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Mechanical • threaded metal truss rods and turnbuckles • two precision 5-pole can motors • fully detailed trucks with brake beams and shoes • operating piston rods with reverse linkage • metal truck springs • complete operating metal valve gear • keyed stainless steel axles • diecast I-beam frames • chemically-blackened, machined-metal wheels with spokes • modular gear box with metal motor mounts • blackened screws • crankshaft and motor blocks made from engineering plastic • eight sealed ball bearing races (two per axle) Cab Detail and Lighting • all-wheel drive • directional headlight and backup light • gear reduction for prototypical slow-speed operation • interior cab light • removable cab roof Exterior Detail • flickering, load-synchronized LED's in firebox and ash pan • 3600 boiler (no parting lines) for realistic fire glow • smoke generator with on-off switch • sliding windows and operating roof hatch • finely detailed stack base with bolts • prototypically painted cab interior • hinged, blackened-brass screen spark arrester • engineer and fireman figures and seat boxes • cast metal whistle • complete backhead detail including steam gauge with piping, • machined brass pop valves and bell turret, throttle, sight glass, fittings and stay bolts, • bell and whistle cords operating firebox door and grate shaker • engraved builder's and number plates • operating coalboard • blackened metal handrails and stantions • miscellaneous tools and accessories • water siphon hose with detailed siphon head • super-detailed diecast air pump with unions, Support Material valves and metal piping • comprehensive video on Shay history • "poling pockets," front and rear and model maintenance • wood grain detail on deck, running boards and end beams • 36 page Owner's and Maintenance Manual • end beams with nut, bolt and washer detail • maintenance screwdriver • hinged ash pan grates • removable coupler shanks Ely Thomas Lumber Co. Item No. 81198 • scale coupler pockets with metal link and pins Painted-Unlettered Suggested Retail Price: RAILROADINGMODEL January 1998 VOLUME 28 NUMBER 1 FEATURES 21 T BEHIND THE SCENES 38 T DCC UPDATE The Borrow Pit Model Railroading Ta kes a Look at DCC - Part XII by Margaret Mansfield by Larry Puckett 24 T The Early SD Units - Part 4: California 44 T The Crystal River Railway Northern; Central of Georgia; and An HO Scale Narrow Gauge Layout Chicago, Burlington & Quincy by Bob Boudreau by George Melvin 52 T MODELING MODERN INTERMODAL Modeling UPS 45' Intermodal and 31 T DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP Amtrak "Genesis" Series P32, P40 and P42 Highway Trailers - Part 1 by Rich Picariello by John L. Becker Modeling Erie Lackawanna's SDP45 34 T ONTRACK 58 T Installing Digital Command Control on a by Mark E. Sharp Home Layout - Part 3: I'm Never Going to 66 T FREIGHTCAROLOGY Remember all this Stuff Container MGW and Container Car Load Limits ,by Jim Mansfield by David G. Casdorph DEPARTMENTS 5 T Editorial 13 T Letters to the Editor 14 T New Products 17 T Product Reviews 23 T Society Page 69 T Dealer Directory 81 T Your Trek Plan 86 T Advertiser Index ABOUT THE COVER Crystal River #9, a PFM Cowichan 25-ton Shay, makes its way downgrade with its coal train, as it passes a log loading operation on Don Shouldice's HOn3 Crystal River Railway. The water car behind the locomotive is ready for any possible fires started by sparks from the steam engine along the line. It also serves a practical purpose, hiding the electronics for the Dynatrol control system. Turn to page 44 for more. Photo by Bob Boudreau. INSET: Starting on page 58, Mark Sharp shows how to kitbash this Erie Lackawanna SDP45. Photo by Mark Sharp. CONRAIL - THE FINAL YEARS by Paul K. Withers If all goes according to plan, Conrail will disappear into the Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation railroad systems in 1998. With new locomotive purchases put on hold, Conrail's current locomotive fleet will probably be its final locomotive fleet. Covering the 1992-1997 period, this book picks up where our Conrail Motive Power 1986-1991 book ended. The carrier's diverse fleet of General Motors and General Electric locomotives is pictured in both action and roster formats. A special section is devoted to in-depth coverage of Conrail's state-of-the-art SD80MAC model. This heavily illustrated 200-page 8.5" x 11" vertical-format hardbound book includes more than 500 color and black-and-white photographs. The cover features a specially commissioned painting by noted railroad artist Mike Pearsall. Includes complete roster information for all locomotives used by the railroad between 1992 and 1997. Price: $48.00 plus $5.00 s&h (PA residents add 6% sales tax). DIESELS OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY by Paul K. Withers with Warren L. Calloway & J. Harlen Wilson When it was first