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20 ... BEHIND THE SCENES Tricking the Eye by Margaret Mansfield

22 ... The Early SD Units - Part 10: Kennecott Copper (Nevada Northern) & Milwaukee Road by George Melvin

27 ... Heartland Express 44 ... The Great Northern Railway in by Bernie Fahrner and Gary Walton Washington State by Tim Morris 28 ... FREIGHTCAROLOGY General American's Other Freight Cars 52 ... DCC UPDATE Part 1: Airslide® and Power Flo® Covered Hoppers Model Railroading Takes a look at DCC by David G. Casdorph PartXV: Reverse loops... and Too Much Else to List by Larry Puckett 31 ... The East End of the Erie Railroad - A Brief look Back 58 ... ON TRACK by V. S. Roseman Installing Digital Command Control on a Home layout - Part 9: View From the Cab ... 36 ... Detailing and Weathering Workin' for the Railroad A B&O 50' N Scale Box by Jim Mansfield by Scott Seekins 62 ... Modeling an Atlantic Coast Line EMD E7 38 ... MODELING MODERN INTERMODAL by Jim Six Vans and Cans - Boxcars of the '90s Early 102s of Transamerica Transportation 66 ... DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP Services - Modeling with the Accurail 45' Van Union Pacific EMD GP20 by Gary Walton by Rich Picariello

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ABOUT THE COVER Number 32, the eastbound Empire Builder left Seattle at 3:30 PM so there is still plenty of sunlight here at Tunnel #11 on this summer day. Even with 16 streamline cars in tow, the four F units make easy work of taking the train up the grade on Tim Morris's Great Northern Cascade Divi­ sion layout. Turnto page 44 for more. Photo by Randy Lee. INSET: For a nostalgic trip back in time to the Erie's east end, turn to page 31. Vic Roseman uses his photographic and modeljng talents to recreate what once was. Photo by V. S. Roseman. Micro-Trains® Introduces... MODEL RAILROADING EDITORIAL

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CONTRIBUTING EDITORS David A. Bontrager David G. Casdorph Doug Geiger, MMR Anniversaries Patrick Lawson, MMR uly 1st marks Highlands Station's second anniversary. And Jim and Margaret Mansfield j July 16th marks the 8th anniversary of my becoming George Melvin Model Railroading's editor. Boy, time sure flies when you're Rich Picariello having fun ...or is it just because I'm getting older? Neither of these anniversaries would Larry J. Puckett have been possible without the help of a lot of people and the support of our readers. Jim Six Anniversaries provide an excellent opportunity to look back, and thus show us how Larry E. Smith, MMR far we've come on the road to where we want to be. The past eight years have brought about many changes in our hobby... and many changes in Model Railroading. Let's ART DIRECTORS take a look at a few of them. Donna Pacheco When I joined MRC in 1990, it only had one 16-page four-color (4C) form. To Michelle Ruffner spread out the color in the magazine, that form was cut into two "4s" and an "8." One "4" was used for the cover; the "8" was placed in the center; and the other "4" was inserted between two black-and-white forms somewhere in-between. Modern technol­ CIRCULATION I OFFICE MANAGER ogy hadn't yet reached MRC. Type was generated on a typesetter that produced "cold Donald R. Strait type" ...as opposed to "hot type" used for generations to print newspapers. Cold type was created by keypunching text into a typesetting machine which produced a column­ NATIONAL SALES MANAGER wide strip of copy on a roll of special paper that had to be developed, much like fi lm. Chris Lane Black-and-white photos and drawings had to be "shot" with a giant camera that was 1-888-338-1700 used to produce screened negatives of the photos or lil/e shots of the drawings. Color photos had to be sent out to a separalor which produced four screened printing nega­ Volume 28, Issue 7. 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Some might feel that the transparent operation of If you can somehow expand the intermodal coverage to include return loops alone is worth the expense and minor rewiring. predecessors AND incorporate modeling the vehicles from this period As regards turnouts - no one told me that it was necessary to as well, it may appeal to a wide (late steam/early diesel era) audi­ rewire the things so I didn't. It wasn't, and I won't' ence .... I would suggest that anyone with a reliable cab control layout is In addition to your regular fine features I for one would like to see 95% there - no degrees in logistics or electronics necessary! this section more often than annually. P. A. Janes Peter Ness Chepstow, Gwent, United Kingdom Berlin, Germany PRR Locomotive Color WaTch fo r Larry SmiTh 's upcoming arTicles all early inTermodal Dear Randy, hisTory and equipmenT. - Randy RE: February 1998 MRG "To the Editor" -PRR Locos ARE NOT Black! Yes, PRR locos are not black. 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I have just finished reading your April issue and found it to be up Frank Bagrash to your usual excellent quality. However T would like to question the [email protected] designation of this year's April diesel model. Mr. Teese refers to it as a BLT; I think a more appropriate designation might be as a TL2. As DCC-Friendly Tu rnouts most of us know, the BLT is the tunnel motor version of this engine Randy, with the radiator intakes mounted down low on the carbody in order Larry Puckett's DCC-Friendly Turnouts (May 1998) accurately to draw in cooler air during extended use in tunnel and other confined describes a potential "shorting" problem for all DCC/command-con­ areas. It is also known that these units ran only at night, thus there are trol system users. However, I would like to offer a couple simple no known photographs. Well, there's always next year. solutions people can try prior to rebuilding their turnouts as he David M. Zuppan describes. First, check all locomotive wheelsets with an NMRA Stan­ (location unknown) dards Gauge to ensure they are in proper gauge. If the gauge is too narrow, the back of a locomotive wheel may contact the "open" point February Ed itorial rail as it negotiates the turnout causing the short. If the problem con­ Dear Randy: tinues at a particular turnout, inspect the backside of its point rails to When the time comes to vote for Model Railroading editorial determine the point of contact. Generally, you can identify this by the excellence, your February 1998 edition will get my vote. Finally, an "pit" mark left by the "short." If contact is on the diverging route editor that sees the hobby the same way I see it. point rail, use a small screwdriver at the point of contact to gently I am a railroad modeler and rely heavily on my friends - John push the rail inward toward the center of the turnout. This will We ltller, Allen Hicks, Keith Kittenger and Stuan Thayer, to name a few. decrease the "bow" often found in this rail, thus increasing the gap I constantly strive to learn from the masters; if they happen to be between it and the stock rail. Conversely, if the short is on the good friends, so much the better. through point rail, push it inward to add a slight bow. Easy does it, If you pull an ore train with an EMD E7, that's fine with me - it only a tiny amount of change is required. Until a recent move, I had a is your railroad. I must in all honesty say that was the hardest part of large home layout with over 100 turnouts from Shinohara/Walthers the hobby to learn. and Micro Engineering and found them to be extremely reliable. In I would like to add one other type of modeler to the despicable over five years of monthly operating sessions, I had to adjust only 2-3 list: They don't know the answer, they just know your answer is turnouts in this manner once all locomotive wheel sets were properly wrong. gauged. Oh, by the way, thank you for THE model railroad magazine. Tom Matty Charlie Hogan Derwood, MD Park City, KY �

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING .... 13 THE SANDHOUSE A Product Ne ws Co lumn HO SCALE

Accurail, p. o. Box 1202, Elburn, IL 60119, has their 50' boxcar or $14.95 (CAN). CNIVIA Rail available as Data Only (in Mineral Red or Oxide), NYC (Jade Green) FPA4/FBA4 fuel tank fits the and PRR; new map w/slogans paint schemes for Santa Fe wood Proto 2000 FA-2 and FB-2; reefers; USRA hopper in Santa Fe; and 3-bay hoppers in BN (red), $9.45 (US) or $12.95 (CAN). BN (green), UP/CNW and ACFX. Specials are #1558 Katalistics Corp. 3-bay hopper ($9.98) and # 1559 Wescott & Winks Dairy wood Kadee®, 673 Ave. C, White City, OR 97503- 1078, is offering the reefer ($10.98). New website is www.accurail.com. following new schemes on their PS-I 40' boxcar: ... 4006 Canadian Pacific (Road No. 269 142) with 6' Camel­ AccuraTe Lighting, 205 W. Florida Ave., Appleton, WI 54911, has Youngstown door, Ajax brake wheel, Built 1953... $27.95 released a drop-in directional constant lighting unit to fit the Athearn ... 4023 Canadian Pacific (Road No. 268899) w/6' five-panel AMD-I03 (P40/42), part # 144- 1 4204. Send two $0.32 stamps for cat­ Superior door, Universal brake wheel, Built 1952 ...$28.45 alog. They have also released the following self-centering trucks: ... 550 Bettendorf w/33" smooth-back wheels (used in inter­ B. T.S., P. O. Box 561, Seffner, FL 33583-056 1, will have kits #95 change service from '30s-'93) ...$6.25 Hyde Pulp Mill and #2 15 Spring Creek Mercantile, both part of the ... 55 1 Arch Bar w/33" ribbed-back wheels ('00-'41. McCabe Lumber Series, and #100 Donovan's Transfer Co. (in the approx.)... $6.25 Master Creations line) available in the summer of '98. ... 552 ASF® A-3 Ride-Control® 50-ton w/33" smooth-back wheels ('40-'94); has snap-on brake rigging & shoes ...$6.50 , ... 553 Andrews w/33" ribbed back wheels ( OO-Iate '50s, approx.)... $6.25 ... 554 Bettendorf T-Section w/33" ribbed-back wheels ('20s­ , Con-Cor, 8101 E. Research Ct., Tucson, AZ 857 10, has released 50s) ...$6.25 four more body styles in their Mini-Exact HO Automobile Program: a 1950s-'60s VW Beetle (blue, red or green); a Porsche 356 convertible Kato, 100 Remington Rd., Schaumburg, IL 60 1 73, announces (silver or green); a Porsche 91 1 1966 Sportster (yellow or red); and a available roadnames for their new ALCO RS2and RSC2. RS2 road­ BMW 1950s limo (ivory or black). Retail $6.98 each. names will be CP, Chicago Great Western, D&H, GN, NYC, Santa Fe, UP and undec. RSC2 names will be Milwaukee Road, SAL, UP Erie Lackawanna Historical Society, Harold Werthwein, I Cot­ and undec. All models are DCC ready w/directional lighting. tontail Ln., Columbia, NJ 07832, is offering an InterMountain 50' Expected list price is $1 15.00 for the RS2 and $120.00 for the RSC2. PS-I double-door boxcar decorated for E-L. Kit has 7' and 8' doors for the COiTect 15' door opening of the prototype cars. Price is $14.95 Longview Shops, 94 1 Township Line Rd., Phoenixville, PA 19460, plus $5.00 S&H for up to four cars. offers decals sets to do all eight Montour Railroad steel cabooses. Sets will do their ex-UP CA-3 cabooses or their ex-New Haven NE-6 InterMountain, P.O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502-0839, offers caboose. The first set will do three cabooses (I each in 3 of 4 the following fully assembled models: schemes). Both sets are $8.00 and will do 15 cabooses; send a SASE ... 45302 BN 4750 rib-side 3-bay covered hopper (6 nos.) ... $24.95 with order for return shipment. ... 45329 Corn Sweeteners 4750 rib-side 3-bay covered hopper (6 nos.)... $24.95 Microscale, 1570 Sunland Ln., Costa Mesa, CA 92626. has the New items in the kit line are: fo llowing decals available in HO scale: ... 41406 MP 60' wood-deck flatcar (12 nos.) ...$17 .95 ... 87-1041 Rock Island Diesels wlNames (1975-'80) ... 41010 GN Express (green w/yellow lettering) 12-panel 40' ... 87- 1042 C&O/Pere Marquette E7A Diesel (1948-'55) boxcar (12 nos.)... $1 3.95 ... 87- 1043 Santa Fe Head End Cars (1924-'71) ... 40734 Rock Island 1937 AAR 40' boxcar (12 nos.) ...$1 3.95 ... MC-4259Washington DOT "Grain Train" PS/Trinity Covered Hoppers (1996+) Jay 's Tra in Pa rts, 142 ... MC-4260Washington DOT "Grain Train" ACF Center Flow® Royal Palm Dr., Brampton, Covered Hoppers (1996+) Ontario, Canada L6Z IP7, ... MC-426 I Allegheny Railroad Diesels offers urethane castings for These HO decals retail for $4.00; Minicals (MC) are $2.00. Canadian National and Via Rail prototypes. CN MLW SheepscoT Scale ProducTs, 2 Country Charm Rd., Cumberland, C424 fuel tank fits the ME 0402 1, has a waterline kit for an 80' Work Boat. Kit has solid Atlas C424; $10.95 (US) plaster hull, tubular brass mast and boom, brass superstructure and

Editor 's NOTe: Please talk to your dealerfirst regarding any newproducts. If you would like additional information ji·o/11. the /11.Cllu(facturel; please don 'tforgeT to include a number (en, self-addressed, stamped envelope. Th is will help all concerned. Th anks.

14 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 cast-metal parts. It mea­ resin parts, come in sures II" x 4" and can be vintage (#933-350 [) built as a work boat, an and modern (#933- I island packet or a Coast 3502) at $2 1 .98 each. Guard buoy tender. Price for #1312 is $130.00. We stelJi eld, 53 River Ln., Crossvi[le, SUI/shine Mod­ TN 38555, has an­ els, Box 4997, nounced a new series Springfield, MO of kits, the AT &SF 65808-4997, is Bx-O, Bx-5 and Bx- 14 closing out their double-sheathed box­ gray urethane kits cars. Santa Fe in­ for the PRR X- stalled 7,000 Bx-O 35-ton cars in 1905-'07, series 26030-29529 and 31F turtleback 32 10 [-35600. These were ATSF's first steel underframe house cars. roof autocars and They were rebuilt many times and outlasted cars installed at later the C&O deco end and the Erie and Naval Powder Factory Buckeye dates. Kits are 0 ffered as: end AAR 1937 boxcars. Kits are $25.00. Appropriate white metal T 7801 Bx-O boxcar, original

2D-F12 trucks with metal wheels as used on the Pennsy and NPF cars T 78 11 Bx-O boxcar, safety appliances are $6.00/pair. Plastic National Type B-1 trucks w/metal wheel sets T 785 1 Bx-01-5 boxcar, rebuilt, reverse Murphy ends and ARA trucks for the C&O and Erie cars are $5.00/pair. Add $4.00 T 7852 Bx-01- 14 boxcar, rebuilt, Dreadnaught ends

S&H (up to 5 kits) for u.S. or $8.50 (up to 3 kits) for Canada. T 7861 Bx-01-5 boxcar, modernized, reverse Murphy ends

T 7862 Bx-01- 14 boxcar, modernized,Dreadnaught ends

Wa lthers, P. O. Box 3039, Milwaukee, WI 5320 I, is releasing the T 7863 Bx-O boxcar, modernized, DS ends Cornerstone Series AI's Victory Service, a 1930s Gas Station. Kit Ha[f were gone by [940, but 300 remained in service in 1950 and includes pumps for three different eras, signs in two styles and ten in 1955. Decals included in each kit cover the life of the car. decals. Kit #933-3072 is $2 1 .98. Gas station superdetai[ kits, with [7 Retail $27.00 each.

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Aztec, 2701 Conestoga Ave., Unit 113, Carson City, NV 89706, is Price is $65.00 for the powered A unit and $25.00 for the unpow­ releasing the IIth car in the Micro Brewery Rai[car Series, Copper ered B unit. Summit Brewing Co. of Reno, Nevada. Car is a Life-Like 50' boxcar painted white w/green, black, orange, brown, white and yellow mark­ Mieroseale Industries, [570 Sunland Ln., Costa Mesa, CA 92626, ings; silver Micro-Trains® trucks and couplers. #MB2047- [ I is has the following decals avai[able in N scale:

$26.50. Two Virginia & Truckee 40' boxcars are available; V &T2049- T 60- [041 Rock Is[and Diese[s wiNames (1975-'80) I, $16.95 (white printing) and V &T2049-2, $19.95 (green, ye[low, T 60- 1 042 C&O/Pere Marquette E7A Diesel (1948-'55) black and white printing). Shipping free on orders over $50.00; add T 60-425 I Rut[and Rai[road Diesels (1956-'64) $3.50 if under $50.00. T 60-4259 Washington DOT "Grain Train" PS/Trinity Covered Hoppers (1996+)

Deluxe Innovations, P. O. Box 4213, Burbank, CA 9 1 503-42 [3, T 60-4260 Washington DOT "Grain Train" ACF Center Flow" has the following new items: Twin Tub Coal Gondolas in BN (black) Covered Hoppers (1996+) or Oklahoma Gas & E[ectric (silver) as a single car, 3-pack, 6-pack, T 60-426 1 Allegheny Railroad Diesels lO-pack w/Rapido couplers and 10-pack w/Micro-Train® trucks & These N scale decals retail for $3.25. couplers. 40' "wrinkle side" containers (2-pack w/2 nos.) decorated for Ge[co, Hapag-Lloyd, Matson and Cho-Yang are $8.25/pair.

InterMountain, P. O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502-0839, offers 3�:.._ ·ffiyt fEti ;� -=------the following fu lly assemb[ed models: .

T 66 101 Santa Fe RR-32 reefer "Super Chief' (12 nos.)... $ [7.95

T 66 [02 Santa Fe RR-32 reefer "E[ Capitan" (12 nos.)... $ [7.95 AiIII'. '� 1 I i' �" ; I I I I New items in the kit line are: I - i 'II �, • COl � d ·..... 1 : It � , 1_ .1�II 1fi - J ilt' r. I I a r t!� I � .,.- " - 1 -II I' ' - .- T 60207 Potacan cylindrica[ covered hopper ([2 nos.) ...$ [3.95 - � T 61320 Gulf ACF Type 27 riveted 8,000-gal. tank car (12 nos.)... $1 3.95 Miero-Train.I·®, 351 Rogue River Pkwy., P.O. Box 1200, Talent, OR 97540- 1200, announces the following new products:

T Micro-Trains® Line Co. 40' plugdoor boxcar (Road No. MTL 1000) is their 1,000th New Re[ease Freight Car' RTR #2 1 220 ...$9.45

T 150 Years of Chicago & North Western (2-pack), RTR #92 102 ...$38.3 0; with C&NW ACF 2-bay covered hopper - gray (Road No. CNW 175586) and C&NW ACF 2-bay covered hopper - green (Road No. CNW 96706)

Life-Like, 1600 Union Ave., Baltimore, MD 2121 1-1998, has T Conrail 60' double plugdoor boxcar (Road No. CR 223435), RTR the ALCO PA- I and PB-1 (only where appropriate to the proto­ #103020 ...$16 .75 type) decorated for Santa Fe, Erie, New Haven, NKP, PRR, SP and T CP Rail "Mandarin Orange Express" 40' plugdoor boxcar (Road undec. Decorated A and B units come with two road numbers each. No. CP 35893), RTR #74020 ...$2 1 .45

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InterMountain, P. O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502-0839. has Microscale Industries, 1570 Sunland Ln., Costa Mesa, CA 92626, released the following new kit: #20208 SP AAR 40' double-door box­ has the following decals available in 0 scale (retail $4.25): , car (4 nos.) ...$29.95. T 48-624 Commercial Signs: Automotive, Etc. ( 30s & '50s) , T 48-625 Commercial Signs: Soft Drinks, Etc. ( 30s & '50s)

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Po rt Lines Hobby Supplies, 6 Storeybrooke Dr., Newburyport, bly of the platform supports. MA 01950, has an Icing Platform and Icehouse styrene/wood kit in Platform measures 2" x 12 ", ice­ their novice-level structure series. The kit, made for them by Tw in house is 4" x 6". Price is $59.95 Whistle Sign Co., has precut pieces and a cast-resin jig to ease assem- plus $4.00 S&H.

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Micro-Tra ins®, 35 1 Rogue River Pkwy., P.O. Box 1200, Talent, plers ...$9.65; # 14507-2 (w/Magne-Matic® couplers) ...$1 1 .30 OR 97540- 1200, has released the fo llowing new products: T Z scale code 55 flextrack, 10 track sections per package w/24 rail T GN flatcar (Road No. 662 12), RTR # 14507 (w/Marklin® cou- joiners, #599 ...$39.95

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St. Charles Station, Route I, Box 225B, Guthrie, M 5646 1, has released their BN SD70MAC RTR brass models in both I :32 and I :22.5 (Gauge #3) sizes. Call 218-224-2598 or FAX 218-224-2950 fo r more information.

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Akron, C011l0n & Yo ungstown RR Historical Society, P. O. Box Cabin (HO $1 1.95; S 196, Sharon Center, OH 44274-0 196, has released their second proto­ $23.95; 0 $26.95); Cross­ type decal set covering AC&Y's 70-ton ACF covered hoppers. Decals ing Shanty (S $23.95; 0 are available postpaid in HO ($5), 0 ($7), S ($6) and N ($4) scales. $26.95); and Freight Ter­ Decal set contains prototype photos, instructions and paint chip minal (HO $43.95; S matching the shade of gray specified on original cars. $58.95; 0 $74.95).

Albion SO/Mare, announces Ve rsion 1.0 of Ship It' Car Cards, a B. TS., P. O. Box 561, Seffner, FL 33583-0561, offers the Cabin Windows-based program for creating car cards, waybills, train orders Creek Series, a freelanced generic line of small buildings, in S, HO and switchlists. User can choose three diffe rent styles of cards, select and 0 scales. New kits are the Cabin Creek Store and Greeley's Place. their own fonts and add custom graphics. Train orders and switchlists are based on prototype samples. Program will work alone or in con­ Heimburger House Publishing, 7236 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL junction with Ship It! or Railbase Professional. 60 1 30, is releasing Nevada County Na rrow Gauge by Gerald M. Best. Hardbound book has 224 pages, 284 photos, maps, diagrams and rosters; Arizona Rock & Mineral Co. , P.O. Box 567, Paulden, AZ 86334, price is $39.95 plus $4.00 S&H. Chicago 's Railroads and Pa rmelee 's offers a new, improved # 1210 Asphalt Paving Material. The fa nner Tra n.�f'er Co.: A Cel1lwy of Tra vel is available as a 6" x 9" paperback asphalt paving (# I 030) will now be labeled # I 030 Cinder Dirt. ($12.95) or a limited, signed cloth edition ($39.95); both books have pho­ tos, line drawings and maps. Add $3.75 S&H for either book. A:tec, 270 I Conestoga Ave. Unit 113, Carson Signs Galore, 9 Carlson Ln., Palm Coast, FL 32137-8150, has City, NV 89706, is releas- !!.!'!. released the fo llowing new sign sheets: ing the Aztec Track Star™, T B#35 Davies Steel #1 a RTR track cleaning car in T B#36 Mines of Cripple Creek Dist.

0, N, HOn3, G. 0 and Z T B#50 Aw nings scales. Cars have a Cratex® T B#5 I Coors Beer Signs abrasive rubberized roller T 8#52 Liquor Signs

(same material as the Bright T 8#53 Hess Products

Boy track cleaning block) T B#54 Signs of Victor, CO mounted at a slight angle under the car between the trucks. T 1#23 Tool Shop Interiors

Th e Building & Slruc­ Soundlraxx®, 463 Turner Dr., Suite 104A, Durango, CO 8130 I, an­ ture Co., P.O. Box 1296, nounces the DCC Digital Sound Decodel . #DSD- I 50, for EMD first-gen­ Fenton, MO 63 1 26, has eration diesels, combines a digital sound system (engine stan-up, exhaust, released three new kits in bell, air horn, turbocharger, dynamic brake, etc.), lighting effects and a severa l scales: Miner's decoder in one module. Their new website is www.soundtraxx.com. �

16 T MODEL RAI LROADING JULY 1998 ooueT REVIEWS

Life-Like Proto 2000 EMD GP20 by Rich Picariello

Photos by the author

n 1955, Union Pacific's successful exper­ iments with turbocharging, using AiRe­ searchI and Elliot turbochargers, led to the re­ classification of some of their GP9s as "Omaha GP20s." Turbocharging is a relatively inexpen­ sive way to increase locomotive horsepower. By utilizing engine exhaust gases to drive a tur­ bine (the turbocharger) to create more air pres­ sure in the cylinders, and thereby increasing the fuel-air mixture, a significant gain in horse­ power is realized. The downside is increased maintenance costs. EMD supplied tur­ bochargers of their own design fo r the next group of nine UP GP9 conversions and would later offer their own turbocharged locomotive models, the 4-axle GP20 and the 6-axle SD24. The 2,400-hp SD24 was introduced in 1958 Life-Like has correctly captured the curved arch sideframe contour of the and the 2,000-hp GP20 in 1959. The GP20 Blomberg B truck on their GP20. shares the same chassiswith the GP7, GP9 and GP 18. Spotting fe atures of the GP20 are the EMD built four GP20 demonstrators in (four of each type). door opener hook, cab sun­ large single exhaust stack, air tanks mounted 1961 (all were later purchased by SP) that shades, a winterization hatch and X2F cou­ lengthwise over the fuel tank, turbocharger toured the country fo r over a year. Except plers. The models are offered almost RTR; the bulges on each side of the long hood and rec­ for the 46 high-hood units delivered to GN purchaser will have to add the desired detail tangular radiator grilles. A 2,350-gallon fuel and WP, the remaining 214 were delivered parts and snap the body onto the chassis. On tank was standard on all but the GN GP20s with low short hoods. All GP20s were the test track, our sample ran as smoothly and which had smaller fuel tanks and crosswise equipped with dynamic brakes except the 15 quietly as previous Proto 2000 offerings. frame-mounted air tanks. Flared 48" radiator units built for the New York Central. The Some of the G P20 features are: fa ns, unique to the GP20, were standard until GP20 and SD24 were important transition T Skew-wound fi ve-pole motor wlfly­ 1961 when they were changed to 48" pan-type models between first- and second-generation wheels fans. When production ended in 1962, 260 diesels pioneering the turbocharging concept T All-wheel drive and electrical pickup units had been built; a disappointing sales total that would became commonplace on EMD's T Frame-mounted Proto 2000 magnetic that was far lower than for the GP7 (2,729), future locomotives. knuckle couplers GP9 (4.257) andthe GP 18 (388). Life-Like has released the GP20 in their T Cab with crew and operating doors GP20s were sold to Chicago, Burlington Proto 2000 Series. Decorated models. with T Constant and directional headlights & Quincy (36 units, 900-935); Great North­ detailing and correct road numbers specific for wllighted numberboards ern (36 units, 2000-2035); Santa Fe (75 units. their prototypes. will only be available fo r rail­ T Three varieties of fan styles as per the 1100-1 174); New York Central (15 units, roads that actually owned them. For those who prototypes 6100-6 114); Union Pacific (30 units, 700- want to paint their own, undecorated versions T Over 135 factory-applied detail parts 729); Southern Pacific (38 units. 7200-7237): with or without dynamic brakes will be The paint is smoothly applied and does SP subsidiary, St. Louis-Southwestern (Cot­ offered.The model will only bemade in a low­ not obscure any of the details; the lettering is ton Belt) (20 units. 800-8 1 9): and Western hood version; there are no plans to offer the crisp and opaque. All major dimensions com­ Pacific (10 units, 2001-20 I 0). This list shows GN/WP high-hood version. The truck s ide­ pare favorably with published scale drawings. as-delivered road numbers only. frames that received negative comments in Life-Like has fi lled a need for an accurate CB&Q and GN GP20s went to the Burling­ reviews of their GPI8 and Phase III GP9 have GP20 model. They come decorated with two ton Northern in the 1970 merger (BN 2000- been replaced with ones that have the correct or more road numbers for Cotton Belt, EMD 2071). NYC units became Penn Central sideframe arch to accurately portray the Demonstrator. Santa Fe, NYC, BN and undec­ 2100-2 1 14; most survived into Conrail with the appearance of the prototype Blomberg Ty pe B orated. The rest of the roadnames will be same road numbers. UP added some of the for­ trucks. This is a good example of Life-Like's offered at a later date. Retail price is $95.00. mer Western Pacific high-hood GP20s when willingness to continually correct and improve N scale versions will follow. Proto 2000 HO they acquired the WP. Only WP 2009 received their products. Additional detail parts (bagged locomotives and matching Life-Like N scale UP yellow and gray paint, becoming UP 488. separately) include three styles of MU stands versions are all limited edition models.

