Stainless steel streamlined passenger cars with roof-mounted glass domes were introduced to America in 1947 on this prototype "Train of Tomorrow". General Motors and Pullman-Standard collaborated to demonstrate to both the public and to the railroads what passenger travel would be like in the fifties. The Fall 1979 issue of Model Railroading magazine carried fe atures on how to model the locomotive and the four-car train using ready-to-run HO or N scale equipment with minor modifications. Since then, we've located a photograph of the "Train of Tomorrow" when it was still in its blue and stainless steel paint scheme. The train is on exhibit to the public at Albuquerque, New Mexico in about 1947. The entire train was sold to the Union Pacific in 1950 and repainted in their standard yellow and grey. The f6 diesels and streamlined cars were duplicated and sold to almost every class one railroad in America.
Photo frolll the Gordon Bassett collection. Summer 1981 Vol. 11, No.4
Publishers: Nick Siegel, Sal Pizzoferrato Executive Editor: Robert Schleicher Associate Editors: Bill Wright, Robert Higgins, Albin Burroughs, Amy O'Donnell Production Editor: Vickie Petersen '---_ Typography: Type-Tronics, Inc. MODEL Model Railroading is published four-times a year by Eastwood Publishing Company, 2901 Blake St., Denver, CO 80205. Price per single copy is 52.50, $2.75 in Canada. Subscriptions are 59.00 in the U S or Canada Unsolicited manuscripts or photographs should .be accompanied by return RAILROADING postage and Eastwood Publishing Company assumes no responsibility for the loss or damage CONTENTS of such material. No part of this publication may be reprinted without written permission from the publishers. Printed in U.S.A. 4 John Buscimi's HO SCALE EMPIRE The information contained in the various arti The keynote of this layout is simplicity cles in this magazine is presented in good faith, 10 LOADS FOR FLAT CARS but no warranty is given, no results guaranteed, nor is any freedom from any patent or copyright to Heavy machinery loads can make simple showpieces be inferred. Since we have no control over the 14 MODULAR MODEL RAILROADING IN On3 physical conditions surrounding the application of information in this magazine, Eastwood Pub The modular system works just as well in 0 scale lishing Company and the various authors and edi 17 WIRING BASICS III - USING TURNOUTS AS SWITCHES tors disclaim any liability for untoward results The track can route power as well as trains and/or for any physical injury incurred by using 20 TRACKPLAN FOR 9x7-FEET: THE MAJESTIC the information herein. © Copyright 1981 by Eastwood Publishing Co. CONNECTING RR A city-based railroad small enough for anyone ABOUT THOSE LABELS .. .. 26 PORTABLE AND PERMANENT = THE PERFECT PLAN BASICS FOR BEGINNERS HO Modular railroads with an unlimited future are articles that we feel contain some of the information that any beginner should know when 32 THE MAGIC OF FOAM PLANTS he or she is building that first or second model Using ground foam to make lichen look real railroad (there just may be a few things that the 35 ARE CAN MOTORS THE ANSWER? WE TRY ONE IN "experts" can learn about up-to-date modeling methods, too). AHM'S SD40 NEW MODELING TECHNIQUES How to install a Sagami Flat can-style motor are actually tested methods of making or im 41 PERFORMANCE TEST REPORT proving models. We call them "new" because What we use to test locomotives and why they probably will be new to most of you. These are the articles we feel are best-suited to "in 42 PERFORMANCE TEST REPORT NO. 10: AHM SD40 DIESEL termediate-level" model railroaders. 44 PERFORMANCE TEST REPORT NO.11: PROTO-POWER FOR EXPERIENCED MODELERS WEST SD9 DIESEL articles designed for those who have developed 46 PERFORMANCE TEST REPO�T NO. 12: MANTUA F7 DIESEL their skills in the hobby by successfully assembl ing and painting several of the "Craftsman" -type 48 BOX CAR SUPER-DETAIL SECRETS kits. It is assumed that the modeler who follows How to add those fine detail parts to a freight car these articles knows the basics of the hobby: paint 56 HOW-TO APPLY DECALS THE RIGHT WAY ing, decal-application, simple soldering, etc., etc.... The finishing touch to any model We hope to make the hobby more interesting 60 IT'S A KIT: MODEL MASTERPIECES' STAMP MILL and a whole lot less of a mystery for the newcomer Amountain-based industry in a craftsman's kit with these labels. We do the same thing when we show EVERY step. Please, experts, be patient and 64 BUILD A SIMPLE "TUNNEL MOTOR" DIESEL remember what it was like when you were The quick-and-dirty way to make an SD40T-2 locomotive learning. 72 DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP: BN's EMD SD40-2
MODELERS' 73 DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP: SP's EMD SD45T-2 TRICK "Tunnel Motor" 74 AIR BRUSH BASICS, PART 3: INSTANT PAINT JARS Modelers' tricks are just what the name implies; How to make spray-painting even quicker and simpler special techniques that make a particular aspect of model building easier, faster, less expensive, more 77 PAINTING PROFILES NO.2: FREIGHT CARS OF THE FIFTIES --realistic and (in many cases) a combination of all Prototype paint and decal data on gondolas four! These tricks are applicable to ANY model 78 THE USED CAR LOT that uses similar materials and that is why we lable them as "modelers' tricks". If, for example, A review of the range of HO scale automobiles Goldberg's "Super Jet" cement works well to 82 MODEL RAILROADING MAGAZINE'S HISTORY attach a plastic smokestack to a roof, it (the 'trick' A glimpse at over a decade of our predecessor magazines technique) will work equally as well to attach a plastic air horn to a plastic diesel. The "TRICK" 86 LEND US A HAND! logo will help you to spot helpful techniques even Let us know what you'd do if you were editor if the particular project does not interest you at the 87 LETTERS moment. Even more information on past articles
FRONT COVER: John Buscimi's simple, but most-realistic 88 BACK ISSUE INDEX HO scale layout is built in sections so it can be Where you can find out if you've missed an issue semi-portable to fit almost any basement. The layout is featured on page 4. 90 MODEL RAILROADING MAGAZINE'S DEALER DIRECTORY BACK COVER: A selection of full-color photos to help in 94 A LONG LOOK AHEAD - 1982's NEW PRODUCTS the construction of the step·by-step features in this issue: The use of ground foam on lic;:hen for more-realistic trees The first report on what you'll see NEXT YEAR and bushes begins on page 32. The methods for simulating wood decks for flat cars appeared in the Spring 1981 issue, the earthmoving machinery loads are on page 10 of this issue. Model Masterpieces "craftsman kit" for that MODEL RAILROADING (ISSN 0199-1914) is published quarterly at $9.00 per yearby mountain-industry stamp mill and power house is described on page 60. Eastwood Publishing Co., Inc. at 2901 Blake St., Denver, CO 80205. Controlled circulation postage paid at Denver, CO. Postmaster send address changes to Eastwood Publishing Company, 2901 Blake St., Denver, Colorado 80205 3 John Buscimi's HO SCALE. A model railroad made for operation EM' PI R E �arry Chris
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One of the loop ends of the railroad is heavily wooded with smallmountainstyle wood industrial buildings and station, ,4 The 130-foot turntable is long enough to handle even the 4-8-8-2 "cab forward" articulated. Th� turntable and drive are Diamond Scale Construction, P.O. Box 1359, Dept. MRG, Oakridge, OR 97463 kits.
John Buscimi's HO scale layout is 12x24-feet in a rather unusual walk-inlwalk-around configuration. The bench work is bolted-together in 2x4-foot segments so the layout can be easily disassembled when he moves. The design should allo w the railroad to fit in just about any future basement. 5 If you want to complete a model railroad that's as stunning as this one, you'll need to establish some goals. John Buscimi had completed several smaller layouts before he started on this fine 12 x 24-foot Organ, Franklin and Rio Grande Railroad so he knew what he wanted. More than anything else, John wanted a place where he could operate his ever-growing fleet of forties-era steam locomotives on trains that moved like the real ones. He also anticipated a number of changes of homes over the coming years so he needed a layout that was, to some degree, portable. He enjoys building structures, applying scenery and details and painting locomotives and rolling stock. The layout, then, needed to have plenty of room for structures and scenery with a roundhouse and turntable to display his locomotives. He does NOT enjoy laying track so he chose Most of the structures on the railroad are perfectly-finished, detailed and weathered kits. The Lambert's realistic track with plastic brick buildings in the extreme upper left and lower right corners are Magnuson Models kits; the ties and code 70-size rail, He also corrugated structures and the bunkers are Suydam solder-together kits. hates wiring, so the layout was kept simple (there are no reversing loops or wyes - just the turntable) and Atlas-brand slide-style switches were used to turn the power on and off and to operate the switch machines to actuate the turnouts. The HO scale Organ, Franklin and Rio Grande is built on a series of individual tables made from 1x4 boards placed on edge and assembled with wood screws. Most of the tables are about 21/zx4-feet (but none are larger than 3x5-feet) so they can be maneuvered through standard doorways and up any flights of stairs. Each table or segment of the total layout is covered with Yz-inch plywood and a top layer of Yz-inch Homosote wallboard. The Lambert track is spiked directly to the Homosote. The track itself is not cut where it crosses from one table to the next - that will be done if and when the layout is actually broken-apart into its individual tables .. for a move to another home. The There are more coal mines on the flat tables themselves and their 1x4 legs prairies than you might imagine and this Suy dam modified-kit is an example of a typical are held together with %-inch prototype. stovebolts, flat washers and nuts. The scenery is industrial grade paper towels soaked in Hydrocal-brand plaster (it hardens to alabaster) and conventional wall plaster. Most of the folliage and weeds are AMSI or Woodland Scenics tree kits or simply those brands of loose ground foam rubber. Mr. Buscimi has NOT cemented • most of the ground foam in place. Two stub-ended sidings serve the main pas He is particularly careful, however, senger station (a Magnuson kit) with a Camp to apply only a very small amount of bell loading platform for local freight and to serve the caboose track. The railroad hotel is a grease to his locomotives and to Campbell kit. The Northeastern-brand open wipe away any excess. No oil or platform passenger cars are used for "local grease is used on any rolling stock. service". 6 This seems to be enough, in the dry indicate whether there is a train on point-to-point operation; the major climate where the railroad is built, to the track. The system John uses is yard is operated like the division keep the ground foam from finding more practical for a model railroad point yards on real railroads. All its way into the locomotives' gear where any opposing trains are easily trains change locomotives and trains. visible but where the position of the cabooses and passenger trains The wiring is as simple as it can be turnout might be difficult to see. receive (or lose) baggage cars, diners while allowing the operation of two Each of the passing sidings and and Pullmans. A few pedlar freights trains at once and the "holding" of the locomotive storage tracks is and local passenger trains originate about n"lo dozen on sidings and electrically isolated into a "block". in the yard. roundhouse tracks. All of the The mainline itself is also divided, All of the throttles have connecting Lambert turnouts are "route along its length into about a plugs and 20-foot cables or tethers so selective" so that moving the turnout half-dozen blocks. Atlas slide-style the operators can walk-around the directs the electrical power switches are used to direct the power layout to follow their trains from automatically to ONLY the direction from either "cab A" power pack or town to town. If four or more (main or siding) that the turnout is "cab B" power pack to each of these operators are used at one time, they thrown. John relies on simple rail blocks. The system allows two trains are grouped into pairs so one can contact for some of the industrial and to operate at once on the mainline. serve as an Engineer and the other yard sidings; the turnouts are thrown An additional switch and power pack as a brakeman to help "spot" the manually with Caboose Industries or allows the yard to function as a third cars to be uncoupled over the Kadee ALexander Scale Models "Ground "cab" so that three trains can be uncoupling ramps. All of the rolling Throw" levers beside the turnout. under completely independent stock, including passenger cars, is The mainline turnouts are actuated control (on differen t parts of the equipped with Kadee couplers. John electrically with Kemtron, Tenshodo layout) at the same time. The uses a card system to designate loads or ADDM switch machines turntable and its drive motor are and destinations for the cars (some (solonoids). The switch machines Diamond Scale Construction kits such destinations are actually on the have built-in electrical contacts that with the turntable operated by an layout, others are imagined "off-line" are usually wired to the switch electric motor that is started and and other cars are merely designated points on the turnout for positive stopped with a push-button for as '�through freight"). The thrill of electrical flow; John uses those visual (rather than Diamond's moving one of the "loaded" trains contacts to turn the lights on and off optional automatic) alignment of the from the forties over a most realistic on two-color Signals beside the track. tracks. Believe-it-or-not, the track railroad was John Buscimi's goal and The signals, then, indicate whether plan for this large layout is an oval! he accomplished that goal to the turnout is set for the mainline The track simply wanders around all perfection. (green) or the siding (red) - on the the edges of the C-shaped table. real railroads those same signals There are no connections to allow
John assembled the outside-braced box cars from strips ofNortheastern-brand base wood. The Shay is used to shuttle cars from the main city to the sawmill. 7 By creating his own railroad name, John lends credibility to the use of steam locomotives that are replicas of engines from several prototype railroads. Allhis locomotives are brass imports that he has tuned, painted and weathered to capture the appearance of real railroading in the forties.
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The simple ovai track plan doubles back on itself along the 24-foot length of the layout. There are no track connections between the two sidings at the right and the tracks this freight is negotiating .
An aerial view of the 24-foot side of the layout with the passenger This photo was taken from the same position as the view of number station and yard in the extreme background, the main freight yard to the 055 but looking in the opposite direction. This freight is on the oppo- left and the opposite sides of the oval on the right. The sawtooth-roofed site side of the oval heading down the 24-foot side of the layout with t industries are Suydam kits. the main freight yard in the ba kg round. 8
NEW MODELING TECHNIQUES
LOADS FOR FLAT CARS
wood deck flat cars. Real railroads have not used those kinds of common flat cars to carry automobiles since the twenties; even large trucks are now transported on the 86-foot cars that are similar to the ones used to carry the 40-foot highway trailers. Automobiles are carried on the tri-Ievel flat cars or (rarely, since the fifties) inside 50-foot " Automobile" box cars. At a glance, the most popular loads for 40 and 50-foot flat cars would seem to be crates. I would strongly recommend that at least half of your "loaded" flat cars carry some large crates, braced and supported just the way that's shown in this artic1e.-The other half of the loaded -fla cars could very well carry something a bit ,more striking .... Motor graders (like the six-wheeled machine in the photos) used to do far more construction work than they do now; more sQphisticated machines (that can move more earth at each pass) have taken over many of their jobs. Motor graders are still in use but the point, here, is that they were extremely common sights
How to adapt Bachmann's N scale Caterpillar tractor and motor grader to HO scale models of a most unusual flat car load
Bill Wright
There's only about one chance in four that you'll see a full-size flat car with a load on it. The chances ought to be about fifty-fifty but the real railroads just aren't as efficient as they could be so most freight cars spend a lot more time empty than they do loaded. If you were to use model railroads for car-use studies, however, the chances are you'd find These three pieces of N scale construction equipment are all included in Bachmann's no. far more than three-out-of-four cars 7012 set. The earth mover (upper right) is too smallfor HO scale but the motor grader (lower empty. Worse, your study would righ t) and Caterpillar (tracked) tractor can all be converted to 1940-50 period HO scale indicate that the real railroads ship equipment for a pair of unique fla t car loads - you'll need two of the no. 7012 sets. One set of more boats and automobiles than Athearn's no. 140-55012 "Tractor Tires" will also be needed (Walthers sells them for 601/:18. machinery on those 40 and 50-foot 10 The cab must be cut from the N scale motor grader so an open-seat can be provided for an HO scale size driver. Cut across the lower edges of both molded-on doors with a razor saw.
The cab and the tires are the only items that mark the motor grader as being N scale. Start by gently prying the steering wheel and shaft from in front of the cab and away from the chassis.
Pry the Clear plas tic window piece from inside the cab the clear plastic will be turned tBO-de grees to become an HO scale seat for the motor grader. •
Use the razor saw to cut the entire top of the cab away, flush with the top of the rear hood. motor grader's cab and you've transformed it to HO scale. No changes are needed on the tractor because there is nothing to establish its scale. Use the razor saw, The Bachmann no. 7012 trio of again, to cut down the vehicles certainly are correct for N vertical edges of the two scale bu t the motor grader is closer doors. The rear wheels to the gigantic Caterpillar model 12 and axles will simply is snap-out of the model. with its 1300-24 tires. The tractor Use diagonal cutters to more like a D8 or larger "cat". pry the fr ont wheel off Much of the realism of these two the front axle. loads of construction equipment applies equally to N scale or to HO scale models. The loads MUST begin with a detailed flat car deck as described in the Spring 1981 issue. Given that, then each piece of on real railroad flat cars in the forties Equipment" will provide enough equipment must be blocked or and fifties. The Caterpillar or more material for TWO loads of HO scale shored with scraps of wood to correctly, tracked tractor (Caterpillar construction equipment including the simulate what keeps it from shifting is a trade mark and brand name of larger wheels and tires needed to around on a full-size flat car. Those that firm's construction vehicles) is "up-scale" the motor grader to HO blocks are nailed directly to the also a bit less common that it once scale. wooden floor of the car (that's why was thanks to more-specialized The wheels and tires and cab are it's wood) so you can merely cement equipment. The modern tracked what define the "scale" of the motor them down and mark the nail heads tractors are likely to be gigantic grader. As luck might have it, the with the tip of a sharp ballpoint or machines - the three on Tyco's wheels and tires on the Bachmann N felt-tip pen. number 351B BO scale flat car are scale earth mover (the third piece of It's the cables and ropes that are about average-size today. In the equipment in that no. 7012 set) the "tricky" part of any flat car load. forties and fifties the D-4 model was scale-out to precisely the right size Every load on an open flat car is more typical - Bachmann's N scale for an HO scale 900-20 tire. That tied-down to the car with cables, tractor is just about right for an HO happens to be the size that was used ropes or wood shoring (if not a scale model of those earlier (and on the small Ca terpillar-brand combination of all three); that's one smaller) machines. In fact, two 712-series motor graders from 1937 of the reasons why flat cars have packages of Bachmann's number until 1956. Slip the earth mover tires stake pockets. The biege-colored 7012 N scale "Construction on the motor grader, cut-off the linen thread used by ship modelers 11 for rigging makes the best scale can be used as tie-downs for heavy cable is usually clamped with tiny model rope and it is offered in loads. Vintage Reproductions now nuts and u-bolts that are virtually several sizes if you can find it. A offers some .006, .009, .012, .016 and impossible to simulate lealistically sewing shop should have nylon or .032-inch diameter stranded steel even in 0 scale - better to "imply" some other synthetic thread (cotton wire that is virtually an exact scale there's a cable clamp out-of-sight has fuzz) that can be used to replica of real cable. We used the somewhere. Remember to include a simulate rope. Take a good look at .016-inch cable for the heavy stuff few wooden crates of spare parts for the color 'of hemp rope before you that would be used for these the load. The machinery should be try to match it with thread (a small machinery loads. Do NOT try to tie painted semi-gloss (gloss is really sample of hemp can be a big help in the cable; lead it to a hidden corner TOOOO shiny) to contrast with the matching the color with thread). The of the load you are tying-down and weathered and flat-finish of the small chain (like that sold by cement it in place with "Super Jet" railroad's rolling stock. I Campbell and some jewelers' chain) or five-minute epoxy. The full-size
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The motor grader pieces for HO scale: The Athearn wheels and tires will be used, with the N scale axle, for the front. The wheels and the axles from the N scale earth mover will be used for the rear. The front axle piece must begently pried from the model so about 'In-inch may be filed from the area where it was joined - it's necessary to lower the front of the vehicle by that amount so it sits perfectly level. The centers of the Athearn wheels and the earth mover wheels are painted dark grey to simulate painted steel wheels.
Remove the wheels and tires, temporarily, while you paint the motor grader. Scalecoat's no. 22 "Union Pacific Armor Yellow" is an excel len t choice for paint - it's about the right color (under typical artificial light) and it dries to a nice semi-gloss. Touch-up details on the motor with silver and fla t black. Paint the seat and the steering wheel rim flat Simulate scrapped-off paint along the lower edge of the grader black. blade (and on the treads of the Caterpillar tractor) by rubbing silver colored paste on them so just a fe w of the highlights appear to be bare metal. You can accomplish the same thing with just a trace of the dried paint from inside a lid of aluminum-colored paint.
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The only modification needed to convert the tractors to HO scale Paint the tractors UP Armor Yellow and touch-up the details with models is to snap-out the black plastic wheels and axles and then file the fla t black and silver paint. The small dabs of paint on bolt heads, bottoms of the treads perfectly fla t. It may be necessary to move the exhaust pipes, air filters and other details bring "life " to these models, blade up or down so it rests on the same fla t surface as the treads. particularly after the proper yellow color is painted on them. 12 • The out-of-the package Bach • mann N scale treaded tractor (left) and motor grader (right) ap pear at the top - the modified-to 'iB-inch balsa or (better) bass wood is best HO scale versions for the simulated shoring to keep the machin are at the bottom. ery loads from shifting on the flat cars. Do NOT use the wood as-is; split it in half to simulate the rougher-cut of timbers used for bracking. When you glue it to the flat car, glue the smooth cornered-edge do wn .
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Montgomery Ward stores sell a set of metal earthmoving machinery that is about right for S scale but it can be used for Lionel 0 scale (shown). The plastic motor grader once sold by Cox was the same size as this '/64 scale model even though marked "HO scale".
Place the motor graders on the flat car while you glue the shoring in place with "Super Jet" or five-minute epoxy (I don't know of anything else that will bond wood to the painted-plastic fla t car). Note the angled braces for the blades and the wedges for the extreme front and rear of the wheels.
Vintage Reproductions scale-size cable is best to simulate tie-down cables but you could substitute nylon thread in a "hemp rope" color. Cut the pieces to length (do NOT knot them) and install them so the ends are hidden near the engines and inside the stake pockets on the fla t car. Hold the vehicles permanently in place with "Super Jet" or five-minute epoxy. The real railroad would likely have used another pair or so of tie-down cables but the four give the necessary impression. There are two plastic crates (taken from a freight station kit) to simulate spare parts for the load.
• Temporarily install the tractors while their rough-wood shoring is cemented in place. Here� the blades were placed fa ce-to-face with bracing and shoring to force the blades apart.
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Glue only the braces to the deck, then apply a fe w dots of dark grey ink to simulate nail heads in the wood. The tractors can then Four short lengths of Vintage Reproductions scale-size cable tie-down the be cemented to the deck with "Super Jet" or fi ve-minute epoxy. tractors as well. The two make a nice load for this 40-foot Athearn fla t car. 13 MODULAR MODEL RAILROADING IN On3
Two of the standard On3 TRAK modules are used to make this 0 and On3 interchange yard that has the fla vor of the full-size Southern Pacific lines in Owenyo, California. Bob Bader built the modules and the SP rolling stock.
The On3 TRAK standards include dimensions for cornermodules like these two built by Bob LeMay Junior. The cornermodules can certainly be used for a home la yout but they are essential for the oval operation at a model railroad show like the PCR convention.
This California club has that carries the concept of N scale to snake their way around mountains NTRAK model railroading about as in the manner of a model railroad. found the way to adapt far as it can go. There's quite a The locomotives and rolling stock large-scale model railroading difference between the 1/48 scale themselves have a rather unique to portable/modular layouts equipment that operates on this charm that is different from the model railroad and N scale's 11160 standard gauge railroads. The scale stuff. For some reason, narrow gauge locomotives and Bill Wright modelers who prefer the charms of freight cars that were built in the narrow gauge lack the space to build forties look very much like standard a layout more often than the typical gauge equipment back at the On3 Track sounds like a model railroader. Part of that narrow turn-of-the-century. Very little good-enough name for a set of gauge "charm" is based on the fact changed on the narrow gauge during portable model railroad standards that the real trains used tight curves the last forty-years of its operations 14 The full-size SouthernPacific operated narrow gauge equipment (as did the Union Pacific, the Pennsylvania and many other Class One railroads). The SP narrow gauge outlasted the others, though, to live into 1960.
and that, too, makes it interesting to people are twice the size of those in would just as soon see the trains run a modeler. HO scale. In theory, the 0 scale back and forth as The most common size for narrow buildings are also twice as large around-and-around. Most narrow gauge model railroads is HOn3; HO (actually 4-times the space) but the gauge layouts are built on shelves scale (1/87) models of trains that ran narrow gauge railroads often served from about 18 to 30-inches wide. The on track with the rails spaced very small stations and mines so the tracks may climb hills on the narrow three-feet apart. About 114 of the structures average· about half-again shelf in a switchback-style layout that narrow gauge modelers prefer the the size of HO scale structures (about is also typical of what the full-size largest commercially-available scale twice the floor space or area). narrow gauge railroads did to reach and narrow gauge: On3. It doesn't If you wanted to build an up the canyons to mines and logging take any more space for an On3 oval-style layout in On3, then, you camps. It just so happens that the layout than for a mainline HO scale would need at least a 5x9-foot area. shelf-style layout is the basis for modern railroad with 30-inch radius Virtually nobody wants an oval for NTRAK-style modular railroads. or larger curves. The 0 scale model narrow gauge, though, because they There are now some groups of On3 modelers who are designing their r------.,.--,home layouts so the open ends of the layout can be clamped to other shelf layouts in the modular fashion. There is a booklet of On3 modular standards that is available for $5.00 for the On3 Track folks % Bill Boose, Box 10684, Dept. MRG, Santa Ana, CA 82711. The booklet describes the proper materials and dimensions to use for the benchwork, track and wiring so your layout modules can be joined to others at a club get-together. So far, most of the On3 modules are on the west coast; the groups will try to have a rather large layout at the National Model Railroad Association's annual national convention in San Mateo, California on August 18 through 23 at the county fairgrounds. The layouts will be open to the public only for a portion of that time so you may want to check with nearby hobby dealers if you are planning a special trip. One of the original modules is illustrated Bob Bader usessimple Caboose Industries "ground throw" levers to move the points on his turnouts. in color in Robert Schleicher's That shack is a well-painted Bachmann scale plastic kit. 0 MODEL RAILROADING HANDBOOK, Vo�mell�7.95hom Chilton Book Co., Radnor, PA 15 There's no reason to limit the operation of equipment on a model of the desert narrow gauge - here, Bob May fr.'s Kemtron Shay pulls a Southern Pacific baggage-coach around one of the On3 TRAK corner modules curves.
The later Southern Pacific narrow gauge locomotives can be identified at a glance thanks to their unique "wha/eback" oil tenders and slightly different steel cabs. This is a long out-of production Max Gray 2-8-0 brass import from Bob Bader's collection.
