roof. to the contest. Often these models are held in place by “peanuts” or This tape is available at theater lighting supply stores and some better some other packing material. The goal of packing is keep the models photography supply stores. The good thing is that the adhesive stays from moving around in the box, and thus to prevent any damage due for years. I have buildings 15 years old, and the tape on the roofs is to movement. still good. This prevention of movement can be done when the model is built. This type of roof construction is common on the SPV. One thing Simply fasten the building securely down to a base so that it cannot that makes a model look old or not constructed well is the roof buck- come lose (see Photo 1). The bolts in the bottom of this plaster build- ling or sagging. The cardstock that is provided with most kits cannot ing go through the base of the model and the plywood base. The sides be sealed well enough to last through the test of time and moisture. are pinned with straight pins where the scenery hides them at the base I have even started to build the buildings themselves with the of the building. Glue adds to the bonds of the building and locks same 1/8" plywood and then glue the siding to the plywood. The ply- the unit together. So long as the base can be fastened down, the wood tends to make the building has a much better chance of surviving structure stable, and it being moved or handled. gives a wider surface The idea of bolting or at the corners, the screwing the building to its weak point, for the base does not keep you glue to bond and from adding interior hold. details, and the Most hobby look of the build- shops carry air- ing from the out- craft plywood side is not diminished. for R.C. models. This ply- Photo 2 shows the barn wood is ideal for reinforc- that is about to be added to ing roofs and walls. I have the Luxen Farm scene. The also used plastic sheet for post-and-beam structure has the walls and roofs. One been screwed to the base building was built using with some Plexi- v e r y g l a s small wood screws. for the See the end of this article for information on these screws. With the walls with building secured to the base, the sides will add a lot of strength to the the siding glued on. The windows were trimmed out, and the glaz- barn. ing was already in the windows! MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 51 1 2 3 4 5 6 Photo 6 shows some bents for the Atkins River trestle. The struc- tures that take the most stress are the ones that the trains must use for passage. Remember that the same forces that work on the real rail- road also work in miniature on our trains as well. An engine weighing a pound or more plus a train of cars at six ounces each can add up quickly. Then add the fact that they are moving, and the forces get much greater. very small sizes. Walthers and Woodland Scenics both produce small On all of the bridges I try to pin or screw them together as much screws of various types that are good to use. Märklin also makes as possible, trying not to sacrifice the prototype look of the model. some flathead wood screws that are smaller than “0” and only .4" In the bents shown, the top and bottom caps are nailed to the pilings. long. These are stocked as #7599, K-GLEIS, 1.4mm x 10mm. I use The cross braces are spiked to the piling sides. Glue is also applied to these for building construction because they are very small, hold all of these joints. The result is a very strong bent that resists racking well, and they are easily hidden from view. and holds up very well. Next time you look at scratchbuilding, or at a kit, think about the There are many fasteners on the market and most good hobby longevity of the building and the strength needed for the building shops have a wide selection from which to chose. Be sure to check to be useful. Give some thought to how you can make the building the R.C. airplane section as they have many sheet-metal screws in stronger, it will be well worth your time in the long run. 52 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 Another engine that never was — A Penn Central Locomotive in O Scale by Jim Teese, MMR Photos by the author he genesis of this engine goes T back quite a ways. In the mid-1970s I was working for Bell Helicopter in Iran and building a few HO models in my free time. I saw an ad from AHM in Model Railroader offering a sale on their O scale loco kits. Just for the why not of it I ordered a pair of the 0-8-0 kits with the idea of building something bigger than I was used to. There had been an article in a previous issue (author unremembered) about going to a wanted was avail- larger scale for variety, and that sounded like a good idea to me. The able. The frame kits arrived, and I put the first one together according to the instruc- was extended in tions — it was indeed a big brute! front of the cylinders What to do with the second kit? I started noodling around with a to allow room for the new pencil and paper, and it appeared as though this one could become a pilot truck, and a new pilot nice hefty Consolidation, along the lines of a New York Central locomo- was fabricated from styrene — some- tive. So I started looking for brass parts for the conversion. Any model what along the lines of the Lima Super- with this amount of work involved had to be able to move, so a Power pilots on many of their later locomotives. At this point there couple of the motorizing kits were ordered was not a whole lot of the original engine still there — mostly also. The parts came from every just the bare boiler shell. Now came the real fun part — maker of O scale lost-wax parts adding all those beautiful new brass parts. The cab around — Kemtron, Backshop, Cen- interior was detailed to include a nice tral Loco Works, Loco Workshop overhead throttle, connected to the and possibly some others. I do recall existing front-end that the pilot truck came from the throttle assem- LocoWorks in Florida. bly. I While waiting for the parts to even arrive I started a little sculpture on the boiler shell. The rear sand dome was removed and the front sand dome increased in height. The steam dome was also made a bit taller. The stack was removed to be replaced with a brass one, the cab roof was raised about 9" (in the window area) with additional details and the turret cover was enlarged and superdetailed — hinges, plastic NBWs, etc. I decided not to make any basic changes on the massive front end except to remove the bell mount and fabricate mountings for the rubbed class lights — it seemed to fit in quite well with the concept I had in off some mind. None of the kit piping was used, although some of the mount- of the paint ing brackets were saved for reuse. The new piping was bent out of on the control assorted sizes of brass rod — all runs horizontal and vertical in the handle to simulate usage. classic NYC style. There was certainly a lot of I had to fabricate a lot of the parts myself, since not everything I epoxy and CA used in construction. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 53 Left front of smokebox and boiler showing outlet pipe Close up of right front of engine. Note hinge on headlight, from Elesco feedwater heater. This pipe is actually lagged junction boxes and individual clamps holding lid on front- with rice tissue paper and fine steel wire. end throttle box. Bottom of the pilot truck. Now for the Tender Three-quarter view of right rear of cab showing Johnson The trucks that came with the kit included one very nice tender bar handle and release. Note added detail on cab roof truck with leaf-springs and one booster engine truck. Since I wanted and turret covers. The 9” increase in height of the cab was a matched pair of road trucks I swapped the booster truck from this added in the window area on the sides. Note starter valve kit for the unpowered one from the first model and had a good look- on the large pipe running down from turret. ing set of wheels. After playing with the parts it appeared that a nice Pennsylvania Lines West tender could be fabricated, so I went to work. It was also superdetailed with both fixed and flexible electrical conduit, etc. The rear strap steps were built from brass strip, with riv- ets from copper wire to hold everything together. Painting was next in order. Since I had