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 17 Branchline Tra ins' Seaboard

Passenger Coach - The Seaboard coach provided with the set is car #6238. This represents a Cars car built in 1955 by the Pullman Corpora­ tion. The roof provided with the Branchline car has a Budd Company roof. To model this by Denis Blake car somewhat more accurately one would need to change the roof to a Pullman-style Seaboard coach 6217 in Louisville. KY. Model photos by the author, others as roof. October 8. 1969. Larry Goolsby photo indicated

n 1938 the Seaboard Air Line Railway placed two orders for equipment for the Ifirst lightweight passenger train to serve the lucrative New York City to Florida market. This train, with power from EMD's prede­ cessor, Electo-Motive Corporation, and cars provided by the Budd Corporation, was named the Silver Meteor. It operated over

PRR rails from New York to Washington, Sleeper - The Seaboard 10-6 sleeper DC, and then on the rails of the RF&P to Sf. Petersburg, #38, was built by the Richmond, VA. At Richmond the fleet flyer Budd Company in 1949. The model pro­ of the Seaboard, the first member of vided is a Pullman-style car as defined by Seaboard's vaunted Silver Fleet, moved to the roof. A quick fix for the incorrect Seaboard 10-6 sleeper Savannah in home rails for the speedy trip to Florida. roofs on the coach and sleeper is to sim­ Ta mpa. FL. August 10. 1966. Branchline Trains, long a custom decora­ ply swap their roofs. Larry Goolsby photo tor of freight cars, started custom decorating passenger cars fairly recently. Their first two efforts, sets of Norfolk & Western and Southern Railway passenger cars were great hits, and this encouraged them to do more of these projects. Several months ago I was contacted by Bill Schneider of Branchline and asked to provide information on Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line passenger trains Diner - A Seaboard diner is included for future projects. Well, needless to say, in the set and represents car #6 1 04. The the requested information was provided, prototype for this car was a Budd product and the first results recently showed up at of 1940. There really is no quick fix for this my house... and they are GREAT. The fin­ car. It features a Pullman roof, which is not Seaboard diner 6109 in Ta mpa. FL. ish on these custom decorated Con-Cor 85' correct for this car. One could carve off and August 10. 1966. Larry Goolsby photo passenger cars is first rate, and the lettering save the details from the roof and install is crisp, well done and accurately captures them on a Budd Company roof. r think I to the Silver Meteor. Like the Seaboard the distinctive Seaboard Air Line font. will take this course of action. sleeper, it is a Pullman 10-6 sleeper. What Branchline has done is make a The set also includes a couple of cars that The above two cars are most welcome really nice train for those who want a model were from a pool of cars provided by the additions to the set as done by Branch­ of any of Seaboard vaunted Silver Fleet of Pennsy and the RF&P. line and ones that I insisted that they trains. This particular set is marketed as the RF&P coach - This is a Pullman coach include to more accurately represent the Silver Meteor. At six cars, it most certainly that was built in 1949 for the re-equipping Silver Meteor. is not the Meteor, but it is a nice starting of the Silver Meteor. While lettered for Observation - Now comes the last point for a model of the Seaboard's premier RF&P, the lettering is done is Seaboard's car, a round-end observation. The model lightweight passenger operation, which also distinctive font. represents a Pullman-built observation, featured such trains as the Silver Star and PRR sleeper - The Pennsylvania Rail­ which is wrong for the Seaboard. the Silver Comel. Let us examine Branch­ road car, the Bradenton, is a 1949 Pullman Seaboard used Budd Company observa­ line's consist car by car. product that was also built for and assigned tions exclusively. The car included in the

18 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 Accurail 45' Trailer

by David A. Bontrager

Photo by the author

he new 45 ' intermodal van from Accu­ is crisp and legible, as is the tiny lettering on rail is a remake of the original each end. However, the tiny data on each TFront Range model, which was later of­ end is not quite as crisp. fered by McKean Models. Even though The floor, suspension, wheels and tires the design of the kit is somewhat out­ and the landing gear have not been dated, I am glad to see it re-issued. The improved. By today's manufacturing stan­ molds have been dressed up to eliminate dards they just don't hold up. However, as flash and that unprototypical bulged sec­ a model used on an operating intermodal tion that was at the upper front corner on train the shortcomings of the underframe one side, which almost became a trade­ details will not be noticed as the train mark of the original model' Other than passes by. The landing gear is only a gen­ that the model is pretty much as it was in eral representation of a landing gear. The the past. tandem axles are spaced 3' 9" apart The model represents a Brae-built trailer instead of 4', and this is quite noticeable of approximately the mid- 1 980s. The tool­ as the tires are much too close together. ing is crisp, and the rivets are done with a The wheels are cast in place with the delicate touch. The air and electrical con­ outer tires, which is a pet peeve of mine Seaboard observation 6603 on Silver nections and the record box on the front that I've complained about before. The Star in Miami, FL, May 1968. wall are all recessed as they should be. Even suspension is not highly detailed but Rich Short photo, ACL & SAL RRs Historical with the original issue of this model I was serves its purpose. The included mud Society collection impressed with the recessed record box flaps are much too thick, but they are eas­ because the housing for it is done very ily replaced. set, #6602, needs major roof surgery to accurately. Construction is very simple, and it does­ correct it. One could use the rounded end The rear features doors with two latch n't take long to fi nish the model built stock of the car and graft a Budd-style roof onto bars and five hinges per door, which is from the box. There is no guide as to where the car. accurate for an intermodal van built to to locate the landing gear on the floor, either Over all, this is a very nice set from the FRA specifications. Lower taillights are in the instructions or on the floor casting. I folks at Branchline. It shows a commitment cast in place, but the housings for them located mine between the No. 12 and No. 13 to quality and accuracy in their projects. I are slightly undersized, which makes it a floor sills and it looks right. would encourage those who would like to little difficult to use Microscale decals. Overall the body is good, and this own a set of these to contact the folks at The ICC bumper with a solid panel trailer can be used to represent a number of Branchline and request that they rerun this between the bumper uprights is correct different companies. The model will serve set. Like the upcoming ACL set, this one is a for this trailer. This panel as well as the the needs of a wide range of modelers. sell out. entire bumper are easily removed for Out-of-the-box modelers will appreciate One thing that I would like to add in building a specific bumper to match a the ease of construction and detail model­ closing. It sure would be nice if a com­ specific prototype. ers will do what they need to, such as pany like American Model Builders would The upper and lower side rails are done replace the entire floor, su pension, introduce some flush fitting window very well. The lettering on my sample BNZ wheels, tires and landing gear with after­ inserts for these and other passenger cars model is very good overall. On the sides the market components. (See Gary Walton's as well. very small "Burlington Northern Railroad" article on page 38.) �

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING ... 19 BEHIND -rHE SCENES

Tr lC kIn g the E y e by Margaret Mansfield

Photos by Jim Mansfield

n last month's "Behind the Scenes," we

introduced the complicated transition 1 - With the major sub-assemblies for the Gran Quivera Junction building scene thatI must be constructed to separate two very AND the roof of a tall city building complete, we can temporarily set them in place different scenes on the Jersey Western Rail­ on a base in order to see what they are going to look like on the layout. Once we road: the high mountains of New Mexico and are happy with the position of all the pieces, the complete scene will be finished the big city atmosphere of Vilsousterrs. on the workbench and then set into final position on the layout for blending into Within just a few inches, trains must move the complete panorama. Also notice the beginnings of a couple of bridges. from a landscape characterized by tree-cov­ ered mountains and a big blue sky to the which traverses a series of lighter and smaller requirements in both scenes. When it became gloomy downtown buildings and streets of a bridges as it makes its way through light indus­ evident that we needed to have some light large industrial city. Each of these scenes trial and suburban neighborhoods. The track enter the area below the Shining Time track­ must appear to be unconnected with the seen to the right depicts a mainLine that utilizes age as viewed from Vilsousterrs, we decided other, even though they are joined by the heavier, larger bridges. Shining Time runs on a to use the Shining Time lead trackage seen in same trackage. In addition, the transition ridge skilling the downtown district, resulting both photos last month as another double­ must be made without the aid of a view block in lower construction costs, while the mainline side, double-view feature. From the main such as some type of wall or double-sided takes a shorter, more direct, and much more operating area, the track will appear to be backdrop in order to maintain the feeling of expensive route through the city. Our "trick of supported in part by a rock arch bridge; from actually being out-of-doors and next to real the eye" must therefore take into account each the VilsoustelTS operating area, it will be sup­ trains. Given these constraints, the challenge of these trackage scenarios in the transition ported completely by a steel bridge. The tree­ of joining and, at the same time, separating, from mountain to city, and from mainline to covered scenery below the rock arch bridge these two scenes really becomes a matter of branchline. will allow just enough light through from the "trompe l'oeil" (pronounced tromp-loy), or main operating area to illuminate the land­ "tricking the eye"; and the key to accom­ Planning our Trompe L' Oeil form and other details below the branch line. plishing this is to focus each unique scene on Jim and I began designing the scenic tran­ And, speaking of light, the design of the the trackage that ties them together. Let's get sitions at Gran Quivera and Vilsousterrs by sky backdrop also helps to separate the two started by returning to the two photos seen in studying the existing layout bench work, scenes and add interest to the scenic design. last month's column for a moment. brainstorming various ideas, and making The backdrops on the Jersey Western were Last month's Photo I shows the scene as some sketches. When we design a scene, we painted with bright blue skies - "fair viewed from the layout's main operating area, draw all sketches to scale on a grid, such as weather" - over the high desert and the looking toward Gran Quivera Junction. From graph paper, to ensure that our diffe rent ideas mountains, while the weather over the city this vantage point, the area surrounding the will fit together. The use of tracing paper is appears a bit ominous - storm clouds are tracks must appear to be a remote location at also a great aid. We use hard lead (4H) for rolling in. This same storm front may be seen the summit of a high mountain pass; the only construction lines and jotting in basic ideas, from parts of the desert as an approaching gale structure visible for miles around will be the and 2H lead for the final drawing. coming in from the north; it might well be a bit small building that houses the controls for the We then created cardboard mockups of of that old mother nature that crews often face rail traffic through the junction. In contrast, last proposed ground forms, building shapes and in the mountains. Since we chose not to use a month's Photo 2 shows the same scene as bridge silhouettes. Placing the various scenic divider to separate the mountains from viewed from the operating area next to Vil­ mockups in position on the layout enabled the city, the original sky design includes per­ sousterrs. Here, the very same area seen in us to study the line of sight (LOS) require­ spectives that enhance the atmospheric space, Photo I must appear to be a busy location near ments in both the city and mountain junction whether from locations that are "in your face" the heart of a large city; the scenery will be scenes. While we have used mockups many in the city to panoramas incorporating ten or dominated by large commercial and industrial times before as an aid to scenery design, this more feet of viewing distance. structures, some of which are served by the is the first time that we have used one of the Based on the combination of double­ railroad. The same small stIucture that func­ mockup structures - and, hence, the final sided views and line-of-sight constraints, we tions as the junction building at Gran Quivera designed structure - as a key transition found we needed to mock up most of the wi II, in this scene, represent the shed that cov­ design element between two entirely differ­ Vilsousterrs scene before we could deter­ ers the elevator shaft on top of a large building. ent scenes. Couple to this the fact that the mine the limits of the mountain junction This double-sided and double-viewed structure transition must be visible from all viewing scene at Gran Quivera and begin construct­ thus forces the transition between the two angles (nearly 180°) and that it must trans­ ing our "trick of the eye." The result may be scenes. In addition, due to the configuration of late from a mountain summit to a low-lying seen in Photo 2. the trackage, this downtown area will actually large city, and the importance of an accurate be composed of two "many scenes." The track­ mockup becomes apparent. A Needs Analysis age visible to the left in last month's Photo 2 Placing the mockups in position on the The biggest challenge in creating the represents the Shining Time lead, a branchLine layout also allowed us to adjust the lighting junction scene at Gran Quivera was how to

20 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 • • � I n I 3 - The modified junction building parts are shown along with the pieces that were removed from the castings. The building's front and back walls were shortened, and the end walls were modified to allow for a flat roof.

2 - Cardboard mockups are an invaluable aid in planning and constructing a The end wall with the three openings complicated scenic transition such as this one. line-of-sight problems and light­ will not be seen when the completed ing requirements can be determined and resolved with the aid of such mockups. building is set in place on the layout. Yo u can begin to see how the trains are going to appear in the city. The contour Styrene strip stock was used as of the future bridge for the mainline bridge is also seen toward the center in required to finish the modifications. this city view. Modifying this building so that it would make the junction look like a junction from from the city, the top of the cornice/wall sur­ be suitable for its dual purpose required that one viewing angle, while at the same time rounding the building/junction is visible. its outer walls be painted with a base coat of appearing to be the top of a seven-story This top edge, matching the wall from the a uniform medium gray. We then highlighted building in a large city from another angle. In city side, gives the impression that a basi­ the walls that would be seen from the junc­ order to be realistic, the junction must cally triangular building stands in the part of tion side of the scene with a fine mist of include a building, a parking area with auto­ the junction where the two rail lines diverge lighter gray. mobiles and the sundry greenery that would on bridges high above ground level. The junction wall was the next sub­ suit a relatively remote mountain location. It assembly we built. Based on the fitting we must sit between the diverging tracks and The Junction Lot did to find the perimeter of the tall city also must have a lived-in look about it. There With the height of the top of the wall deter­ building, we cut separate pieces of '/," needs to be some human activity - all in all, mined, and thus the ground level, we chose to model airplane trailing edge shape. This is il should be interesting enough to visit. use Upson Board as the platform upon which the piece the flying model airplane types The view from the city is different, how­ we would build the junction building scene on place at the back of the wings of their model ever. The top of the city building should the workbench. First, we measured and cut a airplanes. Once cut to length and trimmed appear neat, but with no evidence of a piece of the board to fit into the area between for a close fit in the corners of the junction human presence. After all, very little hap­ the tracks. Since this is the same material that property, the pieces were sand sealed. pens on the top of a city building. Work is used for the track board on the layout, we As can be seen in this month's Photo I, the crews may be busy with the inner workings marked the underside of the board and wall has an opening so that automobiles can of the elevator shaft, but, in general, the only removed .080 from it. This allows the Upson drive to the junction office. Naturally, the people that regularly venture out on large Board platform to sit directly on the plywood opening is positioned such that the view down building roofs are window cleaning crews. track board and yield a ground level that is just the line of sight from the city hides this open­ As a starting point in creating this dou­ below the bottom of the track ties. ing. The future grade crossing serving the ble-sided scene, Jim and I chose to model Next, we determined the size of the city junction building is also invisible from the city. the wall that will function both as a property building roof as it would be seen from Yil­ Two final details were added to the junc­ boundary for the junction and as a top edge sousterrs. Here, we used '/,' strips of balsa to tion scene: a small water tank and a for the city building. First, we examined the stand in for the final building top. By moving microwave and radio antenna tower. These requirements that the wall needed to meet, in these pieces around, we arrived at a precise two structures actually perform the same particular, the section of wall that functions size for the roof that is based on how the function in both scenes; from the viewpoint as the direct interface between the junction shape looks in both scenes. The wall must be of Gran Quivera, the water tower provides and city. Item: While the wall surrounds the positioned logically, relative to the junction water for the junction and a couple of other junction property, it is this single interface scene, but it must not be too close to the buildings that are not modeled on this por­ piece that is the major design element - it tracks in the city view to be unbelievable. tion of the layout, while from the city view, sets both scenes. This wall must be chest To model the junction structure, we chose the tank also serves as the reservoir water high on the junction side and shoulder high the building portion of the Walthers Corner­ source for the city building. The microwave on the city side. From the junction side, we stone Series® Central Gas and Supply kit. (We tower functions in a similar manner. In actu­ wanted it to appear as a concrete fence and, previously superdetailed the LPG tanks and ality then, these two details, while being from tbe city side, as a concrete building pump-house portion of this kit in the April and scenic elements in two different scenes, cornice surrounding the roof. In both scenes, May 1994 Behind the Scenes.) To fit the build­ serve the same single functions in both. The it needed to be level. To aid in the sham, the ing into the scene, we made a couple of modi­ junction building/mechanical shaft top and height of the building was planned to be fications to the kit. We shOltened the length of the property wall/building cornice are com­ such that the surface of the "roof' cannot be the building and made the pitched roof into a mon elements in different scenes that also seen from the city. To do this, we chose to flat one. We also used the door from an Atlas represent different functions. Finding and specify ground level at the junction as just a Switchman Shanty rather than the door sup­ using single function, dual scenery elements few inches below tie level. This ground plied with the Walthers kit. This new door is like the water tank and microwave tower is a height is reasonable and will allow for then placed in the location of a window as the good way to help a scenic transition. When proper drainage of the trackage. kit comes. Photo 3 shows how the building you change viewing positions, it is almost Although this invisible roof is not seen parts were modified before painting. like starting where you just left off! �

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING ... 21 Kennecott Copper Corporation 903 was the only SD7 bought new by an industrial rail operator. Note small 1,200-gallon fuel tank and lack of mUltiple-unit controls. There is an extra air connection with an angle cock at the right of the coupler to provide for air-actuated dump cars frequently handled by this unit. Magma, UT; February 12, 1964. Decals: None. H. N. Proctor photo, Lou Marre collection

INDUSTRIAL PURCHASERS OF built-new early the line at Cobre. A single SD7 numbered SDs was rarer than their use today as hand­ 40 1 was purchased in August 1952, making me-downs of retired Class I units such as the NN the third road to receive an SD7, seen in our section on Omni-Trax last month. after the MILW and GN. Compared to the The only industry to buy an SD7 new was austere Kennecott unit in Utah, the 40 1 was Kennecott Copper, with rail operations in downright glamorous. Built with the 1,200- Arizona and Utah. The company is best gallon fuel tank and weighing 294,800 known for large electric steeple-cabs used in pounds, it was a lightweight unit. It was well their huge open pit mine at Magma, Utah, known for its flashy red, yellow and black west of Salt Lake City. More conventional paint scheme and was photographed often diesel-electric power is also used there and by railfans despite its remote location. It had the company bought a single SD7 in De­ an extra fuel tank added by 1965 and also cember 1952, the first year of production. featured MU and an extra Mars-style light Equipped with a small fuel tank and lacking on the front. The copper traffic ran out in the dynamic brakes and multiple-unit control, early 1980s, and the unit was disposed of this plain-Jane unit served its owner for 22 when the NN shut down; it went to a power years, until the mine closed in 1984. Ac­ plant at Delta, UT. The Nevada Northern has cording to the SD7 history in the No­ recently been revived as the copper mine vember/December 1995 issue of Diesel Era, near the end of the line at Ruth has been the engine was sold to the Minnesota Valley reopened. Steam-powered tourist trains have in 1990, where it continued to carry its orig­ operated, and some freight is being hauled inal number until it was scrapped in 1994. by a former Southern Pacific SD7 or SD9. Some 200 miles west of the Magma The Milwaukee RQad needed special­ operation, we find that Kennecott Copper duty road switchers long before they were found another reason to purchase a single invented; their network of light-rail branches SD7, their Nevada Northern Railway. In the spread across the Eastern end of the system eastern Nevada desert, the ISO-mile line were worked by light steam power, and there extended from the mines near Ely north to a was little incentive to upgrade these lines to connection with the Western Pacific at accept larger engines, the majority of which Shafter and 18 miles beyond to a connection were busy only on a seasonal basis during with the Southern Pacific at the north end of the grain harvest. Because some of these

JULY 1998 Nevada Northern 401 looks mar­ velous for a 28-year-old 507, at Ely, NV, on August 17, 1980. On the nose we see the extra warning light as well as a rotating beacon atop the short hood. Note the solid front handrail with a crossing-signal-style bell; prior to 1973, it had a split front railing with a walkover plate. Decals: None. John C. Benson photo

El0 Nevada Northern 507 401 is seen from the rear, switching at East Ely, NV, on April 1977. The paint scheme is simpler on the rear and there is no auxiliary warning light on the rear. lines generated only modest revenues most EMOs perhaps used a bit less on the branch Note the pair of single horns on the of the year and because of the high expense assignments when new. These early switch­ roof and added fuel tank with a of maintaining steam servicing facilities on ers could even show up on a branch passen­ rerailer just forward of the tank. The the ends of marginally profitable branches, ger schedule if the weather was warm end of the unit features a pair of the early development of the diesel was enough to run without heating the coaches. plates with extra air connections to watched with great anticipation. Well before As discussed in the beginning of this operate air-dump cars. The unit has the first SO came along (which MILW series, these branch conditions, along with MU, but the hoses are not in place, would later purchase), the road was ready other niches, brought about the introduction indicating infrequent service with for an alternativeto its branchline steam sta­ of the six-axle, four-motor road switcher. other power which was possible with ble. The issue for the Milwaukee was weight This concept, first offered by Alco as their Kennecott-owned units assigned to distribution, not the total weight of a loco­ RSC2 and Baldwin as their DRS 6-4-15 in the area mines. Decals: None. motive. Remember, most steam locomotives 1946 made possible a branchline diesel with Photographer unknown, George Melvin are many-wheeled beasts with a dozen or an axle loading of 85% less than even a collection more axles including the tender; even a 2-8- small switcher, such as a 660-hp Alco S-l. 2 Mikado with an eight-wheel tender has a In short, these units were capable of going railroads. The Seaboard bought the most total of ten axles. The early diesel switchers almost anywhere light rail existed. The road with 37; Sao Line and Union Pacific owned were, with few exceptions, built with two switcher had the drawback of very low trac­ four and I I, respectively. At least some of four-wheel trucks. And while their tractive tive effort as a result of achieving such light these units were equipped with passenger effort might have been equal to or even less axle loading; it would only haul about two­ heating equipment and pulled branchline than a lightweight (by virtue of the many thirds as much as the S- I switcher, but since varnish in their early years. Very successful wheels), medium-sized steam engine suit­ most light-rail branches were built through on the MILW, a few were even rebuilt in the able for branchline duty, the weight per axle undulating topography at the worst, and with 1960s with new Alco engines and received or "axle loading" of an early switcher might the option of running pairs of the light road chopped noses. As the branchline mileage disqualify it for use on light-rail branches. switchers, the new locomotives were a quick dwindled, some were re-trucked with four­ Branches all across the country were success on the Milwaukee. axle trucks, making them more like an RS2. dieseLized with I 940-vintage switchers, with The road bought the first Alco RSC2 in These pioneering Alcos were six years Alco and Baldwin products seeming to have the Fall of 1946 and rostered 18, the second old when the S07 was becoming a reality, been in this duty from their purchase, with largest group, of the total of 70 built for four and the Milwaukee was ready. Buying the

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING 'f' 23 MILW SD7 505, the sixth SD7 built, shows the appearance of most unrebuilt SD7s S07s built for the M&StL in December during the late 1970s. Most carried the simple orange-and-black color scheme with 1952. Perhaps the Milwaukee told EMO to bolted-on heralds only on the cab. At least two unrebuilt units, 506 and 515, got start supplying S07s right now, and the unit repainted in the new image with MILWA UKEE Road spelled out on the nose and earmarked for a demonstrator got pushed long hood; this scheme was more common on the SD10 rebuilds. Under the herald, back in the production schedule. The first we see the loco class "1750 ERS." To pside, it has a rotating beacon, a pair of single order was for 12 units numbered 2200-221 I, horns and a winterization hatch. Note solid front handrail, small plow pilot and built from April to June 1952. They weighed modified steps. Minneapolis, MN; August 3, 1980. Decals: Herald King L-370, 296,000 pounds (about 60,000 pounds more Microscale 87-789. than the road's lightest RSC2s) and were Roger Bee photo, George Melvin collection equipped with MU and smal l 1,200-gallon fuel tanks. Three more orders soon followed: This photo of MILW SD7 514 begs for an explanation. From the second and units 2212-2214 also in June 1952; five smallest order for SD7s, three units in June 1952, this view in May 1975 depicts more numbered 2215-2219 and a final four an SD9-style marker light and model badge. Were this an SD9 renumbered into numbered 2220-2223 (these last two orders the SD7 number, the stepwell design would be the best proof. The unit is still were built in October (953). The latter equipped with footboards; also note homemade spark arrestors facing in oppo­ group was equipped with dynamic brakes, site directions and the huge space forward of the small fuel tank. Austin, MN; the only major diffe rence in this fleet of 24 date unknown. Decals: Herald King L-370, Microscale 87-789. S07s. MILW had the third largest group Roger Bee photo, George Melvin collection built, after Southern Pacific and Burlington. There was a general renumbering in 1960; the group became 500-523. Four first S07 built, even before the first demon­ S07; the build date for demonstrator 991 is months after the fi nal S07 order, an order strator was finished, the Milwaukee was March 1952, a month previous to that of was placed for "more of the same," but the convinced they wanted light-rail-service MILW 2200, but the builder number (17410) model now offered was the S09, so the EMOs, having proven the concept would of the demo unit is much higher than that of MILW also bought the first S09 built, as work with the RSC2 fleet. Some confusion the 2200 (15612); the bui Ider's number on part of their order for 14 more early SOs. exists whether MILW 2200 was the first the demo 99 1 places it behind the pair of They came in January and February 1954

