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US $5.95 • Can $7.95 Display until April 30th Celebrating the art of 1:48 modeling Issue #19 Mar/Apr 2005 Vol. 4, No. 2 Publisher Joe Giannovario Features [email protected] Art Director Jaini Giannovario 4 The Texas Midland Railway – Dallas Division [email protected] Brady McGuire and the boys show us how they do a club Texas-style. Editor Brian Scace [email protected] 18 Building a Small O Scale Layout – Part 2 Advertising Manager A multi-part series on building a small O Scale layout to fit an apart- Jeb Kriigel ment. Watch as Mike Culham rebuilds his Great Central Railway. [email protected] Contributors 28 O Scale Influences – Glen Davis Ted Byrne An on-going series about people who have made a difference in other Gene Deimling Bobber Gibbs O Scaler’s lives. Stanley Harper contributed this article about Mr. Davis. Carey Hinch Hobo D. Hirailer Jace Kahn 42 Scratchbuilding a Simple Steam Service Site Neville Rossiter Tom Houle is back with another of his excellent scratchbuilding articles. Subscription Rates: 6 issues This one focuses on easy to build service facilities for small steam. US - Standard Mail Delivery US$30 US - First Class Delivery (1 year only) US$40 Canada/Mexico US$50 Overseas US$75 Visa, MC, AMEX & Discover accepted Call 610-363-7117 during Eastern time business hours Departments Dealers write for terms. 10 Easements for the Learning Curve – Brian Scace Advertisers write for information or visit our website. 12 The Modern Image - Carey Hinch O Scale Trains ISSN 1536-9528 23 The Workshop – Neville Rossiter www.oscalemag.com Published bimonthly (6 times a year) by O Scale Trains Magazine 24 Narrow Minded – Bobber Gibbs PO Box 238, Lionville PA 19353-0238 © 2005 OST All Rights Reserved 40 Reader Feedback – Letters to the Editor Printed in the U.S.A. 34 Product News & Reviews Contributors: O Scale Trains welcomes your feature articles, photos, and drawings. Such material should 53 Fine Scale Modeling – Gene Deimling be sent to the above address for possible publication. If we accept, you will be notified immediately. For more 56 Confessions of a HiRailer – Hobo D. Hirailer information concerning article preparation guidelines, please send an SASE to the above address and request 58 Buy-Sell-Trade Ads our “Guide For Authors” or visit our website at: www. oscalemag.com. 58 Modeler’s Shelf Cover: A scene from Mike Culham’s former Great Central 59 Advertiser Index Railway O Scale layout. Follow as Mike rebuilds the GCR in its new home. 60 Events Listing Centerspread: “Winter Solstice” - OST Subscriber Don 62 Observations – Joe Giannovario Latham commissioned Reed Artim (of O Scale Realty) to build Latham Mill Works for his layout. K. Jeb Kriigel created this diorama especially for the mill and photographed this moody wintry scene. OST is a proud Member of the Model Railroad Industry Association Mar/April ’05 - O Scale Trains • H. R. “Hot Rod” Warren squeaks to a stop as he backs away from the boxcar. This is the last heavy load. TMRwy #523, in LCL service, is almost unloaded. Reloading for destinations East won’t start until the third shift. The five-door, four-story Texas Midland Railway Freight House is scratchbuilt using brick paper and basswood columns and beams. The Dallas Fort Worth O Scale Model Railroad Club has tion of three trolley cars simultaneously. This layout is stored at been in existence since 1985. Currently the club owns and members’ homes between shows, as different members own the operates three distinct layouts. Our largest layout of the three different parts of the layout. is The Texas Midland Railway, Sherman Division, located in Our third layout, The Texas Midland Railway, Dallas Division, Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles north of Dallas. This double- is the subject of this article. In 1997 an opportunity arose for track 22’ by 28’ layout was originally built in 1986, utilizing 3’ our club to lease a 14' x 29' room on the mezzanine level of x 6’ modules. This layout was initially designed for display run- the restored historic Dallas Union Station in downtown Dallas, ning at train shows, but now incorporates two additional yards, Texas. Dallas Union Station is a stop on the DART (Dallas Area an eleven-track westbound yard and an eight-track eastbound Rapid Transit) line and is also the eastern terminus for the Trinity yard. These two staging yards are utilized for off-line staging of Railway Express from Fort Worth. This feature allows for conve- through trains. Both yards have handlaid track using code 125 nient travel for our members. This location also has many rail- rail spiked directly on to hollow-core Luan doors. The 1 3/8” fan opportunities as Amtrak trains and several Union Pacific and thick doors are supported every 40 inches. Train lengths are 18 Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight trains are often seen. In this to 20 cars on freights and