no access to an airbrush, Floquil spray cans were used — and I managed to do a creditable job. The decals were from Champ, and when they were all in place the whole model was oversprayed with Floquil Flat Finish — which is not quite flat but does look good. Remember the furor a few years back when Walthers came out with Penn Central steam loco decals? Well, I could have used them on this locomotive — with a New York Central engine and a Pennsyl- vania tender, it is indeed a Penn Central locomotive. When I left Iran in 1978, just before the revolution, I brought the engine with me. I finally found someone with an O scale layout I could run it on and so it was run — and I decided the motor should be replaced with something stronger and quieter. I found a nice ball- bearing micro motor and installed it, along with a revised lighting system. Just for the heck of it I entered it in the contest at the 1982 Washington National NMRA Convention and came in second to a beautiful handbuilt brass Climax — not a bad position for a kitbashed plastic model! Modern cast-steel pilot with bolts and added steps. The So that is the story of my kitbashed Penn Central locomotive. It Kadee® coupler pocket is integrated into the pilot beam. has indeed been a fun experience. 54 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 Top left of Elesco feedwater heater showing much of the piping. Tender from top rear. Note both fixed and flexible conduit. Right rear of tender from below. Right front of the tender showing the Lines West coal bunker. Interior of cab from the rear. Note the overhead throttle and how the paint is worn on the brass handle. The oil- can shelf and various other details show well. New motor and lighting installation. MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 55 DIESEL DETAIL ▼ CLOSE-UP Reading (RDG) EMD GP35 Phase I HO Scale Models by Athearn, Kato and Rail Power Products N Scale Model by Atlas by Rich Picariello Photos from the author’s collection he Prototype GP35: EMD introduced Power West has a weighted, fully assembled Paints T the 2,500-hp GP35 in 1963. By the end drive with a can motor that is designed to fit Accu+paint: of production in 1966, 1,333 had been built. the RPP shell (#55519, $83.00). Hobbytown 2 Stencil Black Early production units (Phase I) had heavy of Boston also offers a universal Geep drive 20 Medium Yellow sideframes like the earlier GP30. Later-pro- (#77408F, $52.50). 33 RDG Green duction units had thinner sideframes. Varia- Atlas has a GP35 in their N scale loco- Floquil: tions in the long-hood doors and door-latch motive line. 110010 Engine Black arrangement are identified as GP35 sub- Paint and Decal Notes: From 1962 to 110031 Reefer Yellow phases by railfans. 1973, Reading units were painted in the 110183 RDG Green Reading’s GP35s were delivered in two yellow-and-green scheme. The underframe, MODELflex: orders in 1963 and 1964. They were num- trucks, plow and fuel tank were black. The 1601 Engine Black bered 3620 to 3655 (3620-3625 were origi- pilot faces had yellow and black herring- 1610 Reefer Yellow nally numbered 6501-6506). All units shown bone striping and the handrails were yellow. 1685 RDG Green in the photos are Phase I GP35s. Only Polly Scale offers Reading Yellow. The Polly Scale: The Scale Model GP35: Athearn’s stock yellow paints from other manufactur- 414110 Steam Power Black GP35 was introduced many years ago. It ers may have to be lightened to match Read- 414376 RDG Yellow has wider-than-scale hoods to accommodate ing color. 414378 RDG Green the old-style wide motor that Athearn once Scalecoat: used in all their diesels. The GP35 has been 10 Black updated with the new narrow motor and Decals 15 Reefer Yellow plastic truck sideframes, but it still has the HO Scale: 77 RDG Green original shell. Kato has offered their GP35 Champion EH-192 Scalecoat II (plastic compatible): (limited production) in various phases. The Microscale 87-686 (1962-1973) 2001 Locomotive Black Rail Power Products (RPP) shell will fit N Scale: 2015 Reefer Yellow on a modified Athearn GP35 chassis. Proto Microscale 60-686 (1962-1973) 2077 RDG Green 49 14 40 17 34 15 2 47 32 45 32 32 9 31 24 39 30 38 27 28 23 33 41 5 22 B A 11 23 47 7 13 35 29 B 25 1 12 37 35 10 26 28 48 50 16 6 19 4 18 19 14 17 34 36 3 44 42 8 46 44 21 43 Reading GP35 Phase I Detail Parts for HO Scale: 41 - CF196 Speed recorder (brass) 4.39/4 1 - DW139 Air filter 1.00/2 DA2807 Speed recorder (delrin) 1.50/4 2 - CS428 Air horn (brass) 6.20 ea. 42 - AL29235 Steps, RPP GP35 (etched see-thru)* 3.50/set DA1601 Air horn (delrin) 1.75/2 43 - DA2805 Truck journal, square 2.25/8 DW186 Air horn (brass) 3.25 ea. 44 - DA2806 Truck journal, sloped 2.25/8 3 - DA3203 Air tanks, 15" GP35 (plastic)* 2.25/4 45 - CC1951 Turbo hatch and stack* 3.95/2 4 - DA2302 Armrest, cab 1.25/8 46 - CC2052 Underframe/step light (plastic) 2.95/6 5 - DA1202 Bell, underframe (plastic) 1.00/2 CF112 Underframe/step light (brass) 2.95/2 DW127 Bell, underframe (metal) 1.25/2 DW172 Underframe/step light (metal) 1.25/8 6 - CC1602 Blower housing, smooth* 3.50/2 47 - DA2312 Wind deflector, straight (clear plastic) 1.25/4 7 - RPP512 Body shell w/dynamic brakes 15.00 ea. OM9327 Wind deflector, straight (brass) 2.50/4 8 - DA2809 Brake cylinder air line 1.50/4 UP77 Wind deflector/mirror (brass) 2.00/2 9 - DW132 Brake ratchet* 1.00 ea. 48 - GD WG-1 Window gasket decals, Cannon EMD cabs 3.25/set PSC39082 Brake ratchet* 1.50/2 49 - AMB245 Window glass, RPP GP35 3.95/set 10 - DW195 Buffer plate, pilot (optional for Athearn) 1.50/2 RUN1863 Window glass, RPP GP35 2.00/set 11 - CC1502 Cab, 35 Line* 5.95 ea. 50 - AL29200 Windshield wipers (delrin) 2.95/8 12 - CC1201 Cab sub-base kit, 35 line* 6.95/2 CF314 Windshield wipers (etched brass) 3.95/2 pr. 13 - ASM 0103 Chain, 28, 42 & 56 lpi (etched brass) 10.00/sheet CS419 Windshield wipers (brass) 3.50/4 DA2210 Chain, blackened 2.25/12" ME W5 Windshield wipers (brass) 2.98/set PSC48237 Chain 2.75/10" PSC3968 Windshield wipers (plastic) 1.50/4 14 - DA1019 Classification lights 1.25/8 UP94 Windshield wipers (beryllium copper) 2.00/4 MV300 Classification lenses, clear 2.00/4 UP97 Windshield wipers (plastic) 1.50/4 15 - DA2205 Coupler lift bar, OS 2.75/10 OM9150 Coupler lift bar, OS 1.75/2 Detail Parts for N Scale: 16 - OM9171 Door handle (brass) 1.70/2 1 - ME NF5 Air filter 2.50/set PSC3998 Door handle (plastic) 1.50/6 2 - DA8204 Air horn, 3-chime 1.25/2 17 - DA1402 Drop step 1.50/2 JNJ113 Air horn, 3-chime 3.50/4 18 - DW142 Fan, 36" (plastic)* 1.25/4 SE15700 Air horn, 3-chime 1.65 ea. PSC3990 Fan, 36" w/open ribs (plastic)* 2.25/4 4 - DA8215 Armrest, cab 1.25/4 19 - TSP140 Fan, 48" flat w/blades (plastic)* 7.95/3 5 - JNJ117 Bell, underframe (metal) 3.00/4 OM9216 Fan, 48" flat w/blades (brass)* 4.10 ea. ME NB8 Bell, underframe (brass) 1.70 ea. 20 - OM9217 Fan, 48" flat w/blades, E-L low (brass) 7.95/2 SE15351 Bell, underframe (metal) 1.65/2 21 - DA2208 Footboard, pilot 3.25/2 11 - ASM 8103 Cab, EMD standard (etched brass)* 9.50 ea. 22 - DA3102 Fuel filler (plastic)†* 1.00/set 13 - ASM 0103 Chain, 28, 42 & 56 lpi (etched brass) 10.00/sheet DW166 Fuel filler (metal)* 1.00/4 DA2210 Chain, 40 lpi 2.25/12" PSC39080 Fuel filler (plastic)* 1.50/4 17 - DA8206 Drop step, EMD 1.00/2 23 - AL29100 Grabirons (formed wire) 3.25/50 JNJ188 Drop step, EMD 3.50/2 DA2202 Grabirons (formed wire) 2.50/24 18 - JNJ104 Fan, 36"* 3.00/2 UP54 Grabirons (cast brass) 5.95/12 19 - JNJ105 Fan, 48"* 3.00/2 24 - DA2217 Grabiron, curved 1.50/3 22 - JNJ227 Fuel filler & gauge* 3.00/4 25 - RDP118 Handrail set, RPP GP35 9.95/set ME NF4 Fuel filler & level gauge* 3.35/set SV214 Handrail set, RPP GP35 15.95/set 23 - JNJ395 Grabirons, 15", w/drill template 3.00/18 26 - DA1024 Headlight, front w/visors* 1.00/2 29 - PSC6704 Hose, air line (brass) 1.50/6 27 - DA1003 Headlight, rear* 1.00/2 PSC6705 Hose, air line (plastic) 2.50/24 28 - MV22 Headlight lenses 1.15/4 32 - ASM0101 Lift lugs/eyebolts/u-bolts (etched brass) 8.29/set 29 - CS227 Hose, air line (brass) 2.35/4 JNJ16 Lift rings, EMD 3.00/16 DA6206 Hose, air line (delrin) 1.25/6 35 - JNJ14 MU hoses 3.00/12 30 - CC1302 Inertial filter, 35 Line* 2.95/4 SE15550 MU hoses 3.95/4 31 - CC1351 Inertial filter hatch, early 35 line* 2.95/2 37 - DA8211 Plow 1.25 ea. 32 - DA2206 Lift rings 3.00/36 SR603 Plow 5.00/2 33 - CC1151 Long hood end, 35 line (fits RPP shell)* 3.50/2 41 - SE15499 Speed recorder 1.65/2 34 - DA1503 MU stand 1.25/2 50 - JNJ31 Windshield wipers 3.00/9 35 - CF257 MU hoses, 3/bracket (brass) 7.95/4 ME NW1 Windshield wipers 3.33/4 DA1508 MU hoses, individual (delrin) 2.00/16 DW266 MU hoses, 3/bracket (metal) 3.50/4 The following parts must be fabricated by the modeler: OM9349 MU hoses, 3/bracket, long (brass) 7.45/4 A — Underframe piping — make from various sizes of wire. OM9350 MU hoses, 3/bracket, short (brass) 7.45/4 B — ACI label & board — make from thin styrene or brass w/decal ACI labels. 