19089). The railroad illustrated here was assembled as part of the Pacific Coast Region of the NMRA Convention in June of 1980. That exhibit included Frank Barone's module from the MODEL RAILROADING HANDBOOK along with about a dozen others. The Southern Pacific Railroad 1960. None of the On3 and HOn3 The On3 modules you see on these eventually assumed ownership of the Southern Pacific equipment offered pages are unusual in that they depict C&C and fitted the steam by the importers of brass the 3-foot narrow gauge lines that locomotives with the unique ready-to-run models is currently ran across the deserts of California "Whaleback" style tenders that were available so you'll need to do some and Nevada in California's famous common to early SP standard gauge searching to model the Southern Owens Valley. Most modelers pick oil-burners. There's a fine history of Pacific narrow gauge. Models do the mountain railroads as their the railroad with maps and photos in show up in collection sales and swap prototypes but Bob May Junior and Volume I of David Myrick's meets and at dealers who sell used Bob Bader assembled two standard RAILROADS OF NEVADA brass equipment. The earlier Carson modules and two corner modules (Howell-North, $19.95) and in & Colorado equipment looked very with the desert scenery. The Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg's much like the typical Rio Grande standard modules include an STEAM CARS TO THE COMSTOCK equipment so you might be wiser to interchange with the standard gauge (Howell-North, $19.95) and in back-date a model of the desert (0 scale) Southern Pacific that is a Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg's narrow gauge to the 1920s or earlier much-reduced simulation of the of the narrow gauge boom at the to avoid the need for those unique trackwork at Owenyo, California on turn-of-the-century - the last SP-style steel cabs and whaleback the Carson and Colorado. Southern Pacific Railroad train ran in tenders. 16 BASICS FOR BEGINNERS
WIRING 111- USING TURNOUTS AS SWITCHES adapting ''fixed-control'' turnouts to "selective control"
The turnouts with plastic FIXED-CONTROL TURNOUTS SELECTIVE-CONTROL TURNOUTS frogs can be modified to All of the turnouts sold by firms like Atlas, AHM, Bachmann, The Lambert-brand turnouts for electrically isolate stub-ended Life-Like and Pemco as well as the HO and Hon3 and ConCor's N scale sidings or left as-is; both Peco "Insulfrog" turnouts are the turnouts (all three made by simplify layout wiring. type I refer to. These turnouts Shinohata) as well as all of the all-rail automatically route the power turnouts made to be spiked to through the turnout so no special individual wood ties have what is Robert Schleicher wiring or electrical gaps are called "selective-control" electrical demanded ANYWHERE on the power-routing. Nearly all of these layout except at reversing loops, turnouts have all-metal frog areas wyes or turntables. Most small (where the rails cross near the center One of the goals I have for my model railroads can be wired with of the turnout). When the points personal enjoyment of our hobby is just two wire connections to the contact the outer (called "stock") to make it as simple as possible, rails. These turnouts fall into the rails, the power from that particular particularly the electrical aspect. I category that experienced model rail is directed to the frog and to figure that just maintaining clean railroaaers call "fixed control". If you BOTH of the rails that lead. from the contacts between the locomotive install the turnouts as they come frog. The moving points of the wheels or drivers and the rail, from the box, trains will operate on turnout, then, "select" the route that between the chassis and motors and either the mainline or the siding BOTH the trains and the electrical the wheels and drivers and between route regardless of which direction the power will take. We'll take a closer the motors' brushes and switch points are thrown. You look at selective control turnouts in commutators is plenty to worry prevent derailments at the switch by the next issue of Model Railroading; about. That's a pretty sophisticated throwing the points in the direction for now, all you need to know is that circuit right there, especially so when you want (or need) the train to take, the route selected by the points of it must be exposed to all kinds of of course. The term "fixed-control" the turnout is the ONLY one that dust, dirt, oxidation and oil that can means that both routes out of the receives power. If you move the cause an interruption in the circuit. turnout are "live" (receive electricity) points to the "siding" direction then The search for simplicity is one at all times - the flow of power is the "mainline" receives no power reason why I would suggest you "fixed" to both mainline and Siding and visa versa. You also need to consider the use of the ready-laid routes through the turnout for trains know that additional wires and turnouts (switches) with a plastic entering or -leaving the turnout from insulating gaps in the rails are frog area on your model railroad. either direction. ALWAYS required when you use 17 selective-control turnouts for any the turnout's points are thrown to to running another goes like this: model railraod. The wiring is much, the siding. When the turnout's The first train is pulled (either much simpler with fixed-control points are thrown to the "main" forward or backward - it never turnouts. track or route, the siding receives matters) into one of the empty NO electrical current - you have stub-ended sidings with a modified turnout at the entrance to the siding. THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS converted the siding portion of the turnout into an electrical on-off That turnout is then reset for the One of the first reasons why you switch. DO NOT CUT BOTH mainline. (Now,. neither train can might want to add more wires and/or METAL TABS; if you do, you will receive power) The second insulating gaps to a model railroad is convert the turnout into a true stub-ended Siding (also with a to allow the use of two locomotives "selective-control" turnout and all of modified turnout) is then thrown to or trains at one time. Generally, you the complicated wiring rules for such the mainline and that train can only want to operate one of the two; trackwork will have to be applied proceed out onto the mainline. It's the second locomotive or train just (we'll cover them in a future issue). turnout is then reset for the sits and waits until you are ready for Also, you cannot use this system on mainline. When you are ready to go it. If you are willing to "park" that a passing Siding (a siding with two back to running that first train, the second locomotive (or complete train) turnouts; one away from and a process is reversed to temporarily on a stub-ended siding AND provide second one back onto the mainline) store BOTH trains on their separate a second stub-ended siding for that without using a modified turnout in stub-ended sidings before the first first train, then you can allow the both positions and applying the train can be routed back onto the turnouts themselves to provide a special "selective-control" turnout mainline. You have the advantage of built-in on-off switch to hold either wiring rules. For now, use the being able to operate two trains (or train. The basic idea, here, is to modified turnout ONLY on a more) on your railroad without the make a single saw cut in the two stub-ended Siding AND use one such need to connect one addtional wire turnouts so that the "siding" route siding for EVERY train you want to or install a single insulating gap in on each turnout functions like a have on the railroad at the same the rails. The work is all done with "selective-control" turnout while the time. If, for example, you want to those modified "fixed-control" "main" route continues to function "hold" five trains while you operate turnouts where their "siding" route like the out-of-the-box fixed-control a sixth, then you will need a total of is cut so the Siding functions like a turnout. six modified turnouts leading to six "selective-control" turnout. The separate stub-ended sidings. alternative methods for "holding" SOME NECESSARY RULES that second train with an on-off The diagrams illustrate how the TWO-TRAIN OPERATION toggle switch and for actually small connecting tab of metal or rivet When you use the two modified operating two trains at once are must be cut to stop the flow of turnouts, the operating sequence to illustrated in the Winter 1981 issue of electrical current into the siding until change-over from running one train Model Railroading.
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Most of the turnouts that beginning model railroaders choose are the "fixed-control" type that allow the operation of one train over almost any number of tracks and turnouts. Any of these turnouts can be modified, with a single cut with a razor saw, to make the "siding" route "live" ONL Y when the turnout is thrown to the "siding". 18 BENT STOCK RAIL POWER BENT SWITCH GAP IN RAIL AT GUARD ON POINTS (ONLY POINT PIVOT RAIL MOVING PART METAL TAB OR RA LS O TURNOUT) GROMMET C G CO I O BENT TRAII S C AN CLOSURE E N C ����;;::�� F � NN T M VE � � RAIL L8��� �: �� � ������::�� ���� ��STRAIGHT �81�ilT...... � ����� � �;������� N ;; LOSURE RAIL GAP IN GUARD STRAIGHT RAIL AT POINT METAL TAB &lOR RAIL RAIL NOTCHED STOCK GROMMET AS & BURIED RAIL PIVOT BUILT-IN IN PLASTIC ELECTRICAL TO INSULATE (ONLY CONNECTION FROG AREA MOVING BETWEENRAILS PARTS OF TURNOUT)
The fixed-control types of turnouts usually have all-plastic frogs (where the rails cross) or built-in insulating gaps so the frog area delivers no power to the passing locomotives. A train can move into the turnout from EITHER direction regardless of how the points are thrown. Both routes also receive power, regardless of how the points are thrown.
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Two stub-ended sidings (/ike this one) will be needed for the operationof a single train and the "hold" or parking of a second train as described in the text.
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NOTE: METAL CONTACT ONE\ WIRE STRIP OR GROMMET TO POWER PACK CUT ON THIS SIDE OF MUST CONNECT TO TURNOUT ONLY RAIL ON THIS SIDE OF POINTS TO FEED POWER TO SIDING (DUE TO GAP IN RAIL AT POINTS AND THE CUT-THROUGH METAL CONTACT STRIP OR GROMMET)
Use a razor saw to cut the small metal tab or grommet between the "closure" and "stock" rails on ONL Y the "siding" side of the turnout -this will modify the turnout so the siding receives no power until the points are thrown to the "siding". _ 19 Consider the possibi I ities of representations of these types of real river and a dockfront a fine buildings - on this layout those kits substitute for the lakes suggested for the SCENERY city as will have to be expanded back to most mountain railroads. You will something nearer the size of the real need to have some "background Robert Schleicher structures. On most model railroads, scenery" on the walls that are visible you see, it's wise to allow the hills to down the streets that run diagonally About 95-percent of the model overpower the structures - on this across the 5x9 portion of this layout. railroads in this country route the one the structures must really look I've included a mirror angled to trains through some type of like a city. You'll need to use the reflect the layout (but not the mountainous terrain on their way walls from as many as a dozen of operators) at the end of the around the layout. The mountains those plastic structure kits for each Yarmouth Street behind the engine may be anything from a structure on this layout but the back house. The edges of this mirror representation of Virginia's hills to of them can be left off because they would be hidden by the buildings on the Sierras, but the tunnels and will not be visible - besides, that's either side - the upper edge can be bridges and curves are always where access is obtained for the disguised with either a bank of similar. There's a very good reason tracks along the rear wall! clouds or a jungle of electrical and for this, of course; mountains force Each story or floor of a full-size telephone wires crossing above the the real railroads to use the curves building is about 12-feet high, two buildings. There is a second and bridges and tunnels we model although many warehouse and mirror indicated at the lower right railroaders also must use (but for manufacturing plants may have corner to double the visible size of different reasons, of course). This floors 20-feet or more apart. In HO that end of the layout. Part of any model railroad could be covered with scale that means that each story is freighter ship at the dock will be the typical mountain scenery if you about 1'/2 to 2-inches high. If you visible in this mirror to add apparent wish. Before you take the standard build your tabletop (zero track size to the harbor. Mirrors really do step, however, consider the elevation) at the typical 40-inches, work just as effectively as possibilities of using a city as then structures that are to extend three-dimensional scenery or scenery .... above eye level must add another structures. The late John Allen used It may appear that it is more 30-inches to that (to extend above eye them extensively on his Gorre & expensive or difficult to substitute level). If you insist upon such low Daphetid and I installed one on the walls of brick, wood or stone (all level benchwork then your city project layout in the TYCO MODEL simulated, to be sure) for the plaster structures must be at least 20-stories Railroad Manual ($7.95 from Chilton hills and cliffs of more conventional high. I would suggest that you Book Co., Radnor, PA 19124). The scenery. In fact, the city buildings consider the zero-level tracks to be at trick is to angle them so they don't are probably no more costly and least 50-inches from the floor; the reflect real people and to disguise the certainly no more time-consuming to tallest buildings then need only be sides and tops. create than delicate rock slopes, about 20-inches tall. That's about Frankly, the city scene is far more streams, cuts, fills and all those 12-stories and those are the types of realistic a setting for a model railroad thousands of trees that are needed building I've indicated along the back than the mountains most of us pick for any mountain scene. It will take walls of the "sceniced" version of for our scenic settings. The real dozens of plastic building kits to this layout. The 54-inch height will railroads really did use curves as "scenic" this relatively small model also place the trains nearer eye level tight as the typical HO "tight turn" railroad. Most of the individual which is where you nearly always of 18-inches in city settings - the buildings on this layout are nearly see them in real life cities. sharpest curves on most mountain the size of one side of a real city The city streets form the canyons railroads would reduce to only about block. Nearly all of the model on this layout with a canal 40-inches in HO scale - 40-inches is building kits are much-reduced (navigable) a fine substitute for a considered one of the broadest 20 possible goals for curves on giant most of its too-tight-to-be-real curves the layout with curved switches on club layouts! No model railroad has are hidden by the buildings each end. This allows 54-inch long come close to capturing the 1000-foot (scenery). The industrial railroad trains to pass each other (that's room high slopes of real mountains (it would have a "road switcher" like an enough for a large steam locomotive would require an 87-foot ceiling in SD9 or a Mikado or Consolidation to or a two-unit diesel and about HO scale). A 12-story city building, move long cuts of cars. It would also 6-cars). You can also use the though, is quite typical of the real . have a small switching engine like an mainline to operate a 20-car train and world maximum near the older SW1500 or an 0-6-0 steamer to work a short (6-car) train as long as the portions of the downtown areas. I've the area around the docks and the shorter train tucks into the passing placed this "city" near a seaport, but interchange tracks. The plan includes Siding whenever the longer one don't forget that the list of "seaport" an endless over-and-under type of needs to pass. If you really do want cities includes midwest places like figure-8 that could be the route of to operate two mainline trains at Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth and St. that road switcher and its short train. once, there is enough room for a Louis as well as places like New That train could be kept in endless double-track mainline with a 24-inch Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle as operation at the same time that a outer radius and a 2P/4-inch inner well as just about anywhere on the mainline train worked the oval, radius on the curved tracks. The eastern seaborad. In other words, while a third train performed runaround tracks in the West you can use just about any favorite switching operations. You will need Majestic harbor and at the elevated prototype railroad, from the some additional electrically-isolating East Majestic end-of-line are Southern Pacific to Seaboard Coast gaps in the rails to allow the use of 45-inches long; enough to allow Line to the Great Northern or Maine three power packs for this type of branchline trains with one Central for this one. three-train operation. The plan locomotive and about five-cars. The plan actually includes two indicates only where insulating gaps The city-as-scenery concept will be railroads; a mainline route that circles MUST be installed to prevent short effective if you make the layout high an oval with a passing siding in the circuits on the reversing wye that (about 50-inches) so the trains are city scene. This railroad presumably includes the mainline curve behind near eye level and so the roofs of the has its huge yard somewhere else in the engine house. buildings are not visible (above eye the city. It's wise to resist the The industrial railroad's track level). The trains will then disappear temptation to build large yards along the right wall could serve as a behind the buildings just as they do because they eat-up too much space source of complete trains (including in real life. The fact that those trains on a model railroad. The real star additional engines and cabooses). are traveling around sharp curves to attraction of the railroad is an That track is supposed to lead to reappear is not visible. Normally, a industrial line that serves this portion another yard or another industrial 5x9-foot layout would require a of the city. The major railroad merely area of the city. If a second operator 2-foot wide access aisle on at least drops-off carloads of material on the is stationed in one of the access three sides. This one, though, is most "interchange track" near the engine hatches inside those high buildings, effective if viewed only from the one house. The industrial railroad then he or she can physically remove 9-foot side. You'll need a two-foot delivers the carloads to the industries rolling stock and locomotives from access aisle on that one side, though, and picks-up empty cars (or vice the trains "behind the scenes". I so ANY 5x9-foot layout will need at versa). This "industrial line" can would suggest adding a passing least 7x9-feet of space. The line on have its own paint scheme and siding to the back straight of the the lower right corner of the plan railroad name or it can simply be mainline oval so mainline trains on indicates where the harbor area must part of the "mainline" (oval) railroad the oval can continue to operate end if you really do have only (or one of that road's competitors) - while this second operator adds or 7x9-feet of space. If you can find that all three situations exist in real life. removes equipment from trains on extra 2-feet (for a 9x9-foot area), This gives you the chance to model the passing siding. For one-man though, the extra harbor switching at least two of your favorite real operation, the passing siding can action will make the effort railroads' equipment or to create one serve as a holding or layover track worthwhile. You would then have a or two of your own railroads. for either mainline or industrial 4-foot viewing area which would OPERATING A CITY IN 9x9-FEET trains (if it is isolated, with insulating likely be occupied, in part, by a The mainline railroad can operate rail joiners, from the rest of the workbench area. Either way, there's large locomotives and full-length layout). The passing siding would be a whole lot of railroading, here, for passenger cars if you wish because a duplicate of the one on the front of such a tiny area. 21 TRACK & CANAL r DISAPPEAR UNDER - I I BRIDGE EAST I -hMAJE STIC I I I 00$",' I �� I :- _i___ J
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23 CD Each of these photos is identified on the track plan with a matching circled num ber to give you an idea of what that area of the model railroad could look like. This tower is on the Conrail line in Baltimore, Maryland.
® A city-based layout does not need to be located in a large city. These industries are in Boise, Idaho. A similar scene (but with 6 and 8- story high structures should appear on the right wall of the layout.
@ A large industry, like this old brick tex tile mill in New Jersey, can be made by simply stacking the walls from several plastic kits on top of and beside each other. The seams be tween the simulated courses of brick will help hide the seams between the model's wall sec tions.
24 ® Now this is the kind of industry that is needed to hide those hidden access areas on the layout. Notice that the forward wall angles about 30-degrees away from the major portion of the structure - much more interesting than a giant cube�shape. Note also the offset walls on the upper four stories and the tanks and stacks on the roof.
® Tracks in industrial areas are often laid right in the streets like this one in Baltimore. The workman is standing on the edge of a loading platform that leads into the box car - that's righ t, it's an industrial siding righ t IN a street corner!
® The tracks in this street date all the way back to the mid- 1800s when cobblestones were common in Baltimore and other cities. The harbor is just offthe end of the tracks. That truck-like thing beside the building has railroad couplers on both ends for switching the cars around in the tight-confines of the streets. 25 BASICS FOR BEGINNERS AND FOR EXPERIENCED MODELERS
PORTABLE AND PER ENT- THE PERFECT PlAN Taking-off from 2x4-feet; a layout with an unlimited future
Back-stage trackwork suitable can be moved without totally fit in a spare bedroom or study and destroying the railroad. Briefly, all for ANY HO modular club or still leave room for guests or other that means is that you must spend in-house domestic uses for the room. home model rail road and .. some time, at the planning and Both plans are divided into sections it's adaptable to NTRAK for benchwork stages, to divide the small enough to be moved through a N scale layouts layout into pieces small enough to fit doorway whenever that dreaded day through any 2Vzx 6-foot doorway. It arrives. That makes these two track means a bit more lumber and some plans portable. Robert Schleicher seams in the roadbed. When it's actually time to move, you slice MODULAR MODEL RAILROAD through the plaster scenery with a LAYOUTS For many of us, the concept of sabre saw, unbolt the adjoining table If you wish, these two track plans starting on a "dream" layout to last a sections and carry each of them to a can be built so they will interface lifetime is looking more and more waiting truck or trailer. If the move with layouts built by other modelers. like just that; a dream more than an is a long one, you (or the mover) The concept of interchangability attainable layout. It's time to rethink may want to provide crates or between bolt-together sections of a our goals to match them to the bracing to allow the sections of your portable model railroad with the realities of a modern world. One of railroad to be stacked so the whole sections of another bolt-together those realities is that you will almost thing can be moved at once. The model railroad is fundamental to any surely move to another house or only real problem, here, is to design modular layout. The On3 layout in apartment or condominium within a model railroad that is small enough this issue is an example of a modular the next ten-years or less and that to have some chance of fitting inside layout in 0 scale; HO scale modular you'll do so at least two more times your NEXT house. This is one reason plans were featured in the Fall 1980 during your lifetime. Very why you'll see a lot of single car and Winter 1981 issues. If you do discouraging for that last-a-lifetime garage-size layouts in these pages - happen to tind a club that is utilizing layout dream. What's more, there is almost everyone has at least one stall modular layout segments for their less and less chance that your home of a garage available, even many club empire, then you have the will have either a basement or an apartment dwellers. It's also choice of unbolting a portion of your attic to provide space for your model relatively easy to find garage-size layout and carting it off to one of the railroad. The only trackplans that areas to rent if you're really stuck for club gatherings like those we depict layouts that have any space. illustrated in this magazine. possibility of lasting a lifetime, then, The utilization of space ABOVE Remember, though, when you build are those that provide some degree your car was illustrated in the Fall either layout as illustrated on these of portability. You're looking at a 1980 and Winter 1981 issues of Model pages, you do not NEED anyone couple of "those" kinds of layouts. Railroading. It is certainly possible to else's modules to have a complete share the garage with an automobile operating model railroad at home. PORTABLE MODEL RAILROAD if you must. Either of the layouts on The two plans you see go a big step LAYOUTS these pages would also fit above an beyond most modular layouts; they First, you may want to sort out the automobile. The logical choice would include the extra trackage necessary differences between portable and be the larger of the two; the 20-foot x to make the layouts work as well as modular in your own mind. A model 5-foot 1 Vz-inch version. The smaller any model railroad right in your own railroad that is portable is one that (4-foot x 12-foot 8Vz-inch) plan might home: The fact that you can interface 26 the extreme ends of these layouts curve is 24-inches; large enough to layout doesn't look like it's an oval. with someone else's modular layout allow operation of anything from If you have that second operator segments is strictly a bonus. switchers to articulates and from back-stage changing the makeup of bobber cabooses to 86-foot the trains; the scene of passing trains BACK-STAGING FOR CLUB OR streamlined passenger cars or need never allow the same consist HOME automobile carrier cars. The points (set of locomotives and rolling stock) These modular plans present a where the curves change to straights to appear twice in any operating feature that is often lacking in must be gently spiraled for about a session. You can certainly run club-size modular layouts and almost foot in an ever-increasing radius that fixed-consist trains (like unit trains of always lacking on home layouts; a ends in a straight. The National all-hoppers or passenger trains) but place to prepare trains and hold Model Railroad Association has even those need only reappear once a "day". them "off stage" or out of sight of / several suggestions for the use and the sceniced portion of the layout. design of such "easement" curves. I've chosen to call that trackage the The so-called "branchline" back-stage SQUEEZING IT INTO LESS THAN "back-stage" part of the layout tracks on the larger layout can, then, 13-FEET because it is located behind a wall or be used to both reverse the direction The smaller plan is designed for a partition painted to represent the of mainline trains and to hold them different style of operation entirely. sky. You must crawl beneath the for a while until visible trains have The I8-inch radius curves and layout to reach the back-stage hidden made a lap or two of the layout. The shorter sidings suggest a branchline trackage but that exercise will only five modules (three 2x4 and two operation for the entire layout. The be necessary when two or more 4x4-footers) plus the removable large-radius curves on the corner people are running the layout or if a back-stage bench work and track module simply serve as yard tracks derailment or other disaster occurs would travel to any club meetings to when the modules are being used at on the hidden tracks. For most be joined with other modules to home. The tracks are there (with operating periods, you can control build an even larger (but temporary) their broad curves, whenever you the layout from the front using either layout. You could do that at home if find the urge to take the modules out a fixed power pack and throttle or a you have the space for some extra to a club meeting or if you find the tethered "walk-around" throttle so modules in a basement or attic layout space (someday) to expand the you can follow your trains until they location. The use of the modular layout to something like the 20-foot disappear over the horizon (actually, advantage of these "back-stage" long one. This plan utilizes two into a tunnel or behind a building to plans, though, is strictly optional. 2x4-foot modules and a single reach the out-of-sight "back-stage" The larger layout has a set of four 4x4-foot corner module on the right tracks). When that train disappears, holding tracks (or, if you prefer, two end. This allows the extreme ends of you simply flick a couple of switches holding sidings and two through or the layout to be interfaced to supply track power to another mainline tracks) along the back wall (connected) with other modules at a train that has been waiting on one of of the hidden area. These four tracks club get-together. Only the "Portable those back-stage tracks and follow it are intended only for use in a home Back-Stage" module in the upper around the visible portion of the layout configuration as shown. They right would go with the three layout. allow the eastbound and westbound modules to any club get-together. A If there is another "engineer", he mainline tracks to be extended into a mirror-image of the layout's left or she can be put to work back-stage complete oval layout to make the 2x4-foot module and 4x4-foot corner routing trains in and out of their modules "work" as a complete module would need to be built by sidings, adding cars or locomotives model railroad. There is as much some other club member to give a to make new trains (either by hand hidden trackage on this layout as layout with a configuration like the or using a switching locomotive), there is visible trackage. Don't let 20-foot plan. There would still be the and moving those trains out onto the that alarm you; the hidden trackage disadvantage of those I8-inch radius mainline. That second engineer can can be used to make the action on curves, however, they are broad also have control over one of the two the visible portion of the railroad enough for the multi-unit diesels and mainline tracks to keep an endless more realistic than would be possible 60-foot or shorter freight cars that variety of trains moving, say, with more conventional layout plans. seem to be most common in westbound, while you perform This is one railroad where you can club-style operations. The club would switching maneuvers with a second run two 20-car mainline trains (to at least be able to reverse some of it's train on the eastbound trackage. A give either a pair of diesels or an trains thanks to these two members' third operator or engineer could be articulated steam locomotive multi-module contributions to the running one to three trains on the something that looks like a "load" layout. branchline trackage at the same time. for them to pull) . The center passing The I2-foot 81/2-inch layout makes If you want some solo action, set a siding on the visible portion is a mighty fine home layout regardless train circling the branchline oval and typical of double-track operation on of whether or not you want to unbolt another circling the westbound oval the real railroads. This siding (and the modules for operation at the while you operate the third train on the two along the back wall) club. The turnouts on the oval can be the eastbound trackage - it would provides a place to "hold" two more aligned so a single train can circulate be quite a show for visitors and the 20-car trains. The "branchline" endlessly via the "through" siding layout is simple enough that it would reversing loops allow you to reverse "back-stage" and straight by the be easy to achieve reliable the direction of any of these five double-crossover on the front performance so you could count on a trains (or a sixth 20-car train). That's (visible) portion of the layout. While lack of derailments. the kind of long-train action that is that train operates, you can use a usually only possible on layout switch engine to make-up freight or BACK-STAGING many-times this size. It's those passenger trains. If another operator MODULAR-STYLE hidden back-stage tracks that make it is available, he or she can crawl into The larger of these two layouts has all possible and credible; they allow the operating land access area behind a feature that makes it worth the you to alternate both eastbound and the sky backdrop. From there, trains space it takes; the minimum radius westbound trains every lap so the can be received from the "yard" 27 operator and other trains dispatched change locomotives and cabooses on 20-foot layout has even more back to the yard to be broken-up or every train that passes through running room for those east/west for a caboose and/or locomotive eastbound and westbound. Some of trains in and out of any division change. The yard area can even be the yard-style trackage could, of pOint-style yard. operated like a real railroad's division course, be added to the 20-foot plan point (in the sixties or earlier) to for this type of operation. The