24 .... MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 and were numbered 2224-2237, above the MILW SD7 515 is from the third order of SD7s, built in October 1953. Note the SD7 fleet. In 1960, they too were renum­ unusual flag/marker bracket on the corner of the short hood; these appear in bered but received numbers 530-543. They slightly difference locations on all three units illustrated here. This unit has an too can'ied the small fuel tanks and were not all-weather cab window insert and another style of spark arrestors with both equipped with the dynamic-brake option. facing forward. The Milwaukee in the 1970s was known for an array of spark Their use was from one end of the railroad arrestors on nearly all its power. Austin, MN; August 3, 1976. Decals: Herald to the other, but certain areas for which they King L-370, Microscale 87-789. had been built saw their regular use. Very Neil Shankweiler photo, George Melvin collection popular on the Iowa Minnesota & Dakota Division, a network of branches totaling From the first order of SD9s built, we have MILW 540 at Des Moines, lA, on nearly 2,000 miles stretching westward from August 14, 1972. It was built as the 2234 in February 1954. Note the distinctive the Mississippi River in Iowa and Minnesota style of the number in the numberboard and the "X" markings for visibility on across miles of grain country as far as Rapid the frame .. both Milwaukee Road trademarks. The road number on the long City, SO. The Dakota Southern featured in a hood and the herald under the cab window are on metal plates. Early SD9 fea­ previous installment of this series operates tures include the bolted handrail stanchions and ladders on each side of the some of this division today with ex-MILW nose. With the small fuel tank and no dynamic brake or passenger boiler, this SD7s. They were also assigned to the Coast unit weighed in at 297,000 Ibs., a "lightweight" SD9. Division, seeing service on the isolated 50- George Cockle photo, George Melvin collection

__� J ULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 25 MILW SD10 532 is on the DM&E at Waseca, MN, on November 11, 1986, one month after the DM&E's startup, but it is not one of the SD10s bought by the reg ional. It carries the MILWAUKEE Road name on the nose but not on the long hood. Changes done in the SD10 program abound - note the chopped nose with rec­ tangular numberboard/headlight assembly, ox-yoke air-filter system and four exhaust stacks. Under the frame, the air tanks now hang side by side rather than one on top of the other. Its model badge is missing and it carries class "175-ERS-6," probably indicating it is now 1,750- hp. Decals: Herald King L-370, Microscale 87-789. Roger Bee photo, George Melvin collection

MILW SD10 547 has become DM&E 547 but as yet has not received any identity changes as the new road was only one month old when this unit was pho­ tographed at Waseca, MN, on October 27, 1986. Rebuilt from SD7 507 in December 1974, it has a three-chime horn, whip antenna and large rotating beacon on the cab roof and has a sin­ gle wind deflector forward of the cab mile Port Townsend-Port Angeles branch on cataloged an SD I O! No inclusive roster sum­ windows. It is stenciled as assigned for the Olympic Peninsula, reached by carfloat marizes this program, but it appears that in maintenance at Bensenville, IL, the from Seattle, perhaps the most isolated duty 1974, the rebuild program was for 18 SDIO shop for Chicago-area operations. This drawn by an early SD! So enamored to light­ units, numbered 544-56 1 and in 1975 for 14 unit is classed "18-ERS-6." Decals: Her­ rail road switchers, the road convinced EMD units numbered 530-543. An interim renum­ ald King L-370, Microscale 87-789. to build a second-generation version of the bering occurred for some early SD7s from Roger Bee photo, SD9 to replace the remainder of the weary their 500 series which lasted until being George Melvin collection light-rail Alcos, the SOL39. It was a short­ rebuilt into SD lOs. This project was to have ened and lighter version of the SD39 built included all 38 early SOs but was canceled MILW SD10 554 displays all the char­ only for the Milwaukee, which bought ten in late 1976 with 17 units yet unrebuilt. The acteristics of the SD10 progra m, a from 1969 to 1972. These unique units last unit done was SD7 510 which became very consistent rebuilding. As the for­ worked with the S07/9 fleet. About this SOlO 532. Seventeen of the SOlOs went to mer unit 535, this is an SD9; this time, the early SDs started to go through a the DM&E where they kept their SD 10 model was in the minority of SD10 rebuilding program, getting internal numbers. Two or three of the unrebuilt units rebuilds. Note a shortened ladder is improvements making them 1,800-hp, four­ went to the Wisconsin Southern and then to retained on the nose and there is stack exhaust system, ox-yoke air filters, the Dakota Southern;see Part 6 of our series some equipment hanging in the gap chopped noses and in at least one case a new in the March 1998 issue. Most of the other forward of the fuel tank. Waseca, style angular roofed cab. This qualified them unrebuilt units appear to have been MN; February 3, 1987. Decals: Herald to be designated "SDIOs" by the road, even scrapped. King L-370, Microscale 87-789. carrying EMO model badges marked as Our coverage of the early SDs will con­ Roger Bee photo, such, despite the fact General Motors never tinue next month with Montana Rail Link. � George Melvin collection

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n the previous two articles we surveyed General American's mas­ Valley - N) fanUly of 4, 1 80-, 4,566- and 4,900(4,895) cubic-foot designs. sive tank-car fleet, This month and next, we will look at the other Earliersingle Airslides® were drawbar-cOlmected in pairs to fonn a "single" Icars in General American's fleet, The April 1998 ORER shows Gen­ 5,200 cubic-foot car. During the early 1990s the Trinity PD 5125 Power eral American's non-tank fleet at 14,158 cars (compared to 60,798 Ro® (Walthers - HO & N;) finally supplanted the ubiquitous Airslide®. In tanks), The majority of these cars are covered hoppers of varying 1997, General American introduced the massive Trinity 5650 and placed types and service. 300 in service by 1998. Thus, General American's Rour, Sugar & Starch cars havegone through five major changes: Flour, Sugar & Starch Cars Single Airslides® General American is well known for its Airslide® covered hoppers dating Double Airslides® from the Fifties. Beginning with the single Airslides® with a capacity of Paired Single Airslides®

2,600 cubic-feet (Walthers and Con-Cor - HO; Atlas - N), the design Trinity 5125 PO � eventually evolved into the double Airslide® (Walthers - HO; Delaware Trinity 5650 PO

28 .... MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 -- .. �--- - - � GACX 47184 in the more commonly seen plain gray (albeit with a removed logo). A small Airslide® logo can be seen in the panel above the "CX" in the reporting marks.

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 29 I GPFX 10265, a Trinity 5125 PD-systems Power Flo® is shown here leased to Minnnesota Corn Processors. Combined view of GACX 46913.

30 T MODEL RAILROADI NG JULY 1998 TIlE EAST END OF TIlE ERIE RAILROAD - A BRIEF LOOK BACK

Photos by the author

Above: An 0-8-0 with a distinctive Va nderbilt clear-vision lower end of the Bergen County Cutoff, the mainline being tender shifts cars on one of the sidings at Rutherford while severed just beyond the junction at Carlton Hill. a heavy 4-6-0 races westbound with a cut of cars on a mid­ day local for Suffern in upstate New Yo rk. Below Right: It seems like yesterday that I watched long strings of oil cars behind the capable USRA-designed 2-10-2 Below Left: Back in the '50s, most trains heading west Santa Fe types. Here, a slow moving train is about to clat­ out of the terminal at Jersey City would run up the main­ ter across the points leading to the Bergen County Cutoff line over the Palisades, through the swamps of the mead­ so the train can bypass downtown Passaic to rej oin the owlands and would make their first stop at Rutherford, NJ. tracks of the mainline up in Ridgewood, NJ, on Over the crossings at the west end of the station was the its way west. manicured four-track line with sidings for local freight traf­ fic. To day only two of the four tracks remain to serve the

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 31 viced by rail. but on the former Lackawanna line whose station is a long, long walk west of the shopping district.

To p: All of the USRA heavy Pacifics that were built went to the Erie. Here, 2925 has been bumped off the intercity runs and is rumbling across the iron bridge over the Pas­ saic River ready to pause at Passaic Park station with a commuter local.

Below: An Alco PA formation leads a train for Chicago across the span over the Passaic River. While many through runs were routed over the Bergen County line, the only way to serve Paterson was to use the mainline tracks through Passaic. This line connected these cities with New Yo rk and with all points west back in the days of passen­ ger train travel.

Above: (View looking east and south toward the former right of way about where that footpath is.) During the Erie's heyday, the mainline spanned the Passaic River with a heavy two-track swing bridge past Carlton Hill, on its westward journey from Rutherford. The trains would curve gently north and proceed right down Main Avenue, Passaic. As the railroad brought business to the town it was natural that stores of many types would flourish - until rail movements clogged all of the cross-town streets in rush hours! Every few minutes there would be inbound commuter traffic and outbound deadhead trains or freights, right down Main Avenue. In the early 1960s, after the merger of the Erie with the Lackawanna, many lines were sliced and rejoined so that today the "Erie Mainline" is actually the old Lackawanna Boonton line joined to the mainline up at Paterson, thus bypassing Passaic. Passaic is still ser-

32 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 To p: Back in the good old days, you could watch trains in off hours and on the weekends. Here, an Erie K-1 "Har­ riman" Pacific (actually based on a borrowed Southern Pacific engine during Harriman ownership of the Erie) pauses while the fireman checks out some passengers crossing the tracks behind the last car on a sunny Saturday.

Above: New diesels were bought mostly for main­ line expresses, but on the weekend or off hours you could catch one on almost any local train plying the backwoods byways of the Erie's many branch lines around the New Yo rk metro area. Looks like a family came out to see the train - and around here people still do that, although today Junior may never get a chance to actually ride a train.

Right: In this view looking east from the east­ bound platform we can make out the bridges on the ridge in the distance. This was the New Yo rk and Greenwood Lakes Division, and while there is rush hour service to most of the line today, it has been shortened and joined to the western part of the Lackawanna Railroad's Boonton line.

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING .... 33 Entering Nutley Station: A venerable Erie Pacific steams into Nutley station with a commuter local out of Paterson on a fine day in August.

The Viaduct - Nutley, NJ: By now the remains of the steel trestle are probably all gone, but last time I looked, the graceful structure was still mostly intact. At the south end of this little val­ ley the single track of Erie's Newark Branch entered Nutley station. The Newark Branch began at Paterson and served the Newark's bedroom communities of Nutley, Allwood and Belleville and also extended across the meadows into Jersey City where pas- sengers would make the ferry connec­ tion to New Yo rk City. To day the railroad is gone.

34 .... MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 To p: General Motors once used scenes like this one to pro­ mote their diesel locomotives. This view at Lakewood shows the switcher working a cut across the avenue while a Limited in the charge of shiny new E8s coasts through Lakeview on the way to Jersey City.

Above: Still shoving cars about later in the afternoon, the crew of the drill engine takes a break in the sun of a crisp November day to watch a K-4 with a northbound local. Back in the "heavyweight" car era, the Erie equipped its passenger-car fleet with new steel cars of the Stilwell design, with their extremely strong frames that ran through the body - that design foretold the concept of lightweight streamlined cars of later years. In spite of this forward-looking design, these cars were essentially open ended as most of them had no doors on the vestibules. I remember when nearly the whole coach fleet of the Erie was variations of the coach shown. Now there are none on the former Erie lines at all.

Right: The Newark branch of the Erie began on the lower level at Paterson, but upstairs on the mainline from Chicago the tracks continued through Lakeview, NJ, with a bunch of industrial sidings serving the farmers market (visible in the distance to the right of center) and for the many aircraft and electronic related industries that once thrived in this area. To day only a single secondary running track out of the Ti me .flies. So if you are any kind of rail/an, ride the trains while Paterson yard survives, and this ends a few thousand feet you can, or at least watch them - tomorrow may not be soon short of Clifton on the former line to Passaic and Jersey City. enough. Andfor goodness sake ... bring your camera! �

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 35 ..-OTT EX r.X))the most common, carded along with the N coupler, which ..a..:nondescript, one might say "boring," was cut from each truck; the trucks, how­ rolling stock somehow the most interesting, ever, were retained. Micro-Trains low-pro­ especially when viewed in a typical consist. file wheels, Z scale #905 couplers, and Maybe it's just me, but ordinary Boxcar Red, Precision Scale 0704 brass air hoses were concentrated yard scenes with hundreds of installed once the coupler pin was cut off cars with slight variations of hue and color, and removed. Although I chose to use Z have a fascinating appeal. scale couplers, N scale couplers can be Almost 90% of these cars are lettered used if desired. Although the plastic with purely functional white markings, very roofwalk may be retained, I removed the few with colorful billboard schemes, yet one on mine and filled in the resulting these were the real meat and potatoes of roof holes with putty, then sanded the sur­ most railroads during the steam/diesel tran­ face smooth and flush. A Plano 50' etched­ sition period. Such was the 50' Baltimore steel roofwalk was substituted and and Ohio box I dug up from prototype pho­ cemented in place. Although wire grab­ tos which I felt I could duplicate. irons should also be added to the rooFwalk platforms on the ends, T chose to forego FR.EFARATION adding them on this particular model, as it Starting with a Micro-Trains® carbody, is hard to notice this detail. one selected for its Boxcar Red base color, The 8' corrugated Youngstown door can I stripped existing lettering by rubbing the now be duplicated in a number of ways, surface with a soft cloth soaked in turpen­ whereas in the past one had to cannibalize a tine. One has to be careful to not remove plain door from a 50' double-door box background paint; too much stripping can released by Micro-Trains a number of years cause the surface to bubble or distort. ago. The position of the placards varies on Once the car's lettering has been satisfac­ the prototype, so check photos before attach­ torily removed, the model can be altered ing them with tiny droplets of Hot Stuff"'. Or and detailed. you can use doors from other sources, such Numerous changes and added details as those on the new Micro-Trains 50' auto ensured a different look to the Micro­ box or the 8' doors on InterMountain's 50' Trains model. Original wheel sets were dis- double-door boxcar. ") 36 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 WEATH.E:R.ING Once these additions are complete, apply a thin coat of Boxcar Red ...the thinner the better since you already have the original base color. After the paint has dried, letter­ ing may be applied. I used both CDS B&O

50' steel boxcar dry transfers (#350 & 357), .020 x .125 checking photo references for positioning (or .100) rather than relying on the diagram that strip styrene comes with the transfers. Also, much of the superfine lettering often found on boxcars from this period can be improvised from Microscale decals. Graffiti, again cut from Microscale sets, was positioned on both sides of the car. Once all markings were set as desired, the model was sprayed with Dull­ Tw o pieces of Tr ip pin cote. Weathering was then possible. .030 x .100 cut flush A series of fi ne layers of weathering strip styrene gradually aged the car. Thin oil washes were applied using dry-brush techniques with the tip of the brush. Then some pastel dust was Figure - Addition of Micro-Trains® Z scale coupler and air applied between coats of fixative. A graphite hose. Sand carbody surface and styrene pieces, then cement pencil on its side was rubbed over the raised in place with gap-filling Hot Stuff®. panel lines to create a subtle image of age and corrosion. A fi nal coat of Blair Matte Spray fi xative was used over the car's sides and ends. The trucks and roof should be weathered last and fixed with a light coating of Dullcote. �

This angle provides a good view of the added etched-metal roofwalk and applied roof-top weathering.

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 37 ING MODERN RMODAL

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Early 102s of Transamerica Tr ansportation Services - Modeling with the Accurail 45' Van by Gary Walton

Photos by the author

Tr ansamerica is one of, if not, the • . largest road and intermodal trailer leasing companies in the world. Their equipment can be found in almost every intermodal train cur­ rently on the rails. They entered the trailer leasing business many years ago by acquiring a company called REALCO. REALCO was the surviving entity of the fallen Railway Express Agency. The original roots of the company are These two Brae-built 45' x 102" Transamerica trailers are indeed part of the obvious to this day by the REAZ repOlting contemporary scene of the '90s. These two and the Budd were photographed marks stenciled to most of tlleir pig vans. in early 1998, in and around Altoona, PA. Transamerica's fleet is huge and diverse. Of pruticular interest to me ru'e their older 45' x 102" pig vans built in the early '80s. These first-generation 102s have an interior and door height of l06" (approximately 3,200 cubic feet) as co'rnpru'ed to the 110" door height of contemporary designs. Many of these older trailers have been active for over 15 years and still rorunthe high iron in the late '90s. Extinct manufacturer nrunes like Miller, Brae, Dunhrun and Budd built thousands of these trailers throughout the eru'!y andmid '80s, A large per­ centage of the trailers outlasted their builders.

38 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 sion floor. Due to the fact that the mounting pins were removed, care must be taken to position each bogie side exactly opposite and square. Also make sure they dry per­ pendicular to the floor as viewed from the rear. The raised spring detail should face out so it can be seen from a side view. The

REAZ 235982 is a Budd 45' x 102" trailer built in the early '80s. slightly angled spring hanger should face the front of the floor. Install a piece of .025 styrene rod between the angled spring hang­ Enter the Accurail 45 ' van ...this is the only Assembled from the box without modifica­ ers. model available that accurately represents the tion the space is about 1 ". This improves Three cross members are cemented early '80s 102 "-wide design. It most closely sl ightly by installing A-Line wheels and between the bogie sides, one in the front, resembles a Brae prototype, however it's tires (see Photo I). To change this remove middle and rear. Use scale 2x3 styrene strip fairly simple to modify the shell to represent all mounting pins and use a razor saw to cut cut in lengths of 2' 3 ". Some filing may be a variety of other builders. Thanks to Accu­ each bogie side in half and add shims made required for a proper fit. Cut a I x4 styrene rail's re-release of the former McKeaniFront of .060 x .060 styrene strip to each. Cut the strip 2' long. Cement this piece in the mid­ Range kit, intermodal modelers have one shims flush with the top and bottom of the dle/top of the front cross member to act as a more quality choice. The potential and flexi­ bogie and cement (with liquid cement) slack adjuster/mounting bracket for the air­ bility of this model is almost limitless. The together, keeping the parts square and flat supply lines. There should be I' 6" of over­ Accurail van is a good model. With a little until they set. By doing this in an assembly­ hang ahead of the cross member. Drill two creative effort and imagination it can be line fashion, you can prepare numerous #76 holes 14' from the rear of the floor for quickly transfomled into a better, more proto­ modi fied bogie sets (see Photo I inset). mounting the other end of the air hoses. I typically correct model. I'm planning several Once dry, cement each bogie to the suspen- drill these holes slightly oversized so the Accurail modeling articles. The emphasis of wires don't hang up during installation. this first aJticle is to create a more prototypi­ An optional variation of this is to cut cal-looking TransamericaiBrae model, with­ each bogie side into three separate pieces. out spending a lifetime or fortune doing it. First, remove the lower set of springs with­ Each subsequent aJticle will build on the pre­ out cutting the axle-mounting hole. Trim vious information, to eventually exercise the each spring hanger to a lower profile. Use an full potential of this model kit. I hope you enjoy the ride as much as I did.

The Floor The most obvious area that requires rework is the noor assembly, specifically the suspension (bogie) and the landing gear. By the time this is in print A-Line's Universal Trailer Floor & Suspension kit should be available (part #50159). If some extra money is in the budget, this will save an hour or two of construction time per trailer. Plus, the A-Line kit has a working slider. (I will use this kit in subsequent articles.) Since the models were built before it was available and this aJticle offers a low-budget approach, I chose to modify the Accurail noor assembly. Modifying the rear bogie comes first. All measurements given are in HO scale feet and inches. Two modeling approaches are utilized - quick and dirty... and a more esthetically appealing approach. First an explanation is in order. The space between the two wheels on the average pig van (as 1 - The narrow space between the trailer wheels on the left can be modified to viewed from the side) is approximately 6"-8 ". look like the trailer on the right by adding a 6" shim to each bogie side (see inset).

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 39 -

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Figure - Landing Gear Wing Te mplate

2 - Modified bogie assembly and floor.

3 - Three steps of simple landing­ 4 - The modified Accurail gear. 5 - Modified Walthers/Stoughton gear. gear modification.

A-Line or Walthers bogie set as a visual lowered position. Again, decide if you want from .010 styrene sheet to overlay the exist­ example to copy. Make a razor saw cut on to spend the time modifying the kit-supplied ing ones. (The wing plate is the angled, solid each side of the center spring hanger and landing gear or purchase an aftermarket bracing on the outer side of the gear leg.) cement a .040 x .040 piece of styrene to the part. Both options are presented. The best The replacement wing plate should measure front and rear of it. Trim and file the piece gear for representing one used on a Brae 4' long x I' 6" high. See Figure for actual flush with the top and bottom of the middle van is the Walthers/Stoughton gear. I'm not dimensions. Position the new plates so they hanger. Cement each spring half back to the sure when A-Line's Stoughton gear will be meet the trailer floor, covering the gap that center spring hanger. Again, insure that the available. Begin by filing off all flash and was created by building up the gear height. reassembled bogie remains square and flat parting lines from the gear legs. Holding the Four leg angle braces are cut from 2x2 while drying. Attach each bogie to the floor gear with pads (feet) facing down, remove styrene strip to a length of 2' 6". Slightly as specified previously and add the cross the lower cross member. Remove a I' sec­ bevel one end of each brace. Cement the members and air-line slack adjuster as previ­ tion from the upper cross member. Cut "beveled" end of each brace to either side of ously noted. If A-Line wheels and tires are closer to one side and don't remove the the landing gear leg, I' 3" from the trailer to be used, slightly ream the axle hole and existing angle braces. File the cut and reat­ floor. Attach the other end of the angle brace insert a 6" piece of 'Is "� OD styrene tube. To tach the halves, keeping them square. to the inner side of the outer edge of the create two slider rails, cut two pieces of 2x3 Cement a 6' 6" long piece of .040 x .040 wing plate. Repeat this step so that there are styrene to 14' lengths. Optionally, use an A­ styrene strip across the top of the upper two angle braces attached to each wing plate Line slider rail as a template to drill locking cross member of the landing gear. Center it and leg. A gusset needs to be created to holes in each slider raiJ half. Use a #75 drill between each landing-gear wing plate. cover where the angle braces are attached to bit. Cement each "rail" to the floor, flush Cement a 6' 3" long replacement lower each leg. Use an 8" long piece of I x3 to with the rear of the floor edge, against each cross member between the legs butted to the cover the area where the angle brace is side of the existing bogie mounting ridge. existing angle braces. Attach this assembly attached to the leg. Repeat for the opposite Cut two 14' lengths of Ix3 strips to "cap" to the floor 10' 6" from the front, inserted side (see Photo 4). the raiL Cement them lengthwise to the top between two floor ribs (see Accurail If using the Walthers/Stoughton gear, dis­ of each rail edge (see Photo 2). instructions). Center between the edges of card the existing cross member and bracing. The landing gear needs to be at least I' the floor, making sure that the legs are per­ The Brae design has a different cross-brace narrower to represent a more prototypical pendicular to the floor (see Photo 3). configuration than the later Stoughton design. width. The legs are about 6" too short in the A larger set of wing plates need to be cut File about 3" from the top of each wing plate.

40 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 6 - Finished bogie and air hose 7 - Note the DOT angled light plate 8 - Note the mud-flap hangers and assembly. and sidesill stiffener. Also evident are bumper support braces. These are the air hoses and kit-supplied wheels. installed after attaching the floor to the shell.