36 - DA2220 Pilot grab bar 1.25/6 * Similar parts, either separate or molded on, are included with the listed HO or N scale 37 - DW233 Plow (metal) 1.95 ea. models; replacement of any or all original parts is left to the discretion of the modeler. 38 - CC1402 Radiator grille, 35 line* 3.50/4 The Rail Power Products shell will need most of the listed parts. 39 - DA3001 Sand-fill hatch, EMD round (plastic) 1.25/6 OM9400 Sand-fill hatch, EMD round (brass) 3.35/2 † DA3102 Fuel Tank Fittings (set) contains other parts that may or may not be needed for 40 - CC1103 Short hood, 81"* 6.95 ea. this detailing project. AL/ A-Line/Proto Power West CF: Custom Finishing ME: Miniatures by Eric RPP: Rail Power Products TSP: Train Station Products PPW: P.O. Box 2701 379 Tully Road RR #1 7283 N. Stagecoach Drive P.O. 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You must pur- 21 Howard Street Address unknown 3961 Hwy. 93 North Doyle, CA 96109 chase the full quantities as shown in Montoursville, PA 17754 Stevensville, MT 59870 the detail parts list. JNJ: JnJ Trains SV: Smokey Valley CC: Cannon & Company P.O. Box 1535 RDP: Rail Detail Products Railroad Products 310 Willow Heights Ottumwa, IA 52501 P.O. Box 427 P.O. Box 339 Aptos, CA 95003 Hondo, TX 78861 Plantersville, MS 38862 58 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 ON ▼ TRACK It’s Still About Time by Jim Mansfield Photo 9.1.2.1.5: When working on large building flats, we like to lay all the pieces together in an exchequer fashion using the cardboard mock-up of the ast month we described the process card, flat. This way, we can get a feeling for the final result and check to ensure mea- L a simple method for controlling the surements are correct. Notice that a design change in a foreground building in particulars of tasks we do time and again. the scene allowed us to shorten this building flat by 13”. Building turnouts, attaching track power feeders and installing twin-coil switch ma- struction of benchwork, buildings (mock-up parts from several buildings, nearly 20' of chines are examples of the recurring tasks out- and model), the mainline bridge and some bridge structure and 18 piers. An additional lined by P-Cards in the JWRR files. Although additional examples of perspective. Operat- 11 piers and a couple of bridge sections will it had been nearly five years since I had built ing schemes in and around the city were also be painted at a later date. a turnout when I “pulled the master” turnout discussed. While List 1 shows the big picture, the P-Card a few weeks ago, it seemed as if I had Because this ongoing city project has real project control is in the to-do list for built one the day before. The hour I spent been in progress for eight years, we need to each item in the future scene. Take, for years ago sure paid for itself. have a quick-look method of determining example, the Acme Co. building flat in north While there are a handful of recurring its status, especially since there are always Vilsousterrs (see List 2). This building is processes we use during layout construc- other layout projects going on, as you see a six-story, mostly brick-curtain structure tion, there are an infinite number of one- reported “real-time” in our monthly col- (Korber Models). The flat represents an time non-recurring tasks that come into umns. Some of these other projects had to be early 1950s latecomer to the city. The “pro- play every time we work on the railroad. completed just before or concurrently with a totype” was built with an alcove in the wall These “one-timer” projects range from add- portion of the city project. A good example that encloses (on three sides) an existing ing a few trees to the lawn of a residence of this was the modeling of the transition (circa 1900) large stone bridge pier leg. This — requiring little planning and nothing on from a pine-covered mountain summit scene 44" long by 15" tall flat is the second of 14 paper — to monstrous, complex, years-long at Gran Quivera to a big city atmosphere flats that fill most of the 22' long backdrop creations that require many interrelated within a matter of an inch or so (see the in the Vilsousterrs scene. steps. These large projects do require that above 1998 series). One structure appears This flat is made in three sections: the we plan and keep track of the status of in both scenes (as a small junction building top four floors and the lower two floors. The things. One such project is the “big city” in the mountains and as a four-story factory top portion is constructed in Step 9.1.2.1, the of Vilsousterrs. This city project was intro- building in the city), requiring careful plan- lower piece is constructed using Step 9.1.2.2, duced in the July through December 1993 ning within each scene. and the alcove for the stone pier is in Step “Behind the Scenes.” The series included Even within the city itself, the build- 9.1.2.3, none of which is shown. There is a a track and bridge plan with buildings in ing, bridge and pier projects are closely tied good picture of the flat’s cardboard mock-up place, concept elevation drawings, bench- together. in place on the layout on page 60 of the April work, the application of perspective, and 2000 MRG. By the way, the ~ represents details of the city’s new urban development Making a Large To-Do Step 9.1.1 which details a seven-story hotel/ Underground area. When we started Vilsousterrs eight years casino. The remaining flats of paragraph 9.1 Vilsousterrs has also been featured in ago, we wrote List 1. To date, we have are numbered 9.1.3 through 9.1.14. additional BTS series: June-September 1996, finished the steps (and portions of steps) By the time you read this, we will be June-November 1998 and April-July 2000. marked with a strike. For example, Step installing this building flat on the layout. So, These articles discussed all phases of the 8 in List 1 is 50% completed to date. Step in a couple of months, meet us in Vilsous- city project, including the concept and con- 10 is a painting extravaganza that involves terrs, Louie! List 1 List 2 The City of Vilsousterrs 9) Construct all buildings Project Control 9.1) Building Flats (from north end) 1) Develop operating patterns ~ 2) Design Track Plan 9.1.2) Acme Co. 3) Determine type(s) of sections for Big Bridge 9.1.2.1) Top four floors 4) Determine the different city buildings 9.1.2.1.1) Find length/number of main frames 5) Design/select kits/materials for Big Bridge 9.1.2.1.2) Find height/number of main frames 6) Design/select kits/materials for buildings 9.1.2.1.3) Find where bridge pier will be located 7) Construct all bridge sections 9.1.2.1.4) Find floor usage and select inserts 8) Design/construct all bridge piers 9.1.2.1.5) Do a mock-up exchequer (Photo) 9) Construct all buildings 9.1.2.1.6) Assemble frame and hold for Step 10 10) Project Paint Shop 9.1.2.1.7) Wash all brick mortar (new concrete) 11) Project inventory and storage 9.1.2.1.8) Make flat interior 12) Build Scene on the layout 9.1.2.1.9) Final assembly MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING ▼ 59 BEHIND ▼ THE SCENES Square Corner Backdrops: Putting It All In Perspective by Margaret Mansfield Figures by Jim Mansfield ne of the first steps in solving a O problem involves scanning all rel- evant factors in order to put them “into perspective.” This process draws upon PP our ability to see the various parts of a problem in their true relationship, their actual relative importance. Perspective is also a tool that may be used to establish a sense of depth in backdrops, particularly in the special case of square corners. To that end, this article describes the basic prin- ciples governing perspective techniques, HL laying the groundwork for specific corner examples in the