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PRECISION RAILROAD MODELS rior l ng, ures an autos are mod For the railroad personnel working your railroad, for the railfan chasin' your trains, for the citizenry of your community ...our Oenny's® restaurant structure is "always open." Factory-assembled and molded in color, with parking lot and landscape details, this instantly recognized structure is a great addition to your N scale model railroad layout. Available now from your local hobby shop. Be sure to also take a look at our new Residential Series structures. Available in Stores NOWSD8DMAC and SD90/43MAC 2nd Production Collectors and modern-era modelers ... three all new roadnames CSX, Norfolk Southern, CEFX Leasing and a unique all-new paint scheme for Union Pacific are in stores now! With Bright-White™ LED headlight, automatic couplers. printed numberboards and DCC-friendly mechanism. Upcoming Model Release Update - HO Business Car (late September], N SD40 (late October), N ROC Railcar with UN/TRACK, with special offer (November/December), HO SD45 (December/January) Visit us on the worldwide web at IiTT 'T1I KATO U.S.A., Inc. Remington Road· Schaumburg, . U.S.A. 100 IL 60173 OfficialSponsor www.katousa.com BUILT FOR PO-wrER Constructed 01 metal, the HO 2-Rail DC Big Boy is the largest HO steam locomotive ever built by IHIX. Built specifically for North American 2-Rail DC model railroaders, the limited edition TRIX Big Boy has a TRIX HO scale length of 18-5/16" and weighs over 2 Ibs. 10 oz. Representing a level of craftsmanship only found previously on brass models at a much higher price, the TRIX Big Boy has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of only $598. The Big Boy features a metal frame, boiler, tender body and tender frame. A high-efficiency can motor with bell shaped armature and flywheel powers eight axles that drive all 16 wheels. Headlight and number boards are equipped with LEOs for lighting. In addition, the Big Boy has these features: • RP 25 wheel flanges • Kadee® coupler #18 • DCC connector for locomotive decoder installation • Factory-ready for installation of two Seuthe smoke generators • Tender factory-ready for digital sound effects system Purchased by Marklin in 1997, TRIX manufactures HO products with the same quality workmanship and technical innovation that Marklin has been famous for since 1859. For more information on the TRIX HO 2-Rail DC Big Boy #T22594, visit www.trixtrains.com/bigboy. or call (800)825-0888 for the name of your nearest dealer. Also available are ten different UP boxcars, hopper cars and caboose. Check www.trixtrains.comlbigboy for details. www.trixtrains.comlbigboy MSRP $598.00 TRIX is a company of the mar--kl- In group. SCALE ��=i�·�C�h�aI�le:ng:er Imports, Ltd., Capital Square Station, P.O. Box 93244, Des Moines, IA 50393 is importing ready-to-run brass replicas of the Southern Pacific Class GS-3, GS-4 and GS-5 4-8-4 locomotives in a choice of "Daylight" or black-and-silver paint schemes to match specific prototypes. The 68-foot finger rack TTJX 68-foot flat cars in series 80246- 80519 are being imported as ready-to-run painted brass mod Resin Unlimited, P.O. Box 410, North Prairie, WI els by Overland Models Inc., P.O. Box 248, Yorktown, IN 53153 is now shipping this injection-molded plastic 47396-0248. truck or trailer air bag suspension kit (to replace the leaf spring setup in most kits and ready-builts) for $2.98 each or a two-pack for $4.98. Overland Models Inc., P.O. Box 248, Yo rktown, IN 47396-0248 is importing painted and lettered brass re plicas of the Clejan-built 75 - foot TO FC (Trailers on Flat Cars) piggyback cars operated by the Erie, KCS and New Haven. See your dealer. 4 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 Life-Like is producing this ready-to-run replica of the Budd RDC-l in Amtrak, ATSF, B&M, B&O, CNW, C&O, New Haven, NYC and Reading lettering for $70.00 each ready-to run. Bachmann will offer a completely new Spectrum F40PH diesel with wire grabirons and an improved mechanism. The model should be at your dealer early in 2003, and it will be offered in Amtrak Phase II, III, and IV and NJ Tr ansit paint and markings. The Ako C-630 is now av ailable from Stewart Hobbies, 140 New Bri tain Blvd., Ch alfont, PA 18914-1832 as an undecorat ed kit or with N&W, PRR, Sp, PC, L&N, Conrail, ACL, Up, SCL or Cartier paint and lettering for $135.00. Kirkland Hobbies is a new manufacturer of modern-era cast-resin freight car kits. Their kits include this lOO- to n Ortner wood chip car. Send a stam ped, self-addressed enve lope for price list to Kirkland Hobbies, 187 Concord Circle, Panama City, FL 32405. Kirkland Ho bbies, 187 Concord Circle, Pan ama City, FL 32405 is producing cast resin kits for a series of modern freight cars. This Magor 50-foot pulpwood car was oper ated by several roads, including the Southern. Send a stamped, self-ad dressed envelope for price list. RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER2002 5 HO SCALE: N SCALE: Freight Cars of the Fifties: Modern Freight Cars: lV offset-side 34-foot hoppers from ICG 50-foot flat car with wrecked Thrall Athearn or Atlas kits, gondola loads from Micro-Trains and by V.S.Roseman ........ ..... 11 Roundhouse models, Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time: by Keith Kohlmann .. .. .........8 EMO 5035 as CN) 2505 and 2511 from Intermodal Modeling: Atlas models,by Louis A. Marre ... 19 APl containers,Part III, 45, 48 and 53-foot Modeling Steam: general-service and 40-foot refrigerated Missouri Pacific 0-8-0 from the life-like containers,from Deluxe Innovations and "Heritage" models, by Lee Freeman ... 22 Con-Cor,by David G. Casdorph . ...24 Intermodal Modeling: Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time: APl containers, Part 111,45, 48 and 53-foot EMD 5035 as CN) 2505 and 2511 from general-service and 40-foot refrigerated Atlas models,by LouisA. Marre ....19 containers, from A-line,Athearn and Locomotive Performance: Walthers,by David G. Casdorph .... 24 Summary of all previous locomotive Diesel Modeling: Performance Test Reports .........63 Pelle Soeborg's diesel fleet, by Pelle Soeborg ................ 3 1 SCALE: EMO 5040-2 as 500 line 777 from o Diesels, One-Oetail-At-A-Time: Athearn's kit,by Bob Rivard ....... 37 October 2002 Volume 14, No.5 EMO 5035 as CN) 2505 and 2511 from Modern Freight Cars: Atlas models, by Louis Marre .... ACF Coalveyer gondolas from Atlas A. 19 ON THE COVER: Modeling From The Locomotive Performance: models, by Edward S. Kaminski .....1 5 Prototype includes all eras, but we seldom see Summary of all previous locomotive IPO,Railbox, and Other Cars from the Box The the earliest eras on a model railroad. Performance Test Reports ........63 Car Boom of the Seventies: Railroad . locomotives, rolling stock and details are Built Cars,Part II,from Athearn and available to make it possible to recreate 500 line HS kits,by Jim Eager ...... 0 accurate 1860-era scenes so Bernard 4 ALL SCALES: QGRY 85301 NSC newsprint box car Kempinski did just that to produce Layout Design: from life-like's Proto 1000 model, "Alexandria, Virginia, 1862." There's more Modeling Civil-War-era railroads, by Daniel Risdon .... ... ....... 68 . beginning on page 46 of this iSlue. -Bernard by Bernard Kempinski ... .......46 SIRX ACF 4650 Center Flow covered Kempinski photo Modeling Industry: hopper from AccuraiJ's kit, Wood chip loading and unloading facilities, by Chris Butts. ........... ... 69 . by J. Emmons Lancaster .. .... ..58 Layout Tour: Alexandria, Virginia,Circa 1862, by Bernard Kempinski ...........46 Departments: Locomotive Performance: What's New ..........6, 7, 65, 70, 71 Summary of all previous locomotive Diesel Index ........... .........60 Performance Test Reports .... .... 63 Calendar .. .. .... ... ..........66 8 • LAYO UT DESIGN: MODELING 1 62, page 46 15 • COALVEYER GONS FROM ATLAS MODELS, page 8 • MODELING THE WOOD CHIP INDUSTRY, page 5 • KIT-CONVERSION OFFSET-SIDE HOPPERS FROM ATHEARN OR ATLAS, page 11 8 • HERITAGE, BY LIFE-LIKE USRAMP 0- -0, page 22 ATLAS IN HO, N 19 • EMD SD35 AS eNJ 2505 11 2511 FROM 11 0, page 31 • PELLE SOEBORG'S DIESEL FLEET, page 6 RAILMODELJOURNAL · OCTOBER2002 RAllMODEl)OURNAl ir publirhed 12 timer a year by Golden Bell Prers, 2403 Champa St., Denver, CO 80205. Price per single copy is $5.50 newsrtand; $6 .95 direct from publirher, or $48.00 per year in the U.S.A. Individual copy prices higher in Canada and other countrie!. Foreign rubscriptions $60.00 for 12 issuer, payable in U.S. fundr. RAllMODEl)OURNAl, ISSN 1043·5441, copyright 2002 by Golden Bell Prers. All rights reserved. Periodical! Postage paid at Denver, CO. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Railmodel Journal, 2403 Champa St., Denver, CO 80205. Visit our website at www.railmodeljournal.comO.POSTMASTER:Send addrerrchangestoRailmodelJournal.2403Champa St..Denver.CO 80205. Visit our website at www.railmodeljournal.com RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 7 [ UPGRADING N SCALE] FROM MICRO·TRAINS AND ROUNDHOUSE MODELS By Keith Ko hlmann These unusual flat car loads provide an opportunity to display the detailed underbody on the "loads." There's an index of all previous articles on upgrading N scale freight cars and locomotives on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com friend and I were looking at the incredible underbody Bill of Materials I detailing on some fr eight Micro-Trains: MicroScale: A car models at a prototype ICG 50-foot flat car, MT number 60-2 Freight Car Data-Gothic modelers' meet. He 1030 Roller Bering Trucks with remarked, "if you spend that much time couplers Walthers: looking at the bottoms of your cars, FRA lubrication plates maybe it's time to fi x your track!" Roundhouse: This model is my reflection of that PAINTS: sentiment.