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BASICS FOR BEGINNERS r=()am Combine the old standby I ichen moss with modern ground-foam rubber to produce incredibly-real istic trees and shrubs for any model railroad Bill Wright The unusual texture of leaves has always been one of the challenges that has faced mosielers wishing to create realistic scenes. One of the most effective materials for simulating both the smaller branches and the leaves of trees and bushes has been lichen (usually pronounced BEFORE and ... like-N) moss imported from Norway. Similar lichen grows in the forests of Maine, the Rockies and the Sierras but these North American varieties lack the delicate ends of the Norwegian lichen. The lichen is a grey/green in nature and it quickly ' dries to a powdery substance if not treated. The lichen used for model railroads is treated with common glycerin and dye to color it. The lichen is available in boxes or glued-onto plastic trunks to simulate trees. It is sometimes possible to place special orders, through your dealer, for bales of unprocessed lichen; a money-saving way to AFTER. Just a trace of finely-ground foam rubber (Bachmann's, in this case) can transform the purchase the material if you need ' more than $100 worth for a large toy-like look of raw lichen moss trees into miniatures that look like they have true scale model layout. leaves. 32 Most of us purchase lichen in the boxes or bags sold by firms like AHM, Bachmann, Herka, Campbell, Boyd, Life-Like or Kibri. Any box of lichen will contain a large proportion of the coarse stems as well as the delicate end clumps. Those stems don't look like anything resembling a tree as-is, but they can all be salvaged by covering them with the ground foam rubber that is the latest "secret" to super scenery. The ground foam is as almost readily available as the lichen; AHM, Bachmann, AMSI and Woodland Scenics all produce the material for sale through hobby shops. You'll want the fine-size to simulate leaves on the ends of lichen moss "branches". I feel that the ground foam is even better than the finest lichen clumps - the lichen lacks the proper texture of a leaf because it is rather rounded - the ground foam has sharp surfaces that reflect light almost precisely the way a scale model clump of a dozen leaves reflects light. It only takes a trace of the finely-ground foam to disguise the finer ends of the lichen clumps. The combination of the lichen and There are several methods that canbe used to make the ground foam adhere to the lichen. The the ground foam, both in their finest least-messy is to dip the lichen into a mixture of equal-parts water and Artist's matte medium -just textures, provides a very realistic don't use white glue - it dries brittle - the matte medium dries slightly flexible. contrast to ground foam alone on either the mesh or the Woodland Scenics material. A grove of trees is most-often made up of a variety of different growths. If you combine lichen and ground foam trees, mesh and ground foam trees and Woodland Scenics trees in a single small forest, the effect is incredibly realistic thanks to the variation in textures. It's also possible to vary the appearance of those three types of trees by using different shades of green for the ground foam "leaves". Perhaps the most notable result of the combination of ground foam and lichen is that the resulting "growth" no longer has the toy-like look of lichen. Ground foam, it seems, is just what lichen needed to make it actually look the way we model railroaders only dreamed it did. An alternate method of sticking the ground foam to the lichen is to spray the lichen with Scotch Spray-Mount or Spray-Ment adhesive. This material also dries flexible but work outdoors because the overspray is a sticky mess (it's also flammable!) 33 There are also two ways of applying the fine grind foam to the lichen to produce slightly dif ferent appearances. If you want to cover all the visible surfaces, dip the lichen into a box-full of ground foam and twist it so the foam touches all the lichen surfaces. To simulate some of the real fruitwood type trees, the fine foam should only be applied to the upper surfaces of the lichen. For this effect, sprinkle the foam over the glue-wetted lichen. . J . •,1 . ' �·�·:l)\�·. · '.· The three "bushes" of lichen on the right have been treated with ground foam; those on the left are raw lichen. The method allows you to utilize many of the coarser lichen "stems" as well as the fine-mesh tips of the lichen. .. Individual "bushes" of lichen and fine-grind foam are most-effectivesimulations of the chaparral and tumbleweedi that grow on the arid hillsides of the west. The technique works very well on Doug Hodgdon's HO scale Tidewater Southern Railroad. 34 FOR EXPERIENCED MODELERS AR� CAN MOIO� IH� AN�W�R� WE TRY ONE (and show you how) IN AHM'S SD40 DIESEL Is THIS the price of performance? Robert Schleicher Every hobby has its "ultimate", from Ferrari sports cars to 8-channel radio control model airplanes to Waterford crystal, and model railroading is no exception. Like every other hobby, though, the further "up" toward the apex of cost-no-object collecting you get, the fewer there are who truly care. In this hobby, the so-called "secret of performance" for locomotives has been a series of special motors that generally fall into the category of A new paint job and some super details make Leonard Frere's AHM model of the 5D40 diesel "can" motors. In the early seventies, look like something much better than what came in the box. The 5agami can motor conversion beneath the body makes it run better as well. Th ere's a step-by-step article on super-detailing a "can" motor, to a model railroader, the 5D40 in the Summer 1980 issue. was a special motor used to power some sophisticated instruments Reports take that god-like stand and and numbers (except for opinions on (like gyroscopes). Those motors they have been known to condemn the noise and realism of the model sell for upwards of $50 each. some products (certain automobiles, .- both highly subjective areas). The term has been broadened in particular) that most other Back to can motors .... You'll find considerably, during the intervening "experts" find superior. Our TWO "Performance ..." reports in decade, until any motor with an "Performance Test Reports" present this issue on models that we have encircling stamped-metal case is now facts that you cannot obtain tested with their stock motors and called a "can" motor. The "others" anywhere else about the performance then retested with the most (not cans) include the plastic motors of both out-of-the-box and readily-available "can" motors; the built-into the trucks of Tyco, tuned-and-Iubed locomotives of all $20.00 Sagami-brand "flat can" and Bachmann and Pemco diesels, types. One of the consistent findings "round can" motors imported by Athearn's motors, the open-frame" of those tests is that the power pack NorthWest Short Line (Box 423, motors that Mantua uses in makes a whole lot more difference Dept. MRG, Seattle, WA 98111). The everything and the motors that are than the locomotive (or its motor) in motor we took OUT of the AHM literally part of the chassis (like most the way the model will perform. Our SD40 diesel is referred to (in AHM's of Bachmann's steam locomotives). readers tell us that, in their opinion, ads, among other places) as a "can" Virtually everything else is one type our tests have shown that a motor; Athearn's is usually called an or another of "can" motor. properly-lubricated and adjusted "open-frame motor". This test report You'd probably like to know Athearn diesel will run even better describes our results with the Sagami whether or not those $50-and-up than an Atlas diesel. Prior to our flat can in the AHM locomotive. instrument motors are really worth tests, every experienced model "Performance Report NO. 11: it, wouldn't you? We (the editors of railroader we spoke to thought Atlas Proto-Power West SD9 Diesel" Model Railroading magazine) don't diesels would "run rings around any describes how that firm's see that as our job. We feel that you Athearn diesel". Read the tests, ready-to-run conversion of the stock are old enough to read (or to be read duplicate our testing conditions (use Athearn SD9 with a similar size to - and comprehend) and that one of our two power packs and "round can" motor runs. We went to makes you old enough to make your clean, lube and weight the the trouble to add the same amount own decisions. For one thing, we do locomotives as we indicate) and of weight to the Proto-Power SD9 as not ever intend to dictate to you make your own judgement. What we we did to the stock Athearn U30C in what is best. Magazines like Consumer DO OFFER you is hard, cold facts the Spring 1981 issue. Athearn uses 35 the same motors and the same gears in these two locomotives (and both have 12-wheels); the only differences are in the lengths of the frames and in the molded-on details. We did NOT, however, add extra weight to the AHM SD40 with the Sagami "Can" motor conversion. We truly DO CARE about presenting "apples-to-apples" comparisons, though, so you have a sound basis for making your own judgements. We can guess that the AHM locomotive WITH the Sagami "can" motor AND another 4-ounces of weight would run very much like the Proto-Power West/Athearn conversion - since both locomotives have the same motors, that have almost-identical performance (even Four tabs hold the AHM 5040 body to the chassis/running board unit. Remove the though one is round and the other a body, then pry upward on the plastic V-shaped clips that retain the front and rear trucks. flat oval). The AHM locomotive, however, is geared for much higher speeds (at 8.5:1) than the Athearn (at 12:1) so that might reduc� its efficiency and, therefore, its pulling power slightly. The major differences between the Athearn and AHM locomotives with these new can motors are apparent regardless of the weight differential: The 20 scale miles per hour difference in top speed means that the Athearn (Proto-Power West) conversion is a bit easier to control at mid-throttle settings than AHM conversion; particularly so when a conventional (not pulse) throttle is used. The lower Athearn gear ratio does make it a smoother performer The front and rear trucks will slide out their holes through the bottom of the chassis. Lower each truck only fa r enough so the universal joint can be removed. (in our opinion) and its speed range is much closer to the prototype. In the was the same one modelers have real world, the converted Athearn been asking for most of the past locomotive is also a bit less noisy decade: "Are can motors the than the AHM with a can motor answer?" (to better locomotive (again, in our opinion). Since you performance). Part of the answer to cannot buy an SD9 from AHM or an that question lies in what you SD40 from Athearn, the difference in consider to be the minimum level of the prototypes will probably make performance you can accept given the more difference to most modelers way in which you operate your than these relatively slight locomotives. No one but the very differences in speed or noise - rich can afford to "waste" money that's the true bottom line - given "improving" things that are already the extra weight we did NOT add, acceptable. If you find that a the AHM/Sagami conversion runs properly-lubricated Athearn diesel is very much like a stock an acceptable performer, then you (out-of-the-box) Athearn; enough so might very well want to add a can that you can run either locomotive motor to an AHM diesel if only to with the same throttle and not notice match its speed and pulling power to an alarming difference. Adding the your "minimum" (if, indeed, can motor to the Athearn (as Athearn is your minimum standard). Proto-Power West does for you) Frankly, most model railroaders moves the Athearn locomotive into should be perfectly content with the another speed range (at the very AHM locomotive out-of-the-box - if least) when compared to the AHM you triple-head ("mu" is the proper Pull the front and rear universal joints from with the Sagami can motor. Again, term) diesels on 30-car trains and run their notches in the trucks and in the fly wheels on either end of the motor. Next, pry the stock Athearn (with proper them around club-size layouts at a the motor fr om the chassis and, using pres scale 40-miles-an-hour you won't lubrication - see that Spring 1981 sure only from your finger tips, pry the fly article) performs very much like the even notice the difference the can wheels from the ends of the motor. The fly AHM converted to a Sagami "can" motor might make in the wheels can be pressed onto the shafts of the motor. performance of the AHM trio of Sagami (NorthWest Short Line) motor with The question we asked ourselves locomotives on your 30-car train. finger pressure as well. 36 Since we have no way of knowing your operating conditions, we have no way of telling you whether this conversion is worthwhile. Your own operating conditions may even change drastically if you find that room for a larger layout or if you start operating on a club or visa versa. There is a point, here; you must be the one to decide what is a minimum standard of performance for all (or most) of your locomotives. Model Railroading magazine's performance reports can give you an idea of what that minimum might be. Just pick one of our tests that matches what you consider your minimum-performance brand and type of locomotive and use that as Solder new wires from the Sagami motor to the metal pickup your personal standard of "best". strips on each motor. Position the wires as they were on the AHM motor and trucks. Slip the fuel tank (and its lead weight) Once you have that standard, then into the chassis. The motor can now be attached to the chassis you will be able to deal with the and the lead weight with a 'j, .-inch thick layer of silicone decisions that involve the bathtub caulking cement (hardware stores sell it). compromises we all must make: Is it really worth it to install a can motor? Do I want brand-X locomotive because it's the only model of that prototype and, if so, is it worth The stock lead weight adding a can motor to it? And (for (left) must be whittled or ground away by about many of us) are my standards too 1116-inch to lower the high for the amount of money I can Sagami motor (the mo afford to spend on the hobby? tor is just a bit taller than Every model railroader makes the AHM motor). The some compromises based on what he modified weight is or she can afford. The wealthy shown at righ t. modeler with a professionally-finished 40x60-foot layout and 100 locomotives (all with MODEL RAILROADING those $50 instrument "can" motors) probably wishes he was operating PERFORMANCE TEST IMPROVEMENT TEST REPORT © 1981 MODIFIED AHM EMD 50-40 with live steam outdoors in the ** Rockies. The rest of us have somewhat easier decisions to make. TEST RESULT My personal observations suggest to Out-of-the-box: Modified: me that the $50 instrument-type Slowest speed "can" motors arEi even (full wave 12V D.C.): .40 smph* .25 smph smoother-running and more Slowest speed powerful than the $20.00 Sagami (pulse-wave 12V D.C.): .28 smph .18 smph "flat can" we used for this Fastest speed conversion (or the "round can" that (full wave 12V D.C.): 92.8 smph 91.4 smph is used by Proto-Power West). There Maximum tractive (pulling) is, then, locomotive performance that force (on level): 1.76 ounces 2.44 ounces exceeds anything we have tested so Maximum uphill grade far. In my opinion, however, the $50 (locomotive): 11.8 percent 16.5 percent and-up instrument motors are not Pull how many 4% ounce worth the cost of both the motor and cars up 4 percent grade? 5.4 8.6 the time and trouble necessary to Peak current drawn when pulling install them. Our "Performance Test" Maximum tractive force: .29 amps .35 amps series of stock locomotives will Slowest no-stall speed over an Atlas or continue, however, as will this series Tyco number 6-size turnout (switch): 4.43 smph 3.35 smpl\ of performance-improvement tests on Possible to add how modified locomotives for two much extra weight? (none (none fundamental reasons; we (us model added) added) railroadin' editors and our model Running noise judgement: Average Average railroadin' readers) want to know *Note: smph = scale miles per hour how a variety of diesel and steam locomotives and conversions really do run and we all want to know **Modification: whether it's time to raise our Filled out clearance in slots for unpowered wheel axles. Lubed with personal standards of what La Belle 106 grease. � constitutes "minimum" performance. 37 CAN MOTORS VERSUS the capacity of your power reducing the amount of ELECTRICAL CURRENT pack and the pack's circuit current the locomotive draws. There is one other aspect of breaker will trip or some of Many modelers who are the true "can" motors, like the internal components of using "can" motors in the Sagami (NorthWest Short the pack may be damaged. Athearn diesels (or using Line) round and flat cans, Very few model railroads Proto-Power West that may be important to really have enough length of Athearn-conversion chassis), some modelers. The only true track or steep enough grades however, are doing so to drawback to the use of most to tax more than one obtain a locomotive that open-frame motors (like all locomotive. Two locomotives draws less current than a Athearn's and all Mantua's) is won't always draw twice the stock Athearn. That same current of one of them that they draw about two to reasoning would make the UNLESS both are operated on three-times as much current "can" motor conversion in steep grades uphill or with as any of the other motors the Mantua (ex-Tyco) 2-8-2 in very long (and heavy) trains Model used in HO scale or N scale the Fall 1981 issue of or both. Railroading locomotives. The two styles of even more If you find that the circuit Sagami "Can" motors (used worthwhile. breaker on your power pack in this SD40 Conversion and There is a "flip" side to this trips too often, you have in the Proto-Power West low-current draw situation; three choices; buy another Athearn-conversion) draw many throttles will simply not power pack with a higher about the same number of operate a Sagami-type can rating in amps, use different motor at anything less than ampres as the motors in most locomotives, or install of the ready-to-run half-speed. The lowest different (can) motors. It throttle setting results in a locomotives (see attached chart. would seem that many of the sudden lurch at the Ed.) Many of the power packs model railroaders who are locomotive from rest to about used by HO scale modelers replacing open-frame motors a scale 30-miles-an-hour. can supply only about with "can" motors are doing There is seldom a problem one-amp of power. If you try so to be able to operate two with either the transistorized to operate two or more or more locomotives at once throttle (or power packs) or locomotives (double-headed, on the same train. There is the pulse power packs. tripled-headed or mu-ed in very little advantage, in the Generally, it is the older twos, threes or fours), the case of this AHM SD40 wire-wound rheostat types of total current draw may exceed conversion, in terms of throttles or the very inexpensive "toy" train types of power packs that cannot control the slow speed range of a true "can" motor. Cut a piece of K&S-brand 'IB-inch diameter brass tubing about one-inch long. Cut each of the AHM universal joint shafts in half and remove '14-inch from the middle to shorten the shafts overall length. Slip the two halves inside the piece of K&S tubing and temporarily install the universal joint to the chassis (see next photo) to be certain the length is correct (shorten the tubing and the shafts if necessary). Note the position of the tubing and the ends of the shafts when you remove them, then cement the tubing to the shafts with "Super Jet" or five-minute epoxy. Ih Slip the opposite end of each universal joint shaft into the slots in the Allow the "Super Jet" to harden overnight, then slip trucks (after pulling the truck partially out of the chassis), then push the the two universal joint shafts into the ends of the trucks back into place and check the operation of the locomotive by turning flywheels on the ends of the motor. the flywheels by hand. 38 If there are no binds in the chassis, snap the truck-retaining clips back onto the tops of both trucks and check the chassis for operation by hand (by turning the fly wheels) once again. Test-run the chassis to be certain it runs freely with no short circuits. If there's a short, one of the wires you soldered may be leading to the wrong truck or may be touching the side of the motor or the le�d·weight. Leonard Frere's 5040 with a Sagami (NorthWest Short Line) can motor was assembled follo wing the steps shown here. He added directional lighting (so the forward headlight works only when the locomotive is going fo rward) so there are a number of extra lighting wires. Two wires must, however, lead from the two hex-caps on the motor brushes to the trucks. CAN MOTORS VERSUS your power' pack and the pack's draws. Many modelers who are ELECTRICAL CURRENT circuit breaker will trip or some of using "can" motors in Athearn There is one other aspect of the the internal components of the diesels, (or using Proto-Power true "can" motors, like the Sagami pack may be damaged. Very few West Athearn-conversion chassis) (NorthWest Short Line) round and model railroads really have enough however, are doing so to obtain a flat cans, that may be important to length of track or steep enough locomotive that draws less current / some modelers. The only true grades to tax more than one than a stock Athearn. That same drawback to the use of most locomotive. Two locomotives won't reasoning would make the "can" open-frame motors (like Athearn's always draw twice the current of motor conversion in the Mantua and all Mantua's) is that they draw one of them UNLESS both are (ex-Tyco) 2-8-2 in the Fall 1981 about two to three-times as much operated on steep grades uphill or issue of Model Railroading even current as any of the other motors with very long (and heavy) trains or more worthwhile. used in HO scale or N scale both. There is a "flip" side to this locomotives. The two styles of If you find that the circuit breaker low-current draw situation; many Sagami "Can" motors used in this on your power pack trips too often, throttles will simply not operate a SD40 conversion and in the you have three choices ; buy Sagami-type can motor at anything Proto-Power West another power pack with a higher less than half-speed. The lowest Athearn-conversion draw about the rating in Amps or use different throttle setting results in a sudden same number of ampres as the locomotives or different motors. It lurch at the locomotive from rest to motors in most of the ready-to-run would seem that many of the about a scale 30-miles an hour. locomotives (see attached chart. model railroaders who are There is seldom a problem with Ed.). Many of the power packs replacing open-frame motors with either the transistorized throttle (or used by HO scale modelers can "can" motors are doing so to be power packs) or the pulse power supply only about one-amp of able to operate two or more packs. Generally, it is the older power. If you try to operate two or locomotives at once on the same wire-wound rheostat types of more locomotives (double-headed, train. There is very little advantage, throttles or the very inexpensive triple-headed or mu-ed in twos, in the case of this AHM SD40 "toy" train types of power packs threes or fours), the total current conversion in terms of reducing the that cannot control the slow speed draw may exceed the capacity of amount of current the locomotive range of a "can" motor. 39 PEAK CURRENT DRAW WHEN LOCOMOTIVE IS PULLING MAXIMUM TRACTIVE FORCE Performance Amps Amps Locomotive Test No. Out-of-the-Box Lubed & Tuned Atlas HO scale SD24 Diesel* 1 .37 .37 AHM HO scale 2-8-2* 2 .42 .42 Mantua/Tyco HO scale 2-8-2* 3 .70** .70** Tyco HO scale GP20 Diesel* 4 .40 .40 Life-Like GP38-2 HO scale Diesel* 5 .45** .45** Bachmann HO scale GP30 Diesel* 6 .25 .25 Con Cor N scale PA-l Diesel 7 .21 .24 Bachmann N scale GP40 Diesel 8 .25 .25 Athearn HO scale U30C Diesel 9 1.00** 1.05** AHM HO Scale SD40 Diesel 10 .30 .35 Proto-Power West HO scale SD9 Diesel 11 .30 .45 Mantua HO scale F7 Diesel 12 . :J:J,... ,..** .75** Performance-Improvement Test No. Mantua 2-8-2 with Sagami can motor* 1 .32 .32 Bachmann HO scale Dual-Motor GP30* 2 .56 .39 Athearn HO scale U30C "Lubed & Tuned" 3 1.00** 1.05** AHM HO scale SD40 with Sagami Can 4 .29 .35 NOTES: * These "Peak Current Draw When Pulling Maximum Tractive Force" figures were not included in the first six Model Railroad ing magazine "Performance Test Reports" nor were the figures included in the first two "Performance-Improvement" tests - we would suggest you mark the appropriate numbers on those tests for your future reference in comparing them to later tests. ** These locomotives are the only ones tested, so far, that have "open-frame" motors (notice that the motors draw 3 to 4-times the current of the other tests). 40 MODEL RAILROADING magazine's test report PROCEDURE: We do not intend to make buying decisions for our readers by assigning what is always an opinion-based rating to their performance. Each locomotive has its own best features that can range from fine appearance to silent running. You may feel that slow speed is more important than silence or appearance or visa versa. We will provide equal testing conditions to give each locomotive a fair chance. We'll test each one just as it comes out-of-the-box then we'll take it apart, clean it, apply LaBelle's number 106 grease, break it in by running it and, finally, test it again. If we found that the motor was capable of pulling more locomotive weight we'll tell you so and, where possible, install it before running the second "Lubed & tuned" tests. The purpose of these tests is to help you to understand what a "good" locomotive is and how to make your locomotives come as close as possible to that standard. Again, you are the one that must decide which areas of performance are important in your selection of a "good" locomotive for your particular railroad's operating condition. The test track we use is a pair of V, x 2-inch cold rolled steel bars attached to a hollow wood spar 14-feet long. The bars have been carefully rounded to duplicate the inside corners of typical model railroad rails. The bars are adjustable, by loosening and tightening screws, to precisely match the various model railroad track gauges. The hollow wood spar base has a top deck and a bottom surface made of 'I.