remaining two articles of this series. Setting the Horizon The very word “perspective” comes from the Latin word “prospectus,” meaning “to look forward.” And, no matter where we look forward, out the window or in the rail- GL road room, we see the horizon. Most dic- tionaries define “horizon” as the “line of apparent meeting of sky and land or sea.” The real world has a greatly variable appar- ent horizon; the horizon seen from aboard Figure 1 — The basics of perspective design are the ground line (GL), the picture a ship at sea differs considerably from that plane (PP) and the horizon line (HL). These three lines form the fundamental seen looking west from Denver. This prin- geometrical coordinates of perspective. ciple applies also within the limited space and small scale of the railroad room, for the horizon depicted on a backdrop can vary in height depending on the type of scen- ery being modeled. However, the “horizon line” or “eye line,” as defined in perspective studies, differs in meaning. Establishing the location of this line is the key to maintain- ing proper perspective in the railroad room. And, since everything modeled in that room is scale size, including figures, all locations are “always viewed” by a scale figure with VP VP a scale horizon line — akin to standing at trackside and regarding the scenery. Realis- tic perspective in the railroad room is thus based on the assumption that all viewers, operators and visitors are scale-size figures. Their horizon lines, rather than the apparent horizon, determine how perspective angles will be drawn. Some Principles of Perspective Figure 2 — The horizon line is defined by vanishing points (VP), as shown in this The accompanying figures illustrate two-point perspective example. The picture plane can be likened to the edges of some general guidelines for drawing realis- a photograph or camera viewfinder. 60 ▼ MODEL RAILROADING MAY 2001 Continuous vanishing points help to establish a realistic scene viewed from any angle, illustrating once again the use of perspective as a powerful tool. For a simple example, note how the four differ- ent features of the scene in Figure 4 are tied together by sharing common VPs. Not only is this a useful technique when modeling a city scene, but rock walls, country roads and edges of fields are all good scenic can- didates for common VPs. Sharing VPs will Figure 3 — Simply shifting the horizon line on the backdrop can change the make the entire scene viewable from any perspective of a given scene. The view to the left is a worm’s eye view, and the location. The apparent angles in the scene view on the right is a bird’s eye view. may occupy different locations, but the com- plete scene will not only be connected, it tic perspective. Figure 1 defines the ground backdrop; he has a “worm’s eye” view of will also look very realistic directly in front line (GL), the picture plane (PP) and the the scene. of the viewer. There will be instantaneous horizon line (HL). These three lines form However, if the horizon line shown in perspective, however the scene is viewed. the fundamental geometrical coordinates Figure 3 is shifted markedly above track of perspective. As a rule, the HL is parallel level, the viewer will feel that he is looking Line of Sight to the GL and both are perpendicular to the down over the scene, and the apparent hori- When designing realistic perspective PP. In the model railroad room, the PP is zon will actually be lower than his horizon angles for a backdrop, another factor that the backdrop, while in the real world the PP line. The right side of Figure 3 shows this must be considered is the viewpoint of visi- is an imaginary plane or window through aerial, or “bird’s-eye” view, of the scene. tors and operators. Where, and from what which scenery is viewed. (Are model rail- This scenario is actually fairly common on direction(s), will they be viewing the lay- roads glass houses?) model railroads; while track level views are out? While session operators may well see To describe the effect of perspective, most excellent, the reality is that most model the layout “straight-on,” visitors and casual please consider Figure 2. This drawing railroads are normally seen as if the scale operators will view the layout from more depicts a structure as seen from the position viewer were standing on a cliff, looking than one direction. They may stand at the of the viewer in Figure 1; the structure is down. When this backdrop scene is viewed end of the operating area and let a train said to be seen from the perspective of the from actual track level, it will still appear come towards them or move away, instead viewer, since all the perspective angles on natural to the viewer. of walking with it. Visitors may stay in one the structure extend to points on the viewer’s The determining factor in perspective, position so as not to get in the way of opera- horizon line. Since the perspective of a given therefore, is not the apparent horizon, but tors moving about. When setting up a per- backdrop scene is thus determined by the the horizon line of the viewer. The way to spective plan for a backdrop, it is important position of the viewer, i.e., his horizon line, control where the viewer finds the horizon to determine actual lines of sight, then draw the perception that a visitor-operator gets line on a backdrop is to use vanishing points, backdrop scenes so that they appear con- from a backdrop is totally up to the designer by including structures, as in Figure 3, or by vincing from those lines of sight. of that backdrop; he has a powerful tool at the use of roads, etc. While some graphic technicians call for his command. a complex series of geometric projections One use of the perspective tool involves Vanishing Points in order to establish absolutely correct per- placing the horizon line at different levels. Both single-point and two-point per- spective, in most cases sighting by eye to This can markedly affect the feeling of spective may be used in backdrops. Sin- establish the relative length and width of the layout. For example, consider a track gle-point perspective occurs when a road objects and their VPs in the scene is all running through a modeled scene in front or a field, perhaps lined by buildings or that is needed to create a realistic backdrop. of a backdrop, as shown in Figure 3. The trees, stretches toward the distance and This is the method used to draw Figures 2 horizon line on the backdrop is identified all straight lines converge to one vanish- through 4. Only in a very few detailed and by the location of the point to which the ing point on the horizon line. Two-point foreshortened scenes is a technical com- structure’s perspective angles extend. If perspective comes into play when viewing mand of perspective techniques required; a this line is slightly above track level, as corners of buildings within the scene. Both more detailed discussion of such techniques in the left side of the figure, the viewer types of perspective are shown in Figure 4. may be found in the August 1996 “Behind will automatically place himself so that Note that all vanishing points are placed on the Scenes: Perspective, Per Se.” the perspective he sees will feel natural for the horizon line; this is the key to position- Next time: Tricks of the trade, as we his scale-size height. His horizon line is ing a horizon line on a backdrop, no matter apply these perspective principles to actual close to the apparent horizon seen on the where the line is located. corners. Figure 4 — This small town backdrop uses four vanishing points to fix the perspective angles of streets, alleys, buildings and open areas, creating a realistic sense of depth. This backdrop is 30” long. 