six to seven cars on passenger trains. new space we decided to build a large urban industrial district The layout’s on-line four-track yard is used to make up way- with lots of switching and large buildings. After seven years we freights to switch the eleven local industries. More industries have built a working layout and we are at the point of actually are planned including a 21-car icing facility. We operate this having operating sessions. We work two Saturdays a month fin- division one Saturday a month. ishing the wiring, scenery, industrial tracks and structures. The second TMRwy layout is a portable 10' x 30' “U” shaped History modular layout built primarily for traction operation. The Texas The Texas Midland Railway is a fictitious regional railroad Midland Railway Traction Division was built in 1993 and oper- (not to be confused with another similarly named railroad, the ates at two to four train shows a year. The operation includes Texas Midland Railroad in east Texas, which was absorbed into both passenger and freight traffic using trolleys, interurbans and the Southern Pacific in the 1930’s). The Texas Midland Rail- box motors. Our traction layout is a big hit at train shows, since way was conceived in the 1880’s as a major trunk line serv- visitors do not see two-rail O Scale that often. It is especially ing east, north and west Texas. Its stated purpose was to service a surprise when viewers discover the layout uses an overhead Texarkana, Greenville, Dallas, Fort Worth and El Paso. Unfor- “hot” wire for powering the trolley poles. The layout features tunately tracks were never laid from Fort Worth to El Paso. The return loops and sidings with spring switches permitting opera- management once even dreamed of extending the tracks east • O Scale Trains - Mar/Apr ’05 TEXAS MIDLAND RAILWAY, DALLAS DIV. DALLAS FT. WORTH O SCALE MODEL RR CLUB DALLAS UNION STATION, DALLAS, TEXAS 29' X 14' OVERALL Structures Legend 1. Mobilgas- kitbashed Walthers Phoenix Oil kit 23. Cottonwood Station- scratchbuilt 1 2. Runzo Bros. Produce- scratchbuilt 1/8 inch Masonite, rough side out, and 24. Store side- scratchbuilt ⁄4" Masonite flat and printed cardstock side, basswood beams and columns using HO Scale A. G. Smith bldg. enlarged to O scale 3. Farmers Union Creamery- kitbashed Walthers kit 25. House- kitbashed Model Power Jordan’s House, garage and wood fence 4. Engine house- scratchbuilt (future) 26. House- kitbashed from Model Power Jordan’s House 5. Water tower- scratchbuilt using computer disc storage cylinder 6. Blue’s Icehouse and Cold Storage- kitbashed Berkshire Valley kit Layout Particulars 7. Independent Pneumatic Tool Co. - Masonite flat with printed paper building applied Name: Texas Midland Railway and Texas Traction (future overhead) 8. Willsie Tool Supply- scratchbuilt (future) Location: Historic Dallas Union Station, Dallas, Texas 1 Scale: O Scale (1:48) 9. Unnamed Factory building- kitbashed from ⁄4" Masonite walls with reworked Pioneer Valley Apartment Building Kit # 081 cardstock sides, new factory-style Size: 14' x 29' windows added Theme: Regional railroading, urban switching with 17 industries (11 on the 10. Roberts Printing Co.- kitbashed Walthers HO for distance perspective Rwy., 6 on the traction line) 1 11. Steel fabrication plant- scratchbuilt ⁄4" Masonite flat with reworked Pioneer Locale: East of Dallas, Texas Valley Machine Shop #086 cardstock sides Era: Late 1950s- early 1960s, steam and Diesel 1 12. Factory- scratchbuilt ⁄4" Masonite flat with Westport Models #12 Sprag Electric Style: Walk-around Co. cardstock sides Height: 52 inches from floor with no grades 1 13. Factory- scratchbuilt ⁄4" Masonite flat with Westport Models #18 Norwalk Tire Benchwork: L-girders with 2" foam on lightweight grid 1 Co. cardstock sides Roadbed: ⁄2" Homasote mainline and yards, industrial spurs on 0.060" 14. TMRw. tool shed- scratchbuilt (future) illustration board 15. TMRwy Freight House- scratchbuilt 1" foam, basswood beams and columns Track: Combination of Micro Engineering code 125 and handlaid track and with Pioneer Valley brick paper. Windows drawn on computer, then printed on turnouts. Industrial spurs handlaid code 100 on low-profile ties. “overhead” clear material Mainline: Approx. 70' 16. Dallas Union Grain- scratchbuilt using 4" PVC pipe silos and basswood head Turnouts: No. 5 on Rwy. No. 4 on traction - total 27. Most laid with Right-O’- house and elevator 1 Way points & frogs. All turnouts controlled with Caboose Industries 17. Smithton Texas Traction Station- scratchbuilt ⁄4" Masonite flat with A.G. Smith manual ground throws. HO Bank cardstock printed side enlarged to O Scale with new station sign- Min Radius: Mainline 60", spurs and yard 48" 18. Smithton Main Street- 1" foam with printed A. G. Smith HO cardstock sides Scenery: Styrofoam painted with latex paint with Woodland Scenic ground enlarged to O Scale.
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