Install each half of the Stoughton gear so that The one-piece wheel and tire is somewhat time, aligning between the upper continuous the front of each wing plate is 9' 3" from the difficult to paint, unless using just one rivet line and the lower staggered set. I tried front of the floor and 9" from each side edge. color. ..Grimy Black. [ used them on one of brass, but the paint chips too easily. The Cut a lx6 piece of styrene 5' 3" in length and the models presented and was satisfied with styrene is easier to work with and is more cement between the gear legs approximately 6" the result. They required a 6" spacer forgiving. Brae trailers have a rear DOT from the trailer floor. Cut a 2x2 to a length of 5' between the axle halves so the wheel/tire light plate integrated into the lower sidesill 6" to serve as a lower cross member. File to fit assembly was the proper width. Cut the and the rear door frame. Cut and file this between the legs inserted into the existing spacer from a '/s" OD tube with a razor saw area square on the stock shell. Cut a 3" long notch, slightly snug, and cement in place. Make and miter box. I also recommend sanding lx6 on an angle. View the prototype photos sure the legs remain perpendicular to the floor. the tires to lower the profile. In summary the to "eyeball" the approximate angle. Cement Cut two angle braces from I x2 strip to a length kit wheels are adequate and do create variety this piece into the square corner. Add I x6 of 2' 3". Cement one end of each brace to the in the look of the models. I used A-Line's mud-flap hangers cut to a length of 2 '. back of the lower cross member where it meets Dayton spoke wheelsltires on the other two Cement under the door frame, flush with the the leg. Cement the other end to the back of the models. As I have stated in previous articles, inside edge. Optionally replace the lower top cross member I'6" from the leg. Repeat for A-Line wheels can help to "make" the bumper cross piece with as' 6" piece of 2x3 the other angle brace (see Photo 5). model! All wheels were painted with black styrene. Use a razor saw to miter cut the A gearbox and crank can be fabricated centers and light to medium gray rims. existing cross piece. by cutting an 8" long piece of .030 x .040 Primer red was used on one rim. This is a styrene and rounding one end. Attach it to common practice for pig trailers to have dif­ General Painting and Decaling the driver's side of the landing-gear wing ferent colored rims. Some of the rims were Each shell was firstwashed to remove oil plate 6" from the floor. The rounded end rusted using a burnt umber wash. All were and dirt. Inspect for any imperfections. Each should face away from the floor (down). weathered with Grimy Black and chalks of trailer's base paint was white. I air brushed Drill a #78 hole centered on the gearbox. brown and gray. Paint the tire/wheel backs the entire shell AccuFlex Reefer White. Create a crank arm with a ]/, " OD piece of Grimy Black. When dry mask the shell to expose the roof, brass bent in the shape shown in Photo 5. upperllower sidesills, door frame, front cor­ The top part of the crank arm needs to be The Shells ner posts and lower front plate, then air bent "in" so that it can be mounted to the There are some very simple additions brush the door frame, corner posts and lower gearbox. Cement the top end into the gear­ that can greatly improve the shells. A rear­ front plate, Medium Gray. Before masking box hole. Angle the bottom end to the rear door drip lip was added by cementing a .010 fo r the roof, overspray these same areas with toward the floor. x .020 styrene , trip across the back, flush Roof Brown and brush with washes of burnt Add weight by CA'ing two ]/s " steel nuts with the roof line and cut flush with the roof and raw umber artist paint. On most of the to the floor, one on each end. Replace the edges. Two angled side gussets for the drip older trailers these areas are heavily rusted. existing king pin with a piece of .025 styrene lip are added with .010 x .020 cut in 3" Look at the pictures! Be carefu I of the rod. Paint the floor BAR Gray, then install lengths. Angle one end to 450. Attach to washes ...they could bleed under the mask. I two air hoses using grain-of-wheat wire or each side of door frame so it meets the cor­ will sometimes freehand this step. Use your something comparable. Insert one wire into ner of the drip lip. The angled end should own judgment. Allow this to dry thoroughly each floor hole (previously drilled) and the face down; the shorter edge should face out. overnight. Don't remove the mask yet! other end to the slack adjuster. Paint the In both cases the .010 side is the mounting Mask all the "gray/rust" areas so only hoses Grimy Black. surface. Optionally bend this in places to the roof and sidesills are uncovered. Air­ simulate battle damage. The lower sidesill brush with a 111/1 mixture of Aluminum, Wheels and Tires stiffener can be created with .020 rod cut the Medium Gray, White. Use less White for Although 1'm not crazy about the kit­ length of the sill. (In the future I'm changing heavily oxidized and weathered aluminum. supplied wheels and tires they are workable. to .0 I 0 rod.) Cement small sections at a Overspray this with a Clear Flat and Roof

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REAl 234832

. Transamenca T ransporlation Services

The front of 234263. A haz-mat decal was cut into several strips to simulate a partially removed sticker. The area around it is white because it was '� . , I removed recently. The dirt hasn't "caught on" yet.

REAl 236331 The Finished Models

REAZ 234832 - This was the easiest trailer to decal. I used badges and numbers from the Microscale 87-464 set. The haz­ mat placard is from 87-840. Weathering and Transamenca wear on this "stealth" trailer required tech­ Transportafion Services niques as described in the May 1998 MRG. Clear Flat/Grimy Black and Clear Flat/Dirt overs prays were applied lightly. The proto­ type trailer was relatively clean. It was the battle damage and placard residue that made it interesting. A 15/0 brush and Medium Gray paint were used to create the sideswipe scars. Patches were made from pieces of .005 sheet outlined in gray to simulate caulking. The placard residue was created REAl 234263 with a Grimy Black wash, dry-brushed in appropriate areas. Roof Brown was brushed onto the upper sidesills to match the proto­ Brown solution. The lower sidesill receives showing the prototype roof. Airbrush the type modeled. Part of the number on this pig the heaviest concentration of this "dirty entire shell with Clear G loss. The door was sporting the brown film. Use the umber film." Overspray the curbside upper sidesill gaskets were done using silver decal washes or chalk. The area around the haz­ and roof with Grimy Black for exhaust stripes of 1"width. In hindsight, for future mat placard was left white by creating a staining. "older trailers". "rounded diamond" mask. When these plac­ Trailer roofs get "wavy" from years of For DOT marker lights use Microscale ard are applied to a dirty van, the area is first hard use. You can simulate this by spraying MC-4204 and 87-852. Check the prototype washed clean so the adhesive will stick to the fine lines of Grimy Black across the roof, and model photos for placement. Paint or skin. The rims on this one are quite rusty, one perpendicular to the side edges. The spac­ decal the door latch bars and hinges Medium is a red oxide color. This is my personal ing needs to be somewhat symmetrical oth­ Gray. The hinges tend to get splotches of favorite ... beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

erwise it looks silly. Try to follow the side rust. Use the umber washes or chalk for this. REAZ 236331 - This is the totally rivets as a guide for spacing. I suggest Additional rust was added to the bumpers stock trailer, no aftermarket parts added. The practicing this first and look at photos and door frame. fu ll set of MicroscaJe 87-464 was used

42 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 Bill of Materials

Manufacturer Part No. Description

Accurail 1 100 Undecorated 45' van A-Line 116-50103 Van dress-up kit (wheels & tires) The hacked-up drip lips were done by pinching and slightly twisting the strip Microscale with micro tweezers. The end is always an appropriate finish ! Hey... how did that 87-840 Haz-mat placards Ye llow Freight mud flap end up on my pig trailer? 87-852 Trailer data MC-4204 28' trailer data 87-1 24-4 Silver 1"& 2" stripes except for the Olympic Sponsor graphic. Red was added back in by dry-brushing 87-464 Transamerica Olympic We athering is light on the sides. The rear did Caboose Red into the rivet area and toward Trailers receive a good dose of "brown film." The the bottom of the stripe. Obviously it's Evergreen badge and number were masked for the first impossible to get a perfect match to the proto­ 100 .010 x .020 styrene strip coat of film on the rear. Immediately follow­ type in this case. I do think it's an interesting 131 .030 x .030 styrene strip ing the application, a piece of cotton swab and unique effect though. 132 .030 x .040 styrene strip held in tweezers was dipped in thinner. 142 .040 x .040 styrene strip Areas around the latch handles were "light­ The Finish 144 .040 x .080 styrene strip ened" and a splotch was made by swabbing Attach the floor to the shelL Be careful 219 .025 styrene rod the painted-on brown film. Remove the handling the shells because of the weather­ 8102 1x2 styrene strip badge/number mask and make a second pass ing materials. After doing this, one final 8103 1x3 styrene strip of overs pray. Whitening the decal before trick remains. The rear of these trailers need 8106 1 x6 styrene strip application bleached the Transamerica logo. reinforcement bracing behind the bumper. 8202 2x2 styrene strip Scratches were put in the stripes with dry­ All trailers have this engineering feature in 8203 2x3 styrene strip brushed white and light gray. varying design applications. Cut a .040 x 9009 .005 sheet styrene

REAZ 234263 - What a mess ... ! This .080 piece of styrene 12" long. Make sure 9010 .010 sheet styrene pig van was the most time consuming of alL the piece lays flat on the .080 side and cut Plastruct Modeled features are: the obvious haz-mat to a wedge shape, leaving one end the origi­ 570-90604 'Is "� tube residue done with a Grimy Black wash, a nal width. Cement this directly behind the Detail Associates redundant number set because of heavy wear, bumper upright columns, lining up the WR2504 J//' OD rod an unevenly faded red stripe and an almost lower edge with the slider raiL The point Grandt Line invisible logo. The worn badge and number should face toward the bottom of the 300-3902 .020 rod set was masked around and shot with a Clear bumper cross beam. Cap the edge with a Polly Scale FlatlWhite solution. ft was then shot again Ix6 cut to a length of I' 6". It should cover 414233 BAR Gray with a light overspray of Roof Brown. Rusty the whole edge of the brace and meet flush 414251 CP Rail Gray steel patches on the sides were done by free­ with the lower edge of the bumper cross 414137 Grimy Black hand brushing burnt umber wash until it beam. Brush paint to blend in with the floor 414299 Flat Aluminum looked "right." Stress on the side skin was (see Photo 8). Mud flaps were made from 414275 Roof Brown done using chalk to shadow the rippling. The .005 styrene sheet cut 2' 9" high xl' 9" 414128 Caboose Red Transamerica logo was bleached to the point wide and cemented to the flap hanger. 404106 Clear Flat of almost disappearing by airbrushing the Brush paint with Grimy Black and weather 404100 Clear Gloss decal White. Last and most difficult was the accordingly. 414326 Oily Black fading of the red SHipe. Seal with Clear Flat There you have it. All told, the actual 414113 Reefer White before proceeding. The red stripe was masked modifications take about two hours of addi­ MODELflex so that only the red was exposed. A Clear tional time. Working on several floor assem­ 165-1602 Reefer White FlatlWhite solution was quickly oversprayed blies simultaneously will reduce the time 165-1601 Gloss Black over this area, aiming the flow of paint spent per trailer. The next Accurail modeling 165-1612 Primer Gray toward the top. I stopped after about five article will build on the modifications pre­ 165-1614 Light Tuscan Red passes. The red stripe had almost disappeared sented here and some neat prototype model­ toward the top. This is where it gets tricky ... ! ing. Until then... .1

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bV Tim MorriS

Photos bv Randv Lee

'HIS IS A STORY about my model railroad high-level station, and we were able to stand Puget Sound in western Washington that features the Great Northern Railway in right next to the trains as they rolled by. I can 1 State is an inland waterway that was the 1960s and how it came to be what it is still feel the heat from steam-engine boilers carved out by glacial action millions of today. There are two things I hope this story and hear the noise of the freight trains. I did­ years ago. Here we see a southbound will convey to you, the readers of Model n't know much about what I was seeing, but I freight passing a small fishing village. In Railroading: I) if you are a beginner, get loved to be around trains! the foreground is a sea wall to protect something up and running because it really is In 1954 my family moved to Seattle, and the village from winter storm waves. The easy to do, and that's where the real joy of since my parents wanted their young boys to GN crews protested the lighthouse's the hobby is; and 2) I think I've come up see the country, we rode the train. And not blinding light, and the village has since with a combination of ideas, some old, some just any train mind you. Of the three rail­ relocated it. new, that even some old-timers might be in­ roads (and some half-dozen trains) serving terested in exploring. I hope this article will Seattle from Chicago (our transfer point from The grain harvest in eastern Washing· help you get over a problem you've had Cleveland), sleeping car space for the family 2ton is just beginning and soon there questions about. That is what is so wonderful was booked on Great Northern's new stream­ will be a switch engine crew assigned just about building a model railroad ...you can lined Empire Builder. Today, my HO Empire to work this elevator around the clock. pick and chose from some wonderful ideas. Builder has a model of that very sleeper - Covered hoppers are seen here now... just So if you will join me for a little journey I'll number 1265, the Chumstick River. a season or so ago, 40' boxcars would tell you how I chose the prototype I model After moving to Seattle we continued to have filled the tracks. and how my model of the Great Northern take our Sunday drives, except my older came to be. brother decided he liked airplanes more than the rear of an eastbound freight My interest in prototype and model trains trains. Now our trips included time at the old 3ASgoes under the 8th Street overpass, a goes back as far as I can remember. I was Sea-Tac airport and the rest of the day explor­ set of freight Fs are backing down 5 rail born in Cleveland, Ohio, and in the early ing the colorful passenger trains at Seattle's to couple up to their train. The car men 1950s my parents, brother and I would King Street Station. It is interesting to note are standing by to blue flag the train and spend Sunday afternoons parked in ourcar that my brother works for American Airlines, give it a standing brake test. If all goes next to busy railroad crossings just watching and I am a passenger conductor for Amtrak. well these engines will be pulling back the trains go by. The two-tone gray and So this is how I came to model the Great past here in about 30 minutes. lightning stripes of the New York Central on Northern. The GN was merged into the streamlined passenger trains are a vivid Burlington Northern in 1970 along with the new SW1500 sits under PA Tower memory to this day, some 45 years later. NP, CB&Q and SP&S. And now, BN and 4whileA its crew takes a lunch break. Yes, And the steam-powered freights of the Santa Fe have merged to form BNSF. things are changing on the GN. The Nickel Plate were "totally awesome." Although I now live in Utah, my modeling "new" Blue image has arrived, and it My maternal grandfather was a wonderful interests always go back to the Northwest. won't be too long before the GN is man who loved to tell stories of his younger My model railroading "career" started merged into the BN. In the background is years ...one I remember was about the time he like so many others... with an A-B-A set of the only E7 the GN sent west in the late helped build the roundhouse in Ashtabula, really cool Lionel Santa Fe Warbonnet F '60s; number 501 was used mostly on the Ohio. He also used to take me up to the sub­ units. But the desire for more detail and pro­ International between Seattle and Van· urban station in East Cleveland. It was a totype fidelity resulted in my switch to HO couver, BC.

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 45 in the early '60s. I remember trying to paint an old Varney cast-metal F-unit in GN colors with Testors Paint and a brush. My quest for better paint jobs began right there. A couple of days after graduating from high school I got a job ... some of that first paycheck went for a Binks airbrush so I didn't have to rely on factory-decorated models. When it came time to plan my very first room-size layout, I had to incorporate proto­ type modehng. I get the greatest thrill from recreating a real scene on my layout. Even the smallest layout can convey the prototype story you want to tell if you adhere to the standards of the real railroad. For example; the Northern Pacific painted all their struc­ tures in a two-tone brown scheme that just shouts NP! So let's take a look at how I planned my layout to incorporate prototype modeling. Then I will tell you about some of the ideas I came up with for scenery base, trackwork and wiring.

A Place for the Railroad So much can be said about layout design that there is even a special interest group (SIG) devoted to it. Opinions on layout design vary considerably, but when it came time to design my layout, one thing that was very important to me was having a single mainline track passing through a scene. It might seem like a small point, but all I saw from the locomotives and cabooses during my years working on the Rio Grande was our mainline. Of course there were times we would come up to or cross other railroads, but for the most part it was just our mainline out there in the country. And that is how the

Great Northern mainline is in Washington State once it turns east at Everett, Washing­ ton. A single main, passing sidings and some tracks to serve industries in each town. More than anything I wanted the layout to convey the feeling of that single-track main out there in the county. On many parts of the layout the single-track mainline is the only track that passes through a scene. Incorporating a layout with a single-track main into the available space became my next project. Since our house doesn't have a useable basement, trackage rights were suc­ cessfully negotiated for our oversized, win­ dowless garage with its drywall-covered walls and ceiling. We decided the cars would be left in the driveway, and the lawn tools From a hilltop overlooking the tracks, we see the Empire Builder come rolling by. could be stored in a small shed. So 1 came up 5With the steep grades behind them, the engineer is now working the train using the with a 24' x 24' layout room, completely clear air brakes - GN passenger Fs did not have dynamic brakes. The railroad felt the space of support pillars, furnaces or water heaters. I would be beUer used for extra water tanks for making steam heat during those cold had heard of layouts in garages before, but northern plains winters. slide fence protects the track from any stray rocks that fall they were always in warmer climates and from the cliffsabove. TheA model Fs are Stewart units with Highliners B units. usually shared the space with the family car. A I wondered if it would work. Since we get IiUle past Tunnel 11 the tracks pass over US Highway 2. Just as the engines of the the fulJ effect of winter here in Utah the first 6AEmpire Builder cross the bridge, a Great Northern Freight Way truck passes under. It's thing I did was to close and seal the auto­ been about ten years since the GN stopped using electric locomotives up here in the matic rolling garage door and remove the mountains, but the power lines that ran alongside the track can still be seen. opener to avoid an accidental opening. Then

46 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 looking at my trackplan will probably see the perfect place for a double-ended staging yard, but for now, I'll live without one. The other thing that I wish I could change is the duck-under, but I wanted to keep the curves as wide as possible to run my full-length passenger trains. The benchwork is L-girder, and the first sub-base layer is conventional plywood, but instead of adding Homasote, I used lIs " dry­ wall. Drywall costs about a fourth as much as Homasote, is available everywhere and is easy to work with. Just score the cut you want to make with a utility knife and the drywall will snap along the line. The track is glued instead of being "spiked." Code 83 flex track and a combina­ tion of Walthers, Atlas and Micro Engineering tumouts are used. You can spike into drywall, but it won't hold for long. The centerline of the track route was drawn (using 30", 34" and 36" curve stencils), then Liquid Nails® (make sure you have adequate ventilation) was applied with a sponge-on-a-stick paint brush along the route of the track and on the bottom of cork ballast snips, which were then allowed to set a few moments before instaUation. Final adjustments can be made before the glue finally sets. The track was attached in the same way. As I move the track gang along, T solder each joint. On curves, I would leave about the last 12" of track unglued and straight so 1 could solder the next piece in place and then proceed to make the track con­ form to the curve. This method produces a smooth curve with no kinks. To create super-elevation, T glue strips of 'Is" square balsa wood on the underside outer

I cut an opening for a regular door and installed a metal all-weather door into the garage door. I then removed all the garage­ door track hardware and walled in the inside of the garage door. A single space heater pro­ vides heat just fine in winter. It's the enclosed oil-radiator type with a thermostat but no moving parts. I didn't want a fan run­ ning in there when no one was around. Now I had a dust-free room with drywall walls and ceiling and a concrete floor painted with cement deck paint. If we ever move the new owners will either have a really nice spare room or will have to install a new garage door to use it again as a garage.

Lavollt Design

My trackplan is nothing more than a con­ very seat is taken in dome-coach 1321 as the Empire Builder makes its way east­ �ward through the Cascade Mountains. Although it is generally thought that the GN tinuous loop. I wasn't interested in building I a double-deck or point-to-point layout. If 1 only called the full-length first-class dome a "Great Dome," every dome car was called had about twice the space I now have, I a Great Dome. would have staging yards at each end, but for the space I have, a continuous loop is Three GP35s hold at the red block controlling the yard lead to the entrance of the just fine. As you can see from the trackplan, Q ainline. The bridge the units are sitting on was built wide enough for two tracks, but I do have a staging track in the center of the carriesOm one track and a vehicle roadway. The state of Washington made a big stink and layout that I call the SP&S Connection mandated the bridge be painted green like all other Washington State bridges because (Spokane, Portland & Seattle). I really do there was a state-maintained road over it. That's why it isn't silver or black like GN love watching the trains run. Some of you bridges. So there!

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 47 One of GN's homebuilt "streamlined" cabooses brings up the g rear of a westbound freight. These cabooses, built at GN's St. edge of the curved cork roadbed. The first strip should start about 6" Cloud (MN) shops, rode on express-car trucks when new, and the before the curve. After the glue has dried, I gently taper about 12 "­ crews really loved the ride they gave. Some details seen in this shot IA" of the ends down with a sanding block to make a gentle transition include the GN-st)'le diamond-shaped milepost marker and more of from no elevation to the full height of the balsa strip. After the track the slide fence, this time the part with over-track protection. has been installed, the rails painted rust color and the plastic ties painted and weathered, the ballast is added. I use Woodland Scenics Some of the action seen in the yard today includes the ballast and their method of mixing dry glue with the ballast, spread­ Northern Pacific transfer job up from Auburn, WA, an east­ ing it out and spraying the whole thing with water mixed with liquid bound1 0 on the next track over and finally the caboose of the detergent. This method produces a very realistic model of mainline North End Hauler local that just arrived. Since this photo was track that is strong, unrnoveableand very sound absorbing. taken, the gondola two cars ahead of the NP caboose was sold by the UP to SP&S and made into a sawdust "chip" car. High Wiring and Train Control wood sides were added, the car was repainted, and it is now If you haven't guessed by now, I like to keep things simple, and serving the saw mills around Portland. nowhere is this so obvious as in the wiring and control of the layout. The whole mainline is one long block. One Innovator 2000 hand-held this general view of the freight locomotive service area, throttle controls the mainline while a second controls the freight yard. a situation exists that can only happen on a model rail­ A bus wire runs the whole length of the mainline with power leads road.11 1nNo, it's not the fact that there are units from the WP (up coming up every 4' to 5'. With the combination of soldered rail joints from the Inside Gateway in California) or the Butte, Anaconda & and the power leads I have smooth running everywhere on the layout. Pacific (lease power because copper prices are down), but Although there are several great modelers in the area that are part because we see both Alco FAs and GE U28Bs in the same shot. of my railroad friends network, it's very hard to get them in one place On the real GN the FAs were traded to GE for parts on the new at the same time, so I do most of the operating by myself...but I do try U28s. Notably the old FAs trucks carried the six new U-boats. On to run the trains in a prototypical manner. That's as simple as running the service track is half of the U28B order.

48 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 Southbound freight passes a sailboat repair building while 12a dredging barge in the harbor deepens the channel. and running. After an adequate distance has been run over a period of Water was made from two-part epoxy_ The building and barge time, it's back into the yard to tie up. Pretty simple, but that whole are kits, and the GP9s were kitbashed from Proto 2000 GP18s. operation takes about an hour and a half or so. And what's most GN ran their Geeps long hood forward. important is that I enjoy runnjng the layout that way.

1n the passenger-power service area we see the power lay­ Some ThOlights on Scenery 13ing over for the Empire Builder in the background and the In previous layouts the thing that drove me crazy was the mess Northcoast Limited in front. This is where the power holds after that scenery construction made. Dipping towels into plaster to make being serviced at Interbay Yard for the GN and Auburn for the hardshell left plaster spots all over the place. I wanted something dif­ NP. Soon they'll be heading out of Seattle for a race across the ferent. Then I saw a product called "Dip and Drape" in a craft store northern plains to meet up again in St. Paul, HN. (Zims) here in Salt Lake City; it is made of very course muslin cloth or cheesecloth that is coated with something similar to a very strong Another model-railroad-only situation. Although the SP&S starch (if you would like a small sample and price list, send me a 14had "Seattle" in its name, it wasn't until the BN merger of SASE at P.O. Box Ill, Sandy, UT 84094). Mountains and valleys 1970 did SP&S units see the third city painted on their sides. But can be made with it using traditional scenery procedures by hot-glu­ who wouldn't love to see this all-Alco lineup again! ing cardboard strips to form a web. Wet newspaper is then laid on the webbing to get an idea of what the scenery contours will look like. Then instead of adding plaster-soaked towels, "Dip and Drape" is applied. It comes in yard square pieces that can be torn into pieces a local, picking up and setting out the loads and empties, bringing that are about 10" square. Here's the neat part. Just dip the pieces into them back to the yard and switching them into a through fre ight. water and lay them on the floor until they soften. Pick up a piece and Then I make up a set of power from the locomotives at the servicing lay it in place on top of the wet newspaper - that is all there is to racks, couple them to the head-end, do an air test and then we're off it...strong as nails, easy as pie. To clean up all you have to do is dry

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 49 Three new SD45s work past Look· 15out Rock where the 2.2% grade to the summit of the Cascades begins. Because of the curve and grade, engi· neers drop the throttle back from Run 8 to about Run 6 to lessen the strain on the drawbars. As the first third of the train rolls by, the SDs on the point can plainly be heard to go to full power and the cars rolling through the curve begin to protest and roll on. All the rocks are plaster cast· ings made from latex molds of real rock from the Cascades.