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Trends to The New England Rail Story New Bridge lime Again Model ACl 40' Boxcars • Early SDs: (Pt.6: C&S, DM&E, DSR) OT M_W On Track to Shenandoah and Western A look at Hoosier lift MAY1996 m Walrus and Woodcarver: A Ta le • DCC (Pt.13): Turnouts, Rev. loops OT If '------' �w JB Hunt (PtA. Model Cont/ Chass) .. St. Maries River RR (Pt.2) DO loco. Mgmt. Servo (lMS) C40-SW Gran Quivera Jct.: Design Study ACUC&WC USRA Rebuilt Soxcars If For issues before June 1994, • Carolina & Western Diesels Model WW2 C&O Boxcars (Pt.l) " Thrall's 52' Gondola Cars (1963+) AUGUST 1997 If Vehicle Modeler Supplement If If contact: Leroy Slater Model ATSF Ph 1111 GP50s (Pt.l) DCC Update (Pt.l: DCC) to Onion Valley lumber & Mining " Union Pacific SD90MAC If Rooster Cruiser & P'I'E If If 132 Tres Dr. • N&W E-3 Pacific Kitbash (Pt.l) E8/9 (PtJ: CR, Dl&W, E-l, FEC, MW UPS 26' 6"/2S' Drop-Frame (Pt.2) " Coil Steel (and related) Cars Ta le of Short Dog and its Flatbed If MW Huntsville, AL 35811 Simple Detail Enhancements for GM&O, IC, l&N) .. Great Smoky Mtns. Ry. (PtJ) Newest Prototype Well Cars: If Roadway Exp. 2S' Freight Pups f 1-256-859-5959 Con-Cor PS-2 Covered Hoppers • Model ACl Fs (Pt.l: The F3) I Handlay N Track (Pt.2: Turnouts) Kitbash Possibilities on living on the Edge I f If OT WorkiWreck Trains (Pt.l) WorkiWreck (Rail Renewal: PtJ) If SAL ES for the Silver Meteor to Raton Snake Valley (HO) Install DCC on Home Layout (Pt.5) JUNE 1994 on Inside/Outside m Oro Grande at Night (Pt. l) If Enhancing Predec SP C44-9W • E7 (Pt. l0: SOU, SP and SP&S) APRIL 1998 OT 01 DO Conrail EMD SD60M Handlaid Track Made East (Pt.2) Fuel Foolery (Pt.l) m Tunnel Masquerade If Model an MP/uP C36-7 (Pt.2) " CSX SD50/60 01 If " Golden West Servo Freight Cars FEBRUARY 1995 OCTOBER 1995 In Control Model CG PS-2 2-bay Cov. Hop. 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PRRlPC) to lim Mears' Sorry Valley Railway If PLANS: E&N Modern Deck Bridge DO NP FTs m layout Fascia & Front Drops If WorkiWreck (Pt.2: Work Trains) If Model ACl Fs (Pt.2: F7 & F9) .. Propane Industry (Pt.2: Model If E7 (Pt.ll: Up,Wabash) K GATX Tank Cars (Pt.l) 01 lower Athearn Trailer Flats on Setting It All in Place If WorkiWreckTra ins (Pt.7: Ditch- Small WW2-Era Dist. Plant) If Car Dumps: Simple Projects "" Weathering "Pigs" (Pt.l) 1 JULY 1994 0 EZ Turnout ing & Vegetation Control) If E7 (Pt.2: CB&Q, CofG, C&O, C&EI, If Model a Chessie SD35 to CP Chatham Subdivision (HO) I DO CN GP40-2l MARCH 1995 n Oro Grande at Night (Pt.2) C&NW, FEC) If SOU "Big John" Cov. Hopper If DCC (Pt.14): Detection & Turnouts K Modern Boxcar Doors K Freight Car Builders OT Fuel Foolery (Pt.2) If Model Union Pacific C44-9W In East of Sarren If Early SDs: (Pt.S: EJ&E & FW&D) to Holy Cross & Crystal River RR 10 HOn3 Colorado & Western (Pt.2) NOVEMBER 1995 If Model Central of Georgia's ESs 01 Model a Yard ladder (Pt.l) If Model UP SD9043MAC (Pt.l) "" Generic Fixed-length Chassis ",. JB Hunt (Pt.5: HazmatIPlacards) DO D&RGW EMD SD50 If A City Classies Car Barn OCTOBER 1997 If Different CN Boxcar MW DO If JB Hunt Transport, Inc. (Pt.l) "_., Scratch built Vertical Chassis Rack " Ballast Cars on Fascia Treatments (Pt.l) SP Phase III GP9 Model ACl 2-Bay P-S Cov Hop 1 " Virginian Railway (Pt.l) " Modeling SP Nogales Branch to Return to Hooch Junction 0 DCC & Jersey Western RR " Freight Car Roofs on Variations on a Theme If "Ml If If NW2 (Pt.l: ACl, ATSF, B&O, BAR, Model a CP Rail GP35 Intermodal Eqpt. Numbering _Uel'a ,,!!!i1!S:1 .1I.nlli_ Early SDs: (Pt.l: AW&W, A&StAB 01 Install DCC on Home layout (Pt.7) If B&M, BN, CN, CNJ, C&O, CB&Q, N&W E-3 Pacific Kitbash: Te nder .. The Biltmore Railroad DECEMBER 1996 & B&O) JUNE 1998 If If C&EI) Train Fillers If Model NKP AlCO RSD12 DO Great Northern EMD E7 Superdetail D&RGW SD45 (N) " Amtrak F40PH If If If Model an SCl SD45-2 WorkiWreck (PtJ: Camp Cars) DCC Update (PtJ: Motors! " NS Freight (PtJ: SOU Coal Cars) If Model CG, S&A & A&EC 40' Boxes " GATX Tank Cars (Pt.2) 01 A Switch in History III Model a Glass Building Decoders) "" Detail an Athearn Husky-Stack' If DCC (Pt.l0): Decoder Installations "" Weathering "Cans" (Pt.2) OT If If on Through the Doorway The Multi-Operational Concept ES/9 (Pt.5: NJT, RF&P, RI, ATSF, to Don Mayo's Happy Valley Model PRR ES12I12M Switchers 10 Railfanning on the G&J (N) If If AUGUST 1994 APRIL 1995 SAL, SCl) Model Alton & Southern SW1500s Another log Story If Early SDs: (Pt.9: GN & GWR) DO DO If C&S EMD SD9 D&H AlCO RS ll & RS36 If WorkiWreck (Pt.S: Maintenance) Model Santa Fe Reefers on Secrets of the Hakowi If Model UP SD9043MAC (Pt.2) K Dates (Built, New and In Service) K Gondola Cars on lighting the West End If Kitbash CN Double-Track Plow 01 Model a Yard ladder (Pt.2) If Model Clinchfield ACF & P-S 2- and YSD Sliding Doors to Modular locustGrove & Western 01 Fuel FooleryJP tJ) • Model WW2 C&O Hoppers (PtA) NOVEMBER 1997 Bay Covered Hoppers to David Trussell's Modular layout M. .. BN America (Pt.6: Summary) _.1:!."!'}O�1.1'.I.IIi_ · E7 PtA: KCS, l&N, MEC) DO D&RGW PA llPBl on Transitions 01 �w SOU 4S' Piggyback Trailer " N&W's Twelve Pole line (Pt.l) JANUARY 1996 ,n Now You See It...Now you Don't K FGE's Modern Mechanical Install DCC on Home Layout (Pt.S) "Ml BN America (Pt.2) If Carolina & W Changing History DO Union Pacific GE C41-SW 01 Basic Ballast Techniques Reefers JULY 1998 " Virginian Railway (Pt.2) • CNO&TP 6306 - High-Hood SD30 K Revolutions MARCH 1997 "W Spine Cars: Pt.l - Single- DO UP GP20 If NW2 (Pt.2: CGW, C&NW, CRI&P, If Proto 2000 Monon Bl2 10 Mercur & Topaz Railroad DO lehigh & New England FA llFBl Purpose TTX K General American Airslide & 10 CR, D&RGW, Erie, Georgia, GTW, • Model B&O Wagon-Top Boxcars "" Maxi-Stack Ills' (Pt.2: The Model) rc NS Freight (PtA: N&W Boxcars) Bear Creek Railroad (HO) Power Flo Covered Hoppers If IC, KCS, LV) Privatizing a Railbox Boxcar If Southern Ry. NW2 Switchers • E7 (Pt.5: MllW, MP [T&Pj) If Early SDs: (Pt.2: B&lE) "" Transamerica 45' Accurail Trailer If 10 If Model SAL AlCO RS3 Phase 2 If WorkiWreck(PtA: Ballast Work If Model WW2 C&O Boxcars (PtJ) If Proto 2000 GSC Mill Gons Model Updates: NYC E71ES, ACl GN Cascade Division (HO) If Realistic Billboard lettering (N) Trains and Surfacing & lining) If Model FPPX Rotary Dump Gons If Mantua ACl 41' Fixed-End Gon ES, ACl )-27 Boxcar, CofG PS-l If DCC (Pt.15): Reverse loops & More I f Welcome to Plasticville m Changing Horses in Mid-Stream • Model SP P-S Pacific #2470 • Model Central of Georgia's ESs Boxcar, CofG PS-2 & Mather If Early SDs: (Pt. l0: Kennecott on Is Beauty Really Skin Deep? 01 Bridges & the Miniature RR • PLANS: CN Todd Creek Trestle to DF&aDecrepit Mountain RRs Stock Car Copper INN) & MllW) 01 If If If Photo Spot! MAY 1995 • WorkiWreck(Pt.l0: Photos) Model D&H SD45s DCC (Pt. ll): Decoder Installations East End of the Erie SEPTEMBER 1994 " Conrail GE U33C and U36C m Building a Backdrop m A Hike into Calamity Canyon If Model Southern EMC FTs • B&O 50' Boxcar (N) DO OT OT If UP SW10 rc Flatcars Fuel Foolery (Pt.5) New Track on Sandcastle Road (Pt.l) Model ACl E7 to K Modern Youngstown Doors HO Grand Valley RR FEBRUARY 1996 APRlt 1997 01 Install DCC on Home Layout (PI.1) If Heartland Express MM' to Pocahontas Chapter/NRHS JB Hunt (Pt.6: Summary Update) DO CB&Q EMD FTA&B DO DM&IR EMD SD9 DECEMBER 1997 on Tricking the Eye M " ' JB Hunt (Pt.2: Model Trailers) " N&W 12 Pole line (Pt.2: Model) " 4S' Ext-Post Domestic Containers rc NS Freight (Pt.5: SOU Boxcars) DO Conrail SDSOMAC 01 Install DCC on Home layout (Pt.9) " Virginian Railway (PtJ) • Model ATSF GP60/60M (Pt.l) to Union Pacific Wahsatch Division If E7 (Pt.6: NYC) rc Vented Containers AUGUST 1998 MW If BC Rail Caboose You Can Model If Model ACl F2s (#324-335) "" UPS Eqpt. (Introduction: Pt.l) If Freelancing! Cabooses (Pt.l) Spine Cars: Pt.2 - Single- DO GM&O FA llFBl If NW2 (PtJ: l&N, MllW, MP, If Rutland PS-l 40' Steel Box (N) If Athearn C44-9W In-Depth Review "_W Maxi-Stack Well (Pt.1 : Prototype) Purpose Minority Owners " General American's Other If 10 Monon, NYC, NKp,N&W, NP, PC, If WorkiWreck Trains (Pt.5: Ballast Building a Helix • CP Diesels in Black and White Clark Fork (HO) Freight Cars If PRR, Reading)) Maintenance -CieaningiUnder- If Kitbash Great Northern SDP40 • A look at Vehicle Model Today Model CN C44-9W M" REAl Green Braes (Accurail 45' If Making a Rock-lined Tunnel cuttinglSledding) If Model NYC AlcoRS3 If lenses by the Dozen • Early SDs: (PtJ: Birmingham Van) If 10 Model SCl GP40 on layout Access: The Basies + One If Scratch build Ortner Hay Rapid If Southern Railway 2160 - CL3 Southern & BN) Wentworth Valley System (HO) In If In Bridging Scorpion Canyon OT Inspection Trains (Pt.l) Discharge' Hoppers (Pt.l) Wide Open Spaces Model NKP SD9 If Early 50s: (Pt.ll: MRl, NKP, OT 01 Rail Wayside AEI JUNE 1995 on Into the Fourth Dimension Track Maintenance If Model N&W 3-Bay PS-2 Cov Hop N&W & NWP) DO OCTOBER 1994 D&RGW EMD SD7 OT New Bridge -ATale oflime MAY 1997 on Sandcastle Road (Pt.2) If Model Clinchfield FUnits DO If Rock Island GE U25B & U2SS "Autoracks MARCH 1996 DO Wheeling & lake Erie GP3S (Pt.l) 01 Install DCC on Home layout (Pt.2) Model ACl FP7 o (Phase I) t Big Thompson & Northern (N) DO Conrail EMD SW1200 " Space Age Grain Cars JANUARY 1998 If Early Intermodal: Circus MMl MW DO 40' Hi-Cube Container K The Bethgon' Revisited Maxi-Stack (Pt.2: Maersk Model) Amtrak "Genesis" Series P32, '" A Matter of Proportion " Researching Freight Cars and a Kitbash 0 look at Modern Coal Cars " Rockton, Rion & Western (Pt.l) to Beaver & limber Springs (BATS) to New Beaver & limber Springs P40 & P42 (AMD-l03) 1 The Other Helix MW to Flatwheel Creek & Western RR If End of the line UPS Eqpt. (Introduction: Pt.2) If E7 (Pt.7: PRR & PC) " Container MGW & Container Car SEPTEMBER 1998 "w BN Amer (PtJ: Model 4S' Cont) • FoamRail - Modular Concept .. Great Smoky Mtns. Ry. (Pt.l) If Freelancing! Cabooses (Pt.2) load limits DO lehigh Valley RSl l "W If MW Thrall Double-Stacks - 3-Well Model ATSF GP60/60M (Pt.2) If DCC Update (Pt.5: New Develop- If DCC Update (Pt.S: Decoders) Model UPS 45' TOP Trailers (Pt.1) " 1995 Intermodal Expo Report DTTX Drawbar-Connected Car If IMIIMWX 40' BoxcarsiReefers ments) If Model Southern GP7s 10 HOn3 Crystal River Railway "" SP Golden Pig Service (Accurail " VGN Ry (Pt.4: Modeling) • WorkiWreck (Pt.6: Wood lie If Model an ACl M3 Caboose In A Pasture in Plaster If DCC Update (Pt.12) 45' Van) 01 If If NW2 (PtA: SAL, SCl, SOU, SP, Work Trainsllie Renewal Ops) If PLANS: CP Rail Nelson Station Color Cues Early SDs: (Pt.4: California 10 Buffalo Ridge (N) SlSF, SP&S, TH&B, Up,WAB, WP) III "Spacious Realism" (Pt.l) If Scratchbuild Ortner Hay Rapid JUNE 1997 Northern, CofG & CB&Q) • DCC (Pt.16): Mobile Decoders If • Model ACl & SAL NW2s 01 Inspection Trains (Pt.2) Discharge' Hoppers (Pt.2) DO W&lE GP35 (Pt.2) • Model Erie lackawanna's SDP45 Early SDs: (Pt.12: PRR, POCR) r on f • PLANS: E&N Victoria Turntable _11Jti'."!!�1S.1 .1' .I.Jlj_ If GE Dash 9-44CW (Proto: Pt.l) c 50' High-Cubes The Borrow Pit I PRRlMllW Composite Gons (N) I OT on Beyond Scorpion Canyon AUGUST 1995 n Exercise in Reverse Engineering .,. "K" line Containers (Pt.l) Install DCC on Home layout (PtJ) • Kitbash SAL Phase-l GP9 OT DO Benchwork "Bag-o'-Tricks" SP EMD GP60 01 New Sridge - A Second lime to West Virginia Midland FEBRUARY 1998 • Early Intermodal: Interurbans If NOVEMBER 1994 rc Modern Refrigerator Cars (Pt.l) APRIL 1996 E7 (Pt.S: RI) 00 Springfield Terminal GP35 m Gran Quivera Revisited MM' " M-K Rebuild Utah Ry. SD45CAT Granite Mountain Ry. (Pt.2: " NYC AlCO FA l/FBl If Model Proto 2000 NYC E7s & ESs rc Evolution of Steel ISO Cont. 01 Bridging the Gap If MM' rc Research Freight Cars w/Photos Intermodal Bremer Hub Const) K D&RGW's Coal Cars Accurail Single-Sheathed Boxcar Model UPS 45' Intermodal OCTOBER 1998 D '0 Eagle Rock Canyon (N) .. St. Maries River RR (Pt.l) to Bob Mazzi's 0 Scale Empire • Con·Cor 40' Plugdoor PS-l Trailers (Pt.2) O Illinois Central GP9 M' If ... JB Hunt (PtJ: Proto Cont/Chassis) Cast a CP Rail Gondola M UPS 26' 6"/2S' Drop-Frame Trail- If An Operating Tower Clock to Brandywine & Benedictine (HO) " Enclosed Autorack Evolution If ' "" Kitbash TTWX AII-Purp. Flat • E8/9 (Pt.2: B&M, CB&Q, BN, Cp, ers (Pt. l) on Step Back, Ta ke a look PLANS: CP's Vernon, BC, Station "M Spine Cars (PtJ): All-Purpose If " Ty bee Island Railroad (Pt. l) C&O, C&EI, C&NW) .. Great Smoky Mtns. Ry. (Pt.2) OT The Active Rail Junction Early SDs: (Pt.5: C&IM & C&NW) 10 Old Colony Railroad (HO) Back Issues of Model Railro a ding OM • Early sDs: (Pt. 13: P&WM/&P, III What's In a Name? to Bear River Lumber Co. (HO) ABF Pines 28' Freight Pup 66975 f( Containers - BARU to CATU "GP 40: (Pt.2: CN and C&O) MM RMCo, 500) 0' Wheel Detail " Modeling C&NW sD9s to Rumford & Kennebago Lake ABF & Carolina Converter Dollies on Finale for Chupadera Loop (Pt.2) to • Kato Thru-Truss Bridge (N) 1...,·,:n·'�:1!!1!I!5,.J"I.JIII " Alco PAs: (Pt.7: NH) (HO/HOn3) Jeff Skinner's SP (HO) "' More Benefits of Duck-Under • Model PC Rsl l PRJUMAY 1999 " Modeling Prototype Scenes " Model ACL Century C628 " Oversized Flatcar Loads Ocr/NOV 00 00 DO " Model SOU U23B SSW GP30 ' DCC (Pt.21): Getting Into N "GP 20: (Pt.2: BN) " L&N's Utilitarian U23B Great Northern GP30 m Can't See the Forest... f( UP's Gondola Fleet (Pt. l) m A Closure for Chupadera " Portable N-scale Workbench " Modeling L&N's U23B f( Union Pacific's Boxcars (Pt.4) to " Bridging the Gap (Pt.2) to Bitter Creek (N) 0' Track & Wheel Mtce. (Pt.3) " Versatility of Homasote " Reading 1599 Miniature RR Club of York (HO) NOVEMBER 1998 "30 Mile Point (Pt. l) (N) SEP/OCT 1999 " Modeling UP GP9Bs " Std. D&RGW Pile Trestle in sn3 " superdetailing BNSF sD751 00 Santa Fe GP9 " Aleo PAs: (PtJ: D&RGW) 00 CB&Q F3A Ph.1I & F3B " Build a Fire Flicker Circuit "GP 20: (Pt.6: SP & Cotton Belt) , Scratchbuilt HO Colorado K Amtrak's Boxcars " Model ACL Low-Side Gondola f( IClICG/IC Boxcars BT' Into Night: Oro Grande (Pt.4) m In-Plant Switch for Vilsousterrs Museum of Natural History MM ... Spine Cars (Pt.4A): Model " Model SOU GP15-1 H Spine Cars (Pt.5a):Trinity 53' 0' Times, They are a-Changin' 0' Ballasting Turnout Switch (PtJ) " Model a Signal Bridge Thrall 48' All-Purpose ' Mobile Waterfront (Pt.G) All-Purpose FEB/MAIL OO JUNE/JULY 00 " GP 40: (PtJ: CB&Q) to Essex & Lakeside RR (HO) " Early Intermodal (Pt.4A: to Trip on the KS&N (HO) 00 BAR EMD BL2 00 KCS SD40X, SD50 & SDGO on Finale for Chupadera Loop (PtJ) " Early SDs: (Pt. 14: SP & UP) Containerization) , Modeling SOU Extended- f( ADM Transportation K Containers - CAXU to CRXU "' To rtilla Flats: A Big Picture , Coal porterTrack Cleaner (N) m Planning for Access Height Offset Tw in Hoppers "" ABF/ex-Carolina 28' Wabash "" ABF Ford AeroMax Road Tractor NOV/DEC 00 " Model ACL GP7 (Pt. l) 0' Operational Friendly Turnouts ' Aleo PAs: (Pt.8: PRR & SP) National Rib-side Trailer to Coldwater Guleh (HO/HOn3) 00 BNSF SW12 " Mobile Waterfront Proj. (Pt.l) - Quest Continues ' Painless Rivets to Rocky Mtn Line Revisited (HO) , Modeling SAL FTs K Union Pacific's Boxcars (Pt.5) In Creating Plaster Rock Walls MAY/JUNE 1999 ' Building Swanson Holler " RML "Mini-Humanity" Contest " DCC (Pt.24): Resistance, Power to Gladstone & N. Houghton (HO) 00 0' Bridging the Gap (PtJ) UP GP40X on Cleaning Up the Act ' DCC (Pt.23): New for 2000? Mgmt. & New Decoders ' PLANS: CP Overhead Farm Xing DECEMBER 1998 l( UP's Gondola Fleet (Pt.2) "' Track & Wheel Mtce. (Pt.4) " Model SAL "Florida Geep" RS3 ' Convert PS-2 for Ballast serv (5) , Scratchbuild HO Traffic Signals o 00 Oakway SD60 t Mendota Museum Layout (HO) OCT/NOV 1999 ' GP 20: (PtJ: CB&Q) , GP 20: (Pt.7: AE, IN & TP&W) " sOU/Ns GP30 Proto/History 00 K Cargill Pictorial " 30 Mile Point (Pt.2) (N) Santa Fe F7 A&B ' J. Baum Tobacco in N m South End Staging , Model sOUINS Hi-Nose GP30s MW Spine Cars (Pt.4B): Model " Aleo PAs: (Pt4: Erie, E-L, GM&O) l( Walthers Enclosed Autoracks ' PLANS: DJJ Thrall MaxGonO "' More "Behind the Scenes" "GP 40: (Pt.4: GO, NJT, Amtrak) MM Thrall 48' All-Purpose " Model UP GP30 Spine Cars (Pt.5b):Trinity 53' " Make Your Own Dwarf Signals JULY/AUGUST 00 m Finale for Chupadera Loop(Pt.4) to Denver & Rio Grande ' DCC Update (Pt. 19): Tips, New to Canadian Great Western (HO) " Kitbash a Thrall MaxGon° 00 CSXT MP15AC & MPl5T "' Fine Scale Ops: JWRR Style III f Southern (HOn3) Stuff & Updates ' Kitbashing a 500 SD40-2B Rear View Mirror (Digression) ( Union Pacific's Boxcars (Pt. l) EC OO/JAN 01 00 • DCC Update (Pt.17): Stationary " Mobile Waterfront (Pt.7) " PLANS: 500 SD40B G450 "' Continuous Closure/Switch Ml.I ABF - Conf. Room & Parts Dept BNSF SW15 Decoders " Early Intermodal (Pt.4B: ' Light Duty Floatbridges Point Turnout to Otter Valley Railroad (HO) K Containers - CSVU to EISU to • Model CN SW1200Rs Containerization) , Aleo PAs: (Pt.9: SOU, Up.WAB) MAR/APR 00 ' Modeling SAL FTs Roger Miller's CB&Q (HO) • Model SAL RsC2 III The Right Fit ' Latest Scenery Techniques 00 Rock Island (CRI&P) E7A " Model RR Ops'Granite Mtn(Pt. l) " PLANS: CP Banff Station • Mobile Waterfront(Pt.2) "' Operational Friendly Turnouts ' Computer as Modeling Tool f( UP's Coal Cars " Handlay Turnout at Workbench ' Model UP SD40-2 Snoot #3406 In