-inch spruce with side panels of Va-inch mahogany plywood. The finished spar has been sanded and sealed to give a perfectly flat mounting surface for the two wheel "track" bars that is warp-free. The steel bars provide a tractive surface that is at least as good as the best-laid model railroad track. The entire spar can be elevated at one end to tilt it to any angle. Those angles are used to measure the locomotive's grade-climbing (hill-climbing) abilities and to calculate its tractive force and the number of 41/4-ounce cars it will pull up a 4-percent grade. The locomotives are tested with three different power supplies; a special unfiltered, rectified, full wave 12-volt (12V) direct current (D.C) powerpack, a Troller "Momentum 2.5" and a Model Rectifier Corporation "Tech II" Locomotion 1500 Proportional Tracking Control power pack. The two packs are used only for the "Slowest speed (pulse wave 12V D.C)" and "Slowest no-stall Speed over ... turnout (switch)" tests. The "pure" 12-volt power pack is used for all other tests. Two photocells ate located beside the test track and they are spaced two-feet apart with connections to an electronic timer circuit to measure each locomotive's speed as it passes by the photocells. An ammeter and voltmeter are used to monitor the locomotive's performance through all the tests. The tractive force and car-pulling capability of each locomotive are determined mathematically from its measured performance climbing in the steepest possible grade. It's all basic physics (coupled with a lot of experience): the algebraic sine of the track slope angle is multiplied by the locomotive's weight to figure the tractive forece. The 4%-ounce car weight should be typical of HO scale 40-foot cars weighted for best no-derail performance. If your cars weigh half that, the locomotive would pull about twice as many of them or visa versa. The drag of the locomotive's own weight on a 4-percent grade is .04 times its weight (because it must "lift" itself up the hill as well as any cars). The drag of a 4Y4-ounce car (4.25 x .04 or .171-ounces) and its rolling resistance (.043-ounces) add up to a total car drag of .214-ounces per car. The locomotive's drag is subtracted from its measured tractive force and the remainder is divided by the .214-ounce total drag of each car. The result indicates how many cars (and fractions of a car) the locomotive will pull up the 4-percent grade. Obviously, the locomotive would pull many more cars up a more gentle slope; 4-percent was chosen as the maximum practical slope for a typical "mountain" model railroad layout. You can arrive at a rough estimate of how many cars the locomotive could pull on the level by simply dividing the number of ounces of tractive force by that .043-ounce rolling resistance of a typical car. This is a very, very imprecise guess, however, because a long train will be rolling through curves that add tremendous rolling resistance. It is also difficult to "tune" a large number of cars so they all have low rolling resistance. We would rather give you a precise "tractive effort" figure than little more than a guess about how many cars the locomotive you own to one you might want to purchase to see if the proposed addition to your motive power roster will pull as well or better than the locomotive(s) now in operation on your railroad. The low speeds that we have been able to obtain with the new MRC and Troller power packs are incredibly slow. Frankly, a speed of less than one-mile-an-hour is "perfect" (10 out of 10, if you prefer numbers). You barely see the locomotive move at even a scale two-miles-an-hour; it takes several minutes for a locomotive to cover a single foot of track in these speed ranges. The one-mile-an-hour speed is slow enough to provide no-lurch coupling; the major reason why slow speeds are valuable to modelers. The slow speeds on "full wave 12V D.C" are more in the order of what you'd expect from the power packs that are supplied in train sets as well as some of the more sophisticated transistorized packs intended primarily for the operation of imported locomotives with "can" motors. You should undersand, then, that the slowest speeds reached in these tests are partially the result of the specific brands and models of power packs used for the slow speed tests. 41 ()��r=U�,"A�C� T�§T ��()U�T �U. 1 (): All'" ***'**********�********************* HOW IT RUNS AND HOW YOU CAN MAKE IT RUN BETTER *********************************** AHM was the first to produce popular and over 2,000 units are in armature is mounted in the center of use. The AHM model is built in an HO scale model of the the plastic frame molding. Shaft Yugoslavia and faithfully reproduces extensions to the front and back latest-style long-platform the distinctive lines of the big carry small brass flywheels and diesels, just how wel l do locomotives. The main frame is universal joint sockets for the they run? molded in acetal plastic and includes driveshafts. Axles 1 and 2 of the the hand rails. The superstructure is front truck and axles 2 and 3 of the molded in styrene with hood, cab rear truck are driven through Robert Higgins and main enclosure panels. A truck-mounted reduction gears. A headlight lamp in the cab lights the double-tooth acetal plastic worm The full-size SD40 diesel-electric frollt and back headlights and drives a 17-tooth helical gear locomotives from the ElectroMotive number boards. A clear plastic rod mounted in the acetal plastic gearbox Division of General Motors were carries light to the back of the housing. A 13-tooth spur gear is developed in the 1960's for coal superstructure. The AHM model is mounted on the helical gear an9 hauling service and general freight priced at $15.98. drives the 13-tooth axle gears service. The locomotive has a 3,000 through spur gear idlers. The horsepower diesel engine and three DRIVE SYSTEM reduction gear ratio is 8.5 to 1. The axle trucks for heavy, fast pulling. A dc motor with ferrite magnets, a gearbox is cleverly designed to snap The design proved to be very steel casing and a three-tooth together. The bottom cover includes 42 the molded truck side frames with improve the models pulling power. noise at layout operating speeds. The good detailing. Bronze spring wipers All gears and bearings were change in grease lubricant and the contact the inside faces of the metal lubricated with La Belle 106 grease. addition of weight improved the drive wheels to carry track power to A lead weight of 3.95 ounces was operating noise a significant amount. the motor and headlight lamp. taped on the top of the Pickup is on the left side on the rear superstructure. The model weight OPERATION ON SWITCHES truck and right side on the front was then 18.62 ounces. Only small Operation at slow speeds over a truck wheels. changes were seen in the scale slow thrown number 6 turnout was not The drive gears were lubricated at and fast speeds, but slow running particularly good and seemed to the factory with light grease. The with the pulse power packs reflect the model's difficulty with headlight lamp was removed for the improved somewhat. slow speed tests. The 3-tooth tests. The sample model used in armature in the motor seems to testing weighed 14.57 ounces. A TRACTIVE FORCE cause most of the problems. large lead weight is mounted in the The stock model showed a poor top inside of the superstructure and tractive force because of the weight DETAILING there is room for more weight. A resting on the unpowered driving Features of the truck side frames 6-ounce lead weight is carried below wheels. After modifying the truck and superstructure were quite well the frame in a plastic housing bearing slots, lubricating the drive done. The molded hood details are resembling the fuel tanks. system and adding some weight, the particularly sharp and clean around tractive force was almost doubled. the grille openings. The blue Conrail SCALE SPEEDS finish is a bit heavy and some dust OPERATING NOISE The full-size SD40 was designed particles are in evidence. Spray for a safe maximum top speed of 70 The motor and gear boxes painting of the Conrail logo and miles per hour. The AHM model was produced some moderate amount of numbers was fairly well done. clocked at lO7 scale miles per hour on the test track. The 3-tooth motor armature was not able to drive the model at a good slow speed: the best run was 3.27 smph. Powering the model with the transistorized power supplies did not improve the slow speed. The model was disassembled and cleaned with soap and water. The bearing slots for free-running wheel sets, number 3 in the front truck and number 1 in the rear truck, were filed out so that those wheel sets did not share any of the locomotive weight. Only about .0lO-inch need be removed. This was done to of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of. of....• • MODEL RAILROADING • ,. PERFORMANCE TEST REPORT NO. 10 © 1981 • AHM EMD 50-40 HO SCALE CONRAIL • ,. • TEST RESULT • ,. Out-of-the-box: Lubed & tuned: • ,. • Slowest speed ,. • (full wave 12V D.C.): 3.27 smph* 3.13 smph ,. • Slowest speed ,. • (pulse-wave 12V D.C.): 3.26 smph 2.02 smph ,. • Fastest speed ,. • (full wave 12V D.C.): 107 smph 106.1 smph • • Maximum tractive (pulling) • ,. • force (on level): 2.04 ounces 3.37 ounces • Maximum uphill grade ,. ,. • (locomotive): 14 percent 18.6 percent ,. • Pull how many 4% ounce ,. • cars up 4 percent grade? 6.8 12.3 • Peak current draw when pulling • :,. maximum tractive force: .30 amps .35 amps ,. ,. Slowest no-stall speed over • ,. an Atlas or Tyco number ,. ,. 6-size turnout (switch): 6.42 smph 4.05 smph ,. ,. Possible to add how ,. ,. much extra weight? none 3.95 ounces .. ,. Running noise judgement: Poor Average .. ,. .. Molded-in detail fidelity: Average Average ,. Painted-on detail fidelity: Good Good : ,. ,. *Note: smph = scale miles per hour ,. 43 V�12r=f)12MA�C� T�ST l2�Vf)12T �f). 11: PROTO-POWER WEST/ATHEARN CAN MOTOR SD9 DIESEL HOW IT RUNS AND HOW YOU CAN MAKE IT RUN BETTER The Proto-Power West wheels through gearing with six DRIVE SYSTEM optional ratios for safe fast speeds Ready-to-run chassis are ranging from 55 miles per hour to 89 Proto-Power West modifies the die simple conversions with new miles per hour (for the 58 to 19 cast metal frame by casting a lead "Can"-style motors. The SD9 ratio). The high hood in front of the weight in the center above the cab gives the locomotive a distinctive simulated fuel tank. A SAGAMI should be typical of and powerful appearance. 2032AW round enclosed 12 volt locomotives The model SD-9 from Proto-Power "can" motor is attached to the lead West combines the finely detailed weight with adhesive on both sides Robert Higgins superstructure, sturdy metal fram of a sponge rubber isolation pad. and good truck design from Athearn Large brass flywheels are fitted to and the smooth operation of an the motor shaft. Acetal plastic drive The Electro-Motive Division of enclosed Japanese "can" motor. shafts with universal joints connect General Motors developed the SD-9 Flywheels give good operation on the motor and the front and rear diesel electric locomotives for the layout and added weight gives trucks. The drive shafts and trucks switching and light road service. The good tractive force. The Proto-Power are stock Athearn assemblies. main diesel engine developed 1750 West model is priced at $49.00 The gearbox housing is a two-piece horsepower and drove a direct without body. Athearn bodies are acetal plastic assembly with snap-on current generator. The powerful available to fit, from most dealers, at retainer and bottom cover to hold the wheel motors turned the driving $4.15 .. housing together. Die cast metal 44 truck side frames use porous bronze . grease. The test model weighed 17.10 remarkable changes in the slow bearings for the metal wheel axles. ounces. speeds and reduced the fast speed a The wheels are isolated, right from SCALE SPEEDS significant amount. left, for track power pickup to the The SD-9 model has an excellent TRACTIVE FORCE isolated side frames. A brass worm is scale speed range: 1.95 scale miles The models tractive force is good: fitted to a steel input shaft running per hour slow speed and 83.7 smph 3.12 ounces at full wheel slip and in porous bronze bearings. Spur fast speed when the full wave test 11.4 cars on a 4 percent grade. The gears with 12 teeth, on each wheel fixture power supply was used. The addition of 4.24 ounces of weight axle, are driven by the worm model did some creeping at .41 and relubrication increased the through spur gear idlers. The smph when the pulse power packs maximum tractive force to 4.27 reduction gear ratio is 12 to 1. The were used. The addition of 4.24 ounces and 16 cars on a 4 percent gears and bearings were lubricated at ounces of weight and a grease grade. Proto-Power West with a light lubrication change produced some OPERATING NOISE The brass worm operating against MODEL RAILROADING a plastic spur gear generated some noise at moderate to high loads and PERFORMANCE TEST REPORT NO. 11 © 1981 speeds. The addition of weight and PROTO-POWER WEST EMD SD-9 lubricant did not change the observed noise level much. The TEST RESULT overall noise level is good. Out-of-the-box: Lubed & tuned: OPERATION ON SWITCHES Slowest speed The six wheel trucks were able to .75 smph (full wave 12V D.C): 1.95 smph* pick up track power without Slowest speed interruption and there were no (pulse-wave 12V D.C): .41 smph .23 smph mechanical problems with an Atlas Fastest speed number six left hand turnout. The (full wave 12V D.C): 83.7 smph 71.1 smph model moved steadily at a slow Maximum tractive (pulling) speed of .40 scale miles per hour force (on level): 3.12 ounces 4.27 ounces through the thrown turnout, or more Maximum uphill grade than 5 minutes to move 2 feet! The (locomotive): 18.6 percent 20.4 percent trip through the Atlas turnout was Pull how many 4% ounce slightly slower after the addition of cars up 4 percent grade? 11.4 16 weight and relubrication. Peak current draw when pulling maximum tractive force: .30 amps .45 amps DETAILING Slowest no-stall speed over The Athearn molded styrene and Atlas or Tyco number superstructure has excellent detailing 6-size turnout (switch): .40 smph .38 smph with fine lines and sharp execution Possible to add how of even small features as found on much extra weight? none 4.24 ounces the full-size locomotive. Painting of Running noise judgement: Good Good the model in the green and black Molded-in detail fidelity: Excellent Excellent colors of the Burlington Northern is Painted-on detail fidelity: Excellent Excellent very well done. The paint covered *Note: smph = scale miles per hour well without obscuring the finely molded detail work. 45 V�12r=()12,"A�C� T��T V�V()12T �(). 1�: �TUA 1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllill111\11111111111111111111111111111111\1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 lIIillllllllllillllllll ll II llllllII llllllllII 111111II illl 111111111 llllllIIil i 111i 11111111 11111111 II1111 II II llllllilII i III II i lll11l11l11iiiiii IIllii II II illlllllllllllllillii ill IIill II lliiIIlllll II lllllllllllill II11111111111 II 11111111111 111111II11111 IIill II II i111111 II illllllilliilli 111111 IIi IlIIiill lIIill11111111 iilll11111 lII llilili III illiiII III 1111111 illillllllllilllilllllll II ill lllllililli HOW IT RUNS AND HOW YOU CAN MAKE IT RUN BETTER Mantua utilizes similar weight, and the powered rear truck frame. A conventional armature with are each snapped into slots in the motor/truck units in all their five teeth is mounted in porous molded plastic superstructure. A bronze bearings with the rotor axis diesel locomotives, so this F7 lamp illuminates the front headlight. fore and aft. Iron field pole pieces should have performance The model is priced at $20.00. are mounted on each side with an The full-size F7 diesel-electric Alnico magnet above the chassis. typical of any Mantua diesel locomotives from the ElectroMotive Plastic worms at each end of the Division of General Motors were motor shaft drive 14-tooth plastic Robert Higgins designed for freight and passenger helical gears on the steel wheel axles. service with gear ratios from 59:18 to The gear ratio is 14 to 1. Formed 56:21 for passenger locomotives and sheet brass bearing caps support the The F7 HO scale diesel locomotive 65:12 to 60:17 for freight handlers. axles in the chassis. Brass driving from Mantua combines reasonable The fast passenger locomotives had wheels are fitted on the right side of good looks and good operation on 1500 horsepower engines and ran to the rear truck and wheels with the layout. The rear truck wheels are 102 miles per hour. rubber traction tires are used on the driven by a motor mounted on the left side. A metal bottom cover for rear truck in a departure from the DRIVE SYSTEM the powered truck carries molded usual drive arrangements. No chassis The powered rear truck uses a DC plastic side frames. The powered frame is used: the front truck, a motor built into a die cast metal , truck is compact and cleverly 46 designed. Gears and bearings were force was almost doubled. The experienced at slow speeds below 11 lubricated at the factory with light weighted and lubricated model scale miles per hour. The grease. pulled over 32 percent of its own performance after lubing and The unpowered front truck uses a weight. weighting showed a fine metal bottom cover and plastic side improvement as a slow speed of 1.65 frames fastened to a die cast metal OPERATING NOISE smph through a thrown switch was chassis. Brass wheels are used on the The high speed worm and worm recorded. left side for track power pickup. The gear mesh growled some at low model tested weighed 10.79 ounces. speeds and produced a little noise at DETAILING The headlight lamp was moderate speeds. The addition of The detail of the molded styrene disconnected for all tests. weight and lubricating grease quieted superstructure are clean and sharp. the mechanism somewhat. The Special care in the reproduction of SCALE SPEEDS overall noise level was good. the cooling fan grills is very pleasing The 14 to 1 reduction gear ratio to the eye. The molded plastic truck was no match for the high speed OPERATION ON SWITCHES side frames add to the fine overall motor as the model was timed at The stock model negotiated an effect. Painting of the Mantua model 185.6 scale miles per hour on the test Atlas number 6 left hand turnout is nicely done. Color borders are track. The model did unusually well with some difficulty. Stalls were clean and straight. in the slow speed test with a 1.15 smph run on the full wave power supply. The model took 284.08 seconds to traverse the 2-foot timing trap, or .72 smph, on the pulse type power pack. The drive system was disassembled, cleaned with soap and water and reassembled with La Belle 106 grease at the gears and bearings. An additional lead weight of 4.22 ounces was added for test purposes. The excessive fast speed at 12 volts and no load wasn't changed much, but some real improvement in slow speed resulted: 1.12 smph with full wave and .29 smph with pulse power were recorded. TRACTIVE FORCE Tractive force of the stock model was excellent. The addition of some additional weight had a dramatic effect on the pulling power as the .. -- �� ...... M O�D�E�L-�R�A�IL�R�O�A�D�I�N�G� ...... , PERFORMANCE TEST REPORT NO. 12 © 1981 MANTUA EMD F7 TEST RESULT Out-of-the box: Lubed & tuned: Slowest speed (full wave 12V D.C.): 1.15 smph* 1.12 smph Slowest speed (pulse-wave 12V D.C.): .42 smph .29 smph Fastest speed (full wave 12V D.C.): 185.6 smph 188.6 smph Maximum tractive (pulling) force (on level): 2.70 ounces 4.88 ounces Maximum uphill grade (locomotive): 25.8 percent 34.4 percent Pull how many 4% ounce cars up 4 percent grade? 10.6 20 Peak current draw when pulling maximum tractive force: .55 amps .75 amps Slowest no-stall speed over an Atlas or Tyco number 6-size turnout (switch): 11.0 smph 1.65 smph Possible to add how much extra weight? none 4.22 ounces Running noise judgement: Average Average olded-in detail fidelity: Excellent Excellent !P�ainted-on detail fidelity: Excellent Excellent *Note: smph = scale miles per hour 47 NEW MODELING TECHNIQUES BOX CAR SUPER-DESomeTA new detai I partsIL make it easy to create a showpiece from a common freight car '10000 �M ':;;gg ee Ie .15 BEFORE ... AND AFTER. You can transform any plastic freight car (this is Bach mann's HO ready-built) into a showpiece with just a fe w parts and a fe w evenings pleasure. 48 Our "project" 50-foot 1959-era insulated box car utilizes Tuttle Indus tries "R"-style stirrup steps. Kadee's wheelsets, Grandt no. 5124 ladders, Detail Associates' no. SY2204 grab irons and FC6204 Roof Walks (running boards with Kadee number 5 couplers. Model railroaders generally reserve their super-detailing efforts for locomotives or structures that are placed near the front of their layouts. The more-common rolling stock is generally considered to be either too rU}l'(t J � -..... workaday or too much in motion to ff1 bother with super-details. It just may be time for you to rethink such a modeling philosophy. The rolling stock on your railroad is every bit as much a model as any locomotive or structure and the rolling stock moves through most of the same foreground areas (excepting engine DETAIL-REMOVAL terminals, of course) as do locomotives. Few of us have either the time or patience to super-detail every freight or passenger car on our layouts. There are, however, two types of cars that are the most obvious (in two senses of the word) candidates for super-details; every caboose and any freight car that has an eye-grabbing paint scheme or some unusual physical characteristics. The caboose probably gets as much attention as the locomotive on many trains, so those cars are the ones that should be first on your list of super-detail projects. If you are weathering most of your rolling stock to match the appearance of the real railroad's equipment, then the few cars that have that fresh-from the-paint-shop appearance are the ones to pick for super details. Any unusual cars that are extra-long (like The molden-on details must be removed so they can be replaced with scale-thickness super detail parts. Begin by pulling the sides of the car outward so the flo or can be snapped do wnward a 60-foot or longer box car) or and out of the body. unusual like a wrecking crane or a container car) are also likely candidates for some extra details. The goal, here, is to pick the cars that attract attention and apply some extra detail to them. If the most-noticeable cars are realistic, • then the viewer is subconsciously tricked into thinking that all the more-mundane rolling stock is just as finely-detailed. You'll be surprised to find out that even you are fooled by such trickery. The process of super-detailing freight cars has been made a bit easier with the introduction of several new detail parts. Detail Associates has the special corner grab irons (no. 6205) that appear on the roofs of most of the freight cars prior to the sixties (when all roof walks began to disappear). Detail Associates also has both the expanded metal type of roofwalk The lettering must be removed from the sides of the car or it will show through the paint (as (anti-skid type) and the earlier three-dimensional shadows). The lettering should rub-off after about 20-passes with a Q-Tip wooden roofwalks in one-car detail dunked in alcohol. 49 kits that include the roofwalks and Use a number 17 X-Acto blade in their number 1 handle to remove those special corner roof grab irons. the molded-on grab irons and lad This same firm also offers special ders from the sides. Hold the blade passenger car and caboose grab irons parallel to the car side so it won't as well as conventional freight car gouge the side - just slice-off the grab irons. Their list of detail parts grab irons. includes freight car ladders (in plastic) and caboose ladders and steps. The number 2205 "Coupler Lift Bars" for diesels are close-enough to the types fitted to both freight and passenger cars. Tuttle Industries, 1239 Melville Rd., Dept. MRG, Farmingdale, NY 11735 has the super-detail that is needed on just about every HO scale freight car; scale-thickness stirrups or corner steps. The model INSTALLING manufacturers who produce the plastic ready-to-run and kit rolling GRAB IRONS stock mold those corner steps grossly oversize so the frail plastic won't break (Kadee uses a flexible plastic but they produce only N SCALE scale cars). Tuttle's steps are $2.00/24. If you are modeling a modern car then the chances are the prototype for that car has a cushion underframe. None of the HO scale kits or ready-builts that I know of have the extended boxes above the coupler and the short walkway in that area that are characteristic of most freight cars built since the sixties. Cal Scale offers all the necessary parts for those details in plastic for $1.50 in their number 301 "Hydra-Cushion Car Detailing Set" . The set even includes the half-length Mark the locations ofboth ends ofeach grab iron with the point of a compass. The point will also ladders common to modern rolling serve as a "starter hole" for the drill. Hold a number 78-size drill bit in a pin vise to drill the holes. stock and a finely-molded brake wheel and stand. If you don't want to add the roofwalks you see on these pages because your railroad is set in the modern no-roofwalk era, then a major proportion of your rolling stock should have Cal Scale's kit. The box car you see in the photographs is destined to become part of ?I model railroad set in the time period of the late fifties. The Brulington was just receiving delivery of the first of its new dark green and yellow insulated 50-foot box cars, so this car will receive just a light touch of "dust" weathering to Insert the Detail Associate's wire grab\ irons \ with tweezers. Apply a drop of cyanoacrylate make it clear that it is the newest car cement (like "Hot Stuff"or "Super Jet") to the inside of the body where the wires stick through. on the model railroad. Most of the real railroads began to break-away FREIGHT CAR from their boxcar red drabness with LADDER DETAILS huge heralds and brighter colors on their freight equipment during this same time period. Walthers no. 934-40-45A (HO scale) and 936-40-45A (0 scale) decals are the Larger molded-on details (/ike only ones available for this ladders) are removed in a five-step Burlington car. The photo I found of process. First, the number 17 blade a new 1959 car does not have the is gently worked across the surface work "insulated" on the right half of of the body so it removes only the ladder and none of the actual car the yellow band as indicated by the side . 50 • Wiggle the blade, while you push it, and the vertical portion of the Next, use the same chisel technique to slice the remaining vertical ladder should peel away along with most of the horizontal braces. Avoid portion of the ladder from the car side. Repeat the process to remove all breaking-offany details, if you can, because part of the side may come 4 ladders. with them. Some traces of the ladders may remain. Scrape them away with very light pressure on the number 17 blade. It's safest to use a fla t mill file (medium-cut) to smooth-off the ends (the blade might catch in the corrugated ribs and gouge the end). Sand all the ladder locations lightly with number SOD-grit emery paper. Slice the Grandt plastic ladders from their molding sp rue. Cut the ladders to the proper height after they are away from the sprue. If you are painting a two-color car you may want to wait until the model is painted to install the ladders. Walther's decal instructions. I also INSTALLING STIRRUP STEPS have a more-recent photo of a 1961-era car that lacks the "insulated" (it also lacks the ... "Refrigera tor ...") . The decals include enough plain stripes to decorate the model either way. The colors are not, however, opaque enough (you can see the green through the yellow stripe). The following article on applying-decals will illustrate how to correct that fault. Since my car was to be depicted as it looked in 1959, roofwalks were a must. The bright green and yellow attracts attention to this car like no other, so its super-detailing is not wasted. I used one of Bachmann's ready-to-run cars for the project but the same-style car is available from Athearn (number 1322 through 1362 and 5271 through 5278). Both brands seem to have Use the number 17 chiesel blade to trim the plastic steps off of all four corners of the car. equally-crisp detailing. Smooth the lower edge of each corner so there is no trace of the original plastic steps. 51 I / I Carefully mark the locations of the holes for the Tuttle Industries wire stirrup steps with a compass point so the hole will be directly in the center of the thin lower edge of the sides. Use a number 76-size drill bit in a pin vise to drill the holes. Gently press the Tuttle Industries steps into the holes far enough so only the fla ttended portion of each step protrudes below the car side (the round wire portion is in the number 76-size holes). • INSTALLING NEW ROOF WALKS • The plastic pegs that hold the roof walks to the body must be sliced-offbefore the roof walk can be pried from the car. The Detail Associates roof walks ("running boards") include plastic pegs to plug the holes in the roof. File the holes in the roof just large enough to fit tightly around the large end of the pegs. 52 Use liquid cement for plastics to hold the roof walk plugs in the roof. Allow 24-hours for the cement to dry before filing the plugs flush with the roof ribs. The Detail Associates 50-foot roof walk was about 'In -inch too long to fit this particular car. Use flush-cut diagonal cutters to remove two Use smooth-face pliers to bend the corner roof walks do wn at an sections of the grid. File the cut ends to half their thickness so they can be angle to match the angle of the model's roof. butted together. Thick cyanoacrylate cement (like "Super Jet") or five-minute epoxy works best to attach the roofwalk. Apply a drop of the ce ment to the top of each roof rib where the roof walk will touch. 53 Drill the number 78-size holes for the corner grab irons and eyes after the cement that holds the roofwalk has dried. Install the corner grab irons and eyes and hold them in place with a drop of cyanoacrylate cement from inside the roof. PAINTING THE MODEL I used Testors number 23 green paint thinned with lacquer thinner in place of the brown liquid in the bottle. Floquil's R154 Vermont Green is also dose to the Burlington green. The ladders were painted as separate pieces. ! • The paint (or the cement) may dog a fe w of the openings in the Detail Associates roof walk. Carefully examine the roof and cut-out any filled-in holes. Apply a drop of paint to the edges if the bar metal is visible. 