published in 1987, Southern: AMotive Power Pictorial 1968-1982quickly sold out and became an eagerly sought after book by Southern Railway fans and modelers alike. Now, after 10 years and collecting photos from the southeast's premier railroad photographers, Withers Publishing presents a massive photographic study that covers all of Southern's diesels - from the carrier's first road freight diesel, the FT, and its classic slant-nose passenger diesels, to its final locomotive purchase, GE's B30-7A1s. Southern and its subsidiaries operated a wide variety of makes and models - Alco DL-109s and PAs; Baldwin switchers; Fairbanks-Morse switchers and Train Masters; General Electric 44-, 45-, and 70-ton units; and EMD GP39Xs and GP40Xs - all are covered with a variety of roster and action photographs. This heavily illustrated 384-page 8.5" x 11" vertical-format hardbound book includes more than 1 ,000 photographs. The cover features a specially commissioned painting by noted railroad artist Mike Pearsall. Includes a complete roster listing modifications, retirement dates, dispositions, and specifications for each locomotive operated by Southern and its subsidiaries. Price: $65.00 plus $5.00 s&h (PA residents add 6% sales tax). ....---- 'CD. ® J2.leFrom,.el the latestc:k. SD90MACs to the locomotive that dieselized America's rails, Electro-Motive's FT, Diesel Era covers the locomotive scene with crisp color and black-and-white photos and detailed research. Diesel Era is a high-quality magazine devoted to bringing you a fresh source for photographs, history, details, and interviews about your favorite locomo tives ... from the 1930s to the present day. Each 68-page issue contains more than 100 photographs brimming with today's locomotive news and yesteryear's diesel classics. More than 90 percent of Diesel Era is devoted to articles, rosters, technical data, and diagrams. Current subscriber rate is $28.00 for one year (six issues), but for a limited time, we are offering new readers a special deal- seven issues for the price of six. Try us today or look for us at your favorite hobby shop. Diesel Era also publishes a series of high-quality, softcover locomotive model books. Titles released' to date include: EMC's FT-The Revolutionary Diesel; GE's Dash 8 C Series-Dieselization Enters the Third Generation; EMD's GP18- The Transitional Road Switcher; EMD's SD60 Series Steppingstone to the 21 st Century; Tr ain Master- The Most Useful Locomo tive Ever Built; and C-Liners-FM's Consolidation Line of Locomotives. 1-------- SPECIAL OFFER! Call 1-717-896-3173 to start your subscription today Offer expires March 1, 1998, and is limited to new first-time U. S. subscribers only. MosterCord and VISA accepted. 528 Dunkle School Road· Halifax, PA 17032 Office hours - Monday-Friday 9am-5pm EST· Dealels call or write for details 7 issues for the price of 6 MODEL RAILROADING EDITORIAL EDI TOR I PUBLISHER Randall B. Lee CONTRI BUTING EDI TORS David A. Bontrager David G. Casdorph Doug Geiger, MMR MRGon Patrick Lawson Jim and Margaret Mansfield George Melvin the Web Rich Picariello La rry J. Puckett Jim Six ell, it has taken us longer than we thought it would, but we have finally gotten Model Railroading's web page up and running. If you haven't yet had a Larry E. Smith, MMR chanceW to check it out, our home page can be found at http://www.modelrailroad ART DIRECTORS ingmag.com. It is still under construction, with updates occurring regularly, so con Donna Pacheco tinue to check it out at least weekly. At present, you can obtain subscription information; see the cover and Table of Michelle Ruffner Contents of this and last month's issue; see the cover, Table of Contents and Introduc tion to each of our books; as well as being able to link to advertiser web pages and CIRCULATION I OFFICE MANAGER other interesting model railroad sites. When you visit the Current Issue page you will Donald R. Strait also be able to see when the issue was mailed. In the very near future we will be adding a Next Issue page which will show you NATIONAL SALES MANAGER the cover and Table of Contents of the upcoming issue at least two to three weeks Chris Lane before it is available in hobby shops. A Back Issues page will also be added soon. 1-888-338-1700 We will be listing the contents of all of the back issues, along with thumbnail photos of each cover, on this page. This listing will ultimately include ALL back issues of Volume 28, Issue 1. MODEL RAilROADING is published Model Railroading, going back to 1979. It will help modelers looking for specific 12 times a year by Highlands Station, Inc., 2600 SParker issues or articles and provide ordering information. Through a special arrangement Rd., Suite 1-211, Aurora, CO 80014, (303) 338-1700. Price per single copy is $3.95 in U.SA Subscriptions are with Leroy Slater, the fellow who has all of the pre-June 1994 issues, we will be $31.95 in the USA.