The Only Consideration - As We Began on Into Night: Oro Grande (Pt.l) MM ABF 28' Strick Freight Pup "NS GP40/RP-E4D Slug Set (Pt. l) " St. Paul Coal Mine Diorama (Pt.l) 0' Bridging the Gap (Pt.4) JUNElJUJ: 999 0' Feeding of our Track (Pt.l) to Great South Bay Club (HO) "GP 20: (Pt.8: UP & WP) " DCC (Pt.26): Atlas Master 00 JANUARY 1999 MP PAs NO�7DEC 1999 " SOU (S&AlCG) GP35s III Scenery Comes First DCClSoundtraxx Decoders 00 CRI&P F2A K GERSCO's Boxcars (PtJ) 00 B&O GP30 Phase I " Lonestar Wilson Grain Trailer 0' Location, Location, Location "GP 40: (Pt.5: Rock Island) K CsX's Paper Cars to New River Valley RR (HO) K KCS Boxcars " Vehicle Modeling Today AUG/SEPT 00 on Finale for Chupadera Loop (Pt.5) MM 00 MM Model XTRA ICG Re-Pigs (Pt. l) " 30 Mile Point (PtJ) (N) Visual lmpressions:Prototype "GP 20: (Pt.4: GN) D&RGW SGP40 0' Fine Scale Ops: JWRR Style - to Rio Bravo (N) " Aleo PAs: (Pt.5: LV, MKT & MP) to Colo Mdlnd & Wstrn (HOIHOn3) " Model AT SF PS2-CD Hoppers l( Union Pacific's Boxcars (Pt.2) Switching Crew Conductor MM • Model ACL GP7 (Pt.2: C&WC, " Model NS GP38-2 ' Modeling MEC F3s " Variations: Life-Like P2K NW 28' Timpte Trailer. JAN/FEB 01 00 CN&L) " Model CRR 50' PS-l Boxcars " Kitbash Psycho Bates House Moore & Co. Warehouse to Badger Creek Lumber Co. (HO) MILW GP40 " Upgrade CN Jordan Spreader " PLANS: Model Lehi Roller Mills " DCC (Pt.22): Richmond + More " Model Bullnose Kenworth " DCC (Pt.25): Post-Convention f( Containers - EKLU to FRSU III " Kitbash Ellis Engineering (N) , Geology I Revisited " Ground Texturing "Back to the Future" News + Choosing/Installing MM Transamerica Dist. Serv (Pt. l) o " Model PRR X-45 Boxcars "' Track & Wheel Mtce. 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Chassis (Pt.l) l( 60' Auto Parts Boxcars ABF/Carolina 28' Monon on A Finale for Chupadera Loop an Finale for Chupadera Loop (Pt.G) MM "' Operational Friendly Turnouts to Monon's Southern Sub (HO) ABF Freight Service Overview Freight Pup #86878 0' Benefits of Duck-Under 0' Fine Scale Ops: The Switchman FEBRUAR 19.99 " 30 Mile Point (Pt.4) (N) to Rocky Mountain Line (HO) to Utah Northern (HO) SEP/OCT 00 AR/ APR 01 00 Santa Fe SD75M " Alco PAs: (Pt.6: NYC & NKP) " Model N&W Redbirds (GP9) " SOU (s&AlCG) GP35s (Pt.2) 00 Erie Lackawanna FlA&B 00 sP&s Aleo FAllfBl K GERsCO's Boxcars (Pt. l) " Model NS GP40X 7001 ' GP 20: (Pt.l: ATsF) , SOU sD40TH-2 Tunnel Motor f( Union Pacific's Boxcars (PtJ) l( Containers - FRTU to GVDU MM MW Model XTRA ICG Re-Pigs (Pt.2) " DCC Update (Pt.20): Tips, New " 1950s Treehouse in N ' Crossing Signals for DCC to Athabasca System Granite Transamerica Dist. 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Spring Swap Meet. May 19, IOAM-3PM. North Phoenix LAKEWOOD T 52nd Annual Rocky Mtn. Baptist Church, Family Life Center. 5757 N. Central Ave. Region/NMRA Convention (sponsored by Front Range (Central Ave. & Bethany Home Rd.). $4. 12 & under free Div.). June 7-10. Public train show Sat & Sun, 9AM-5PM. w/adult. Info: Ellie Barbieri. 4115 E. Siesta Ln., Phoenix. Sheraton Denver West, 360 Union Blvd. Info: Don Strait, AZ 85050, (602) 494-7430, [email protected]. 1938 Payne Ct., Aurora, CO 80011, (303) 365-93 17, don CA LIFORNIA [email protected]. Registration form & convention flyer avail able at www.narrowgauge.org/rmr. ANAHEIM T Orange County Model RRers meeting. Second We dnesday of each month. 7:30PM-9PM. Ana FLORIDA heim Public Library, corner of Harbor & Broadway in Ana TALLAHASSEE T Big Bend Model RR Assn's 10th heim. Info: Steve Tibbetts, e-mail: [email protected]. Annual Tallahassee Model RR Show & Sale. July 21, (714) 843-1820. IOAM-5PM. Elks Club, 276 N. Magnolia Dr. $2, 12 & CROCKEn T Bay Area NTRAK Model RR Club's N under free . Info: BBMRA Train Show, PO Box 3392, Tal scale modular layout group in operation in retired So. lahassee, FL 323 15-3392 or John Sullenberger, (850) 410- Pacific depot has openings for new members. Wed. 10AM- 8425. 3PM & 7PM-9PM, Sat. IOAM-4PM. Depot on Rolph St. next to the SP mainline, 900 Loring Ave.. Crockell, CA. GEORGIA Pinewood Plozo Free. Info: John Marshall, 2472 Hill View Lane, Pinole, ATlANTA T Metro Atlanta N-Scalers Meetings. 1st CA 94564, (510) 758-93 10. River Rd, Box 1023 Tues. of each month, 7:30PM. Church of the Atonement, Essex Jet, VT05452 LOS ANGELES T East Valley Lines N-Scale Model RR 945 High Point Rd., Atlanta. Info: Charles Leake, (404) [email protected] Open House. Every Sat. & Sun. IIAM-3PM. Traveltown, 262-2969. Fax 802-878-5550 Griffith Park. Free. Info: Lowell Majors, P.O. Box 5732, AT LANTA T Piedmont Division Monthly Meeting. 2nd Glendale, CA 91301 (213) 662-8339. Tuesday each month, 7PM. Bldg. K, Habersham Office PA SADENA T Slim Gauge Guild Model RR Club Park, Northlake Pkwy., Tucker. Free. Info: Ed Palmer, Annual Open House. June 3, IOAM-7PM. 300 S. Ray 7058 Stephens Ct., Morrow, GA 30260, (770) 968-192 1. mond Ave. (basement). Free. Info: Jeff Smith, 1718 State MARlEnA T Monthly Meeting ofthe Georgia Society St. #6, South Pasadena, CA 91030, (626) 44 1 -6272, of Ferroequinologists & field trips. 2nd Fri. of each month, [email protected]. 7:30PM. Nations Bank of Waddell St. Free. Info: Robert TheAll new vou NeE Silent hear RunningTM is Decoders the withfun! High PA SADENA T 50th Anniversary Celebration for the Hunt (770) 428-3864 or Larry Smith (404) 926-0739. Frequency Motor Drive eliminates all iritating motor Original Whistle Stop & Model Train Show. June 16-17, TUCKER T Piedmont Div. SE Region Regular Monthly hum and buzz... especially at creeping speeds. IOAM-5PM (Sat), IOAM-3PM (Sun). Pasadena Boys & Meeting. 2nd Tuesday of every month. 7:30PM. Building Girls Club Auditorium, 58 S. Sierra Madre Blvd. Free. K, Habersham Office Park, Northlake Parkway. Free. Info: HO Scale (Additional celebration events at OWS, 2490 E Colorado Ed Palmer, 7058 Stephens Ct., Morrow, GA 30260, (770) P2K-SR Direct plug-in for Proto 2000 GP 7/9/30 Blvd.). Info: Judy Hill, Sierra Star Mktg., (626) 793-6413. 968-192 1. and SD60. Includes 4 EFX functions. SAN DIEGO T San Diego Model RR Museum Toy Direct plug-in for many Kato, Stewart V1 000, ILLINOIS KRS-SR Train & Model RR Show/Operation Exhibit. May-June, Intermountain F-7. Includes 4 EFX functions. Tues-Fri IIAM-4PM, Weekends. IIAM-5PM. May I, CHICAGO T Lake Shore Model RR Assn. Open House. June 5 are free days. May 5, 7-I IAM, Model RR Museum Nov. 3-4, IIAM-4PM. 9805 S. Ave. G, 98th & Lake SW9-SR Easy install for Proto 2000 SW9/1 200. Swap Meet ($2); May 27, Family Circus Day. Casa De Michigan, Calumet Park, Field House (basement). Donaa Includes 3 EFX functions. Balboa Building in Balboa Park, 1649 EI Prado. $4, dis tions accepted. Info: Gerry Wojo, 717 N. Glenwood, Grif DA-SR Easy install for Atlas, Athearn, Stewart, Proto counts for students/seniors/military !D, under 15 free. fith, IN 463 19, (219) 838-2425, [email protected]. Info: Beth Cain, San Diego Model RR Museum, 1649 EI 1000 and older Kato. Has 4 EFX functions. CHICAGO (GLENCOE) T Jr. Railroad Exhibit at Prado, San Diego, CA 92 101, (619) 696-0 199. D13SR Replaces hardwired 0102 Series. Three EFX Chicago Botanic Garden. June 9-0ct. 28, daily 10AM- SAN FRANCICSOIBAY AREA T Golden State 6PM (to 9/3), IOAM-5PM (9/4- 10/28). Exhibit features 10 functions. This is the famous NeE "thin" decoder. Model RR Museum Open House. Sundays, May 6-0ct. 28, G scale miniature scenes of America. Chicago Botanic D14SRP Tiny, plug-in. 4 EFX. Replaces TH-120DP I PM-5PM. Miller-Knox Regional Shoreline Park, 900-A Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd., Glencoe ('I! mile east of Dornan Dr., Pt. Richmond. $2, seniors & under 12 $1, fam Edens Expwy.) $3, 3- 12 $1, nonmember parking is $7.75. D15SRP Nine pin harness. Has 5 EFX functions. ily $5. Info: (5 10) 234-4884, www.gsmrm.org. Info: Cynthia Greenwood, (847) 835-6829, Replaces DH-1 21 , DH-140, TH-141, etc. www.chicagobotanic.org. SAN LUIS OBISPO T Pacific Coast Region 2001 a Train Odyssey Convention (hosted by San Luis Obispo MENDOTA T 3rd Annual Mendota RR Crossing Days. O/G Scale D408SR-Four amps, seven EFX functions. Model RR Club). May 2-6. Veterans Memorial Hall & June 16 & 17. Union Depot RR Museum, 783 Main St. & Sand's Hotel. $65, youth $30. one day (no barbecue) $35. Humc-Carnegie Museum, 90 I Washington St. Info: Union Info:Terry Taylor, 575 Bassi Dr., San Luis Obispo. CA Depot RR Museum, (815) 538-3800: Judy Reed, (815) 93405, (805) 595-9535, [email protected]. 