54 INSTALLING KADEE COUPLERS The Bachmann car has trucks with built-in NMRA horn-hook-style couplers. Use diagonal cutters to cut the complete coupler and pocket from each truck. Kadee wheelsets willmake the cars a bit freer-rolling. Spread the truck sideframes apart with your fingers to snap the Kadee wheelsets in place. The job is easier if the trucks are off the car floor. A simple press-in plastic pin holds the trucks in place . • Use a number 2-56 tap to cut threads just half-way through the Use the Kadee coupler pocket as a guide to locate the position for a number 50-size hole. The mounting screw can cut its own threads and number 50-size hole. Note that the end of the car extends beyond the it will be self-locking if you allow it to force its way partway through end of the floor so snap the floor temporarily into the body as shown the hole. while locating the hole. Install the Kadee number 5 coupler with a 2-56 screw as described in the coupler in structions. I found that the couper was about 1132-inch too high so that amount was filed-off the truck bolster at the point where the truck contacts the floor. Be careful, when filing, to be certain the bolster is not cocked to • force the car to lean to the side of its trucks. 55 BASICS FOR BEGINNERS (and something new for experienced modelers too) HOW-TO APPLY DECALS THE RIGHT WAY Decals will look like-hand-painted lettering and stripes if they are applied properly Albin Burroughs 56 A possible prototype for our model. This particular carwas made two-years later than the 79100 through 79199 series of Burlington cars. If you wish to match this car, the lower edge of the body must be replaced with a 12·inch wide strip of Evergreen styrene plastic. This car was produced in 1961 for the Burlington's Colorado & Southern subsidiary. It was photographed in 1979 on its way to the scrap yard but still bearing its original dark green and yellow colors . • The Walthers number 934-40-45A decals appear to be authentic for the 79100-series cars as indi cated on the decal instruction sheets. The one photo I located, however, did not have the "hy draulic cushioning" lettering and, in fa ct, they were not supposed to have such cushioning (although later-series cars did) . Cut the decals into sections so the door is a separate piece and so no yellow goes beneath the Burlington herald. BURLINGTON REF'RIG£RATcm EXPRESS : HY�/C ctISHIONfNO The Walthers decals are not opaque enough - if applied as-is the yellow is doser to light green -I cut some undercoating stripes from the Scale-Master brand model airplane decal sheet number SM-X (yel low) that were the same width as the Walthers Burl ington yello w stripes. These stripes will go on the car before the Walthers stripes to produce a true yellow. An alternate method is to use TWO sets of Walthers decals, one directly on top of the other. • • The car MUST bepainted with glosspaint or, if painted with flat(non-gloss) color, it must be painted with a coat of dear gloss. The decals will not stick tightly enough to flat-finish paints; tiny air bubbles are trapped between the paint and the decal that give the decal a hazy appearance. Cover the area to be decaled with one of the decal solvents like MicroS cale's Micro Sol so the fluid is still wet when you apply the first decal. 57 Cut each decal from the sheet and dip it briefly in water then rest it on a paper towel until the glue dissolves. On this model, the solid yellow stripe goes on first. Hold the decal with the point of a hobby knife while you pull the paper backing from beneath it with tweezers. Never touch the decals with your fingers once they have been removed from the paper backing. Cover the yellow stripes with the deca/ softener and allow the softener to dry over night. The decal should be nestled snuggly over every rib and rivet with no off-color air pockets. The Walthers decal stripes and herald are applied using the same procedure of using the decal-softener first, applying the decal, then applying more softener. Thoroughly flood the surface of the car with decal softener. You can only apply decals to one side of the car in an evening or the softener will run-off the sides. Here, the softener has just been applied - note that the decals are looped loosely over the ribs. • Three applications of decal softener helped to move the decals tighter against the ribs but three more were needed to get them down tight. You can apply a second (or third ... or sixth) coat about two-hours after the first coat. 58 Wait at Ie.ast 24-hours before touching the de cals. lf you wet your finger, you can use it to press the more-stubborn decals tightly against the de The decal-application process will leave cloudy smears on the car side that MUST be tails. Use a direct (not a rubbing) pressure be scrubbed-away with clean water before covering the decal with clear paint. cause the de cal can still be soft enough to literally rub-off the car fo r the first 48 to 72-hours. Spray the entire car with fla t, clear paint like Testors "Dulkote" to (A) protect the decal from humidity and handling and (B) to match the finish of the de cal to the fin ish (la ck of gloss) on the rest of the paint. It would be almost impossible to make any decal wrap around the Grandt ladders so they were simply painted green and glued in place with cyanoacrylate cement ("Super Jet") after the clear fla t was dry. If you want to match the prototype perfect ly, the yellow and thin black stripes could be painted onto the ladders by hand. • 59 BASICS FOR BEGINNERS Some proven ways to make assembly easier and quicker for any "Craftsman" -type structure kit Albin Burroughs THE MINE COMPLEX - PART I The concept of "craftsman kits" is are familiar with kits, you'll notice modeler to modify it more easily and one of the basics of model that these brands include wood, to paint it more precisely than a kit railroading that offers as much cardboard, plastic, cast resin, cast with molded-on detail. Regardless of pleasure as any other aspect of the metal and sheet metal as the the precise definition or the kit's hobby. The term "craftsman kit" was predominant kit material. The plastic materials, the craftsman kits do coined to define the types of kits that structures from firms like ConCor, reward the builder with a feeling of require more than a couple of screws Pola, Bachmann, Tyco, AMM and accomplishment when the model is or a quick dab of glue to assemble. the like fall into a rather "gray" area complete. Most of the kits brands Athearn and MDC freight cars are somewhere between the mentioned are also "attainable" NOT the type of kits we mean; there "snap-together" (two-screw) kits and models, in that their construction is are literally hundreds of brands of the true craftsman kits. It is simple enough so that a beginner can "craftsman kits" but any list would supposed to take much less time to complete a model as long as he or have to include Campbell, Suydam, assemble one of the plastic structure she is patient while learning the Silver Streak, Ulrich, LaBelle kits than a similarsize craftsman kit techniques. Woodworking, Quality Craft, but that is not always the case. The Model Masterpieces "40 Stamp Ambroid, Northwestern, Walthers, Perhaps the best definition of a Colorado Mill" is certainly NOT the DynaModels, Evergreen, Magnuson craftsman kit might be that it is a kit first kit I would recommend to any and Model Masterpieces as the with separate detail parts (like beginner. This is not a particularly most-readily available brands. If you windows and doors) that allow the complicated kit but it is a very large The modern techniques for assembling Cra ftsman style kits were used to build a duplicate of this Model Masterpieces' "40-Stamp Colorado Mill" in just fo ur easy evenings. 60 building with a variety of walls and assembly "secrets" as they apply to Railroading. The raw ore, fresh from it is designed to rest on a sloping kit construction that is almost as old the gold or silver mines, was loaded hillside. If this is your first kit, Model as the hobby itself. Goldberg's into bunkers on the high side of the Masterpieces' no. 105 "Colorado "Super Jet" thickened cyanoacrylate mill. The ore was then carried by Midland Railroad Sandhouse" would cement, for example, provides an water and/or gravity through a series be a much wiser choice. The two instant bond for joints that use to of drop-hammers that crushed it or Model Masterpieces kits are typical take a day a piece to dry. Acrylic "milled" it or "stamped" it. A of the most popular types of colors provide another "modern 40-stamp mill had 40 stamps to crush craftsman kits; kits with basslwood miracle," replacing smelly paints that the ore. The Campbell! Timberline walls that have prepunched openings should be dried outdoors with HO scale "10 Stamp Mill" kit is a for windows and doors with cast almost odorless and very fast drying model of another typically-Colorado metal or plastic windows and doors paint that thins and cleans-up with structure that is (as you might and a cardboard roof. Some kits have water. Old timers might argue expect) about a fourth the size of this embossed cardboard walls as well. against using acrylics on laytex type one. The Model Masterpieces kit This material description (and the paints on locomotives or freight cars instructions give a nice description of basic assembly techniques for those that receive frequent handling, but the full size mining and milling materials) would apply equally to no one should find fault with using operations and refer the interested most Campbell, Dyna-Models, them on a structure. modeler to other more complete Walthers/SS Ltd. and Quality Craft Model Masterpieces' "40 Stamp sources like Robert Sloan's 416 page kits as well as two or three dozen Colorado Mill" does not mill or hardback book on the Colorado other brands. stamp Colorado, in spit of its title. narrow gauge, THE RAINBOW We would hope that you would The structure is a composite of ROUTE ($45 from Sundance apply the assembly techniques for several ore-reduction mill buildings Publications, Ltd., P.O. Box 597, the "40 Stamp Colorado Mill" to any in the Colorado mining areas. It's a Dept. MRG, Silverton, CO 81433). of the craftsman kits with similar much larger version of the plastic kit The completed structure you see materials. There are some new ideas conversion stamp mill described in here was assembled by Dave Sunby and tips here that reflect the latest the Winter 1981 issue of Model of Model Masterpieces so we could have the pictures in time for inclusion on the cover. We actually did build the kit for the how-to photographs except that our version is painted box car red with dark green windows and trim. The colors are the negative (dark vs. light) of Dave's model. Dave assembled the fine 18 x 36 inch diorama to illustrate how the mill should be built into the scenery. The upper level track is optional; most of the mills received their raw ore in wagons from nearby mines or, if close enough to the mines, in small ore cars on 18 inch gauge tram railways. The kit includes notes on a similar tram railway, as well as a single car, for the waste or slag dump. The instructions in the kit describe the specific steps needed to complete this kit-we'd like to show you how those same steps can be used to build ANY of the Cra ftsman-style kits with similar materials. First, lay-out the parts and "walk through" the construction so you know where EVERY piece fits. MAGIC! Goldberg's "Super Jet" makes the assembly of the typical wood and metal (or wood and plastic) Craftsman kit almost as easy as snap together plastic models because the cement dries within seconds. Here's our kit at "Step 4" in its instructions. 61 The "Clerstory" is actually the second story's f�ont wall and it is almost all windows It, too, is pieced together, but the windows them�elves should be left out (for now) S( they can be painted a contrasting color. Most of the Craftsman-style kits require some mental labor as well as physical. An illustration like this one would have been helpful to let the builder see that the fr ont wall is pieced together over the scale 12 x 12 pieces of wood (m ost of the other walls are one die-cut piece). The actual structure begins to take shape at "Step 9" in the instructions when the tallest part of the building (the "Tower") is assem- • bled. The difficult-to-cut window and door openings are die-cut in most Craftsman-type kits but easy cuts, like the dormer roof pieces, must be made by the modeler following templates in the kit. If you've pre-tested all the assembly steps according to the kit's instruc One of the reasons why you need a certain amount of patience to build tions, you'll know when the building is ready to be painted. If you loop any "craftsman-type kit" you'll reach "Step 16" of the instructions (for masking tape so its sticky side is up, you can use a scrap of board to hold the this kit) before the structure begins to look anything like its fin al shape. tape and the small parts for spray painting. 62 KIT COMMENTARY One of the most consistent features of almost even) craftsman-style kit is that there are one or more parts that do not fit properly. Every craftsman kit we have seen demands tha t the builder file or sand every edge of almost all the parts - that's supposed to show up when you check the fit - as a rule, if six parts are supposed to be identical lengths, only fo ur of them will be. Part of "smoothing-off the edges", then must include adjusting the sizes of some of the parts so they really do fit. This particular kit is about average in terms of what fits Many craftsman-type kits have the popular tarpaper-style roof. This kit includes tissue paper that and what needs to be fitted. All of the must be cut into scale 4 x 8 foot rectangles. That task is easier if you fold over the paper (into 8 problems can be corrected but that layers or more) so cuts can be made with a paper cutter to produce the 4 x 8 pieces. must be done before the parts are glued in place. The front wall (part 5) has the scribed lines running horizontal while all the other walls have vertical lines. It would not be uncommon fo r a structure to have horizontal siding on this short wall so 1 left it alone. The matching segment of vertical-scribed wood that is supposed to match the height of number 5 is 1/1 6"inch too short to match either no. 5 or the height of the large freight door frames. If you cement those fo ur cut-to-fi t segments of the front wall 1!winch below the top of the upper cross beam, the height of the front wall will be correct. The 1h 6-inch will be covered with the 4x8 trim strips so·it won't be seen on the finished model. The two equal-size pieces that will make rear wall no. 18 must be I used the Polly S brand of acrylic paints for cut-to-fit. One of the 2%-inch wide If you are impatient, the seams in the cast the stone fo undation as well (as for the walls, panels can remain as-is; the second plaster foundation can be filled with the pow windows and trim). The foundation was one must be shortened to 1 llh6-inches dered plaster included in the kit and then painted with a brush and. then air-brushed as so the two panels give a wall that is 4 touched with one of the conventional cyanoac suggested in the kit instructions. 3/1 6"inches wide. I fo und that part no. ryla te cements for "instant" seam. 11 was a mirror-image of its proper shape. I simply scribed new lines on the back side of the panel but a new one could be pieced together from the cut-off remains of one no. 18 glued beside a scrap of no. 13 that will be hidden inside the building. There was no no. 14 part in my kit so I made one from the leftovers of no. 18. Model Masterpieces is aware of these problems and they will probably be corrected on the next run of kits. The 4x8-size pieces of tissue paper that simulate the tarpaper roof can be attached without fuss if you use Micro Scale's "Liqui-Tape" adhesive. It dries like sticky tape so you can simply press the pieces of tissue paper in place and they'll stay stuck. There were hundreds of stamp mills similar to this one invirtual ly all the mining areas of Colorado, California, Nevada, Montana and Utah. Many of them were placed on hillsides much like this one. The kit's cast plaster fo undation allows you to vary the slope of the hillside without covering the structure's wood walls. That second (and smaller) structure is Model Masterpieces' "Leadville Powerhouse;" another kit that duplicates a building that housed a steam engine to power the mill's machines. 63 FOR EXPERIENCED M.ODELERS BUILD A SIMPLE TUNNEL M'OYOR D IE S ELIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1II11111111111111111111111mlllllllmIDlllllmmllllllmJIIIIIIIIIIIII"IIII�IIIlIUIIIIIIIII"'''. There are really only two variations of the "Tunnel Motor" diesels and only two real railroads bought one of those. This is the S045T-2 purchased only by the Southern Pacific (and its subsidiary Cotton Belt). The po body is so long it extends out onto BOTH the i!JC::: front and rear end platforms and there are three air filteraccess panels between the griJIs on both sides of the rear of the hood. The S040T-2 Tunnel Motors have a shorter body that allows room for a longer front plat form when the conventional fMO nose is fit ted as it is here. The S040T-2 has only two air filter access doors on the sides of the hood between the upper and lower griJIs. Both the Rio Grande and the Southern Pacific have S040T-2 Tunnel Motor diesels. Just to confuse us all ... When the S040T-2 is fitted with remote control electrical equip ment, the nose is extended into what is called a "snoot" so it fiJIs most of that front end platform. Note that it's only the nose (not the longer body) that fills the end platform. There are stiJI just those two identifying air filter access panels on the hood. 64 An easy way to create a reasonable repl ica of the special diesels the Rio Grande and Southern Paci fic use to conquer the tunnels of their mountain lines model by Leonard Frere The most awe-inspiring sights in real railroading are the struggling trains that groan and snake their way through the mountains. Their diesel locomotives were designed expressly for use through the tunnels and snow sheds on mountain railroads. When you can spot one of these so-called "Tunnel Motors", you know you've seen a locomotive that probably spent (or will spend) part of The easy-way-out to create your own "Tunnel Motor" in HO scale is to use Leonard Frere's its trips growling through the technique of modifying an Athearn SDP40 (the SantaFe unit) with the new rear grills and paint of tunnels. There are only two types of the SD40T-2 like his Rio Grande unit. "Tunnel Motors" and both are made, 111111111111111111111111\111\111111111111111111111111111111111\11111111111111\111111111111111111111111111111111111\111111111111111111\111111111111111111111111111111111111111111\111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 for the real railroads, by the Electro-Motive Division of General REMOVING THE DETAILS Motors (EMD); they are designated FROM THE SIDES OF THE HOOD SD40T-2 and SD45T-2. The SD4OT-2 produces about 3000-horsepower while the SD45T-2 produces about 3600 horsepower; the same as the SD40-2 and the SD45-2 standard-design diesels. The tunnel motors look like most other "second generation" diesels from the nose back to about the center of the hood; it's those huge roof and lower-side grills at the rear that mark them as Tunnel Motors at a glance - no other diesels look quite like them in that rear-of-the-hood area. There are about 247 (assuming no recent total wrecks) of the SD45T-2 CD Grip the Athearn SDP40 body shell between your fingers and a block of wood so you can diesels in operation on the Southern support it firmly without damaging the surface details on the fo rward portion of the body. Use a Pacific and its Cotton Belt subsidiary number 17 X-Acto blade to gently chiesel-offall the surface detail from the door hinges below the (see "Diesel Detail Close-Up" in this rear of the dynamic brake bulge back to the rear corners on both sides. issue). The S.P. was the only railroad to purchase the 3600-horsepower Tunnel Motors and they bought their last one in 1975. The 3000-horsepower Tunnel Motors (the SD40T-2) have been purchased by • both the Southern Pacific and the Rio Grande. The SD45T-2 diesels were built in the 1972 through 1975 period and, although the locomotive is still available, both the S.P. and the D.&.R.G. have switched to the 3000-horsepower SD40T-2. Most real railroads have found the 3000-horsepower SD40-2 more to their liking than the 3600-horsepower SD45-2 so it's no surprise thiS carries over to the Tunnel Motors. The first deliveries of SD40T-2 engines were made in 1974 and, so far, the S.P. has brought about 215 of them and the Rio Grande has about 40. Some ® Use a medium-cut mill file to remove any traces of detail left after the chieseling process. of these feature the longer nose (the Work slowly so the file doesn't slip to remove any of the remaining details on the sides. 65 "snoot") that extends to the Close-Up" article in this issue). So pulls its air into the engine through more-usual position on the front end far, no other railroads besides the the large round fans on the top rear platform. There also seems to be Rio Grande and the Southern Pacific of the hood. The fans in the center some variation in the style or pattern (and Cotton Belt) have purchased (if there are any) are for the of the grills covering the rear sides Tunnel Motors and the "Grande" turbochargers. Those air-intake fans and top of the hood on some Tunnel bought only SD40T-2 units. Any real were pulling badly-contaminated Motors. railroad with tunnels, though, is a exhaust gases right into the engines. The SD45T-2 has a longer body likely candidate for the diesels and The Tunnel Motors have their intake that "pushes" the nose up to the end the Southern Pacific units are seen in fans mounted near the floor so fresh of the front platform. The maj ority of operation frequently on the Union air is pulled from the tops of the the SD401-2 units have the typical Pacific and on the Burlington running boards where it is both SD40-2 long front platform (except Northern. cooler and cleaner. That's why those for those with the extended noses). Why a Tunnel Motor in the first side grills are only present on the The best way to spot the difference place? Because the Southern Pacific Tunnel Motors and why there are no between the "40" and "45" Tunnel felt that their diesels were loosing round fans on the rear of the roof. Motors is by counting the number of horsepower when operated through Unfortunately, there are a number of access doors (to reach the air filters) the frequent tunnels and snowsheds changes in the panels and hatches on on the rear sides of the hood (see the over their Donner Pass line in the outside of the body; enough to arrows in the "Diesel Detail California. The standard EMD diesel make the Tunnel Motors appear to . ' \:V� Wrap a piece of number 400 emery paper around a block of wood to sand the chieseled and filed sides of the hood perfectly smooth and fla t. REl\fOVING THE ROOF DETAILS IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!1I11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 @ Use a razor saw to carefully slice the train heating vents from the rear of the roof. Leave about 1164-inch of the parts in place so there's no chance the saw teeth will mark the roof. ® Remove the three simulated fans f�om the rear of the roof using the same razor technique to leave just a trace of the details on the hood. 66 ® Three round holes will remain where the fa ns used to be. Cut one corner of the first one of the three into a square corner or tear drop shape with a hobby knife. The two rear holes will be removed later to fit the roof grills. be much different than they really are. It's something-different, though, that makes model railroading interesting to so many of us; the Tunnel Motors are, then, just another modeling challenge. There are three possible ways to have a tunnel motor for your HO scale model railroad: Find one of the all-brass ready-to-run S045T-2 models imported by Alco Models in • 1977 and be willing to spend about $200 or more for it. Start with an Athearn F45 chassis and slice-up an Athearn SDP40 and GP35 body to get the proper-length end platforms and body, then apply the grills and access panels as shown on these pages - it's a whole lot of work! The third and easiest route is the one chosen by Leonard Frere for the zpodels you see on these pages; use an Athearn SDP40 chassis AND body (j) Trace the precise outline of the now-teardrop-shaped hole onto a piece of Evergreen-brand and modify ONLY the grills to .060-inch thick white styrene plastic. capture the character of the Tunnel Motors. Leonard's model is about a scale 3-feet lO-inches (about a half-inch) too short; most of that in the area ahead of the nose. The too-short front platforms make the easy-way Tunnel Motor a bit like the long-nose SD40T-2 units. If you'd rather install three of the "access panels" in the sides of the hood, you can call your easy-way Tunnel Motor an SD45T-2 and ignore the 1/2-inch that's missing from the body and chassis in the hood area - our easy-way model looks most like the SD45T-2 (except for those two access rough outline of the .060-inch Evergreen plastic filler piece with a razor saw, then panels where the "45" should have ® Cut the file the filler piece to fit its matching hole in the roof of the hood. three). Frankly, it would take an expert with a scale ruler to spot the missing half-inch on the model. Even when coupled between scale-length S040-2 . diesels, the easy-way Tunnel Motor's missing length is not apparent. If you must be accurate, then do it the hard way and build one from those Athearn SDP40 and SD35 bodies with an F45 chassis to match the plans in Kalmbach's new DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES plan book. The "Diesel Detail Close-Up" in this issue has the details needed for the ® Press the filler piece into its hole and apply two or three coats of liquid cement for plastics. Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt Allow the cement to dry for 48-hours. Leave the filler piece protruding about 1164-inch above the Tunnel Motors. hood. 67 File both the filler and the plastic plug fla t with' the medium-cut @) Apply a layer of automobile body filler "spot" putty around the @ mill filebut do NOT allow the file to actually to'uch the body (so no file edges of the filler piece. Let the filler putty dry for 24-hours. marks appear on the top of the body). @ Finish the last "filing" to bring the filler and putty flush with the top of the body by sand ing the two with number 400 emery paper wrap ped around that block of wood. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111 IIIIIIIIII 1 ill1III IIIlllWUlIIII_1ll 1I1II1II1II1I1II1I1II1I1I1I1I1II1II1II11U1U1J!ll!l CUTTING THE AIR FILTER ACCESS DOORS @ The identifying characteristic that distinguishes an S040T-2 from an S045T-2 at a glance is the presence of either two or three air filter access doors on the sides. You'll need a spare Athearn GP35, S045, SOP40 or S035 body - cut the rear of the body off with a razor saw then @ Use the razor saw to cut along the horizontal edges (the top and cut to within 7132-inch of the vertical edges of the side panels with a bottom of the access doors); again, leave about 7132-inch of material hobby knife guided by a steel ruler as shown. around the edges of the doors for a File-to-fit piece. 68 @ Use the pointed end of a compass to mark the locations for the access doors on the sides of the body. The forward edge of the first door is 15-feet, ll-inches from the rear of the hood (shown). The forward edge of the rear door (for an 5040T-2) is l-feet, 10-inches from the rear of the hood. The top edges of both doors are about 15-inches from the top of the hood. All dimensions are in scale feet and inches, of course. @ The doors can now be broken out of the "spare" body - the plastic willbreak cleanly along the vertical cut line even if the cut is only 1164-inch deep into the surface of the plastic. @ File the final shapes of each of the four air filter access doors righ t to the molded-on edges using that medium-cut mill file. Take your time to be sure the edges are all perfectly fla t with square corners. @ Use the compass point, again, to mark the size of the large grill openings on the lower edges of the sides of the hood. These openings are 16-feet I O-inches long with the rear edge just one-foot from the rear of the hood. The openings begin at running board level and extend upward 5-feet 2-inches. Drill a Il16-inch hole in the corner of each of the grill and air filter access doors openings. • @ The openings can be cut with either a jewelers saw (shown) or a number 193 Oremel cutting bit in a Oremel motor tool. To use the jewelers saw, insert the blade through one of the corner holes and then clamp the blade into the ®> The Oremel cutting bit and tool will make quick (if messy) work of cutting the saw and complete the cut. The Il16-inch holes in each holes. Work very slowly so you don't melt the plastic with the cutting bit. Remove any corner will make it easier to turn the saw. Leave about accumulated plastic that attaches itself to the cutting bit before proceeding with the 1164-inch of plastic around each edge to allow file-to-size cut. material. 69 @ Use a square-shaped jewelers file to smooth the edges and cor ners of each of the openings. @ Test-fit the air filter access doors, as you file the openings to size, to be certain they are a tight fi t. The edge of each door is all that will hide the holes so be certain the fit is precise. @ The grills are actually a single piece of 0 scale roofwalk material in etched brass; All Nation-brand number 6022 or Quality Craft-brand number 149. Cut four pieces of the roof walk IS-feet 1O-inches long with a razor saw. Support the roofwalk while you cut it so it does not bend or deform. @ The front and rear edges of the grill hole in the roof must align with the grill holes along the lower . sides of the hood. The top grill opening is cut to within I-foot 4-inches of the sides. Use the same techniques for cutting the roof hole that you did on the sides. 