Business car A-11 moves through 16Fort Wright Junction for movement onto the SP&S. This type of car was great for showing off the railroad to shippers your hands with a towel. I've even done this A cut (where the track "cuts" through a who wanted to see the railway up close. dressed in a suit while waiting for my wife small hill without making a tunnel) can be to get ready for a date. (Woodland Scenics ' made just as the prototype did. First build Plaster Cloth can be used in a similar mOlI­ the roadbed, then build your hill over the Conclusion ne!: - Randy) roadbed just as it would have been before As a conductor with Amtrak, I have plenty To seal the "Dip and Drape" I paint on a the railroad arrived on the scene. Once the of away-From-home layover time. J take loco­ layer of the cheapest latex paint I can get. hill has dried, use a utility knife to remove motives and cars with me to detail during From this point on traditional scenery meth­ ("excavate") the cut, then cover the open these layovers and get much of my modeling ods of layering on grass or underbrush are side walls with more "Dip and Drape." Then done during these times. When I'm home I used. "Dip and Drape's" advantages are that you truly will have scenery that looks like it find I get the most fun watching my trains run it is very clean to work with, it provides a was there first, just like real life. through scenes of the Northwest. And doing very strong "shell" that has a little give so it The rest of the layout was done using tra­ all the research to find what the American won't break if bumped, and unlike plaster, it ditional methods. Hardboard was used for scene looked like in the late '60s also provides won't chip or peel. Trees can be planted by fascia, and black nylon polyester cloth was a lot of fun. If you are in the Salt Lake City poking a hole in the surface with an ice pick used for skirting because it doesn't wrinkle area and want to see the layout, you are wel­ and inserting a tree trunk. or show dirt. come to do so if you can catch me at home. �

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Scale HO (1:87) Layout size 24' x 24' Layout height 54" Locale Washington State Period 1965-1969 Layout style Walk-around L-girder benchwork Roadbed Cork strip on 3//' plywood Track Prefab code 83 Turnouts #8 on mainline, #6 in some yard situations Minimum radius 30" Scenery Dip & Drape over cardboard mesh Backdrop construction Painted directly on plasterboard walls Control Innovator 2000 w/walk-around control

Fort Wright Spokane, Barge Home Jct. Portland & Seattle Connection

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Nodel Railroadi ng I ! Takes a Look At Dee

Reverse Loops and Too Much Else to List

Bachmann 2-8-0 Remember to disconnect any wires connected to pin 3 Part XV before plugging a decoder into a board with a jumper As Randy pointed out in his April editorial Bach­ installed like this otherwise you could fry a transistor. mann has created a superb steam locomotive Finally, you can do what I decided to do and remove with their new consolidation (Photo 1). I already have the board entirely and hardwire the decoder. That's all two of the undecorated version, and they run as good it takes to live with this problem. Hopefully Bach­ as they look. The fact that they have electrical pickup mann will fix this wiring error in future releases of on both sides of the locomotive and tender contributes this great little locomotive. to their exceptional operation. However, there is one problem with the DCC plug in the tender (Photo 2). DYNATROL Basically, six of the eight pins on tl)e plug are wired Earlier this year I reviewed the new DYNATROL backwards - only pin 7 is correct (pin 3 isn't con­ infrared throttle for use with DYNATROL, NCE, nected). Please note that this problem doesn't interfere Wangrow and Ramtraxx DCC systems. Recently with DC operations of the locomotive and it poses no DYNATROL released a new version of the throttle harm to your DCC decoders. that now has support for two auxiliary functions. The symptoms that told me something was wrong Basically they added two push-buttons to the throttle first came to I ight when Randy received the first so now you can con- demo unit in late March. In a phone �'\ conversation he men- DCC tioned that when he lPu nn u u ni1 installed the DCC plug LJ in one orientation the lights wouldn't work and when he reversed the plug the to get the lights to work the loco­ motive went backwards when told to go forward. There is of course a real easy way to resolve this problem-change the direction bit in CV29. trol lights, sounds or other functions. This is easy to do on Wangrow, NCE and Ramtraxx For more information on DYNA­ systems but requires directly changing the CV value TROL systems they can be contacted on most other command stations. To make it easy, just at PSI, 56 Bellis Circle, Cambridge, MA 02140. read the value already in CV29 and change it from an even number to the next higher odd number (e.g., Lenz change a value of 2 to 3). Lenz has been turning outa constant stream of However, some decoders don't support the direc­ new products and announced a new system at Nurem­ tion-bit option so then what do you do? You could burg that reportedly will support 128 speed-step attempt to rewire the Bachmann board - a daunting decoders. Hopefully we'll get more information at the task. A more realistic option is to disconnect the wire NMRA national convention later this summer, but for going to pin 3 and then connect a jumper between now that's all I've heard on that one. The LV 10 I pins 3 and 7 on the decoder plug - now you can power station is another new product that provides reverse the plug. A second option is to remove the new circuitry for cleaner power, fail-safe runaway two small screws holding the board in the tender, flip protection, selectable voltage settings and a 3-amp by Larry Puckett it over, and solder a jumper between pins 3 and 7. rating. It also sports a 6-conductor telco plug that, These two pins are easy to locate since Bachmann although not used now, suggests there's more to Photos by the author labeled them on the underside of the circuit board. come. They also have a new Ll IOO computer inter-

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face and LT lOO module that allows you to easily interface a DCC and DC layout. It's important to protect your decoders and the DC power supply from damage when a DCC locomotive crosses onto the DC seg­ ment of the layout. The most exciting new release, however, is their LEI03KDUS decoder. This new decoder is essen­ tially the same as that installed in the Con-Cor MP 15 and is designed for installation in Atlas, Stewart, Kato, Con-Cor and similar locomotives. Although it snaps in place of the existing light boards of these loco­ motives, it does require minor sol­ dering of the various motor, track and light leads. The DT I OOR is basically the same as the standard This is an advanced feature decoder that supports 4- DTIOO with a radio transmitter and much shorter digit and consist addresses, 28/55 speed steps (55 cord. To achieve the low-cost goal Digitrax designed speed steps are only supported on Lenz command sta­ the DTI OOR as a unidirectional transmitter-only unit. tions with the new software) and I-amp continuous This has some implications for the functionality of motor draw. The best news is the $24.95 MSRP. the DT I OOR since in radio mode it cannot receive Unfortunately, the demo unit arrived too late for me information from Loconet. For example, when to install, test and photograph for this article, so look acquiring a locomotive or for service-mode program­ on my web page and the September DCC Update for ming the DT IOOR must be plugged into a Loconet photos and updates. For more information you can connector. Ops-mode programming is supported also check out their web site at www.lenz.com or while untethered, but route editing is not. write the Lenz Agency of North America, PO Box The fast clock is synchronized with the Chief 143, Chelmsford, MA 01824. when initially plugged in; it then runs off its own internal processor in radio mode. This means that if Digitrax Radio-Equipped your dispatcher changes the fast clock ratio the Throttles DTI OOR will not be updated until it is reconnected to Last time I promised a review of the new Digitrax Loconet. You can build, acquire and break up consists radio throttles so, grab your popcorn and let's go. In when tethered but not in radio mode. One thing to designing their first venture into the wireless revolu­ look out for is the SELISET button. Pushing this but­ tion the folks at Digitrax set a goal of providing an ton in radio mode immediately releases the decoder "intermediate range and low-cost walkaround throttle." The heart of the system is the UR9 l receiver (Photos 3-4). This unit is built into a Bachmann's new 2- UP3 Loconet panel with both a radio receiver 1 8-0 is a real jewel. and an infrared receiver, giving away future It looks good, runs Digitrax plans for an infrared throttle. To add great and comes with a UR9l to your existing Loconet all you have an NMRA Dee plug to do is plug it into the system. This flexibility installed in the tender. makes it easy to find a spot in the layout room that maximizes radio reception. The unit is ThiS is the circuit powered by a l2V transformer that is 2 board in the tender included, so you must locate it near an AC of the 2-8-0. The vari­ outlet. Although only one UR91 is required ous components are for up to ten throttles, more can be installed for the lights and elec­ on a layout in case there are reception dead trical noise reduction. spots. Also, because UR9 1 s can be assigned Pin 1 is at the upper one of eight ID numbers, modular clubs can right end of the Dee use their radio throttles in close proximity at plug, which would be shows without cross-talk problems. the front left end The small antenna consists of two green looking at the tender wires about 3" long which can be adjusted to TRACK from the rear. improve reception. The unit reportedly has a STATUS range of about 150'. As a test I installed mine , LOCONET, ® Here's the Digitrax under the layout in a 20' x 50' room. In spite 3 UR91 radio/infra­ of chicken wire in the scenery and hundreds, UNIVERSAL RECEIVER UR91 red receiver - the if not thousands, of feet of wire, I had no two green wires are reception problems. the antennae.

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address to the system. To reacquire it you must plug in again. This also means that you can't do a status edit in radio mode since once you hit the SEL button you lose the decoder. The only thing that "feels" diffe rent in radio mode is ballistic tracking. The radio transmitter is designed to send a series of repeated signals each time you have to communicate with Loconet. However, because you can have up to ten DT I OORs talking to the same receiver, it is necessary to have a way to pre­ vent conflicts should the signals arrive at the same time. Digiu'ax's solution is to send out a series of sig­ nals repeated in a random pattern. Also, the system Lenz 2-wire buss. On Lenz command stations and waits for you to finish your speed changes before boosters the C and D terminals are clearly marked telling the decoder what to do, and the effect is most and the manual is pretty clear about the fact that the noticeable in ballistic tracking mode. My demo unit wire from the C terminal on one booster should be also had a tendency to occasionally miss reverse com­ attached to the C terminal on the other booster, and mands even when I was standing next to the receiver. the same is true of the D terminals. If for some reason Because this was not a consistent problem I suspect you should reverse these wires so that the C goes to D there may be a dirty contact in the keypad of my and vice versa, then the polarity of your u'ack leads review sample. would be opposite on the two boosters. From the rear of After a locomotive is acquired or you're finished This issue becomes a little more complicated 4 the UR91 you can programming, the unit may be disconnected at which when you go from a 2-wire buss to a 4- or 6-wire see the RJ12 slots for time it will automatically enter radio mode. It only buss as in the case of Wangrow, NCE, Ramu'axx and connecting it to the relies on its battery when in radio mode and will run Digitrax systems. All these systems use flat cables loco net . The sma ll for about 20 hours. If left unplugged for more than with telco connectors on each end to connect among white plug is the about three minutes, it will enter power-saver mode. boosters and command stations. Some manuals are power input from the Once the battery drops below about 6.SV it will beep pretty straightforward about the orientation of the wall-wart transformer. and flash a display "btOX" with the "X" indicating telco plugs, but others aren't. Basically, in all cases how many times the warning has been issued. The you should make sure that the connectors on opposite The DT100R throt­ warning is repeated at five-minute intervals until the ends of the flat cable are attached in opposite orienta­ 5 tle is essentially battery is changed. tion. This is easy to do if you remember one thing, the same as a stan­ Digitrax seems to have another winner on its there's always a ridge molded into one side of the dard DT100 but with a hands, and they seem to have achieved their goals of cable. All you have to do is attach one RJ connector radio transmitter and range and price. The fact that factory original DT I ODs with the pins facing up and the other one with the much shortercord. can be converted to radio-equipped units makes it pins facing down relative to the ridge. Do this and more economical to convert to radio operations. Give your boosters will always have the same polarity at These two shots one a test drive at your dealer soon. the track terminals. 6 show the lenz There is however, one exception - the Digitrax lK100 auto-reverse Getting Your Boosters in Phase DCSlOO (Chief) unit is manufactured with the track module with and Before we get into the subject of reverse loops polarity opposite that of all their boosters. Conse­ without the case. It let's make sure that your boosters are connected cor­ quently if you connect a DCS 100 to a booster and appears that internally rectly. One thing that became apparent recently is that neither are set to auto-reversing, then you will always the circuit uses a cou­ the orientation of the wires between your boosters have a short at the gaps between their power districts. ple relays to reverse controls their polarity - this is true no matter which Naturally, you could just turn on auto-reversing on track feeds. system you own. Let's start with the simplest first, the the DCS 100 or reverse the track connections. Or to

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keep the wiring straightforward, make up a special entire Asheville, NC, yard is in the loop, so let's look buss cable with the RJ connectors facing the same at how we solved the problem. First, we have a long directions. This will change the polarity of the boost­ isolated section in the loop where polarity can be ers relative to the DCS lOO, correcting everything. If reversed, but it's not in a place where a hand-thrown you choose this option, only the cable from the switch or a turnout can be used to do the job. Our DCS \00 to the first booster should be connected with solution was to use detectors to sense the train and this kind of cable. throw a relay at the right time. First I'll explain the theory of how this circuit works, then we'll take a Reverse Loops look at it. As I said a couple issues ago, any time a stretch of We use an optical detection circuit to control track connects back on itself at a turnout it creates a polarity in the reversing section. The optical sensors potential short. In that article I made a few sugges­ are placed between the tracks at the gaps in the rails. tions on how to control track polarity; now let's get When a locomotive pilot passes over the sensor it down to the specifics. First let's look at the simple, blocks out the light which activates the circuit to plain vanilla reverse loop as shown in Figure I. I'm throw the relay. At the other end of the reversing sec­ going to assume that you don't want to go out and tion, another sensor at those rail gaps reverses polar­ purchase another booster just to automate your ity again at the instant the pilot crosses them. To reversing section. The easiest and simplest way to make things a little more complex, this area is under control the polarity is with a simple DPDT (double­ a mountain so we have to provide small 12V light pole double-throw) switch. All you have to do is wire bulbs directly over the sensors. Now let's go over the the contacts in the time-honored crisscross pattern circuit itself. and wire it into the loop as shown in Figure I. Test This circuit uses a NAND gate latching flip-flop the switch settings so that you know which way you configuration (Figure 3). That may sound like a lot of won't get a short when you enter the loop and mark it electrical mumbo-jumbo, but it is an important con­ accordingly. Now all you have to do is flip the switch sideration since it means that once the circuit is acti­ by hand once your locos are in the isolated section of vated by the loco passing over the sensor as it enters the loop and you'll be set to exit it safely. the reversing loop, it will stay that way until it is reset But, how will you know whether the polarity of by the loco passing over the other sensor as it leaves the loop is COlTect or not? All you have to do is wire the loop. (If you'd like to learn more about the logic an LED with a lK-ohm resistor or a 12-14V light bulb involved in these types of circuits I recommend the across the rail gap - if the light is on, the polarities Radio Shack book Getting Started in Electronics). are opposite and the switch needs to be thrown; if its Most other optical sensor circuits are only activated off, then the polarities are the same and it's safe to while light is prevented from reaching the sensor and enter the loop. This simple approach can be used at then release as soon as the path is clear, which wouldn't any rail gap on your layout. work with a reversing loop unless you had a string of Okay, that's the low tech approach, but what them installed throughout the loop. about hidden or inaccessible loops? This is pretty The optical sensors we use are a couple Darling­ simple too, all you have to do is use accessory con­ ton photo-transistors that act like a switch and are tacts on the switch machine controlling the turnoutat activated by ambient light. You could also use other the entry/exit point of the loop to activate a relay. types of photo-transistors as long as the off resistance Wire the relay just like the reversing switch I showed is high enough to trigger the NAND gate. I tried sub­ you above and as shown in Figure I. Now when you stituting Radio Shack's CDS cells but the off resis­ throw the turnout to enter the loop the polarity will tance was not high enough, and I doubt they'd be fast be correct. Once the train is completely in the reverse enough to do the job. You could also use an infrared loop, throw the turnout to leave the loop and the emitter/photo-transistor pair. The photo-transistors relay will reverse the polarity for you. You may have are small enough to fit in a small hole drilled between to reverse a couple wires to get this set up for your the ties. We install a small length of brass tube big layout, but after that it will reliably keep your polar­ enough for the photo-transistor to fit into and slide it ity correct. into place from beneath the layout. By sliding them As I said, these approaches work with simple up and down in the tube you can adjust the sensitivity reverse loops, but what about more complex situa­ of the photo-transistor somewhat. tions with crossovers and other loops within the loop The rest of the circuit is pretty straightforward - as shown in Figure 2? We have just such a reverse when the NAND gate is activated, it turns on the loop on our Western North Carolina Railroad - the 2222A transistor which trips the relay, reversing the

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Here's your plain­ lvanilla reverse loop with a manual DPDT switch controlling polarity on the top + and a relay on the bottom. Notice how the frog is power Turnout activated relay 1 routed as well.

ThingS usually are a 2little more complex 12volt 12 volt 12 volt 12volt on most layouts like R4 this situation with r--.--"l/V'--_- 24 volt ml,Jltiple crossovers. By limiting the reverse Relay R2 loop to an isolated segment as shown 2 with the gaps, you can still control polarity.

01 + The circuit for the C2 i 3reverse loop shown in Figure 2. Just place the photo-transistors at the rail gaps and wire the relay to switch polarity just like I showed in Figure 1. U1 : 4001 quad dual NAND gate C2: 5 mF, 50 v electrolytic capacitor 01 , 02: 3036 Photo Darlington transistor R1 . 5 K ohm re sistor 03: 2222a NPI\I transistcr R2, R3: 47 K ohm re sistQr Vt 7B12 Vol tage regulator R4: 220 K ohm resistor Re lay 24 volt DPDT rei 3 C1 : 470 mF, 50 v electrolytic capacitor a!

polarity to the track. Relay contacts are wired in the locos that have left-side pickup only on the tender. The same reverse pattern as described above - again you other option is the Lenz LK I 00 reverse -loop module may have to fiddle with the wiring to get it set up cor­ (Photo 6). This device is wired between the track rectly on your layout. Power for the circuit is 24V DC feeds on the main and the track feeds for the reversing since I used a 24V relay. A 7812 voltage regulator pro­ loop. If a sholt is detected as a locomotive crosses the vides the 12V used in the rest of the circuit. You could rail gaps the circuit will detect it and reverse polarity use a 12V relay and 12V power supply in which case automatically just like an auto-reversing booster. The a 7808 voltage regulator can be substituted. In either LKlOO is rated at up to 10 amps and has a small exter­ case the 12V and 24V inputs are nomjnal since a relay nal pot for adjusting sensitivity - if set too low, the will usually hold at a much lower voltage - the 24V booster may shut down; if set too high, it will chatter relay for example will reliably hold at 16-18y' away due to dirt on the track. These can also be used The main drawback to this type of circuit is that it to control polarity of wyes and turntables which pose won't work if you like to run in the dark or low-light a problem similar to reverse loops. The Lenz literature conditions. We have several of these scattered around has excellent information on installation and use of under the layout with light bulbs providing the light these with detectors and manual switches (for your source but only one installation dependent on room analog locos). This material is posted on their web lights, controlling the polarity of our wye. If you need page (www.lenz.com) so take a look at what it can do. to install one of these in the open and still have it work in low-light conditions, you could disguise a Down The Track Ijght source. For example you could use infrared LED Next time l'm going to make a real effort to get emitters installed in a signal bridge or overpass those stationary decoders working. My web page at directly over the infrared photo-transistors. Because http://www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/667 5 is up the infrared LED light is invisible you'll never notice and running and since the counter keeps going up it even in the dark. you're not having trouble finding it. There's a link to For those of you who don't want to make your own it on the Model Railroading web page (www.model­ reversing circuits, there are a couple off-the-shelf railroadingmag.com) too. Look for the next article in options. I've mentioned Loy's Toys reversing circuit the September issue. Unti! then, stay on the right before, but remember that it won't work with steam track and don't run out of steam. �

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INSTALLING DIGITAL COMMAND CONTROL ON A HOME LAYOUT

Part 9: view Fran the Cab••• wor kin ' for the

railroad 1 - The perspective from the engineer's seat is a different way to operate our miniature railroads. Converting your cab control layout to DCC helps in building by Jim Mansfield railroad drama on your layout.

Photos by the author have two or three jobs working the yard lead, part, to any layout and control system, their it was either not possible or not all that much superdetailing becomes much more fun with can't really put my finger on the reason, fun to do. The five-track Tortilla Flats yard DCC. DCC changes the way we railroad. but I feel that we cab-control types are a has no less than eleven blocks, including the The true change is not the elimination of cab Ispecial breed when it comes to realizing the drill tracks. Whj[e it was possible to get three control. It is not even having the ability to advantages DCC brings to our home layouts, engines in and out of the yard during switch­ pack more operating engines together in a don't you? Maybe it is because when we do ing and the like, keeping track of all those given area. The real DCC value added is how the simple DCC wiring (compared to our cab blocks took some of the enjoyment out of we can now realistically intermingle the systems), the enjoyment of the layout soars. running trains. As it turned out, if two jobs crews and jobs simultaneously in a real rail­ The people who have never experienced cab stayed on opposite ends of the yard during road environment. control say they can't imagine building and switching, it was okay, but if one job went to running a layout with all those block switches. the other end of the yard or a train, even a Railroad Jobs on the Layout We have been through the experience and thru train, entered the yard, the moment was The ease with which we can run our DCC­ don't need to imagine such affairs. All of us, lost during the changing of the block equipped layout is a key to using realistic rail­ having actually transcended the cab-control switches. It did beat having the yard as a sin­ road jobs on the layout. With DC, while we experience, gain a newness to our hobby that gle block when it came to moving trains dur­ can run prototypically slow speeds and not the "can't imagine" types will never have. Our ing operations. compress time with the use of a fast clock dur­ experience is almost mystical in proportions. Well, handling two or three jobs and a ing operation sessions, cab control still affects After years of layout building, the DCC con­ working train is not even a problem now. Just the realism of our operating schemes. A case version took in comparison but an instant in like a real yard, it is simply a matter of mov­ in point: if your yard is one electrical block in time. It is as if an obliging medieval sorcerer ing the pieces around the game board. Now, the cab-control world, the scheduling of trains transformed the layout into a whole new cre­ we just need to see how all that movin' about is directly dependent on a single usage of the ation with a few passes of his wand. is accomplished in the miniature railroad way. yard. What I mean here is that if a yard or The limits that we (you and I) have Before we can fu lly harvest the benefits train crew is scheduled to work in the yard, all always had to deal with when model rail­ of DCC, we need to glean some details from other jobs and trains must stay out of the yard roading kept us from a realistic working the jobs on the real railroad. While the fol­ and wait their turn. Therefore, to keep jobs environment. Even though we wanted to lowing job summaries apply, for the most and trains from sitting around in passing

58 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 lesson from the prototype. The old Alton & Southern's double-hump Gateway Yard in East St. Louis routinely doubles and triples trains into and out of the yard. Yet another example of prototype railroading supporting miniature railroading and Dec. Before we tour the magician's garden, let us leaf through the job description manual and look at some of the enhancements that we can make to some traditional railroad jobs we include on our Dee layouts.

The Dee Engineer Last time, we looked in some detail at the very simple move of going out on the main­ line and yarding a train. We discussed the engineer's activity for both the Level 2 2 - Yo u just came on as the To rti lla Flats yardmaster and the sheet gives you method, where the train is MU'd to the the following rundown: 1) The 2nd class southbound SP train in track 0 is ready switch engine, and the Level 3 preferred to pull out on the SP main and immediately turn right in front of the JWRR train method, where the switcher is MU'd to the to go across the field to the Arabela Eastern, 2) the paused north bound JWRR road engines. (FYI: The Level I solution is train is a 1st class freight on its way to Gran Quivera that needs to have its bot­ for a cab-control system requiring the road tom block swapped with the cut of totes in the SP pocket. and 3) the yard job on engine to be parked exactly at the rail gaps the lead is for your bidding to do the switch on the JWRR train (note: once you between two blocks so that the switcher can pull the cut in the pocket. the track goes back to the Corn operator and you can­ couple to the front of the train.) not use it anymore). In addition, there is a 3rd class JWRR down train that can, if We also started thinking about how the need be, meet the JWRR northbound at To olong siding before proceeding different throttle functions equate to the real through the yard and out onto the SP mainline. The only open track in the yard world. When we start thinking in terms of is the mainline which is next to track O. It's your move! removing the reverser lever from the control stand instead of "dispatching a unit or engine tracks or at junctions waiting to enter the yard, Now we can start looking at our yard oper­ to common," we see one way that miniature it is best not to schedule trains and such to ations (and yard design) in a more realistic rai Iroading and model rai lroading differ. arrive at the yard until it is their turn to get in way. One example: say a prototype rail yard As a couple of examples, I am going to and do some switching. departs 15 trains in a 24 hour period and that use a Digitrax DTIOO. While specific to this With Dee though, we can plan on having it takes at least six yard crews (three shifts, throttle, the same operations are performed more jobs and trains in and about the yard. I two per shift). There also might be a trim on any full-function throttle. say about, because a train may sit for a cou­ engine in the yard aiding in the train-building Let's start with speed control. We want to ple of minutes waiting for a yard job to clear process. If we miniaturize this activity, we represent the eight-position throttle lever, the the lead by shoving their cut into a yard could say that we need a dedicated yard crew train brake and the engine brake. The DT I 00 track. There might even be other activities for every two trains we build. If we choose to contains both a speed knob and a set of push­ going on in another track higher up the lad­ build trains in our yards instead of staging buttons. These buttons are a very fine con­ der that could be fouling the lead. Here, a them, we can employ extra crews doing some trol, and having both the knob and the train waiting for a switcher crew to finish a real railroading. Notice we are starting to shift buttons allows us to miniaturize the engine move is a lot different than a train waiting for from the "beyond the basement" scheme to control stand. These (+) and (-) buttons are a complete switch (or classification) to be the "build them if you run them" scheme. It is great for starting a long train, especially as made. The former might take three or four a lot of fun building trains using multiple the slack is pulled out. The control (I % of minutes while the latter could take at least 15 crews. And, while some are building trains, maximum power change per a tap of either minutes. The tirst is standard operating pro­ there can be other crews reclassifying inbound button) gives exacting command during a cedure for the real railroads. The second is trains and other yard chores. "white-knuckle" pull and during helper ser­ what we could call a Level l model railroad­ Now, of course, this makes the yardmas­ vice. Great fun starts when we combine the ing operating scheme. ter job more fun. It allows your yardmasters use of both types of speed controls to operate With the addition of more crews to the to make their own decisions and plan their a train. It gets even better when the controls yard operations - without the old need of own yard work instead of being driven only are linked with the acceleration and decelera­ cab control - we can more closely approxi­ by the schedule. If a yardmaster needs to tion rates programmed into the decoder. To mate both the prototype operations and the depart trains in order to make room for in­ simulate the slowing of a train, three separate job descriptions of the various railroad jobs bounds, they may consider it more important operations need to be considered while using we use on the miniature railroad. With the to have a couple of yard crews finish their the hand-held. The first is the eight-notch capabi]jty of more activity in the yard, more moves before receiving a train. throttle. The second is the train brake and the of your operators can be running and switch­ There is a funny game played between third is the engine brake. ing at any given time. With the increase in the yardmasters and trainmasters. The yardmas­ Once a train is started using the (+) button, number of jobs active at any given time, the ter wants to depart trains to empty the yards I simulate the eight-notch throttle with a com­ dependence on hidden staging is decreased. If while the trainmaster is trying to yard trains bination of programmed acceleration and we can keep more jobs going at once by hav­ to open up the mainline. The more trains and deceleration plus a quick twist of the knob. ing a higher job capacity yard (and mainline crews you pack together in a Dee-controlled With practice, you can change the speed set­ or industrial district), we can employ a larger yard limit, the more this interaction comes ting in the hand-held by about 10%-12% per workforce. We therefore need fewer trains to into play. Once again, it is the interaction of each twist. This portion of the speed-control keep operators occupied. And the really good the players that helps set a Dee layout apart process is best when you change the throttle news is that yard jobs and working trains from De cab control. setting by only one or two "notches" at a time. making set-outs and pick-ups (especially all If your yard tracks are not long enough to When slowing or coming to a complete at the same time) can be a lot of fun. build and receive full-length trains, take a stop, we need to add the effects of both the