538-2 135, [email protected]; Lee Stocking (Swap & Craft Booth Chrmn), (815) 539-7905, SIMI VALLEY T Santa Suzana RR Hist. Soc. Swap [email protected]. Meet & Open House. May 19, 7AM-IIM (Swap Meet), May 19-20, IOAM-4PM (Open House). 6503 Katherine PROSPECT HEIGHTS T Fox Valley Div/Midwest 1260 Creek St. • Suite 100'Webster, NY 14580 Rd. Swap meet in Pavilion next to RR Station in Santa Region/NMRA Annual Business Meeting. May 20, www.ncedcc.com MAY 2001 MODEL RAILROADING T 73 I :30PM-4PM. Gary Morava Cenler, 110 Camp McDonald Rd. Free. Info: Rich Sweet, PO Box 1535, Arlington Heights, lL60006, (847) 550-1399. KA NSA S LENEXA '" Turkey Creek 200 1 Train Show & Swap Meet. Aug. 18, 8:30AM-2PM. Lenexa Community Center, 13420 Oak. $5, NMRA members $4, under 12 free wlreg istrant. lnfo: Bret Overholtzer, (913) 541-8323, brei I @atl global.net, www.tc-nmra.org. KENTUCK Y LOUISVILLE '" Mid Central Region NMRA Conven tion. May 17-20, 200 I. Galt House Hotel. $44 (before 1111; $49 after). Info: Stan Perry, PO Box 99041, Louisville, KY 40269, (502) 339-9207. MA RYLAND TIMONIUM ... Great Scale Train Show. June 23-24, 9AM-4PM (Sat), IOAM-4PM (Sun). MD State Fair grounds, 2 miles north of Baltimore Beltway, exit 17E (Padonia Rd.) from Rt. 1-83. $6 (return Sun free), 12 & under free, family $12. Info: Howard Zane, 5236 Thunder Hill Rd., Columbia, MD 21045, (4 10) 730- 1 036, www.gsmts.com. MICHIGAN KALAMAZOO ... Kalamazoo Model RR Hist. Soc. 50th Anniversary Open House. May 19, Noon-4PM. 9336 N. Riverview. Free. Info: Mark To mlonson, KMRHS, PO Box 144, Parchment, MI 49004, (616) 387-5738 (days), [email protected]. KALAMAZOO ... Kalamazoo Model RR Hist. Soc. 22nd Annual Train Show & Sale. Oct. 28, 10AM-4PM. Hazel Gray Bldg., Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake St. $4, 10 & under free w/adult. Info: Jim Glenn, 24 x 48 inch, 8 shelves show more trains at a lower price 2063 N. 36th St., Galesburg, MI 49053, (616) 665-7870. o Display and protect your MINNESOTA railroad collection DULUTH '" C&NW Hist. Soc. Annual Convention. May o Sizes for N, HO, S & 0 17-20, 7 AM- 1 2PM daily. Radisson Hotel Duluth-Har Gauges, lengths up to 6' borview ($79/night single or double), 505 W. Superior St. $16 members, $25 non-members (plus $79 coach, $149 1st o Single panel construction, no seams, no dividers, one class for train trip). Info: Jim Phinney (Registrar), 119 piece door can slide or lift 32nd St., Cedar Rapids, IA52405, www.cnwhs.org. Hotel: Mary Alvar, Corp. Acct. Mgr., (218) 727-1490, maryal o Mirrored back or clear view to [email protected]. match room decor NEW JERSEY o UV protection now available MERCHANTVILLE ... Cherry Valley Model RR Club o Light weight, yet strong Annual 0 Scale Only Train Meet. May 12, 9:30AM-2PM. Grace Church, Maple Ave. & Center St. $4, tables $12. 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New Braun 15th Sl. $3.50, children $1.50, family $7. Info: Robert All S Gauge Gathering. May 18-20. Holiday Inn East, fels Civic Center, 380 S. Sequin, $5, 17 & under $1, family Sherwood, 2837 Olive Dr., Cheyenne, WY 82001, (303) 4560 Hilton Corporate Dr., 1-70 East & Hamilton Rd. $19, $8. Info: Bryan Weidner, c/o Lone Star Railways & Hob 638-8535, [email protected]. spouses $9. Info: John Gafney, 4972 Dunkerrin Ct., bies, PO Box 134, Fischer, TX 78623, (830) 935-25 17, Dublin, OH 430 17, (614) 764-3925, jgafney@ [email protected]. CA NADA columbus.rr.com, www.cosg.freehomepage.com. VERMONT GREENVILLE ... 22nd Greenville All Trains Flea Mar BRITISH COLUMBIA kel. Sep. 23, IOAM-3PM. Darke County Fairgrounds, 800 BELLOWS FALLS ... Rockingham Old Home VICTORIA ... Victoria Model Railway Show. Sep. 9, S. Sl. Rl. 49. $2, under 12 free w/adult. Info: Larry Zeller, Days/Transpo 2001. Aug. 3-5. Includes John Cook's IOAM-4PM. Victoria Curling Rink, 1952 Quadra Sl. Info: 4646 W US Rl. 36, Piqua, OH 45356, (937) 773-7 186. Caboose Corner Model Train Show at Bellows Falls Union David To mljenovich, 7175 Hagan Rd., BrentlVood Bay, BC High School, 9AM-4PM (Sat). Info: Great Falls Chamber OREGON V8M I C2, (250) 652- 1 894. of Commerce, (802) 463-4280, www.gfrcc.org. PORTLAND ... 17th Annual UP Historical Society Con ONTARIO VIRGINIA vention. July 15-18. Holiday Inn Portland Airport, 8439 ABERFOYLE ... Aberfoyle Junction Model Ry Open NE Columbia Blvd. $90 (before 7115), $100 (after). Info: VIENNA ... Northern VA Model RRers Open House, , House. May 5-6, 12-13, IOAM-5PM. Club quonset hut at UPHS 200 I Convention, PMB #36 1, 17675 SW Farming I PM-5PM. Washington & Old Dominion RR Station, 23 1 southern village limits, 128 Brock Rd. $5, students/seniors ton Rd., Aloha, OR 97977, www.uphs.org. Dominion Rd. (at Ayr Hill Rd.). Donations accepted. Club $3, children $2. Info: Craig Webb, 257 Broadway Ave., ROSEBURG ... All Aboard RR Club for All Scales. 1st meets on Tuesday evenings. Info: (703) 938-5 157, Hamilton, ON L8S 2W7, (905) 527-5474. & 3rd Saturdays at 3PM, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays at 7PM. 427 http://www.geocites.comiHeartlandiPlains/6 120. MARYHILL ... SE Main Sl. Info: Debi or Kim Wing (503) 672-0280. Prototype Ry. Modellers 9th Annual WEST VIRGINIA Toronto & Southern Ontario Area Meet. May 5, 9AM- PENNSYLVANIA MARTINSBURG ... 3rd Annual Roundhouse Rail Day. 5PM, Waterloo Region Model Ry, Club at Sl. Boniface Separate School, 1350 Maryhill Rd. $6 or $5 w/model. GETTYSBURG ... Great Scale Train Show. Aug. 25-26, July 21, IOAM-4PM, Historic B&O Roundhouse & Caper Ed Barry, 4113 Uxbridge Ln., Mississauga, ON L4W 9AM-4PM (Sat), 10AM-4PM (Sun). Eisenhower Inn, a town Train Station. Info: Martinsburg-Berkeley County Info: 3N I (SSAE), (905) 306-0162, [email protected]. few miles south on Bus. Rl. 15. $6, (return Sun free), 12 & Conv & Visitors Bureau, (800) 498-2386. under free, family $12. Info: Howard Zane, 5236 Thunder WASAGA BEACH ... Nottawasaga Model RR Club WIS CONSIN Hill Rd., Columbia, MD 21045, (4 10) 730- 1 036, 7th Annual Model RR Auction. May 5; lots received 8:30- http://www.gsmts.com. [email protected]. LA CROSSE ... The 4000 Foundation Rail Fair/Railroad lOAM, public viewing 10:45-11:45AM, auction w/Gordon Show, Exhibition & Swap Meel. July 21, IOAM-5PM. Baverstock starts at noon. Oakview Comm. Cenler, Mosley TEXA S Copeland Park, US 53 between Clinton & Sl. Cloud Sts. St. West. $3, under 12 free. Info: Bob Coxon, PO Box 883, DALLAS/FT. WORTH ... Lone Star Region/NMRA $3, under 12 free. Info: The 4000 Foundation, PO Box Stayner, ON LOM I SO, (705) 428-0788, fax (705) 428- 50th Anniversary Convention. June 7- 10. Harvey Hotel, 341 1, La Crosse, WI 54602, (608) 582-476 1. 6161. THE MAGAZINE FOR DIESEL FANS CHECK US OUT! 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I KAYO U.S.A., INC •.10 0 Remington Road · Schaumburg, IL 601 73 I GP: GEN ERAl PURPOSE Introducing the GP7 Phase I We actually think it's both ! Spotting features of this General Purpose loco include a solid sill skirt above the fu el tank and sloping pilot sheets below the MU hoses. PROTO 2000's Dee Ready model boasts these features as well as over 135 factory-applied detail parts including: functional drop steps as appropriate, see-through steps, fo ot boards and fan grills with visible blades, windshield wipers, working cab doors and The separately molded clear class lights - just to name a few. first release of the GP7 PI is available in As always, the heavy die-cast chassis houses a 5 pole skew-wound, the following roads in two balanced armature motor, all-wheel drive, all wheel electrical pick-up, or three numbers each, and Undecorated: Atchison, Topeka dual machined brass flywheels and meshed worm gear and spur teeth & Santa Fe; Atlantic Coast Line; for silent running. As appropriate to the prototype Chesapeake and Ohio; Chicago HO SCALE Burlington & Quincy; Erie road, PROTO 2000 includes drop steps , sun shades, Railroad; Missouri Pacific; winterization hatch and boxes. Pennsylvania Railroad and M.U. Southern. Available for a limited time, make it your general purpose to pick up this gorgeous prototype at your local hobby dealer today! ©2001 Life-Like Products, LLC • 1600 Union Ave .•Baltimor e, MD 21211 In Canacla: 140Applewoocl Crescent · Concord, Ontario L4K 4E2 Visit our website: www.lifelikeproducls.com