11111111111Ill lIIlIIiilllllllllllllllllllllllllllili 11111111111111111 111111111111111111 111 111111111111111 111111II1 1111 11III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINSTALLING THE TUNNEL MOTOR GRILLS @ Place two of the grills (roofwalks) side by side. Cut two pieces of 3/32-inch Plastruct-brand plastic H-beam to match the width of the two @ Carefully shave-off two diagonally-opposite flanges from the grills. H-beam to make a Z-shape. Trim both H-beams into this Z-shape. 70 @ Cement the Z-shapes to the roof of the SDP40 body using plastic cement. Space the Z-shapes to exactly match the length of the brass grills (roofwalks) . • @l Cement the remaining two grills (roof walks) into the openings in the lower sides of the hood using the cyanoacrylate cement. If there are any gaps between the body and the @ Cement two of the 1S-foot 10-inch brass grills (roofwalks) side-by-side beneath grills or access doors, they can be filled with the Z-shape pieces using cyanoacrylate cement (like "Hot Stuff" or "Super Jet"). the automobile body putty. @ You may want to add a fe w super details to your model using this issue's "Diesel Detail Close-Up" of the SD4ST-2 as a guide. Leonard Frere added Kadee couplers and some Cal Scale air hoses to his model. • ® The Tunnel Motor diesels were de signed for operation in the mountains so you'd expect to find snowplow pilots on them. • @ Leonard Frere's Rio Grande "Tunnel Motor" is a reasonable replica of the full-size SD40T-2 except that it lacks about a scale 3-feet 10-inches of overall length in the hood and chassis. Those huge grills and most of the details, though, are what most folks look for when spotting a Tunnel Motor so the "missing" length is not obvious. 71 DIBurliESELngton Nor thernDET's AIL CLOSE-UP: Electro-Motive SD40-2 number 6385 A Paint, decal and identified with a small C&S on the running DA2802- Snubbers (shock absorbers) part-by-part guide to help boards and cab (see the Summer 1980 issue of $1.50/4 you duplicate full-size diesels Model Railroading for a BN/C&S SD-40 how GS8-1 Windshield wipers $1.50/4 to-detail article). The C&S engines are num DWI06 Rotary beacon $1.00 ea. in miniature berd 6348 (ex-900 through 925), 6850, (ex- DW132- Hand brake stand $1.00 ea. HO Scale 50'10-2 made by: kit expected 980), 6950 (ex-996), 7800 through 783 1 (ex- DW155 Snow plow $1.50 ea. from GSB models in March 1981. The Winter 930 through 961) and 7832 through 7940. DW157 Radio antenna $1.50/5 1980 issue of Model Railroading magazine The 900s were renumbered into the BN fleet DW166 Fuel fillers $1.00/4 has an article on making the similar SD38-2 in 1980. with an Athearnchassis. A few hundred brass Prototype Color Data: Color postcards no. models were imported by Alco Models but 432, 769 and 770 from Vanishing Vistas illus -NOTE: these details are supposed to be in they are now collectors items. trate the current Burlington Northern colors. cluded with the details in the GSB 5040-2 kit. N Scale 5040-2 made by: ready-to-run HO Scale Decals: Micro Scale 87-25, model expected late in 1981 from American Herald King L419, or Champ EH-209. All of the above detail parts are available to Trains International Inc., P.O. Box 377, Dept N Scale Decals: Micro Scale N-25. any hobby dealer, so contact your dealer first MRG, Merrick, L.I., NY 11566 to be imported Paint: Burlington Northern Green; - if you must order direct from the manufac from Europe. Scalecoat and Scalecoat II no. 38 or Floquil turer, include $1.00 per order for postage and Full-size locomotive: the most popular six no. 35. Black; the black soon weathers to a handling. You must order the full package axle diesel ever made - the Union Pacific dark grey closer to Scalecoat I or II Locomo quantities indicated beside the prices. (who owns 686) and the Burlington Northern tive Black or Floquil no. 10 Engine Black. (who owns 828) are the largest buyers but virtually every modernrailroad has some. The DETAILS (HO scale): SOURCES: locomotive is readily identified by its very M42 1 Cab shade & windscreens $1.25/ea. long front and rear end platforms and three DA 1003 Pyle dual headlight $.85/2 DA: Detail Associates, Box 197, Dept. rear roof fans. The Burlington Northern DA 1101 Lift rings $1.00/36 RMG, Santa Maria, CA 93456 SD40-2 engines are numbered in the follo w DA1508 MU hoses $2.00/16 OW: Details West, Box 5132, Dept. MRG, ing series: 6325 through 6385 (6325 was re DA 1601 Air horn, 3-chime Nathan $1.25/2 Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 painted and numbered 1876), 6700 through DA2201- Grab irons $1.65/8 GSB: GSB Rail Ltd., 932 Bonifant St., Dept. 6836, 6900 through 6928, 7000 through DA2204 Coupler lift bar & eyes $1.50/2 MRG, Silver Spring, MD 20910 72 91 and8000 through 8181. The BN subsidi DA2302 Cab Armrest $.85/8 M: Harold Mellor, Box 509, Dept. MRG, ary Colorado & Southern's locomotives are DA2801 Brake cylinders $1.75/8 Parker, CO 90134 72 DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP: Southern Pacific's (Cotton Belt) Electro-Motive SD45T-2 number 9403 HO Scale SD45T-2 made by: Once im by the Southern Pacific (the Cotton Belt is a DETAILS (HO scale): ported as an all-brass HO scale ready-to-run subsidiary of the S.P. with the same colors and Access Doors: not available as parts - three model by Alco Models - now a collector's lettering except for the name on the sides of doors identify full-size SD45T2, item. See article on "Tunnel Motors" in this the hood). The S.P.'s SD45T-2 engines were two-doors identify SD40T-2 issue for a simple kit-conversion model. numbered 9157 through 9370; the Cotton DA 1001 Oscillating headlight $.85/2 N Scale SD45T-2 made by: none available. Belt's from 9371 through 9404. It is common DA I 002 Oscilla ting headlight $.85/2 Possible to modify Atlas SD45 into similar to see the units in operation on the Union DA1003 Pyle dual headlight $.85/2 model using techniques in this issue's "Tunnel Pacific and eight were once leased to the DA 1101 Lift rings $1.00/36 Motor" article. Burlington Northern. DA 1201 Bell $.85/2 Full-size Locomotive: Electro-Motive Divi Prototype Color Data: Color postcards are DA 1507 MU receptacle $.85/2 sion of General Motors modified the SD45-2 one of the best sources of correct color in DA1508 MU hoses $2.00116 (in 1972) into the SD45T-2 for the Southern formation on full-size diesels. The Walthersl DA 1603 Air horn, Nathan $1.50/2 Pacific and the Rio Grande Railroads to allow Rail Card no. 926-2 1 depicts a almost-new SP DA 1803 Radio antenna $1.2514 better performance inside tunnels and snow SD45T-2 and their card no. 19 depicts a more DA1 903 Air vent, cab roof $.85/4 sheds. The three roundfa ns on the rear of the weathered scheme. Vanishing Vistas' cards DA2201 Grab irons $1.65/8 roof that normally pull fresh air were relo no. 87 also illustrates the proper modern col DA2204 Coupler lift bar with eyes $1.50/2 cated on the floor so they would not pull-in ors for the Southern Pacific. Both brands of DA2303 Cab armrest $.85/8 exhaust fumes. The louvers along the sides cards are available to any model railroad DA280 1 Brake cylinders $1.75/8 and the lack of the round roof fans im dealer. DA2802 Snubbers (shock absorbers) mediately identify the "tunnel motors". The HO Scale decals: Micro Scale no. 87-11, $1.50/4 Southern Pacific was the only railroad to buy Herald King no. L600 (for Southern Pacific DW139 Air filter set $1.00 ea. the SD45T-2 and they bough their last in only - not Cotton Belt), Champ EH206W (S.P. DW140 Snow plow $1.25 ea. 1975. The remaining Southern Pacific and Rio only) or Walthers 934-85-76 (Cotton Belt) DW161 Dynamic brake vent $.75 ea. Grande "tunnel motors" are SD40T-2 units. 934-89-90B DW166 Fuel filler $1.00/4 The SD40T-2 diesels have only two "access N Scale decals: Micro Scale no. N- ll (Cot GSB- l Windshield wipers $1.50/4 do ors (see photo) with a two-foot longer front ton Belt and S.P.). M42 1 Cab shade & windscreens $1.25 ea. platform on the front (actually, the body is Paint: S.P. Dark Grey; Scalecoat no. 28 or shorter). Floquil no. 132. S.P. Scarlet (ends of nose and Number 9403 is one of 248 SD45T-2 en hood - included in some decal sets); gines purchased during the 1972-1975 period Scalecoat no. 29 or Floquil no. 136. 73 NEW MODELING TECHNIQUES � �aI R 'BRUSH CJ3ASICS, 'PA RT 3: INSTANT 'PA INT RS Adapt your air brush to match the brand of paint (jar) you use for always-ready painting Robert Schleicher The miniature spray-painting rigs that we modelers call air brushes are some of the most important tools ever offered to the model railroader. The air brush allows you to finish a model so it looks more like the real thing and to do so in less time and with less mess than with either bristle brush-painting or spraying with aerosol cans. The steam locomotive weathering (and most Make an "adaptor cap " (the two in the center) to match your air brush to the size ofjar lid you use for paint. If you use all three popular brands of model paint (F/oqui/ or Polly S, Pactra and Scalecoat), you'll want three adaptors (to match each brand). The adaptor makes set-up and clean-up much easier and quicker - easier than painting with a brush. types of diesel and freight car painting is the clean-up. This is one w�athering) described in the Winter area where the aerosol can seems to 1981 issue were once only possible be best - just turn the can upside for experienced professional artists or down, when you're finished painters. Thanks to the air brush, painting, and spray the compressed anyone can accomplish a realistic gas out the nozzle to clean the weathering job. There are a few aerosol can. Wipe of any excess paint "tricks" that can make the use of an dribbles and spray the gas (with the air brush even more of a time and can still upside down) once again. trouble-saver when painting any type That's all there is to the clean-up of model project. The spray-painting after using an aerosol can. There a{e booth in the previous issue is an many insurmountable problems with example of one such "accessory", the the paint-application with aerosol jar lid adaptors described on these cans that makes them far more pages are another (we'll show you trouble than any clean-up time they Clamp the air brush's jar lid adaptor in a vise more in future issues as well as more might save. I still use aerosol cans with a block of wood to protect the face of the specific techniques for the use of an for spraying Testors' Dullcote over cap so the jaw won't smash it. Use a razor saw to air brush). some decal-application jobs just to cut the cap offflush with the plated ring INSIDE One of the most time-consuming save the trouble of getting out the air the cap . (and patience-taxing) parts of brush for that single coat of clear 74 Use heavy scissors or tin snips to cut the remaining portion of the top of the cap as close to the plated air brush adaptor in the center of the Save the top of the cap and discard the threaded portion you just cap as you can get. We're using Badger's number 50207 "Jar Adaptor" cut-off. but similar adaptors are available for the other brands of air brushes. File the cut edges of the cap flush with the plated adaptor. File all of the paint from the top side of the cap right out to the edges. bottles of Floquil or Scalecoat are fine for this project. Once you have that lid that matches the paint, the painting process begins thus: Purchase a half-dozen bottles of Floquil or Use an old paint lid from the brand of paint you are using (Floquil, Scalecoat thinner. You'll get the Pactra or Scalemal). Pry the paper or foil seal from inside the cap with thinner you need and, of more a knife. importance, some spare empty bottles. Empty bottles are available from both brands but they are much paint. I also use some of the Pactra with the air brush. Every time you harder to find than bottles of thinner "Flats" in aerosol cans to paint open a fresh bottle of paint, you will (so why bother?). Pour one bottle of buildings (and, sometimes, scenery) want to mix about half of that paint thinner into a clean empty container where a large amount of paint is with an equal amount (or half that to use for cleaning brushes or needed and the color is not all that amount - depending on the brand thinning paint later. You should now critical. For every other paint job in and color of paint) of thinner. That have at least one empty bottle, one model railroading, though, the air mixed-paint must then be attached to full bottle of thinner, one full bottle brush is the tool. the air brush. If you use the standard of paint and a jar lid that will fit all I happen to use a Badger air brush air brush bottle then you wind up three bottles as well as your brand of but the paint jar problem that this with dozens of bottles of paint in air brush. That's your new article will solve is the same with various states of thinner and various time-saving ,!ir brush "kit". You'll Paasche, Binks or the Thayer and types of lids. Here's a solution: make certainly need more empty bottles Chandler brushes - the paint jar lid a special cap to match the paint jar's and more than one color - be sure size on the air brush does not match cap to your air brush as described in that you purchase a bottle of thinner any known brand of model railroad the photographs and captions. If you every time you buy a bottle of paint paint jar lids. You can save a lot of use both Floquil and Scalecoat until you have an adequate supply of time and hassle by having brands of paint then you'll need to empty bottles to match the number standard-size lids for fresh paint and make two such lids; one for each of different colors you intend to keep for paint mixed with thinner for use brand. The lids from old (used-up) in your personal paint "stock". 75 This paint and bottle "kit" will three-fourths of the bottle into the brush, spraying the paint, then allow you to perform just about any empty jar and fill the jar's capacity attaching a bottle of thinner to clean air-brushing job with little more with thinner. That leaves enough the brush - the whole process is preparation or clean-up time than it full-strength paint for touch-up or to just about as quick as using the takes to use an aerosol can. I find mix "just a bit more" paint and aerosol can but you have the that I can use Floquil right from the thinner if you run-out of that infinitely-better prospect of bottle for most applications. Scalecoat paint/thinner mix. Be sure to label controlling the paint pattern, the needs to be thinned, in my BOTH the bottles with the date, the proportion of thinner and the precise experience, with at least I-part color and the proportion of thinner amount of paint you are spraying thinner to 3-parts paint (thinned to paint. From that point on, with the air brush. When you're set 25-percent). Floquil needs to be air-brushing is simply a matter of like this, painting seems so easy that thinned about the same amount to attaching the bottle of color to the air it's almost like magic . ... apply a really smooth paint job like that on a locomotive. Even more thinner versus paint is needed, of course, for weathering and other special painting techniques. The idea of matching the number of empty jars to the number of different colors you have insures that you'll have both thinned and full-strength paint available as you need it. When you open the paint, pour about half to Heat he top of the cap ONLY and cover it with a thin layer of solder. Apply a thin layer of solder to the air brush adaptor you modified earlier. Finally, so/�er the adaptor to the center of the cap. For extra strength, use Mark the exact center of the cap with a compass point then drill a ' the Stay-Brite brand of silver solder and flux. 'I.-inch hole through the center of the cap. The adaptor is now ready to be attached to the air brush. The When the solder cools, drill a 'In-inch vent hole in the cap near the threaded-on portion and the plastic tube are included with most edge of the soldered-on adaptor. Scrub the cap with detergent and adaptors. Your air brush is now ready for "instant" use every time rinse thoroughly in water. you want to paint with it. 76 PAINTING PROFILES NO. 2: 40-FOOT HIGH-SIDE GONDOLAS Painting and lettering guides FREIGHT CA RS for: 40-foot gondolas made by : Moe (Roundhouse) and FR OM THE FIFTIES Tyco in HO scale and Rolling stock from the steam-to-diesel transition era Locomotive Workshop in 0 that is sometimes still seen today scale photos from the Charles E. Winters collection The Prototype: Part of a series of 500 cars numbered 5192 through 5691, this one built in March of 1956, for the ChiCago and North Western Railway Company. This photo was taken shortly after the car was delivered. Later in 1956, the railroad changed its name from "System" to "Rail way" on the herald. HO Scale Model: Tyco makes a TO-rib 40-foot gondola that is very close to this one but not in C&NW markings. N Scale Model : none o Scale Model: Locomotive Workshop (RFD 3, Box 211-B-l, Dept. MRG, Englishtown, NJ 07726) has a brass "High Side Gondola" kit The Prototype: Part of a series of 996 cars match this prototype. that is very close to the C&NW car. numbered 44000 through 44999, this one Paint: When new, black but the color soon Paint: Scalecoat or Scalecoat /I no. 13 or F10- built in 1943, and numbered 44134. Note weathered to a dark grey similar to quil no. 74 Box Car Red. the unusual rounded ends. Scalecoat's no. 1 "Locomotive Black" or HO Scale Decals: Champ HB-320 or Walthers HO Scale Model: Model Die Castings (Round FloquiJ's no. 17 "Weathered Black". 934-38W (for herald) and 934-38-01 (for house) kit no. 1341 has rounded ends and HO Scale Decals: Champ HG-121 or Walthers "C&NW" letters) 9-ribs, but a later-style lettering scheme. 934-35Y N Scale Decals: none available N Scale Model: none available N Scale Decals: none available o Scale Decals: Champ OB-320 or Walthers o Scale Model: The Locomotive Workshop o Scale Decals: Champ OG-121 or Walthers 936-38W (for heralIiJ and 936-38-01 (for Side Gondola" kit can be modified to 936-35Y "C&NW" letters) • The Prototype: Part of a series of 489 cars, this one built in 1940, numbered 41 00 1 through 41500 (this one numbered 41289) for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company. This car is about 9-inches longer than the others (at 41 '3") on this page and note thatit has only 8 vertical ribs. The wrecked tank car is similar to the MDC (Roundhouse) HO scale kit or The Original Whistle Stop's On3 kit. The Prototype: Part of a series of 498 cars, this ... would be close but the bolsters should be HO Scale Model: none available (the Tyco one built in 1938, numbered 43001 through filed-down so the car sits a scale 6-inches 10-rib car is closest - it would allow the 43500 for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Rail lower. "K" to be centered on the side) road Company. This car appears to be iden N Scale Model: none available N Scale Model : none available tical to number 41289 in the other photo but o Scale Model: The Locomotive Workshop o Scale Model: The Locomotive Workshop number 43384 is six-inches lower and has a "High Side Gondola" kit can be assembled "High Side Gondola" kit is very close. much smaller load capacity (80,000-pounds to closely-match this prototype. Paint: Scalecoat or Scalecoat /I no. 13 or Flo vs. 140,000 for 41289). Note that the words Paint: Scalecoat or Scalecoat /I no. 13 or Flo quil no. 74 Box Car Red. "The Ka ty" and "serves the southwest" are quil no. 74 Box Car Red HO Scale Decals: Champ HC-88 or Walthers barely visible on the center of the car side. HO Scale Decals: Champ HC-88 or Walthers 934-68W The fifties-era large "M-K-T" has been 934-68W N Scale Decals: none available added years after the car was built and let N Scale Decals: none available o Scale Decals: Champ OC-88 or Walthers o Scale Decals: tered with that "The. Katy" logo. Champ OC-88 or Walthers 936-68W HO Scale Model: the T 10-rib car 936-68W 77 Like-it-or-not, automobiles benefit from the vehicles on these instance) in the foreground scenes should play a part in most pages. Unfortunately, there are very and the ProCustom vehicles a couple few 1970 or later models (except of feet from the edge of the table; the model scenes - here's most Tyco's 1969 Camaro and Javelin). viewers will "assume" that all the of the American cars You'll just have to assume that the automobiles are equally-well scale model people on your layout detailed. can only afford used cars if your The Pro Custom automobiles must layout is set in a seventies-or later be painted (as must Magnusons's Harry Chris time period. There are two of the and most other kits). The plaster Wiking plastic automobiles that, should be sealed with a coat or two although from the sixties, share the of Scalecoat paint. Next, paint the styling that is popular in the body color with Scalecoat paint - it seventies and eighties: their dries to just about the right 1965-vintage Chevrolet Malibu (no. semi-gloss shine for a scale model There has to be something better 220) and their Mercedes 600 sedan automobile. Paint the windows either than the metal Tootsietoy-type of (no. 156) as well as the Eko Mercedes dark green or black and, when dry, cars for a model railroad. In truth, 220 sedan. Most of the most modern paint-in the window "glass" with there are dozens of scale model American cars are copying Mercedes clear fingernail polish (test the polish automobiles from the forties and strokes with the file to square-off the on a dry sample of the Scalecoat fifties, but it seems that few top of the grill on either Mercedes window paint, first, to be sure it modelers are aware of them. There is top of the grill on either Mercedes doesn't attack the Scalecoat paint. precious little on the market to would make it look most "modern". Paint the tires flat back, of course. represent automobiles of the thirties. The most popular period for model Paint the grills with Testor's or Jordan and Dyna-Models have railroaders is the late fifties when Floquil's silver. Don't even bother to various Ford Model Ts from the both steam and diesel locomotives try to paint the "chrome" window twenties that would be suitable for a were still in operation. The frames or side trim - it's not worth railroad set in the time period of the automobiles from that period have the trouble - the natural highlights twenties - that era still used a lot of. been rare, indeed, until very from the slightly-glossy Scalecoat horses and wagons. recently. Magnuson Models paint will be plenty to give a The only 1930-era automobiles we introduced their three kits; the 1939 chrome-like glint to the raised details know of are The Wheel Works Chevy sedan delivery (panel delivery that simulate the chrome trim. One series of variations on the 1932-34 was a more common term), their final detail touch that is important Ford cars and trucks, Jordan's Ford 1948 Ford two-door coupe and their with any automobile model - be Model A station wagon (1929), 1953 Chevrolet BelAir two-door absolutely certain that all four tires Magnusons new 1939 Chevrolet hardtop. All three were shown in the are on the ground - if you must, it's sedan delivery, National Motor "New Products" section of the even worth the trouble to file one of Company's seven variations on the Spring 1981 issue of Model the tires slightly flat so the other 1929 Packard and Mountain States Railroading. The Pro Custom series three will rest on the road. Place Model Works' 1935 Ford sedan (see of a cast-plaster models has added 17 about 9110s of your automobiles in photos). Most of these vehicles are automobiles and 10 trucks from the parked positions. Those that are on available at model railroad dealers. late forties and e'arly fifties. The the road are best placed in scenes Most model railroads, though, are vehicles are a bit on the crude side where they might be at rest waiting set in a later time period where with molded-on wheels and no for a stop sign, a railroad crossing, or one-in-ten automobiles from the interiors, but the shapes are two cars at an intersection waiting thirties or twenties is plenty. generally very correct and the price for one another. "Action" scenes If you who have picked the forties, is right at 99¢ a piece. If you use the with automobiles that do not move fifties or sixties your layout can $5.95 Magnuson automobiles (for are NOT realistic. 78 These three tko-brand vehicles are appropriate for a railroad set in the final years of steam or a later time period. The Chevrolet Malibu (left) is "modern " enough for a seven ties-era railroad. The Plymough station wagon and Chevrolet El Camino pickup truck would only be much-used vehicles on a mod ern scene. The Bachmann tri-level freight cars and some of their accessories have one or both of these two automobilesi a la te-sixties Cadillac ElDorado and a Plymouth station wagon from about the same time period. They'd be much more realistic if their interiors were filled-in with dark green modeling clay. ------ 00 not overlook some of the "foreign" cars for a railroad set in the thirties or forties (or as used vehicles in a more modern scene). This Wiking-brand (Con Cor sells them) four-door could be just about anything from a Packard to a Cadillac - it happens to be a 1937 Horch (from Germany). Another "no-brand" style automobile fr om the thirties that could be anything from a Chevrolet to a Studebakeri it happens to be Wiking (ConCor)'s 1937 Mercedes 2600. 79 Some of the toy cars are worth considering for scale model railroads. New wheels would transform this Chevrolet panel delivery truck (sedan delivery) into a very realistic model - it happens to be a bit large (about 1172 scale) but its size will not be apparent (that's Wiking's 1951 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith) unless you place it beside a true-to-scale HO automobile. Mountain States Model Works kit for the 1935 Ford Tudor sedan is an excellent model. A model railroad set in the thirties could use dozens of these Fords (mostly dirty or clean black, but grey and dark green were also common). 80 The Eko 1950-era Jeep Wagon and 1960- era VW Beetle are offered either as simple display models or as lighted machines with fib er optics light strands for the headlight and tailights. Train Tronics has the lighted kit shown. The Pro Custom (742 Frederick Rd. Dept. MRG, Catonsville, MD 21228) cast plaster line of vehicles includes these light trucks at a mere 991/ each: (toprow) 1950 Pontiac sedan delivery, 1948 Buick Ambulance, 1948 Chev rolet pickup truck and (bottom row) 1949 Chevrolet panel truck, 1950 GMC dump truck, 1949 Chevrolet Railway Express Agen cy truck and 1949 Chevrolet telephone repair (or ice cream) truck. More 991/ cast-plaster Pro-Custom vehi cles: (top row) 1949 Oldsmobile four-door sedan, 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline and 1949 Ford Fourdoor sedan and (bottom row) 1950 Mercury station wagon ("Woody"), 1948 Chrysler convertible, 1949 Ford convertible, and 1950 Wil/ys Jeepster. There are some rare machines in the Pro Custom 991/ series (far left): 1948 Tucker and 1948 Dodge, (center) "Fire Truck, 1950 Studebaker and 1949 Hudson and (far right) 1951 Kaiser, 1948 Plymouth Taxi and 1951 Oldsmobile hardtop. 81 MODEL RAILROADING Magazine's History One of the most-often asked in-depth reports. At the moment, we collector, you may want to know that questions we receive in the have original or reprints of all the copies of this one magazine with Model Railroading "Winter 1979" on the cover are mail is something like back issues of on hand at Eastwood Publishers available ONLY from Argus "Didn't your magazine used in Denver. The contents and Publishers Corporation in Los to be called ..." It did; and prices of these issues are described Angeles and that copies of this one those first issues date back to on pages 88 and 89 of this magazine with "Spring 1980" on the issue. ONLY FOUR ISSUES OF The cover are available from Eastwood 1967 Great World of Model Railroading are Publishing Co. in Denver. The The concept of illustrating each still available: Spring 1978, Fall 1978, magazines with the cover date step of a how-to-do-it article Winter 1978 and Spring 1979. These "Winter 1979" were distributed originated in the magazine you are four are $2.00 each postpaid from ONLY on newsstands while copies now holding. Prior to this, the hobby Argus Publishers Corporation, 12301 with "Spring 1980" were distributed magazines showed blow-up Wilshire Blvd, Dept. MRG, Los ONLY through hobby shops and illustrations or cut-aways and a Angeles, CA 90025 - DO NOT subscriptions. photo or two of the completed model ORDER THESE BACK ISSUES Part of the reason for the changes . for most of their how-to type of FROM EASTWOOD PUBLISHERS - in the titles of the magazine and for articles (and most still do just that). they can only send your order back the confusing cover dates and The unique character of our articles to you. The older issues of Great erroneous volume numbers stems makes them readily identifiable and World of Model Railroading can be from the magazine publishing and dozens of readers have written to ask found ONLY at stores that sell used distribution business practices. The if Model Railroading magazine has books and magazines. title change is the result of changes anything to do with the magazines There has been considerable in the corporations that publish the 1001 Model Railroad Ideas published confusion over the precise magazines. The seemingly premature by Delta Magazines, Inc.) or the publication and cover dates of all of dates on the covers are also normal Great World of Model Railroading the.se magazines. The photos and in the course of the magazine (Published by Argus Publishers captions should help to sort some of business. Most monthly magazines Corp.). The answer is yes; those two this out - we have assigned ·whole are pre-dated by at least a month so titles are the direct predesessors of numbers to each issue of our they won't appear to be out-of-date this .m.agazine. All three are edited predesessor magazines beginning when they are still on sale near the by Robert Schleicher who has also with .the first issue published by end of the month. A magazine that authored the hardback books Delta in 1967 and ending with issue goes on sale October 5, for example, MODEL RAILROADING number 24 published by Argus. would carry a cover date of HANDBOOK (Volumes I and II), There has been one more issue of "November" because it would still be and the TYCO MODEL RAILROAD the Great World of Model Railroading _ on sale by November 4. The situation MANUAL for the Chilton Book that was published by Argus is a bit more complex with a Company and BUILDING PLASTIC Publishers Corporation in December quarterly publication because the RAILROAD MODELS for Kalmbach of 1979. This issue had the same arrival of "spring" can be anywhere Publishing (as well as another 10 format as the magazine you are now from March to May depending on how-to books in other hobby reading but it was printed on the . your personal opinions and where categories). The contents of Model poorer-quality "newsprint" style you live in the northern hemisphere. Railroading, however, are infinetely uncoated paper that ALL of the The mistakes in the volume (year) more diverse than the predesessor 1001 . . . and the previous Great numbers and issue numbers are just magazines. The earlier publications World . . . magazines had used. This that; mistakes. When the first issue also contained 100-pages but only issue carried the "Vol. 10, No. 1" on of Model Railroading was published about half the number of articles. its contents page and it was printed (by Eastwood), it was decided that Some of the most popular features with two diffe rent cover dates: Volume 10 would be the correct like the "Diesel Detail Close-Up", "Winter 1979" and "Spring 1980". "year" based on the theory that the "Locomotive Performance Tests", The actual cover and all of the very first issues of 1001 Model "Performance-Improvement" reports contents were identical on the two Railroad Ideas were intended to be and "Freight Cars from the Fifties" magazines, including the error on annuals rather than regular all began in Model Railroading and, the contents page (it should have periodicals. The "year" for a so far, no other magazine has such been "Vol. 10, No. 2"). If you're a quarterly model railroad magazine 82 StOO .. '''' Issue No. 2 published December 1968 Cover Date: "For 1969" Issue No. 3 published December 1969 Cover Date: "For 1970" Issue No. 1 published December 1967 has been based on the "season" Cover Date: none rather than the calendar year. That "sea.son" is, of course, the winter one that centers around Christmas. Our quarterly issues of Model Issue No. 4 Railroading are published to coincide published November 1970 with the months of peak interest in Co ver Date: "Winter 1970" the hobby that begin (more-or-less) in October and taper-off in March. We guess you'd rather have magazines during the months you --- Issue No. 5 1111111 publishedJanuary 1971 _ _ = =1111111 =-- _-__ Cover Date: "Spring 1971 " !A; � ;Ii Contents page: "Vol. 4, No. 1" Issue No. 6 published April 1971 Cover Date: "Summer 1971" Contents page: "Vol. 4, No. 2" Issue No. 7 published July 1971 Cover Date: "Fall 1971" Contents page: "Vol. 4, No. 4" (should be Vol. 4, No. 3) Issue No. 8 Issue No. 9 Issue No. 10 Issue No. 11 published November 1971 published January 1972 published April- 1972 published July 1972 Co ver Date: "Winter 1971" Cover Date: "Spring 1972 " Cover Date "Summer 1972" Cover Date: "Fall 1972" Con tents page: "Vol. 4, No. 4" Contents page: "Vol. 5, No. 1" Con tents page: "Vol. 5, No. 2" Contents page: "Vol. 5, No. 3" ' . ,if" \ ---,-' ,,-.