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 59 train brake and the engine brake. To simulate a heavy train brake application on the Jersey Western, we use four or five quick taps of the (-) key. Once again, you do not want to make more than two or three applications in quick succession - you may draw off all the air and lose your brakes! The engine brake is simulated with a single tap of the (-) key. With a little practice running light engine (no train brake) and with a train, you can add a bit of realism to the engineer job. Remember, if your switchman did not run the air on the cut of cars you are moving, you can­ <::0 not use the train brake. It is different stopping a . 20-car cut with air and a 20-car cut without air .. " ) . if you play the game correctly. Without air, �.. ;..� .. . � � stopping is accomplished by rocking the throt­ � I I tie lever between two adjacent notches with the 3 - "That'" do. need to align the drawheads." mean, just how realistic could engine brake used only at slow speeds. At slow the operations possibly be on a layout that tolerates this type of nonsense? Yo u switching speeds (1-2 mph), the reverser lever be the judge. can be used to change direction. The reverser lever (the direction buttons) can also be used to eyesight across the railroad room is not an switchmen, walking around the miniature help slow a cut in the 2-3 mph range. allowed form of communication. machinery on the layout. On the other end of Another prototype action we DCC minia­ And, speaking of radio, we here at the the stick, a typical but not so obvious element ture types can simulate is, of course, using Jersey Western do not use headsets during is getting between the cars to bend one of the the function keys to turn on lights and air operations - we just speak out loud using air hoses so that you can engage the glad horns. No other control system gives this FCC rules. (We are all in the same room, hands on the ends of the two hoses. Not only type of detail to the engineer's job. even the dispatcher.) However, there is a rea­ do we need to allow time for this action, we Our final example of the DCC enhance­ son we could be talked into using head­ must also protect ourselves from injury. We ment to the engine driver's job is the ease (no phones - engine sounds piped into the need to ensure the cars are not moving (slack block switches to throw) with which we can headset. Think about it! action), ensure the engineer and the rest of drop off switchmen at the end of a cut, allow the crew members know you are in there a switchman to look for a car number from a The Dee Switchman between the cars, and be careful not to slip or moving engine instead of walking the ground This is the job I consider the most inter­ trip while connecting the hoses. on foot, and cut-offand run to the yard office esting of the jobs on the railroad. Figuring When you are setting up your fundamen­ to fi ll the water jug (a classic engineer's switches, making couplings and being on the tals training course, you will need to give responsibility) or pick up a switch list. All ground among all the machinery is real rail­ instruction in both the physical and the meta­ kinds of small tasks become apparent with roading. After all, the North American rail physical. While the uncoupling of a car DCC. You can even go by the parking lot and system is but one gigantic machine. (pulling the cut lever) on the layout may be pick up your lunch from the wife. We're not Getting out of the engine and walking done in diffe rent ways (magnets, uncoupling in Kansas any more ... around on the ground is a diffe rent way to tool, picking up the cars), the other fundamen­ With all of this going on in the cab via the play trains on our layouts. While not as dan­ tals need to be discussed and demonstrated. hand-held, you can actually feel you are the gerous as the real railroad, a lot of the activ­ We need to teach our miniature operators the engineer in the locomotive on the layout. This, ity is the same and can be miniaturized with how's and when's of the basic tasks of rail­ of course, means that you need to stay in the the use of a little imagination. road switching. We need to discuss all the dif­ cab. This also means that your field of view is The best way to approach this miniatur­ ferent things it takes to couple on to a car and only that which can be seen out of the cab ization is to follow the procedure when you cut in the air. If we can give our operators a windows from the engineer's seat. A good first hire out on the railroad as a switchman. sense of what goes on, they can think through example: If you as the engineer are shoving a We use this prototypical method of training the actions as they play trains. On the real rail­ long cut of cars down a lead into a track in a on the layout for operators who want to learn road, you think about what you are doing any­ full yard, you will not be able to see the bot­ the railroad game. Just like our counterparts time you are working. On the miniature tom of the cut when it is hidden by cars in the in the real world, our railroad operating railroad, for those details we cannot actually other yard tracks. Therefore, you do not watch methods are specific to the JWRR, but the do, we at least think about them as if we were. the end of the cut of cars, but rather only those fundamentals are pretty much the same as It just doesn't get any closer. in the close vicinity of your engine. Most of the rest of the (miniature) railroad world. In an upcoming On Track series, I am us are used to running the engine and watch­ One needs to know how to couple and planning to discuss the fi ner points of cub­ ing the bottom of the cut when switching. In uncouple, converse with the rest of the bing and becoming a switchman on the Jer­ miniature railroading, though, the end of the ground crew and engine in terms of car sey Western. cut is worked by a switchman riding on the lengths, and how to start and stop the engine side of the last car. The engineer watches for from the ground. Throwing turnoutsand fig­ The Dee Ya rdmaster hand signals and listens for radio instructions. urin' switchin' moves rounds out the minia­ If you like to take the role of yardmaster, If, during the course of the move, your ture three-dimensional skills you need as a be prepared for a fu ture shock. When a train engine goes where you cannot see it anymore switchman. pulls into the yard, you can have three crews (like into a tunnel), you watch the cars that In the miniature world, there is another working the cars while the road engine goes you can see where the engine disappeared dimension that we live in. The one I'm speak­ to the shop for fuel. All those little moves and not the end of the train or cut. Even if the ing of here is not time, but is rather a mental you always wanted to make to speed things very end is all you see, you still are only con­ dimension whereby we imagine those activi­ up or make them simpler are now available. cerned with speed and how you start and stop. ties that we must allow time for but are not As every yardmaster in every yard has Communication between the ground and the really performed on the layout. The most their own tricks of the trade, it is difficult to engine is by either hand signals or radio - obvious element of the dimension is we, as speak in general terms when discussing this

60 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 job. In the aforementioned series, I will be and finds that his twin brother has aged 20 location on your layout more interesting, larger discussing the details of a couple of Jersey years while he has aged only one year. and busier. And, above all, much more realis­ We stern yardmaster jobs. Track planning takes on a whole new atti­ tic. When you are walking the length of the tude. If your mainline is only a mile and a yard between two cuts of cars, your whole Miniature Railroading and Dee half long, then you treat it that way. You world becomes 3' wide by 1,300' long. Now that we have had a basic look at design yards, industries and switching moves Whether ten trains go through once or one three of the railroading jobs on the Jersey to be interesting when you are "walking" train goes through ten times, your world is still We stern, let's turn our attention to that elu­ about on the layout, instead of rushing train that strip of land. With DeC, you will need to sive term we often use - "miniature rail­ after train through your yard while doing be careful while you are on the ground. Now, roading." Historically, there has been lively switching that can only satisfy the turbo­ instead of just one train working the lead, there discussion concerning the various meanings clock. Here, the train crews take their sweet might be two or three. Be careful out there! of the term model railroading. I am going to time doing a set-out or a pick-up. We have worked this type of scale rail­ give you my vision of toy trains and hope­ We can use slow speeds and even slack­ roading for 20 years and feel it is railroading fu lly it will stir you to look at the hobby with offto ensure a coupling as a first attempt to in miniature. Maybe that is why we can oper­ a different point of view. make the switch "realistic" under turbo­ ate for three hours, use only six to eight trains To statt, here is a short list we here at the clock: it is all the time allowed by the sched­ and have never really felt the need to rely on JWRR fe el miniature railroading is not. It is ule. In contrast, the miniature train crew must lots of staging. At most, we may stage a train not using a fast clock. It is not focusing on the also "connect" the air hoses at all couplings or two, and a transfer cut in passing tracks. trains as "actors in a play." It is not relying on they make (both in the yard track and back to We generally try to build at least as many the sheer number of trains used during an the train) and slowly cut in the air to keep trains during a session as we pre-stage prior operating session to provide a large portion of from "busting" it by opening the angle cock to a session. Many times the staging is taken the railroading enjoyment. Finally, it is not too quickly. Additionally, if the train is a cat'e of by itself from previous train running. depending heavily on hidden staging. local crew, the ground man may even need to The trainmaster makes the calls here. What miniature railroading is, is (figura­ walk the cut to ensure all couplings and Like our heroes, we really prefer to build tively) getting out of the air-conditioned hoses are made throughout the cut of cars. trains from scratch before we run them rather automobile or out from behind the camera He might even check to see that all angle than just set out or pick up a few cars while and becoming a cast member on the layout. cocks are open, except the one on the bot­ they are on the road. We do that also, but This wee-folk approach is where the philoso­ tom, of course. The crew man would then building trains adds a lot to the miniature phy starts for your transition from model to catch the bottom of the cut and ride it out to railroad drama we all create on our layouts. miniature. '''Tis a far, far better thing ..." the turnout where the cut is going to be After all, the real railroads do not use staging The reason the philosophy starts here is turned-back prior to coupling back to the tracks just so they can have a lot of trains to that the operators/actors on your layout train. If there is a man on the ground at the operate. I know it is not the way our hobby's become the cast that operates your railroad. location where the turn-back is to be made, "thoroughly modern Millies" suggest we The goal here is to have the operators become the man on the bottom might drop off along should have fun, but like the bumblebee ... We the operating focus while using the trains as the yard lead and walk to the location where find it more fun to switch-n-run the way the they should be used - as props on the stage. the coupling is going to be made to the train. real railroaders do instead of using some An important point: As you apply more Once the move is made, the engineer contrived scheme that gets farther and fa rther and more of what you learn about the jobs on might back a short train to pick up the crew­ away from the real thing for the sake of pure your miniature railroad, you will soon realize men on the ground or sit until the crewmen model railroading. Something just does not that it takes as long to do a switch on our lay­ walk to the engine. Remember, this walk sound right there! outs as it does on the prototype. In fact, the takes four or five seconds per car length. If If you feel that the pure linear track only difference in time passage on the layout the walking crewmen are 20 cars deep, the design with lots of hidden staging and the is the time spent moving the extra distance train will sit for about a minute and a half use of a fast clock is a bit far-fetched as a the real crew travels in a real-size yard. If until it can move. Now, during this time the method to model railroad, try the miniature your yard is 15 cars long and a real yard is engineer will be pumping off the brakes railroading approach with your "new" DeC 60 cars long, naturally the increase in length (can't you just hear the pssss of the 3-way layout. By using DeC, even our passe skerti (45 car lengths) makes the trip to the other valves and see/hear the tension in the slack bowls can become realistic. DeC can add end four times longer for the real crew. But relaxing?) and contacting yardmasters, etc., life to our smaller pikes and give us a simple the starting and stopping speeds, throwing of so he can slack off as soon as the crew is alternative to the expensive and difficult-to­ turnouts, running air, knocking off brakes, back on the engine. Notice, if you still use build double-deck layout affairs. We no slacking off and the rest of the job details cabeese on your layout, there is also the longer need to stand in awe of the recent take just as long on the layout as they do in other end of the train to think about. A sim­ crop of layout design gurus selling their sim­ the local railyard. ple pick-up move like this might well take a plistic trackplan design schemes. We, the If a prototype siding and a layout siding dozen actual minutes on a pure miniature oppressed and downtrodden sketti-bowler are the same length (say 300,), swapping an railroad. Lots of time to appreciate the details huddled masses, can now hold our heads empty for a load is going to take the same on the layout, rolling stock included. high at the next NMRA national convention ' amount of time. Now, let's say this switch Another advantage of the miniature rail­ No more of this "Hey, pasta boy... " takes a real switching crew ten minutes, start road pace is that a 15' layout freight yat'd actu­ DeC? Simply a better means to a com­ to finish. FUlther, both the full-size crew and ally becomes a quarter of a mile long. We mon end. the miniature crew use realistic speeds and miniature types get so focused on this "large" Well, let's see ... Oh yes, that's it. The work in a safe manner. When the real crew area that the same mainline train going through series is over. Hope you have learned some­ gets back on the engine and looks at their the scene a couple of times during a switching thing through our apprenticeship. I know we watches, only ten minutes have passed. If we crew's moves does not detract from the opera­ sure did. on the layout look at our watches, ten minutes tions of either of the crews. The road crew is Whether you are just noodling around by have also gone by. But, if we look at a 6 to I concentrating on the tracks and trafficof which yourself, making music jamming with some turbo clock, 60 minutes have passed. Kind of they are a part, and the yard crew simply friends or performing the play for the magi­ reminds me of the twin paradox in the theory senses that they are working in a large and cian's birthday, your magic garden becomes of relativity. You know, one twin gets in a busy yard. In fact, the multiple pass makes the a whole new world with Dec. space ship and flies around for a year at the small yard seem larger and much busier. As A Dee-equipped layout is most defi- speed of light. Then he comes back to earth you can see, miniature railroading makes evelY nitely the acme of swat. �

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 61 AT LANTIC COAST LINE EMD E7

by Jim Six / Model photos by the author, others as indicated

YOU READ THROUGH THIS ARTICLE be made. Right now, my feelings have shifted With the mainlines of these two railroads sand look over the accompanying pic­ from disappointment to "so what?" forming an East Coast corridor between the Atures I ask that you keep in mind the philos­ Though none of my diesels, freight cars, Northeast and Florida, the competition for ophy of its author. Though among the earliest cabooses and other railroad models ever passenger traffic along the route was intense. of the so-called "prototype modelers" I have attained perfection, I findmost to be realistic Both railroads fielded magnificent passenger for the past dozen or so years drifted away representations of the "real thing." If one trains that many winter-traveling "snow from trying to be a "purist" as I have encoun­ takes a few steps away from all those trees, birds" came to know. The cold Northeastern tered one obstacle after another. Following a then one can better see the forest. In this winters drove the passenger business up in lengthy and sometimes painful struggle, I case I was so focused upon boxcar ends, the months of November through March. have finally decided to return to my roots, brake wheels, air-brake type, builder's date, Because of the "Florida" traffic, quality pas­ that is, making model building a greater goal etc., that I lost sight of what it was in the senger service on these two railroads out­ than strict adherence to the prototype. hobby that pleases me most. That is building lasted that of most other Class-I rai Imads in I chose to place "realism" above "accu­ and operating realistic models. Ye p, it finally the continental United States. racy." Hold on now. Realism and accuracy came to me that "realism" and "accuracy" The ACL moved more than fruit and veg­ are akin, but definitely not the same thing. are not the same. Where accuracy is deter­ etables. Popular passenger trains like the Sure, accuracy is a key ingredient in the mined by scale rulers and other instruments east and west coast Champions, Miamiall, search for realism, but I believe that accu­ of measure, realism on the other hand is City of Miami, Everglades, Pa lmetto, South racy is being overplayed by far too many measured in the mind's eye - not on the Willd, Va calioner, along with seasonal trains respected model builders. I see far too many meter of some scale. 'N uff said. such as the Florida Special, Gulf Coast Spe­ accurate models that are not very realistic. A study of Southeastern railroad history cial and Havana Special were all well Something is wrong there. reveals that three great railroads linked the known by Coast Line patrons. Trains were So, what brought this on? In recent years nation's capital with the Deep South and well maintained and fielded the latest of I had not enjoyed model railroading as much sunny Florida ... the Atlantic Coast Line, the equipment. The ACL was among the first as I did in years past. How so? When model Seaboard Air Line and the Southern Rail­ railroads to dieselize and, in fact, committed building becomes a chore and frustration way. While the ACL and the Seaboard pene­ to repowering its passenger trains with sets in, it is time for a change. For me, model trated deep into Florida, the Southern diesels before the outbreak of the WWll as railroading is not a "vocation," but simply a stopped at Jacksonville (the small town of E3 and E6 streamlined diesels from EMC hobby. I had drifted afar from this, taking my Palatka). The often-heated competition took charge of the railroad's varnish. model building far too seriously. Failure to between the Coast Line and Seaboard was With 1945 came the end of the war and achieve the "perfect" model caused frustra­ due to one simple economic fact - three­ the return of Americans to interstate travel. tion. Being assailed by self-proclaimed fourths of both railmads closely paralleled Airlines were in their infancy, and the inter­ "experts" hasn't helped either! one another, competing for traffic at almost state highway system was but a conception Let's face it. Constant pursuit of perfection all the same cities. Other than the Washing­ in dreamers' minds. Penned up by four long is akin to a cat chasing its tail. It took me ton-to-Florida through trains, both the Coast years of war, returningservicemen and their nearly 20 years to figure this out, but the pic­ Line and the Seaboard provided passenger fa milies took to the rails for interstate travel ture is now very clear. No matter how hard you service between Richmond, Charleston, in a big way. To meet this increased demand try, compromises have to be made, and as sure Savannah, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa, the ACL returned to Electro-Motive for still as the sun will rise again in the east, errors will Birmingham, Montgomery and Jacksonville. more sleek "E-Units," as their passenger

The factory-applied side let1terinQlltFt -bl 526 was removed from this fac­ tory-decorated model and re[lIa(:EIIII larger Microscale decal lettering without damaging the paint. diesels came to be known. By that time equipment. Until recently, the E6 was out of production and passenger diesels where replaced by the improved E7 which as big a concern. went on to become Electro-Motive's The significant pres­ best-selling passenger locomotive. ence of passenger trai ns Even before the war ended, addi­ on the ACL and Seaboard tional new diesels were needed, and an concerned me from the order was placed with Electro-Motive. first moment I committed In early 1945 new E7s began to arrive to modeling a Southeast­ on the property. Units 524 and 525 The fact the Life-Like didn't quite capture the correct cab ern setting. Unlike Penn­ were delivered in March 1945, fol­ nose contour is most apparent on E units with a stripe or sylvania, Reading, Santa lowed by 526-528 in April, the 529 in change of color directly under the cab side windows. Despite Fe and a few other rail­ June and the 530 and 531 in August. this shortcoming, the Proto 2000 E7 is still a great model. roads, there are precious Units 532-537 arrived few HO scale models that during June 1946 and the accurately match the passenger cars of 538-543 came in July these two railroads. 1948. As you can see from Well, Life-Like has taken care of the these delivery dates, as locomotive problem with its E7 and E8 customer demand for raiI Proto 2000 diesels. They even offer a service grew, so did the Proto 2000 PA that can be tweaked to Coast Line's appetite for match those of the Southern. Almost motive power. unbelievably, Life-Like will grace us In all, the ACL added with a Proto 2000 E6 in the not-too-dis­ 20 E7 A-units to its roster. tant future. This locomotive is virtually In addition to these "cab" identical to the E3 and E4 units oper­ diesels, several cabless ated by the Coast Line and the B-units were acquired. Seaboard as well. Yes sir, things are The 755-B came in March Subtle weathering on a "clean" locomotive brings out looking better all the time. This chal- 1945 splicing the 524 and truck details and eliminates clean between-unit areas that lenge will be addressed at a later date. 525 into a sleek A-B-A didn't get the benefit of being scrubbed when run The Life-Like Proto 2000 E7 is one of set. The 756-B, 757-B and through the wash rack. the better HO-scale diesel models avail­ 758-B arrived during April able. It is powerful, smooth running, 1945, the 759-B and 760-B in June 1945 and some had small numberboards with the tall nicely detailed, and like other Proto 2000 the 761-B through 764-B in August 1945. No shutter-vents. Then there were those with diesels, rides the wave of excellent factory­ additional B-units were added, putting the buy-eye numberboards with over-and-under applied paint that the hobby has seen in ACL's roster of E7s at 20 A-units and 10 vents and a last group with bug-eye number­ recent years. The ACL E7 models are no B-units, or ten classic A-B-A sets. boards and the tall shutter-vents. If you are exception. Layout and colors are very close The ACL's fleet of Electro-Motive E7 modeling an ACL E7 in the "purple era" and to that of the prototype, and application is E-units can be broken into four groups by want the model's detail to match a specific truly as good as or better than custom. spotting features. Early units were equipped locomotive, then I suggest that you refer to The Proto 2000 E7 may be a good model, with the small numberboards which necessi­ Atlantic Coast Line the Diesel Ye ars.' but I am a firm believer that no matter how tated the Coast Line to paint large numbers good a model is, out of the box it isn't very on both sides of the nose. Later units sported The Model realistic. All models have a finish that is less the larger so-called bug-eye numberboards Depending upon how serious you are that were typical of sister F-units. To the rear ( about your rolling stock matching specific of the cab side doors were cal'body vents. prototypes, modeling any particular railroad 'Atlantic Coast Line the Diesel Years, Wa r­ Early units had chicken-wire grilles covering can be a pressing challenge. While more and ren Calloway, Withers Publishing, July 1993. these pairs of over-and-under openings. more "accurate" freight cars are coming out This hardbound book depicts all classes of Other units had tall sets of shudder-like every month, passenger cars are another ACLdiesel locomotives with numerous pho­ vents. Interestingly, some E7s had small story. There just aren't the available passen­ tographs showing virtually every variation numberboards with the over-and-under vents, ger cars available when compared to freight of diesel locomotive fielded by the ACL.

Addition of a few deta to make this Proto 2000 A pair of ACl E7s with 528 in the lead headed up the University of Kentucky football special to the game with the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, on November 3, 1950. Note vent chicken-wire grilles behind cab door. William J. Husa, Jr.,

than believable. I accordingly. There suggest that the least are two methods to we should do is to come up with the straighten out rail­ large numberboard ings and stanchions, version. One, buy align any details that an undecorated aren't true, and "fin­ model and paint it ish" the paint. Finish yourself. Two, buy includes weathering a painted model, but does not neces­ file off the small sarily mean dirty. numberboards, then I offer my ACL add Details West F­ diesels picttu"ed here unit numberboards as evidence. and touch up the As is so typical ACL 535 leads an A-A set of E7s with an 11-car train. Note the louvered grille paint. Your choice. of new model loco­ behind cab doors and the illuminated bulbs showing in side windows. Location Then again, you motives, the Proto and date unknown. Photographer unknown can do without! 2000 E7 needs ACL E7s also some fine tuning to take on a realistic Like - that the opening in the front pilots is had both versions of cat'body vents to the appearance. Last year we showed you Earl too wide. Yes, yes, yes .. J know this was rear of the cab side doors. This detail is a Murphy's and my New York Central E7 and done to allow sufficient coupler swing for separate part that presses into an opening in E8 models and briefly described what was operation on 18" radius curves, but this the cat'body of the model. Both the over-and­ done to transform them into the truly con­ blows my mind. Why go to the trouble and under chicken-wire vents and the tall shutter­ vincing models they became. The E7 models expense of producing such a finely detailed type vents are included with the undecorated featured here received the same basic treat­ model then blow it with a "fat-mouthed" model, but painted models are only equipped ment, that is, MY lenses, a few extra decals, pilot coupler opening? However, I'm cer­ with the one that matches the prototype for some railroad-specificdetail and weathering. tainly not about to condemn this otherwise any given railroad. The painted ACL model The models are otherwise box-stock models. [m e model for this. If your prototype has the comes with over-and-under grilles and is cor­ One thing that I have come to count on straight pilot, the problem is easily fixed; if rectly numbered to match the prototype. with Proto 2000 diesels is that with each your prototype has the so-called freight Since the ACL had E7s with both version of new model there are improvements over ear­ pilot, then ...oh well. these vents, one can easily convert the lier models. The E7 A and B units are no The models pictured here are factory painted model to louvered vents by prying exception to this established pattern of con­ painted. Like the purple paint on their ACL off the over-and-under screened vents and tinuous improvement. The raibngs and grabs SW9, paint on the E7s is very close to the pressing in the louvered vents. Of course along with the front coupler cut lever are color photos I have of ACL purple diesels. It you'll have to paint the replacement louvers. excellent items that we at Model Railroading is neatly applied and looks great when The painted ACL model comes with the would like to see marketed as separate parts weathered! small original lettering for the roadname. along with the steam-generator fittings, The Proto 2000 E7 is produced with My B-unit retains this lettering, however I exhaust stacks and door/diaphragm assem­ options that will accommodate several detail altered the lettering on the A-unit by using blies. These items are applicable to various variations - probably most noticeable is the Microscale decals to replace the small let­ E- and F-units. nose door headlight. The ACL model came tering with the larger 12" lettering that the Though you may be thinking that Jim Six with the nose door headlight which is cor­ ACL began applying to its diesels starting must be on Life-Like's payroll, such is not rect for all ACL E7s. Another option Life­ sometime in 1956. Removing the painted­ the case at all I simply find that their Proto Like has addressed is the small vs. large on lettering is not the problem you might 2000 models are superb in many respects numberboards. As pointed out earlier, ACL think. Simply use a curved blade in your and wish to share my feelings and ideas with had locomotives from both groups, but the X-Acto® knife and lightly scrape the letters you. On their E7, there remains at least one ACL Proto 2000 E7s only come with the off. Use 1000-grit sandpaper to "polish" point of contention between me and Life- smal l numberboard and are numbered the surface where the lettering was and

64 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 ACL 540 displays numerous changes in this February 11, 1967, view. Note that it has lost its skirts, received ladder grabs, had extensive window/grille modifications, had MU hoses and coupler cut lever added to its modified passenger pilot and received a 5-chime horn. apply the appropriate iall Thanks again Microscale decals ACL 536 with Train 54 in White­ Gordon! I then placed (87-907) directly to ville, NC, on March 16, 1949. a bead of CA cement the purple surface. Wiley M. Brya n photo, along the windshield Yet another option To m King collection on the "ceiling" of the that Life-Like has cab, but not touching addressed with its E7 the windshield glass. is fuel-tank size. Each The separate sun model, painted or shades were posi­ undecorated, includes tioned in the CA two fuel tanks. The cement and the body smaller standard tank snapped back onto the is already fit to the drive unit. model. The larger The entire model optional tank is sepa­ was then overs prayed rate. ACL E7s had the with Floquil Flat fin­ larger fuel tank, so ish thinned to 50-per­ pry offthe small tank cent lacquer thinner. and press the large one onto the drive unit. and cemented the narrowed doors in place. The roof was sprayed with a very thin (80% Double-sided adhesive tape secures the plas­ StUdying several photos of the ACL E7s, it lacquer thinner) mix of Floquil Grimy Black tic tank in place. appears that this is exactly what was done and Railroad Tie Brown. The trucks, fuel The side railings are much finer than with some of the "real" ACL E7s! tank and pilot areas also received this weath­ those on their E81E9 and are very accurately Sometime during the middle 1950s the ering treatment. A cotton swab dipped in scaled. Looks like maybe Life-Like has ACL shops moved the front coupler cut Champ decal setting solution was used to found the perfect railings with the E7 and levers from behind the pilot to the front sur­ scrub the paints off of the window glass and need not try to improve on them any further. face. Mounting holes were drilled and the the model was placed into service. One WARNING however. I accidentally included front cut levers were cemented in ]n conclusion I have to say that Life­ flopped the A-unit over on its side, and the place with CA cement. To secure a Detail Like's Proto 2000 E7 is a welcome addition shear weight of the model broke one of the Associates freight-car air hose in place on to my growing fleet of HO diesels. It is a cab railings. I did it a second time and broke the fireman's side of the front coupler, a very good model that is flawed only by the another I Be careful I Actually I like these block of styrene was cemented to the back nose contour that does not exactly match railings so much that I acquired extras and of the pilot and a hole drilled into it. The air that of the prototype. In most respects it is am adding them to my Stewart F-units. They hose was then cemented into this hole and one of the better-looking EMD noses in HO look much nicer than the formed-wire ver­ positioned so that it curved down and scale, but there is the one problem that the sions I had been using. towards the coupler. curvature of the top of the nose is such that One inexpensive modification you may One last touch before applying weather­ it curves over to meet the sides in too great wish to consider is replacing the model's ing was to add cab sun visors to the upper a radius. This is noticeable on models that windows and windshields with American inside of the windshield. EMD cab diesels have stripes that run along the bottom edge Model Builders' laser-cut replacement set. had four sun visors, two for each wind­ of the cab side windows, above the num­ They fit perfectly and will immediately shield. A study of photographs will reveal berboards and curve down onto the front of eliminate the "thick plastic" look that is that combinations of none to all four might the nose - as does the purple and alu­ common with plastic diesels. be down at any given time. For this locomo­ minum ACL E7. Still, the overall impact of I cemented the front "straight" pilot in tive I fit all four visors in the down position. this model when "fine tuned" is one of place, then to reduce the size of the coupler Each sun visor was cut from Cannon & believable realism... and isn't that what we opening I cut the included pilot doors in half Company gray cardstock packaging mater- are after? �

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING ... 65 DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP

• o u G 20 HO Scale Models by Life-Like Proto 2000 & MantuaITyco N Scale Model by Life-Like

by Rich Picariello

Photos from the Stu Sutton Collection Supplemental prototyp e information from Robert Sarberenyi

he Prototype GP20: Union Pacific's about 20 years ago. This model has gone Scale Replicas makes a kit to convert the experiments in 1955 with tur­ through many revisions including versions Life-Like GPIS into a GP20. bochargT ing on some of their GP9s created sold under the Tyco brand name. These Paint and Decal Notes: Union what would be called "the Omaha GP20." models, although good for their time, do not Pacific units are painted in the Armor Electro-Motive Division (EMD) introduced meet today's scale fidelity and running stan­ Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray scheme. their turbocharged 2,000-hp GP20 in 1959. dards. The main problems are the talgo­ Trucks, underframe, pilots, fuel tank and The GP20 locomotive shares the same mounted couplers and the truck-mounted handrails are gray. Over the years, the chassis with the GP7, 9 and IS. When pro­ motor. Separate undecorated Mantua/Tyco slogan has changed several times, from duction ended in 1962, 260 units had been GP20 shells have been offered through A­ the original "Road of the Streamliners" built, a total far lower than the GP7 (2,729), Line (#55522). Proto Power West makes a to today's "We Will Deli ver." All the GP9 (4,257) or even the GPlS (3SS). can-motor chassis with Athearn drive com­ photos show the "Dependable Trans­ UP had 30 GP20s, builder numbers ponents to fit the A-Line/Mantu a/Tyco portation" slogan on the cab sides 26045-26074, which were built between shells (#55 119, $SO.OO). Now the definitive although they probably received other, July and September 1960. Originally num­ plastic GP20 is here, made by Life-Like in newer slogans during their service bered 700-729, they were renumbered 470- their Proto 2000 Series (see review on page careers on the UP. While the first group 499 in early 1963. 17 in this issue). of announced road names does not The Scale Model GP20: Mantua still N scale modelers can use the upcoming include UP, Life-Like will offer a GP20 offers the HO scale GP20 first introduced Life-Like GP20. If you don't want to wait, decorated for UP in a future run.