("�... . �;;8i ..t uHI)H'r lq7� &\'00 READER'S . THE"H£AVY"HEAD'EHD PASSENGER CARS �AU[NtnCO," -!h'OJlj - , , � CONTEST WINNERS! BUILD YOUR OWN RAILROAD St<:p·by·SI¢p mp·'y,mpIi.t.Tlo� :.' \ • UTAH BUNCH l' £SEL DETAILING and PAINTING . , •< " • l.... r :� RUlWI(ROC ' ...�, . 83 - 1 1r,.�=. . .:. ..::.� .. . �, .I Issue No. 13 Issue No. 14 published January 1973 published March 1973 Issue No. 15 Cover Date: "Spring 1973" Cover Date: "S ummer 1973" published December 1974 Contents page: (no vol. num Contents page: (no vol. num Cover Date: none ber) ber) Contents page: "1975" (should be Vol. 6, No. 1) (should be Vol. 6, No. 2) (first issue of Great World ...) Issue No. 17 published February 1976 Issue No. 18 Cover Date: "Spring 1976" published December 1976 Contents page: "1976" LAY YOUR OWN TRACKI Cover Date: "Winter 1976" (only 90%o-prototype issue) Contents page: "Vol. 3, No. 1" (would be Vol. 2, No. 2) Issue No. 16 published December 1975 C. over Date: none Issue No. 19 Contents page: "1976" published February 1977 (would be Vol. 2, No. 1 of Great Cover bate: "Spring 1977" . ..series) Contents page: "Vol. 3, No. 2" nUM IO(OMOnU JPIUU ! Issue No. 21 published February 1978 How To '� iJIUfCf¥: Cover Date: none PORTABLe /tIODiL RAILROADJ Contents page: "Spring 1978" "Vol. 5, No. 2" . ,�\�;�� ,,� (should be Vol. 4, No. 2 ofGreat World . . . series) � � "'" �"' ··�'" �t� � - l� .... .-.� . , Issue No. 22 published October 1978 Cover Date: "Fall 1978" i Contents page: "Vol. 6, No. 1" (should be Vol. 5, No. 1) Issue No. 20 published December 1977 Cover Date: "Winter 1977" Contents are actually working on the model Issue No. 23 railroad rather than during the published December 1978 summer vacation period. You will, Cover Date: '�Winter 1978" thus, find that this issue is the fourth Contents page: "Vol. 6, No. 2 one in Volume 11. The next issue, (should be Vol. 5, No. 2) even though it is published during this same calendar year, will be Volume 12, No. 1. That's our �ULl.·SIZE TH£ MODELS OF PROMIHTOR"Y story ... EN(;IHli.S! Issue No. 24 BUilD UPTHf; DIESEL IN published January 1979 HO TOOl.S FOR Cover Date: "Spring 1979" TRACK-lA YING LIGHTS FOR Contents page: "Vol. 6, No. 2" 'fOUR CABOOSE (Should be Vol. 5, No. 3) r------Jim Ely's model railroad is really just a 4x4- __ � ------_ . . ------. ------1 fo ot module or portable segment of a larger « ., layout. We'll take a closer look at how HOn3 \ ,. narrow gauge and HO standard gauge can be combined with the concept of modular rail roading in the next issue of Model Railroad ing magazine. IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF MODEThe Fall 1981 issue Lof Mo delRAI Railroading LROgoes on sale SeptADember 15, 19ING81 Features include: • HO and HOn3 modular layout track plans • Do flywheels really • The ultimate railroad for 4x8-feet? help locomotive performance? • Freight-Cars-of-the-Fifties: Reefers • Performance tests of 1981's newest locomotives: • Instant-soldering - the easiest way yet GSB's 5040-2 can-motored kit • How-to: a simple 80-foot Pullman car Pemco's low-cost 5035 conversion Life-Like's new GP38-2 chassis • How to: assemble GSB's SD40-2 diesel kit • Derail-proofing the Lambert/Shinohara turnouts • How to: build a 1906-era tank car • Basic wiring techniques for all-rail, live-frog • How-to: a four-story brick industry conversion turnouts • Much more ..... FOUR-ISSUES OF MODEL RAILROADING FOR JUST $9 ... A SAVINGS OF $1 OFF THE REGULAR PRICE ... PLUS: WE'LL SEND THE MAGAZINE RIGHT TO YO UR DOOR! Just fill-out the order blank below and enclose your check or a money order for $9.00. You can tear-out the entirepage and place it in an envelope - why not fill-out our plea for a helping hand when you do? Yes, I would like to save a buck and have every future "collectors" issue of Model Railroading sent prepaid directly to my mailbox. I have enclosed my 0 check 0 money order for $9 to cover the cost of the next four issues and postage. (Please print or type your name and address!!!) NAME STREET OR P.O. BOX ______�---- _ CITY --______STATE ______ZIP ___ NOTE: This offer is not available to potential subscribers outside the United States and Canada. Your subscription will start with the most current issue after we receive your order. -MAIL TIllS PAGE (and your $9.00 check or money order) TO: Model Railroading 2901 Blake St., Dept. 4 Denver, CO 80205 Summer 1981 L ____•• ______._••••• _•• __.� •• ------___• _____._. ______• __� 85 QUESTIONNAIRE ... GIVE US A HAND! ... We put this magazine together to try to please you. Please, help us to find out wherewe have done a "good" job and where we have "failed". We talkto hundreds of model railroaders each year, but they are not you - whatdo YOU want to see on these pages?Just make a check in the boxes and, ifyou feel so inclined, add a few comments of your own. You can tear-out this page without losing any part of any article because we've put a subscription order form on the back. (You couldfill it out and add $9 to the envelope but we honestly promise to read your opinions whether you subscribe or not.) I would like to see: We would also iike to know a little bit about you so our authors and editors know just more less none who it is we aretalking to ... 1. Fully-sceniced private layout "Tours" 34. I spend $ __ each year at $ my local hobby shop 2. Tours of model railroad club layouts 35. (for model railroad items) $ a discount store or dept. store 3. Portable or modular model railroads 36. $ a mail order hobby shop 4. Sectional track plans . 37. $ a mail order discount firm 5. Track plans for modular layouts (Tell us how many ...) 6. Conversion articles on HO scale diesels 38. I presently own brass locomotives 7. Articles on full-size diesels 39. I presently own ready-buiJt plastic locomotives 8. Articles on detailing model diesels 40. I presently own assembled or still-boxed kit cars 9. Articles on building model steam locomotives 41. I presently own ready-built plastic cars 10. Articles on full-size steam locomotives 42. I presently have feet of plastic track 11. How-to build models of freight cars 12. How-to build models of wreckers and work equipment 43. I presently have plastic ready-laid turnouts 13. Articles on full-size freight cars 44. I have feet of OPERATING model railroad track 14 . How-to build older passenger cars 45 . I have hand-spiked feet of track on wooden ties 15. How-to build streamlined passenger cars 46. I have hand-laid turnouts 16. How-to build baggage and other head-end cars 47. I have pair of Kadee couplers on my cars and locomotives 17. Articles on full-size passenger cars 48. I have pair of plastic "horn hook" (train set) couplers on my 18. How-to build plastic structures cars and locomotives 19. How-to build wood structures 49. I have power packs with throttles 20. Articles on full-size buildings & stations SO. I have walk-around throttles 21. How-to lay trackwork 51. I have locomotives equipped with sound systems 22. How-to build scenery 52. I have approximately square feet of model railroad table work 23. How-to apply decals and paint to kits 53. I have approximately square feet of scenery completed 24. How-to model people, cars and trucks 54. I have been a model railroader for years 25. Articles on model-worthy real railroads 55. I prefer model railroads set in the period or year ______26 . New products 56. Most of my railroad is laid with code -size rail Answer questions 27 thru 30 with one of the following: kits, parts, scratch, plastic, wood, or metal. 57. We would also like to know your age _____ 58. your sex ______27. I would rather build my models from 59. your income __ �__ _ 28. The material I prefer most for my model locomotives is ------60. your second-favorite hobby ____ _ 29. The ma terial I prefer most for my model passenger & freight cars 61. What is your favorite model railroad magazine ______ ------ 30. The material I prefer most for my model structures is _ 62. How many years have you lived at your present address _____ Answer questions 31 thru 33 with one of the following: N, HOn2, HOn3, HO,Sn3, S, 63. Do you belong to a model railroad club _____ On2, On3, 0, 0-27. 64. How many issues of this magazine have you read ______ 31. Most of the models I build are in scale 65. How many people read your issue of this magazine? ______ 32. My next model railroad will be in scale 66. How many hours a week do you spend on the hobby? ______\.0 00 33 . I would like to see MORE articles about scale 67. What other family members are active model railroaders? ------IIIIIIDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII;£ett Our e readers' opinions, questionsr311111111111111"""""I11"""""""""IH""""IllIll"""""IllIllIll"""""lllnlllllll"""""""MII""""'" & corrections 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIII!llIlIlIlIIillllllllllllllllllljllll[IJ!!IIII[1I11I�1I�11I1Iw!]lII�"llIllIlIlIlIjjIJlIIIIIWII!llIlJlli!l�I!IIUIIIIIIIIII!!I!!!I!!I!111I11I1I1I11II1I11II1I1I1II1I11I1I1I!1II11I!1I11I1I1I11I11I1II1I1I1�1l1!l!!lill1!11!JI1I!1I1I1I1I1I1I1I1I1II Tell us where we went PERFORMANCE, swap the front and DATA SHEET number D6u.01 wrong ... rear trucks (the wires need to be describes the spacing, size and unsoldered and reconnected). This general layout of telegraph poles will make the modified Athearn with other prototype information SPRAY BOOTH DANGER locomotive run the same direction as needed to make correct models of Dear Sirs, all the out-of-the-box locomotives. these details. The article "A Forced-Air Fan Very truly yours, Sincerely, Spray-Painting Booth" on page 70 of Sam Bushala John Abramson 8 the Winter 19 1 issue of Mooel Bangor, Maine Dallas, Texas Railroading suggests the use of an inexpensive kitchen vent hood as a Thank you. We discovered the error The NMRA's DATA SHEET book is one spray booth for painting models. ourselves but too late to include the of the most helpfu l (and the most Most of the motors in such booths correction in that issue. Athearn trucks overlooked) publications in the hobby. are not the proper type for this use. are interchangable end-to-end so it's easy The pages contain drawings and data on The motor snould be one of the to get them on backwards. We'd suggest all the common "stuff " you just cannot explosion-proof sealed types so the you check the operation of your Athearn find in any other single source. The sparks from the motor cannot ignite locomotives by temporarily assembling OATA SHEET subjects include tools, the pain� fumes. . the lubricated parts and trucks but befo re scale conversions, car and locomotive soldering the additional wires in place. classifications, signals, painting and Sincerely, lettering diagrams, tree and shrub types, Brad Winters MORE ON THE ROCK street ae tails, track planning on real Highland, Florida Will you please add these railroads, electrical data, bndges and We agree completely-NEVER use a locomotives to those listed in other subjects where "obvious" "Recreating the Rock" in your informatIOn IS not so obvIOUS to locate. conventional electnc motor where 9 flammable or explosive gases or fu mes are Summer 1 80 issue: Model Power The complete set of data sheets with present-the sparks could cause an has an F9A and an RS-ll painted in binder $12 to NMRA members explosion. Replace any motor in any fa n the blue and white scheme. AHM only-NMRA membership is $15 per year used fo r a pamt-spray booth with one of has an Alco 1000-Horsepower including a 12 issue subscription to the the special explosIOn-proof types. Some switcher in tuscan red and yellow NMRA Bulletin magazine and a copy of and Model Die Casting has the once vent fa ns do have explosion-proof motors. the important NMRA Standards. The common Rock Island type of address is National Model Railroad CORK BALLAST outside-braced caboose (kit no. 3462) Association, Inc., P.O. Box 2186, Dept. The Editor, in box car red. MRG, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Your article on ballasting track in Sinc�rely yours, the Spring 1981 issue' called Richard K. Peterson Dear Sirs: "Super-Fast Track-Laying Tricks" Topeka, Kansas I am a beginner and find your states that the Life-Like ballast is articles on basics and modeling round cork. The gray and red colors techni ues to be very much geared g' q I ve found all appear to be genuine We're sorry for printing your letter so toward my level. I was particularly rock. Is cork ballast available? long after the magazine appeared, interested in the article of your fall Richard, but it was lost in the files. The Thank you, 1980 issue entitled "A Room Size back issues of that ma azine are still Ron Overhill g Railroad from 4x8 feet." Having just Cajon, California available. We would like to publish future moved into a small apartment with a articles listing the available kit and spare bedroom measuring 12xll feet, Apparently the package of "ballast" we ready-built locomotives and cars fo r all this is the kind of project that I need used fo r that article actually contained the popular fu ll-size railroads. If you're to get my hobby back in to gear. I what Life-Like calls "Scenic Stone". an expert on one real railroad and the hope that you will publish future ONLY the reddish and gray colors of available kits, please share some of your articles on this railroad showing "Scenic Stone" are ground cork. These information with our readers. We listed wiring, track planning, and help in materials are, as we stated, a bit la e fo r the Rock Island equipment in that scenery and operating suggestions. I Nor HO scale ballast (they're fine� or 0 Summer 1980 issue but without any would also be interested in seeing scale). The ground-rock " Ballast" am comment as to whether or not the paint articles on module track plans for Life-Like is ground a bit fi ner to make it schemes and numbers were accurate. In HO gauge. The idea by starting with more suitaNe (along with Campbell, the case of "The Rock, " almost every a 4x8 layout and adding around the Joh n's, Bachmann, Woodland Scenics, train set company makes several of the wall module is an interesting one for B-K and Highball brands) fo r HO or N bright blue and white cars but we doubt me - it gives immediate operating scale ballast. that all of them are accurate. Among kits; capability and long term expansion is Athearn's no. 5037 50-foot auto car h ? REPUS ECNAMROFREP w ich I want. truly an accurate model of a Rock Island Gentlemen, Sincerely yours, box car, for example? We'd like to \ P James C. ark, Jr. Your article on improving the publish regular lists (they could be performance of Athearn diesels in updated tlirough this column) of all the Maplewood, MN the Spring 1981 issue was worth kits and ready-built items available for a We try to include at least one start-small two-years' subscription price in the given railroad. If you have such data, and grOW-With-It track plan m EVERY money it will save me on my please let us know. issue, whether it be a 2 x 4 modular plan locomotives. Your magazine is the TELEPHONE POLES or the popular 4x8 and 5x9 sizes with only one that really seems to be potentwl fo r growth like the layout in the written by people who build AND Your article (in the 'Winter 1981 Fall 1980 issue. operate model railroads. There is one issue, Ed.) on making scale model problem, though, if you install the telephone poles from Magnuson's trucks and wires as you show in the kits had only a vague reference to IIIIIIBIHIIIIIIIIIBIBIIIIIIHfflHIlllffHHflllHftft!f!f!flllftllftlllUUftllHlfIflIlII!HlftIHlUllftUMlftHHtBI photographs the locomotive will run how real poles are spaced. The backwards. For real SUPER National Model Railroad Association \llillilliiiilllllillliilllliiiillllillillilliliilliiiliilllilliillillillilliiiiiiiiilllilllilll\lli!!ilHM\lllMllilliilliillii 87 MODEL RAILROADING MAGAZINE'S DEALER DIRECTORY Contact these dealers to obtain all your hobby supplies (and the latest issue of Model Railroading magazine!) ... ALABAMA Ace Model Shop, 1655 E. Colorado Blvd. , Washington & Vermont Train Shop, 1583 W. Pasadena, CA. Phone 793-606 1. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. Phone Marnel, Inc., 1908-A 29th Ave., South, The Hobby House, 7546 Balboa Blvd., Van Nuys, 735-7948. Birmingham, AL. Phone 871-4555. CA. Phone 786-0701. Pardini's, 1177 W. Hammer Lane, Stockton, CA. Bart's Model Trains, 2111 7th Avenue South, T & A Holly Lobby, 3512 W. Victory Blvd., Phone 951-3063. Birmingham, AL. Burbank, CA. Law's Hobby Center, 855 Marsh, San Luis Village Toy & Hobby Shoppe, 908 Opelika Road, House of Hobbies, 923 W. Olive St., Burbank, Obispo, CA. Phone 544-5518. Auburn, AL. 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Jack's Hobbycrafts, Manny's Trains & Hobbies, 1658 Soquel Drive, 15732 East La Forge, Whittier, CONNECTICUT CA. Phone 947-1710. Santa Cruz, CA. Phone 462-0467. The Hobby Warehouse, 4128 East South Street, Wold's House of Hobbies, 7075 Village Parkway, New England Hobby Supply, 70 Hilliard st., Lakewood, CA. Phone 531-1 413. Dublin, CA. Phone 828-5 350. Manchester, CT. Phone 646-0610. The Flying Machine Model Ct., 24421 S. Peninsula Hobbies, 1448 Cary Ave., San Mateo, Michaels, 4 Factory Lane, Milford, CT. Phone Narbonne Ave., Lomita, CA. CA. Phone 343-7779. 874-5866. 88 Columbia Central, RT #6, Columbia, CT. Phone Pastime Hobbies, 405 N. Broadway, Urbana, Il. ABC Hobbycraft, 2155 E. Morgan Ave., 228-9072. Phone 328-3213. Evansville, IN. Phone 477-9661 . Amato's, 420 Main St., Middletown, CT. Phone Godwin's Hobby World, 1310 State St., Chester, Heuberger's Hobby Shop, Inc., 308 N. Bowen 347- 1 893. Il. Phone 826-3723. Ave., Bremen, IN. Phone 546-3807. Bethel Hobby Shop, 112 Greenwood Ave., Klipper's Toys & Hobbies, 1314 Waukegan Rd ., Casey lones Trains, 7061-C Twin Oaks Dr. , Bethel, CT 06801. Phone 743-7088. Glenview, IL. Phone 724-2040. Indianapolis, IN. Phone 546-1 666. Family Hobbies, 415 Westport Ave., Norwalk, CT larsen & Peterson, 31 7 N. Genesee Street, Rocky's Train Corner, 321 North Wayne St., Peru, 0685 1. Phone 846-3543. Waukegan, IL. Phone 623-0027. IN. Phone 473-9275. lust Hobbies ,& Craft, 833 Post Rd., Darien, CT Hobby Hutch, 328 E. Irving Park Rd ., Wood Railfun Hobby Shop, 215 Pearl St., U.S. 136, 06820. Phone 655-6583. Dale, Il. Phone 595-2550. Covington, IN. Phone 793-4759. The Hobby Center, 366 Main St., Danbury, CT The Hobbyist, Inc., 61 Wethersfield Common, 06810. Phone 748-9984. Schaumburg, Il. Phone 893-2456. IOWA Lee's, Groton Shoppers Mart, Groton, CT 06340. Trains, 637 Crandell Lane, Schaumburg, IL. No Park Fair Hobby, 100 E. Euclid, Des Moines, IA. Phone 445-441 1. Listing. Phone 282-4758. Golden Spike, 5303 W. 79th Street, Burbank, Il. DELAWARE Railand Bicycle & Hobby, 1522 East 7th Street, Phone 423-3102. Atlantic, IA. Phone 243-3 137. Hobbi Art Newark DCB ltd" 9 Chestnut Hill AI's Roundhouse, 618 5th Avenue, Aurora, IL. Caboose Stop Hobbies, 1610 jefferson, Waterloo, Plaza, Hewark, DE. Phone 898-0722. IA. Phone 235-9571 . Cobel, Inc., 717 W. Division St., Dover, DE Hobbycraft, 7305 S. Lemont Rd., Downers Bud's Hobbies & Crafts, 133 W. Broadway, Co. 19901. Phone 674-91 71 . Grove, IL. Phone 852-8480. Bluffs, IA. Phone 322-1 378. Mitchells Inc., 2119 Concord Pike, Wilmington, lohnson's Hobby & Sport Shop, 9 N. Main Street, The Modeler, 410 3rd Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA. DE 19803. Phone 652-3258. Sandwich, Il. Phone 786-2450. Phone 362-1291 . FLORIDA Stanton Hobby, 4734 N. Wilwaukee Avenue, 4-M Hobbies & Crafts, 103 E. Main, Ottumwa, IA. Chicago, Il. Phone 283-6446. Phone 684-7732. Universal Hobbies, Inc., 141 S. State Road #7 Ft. Hobby City, 3625 W. 96th St. , Evergreen Park, IL. Major Art & Hobby Center, 201 -205 E. 2nd St., Lauderdale, Fl. Phone 581 -93'90. Phone 423-1999. Davenport, IA. Phone 323-9042. Gateway Toy & Hobby, 1976 E. Sunrise Blvd. Ft. lust Trains, 2764 Tuckaway Trail, Rockford, Il. Hobby Haven, 7672 Hickman Rd ., Des Moine, IA. . Lauderdale, Phone 763-7923. Fl. Phone 398-1225. Phone 276-8785. & L Hobby & Reading Clr" 574- 14 Tamiami Trl I leisure Time Hobby Shop, Inc., 655 17th Avenue, l & P Iron Horse ' Hobbies, 312 5th St., West Des Port Charlotte, Fl. Phone 625-2242. East Moline, Il. Phone 755-5333. Moines, IA 50265. Phone 279-7958. Micro-World Hobbies, 908-58th St. North St. Slot & Wing Hobbies ltd. South, 1914-B Round Hobbi·Crafts, lO W. 4th St., Spencer, IA 51301 . Petersburg, Fl. Phone 347-5702. Barn Rd ., Champaign, Il. No listing. Phone 262-1224. De Will's R.R. & Models, 857 S. Orlando Ave., Daves Trains, 327 E. 6th St., Mt. Carmel, Il. The Hobbycraft Shop, 801 ·803 jefferson, Burling Winter Park, Fl. Phone 629-1365. Phone 262-5042. ton, IA 52601. Phone 754·4979. Hobby World, 12119 S. Dixie Hwy., Miami;FL. AI's Hobby Shop, P.O. Box 449, 121 Addison St., Phone 232-1 771 . Elmhurst, IL. Phone 832-5577. KANSAS Warrick Custom Hobby, 3250 Davie Blvd., Ft. Hobbymart, 120 N. Bolingbrook Drive, J's Hobby Haven, 4601 State Ave., Indian Springs Lauderdale, Fl. Phone 79 1-1 156. Bolingbrook, Il. Phone 739-6207. Shopping Or., Kansas City, KS. Phone 287·3030. Semaphore Hobbies, 1838 14th St. West, Ram T.V. & Hobby Shop, 6603 W. Higgins Ave. , Hobby Haven, 4601 State, Kansas City, KS. Phone Bradenton, Fl. Phone 747-591 5. Chicago, 60656. Phone 775-3382. Il 287·3030. H & H Hobby Sales, 4121 S. Tamiami Trail, Black & Co., 620 N. Gilbert, Danville, Il. Phone Eddie's Rock Shell & Hobby, 7608 State Ave., Kansas Sarasota, FL. Phone 922-771 1. 442-9300. City, KS. Phone 299-1445. Chester Holly, 3820 S. Himes, Tampa, Fl. Phone Streator Train Repair, 1017 E. Bridge St. , Streator, Hobby Haven, 9647 Metcalf (Shopping Or.), Over· 831 -7202. IL. Phone 672-3668. land Park, KS. Phone 381·31 11 . A & Models, Inc., 1928-30 Del Prado Blvd., lack's Hobby Shop, 211 E. 12th St., Streator, Il. I House of Hobbies, 1307 N. Main, Hutchinson, KS. Cape Coral, Fl. Phone 542-8858. Phone 672-4079. Phone 663-9811 . Colonial Photo & Hobby, Inc., 634 No. Mills, Hill's Hobby & Collectors', 32 Main, Pk. Ridge, Miller's Bike & Hobby Shop, 105 E. Seventh, Liberal, Orlando, Fl. Phone 84 1· 1485. Il. Phone 823-4464. KS. Phone 624-1 31 1. Bill's Train Shop, 12025 U.S. 92 East, P.O. Box D & D Hobbies, 219 6th St., P.O. Box 310, McDowell's Train Shop, 254 Des Moines, Salina, 561, Seffnel, Fl. Phone 681-2410. Charleston, IL. Phone 348-0664. KS. Phone 823·6108. Orange Blossom Hobbies, 1975 N.W. 36th St., Bolay's Hobbies, 107 E. Main St., Decatur, Il. Brennan's Hobby World, 713 Kansas Plaza (P.O. Miami, FL 33142. Phone 633-2521. Phone 423-0582. Box 1511), Garden City, KS. Phone 276·7703. Pompano Bicycle & Hobby Shop, 2420 N. Federal Amato's Hobby Shoppe, 124 E. State St. , Hobby & Trainland, 945 Parklane Shopping Center, Hwy., Lighthouse Point, FL 33064. Phone Sycamore, IL. Phone 895-6260. Wichita, KS. Phone 682·902 1. 941-6200. The Signal House, Inc., 4733 N. Sheridan Rd., Minor's Hobby & Sewing Center, 30 Parsons Plaza, Solomon's Lawnmower Service & Model Hobby Peoria, IL. Phone 685-5809. Parsons, KS. Phone 421·0120. Supplies, 243 Ave "E" S.W., Winter Haven, FL Walt's Hobby Shop, 32 W. Clinton St., joliet, Il. 33880. Phone 293-1 929. _ Phone 726-1632. larson and Peterson, 317 N. Genesee St., KENTUCKY GEORGIA Waukegan, Il. Phone 623-0027. Hobby House, 4918 Preston Wy. , Louisville, KY. Mc's Hobby & Model, 1606 N. Broad St., Rome, Brass Whistle, Inc., 1665 Charles St., Rockford, Phone 968-9467. GA. Phone 295-7260. Il. Phone 398-2877. X·Cell Models, 347 Eastland S.c., Lexington, KY. lakeshore Village Hobby, 235 W. Bypass, Hobbyland Inc., 616 N. Main St., Bloomington, Il. Phone 254·2406. Gainesville, GA. Phone 532-4016. Phone 828-1442. Family Hobby & Bike, 6915 Southside Drive, Louis l & M-R/C Model Supplies, Rural Route #2, Box Hobby Models, 4218 N. Sheridan Rd ., Peoria, I L. ville, KY. Phone 368-2730. 179A, Summervi lle, GA. Phone 688-3343. The Hobbicentre, 4048 Brownsboro Rd., Louisville, The Hobby Shop, Inc., 4741 Waters Ave., laGrange Hobby Clr. Inc., 2S So. LaGrange Rd., KY. Phone 895-1 195. Savannah, GA. Phone 355-7330. LaGrange, Il. Phone 354-1 220. Southern Scale Models, 4809 S. Main St., Pat's Hobbies & Crafts, 5730 W. 95th St., Oaklawn, Acworth, GA. Phone 974-8715. IL. Phone 424-61 31 . LOUISIANA Stone Mountain Hobby Center, 5984 Memorial Quincy Hobby Center, 3632 Maine, Quincy, Il. Heberts Hobbies, 601 N. Lester St., Metairie, LA. No Dr., Stone Mountain, GA 30083. Phone Phone 223-8498. Listing. 294-7429. Skip Sales, 691 7 Greenview, Chicago, Il. Phone Wayne's Hobbies, 1502·1/2 Lal1lY Lane, Monroe, Hobbies For Men, Inc., 2252-8 So. Cobb Dr., So. 973-4844. LA. 325·2 1 78. Cobb Plaza, Smyrna, GA. Phone 432-0568. The Toy & Hobby House, 1486 Miner St., Des Rayvins, 4451 jefferson Hwy., New Orleans, LA. IDAHO Plaines, Il. Phone 827-6550. Phone 733·2400. Hobby Town Toys, 227 Main Ave. East, Twin The Viking Hobby Shop Inc., 431 N. Lake St., Hub Hobby Shop, 261 8 S. Board St., New Orleans, Falls, 10. Phone 733-6393. Mundelein, IL. Phone 949-8680. LA. Phone 822·3914. Walker, 1230 N. Skyline Dr. , Idaho Falls, 10. Westside Hobby, 2629 West Main St. , Bellville, Il. Cooks, 4402 Youree Dr., Shreveport, LA. Phone Phone 529-9500. Phone 234-0823. 865·7632. Toys by Roy, The Plaza in Lake Forest, Box 25, S700 ILLINOIS Read Blvd .. New Orleans, LA. Phone 241·3076. INDIANA Hobby lobby, Inc., 218 N. Dunton, Arlington Hare's Marycarter Paint & Hobbycraft, 4529 Lee Heights, Il. Phone 255-1 550. les Gordens Trains, 1449 N. Mount St., St., Alexandria, LA. Phone 443·2755. A & M Cycle & Hobby Supply, 11142 S. Halsted Indianapolis, IN. Phone 636-2443. Ron's Hobbies, 713 E. McNeese St., Lake Charles, St., Chicago, Il. Phone 785-71 23. Claussen's Iron Horse Hobby Shop, 104 W. Clark LA. Phone 478-8651. Hobby Hub, 105 So. Main St., Lombard, Il. St., P.O. Box 259, Crown Point, I '. Phone Cabba's Hobby Center, 4443 Transcontinental Dr., Phone 627-3974. 663-3086. Metairie, LA. Phone 885-5539. Mr. Mack's leisure Prod., Inc., 1 5933' So. Game Hut, 204 N. Walnut, Bloomington, IN. Captain Atomic Inc., 1605 0 Grand Caillou, Harlem, Tinley Park, Il. Phone 429-3020. Phone 339-531 1. Houma, LA. Phone 873·8284. 89 Tom Thumb Hobbies & Crafts, MAI NE Brown's Hobby Shop, 31 7-50. Monroe 51., Monroe, #3 Towne Clr. Black MI. Phone 242-9080. Horse Pike, Turnersville, NJ. Phone 227-8999. JFK Hobby & Craft Clr. Inc., JFK Mall, Waterville, J & W Model Trains, Inc., 9520 E. Napier Ave., The Hobby Stop, 2442 Rt. 38, Plaza 38, Cherry Hill, ME. Phone 873-4040. Benton Harbor, MI. Phone 944-5671. NJ. Phone 779-2410. Model Railroad Specialists - South, 73 Summer St., Joe's Hobby Center, Inc., 7845 Wyoming Ave., Totowa Hobby Shop, 131 Boonton Rd., U.S. 202, East Bridgewater, MA. Phone 583-0013. Dearborn, MI. Phone 933-6567. Wayne, NJ. Phone 696-5 170. MacDonald's Hobby Farm, Box 80, W. Baldwin, Rider's (The Better Hobby People), 301 2 Corunna Hobbycraft West, 11 S. Main St., Cape May Court ME. Phone 787-2040. Rd ., Flint, MI. Phone 234-405 1. House, NJ. Phone 465-9598. The Whistle Stop, P.O. Box 38, Park St., Cherryfield, Hobnob Hobby Shop, Flemington Mall, Rt. 202, ME. Phone 546-2098. MINNESOTA Flemington, NJ. Phone 782-6797. Craft & Hobby Corner, Lewiston Mall - Lisbon St. at Baders Bike & Hobby, 121-8 51. South, Moorhead, Sattler's Hobby, 14 Haddon Ave., Westmont, N.J. East Ave., Lewiston, ME. Phone 783-3438. MN. Phone 236-8852. Phone 854-7136. MARYlAND Don's Hobby Co., 424 So. Front 51 ., Mankato, MN. Jackson Hobby Shop, Rd. 5, Box 12, W. County Line Phone 387-1330. Rd ., Jackson, N.J. Phone 364-3334. Hobby Hangar, 6445 Burwood Plaza, Glen Burnie, Baker's Craft & Hobby, Miller Shopping Center, st. langleys Hobby Shop, 205 Landis Ave., Vineland, MD. Phone 636-2088. Cloud, MN. Phone 252-0460. N.J. Phone 69 1-5374. Bobby's Hobby, 65 E. Main St., Westminster, MD. Railroad Replicas, 2124 W. Broadway, Minneapolis, Hiway Hobby House, 806 US RI. 17, Ramsey, N.J. Phone 848-4350. MN. Phone 522-1 640. Phone 327-0075. Annapolis Hobbycrafters, 2 1 16 Forest Drive, Anna John's Train Shop, Inc., 523 No. Lexington Parkway, Dick's Hob yland, 16. No. Union Ave., Crawford, polis, MD. Phone 266-8338. b Paul, MN. Phone 646-7781. N.J. Phone 272-7660. The Hobby House, 400 Ridgeville Blvd., Mt. Arly, 51. Hobby Hutch, Paul Bunyan Mall, Bemidji, MN. 75 1- Hobbymasters, 62 White Red Bank, N.J. Phone MD. Phone 829-9090. 51., 9734. 842-6020. Pro Custom Hobbies, 742 Frederick Rd., Catons Medical Center Cycle, 5640 West Broadway, Min The Model Railroad Shop, Inc., Box 263 Dunellen, ville, MD. Phone 788-8770. neapolis, MN. Phone 533-6262. N.J. (if US Mail); Vail Ave. New Market Rd. (if Madison photo Clr., 2 South Potomoc St., Hagers & town, MD. Phone 797-3706. MISSISSIPPI U.P.S.J. Piscataway, N.J. 08854. Phone 968-5696. Doug's Hobby Shop, Waldorf Shopper's World, The Train Depot, 2019 Hwy. 88, Bricktown, N.J. Hobbies Unlimited, 133 Turn Powe Plaza, Pearl, Waldorf, MD. Phone 843-1 299. Phone 892-9440. MS. Happy Hobbys, 12123 Darnestown Rd. , Gaithers Ted's Engine House, 6307 Westfield Ave., Penn Hobby Corner, 1534 No. 1st Ave., Laurel, MS. burg, MD. Phone 869-1037. sauken, N.J. 662-0222. Phone 649-7378. M.B. Klein, Inc., 162 N. Gay St., Baltimore, MD. NEW MEXICO Phone 539-6207. MISSOURI Great Northern Pacific Railway, 120 Aztec Ave. , P.D. Craft House, Inc. 8701 Colesvi lle Rd., Silver Ive's Train & Hobby Shop, #80 Strollway Shopping Los Alamos, NM. Phone 672-3742. Springs, MD. Phone 585-4224. Clr. , 12900 New Halls Ferry Rd., Floriseant, MO. MASSACHUSETTS Phone 838-3860. NEW YORK Astro Hobby House, 6436 Chippewa, 51. Louis, MO. Gateway Hobbies Inc., 62 W. 38th 51. , New York Bowens Toyland, P.O. Box 270, Bedford, MA. Phone 481 -5671 . City, NY. Phone 275-72 10. Schaefers Hobby, 4206 Virginia, 51. Louis, MO. PRR. Model RR. Shop, 161 State St., Auburn, NY. The Village Tinker, Inc., 377 Boston Post Rd ., Sud Phone 352-3750. Unitron Electronics, Inc., 33 Main 51., Chester, NY. bury, MA. Phone 443-3330. K. C. Hobby Center, 37 Blue Ridge Mall, 4200 Blue Phone 469-2344. Bay State Models, 8 Rolline St., Groveland, MA. Ridge Blvd., Kansas City, MO. Phone 356-2727. American Hobby & Sports, 2107 Whitesboro 51 ., Phone 372-8828. Stone Balloon Hobby Ltd., 2504 N.W. Vivion Rd., Utica, NY. Phone 724-4959. Heritage Hobby, 1089 Great Plain Ave., Needham, Kansas City, MO. Phone 74 1 -4983. SMC Model Railroad Center, MA. Phone 444-4432. 48 Greenleaf Ave., Hobby Heaven, 381 7 Frederick, 51. Joseph, MO. Staten Island, NY. Phone 273-9699. Jacks Trains, Christmas Tree Lane, Rutland, MA. Hobby Heaven, Parkade Plaza, Columbia, MO. Tottenville Hobby Center, Ed's Boxcar, 61 1 Center St., Raynham, MA. Phone 7001 -H-Amboy Rd. Tot Hobby Heaven, North Town Mall, 1923 E. Kearney, 822-6563. tenville 5.1., NY. Phone 356-4220. Springfield, MO. log Cabin Hobbies & Crafts, 804 Saratoga Rd, Burnt Henry's Hobby House, 34 Franklin St ., Worcester, Hills, NY. Phone 399-1 366. MA. Phone 754-5604. Hobby Heaven, Northpark Mall, 101 Rangeline, JoP John's Depot, MacDonald's Hobby Center, 777 Broad St., East lin, MO. 28 Winney Hill Rd, Oneonta, NY. Phone 432-1 764. Weymouth, MA. Dasho's (Model Railroad Supplies, 11742 Manches lake City Hobbies, Bill's Hobby Supplies, 600 N. Main St., E. Longmea ter Road, 51. Louis, MO. Phone 822-1927. 480 Exchange St., Geneva, NY. dow, MA 01028. Phone 736-7711. The Switch Stand, P.O. Box 9 1 45, Maplewood, Phone 789-4565. Camera Dept. Inc., 180 Franklin St. , Fram[ngham, MO. Phone 781 -4458. Red Caboose, 16 W. 45th 51., New York City, NY. MA 01701 . Phone 872-1097. Tinker Town, Inc., 9666 Clayton Road, St. Louis, Phone 575-01 55. Bruckner Hobby Inc., 2932-34 Bruckner Blvd. , Hobby Barn, 298 Court St., Plymounth, MA 02360. MO. Phone 991 -0154. Phone 747-0697. Bronx, NY. Phone 863-3434. MONTANA Willis Hobbies, 154 Mineila Blvd., Mineola, NY. Model Railroad Specialists - South, 78 Summer 51., Phone 746-3944. East Bridgewater, MA 02333. Phone 583-0013. Toy World, Holiday Village Shopping Clr., Great Trains & Hobbies, 2808 Long Beach Rd., Oceanside, RPM Hobbies (Hobby Town), 250 Granite 51. , Brain Falls, MT. NY. Phone 764-6676. tree, MA 02 184. Phone 848-6760. NEB RASKA Hobbies Unlimited, 1907 Storrs Avenue, Utica, NY. Tucker's Hardware, 18 Main 51., Warren, MA House of Trains, 8106 Maple, Omaha, NE. Phone Utopia Hobbies, 26 Utica Street, Port Byron, NY. 01083. Phone 436-5318. 391-231 1. Phone 776-8890. MICHIGAN Train Celler, 3630 "X" St. , Lincoln, E. Phone 464- GJ's Hobbies & Crafts, Inc., 200 Front 51., Vestal, Bill's Place, 53033 Aulgur, Rochester, MI. 4925. NY. Scale-Rail, 4205 South 87th St., Omaha, NE 681 27. P & D Hobby Shop, 15670 13 mile Roseville, MI. Seneca Junction, 2156 S. Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Phone 339-3380. Phone 773-7200. Phone 828-0888. World of Toys & Hobbies, Conestoga Mall, Grand The Hobby Horse, 223 State St., 51. Joseph, MI. . Spoon ley Trains, 4099 Seneca Street, W. Seneca, Island, NE. Phone 384-561 0. Phone 983-2630. NY. Phone 675-8550. Gepetto's Workshop, 2020 Ave. A, Kearney, NE Uncle Odd's Space & Hobby Center, 2037 So. 3rd. The Hobby Hut, P.O. Box 755, Elmira, NY. Phone 68847. Phone 234-1 466. 51., iles, MI. Phone 683-0260. 733-0607. Air-Craft Hobbies, 706 W. Mission, Bellevue, NE Riders Hobby Shop, 115 W. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI. The Caboose Inc., 208 Wall 51., Huntington, NY. 68005. Phone 291 -6630. Phone 668-8950. Phone 427-8288. Cum Craft, Inc., 1008 Adams, Bay City, MI. Phone NEVADA Hobby Peddler ltd., 7 'schoen PI., Pittsford, NY. 892-6177. Phone 381-4532. Reno Models & Miniatures, 3328 Kietzke, Reno, Arbor Hobbies, Inc. 2709 Plymouth Rd ., Ann Arbor, Polks Hobby, 314 5th Ave., NYC, NY 1000 1. Phone NV. Phone 825-9670. MI. Phone 668-7278. 279-9034. Trackside Hobbies, 418 Main Street, Rochester, MI. NEW HAMPSHIRE Galaxie Hobbies, 1366 Lyell Ave., Rochester, NY. Phone 651-0166. Phone 647-3259. The Whole Works, Plaza 800, Portsmouth, NH. Stoner Hobby Center, 145 Maple Street. Wyandotte, Westchester Hobbies, 102 E. Post Rd., White Plains, Phone 431-4734. MI. Phone 283-2355. NY. Phone 949-7943. Howies Model Railroad, Route #1 Box 36, Lisbon, The Nickel Plate Hobby Shop, Jamesway PI., RI. 9, Rider's Hobby Shop, 34 17 So. Westredge, Kalama NH. Phone 838-6469. Hudson, NY. Phone 828-3331. zoo, MI. Phone 349-2667. DBA Fitts photo & Hobby Shop, RFD #1 Box BM7, Ho Jack Hobbies, 141 First 51., Liverpool, NY. Phone The Train Barn, 10234 East 5hore Drive, Kalamazoo, Belknap Mall, Laconia, NH. Phone 524-9074. 457-2226. MI. Phone 327-4016. Custom Trains, Main St., Bath, NH. Phone 747- Blasdell Hobby, 90 Marlow Ave., Blasdell, NY. Hobby World, 1049 28th 51. SW, Grand Rapids, MI. 3492. Phone 823-0165. Phone 538-6130. Great Escapes, 5801 Sunrise Hwy., Holbrook, NY. The Hobby Hub, Inc., 526 Frandor Ave., Lansing, NEW JERSEY Phone 567-0716. MI. Phone 351-5846. Discount Hobbies, 138 Bloomfield Ave., Bloom HO Custom Trains, 4 Brighton Wood, Glenmont, Anchor Boat Co., 31580 Groesbeck Hwy., Fraser, field, N.J. Phone 429-0490. NY. Phone 462-6209, 439-3639. MI. Phone 293-3690. 90 America's Hobby Center, Inc., 146 West 22nd St., 577, Stillwater, OK. Phone 377-1 900. Mack's Hobbies, 839 E. Allegheny Ave .• Phila.. pA. New York, N.Y. Phone 675-8922. Woodward's, 2941 West Hefner Rd ., Oklahoma Phone 634-2450. Brownies Pro & Sport Hobbies, 122 Bennett St., City, OK. Phone 751-4994. Allied Hobbies, Store 715-Vi l lage Mall, Blair Mill & P.O. Box 224, Staten Island, .Y. Phone 727-2194. Gilbert's United Hobbies, 22 East inth, Shawnee, Moreland Ave., Horsham, PA. Phone 675-9619. Daves Hobby Shop, 384 Atlantic Ave., Freeport, OK. Phone 275-2383. Bloch's Hobby Shop, 407 . 7th St., Allentown, pA. N. Y. 623-2750. Phone 432-9975. OREGON The Hobby House, 6065 Goodrich Rd ., Clarence Craft & Hobby Depot, ltd., Fairway Shopping Cen Center, N. Y. Phone 741 -9879. DJ's Hobbies, 2025 N.W. Circle Blvd., Corvallis, ter-Limekiln Pike & Twining Road, Dresher, pA Hobbies For Men, Inc., 341 Main St., Beacon, I.Y. OR. Phone 753-7540. 19025. Phone 831-0620. len's Hobby Center, 1150 Duane St., Astoria, OR. Herb's Hobby House, 248 W. State St., Doylestown, the Roundhouse, 170 Marytin e Ave., White Plains, Phone 325-1 394. PA. Phone 345-71 23. N. Y. 948-5973. Bob's Whistle Stop, 14037 S.E. Stark St., Portland, Manayunk Hobbies & Crafts, 4303 Main St ., Phila. larry's Hobby Supplies, Inc., 302 1 Jericho Turnpike, OR. Phone 252-71 18. PA. Phone 482-1691 . East Northport, N.Y. Phone 499-7 166. Eastwood Hobby, Inc., 1577 Hawthorne N.E., Iron Horse Hobby House, 60 So. 6th St., Reading. Salem, OR. Phone 581-3370. NORTH CAROLI NA PA. Phone 373-6927. Switch Stand Hobbies, 17329 S.E. Stark St., Port loreski's Inc., Miracle Mile Shopping Center. Mon Reids Hobby, Parkway Plaza, Winston-Salem, NC. land, OR. Phone 257-8444. roeville, pA. Phone 372-5 155. Phone 722-6758. Rule's Model Trains, 635 N. Queen St.. Lancaster, PENNSYLVANIA C & C Hobbies, 1260 So. Welcome Blvd., Rocky pA. Phone 393-5311. Mount, NC. Phone 446-9813. Allied Hobbies, Oxford Valley Mall, Langhorne, pA. Whistle Stop Hobby Shop Inc., 281 9 S. Boulevard, Phone 943-971 1. RHODE ISLAND Charlotte, NC. Phone 527-2596. English's Model Railroad Supply, 21 Howard St., B & F Hobbies Unlimited, Inc., 878 A Main St.. The Hobby Shop, 2020 Cameron St., Raleigh, NC. Montoursville, PA. Phone 368-2516. Wakefield, RI. Phone 783-4805. Phone 833-1 123. Smitty's Hobby & Craft, 1 226 Millersville Pike, Man SOUTH CAROLINA Ron-Cor Hobbies, P.O. Box 5045, Jacksonville, c. or Shopping Center, Lancaster, pA. Phone 393- Phone 455-9888. 2521. Randy's Model Aeronautics, 515 Coleman Blvd., Havelock Hobby House, P.O. Box 446, 506 E. Main Allied Hobbies, 6607 Rising Sun Ave., Philadelphia, P.O. Box 352, Mt. Pleasant. Sc. Phone 884-74 11. St., Havelock, NC. Phone 447-5891. pA. Phone 745-5777. Hobby Center, 505 Laurens Road. Greenville, Sc. Mike's Hobbies & Crafts, Westwood Shopping Phone 235-7594. NORTH DAKOTA Plaza, Johnstown, PA. Phone 255-5718. Creative Pastime Shop, 10'11 Third Ave., Conway, Hardy's Hobby House, 206 3rd Ave. S.E., New Paul's Model Railroad Shop, 201 Lincolnway West, Sc. Phone 248-2600. Rockford, N.D. 58356. Phone 947-5902. ew Oxford, PA. Phone 624-7567. Island RR Hobbies, 105 Spanish Oaks. Hilton Head Meredith's Craft & Hobby, Gateway Mall, Bismarck, American Hobbies & Crafts, 351 1 Cottman Ave. , Island. Sc. Phone 785-2564. N.D. 58501. Phone 222-1555. Philadelphia, PA. Phone 332-3534. SOUTH DAKOTA OHIO Hobby Craft Center, 602 South Broadway, Wind Gap, PA. Phone 863-9930. Toy Chest, 419 South Main St. , Aberdeen, SD. Graceland Hobbyland, 140 Graceland Blvd., Col Montgomery Hobbies, Inc., 164 Montgomery Mall, Phone 225-3520. umbus, OH. Phone 888-7500. North Wales, PA. Phone 362-1 969. TENNESSEE Strete Hobbies, 3655 Sullivant Avenue, Columbus, Ron's Hobby Hut, 177 Main St., Greenville, PA. Park Manor Hobby Shop, 5077 Park Ave Memphis, OH. Phone 279-6959. Phone 588-2 122. .• TN. Phone 683-3869. M.A.S. Hobbies, 4860-A Dover Center Road, N. The Hobby & Craft Shop, Exton Square Mall, Exton, Olmstead, OH. Phone 777-6026. The Hobby Shop, 234 Woodmere Mall. Crossvi lle, PA. Phol)e 363-7084 TN. Phone 484-8346. G. S. Hobby Shop, 5657 Turney Road, Garfield HTS Sheaffer Bros. Sporting Goods Inc., Hanover and (Cleveland), OH. Phone 587-1 570. North Sts., ca rlisle, PA. Phone 243-2161 . TEXAS National Hobby, 5238 Ridge Rd., Cleveland, OH. A. B. Charles & Son, 321 3 W. L iberty Avenue, Pitts Phone 749-2450. Hobby Hut, 903 A Pioneer Parkway W .. Hwys. 303 burg, pA. Phone 561-3068. Great lakes Hobbies, 212 Hancock Street, Sandus at 157. Arlington, TX. Phone 265-81 01. The Train Shop, 221 3 Old Gettysburg, Camp I-lill, Bellaire Roundhouse, 5316 Bellaire Blvd.. Bellaire. ky, OH. Phone 626-4559. PA. Phone 761-3081 . TX. Phone 667-7762. Walt's Hobby, 3870 Paxton Road, Cincinnati, OH. Uptown Sales, 33 N. Main St .. Chambersburg, PA. Golf Manor Hobbies, 6420 Hammel Avenue, Cin Minter's, 2135 - 19th St.. Lubbock, TX. Phone 744- Phone 264-531 1. cinnati, OH. Phone 351-3849. 3192. Race-O-Rama Hobby Center, Queensgate Shopping Family Hobby Shop, 304 N. Dixie Drive, Vandalia, Hobby Chalet Inc., 4500 S. Broadway Tyler, TX. Center, York, PA. Phone 846- 1634. Phone 561-5900. OH. Phone 898-5247. Hobby Hangout, 3701 William Penn Hwy .. Easton, Roberts Model & Hobby, 2988 Derr Road. Spring Hobbies Unlimited, 916 Pat Booker Road, Universal pA. Phone 252-6871 . field, OH. Phone 390-1 740. City. TX. Phone 658-5514. Broad Moor Com., 785 S. Church Street, Hazleton, Bud & Carol's Train Shop, 1566 N. Cool Rd., Lima, Leisure Time Hobbies, 3333 Santa Fe. Corpus pA. Phone 459-0538. Christi, TX. Phone 99 1-71 61 . OH. Phone 649-2287. Scranton Hobby, 410 Lackawanna Avenue, Scran J & M Trains and Hobbies, 230 W. Wayne St., Hal's Hobby Shop, #57 Sunrise Center. EI Paso. TX. ton, pA. Phone 342-1 963. Maumee, OH. Phone 893-2621. Phone 755-1 91 4 . Stolts Train & Hobby Center, P.O. Box 572, Quaker Boardman Hobby Center, 6820 Market Youngs A & A Hobby Center, 3305 N.E. 28th St., Fort Worth, 51., town, PA. Phone 538-0778. town, OH. Phone 758-1522. TX. Phone 834-3871. Wm. H. Becker I nc., 925 Arch St., Phila., PA. Phone Hobby Den, 302 Clinton St., Defiance, OH 43512. G & G Model Shop, 2522 Times Blvd .. Houston. TX. 922-3057. Phone 782-081 1. Phone 529-7752. Ardmore Hobbies, t 9A Woodside Avenue, Whistle Stop, 2146 Front St., Cuyahoga Falls, OH. Whistlestop of Texas, 213 Hulen Mall. Ft. Worth, Ardmore, PA. Phone 896-66 15. Phone 928-8984. TX. Phone 292-8195. Allied Hobbies, Limekiln Pike & Tw ining, Dresher, lenny's TV & Hobby Center, Inc., 5416 Mayfield The Engine Tender, 1912 Grant St., Wichita Falls, pA. Rd., Lyndhurst, OH. Phone 442-5088. TX. Phone 322-2582. leisuretime Art, Craft & Hobby, Inc., 325 Bustleton Wings Hobby Shop Inc., 17112 Detroit Ave .. Lake Woodie's Train Shop, 4010 Polk Ave., EI Paso. TX. Pike, Feasterville, PA. Phone 355-3076. wood, OH. Phone 221-5383. Phone 566-0235. Transglobe, 2327 Cottman Street, Philadelphia. PA. Mac's Tom Thumb Hobbies, 460 Wilson Rd. Col Dibbles Arts & Hobbies, 1029 Donaldson Ave., San Hobbies N', 51 1 Penn Avenue, Sinking Springs, PA. umbus, OH. Phone 274-5 150. Antonio. TX. Phone 735-7721. Phone 372-9570. Amer's Hobby Shop, Inc., 60 10 Market St. , Board Crown Hobby & Toy, 8400 Preston Rd .. Dallas, TX. Wayne Toytown, 159-65 E. Lancaster Ave., Wayne. man, OH. Phone 758-2810. Phone 363-3171. pA. Phone 688-2299. Knollwood Hobby, 3819 Dayton - Xenia Rd., Day Beverly Hills Model Shop, 3421 Memorial Dr., Trainland USA, 105 Belvidere St ., Nazareth. PA. ton, OH. Phone 426-4324. Waco, TX. Phone 753-9933 . Phone 759-4378. Willoughby Trains & Hobbies, 36212 Euchid Ave. Bobbye Hall's Hobby House, 4822 Bryan St. . Dallas, Todd's Model Shop, Inc., 7036 Terminal Square, Willoughby, OH. Phone 95 1 -0634. TX. Phone 821-2550. Upper Darby, pA. Phone 352-101 1. Kegler Pro Shop & Hobby Specialist, 2196 Lee Rd., Hobbies For Dad and lad, 221 1 orth East Mall. Allied Hobbies, 610 Park City Clr., Lancaster. pA. Cleveland Hts., OH. Phone 932-2090. Hurst, TX. Phone 589-2538. Phone 392-3987. Clearview Hobby Crafts, Inc., 205 Sheffield Center, The Model Shop, 3115 Chaparral. Greenville. TX. McNeal's Hobby Shop, 28 W. Third St. , Lewiston. Lorain, OH. Phone 233-7242. Phone 454-6762. PA. Phone 242-058 1. Hall's Hobbies, Inc., 2753 Winchester Pike-Berwick Toys By Roy, 256 Sikes Senter. Wichita Falls. TX. Mac's Hobby Hall, 72 1 Linden St .. Bethlehem. PA. Plaza Shopping Center, Columbus, OH. Phone 23 t- Phone 691 -1 281 . Phone 866-8465. 8742. Hobby City, #30 Lawrence Park Center. Broomall. UTAH M. C. Hobbies, 2162 Pleasant Ave., Hamilton, OH. PA. Phone 353-5131. Phone 894-8652. Hammond Toy & Hobbies, Valley Fair Mall. 3601 John A. Sacco Jr., Inc., 30 Ingram Ave PG H, PA. Wilson Hobby Shop, .• So. 2700 Ave.. Granger, UT. Phone 966-082 1. Belpre Shopping Plaza, Belpre, Phone 92 1-1553. Peck's Models, 359-24th. Ogden. UT. Phone 393- OH. Phone 423-5000. Yocolu Hobby, 101 Russel St.. Warren. pA. Phone 4902. OKLAHOMA 726-0965. Diamond S. Corp., 365 23rd St, Ogden. UT. No Marra's Hobby Shop, 6539 Elmwood Ave .. Phila .. Aqua Mart Hobby Center, 109 W.Connell, P.O. Box Listing. pA. Phone 365-9825. 91 Wonderful World of Trains, 2945 Washington Bon Hobby Shop, clo Bon Marche Store, Main & Cudhay News & Hobby, 4727 5. Packard, Cudahay, Blvd., Ogden, UT. Phone 392-0391. Wall, Spokane, WA. Phone 747-5111. WI. Phone 769-1500. Seattle Rail & Hobby, 5601 24th N.W., Seattle, WA. Hobby House, 1247 Milton Avenue, janesville, WI. VERMONT Not Listed. Not Listed. Larry & Phyl's, 513 W. M i lwaukee Street, jamesville, Ellis Paint & Wallpaper, 85 Eastern Avenue, St. Railfan CB & Hobby, 721 E. First Street, Port Angeles, WI. Phone 754-9807. johnsbury, VT. Phone 748-3806. WA. Phone 452-3763. Hobby Chalet, West Mall - 128 West 8th, Monroe, Red Circle Inc., 60 Elliot St., Brattleboro, VT. Phone Sunset Junction Model Trains, W. 206 Sprague Ave., WI. Phone (608) 325-491 1. 254-4933. Spokane, WA. Phone 838-2379. Unicorn Castle Hobby Shop, 8305 Summitview, Midvale Hobby Shop, 505 5. Midvale Blvd., Madi VIRGINIA Yakima, WA. Phone 966-2509. son, WI. Phone 238-2233. Hobbies Etc., 16661 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA. Terminal Hobby Shop, 5619 W. Florist Ave., Mil Fairfax Hobbies & Crafts, 4078 jermantown Road, Phone 883-281 1. waukee, WI. Phone 461-1050. Fairfax, VA. Phone 273-5621. Lyon's Hobby Den, 1715 W. Harrison, Olympia, Hobby Town, 6301 W. Greenfield Ave., West Allis, Cornish & Sons Model Works, 402 So. Washington WA. Phone 754-4799. WI. Phone 453-4610. Street, Falls Church, VA. Phone 941 -2634. North End Hobby Center, 9524 Roosevelt Way N.E., Hobbyland, 279 W. Main, Waukesha, WI. Phone Sullivan's Toys, Tysons Corner Center, McLean, VA. Seattle, WA. Phone 524-4424. 547-5077. Arlington Hobby, 625 N: Glebe Road, Arlington, Hobby Tech, 7207 Evergreen Way, Everett, WA. Mid-Wisconsin Hobby Ctr., Northway Mall, 503 E. VA. Phone 522-6442. Phone 353-9464. Ives st., Marshfield, WI. Phone 387-6452. lively's Hobbyland, 3849 Kecoughtan Road, Hamp Em's Hobby & Cycle Shop, 120 E. Front, Port Casano�a's Inc., 1423 South Muskego Ave., Mil ton, VA. Phone 723-5501 . Angeles, WA. Phone 457-6383. waukee, WI. Phone 672-2700. Kens Trains, 3308 Williamson Road NW, Roanoke, Hobbies Unlimited, Inc., 31509 Pacific Highway Don's Hobbies, 2208 Roosevelt Rd., Kenosha, WI. VA. Phone 366-8479. So., Federal Way, WA. Phone 941 -1 230. Phone 657-5490. Tanglewood Hobby, Tanglewood Mall, Roanoke, Ralph's Toy & Hobbies, 935 Northgate Mall, Seattle, VA. Phone 989-3096. CANADA WA. Phone 364-8212. Grafton Hobby Center, 11O-C Dake Rd., Yorktown, Van Hobbies Inc., 5816 Cambie st'. , Vancouver, VA. Phone 898-4184. B.C. Canada. Phone 327-32 10. Craft CornerlFrabu Gallery, 2918 Dale Blvd., Dale WEST VIRGINIA Gary's Train Centre, 365 E. Broadway, Vancouver, City, Woodbridge, VA. Phone 670-6193. B.C. Canada. Phone 874-5716. Fred's Hobby & Cycle Shop, 1604 Jefferson St., Executive Hobbies, 507 W. Maple Ave., Vienna, Hobbyatorium Enterprises Ltd., 501 2 sherbrooke st. Bluefield, W. VA. Phone 325-7063. VA. Phone 938-6256. W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Phone 481 -0275. Hobbyland of Huntington Inc., 1323 8th Ave., Hobby Craft Center #1, 3333 Virginia Beach Blvd., International Hobby, Inc., 2081 ste. Catherine st. : Huntington, W. VA. Phone 522-1861 . Virginia Beach, VA Phone 495-0944. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Phone 937-3904. The Frame Gallery Inc., 2541 Fox Mill Center, Hern Maritime Hobbies & Crafts, Scotia Square, Halifax, don, VA. WISCONSIN Nova Scotia, Canada. Phone 423-8870. The Storehouse of VA., Inc., 2557 S. Crater Road, The Hobby Shop, 1002 South 15th Street, She Hobby Horse Ltd., 478 Rideau st., Ottawa, Ontario, P.O. Box 1805, Petersburg, VA. Phone 861 -1 333. boygan, WI. Phone 452-2883. Canada K1 N5Z4. Phone 232-2778. Hobby Horse, 95 N. Moorland Rd ., Brookfield, WI. Hobbyland Ltd., 93 O'Connor st., Ottawa, Ontario, WASHINGTON Phone 782-2 170. Canada K1 P5M8. 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NAME (print address or type) ______ADDRESS ______ STATE ______ZIP ------CITY ______ MAIL TI-llS ORDER TO: Eastwood Publishing Co. MODEL RAILROADING Back Issue Dept. 2901 Blake St., Dept. S81 Denver, CO 80205 92 Fall 1979 Winter 1980 Spring 1980 Summer 1980 Fall 1979 (Vol. 10, No. 1) Winter 1980 (Vol. 10, No. 2) Spring 1980 (Vol. 10, No. 3) Summer 1980 (Vol. 10, No. 4) 52.50 per isslle 52.50 per issue 52.50 per issue 52.50 per issue • Layout Tour: Jim Miller's On3 railroad • Layout Tour: Doug Hodgdon's HO scale • Layout Tour: Bert Blanton's Lionel empire • Layout Tour: Guy Halvorson's NTRAK • Build a freight House. factory and shed railroad in an attic module • Prototype steam locomotives on the • Building "Dash-2" diesels the easy way • How-Io detail train set track • Layout Tour: Paul Kepner's around-the-wall Tonapah • Kadel.' coupler installations on Athearn • 6xlO-foot HO scale Boston &. Maine track HO layout Diesel detailing, step-by-step from air hoses • Tyeo double-power diesel conversion diesels plan • Kadee couplers on HO train set cars • An early streamliner, the Train of • John Profitt's HO scale 5038-2 diesel • to decals Tomorrow • 5x9-(00t HO scale Southern Railway track • Modeling the gold and silver mines • Diesel Detail Close-Up: Union Pacific GIl<) • Build an 1-10 or N scale dome observation plan • Ride a real railroad; the Virginia & Truckee • Diesel Detail Close-Up: Santa Fe GP35 car • How-to install ready-made trees • How-Io build scenery with plaster • Basic soldering techniques Build a railroad hotel from kits and parts • Decal and paint-striping techniques • AII-plaslic Evergreen craftsman structure • Diesel Close-Up: BN U30B No. 5474 • sD40 vs. 5040-2; spotting the most popular • 4x8-foot HO scale Romford &: Joliet track kit-assemblv • Diesel Close-Up: BN U30C No. 5362 • Layout Tour: John Heilemann's N scale diesels plan • Portable NTRAK modular layout plans • • A history of container cars in miniature • Layout Tour: the N scale NTRAK meeting at railroad • Santa Fe ShorUine; a 4x8-foot HO Easy-build "Galloping Goose" switchback layout • Life-Like and Athearn container car Santa Rosa • How-to usc the NTRAK planning templates • i\.TTRAK modular layout plans for ' conversions • How-Io build a modern automobile-carrier • permanent locations • Portable NTRAK modular layout plans • Build the Aleo RsC-2 12-wheel road switcher • Kadel.' couplers for Like-Like cars • Hand-lay turnouts (switches) on wood ties • Missouri Pacific diesel and steam conversion Ho\\'-to build an Ho scale 1906-era tank car • Pre-formed plastic foam scenery • Diesel Detail Close-Up: D&RGW SW 1200 • HO scale highway trucks from the forties • How-Io weather tank cars It's a Kit: assembling Walthers metal flat No. ISO • Prototype steam portfolio; the camelbacks • • Modeling British-prototype railroads and van kits • Diesel Detail Close-Up: 8&0 GP9 No. 6537 • Ho\\'-Io build an all-plastic outside-braced • Build the Ratio-brand British steam Trailers-on-Flat cars, Part I • N scale steam locomotive conversions automobile car • • locomotive kit • Recreating the Rock Island's diesel fleel • HO scale model people review • Diesel Close-Up: UP CI'20 No. 487 • Diesel Close-Up: BN F45 No. 6621 • Installing Kadee couplers on AHM diesels Fall 1980 Winter 1981 Spring 1981 i-I\iiktt�MODE[ Nl""U ruJOL Fall 1980 (Vol. 11, No. 1) Winter 1981 (Vol. 11, No. 2) Spring 1981 (Vol. 11, No. 3) 52.50 per issue 52.50 per issue 52.50 per isslle • Layout Tour I: Dick shurberg's HO Canyon • Layout Tour: Paul Burger's HO scale • Layout Tour I: Ralph Johnson's Lionel Lines ('otomac Central • Layout Tour 11: Denver's HO scale modular line • Layout Tour 11: Olaf Melhousc' NTRAK • Layout Tour: An NTRAK club layout with a layout dub hidden yard • Build a railroad step-by-step, Part I; from midwest module • A 4x8-foot track plan that expands to fill a planning to track-laying • IOxl8-foot track plan for a garage-size layout room • Super -lxS-foot HO track plan • HO scale modular track plan basic layout concepts • The Rio Grande Southern as a standard • A Santa Fe steam locomotive from Manlua's gauge model railroad 4-6-2 or 2-8-2 • Build a railroad step-by-step. 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' " . . There will be at least two new inexpensive steam locomotives sound systemsavai lable this fa ll. The $29.95 system from Circutron utilizes a 9-volt battery to produce electronic steam sounds from a speaker in the tender. Mantua's system (shown) is purely mechanical with a motor in the tender driving a piston to produce an air-powered chuffing sound. The unit also produces synchronized smoke. It will fit other brands as well and the price is expected to be about $1 9.00. Radio control is finally coming to model railroading to allow walk-around control without the usual tether wires to tangle. Mod el Rectifier's new Protrac RIC 1/1 operates almost any power pack by remote control using most radio control transmitters and re ceivers. The MRC unit is $55 plus the cost of a radio control outfit ($ 50 to $100 - we'll have an article on it later) but NO modifications are needed in the power pack or in any of the locomotives! 94 Pemco is a new name in model railroading but they have decades of experience producing models for other firms. We'll test their HO scale 5035 in the next issue and their 2-6-0 later in the year. This is their finely-detailed 4-8-2 with the motor and drive in the tender and electrical pickup through the locomotive's drivers. It should sell for $80.00 ready to run. Bachmann introduced an HO scale model of the General Electric BQ23-7 with crew accomodations in the cab. So far, the Family Lines is the only real railroad customer but union rules may demand the use of the locomotives on other railroads. The ready-to run model is $23 .00. The chassis is similar to their GP35 and GP40. The N scale version of Bachmann's Reading Railroad 2-8-0 is finally here and it's almost identical to their HO model- that's a whole lot of fine detail for an N scale model. The ready-to-run locomotive is $35.00. The Life-Like HO scale F9 and F40PH diesels will be fitted with this new chassis for 1981. The motor is built into the truck. We'll test this one (and the G5B-brand 5040-2) in the next issue as well. G5B had only the gearbox moldings ready for the hobby show but they promise we'll have a complete locomotive in time for testing. 95 Model Power will have a completely new N scale chassis this summer to power their new F40PH (shown) as well as a new F3A and F3 B N scale This 0 scale locomotive can be assembled to run on HO scale diesel. The ready-to-run F40PH is $24.00. track .. .. Scale Railway Equipment Company's 0 scale model of the General Electric 16-ton switcher will be offeredas a cast metal kit to be assembled with cyanoacrylate cement. Grandt drive components must be purchased for an 0 scale or On3 version but most HO scale small 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 steam locomotive chassis would fit beneath it nicely (minus the tenter drive on the 0-6-0). The kit is due in the fall. Con Cor should have this N scale model of the ROC (Rail Diesel Car) on sale this spring. The powered version is 134.98 and the unpowered model is $10.98. American Flyer S gauge is back!!!Lionel (Fundimensions) will have this Southern Pacific PA-1 diesel and a Baltimore & Ohio version on sale this fall along with straight and curved track, four different streamlined passenger cars, a box car, a covered hopper, fla t car with trailers, gondola with containers, tank car and caboose. 96 Lionel will have this Burlington "Fla t Top" (whatever that means) S028 diesel on their limited edition "Collectors Series" 0 gauge set this Christmas. The popular Atlas American-made HO scale "Custom Line Supreme" turnout (switch) has been completely redesigned for 1981 with a metal frog area. The switch machine snaps-on for remote-control opera tion. Each switch will contain a "kit" to pro vide screw-attached contacts so the metal frog can be electrically powered for no-stall slow speed locomotive performance. Look for them late this fall. Roundhouse (Model Die Cast ing) will be offering just about ev ery popular variation of modern outside-braced or rib-side box car now in use on the real railroads. Both five and six-rib sides are in cluded in the line. This six-rib is a model of the Pullman Standard box car with a siding and a plug door. This one is painted in the Railbox "A BOX" colors. The HO scale kits are $3.50 with N scale versions of most of them on the way. 97 f&B Valley Railroad Company has this HO scale all-plastic kit for the 65-foot mill gondola produced (in full size) by Morrison-Knudson Company. The $7.95 kits include trucks and couplers. The U.S.R.A.-style "Light" Mikado will be available this summer from AHM in HO scale. The ready-to-run model has RP25-size small wheel flanges and working valve gear for about $50.00. Tyco did not show any new locomotives or cars but the four buildings in this HO scale "Center Street Series" should be of interest to modelers. The kits include side walks and small details. The "used cars" are rumored to be 1948 Fords when actual tooling is complete (these are pre production prototypes). Mantua will have a large (similar to the old Pitman DCn) motor with gearbox "conversion kit" to provide super performance (and slower speeds) for almost any Mantua locomotive later this year. The motor and gearbox are about $28.00. 98 Collectors Corner, 1502 W. Kersey Lane, Dept. MRG, Rockville, MD 20854 is offering sp ecial paint schemes on Atheran cars. The Kadee couplers are NOT included (NMRA horn hooks are in the kits, however). The kits are $5.25 at your dealers (add $2.00 per order for shipping). Seven new 100-ton hoppers from the McKean people in HO scale. The plastic kits are $4.50 each. Magnuson Models new polyester cast structure kit is this HO scale "40's Era Service Station". The kit includes all the details except the cars fo r $37.95. The Magnuson 1948 Ford, 1939 Chevy and 1953 Chevy shown in the Spring issue are now molded in clear material for easier painting and their price has been reduced to TWO for $5.95. .. A sampler kit of three of Walthers new "Ponderosa Pines" includes 7, 12 and 16'/2-inch tall trees with ure thane trunk and ground foam folliage for $9.95. • Mountains in Minutes HO scale "Cut Stone WalllStaircase" is molded in foam and pre colored for $4.69. 99