66 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 .. Union Pacific GP20 Detail Parts for HO Scale: 26 - DA.3002 Sand-fill hatch (plastic)",...... 1.00/4 1 - CF221 Air hom (brass) ...... 5. 95/ea. DW201 Sand-fill hatch (metal)* ...... 1.2514 DW190 Air horn (brass) ...... 2.95/ ea. OM9401 Sand-fill hatch (brass) * ...... 4.0012 OM9010 Air horn (brass) ...... 3. 50/ea. 27 - CF196 Speed recorder (brass) ...... 4.3 9/4 2 - TP42 Air tanks, GP20* ...... 1. 5012 DA2807 Speed recorder (delrin) ...... 1.50/4 3 - DA1802 Antenna, whip (plastic) ...... 1.00/6 28 - AL29243 Steps, Mantua/A-Line GP20 (etched see-thm)" ..3.1 5/set OM9055 Antenna, whip (brass) ...... 1.60/ea. 29 - CF112 Underframe/step light (brass) ...... 2.95 /2 4 - DA2302 Armrest, cab ...... 1.25/8 DWI72 Underframe/step light (metal) ...... 1.25/8 5 - DA2809 Brake-cylinder air line, Blomberg 4-wheel...... 1.25/4 30 - DA2312 Wind deflector, straight (clear plastic) ...... 1.25/4 6 - DW132 Brake ratchet* ...... 1.00/ea. OM9327 Wind deflector, straight (brass) ...... 2. 50/4 PSC39082 Brake ratchet* ...... 1.5012 UP77 Wind deflector/mirror (brass) ...... 2.0 0/2 Note: Not shown, mounted on end of long hood. 31 - AMB262 Window glass, MantuafTyco GP20 ...... 3.95 /set 7 - ASM 0103 Chain, 28, 42 & 56 Ipi (etched brass) ...... 10.00/sheet 32 - AL29200 Windshield wipers (delrin)* ...... 2.95/8 DA2210 Chain, blackened ...... 2.25 /12" CS419 Windshield wipers (brass)* ...... 3. 50/4

PSC48237 Chain ...... 2.75/ 10" ME WS Windshield wipers (brass)* ...... 2. 98/set 8 - DAI017 Classification lenses ...... 1.25/6 PSC3968 Windshield wipers (plastic)* ...... 1.50/4 MV300 Classification lenses ...... 2.0 0/4 UP94 Windshield wipers (beryllium copperY ...... 2. 00/4 9 - DA2205 Coupler lift bar" ...... 2.75/ 10 UP97 Windshield wipers (plastic)* ...... 1.50/4 OM9150 Coupler lift bar* ...... 1.7512 33 - DW164 Winterization hatch (plastic)* ...... I.OO/ea. 10 - OM9171 Door handle (brass)" ...... 1.70/2 PSC3998 Door handle (plastic)" ...... 1.50/6 Detail Parts for N Scale: 11 - DA1402 Drop step'" ...... 1.5012 1 - DA8204 Air horn, 3-chime ...... 1. 25/2 12 - DA2403 Exhaust stack, GP20/SD24* ...... 1.50/2 JNJ1l3 Air horn, 3-chime ...... 3.50 12 13 - DW145 Fan, flared, 48" (plastic)* ...... 1.25/4 SE N700 Air horn, 3-chime ...... 1.65/ea. 14 - DA2208 Footboard, pilot* ...... 3. 25/2 SE N701 Air hom, 3-chinle wlbracket ...... 1.65/ea. 15 - AL29100 Grabirons (formed wire)* ...... 3.25/50 4 - DA8215 Armrest, cab ...... 1.2514 DA2202 Grabirons (formed wire)", ...... 2.50 /24 7 - ASM 0103 Chain, 28, 42 & 56 Ipi (etched brass) ...... 1O.00/sheet UP54 Grabirons (cast brass)" ...... 5.95 /12 DA2210 Chain, 40 Ipi ...... 2.25 /12" 16 - SVll Handrail set, Mantuaffyco GP20* ...... 15.95/set 11 - DA8206 Drop step ...... 1.0012 17 - DAI024 Headlight, front & rear':' ...... 1.0012 19 - PSC6704 Hose, air line (brass) ...... 1.50/6 18 - MV22 Headlight lenses" ...... 1.15/4 PSC6705 Hose, air line (plastic) ...... 2. 50/24 19 - CS227 Hose, air line (brass) ...... 2.1 5/4 20 - ASMOI01 Lift lugs/eyebolts/u-bolts (etched brass) ...... 8.29 /set DA6206 Hose, air line (delrin) ...... 1.25/6 22 - SE N550 MU hoses ...... 3. 95/4 20 - DA2206 Lift rings* ...... 3. 00/36 25 - ME NRI Rerail frog ...... 2.0 0/2 21 - DA1502 MU stand"'...... 1.2512 SE N800 Rerail frog ...... 1.70/2 DA1507 MU receptacles ...... 1.25/30 27 - SE N499 Speed recorder ...... 1.6512 Note: Stand has two receptacles (threeon prototype); add anouler MU receptacle. 32 - ME NWI Windshield wipers...... 3. 33/4 22 - CF257 MU hoses, 3-per bracket (brass)"' ...... 7. 95/4 33 - JNJI09 Winterization hatch, GP20* ...... 3.0 0/ea.

DW266 MU hoses, 3-per bracket (metal)" ...... 3.50/4 - SR302 GP18 to GP20 conversion kit ...... 6.00/kit OM9350 MU hoses, 3-per bracket, Sh0l1 (brass)" ...... 7.45/ 4 DA1508 MU hoses, individual (delrin)* ...... 2.00 /16 The following parts must be fabricated by the modeler:

23 - CF258 MU hoses, 4-per bracket (brass)"' ...... 7. 95/4 A - Drain pipe - make from wire.

DW265 MU hoses, 4-per bracket (metal)* ...... 3.95 /4 B - Cloth sunshades - use .005 styrene or tissue paper w/wire supports. OM9351 MU hoses, 4-per bracket (brass)" ...... 7.4 5/4

DA1508 MU hoses, individual (delrin)* ...... 2.00/ 16 ;0 Similar parts, either separate or molded on, are included with the Proto 2000 24 - DA2220 Pilot grab bar"' ...... 2.0 012 HO or Life-Like N scale models; replacement of any or all original parts is 25 - 0M9375 Rerail frog, UP type (brass) ...... 3.60/2 left to the discretion of the modeler.

Decals Paints Floquil: 414176 UP Harbor Gray HO Scale: AccuFlex: 110 166 UP Armor Yellow Scalecoat: Microscale 87-36 16-24 UP Armor Ye llow 110167 UP Harbor Mist Gray 22 UP Ye llow N Scale: 16-25 UP Harbor Mist Gray MODELl1ex 32 UP Harbor Mist Gray Microscale 60-36 Accu+paint: 16-24 UP Armor Yellow Scalecoat II (plastic compatible): 67 UP/Armor Yellow 16-25 UP Harbor Mist Gray 2022 UP Ye llow 68 UP/Harbor Mist Gray Polly Scale: 2032 UP Harbor Mist Gray 414170 UP Armor Ye llow

ALI A-LinelProto Power West CF: Custom Finishing MV: MV Products SV: Smokey Va lley Railroad PPW: P. O. Box 7916 379 Tully Road P. O. Box 6622 Products La Verne, CA 91750 Orange, MA 01364 Orange, CA 92667 P.O. Box 339 Plantersville, MS 38862 AMB: American Model Builders DA: Detail Associates OM: Overland Models Inc. 1420 Hanley Industrial Box 5357 3808 W. Kilgore Avenue TP: 'Irackside Parts COUI1 San Luis Obispo, CA 93403 Muncie, IN 47304-4896 P.O. Box 322 St. Louis, MO 63 144 Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 DW: Details West PSC: Precision Scale Company ASM: Athabasca Scale Models P. O. Box 61 3961 Hwy. 93 North UP: Utah Pacific 771 Wilkinson Way Corona, CA 91718 Stevensville, MT 59870 9520 E. Napier Avenue Saskatoon, SK S7N 3L8 Benton Harbor, Ml 49022 Canada JNJ: JnJ 'Irains SR: Scale Replicas P.O. Box 1535 Box 3052 Note: These detail plli1S may be avail- CS: Cal-Scale Ottumwa, IA 52501 Monterey, CA 93940 able at your local hobby dealer(s), so 21 Howard Street try there first. If you must order directly Montoursvijle, PA 17754 ME: Miniatures by Eric SE: Sunrise Enterprises from a manufacturer, include at least RR #l P.O. Box 172 $4.00 for postage and handling. You Busby, Alberta TOG OHO Doyle, CA 96 109 must purchase the full quantities as Canada shown in the detail parts list. �

68 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 BOOK BEAT

by Rich Coleman �io-6,aiiiJ� lE...fE!E! Vo lume 2: Utah

The Santa Fe Diesel Rio Grande in Color Vo lume One: Dieselization-1960 Pacific Electric In Color, Volume 1 Volume 2: Utah

by Dr. Cinthia Priest by P. Allen Copeland by James Sandrin Paired Rail Railroad Publications, Ltd. Morning Sun Books, Inc. Morning Sun Books, Inc. PO Box 6186 9 Pheasant Lane 9 Pheasant Lane Kansas City, KS 66 106-2186 Scotch Plains, NJ 07076 Scotch Plains, NJ 07076 $54.95, hardcover $49.95, hardcover $49.95 hardcover

he Santa Fe was one of the first rail­ or more than fifty years, the "Big Red hiS long-awaited companion volume to roads to embrace the conversion from Cars" of the Pacilic Electric dominated Ross B. Grenard's Rio Grande ill steamT to diesel locomotives. This, combined Fpublic transportation in Southern California. TColor - Vo lume i: Colorado (also from with their extensive in-house rebuilding pro­ Although there have been several excellent MorningSun) covers the Rio Grande's main gram, has given the Santa Fe an interesting books written about this fascinating and di­ and branch lines from Grand Junction, CO, and varied diesel roster over the years. This verse interurban system, almost all of the through the deserts of Utah, over Soldier book covers the diesels of the Santa Fe from photographs in these books have been in Summit, and on into Salt Lake City and the earliest tie and timber switching locomo­ black and white. This new book from Ogden. It combines the work of several ex­ tives built in the 1920s up through the SD24, MorningSun provides what is probably the cellent railroad photographers with back­ which was delivered in 1960. largest collection of color photos of PE ground and operational information The locomotives are presented in order of equipment ever offered in print. contained in the captions and short sidebars. the date of their OIiginal deLivery. Future varia­ The quality of the pictures in this book is All of the photographs in this book are in tions are covered light after the "as-delivered" good. Although some of the pictures are a color, and the selection is excellent. There is model (even if they took place after the 1960 little dark, the colors are generally bright a wide variety of Rio Grande equipment, as cut-off date of the book). This can make the and vivid. A few of the pictures are slightly well as pictures of connecting lines, such as organization of the book seem confusing at blurred, but most are sharp and clear, with the Carbon County Railway and the Utah first. For example, the CF7s immediately fol­ lots of good detail visible on the cars, and in Railway. Perhaps even more spectacular are low the F-ullits from which they were rebuilt, the background. the shots of the beautiful Utah scenery in the even though they weren't created until the '70s. This would be an excellent work on the background. There are pictures taken in dif­ In spite of this, the coverage given to PE, even if none of the pictures were in ferent seasons of the year, and at different conversions, rebuilds, slugs, etc., is excel­ color. The book is organized by equipment times of day, which bring out the many col­ lent. Wherever possible, locomotives are type, rather than by date or location. The ors to be found in the desert. shown in all of the different paint schemes selection is limited to equipment that was in Most of the pictures were taken between that they wore in their lifetime, including the use in the early to mid fifties, when most of the mid '50s and the late '70s. There many current blue-and-yellow Warbonnet scheme the pictures were taken, but there is still a types of diesel motive power shown, from that was introduced in the '70s. Also wide variety. Wooden sided 950s and 1000 early FTs up through tunnel motors. There are included are several good pictures of F-units class cars, which were built in the early part a few pictures of steam power, including one in the experimental yellow Warbonnet and of the century, share the pages with the lat­ of a somewhat lonely "deadline" of retired blue Warbonnet schemes. est PCCs. The first two-thirds of the book is locomotives in Grand Junction in 1955. This book is a great collection of pho­ devoted to passenger equipment, while the The book is illustrated with pages from tographs - although not all of the pho­ remainder covers combines, box motors, timetables and other railroad publications, tographs are great. The author has done a freight locomotives and Maintenance of which add a nice bit of period flavor, and good job of presenting piclLlres of each type Way equipment. track plans of the Roper and Salt Lake City of locomotive from several diffe rent angles, In addition to the PE equipment itself, Yards. There are also maps to help you which is a big improvement over many other this book also provides an interesting look at locate the places shown in the photos. For books. However, it also means that the qual­ life in Southern California in the fifties. the modeler, there are many good detailed ity of the photographs can be a little uneven. There is a wealth of modeling information pictures of the equipment, particularly the The pictures are accompanied by good sup­ and scenic detail for anyone interested in locomotives. In addition, there are some porting text, and provide a wealth of model­ this era in general, and in Southern Califor­ excellent trackside detail shots, particularly ing detail information. nia in particular. in Grand Junction. �

JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING ..... 69 MODEL RAILROADING'S DEALER DIRECTORY MANCHESTER El CERRITO SAN JUAN BAUTISTA TALLAHASSEE CHICAGO NEW ENGLAND HOBBY SUPPLY KIT & CABOODLE DOODLEBUG HOBBIES THE HOBBY CABOOSE TROST HOBBY SHOP - THE TRAIN EXCHANGE 550 EL CERRITO PLAZA 106 3RD STREET, STE L 1000-24 W. THARPE ST. 31 05-31 11 W. 63RD ST. 71 HILLIARD ST. 06040 ALABAMA 94530 510-524-9942 95045 408-623-1088 32303 850-385-9728 60629 312-925-1000 IOWA 860-646-0610 WWWNEH088�COM

ESCONDIDO TAMPA BIRMINGHAM (HOMEWOOD) SAN LUIS OBISPO OLD LY ME DES PLAINES CEDAR FALLS BRANCHLINE HOBBIES CHESTER HOLLEY MODEL HOMEWOOD TOY AND HOBBY LAWS HOBBY CENTER HOBBY CENTER OES PLAINES HOBBIES CABOOSE STOP HOB81ES 250 F CREST ST. RAILROAO SPECIALIST 2830 S. 18TH ST. 855 MARSH 151-3A BOSTON POST ROAD 1468 LEE ST. 301 MAIN ST. 92025 619-489-5020 3818 S. HIMES AVE. 53209 205-879-39B6 93401 805-544-5518 06731 860-434-5309 60018 847-297-2118 50613 800-642-7012 DAILY 10-6, TH. 12-9, CLOSED SUN 33611 813-831-7202

DECATUR FRESNO SAN MATEO RIDGEFIELO DOWNERS GROVE CEDAR RAPIDS CRUMP CAMERAlHOBBY SHOP FRESNO MOOEL RAILROAD TA LBOT'S HOBBIES HOBBY JUNCTION DOWNERS GROVE HOBBIES BOX KAR HOBBIES 806 BANK NE 744 P. STREET 445 SOUTH B ST. 56 DANBURY ROAD 6234 S. MAIN ST. 109 THIRD AVE. SE 35601 205-353-3443 93721 209-266-2805 94401 415-342-0267 06877 203-438-4452 GEORGIA 6051 6 708-960-5900 52401 319-362-1291 800-353-3446

LOS ANGELES (CULVER CITY) SHELTON ATLANTA (KENNESAW) HARTSELLE SANTA CLARA ElGIN DES MOINES ALLIED MODEL TRAINS SHELTON RAILROAD SYSTEMS TRAINS & HOBBIES INC. CRUMP CAMERA/HOBBY SHOP TRAIN SHOP B & G TRAIN WORLD HOBBY HAVEN 4411 S. SEPULVEDA BLVD. 15 ELM ST. 2844 S. MAIN ST. 138 WEST MAIN ST. 1829 PRUNERIDGE AVE. 829 WALNUT AVE. 7672 HICKMAN RO. 90230 FAX 310-313-9365 PO BOX 2272 30144 770-528-0990 35640 205-773-8018 95050 408-296-1050 60120 847-888-2646 50322 515-276-8785 310-313-9353 06484 203-924-8761 770-528-0910

CHAMBLEE MONTGOMERY LAKEWOOO TORRANCE SIMSBURY FRANKLIN PARK MASON CITY GANDY DANCERS UNCLE AL'S HOBBIES HOBBY WAREHOUSE ALL ABOARD MODEL RR VALLEY HOBBIES, INC. END OF TRACK HOBBIES EAST SIDE TRAINS PEACHTREE SHOPPING CTR. 6017 E. SHIRLEY LANE 4118 E. SOUTH ST. 3867 PACIFIC COAST HWY. 777 HOPMEADOW ST. 9706 FRANKLIN AVE. 932 B E. STATE ST. 5438 PEACHTREE IND. BLVD. 36117 334-277-1715 90712 213-531-1413 90505 213-791-2637 06070 203-651-3234 60131 70B-455-2510 50401 515-423-1748 30341 404-451-7425

KENNESAW MILPITAS VENTURA VERNON LA GRANGE HOBBY TOWN USA HOBBYTOWN USA VENTURA HOBBIES J&E TRAIN DEPOT GRANGE HOBBY CENTER INC. 800 E. BARREn PKWAY., LA 1465 LANDESS AVE. 2950 JOHNSON DR. #128 911 HARTFORD TPK., (RT. 30) 25 S. LAGRANGE RD. SUITE 20 ALASKA 95035 408-945-6524 93003 805-65B-8138 06006 860-B70-7311 60525 708-354-1220 KANSAS 30144 770-426-B800

LENEXA SOLDOTNA MORENO VALLEY WESTMINSTER WOLCOn MACON MUNOELEIN DESTINAT ION TRAIN CENTER CRAFTSMAN HOBBIES LONG'S ORUG STORE #224 ARNIES TRAINS THE HOBBY GALLERY HOBBYTOWN USA RON'S MUNDELEIN HOBBIES 13444 SANTA FE TRAIL DR. 35060 KENAI SPUR HWY. 25070 ALESSANDRO BLVD. 6450 WESTMINSTER AVE. 1810 MERIDEN RD. 225-B TOM HILL SR. BLVD. 431 N. LAKE ST. 66215-3655 913-541-8800 99669 907-262-2B39 9238B-4313 909-242-5060 926B3 714-893-1015 06716 203-879-2316 31 210 912-474-0061 60060 708-949-86BO 913-541 -8860

MOUNTAIN VIEW MARlEnA PALATINE MISSION SAN ANTONIO HOBBY SHOP NATIONAL HOBBY SUPPLY PALATINE HOBBY, LTD. J'S HOBBY HAVEN 2550 W. EL CAMINO REAL W. 353 PAT MELL RD. 772 W. EUCLID AVE. 5303 JOHNSON DR. ARIZONA 94040 415-941-1278 COLORADO DELAWARE 30060 404-333-0190 60067 847-359-7888 66205 913-432-8820

COLORADO SPRINGS WILMINGTON RIVERDALE MESA NAPA PEORIA TOPEKA CUSTOM RAILWAY SUPPLY MITCHELLS, INC. RIVERDALE STATION ROY'S TRAIN WORLD LOOSE CABOOSE MIKE'S MAINLINE HOBBIES FUN FOR ALL HOBBIES 432 FILLMORE 2303 CONCORD PIKE 6632 HWY. 85 1033 S. COUNTRY CLUB DR. 4225 SOLAND AVE W. 1227 D. WESTGLEN AVE. 2023 SW GAGE BLVD. 80907 719-634-4616 FAIRFAX SHOPPING CENTER RIVERDALE PLAZA 85202 602-833-4353 94558 707-258-1222 61614 309-692-1909 66604 913-272-5772 1 BLOCK EA ST OF 1-25 19803 302-652-3258 30274 770-991 -6085

SAVANNAH SKOKIE NORTH HOLLYWOOD COLORADO SPRINGS WICHITA BULL STREET STATION NORTH SHORE HOBBY AND THE ROUNDHOUSE KRIS KRINGLE LTD. ENGINE HOUSE HOBBIES 151 BULL ST. COLLECTORS GALLERY 12804 VICTORY BLVO. 2403 COLORADO AVE. 2718 BOULEVARD PLAZA W. 31 402 91 2-236-4344 4901 OAKTON ST. ARKANSAS 91606 818-769-0403 80904 719-633-1210 FLORIDA 67211 316-685-660B 1-BOO-611-8521 60077 847-673-4849

COLORADO SPRINGS CLEARWATER SPRINGFIELD NORTH LlTILE ROCK ORANGE WICHITA PLUM LOCO OF COLORADO TRAINS AND TREASURES, INC. SPRINGFIELD HAMMERS MADIJO HOBBY HOUSE FRANK'S HOBBY SHOP HOBBY CENTER INC. 6543 N. ACADEMY BLVD. 1710 N. HERCULES AVE. HOBBIES 5302 MACARTHUR DR. 666 N. TUSTIN AVE. 1034 HARRY 8091B 719-594-4123 SUITE 104A1105A 2448 S. 10TH ST. E. 72118 501-753-0495 92667 714-639-9901 IDAHO 67211 316-269-3063 WWWPLU!HOCO.COM 33765 813-298-0350 62703 217-523-0265

COLORADO SPRINGS LAKELAND IDAHO FALLS PASADENA TRAIN SHOWCASE PERKINS HOBBIESI HATCH'S HOBBIES & MORE THE ORIGINALWHISTLE STOP 38 S. SIERRA MAORE COLLECTIBLES 2159 E.17TH ST. 2490 E. COLORADO BLVD. liN OW RIO CRANOE STATION) 1 117 S. FLORIOA AVE. 83406 20B-523-5144 CALIFORNIA 91107 818-796-7791 INDIANA KENTUCKY 80903 71 9-471-1B87 33803 813-683-3251 WWWNRRC.COM

BERKElEY OENVER PETALUMA LANTANA BREMEN LOUISVILLE BERKELEY HARDWARE CABOOSE HOBBIES MODELS AND MORE THE DEPOT BREMEN HOBBIES SCALE REPROOUCTIONS, INC. 2145 UNIVERSITY AVE. 500 S. BROADWAY 218 PETALUMA BLVD. N. 603 RIDGE RD. 308 N. BOWEN AVE. 3073 BRECKINRIDGE LANE 94704 510-845-0410 80209 303-777-6766 94952 707-762-2378 33462 561 -585-1982 ILLINOIS 46506 219-546-3807 40220 502-459-5849 FAX 510-845-3617 WWWCA800SEH0881ES COM

BURBANK REDDING FDRT COLLINS MIAMI BLOOMINGTON EVANSVILLE BURBANK'S HOUSE OF HOBBIES TRAIN DEPOT HOBBY TOWN ORANGE BLOSSOM HOBBIES HDBBYLAND INC. A A HOBBY SHOP 911 S. VICTORY BLVD. 2334 RAILROAD AVE. 2531 D S. COLLEGE AVE. 1975 NW 36TH ST. 616 N. MAIN ST. 2023 W. FRANKLIN ST. 91502 81 B-B48-3674 96001 91 6-243-1360 80525 303-244-5445 33142 305-633-1517 61701 309-828-1442 47712 81 2-423-88B8 LOUISIANA

BOURBONNAIS BROUSSARD BURBANK RDSEVILLE GRAND JUNCTION MILTON INDIANAPOLIS THE OWL'S ROOST RON'S MODEL RAILROAD THE TRAIN SHACK RAILROAD HOBBIES DEPOT TRAINS WEST FLORIDA RR MUSEUM N GAUGE TRAIN SHOP MODEL RR SHOP SHOP 1030 N. HOLLYWOOD WAY 119 VERNON ST. 201 SOUTH AVE. 206 HENRY ST. 4759 N. POST RD. 263 N. CONVENT, SUITE 8 106 E. MAIN STREET 91505 818-842-3330 95678 91 6-782-6067 81501 970-245-5504 32570 904-623-3645 46226 317-898-4883 60914 815-932-6100 70518 31B-B37-3799

BURLINGAME SACRAMENTO KOKOMO HAMMOND GREELEY ORLANDO BOURBONNAIS TRACKSIDE TRAINS BRUCE'S TRAIN SHOP TOLIN K&K THE TRAIN STATION DON'S HOBBIES COLONIAL PHOTO & HOBBY INC. DANNY'S TRAINS ANO PLANES N SCALE EXCLUSIVELY 2752 MARCONI AVENUE 403-405 ARNOLD CT. 1415 S. MORRISON BLVD. 815 10TH STREET 634 N. MILLS ST. 636 SOUTH MAIN ST. 1675 ROLLINS ROAD B-1 95821 916-485-5288 46902 317-453-9793 1-55 7/-12 80631 303-353-3115 32803-4675 407-B41-1485 90914 815-932-2000 94010 415-692-9724 SACRAMENTO S LARGEST TRAIN STORE QUALITY CUSTOMER SERVICE 70403-5705 504-345-7601

SAN DIEGO (LA MESA) MERRILLVILLE CAMPBELL WESTMINSTER ORLANOO/WINTER PARK BURBANK NEW ORLEANS REEDS HOBBY HOBBYTOWN - MERRILLVILLE D & J HOBBY MIZELL TRAINS INC. THE TRAIN DEPOT GOLDEN SPIKE TRAIN SHOP HUB HOBBY SUPPLY 8039 LA MESA BLVD. 1858 E 80TH AVE 96 N. SAN TOMAS AQUINO RD. 3051 WEST 74TH AV E. 900 S. ORLANDO AVE. {17-92 6357 W. 79TH ST. 2618 S. BROAD ST. 91941 619-464-1672 4641 0-5734 219-736-0255 95008 408-379-1696 80030 303-429-4811 327B9 407-629-13 5 60459 708-598-3114 70125 504-822-3914 DAILY 10·7 SAT 10-5 SUN 12-4 J

COSTA MESA SAN DIEGO PENSACOLA CHICAGO MICHIGAN CITY SHREVEPORT TRAIN CROSSING THE WHISTLE STOP BOBE'S HOBBY HOUSE CHICAGOLANO HOBBY B & A HOBBIES & CRAFTS COOK'S COLLECTORS CORNER 1089C BAKER ST. 3834 4TH AVE. 5719 NORTH W ST. 6017 NORTHWEST HWY 408 FRANKLIN 4402 YOUREE DR 92626 714-549-1596 92103 619-295-7340 CONNECTICUT 32514 904-433-2187 60631 312-775-4848 46360 219-874-2382 71105 31 B-865-7632

BRANFORD SARASOTA NASHVILLE/BROWN COUNTY CULVER CITY SAN FRANCISCO CHICAGO BRAN FORO HOBBIES GULF COAST MODEL RAILROAD NASHVILLE RAILROAO COMPANY ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS ALLIED MOOEL TRAINS FRANCISCAN HOBBIES CHICAGO TRAIN COMPANY 609 BOSTON POST RD. 3222 CLARK ROAD PO BOX 1273 IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY 4411 SEPULVEDA BLVD. 1920-A OCEAN AVE. 1922 W. IRVING PARK ROAD WEST MAIN 34231 941-923-9303 47448-1273 812-988-1558 FOR ONLY S9.00 PER MONTH 90230 310-313-9353 94127 415-584-3919 60613 312-929-4152 06405 203-488-9865 TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS

70 T MODEL RAILROADING JULY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING'S DEALER DIRECTORY NORTON OOWNTOWN WESTLANO OMAHA PENNSAUKEN ISLIP NORTON HOBBIES OAVE'S HOBBY & HOBBYTOWN USA TED'S ENGINE HOUSE GOLD SPIKE HOBBIES 46 W. MAIN ST. TV 29026 WARREN RD. 14655 W CENTER RD. 6307 WESTFIELD AVE. 189 1SlIE AVE., RT. 111 NORTH 02766 508·285-2805 MAINE 48185 313-422-4464 68144 402-697-9514 08110 609-662-0222 11751 516-277-3700 OPEN MON. - SUN. DAKOTA

FALMOUTH SUDBURY WESTLAND OMAHA PISCATAWAY JOHNSON CITY BISMARK FALMOUTH HOBBIES KEN'S TRAINS NANKIN HARDWARE & HOBBY HOUSE OF TRAINS MODEL RAILROAD SHOP THE TRAIN SHOP DAVE'S HOBBIES 847 MAIN ST MILL VILLAGE, RTE. 20 35101 FORD RD. 8106 MAPLE ST. VAIL AVE. & NEW MARKET RD. 210 GRAND AVE. 200 W MAIN 02540 508-540-4551 01776 978-443-6883 48185 313-722-5700 68134 402-391-2311 08854 732-968-5696 13790 607-797-9035 58502 701-255-6353

NORTH YARMOUTH WARREN RUTHERFORD KINGSTON GRANO FORKS TRAIN & TROOPER TUCKERS HOBBIES CHOO CHOO EDDIES J&J'S HOBBIES. INC. MCGIFFIN'S 68 MEMORIAL HWY. (ROUTE 9) BOX 1090 - 8 BACON ST. 38 AMES AVE. 37 N. FRONT 914-338-7174 1200 S. WASHINGTON 04021 207-829-3211 01083 413-436-5318 MINNESOTA NEVADA 07073 201 -438-4588 12401 FAX 914-338-7381 58201 701-772-5311

SPRING LAKE WARWICK lITIlE CANAOA LAS VEGAS UNCTION EXPRESS JERSEY SHORE HOBBY CENTER  A.A. HOBBIES HUB HOBBY CENTER HOBBYTDWN USA DEER RIVER CAMPSITE 304 MORRIS AVE 655 JEFFERSON BLVD. 82 MINNESOTA AVE. 5085 W SAHARA #134 HCR 01 BOX 101A 07762-1339 732-449-2383 MARYLAND 02886 401-737-7111 551 17 612-490-1675 89102 702-889-9554 12953 514-631-3504 OHIO WWW.WEBALLIANCE.NETIWAlJSHC 514-631-1376

ARNOLD RICHFiElD LAS VEGAS SOMERVILLE MINEOLA ALLIANCE STAR HOBBY HUB HOBBY CENTER PRC TRAINS THE BIG LITTlE RAILROAD SHOP WILLIS HOBBIES ROB'S TRAINS 1244 RITCHIE HWY., STE. 15 6416 PENN AVE. S 3920 J W CHARLESTON BLVD. 5 NORTH DOUGHTYAVE. 285 WIlliS AVE. 333 E. MAIN 21012 410-544-7547 MICHIGAN 55423 612-866-9575 89102 702-258-7768 08876 908-429-0220 11501 516-746-3944 44601 330-823-7222

BALTIMORE ADA (GRAND RAPIDS) WAYNE PAINTED POST SPRING LAKE PARK NORTH LAS VEGAS CINCINNATI M B KLEIN, INC. J&J BASIC HO LAYOUTS, LLC TOTOWA HOBBY SHOP LACKAWANNA TRAIN SHOP UNIVERSITYHOBBIES IMAGINATION UNLIMITED GOLF MANOR HOBBIES 162 N. GAY ST. 6670 CONSERVATION, N.E. 131 MT. VIEW BLVD. 86 VICTORY HIGHWAY 8185 UNIVERSITY AVE. NE 4934 EAST TROPICANA 2235 LOSANTIVILLE AVE. NCLUDES MAIL ORDER) 49301 616-676-5983 US HWY. 202 RT. 17 EXIT 43 55432 612-780-4189 89030 702-434-5696 ) 45237 513-351-3849 �1202 410-539-6207 VISAIMC MON-SAT 8 TO 8 07470 973-696-5170 \ 4870 607-962-5164

BERLIN SCHENECTAOY ANN ARBOR ST. PAUL RENO WESTMONT CLEVElAND DENNISON'S TRACKSIDE MOHAWK VALLEY RAILROAD RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP SCALE MODEL SUPPLIES HIGH SIERRA MODELS SATIlER'S HOBBY SHOP WING'S HOBBY SHOP, INC. HOBBIES COMPANY 115 W LIBERTY 458 N. LEXINGTON PKWY. 4020 KIETZKE LANE 14 HADDON AVE. 17112 DETROIT AVE. 14 S. MAIN ST. 2037 HAMBURG ST 48104 313-668-8950 55104 89502 702-825-5557 08108 609-854-7136 44107 216-221-5383 21811 410-641 -2438 12304-4793 518-372-9124

COLLEGE PARK CANTON THIEF RIVER FALLS RENO SMITHTOWN COLUMBUS BURRETT HOBBIES RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP A&E RAILROAD HOBBIES OF RENO THREE GUYS HOBBIES STRETE HOBBIES 9920 RHODE ISLAND AVE. 42007 FORO RD. HIGHWAY 325 535 E. MOANA LANE 99 E. MAIN ST. 3655 SULLIVANT AVE. 20740 301-9B2-5032 4B187 313-981-8700 56701 218-681-4251 89502 702-826-6006 NEW MEXICO 11787 516-265-8303 43228 614-279-6959

ALBUQUERQUE SYRACUSE EAST FINKSBURG COLOMA COLUMBUS TRAINS WEST INC. CENTRAL HOBBY SUPPLY TRAIN WORKS J & W MODEL TRAINS THE TRAIN STATION 6001 SAN MATEO BLVD. NE 716 WEST MANLIUS ST. 2934 CEDARHURST RO. 6450 BECHT RO E NEW 4430 INDIANOLA AVE. SUITE B-3 13057 315-437-6630 21048 410-526-0018 49038-9546 616-468-5586 MISSISSIPPI 43214 614-262-9056 HAMPSHIRE 87109 505-881-2322 WWWCENTRALH088�COM

GAITHERSBURG FARMINGTON JACKSON HAMPTON LAS CRUCES UTICA LORAIN PASTIMES JOE'S HOBBY CENTER HOBBYTOWN USA NEALS N-GAUGING TRAINS THE HOBBY HUT VILLAGE HOBBIES THE CORNER STORE 531 QUINCE ORCHARD RD. 35203 GRANO RIVER 6880 D. RIDGEWOOD COURT 86 TIDE MILL RD. 126 WYATIDR. 2011 GENESEE ST. 1249 COLORADO AVE. 20878 301 -977-7902 48335 248-477-6266 39211 601-957-9900 03842 603-926-9031 88005 505-524-0991 13501 315-733-0611 44052 216-288-2351

KENSINGTON LINT NORTH HAMPTON WAPPINGERS FAllS F LAUREL MAUMEE MAYBERRY & SONS RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP OF FLINT FinS PHOTO & HOBBY SHOP VALLEY MODEL TRAINS HOBBY CORNER J & M HOBBIES TRAIN & HOBBIES 2061 S. lINOEN ROAD 79 LAFAYETTE RO 91 MARKETST., STE.32, BLOG. 10 1534 N. FIRST AVE. 1238 CONANT ST. 10527 SUMMIT AVE. 48532 810-720-2500 03862-2406 603-964-9292 12590 914-297-751 1 39440 601-649-4501 NEW YORK 43537 419-893-2621 20895 301 -564-9360 FAX 810-720-2505 603-964-9417 14 YEARS IN BUSINESS

BLAUVELT LAUREL FRASER NORTH CANTON HUDSON SHORES PEACH CREEK SHOPS P & 0 HOBBY SHOP NICK'S SALES & SERVICE MODEL TRAIN 201 MAIN STREET 31902 GROESSBECK HWY. NORTH 7251 MIDDLEBRANCH NE 547 0 WESTERN HIGHWAY 20707 301-498-9071 48026 313-296-61 16 MISSOURI NEW JERSEY 44721 216-494-0125 10913 914-398-2407 CAROLINA DENVILLE CHARLEnE TOLEDO GRAND RAPIDS BLUE SPRINGS BUFFALO F&M HOBBIES TRAINS LTD. LLC. STEVE'S FALLEN FLAGGS HOBBY WORLD MAINLINE TRAINS K VAL HOBBIES 3118 ROUTE 10 5600 ALBREMARK RD SUITE 300 HOBBIES 2851 CLYDE PARK SW 807 MAIN ST. 277 HINMAN AVE. 07834 FAX 201-361-3855 28212 704-566-9070 5414 MONROE ST. MASSACHUSErrS 49509 616-538-6130 64015 816-224-6962 14216 716-875-2837 201-361-0042 FAX 704-566-9007 43623 419-843-3334

FLORISSANT BUFFALO CHARLOnE BEDFORD GRAND RAPIDS EAST BRUNSWICK YOUNGSTOWN HENZES HOBBY HOUSE INC NIAGARA HOBBY & CRAFT MART CHAR LOnE ELECTRIC TRAIN BEOFORD TRAIN SHOP RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP MEYER'S DISCOUNT STORE BOARDMAN HOBBY CENTER 715 S NEW FLORISSANT OPEN EVENINGS & SUNDAY CENTER 32 SHAWSHEEN AVE. 2055 28TH ST. SE 595 ROUTE 18 6820 MARKET ST. 63031-7748 314-839-0600 3366 UNION RD. AT WALDEN 114-0 FREELAND LANE 01730 617-275-7525 49508 616-247-9933 08816 908-257-8800 44512 14225 716-681-1666 28217 704-527-0392

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP HARRISBURG DEDHAM PORT HURON PARKVillE EAST ROCHESTER BEACHCOMBER COLLECTIBLES A READY TO RUN HOBBY SHOP B.G'S MODEL TRAIN SHOP BLUE WATER HOBBIES J&L HOBBIES DESPATCH JUNCTION SHORE MALL, 3600 HIGHWAY 40 16 FOX MEAOOW LANE 4018 LAPEER ROAO 1362J NW HWY 9 100 STAT ION RD. 1 6725 BLACKHORSE PIKE 28075 704-455-2220 02026 781-407-0067 48060 810-984-8764 64152 816-746-1282 4445 716-385-5570 OKLAHOMA 08234 60%45-1031 3 MILES FROM CHARLOTTE SPEEDWAY

ST. LOUIS FERNDALE OKLAHOMA CITY EAST WEYMOUTH ROYAL OAK HIGHTSTOWN MOUNT AIRY DOUBLE TRACK HOBBIES SUSIE-Q HOBBY SHOP WOODWARDS SOUTH SHORE HOBBY CENTERS TRAIN CENTER HOBBIES K & B RAILWAY SUPPLIES DRY BRIDGE STATION 7726 WISE AVE. o RD BOX 220 4401 WEST MEMORIAL ROAO 1245 COMMERCIAL STREET 33722 WOODWARO 116 MAIN ST. 236 N. MAIN ST 631 17 314-644-5545 BUSHVILLE-SWAN LAKE RD. QUAILBROOK CENTER 02189 617-331-7275 48073 248-549-6500 08520 609-448-5070 27030 336-786-981 1 1-888-0BL-TRACK 12734 914-292-0921 73134 405-751-4994

SAGINAW HANSEN JACKSON GLENS FALLS SElMA TULSA ROGER'S HOBBY CENTER INC THE BRASS CABOOSE SHOP JACKSON HOBBY SHOP TRAINS PLUS THE FREIGHT YARO 5620 STATE RD ACTION HOBBIES 669 W WASHINGTON, RT. 14 2275 W. COUNTY LINE RD. 12 WARREN ST. 1108 S. POLLOCK ST. 4955C 48603-3680 517-790-0080 SOUTH MEMORIAL 02341 617-447-0100 NEBRASKA 08527 908-364-3334 12801 518-761-0173 27576 919-965-6101 74145 517-790-0358 918-663-8998

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SAN DIEGO T San Diego Model RR Museum Toy AT LANTA T Metro Atlanta N-Scalers Meetings. 1st Train and Model RR Show / Operating Exhibit. July I - 5, Tues. of each month, 7:30 PM. Church of the Atonement, 7 - 12, 14 - 19, 21 - 26, 28 - 31;Tues. - Fri.: 11 AM - 4 PM; 945 High Point Rd., Atlanta. Info: Charles Leake, (404) We ekends: II AM - 5 PM; July 4th, II ANI - 4 PM. Casa 262-2969. De Balboa Building, Balboa Park, 1649 EI Prado, (619) ATLANTA T Piedmont Division Monthly Meeting. 2nd 696-0199. $3, discounts for seniors, students and military Tuesday each month, 7 PM. Bldg. K, Habersham Office with ro, Under 15 free. July 7 is a free day. Info: Barbara Park, Northlake Pkwy., Tucker. Free. Info: Ed Palmer, Hultenius, San Diego Model Railroad Museum, 1649 EI 7058 Stephens Ct., Morrow, GA 30260, (770) 968-1921. Prado, San Diego, CA 92 101, (6 19) 696-0 199. MARlEnA T Monthly Meeting of the Georgia Society of San Deigo Model Railread Museum Toy SAN DIEGO T Ferroequinologists and field trips. 2nd Fri. of each month, Train and Model Railroad Show/ Operation Exhibit. Aug. 7:30 PM. Nations Bank of Waddell St. Free. Info: Dave 1-2, 4-9, 11-16, 18-23, 25-30; Tues-Fri 11 AM - 4 PM, Muller (404) 974-4608 or Larry Smith (404) 926-0739. Weekends II AM - 5 PM. Casa De Balboa Building in Balboa Park, 1649 EI Prado, (619) 696-0199. $3, discounts TUCKER T Piedmont Div. SE Region Regular Monthly for students/seniors/military ro, under 15 free. Suguest 4 is Meeting. 2nd Tuesday of every month. 7:30 PM. Building free day. Info: Barbara Hultenius, San Diego Model Rail­ K, Habersham Office Park, Northlake Parkway. Free. Info: road Museum, 1649 EI Prado. San Diego, CA 92101, Ed Palmer, 7058 Stephens Ct., Morrow, GA 30260 (770) (619) 696-0 199. 968-1921.

SAN LUIS OBISPO T San Luis Obispo Model Railroad Club 9th Annual Model Railroad Spectacular. Aug. 15 - 16, 10 AM - 4 PM. Veterans Memorial Hall, Grand Ave. at COEUR D'ALENE T S-West regional S gauge conven­ Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. $3, under 12 free. Venders tion. Sept. 17-19. Public show Sept. 19, 6:30 - 9:00 PM. encouraged. Info: Kevin Isbister, (805) 528-1 827; Ed Kootenai County Fairgrounds. $2. Info: Gil Hulin, 3895 Stoneback, e-mail: [email protected]. Colony Oaks Dr., Eugene, OR 97405.

MAY 1998 MODEL RAILROADING ... 81 t4e �ea" , and it's NEW! s� N-SCALE ELMHURST ... Rock Island Technical Society 1998 annual Meeting and Convention. Sept. II - 13. Holiday Inn ACF TYPE RIVETED GALLON TA NK CAR KIT 27 8,000 Elmhurst/Chicago, 624 N. York Rd. (1-290 & York Rd.), SHIPPERS CAR LINE CORP. Elmhurst. Info: Steven Suhs, 28 W. 692 Forest Ave., West Chicago, IL 60 185-3614, e-mail: [email protected]. Include a LSSAE for a reply.

PRINCETON ... Midwest Region Meet Gandy Dancers Fair. Sept. 18, 4 PM - 8 PM; Sept. 19, 8 AM - 6 PM; Sept. 20, 8 AM - 4 PM. Bureau County Fairgrounds, West Hwy #6. Full fare (advanced registration) $47 for NMRA mem­ bers. Other fares available.lnfo: Barb Smith, P.O. Box 35 1, DePue, II 61322-035 1, (815) 447-23 11, www.theramp.netirailroadlGDFevent.html. The American Car and Foundry Type 27 Riveted 8,000 gallon tank car is a typical steam era tank car manufactured in the 1930's through the late 1940's. This tank car is at home with either stearnor diesel locomotives. Shippers Car Line Corp. had a huge fleetof these cars and leased large numbers of cars to private customers. BOONE ... Pufferbilly Days RR Fest. Tables $15. Info: Now available N Scale kit as fo llows: Scott Magee, P.O. Box 872, Mason City, IA 5040 I, (5 15) #6 1 304 Shippers CarLine Corp. -12 numbers $13.95 424-4 187, (5 15) 424-8721. #6 1399 Undecorated $10.95 Another work of art from InterMountain Railway Company WAKEFIELD ... North Shore Model Railroad Club Show 30 E. Ninth Ave. - P.O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502 and Open House Show. Club show, Sept. 19, 9:30 AM - 4 Available at your hobby dealer. For information call: 1-800-472-2530 or Fax: 1-303-772-8534. PM. American Civic Center, 467 Main St. Club Open E-Mail: [email protected]. Web Site: http://www.intermountain-railway.com. House, Sept. 19- 20, 9:30 AM - 4 PM. 404 Main St., rear. $3, kids/seniors $1, under 5 free, family $7 max. Info: Ron Nadeau, Box 183, Wakefield, MA 01880, (781) 245-4742 Tues., Thurs. eve. Manufacturers of WEBSTER ... P&W Railfan Club 8th Annual Model Rail­ '. Eastern Car Works! Craftsman Style road Show. Sept. 20, 10 AM - 4 PM. Webster Elk's Club •• - Hall, Cudworth Rd., Webster. $3, under 12 free. Info: P.O. Box "L" 624 • Langhorne, PA 19047 Injection Molded Styrene Edward J. DeLuca, 25 Gaumond Rd., North Send SSAE for complete kit list HO Railroad Kits and Parts Grosvenordale, CT 06255.

WORCESTER ... Worcester Model RRers meetings. Tuesdays, 7:30 PM. 70 James St., Room 200. Info: Ralph Kimball, (508) 755-1 873.

FLINT ... 17th Annual Huckleberry Railroad Railfans Weekend. August 15-16, II:30 AM - 5:30 PM. Crossroads Village. $9 Daily (village and train), seniors and children's rates available. Info: Genesee County Parks and Recre­ ation Commission, 1-800-648-PARK or Barb Spaulding­

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4800 Commonwealth Cast Steel $10.00 ST. PAU L ... 1999 National Association of S Gaugers 90 To n Depressed Center Flat Car. Convention: LAKE SPECIAL #99. July 22-25, 1999. Best Western Kelly Inn, Highways I35E and 194 intersection. Prototypes: New Yo rk Central, New Haven, Southern, Info: Walter Jopke, e-mail: [email protected]. Chicago North Western and others. All kits undecorated. HASTINGS ... South Central Nebraska Model Railroad Expo. Sat., Sept. 12, lOAM - 5 PM; Sun., Sept. 13, 12 PM - 5 PM. Imperial Mall, 3001 West 12th Street, Hastings, Nebraska. Free; Table, $10. Info: Imperial Mall - Attn: Marketing Director, 300 I West 12th St. Suite 36, Hastings, NUTS to YOU! NE 68901, (402) 462-667 1. Metric screws, taps, dies, drills tOO? a metric hardware selection of almost 200 choices for the precision miniature hobbyist - required tools WINDSLOW ... The Great Winslow Junction Scale when you repair, maintain, or build fine operating models in N, HO, S, 0, #1 gauge models. And much Train and Railroadiana. Sept. 6, 10 AM - 3 PM. Winslow more including tools, wheelsets, gearing, mechanisms, motors, etc. to aid you in fine modeling what­ ever your scale and gauge. Fire Hall, Hall and Hay St. $3, under 12 free 11'/adult. Yo ur choice - 1.0x4mm, 1.2x3mm, 1.4x6mm and many others - just 95 cents a pack Info:Bili Powell, 306 Broad St, Williamstown, NJ 08094, at your hobby shop - inquire direct for complete listings. (609) 728-1327 until 9. See the full line NWSL catalog listings available at better hobby shops everywhere (too many special choices for most shops to stock), or inquire direct for further information and complete product listing ($1 .00 handling please); $8 for full line catalog. LAS CRUCES ... Dona Ana Modular RR Club HO Meets. Third Thurs. each month, 7 PM. Thomas Brannigan NORTHWEST SH ORT LINE Memorial Library, Spruce Ave. & N. Main St. Info: Mike BOX 423 · SEATT LE, WA 981 11-0423 · (206) 932-1087 fax 935-71 06 Hallock, 1941 Poplar Ave., Las Cruces, NM 88001.

82 ... MODEL RAILROADING MAY 1998 RALEIGH l' Southern Junction Model Train Show. Sept. 12, 9 AM - 5 PM; Sept. 13, 10 AM - 5 PM. Holshouser Building, N0I1h Carolina State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC. $4, under 12 free. Info: Rick Allen, PO. Box 4321, Cary, NC 27511, (919) 460-1980, e-mail: [email protected]. web: http://members.aol.com/nnnrc/southem.htm.

INFO, QUESTIONS, CATALOGUE BUCYRUS l' Bucyrus Model Railroad - Model Train Open House. July 18 - 25, 9 AM - II PM. Crawford lE www.ttx-dcc.com =� County Fair. Fair admission only. Info: David E. Moore, See� * Discount Prices * All Scales 1010 Bucyrus Rd., Galion, OH 44833, (419) 462-5035. at � * Dallee sound @ $84.95 * MRC Cmd. "2000"$101 .95/$138.95 * Soundtraxx DSD � $139.95 * Soundlraxx Sierra $147.95 ROSEBURG l' All Aboard Railroad Club for All Scales. * SystemOne Str Set w/dec $699.00 I st and 3rd Saturdays at 3 PM, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7 * Lenz Set 01 w/4 dec $499.00 PM. 427 SE Main St. Info: Debi or Kim Wing (503) 672- * Lenz 103 decoder $19.95 0280.

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