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VOLUME 28 NUMBER 10

FEATURES

24 .. Southernizing GE's U23B by Larry Puckett

30 .. FREIGHTCAROLOGY Enclosed Autorack Evolution by David G. Casdorph.

34 ... MODELING MODERN INTERMODAL Spine Cars, Part 3: All-Purpose 56 ... Enhancing an N-Scale by Doug Geige/; MMR Kato Through-Truss Bridge by Clayton Barry 40 .. New England Railroading Along Colorado's Joint Line 58 .. BEHIND THE SCENES by Donald R. Strait Can't See the Forest... by Margaret Mansfield 46 ... The Early SD Units - Part 13: P&W/W&P, Reserve Mining & Soo Line 60 .. DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP by George Melvin Illinois Central GP10 Paducah Rebuild by Rich Picariello 50 .. Modeling America's Greatest Bankruptcy - Detailing and Painting an 63 .. ON TRACK Atlas/Kato RS11 as PC 7605 Bridging the Gap: The Dilemma (Part 2) by Jim Six by Jim Mansfield

DEPARTMENTS

5 .. Editorial

10 .. Letters to the Editor

14 .. New Products

20 .. Product Reviews

23 .. The Boys in the Basement

64 .. Society Page

65 .. Dealer Directory

74 .. Your Trek Plan

78 .. Advertiser Index

ABOUT THE COVER Modeling projects don't have to be made into complex operations to obtain satisfying results. Clayton Barry shows how to improve Kato's N­ scale Through-Truss Bridge and work it into a pleasing scene. Turn to page 56 to see how he did it. Photo by ClayTon Barry. INSET: Former New Englander Jim Lipper didn't have to leave his favorite Old Colony Railroad behind when he relocated to Colorado. Jim brought a little of old New England along with him in the form of his HO model railroad. PhOTO bv Chris Lane.

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Patrick Lawson, MMR " ho ... or what," you ask, "are 'The Boys in the Base Jim and Margaret Mansfield W ment'?" No, it's not a new rock group, although it does George Melvin remind me of some of the names my son Rhett and his friends Rich Picariello came up with for their group before settling on "Carolyn's Mother"... but that's another Larry J. Puckett story. Actually, "The Boys in the Basement," is the brainchild of Don Lomax, a former Jim Six railroader who says he has "dovetailed my love of railroading with my love of comics. Larry E. Smith, MMR The best of both worlds." "The Boys," as I call it, chronicles the adventures of Merle, Earl and Lenny (and their better halves) and debuts this month and will be appearing regularly in future ART DIRECTORS issues of So why a comic strip in a magazine for "serious" model­ Erik Fritz Model Railroading. ers? Actually, that's precisely the reason... because sometimes we take ourselves Michelle Ruffner too seriously. By loosening up a bit and laughing at ourselves, I hope that "The Boys" will

CIRCULATION I OFFICE MANAGER be a monthly reminder that this hobby is not only supposed to be fun... it IS fun. Donald R. Strait So who is Don Lomax? Don was born and reared next to the tracks, and with two brothers-in-law already Operators on the Milwaukee and the "Q," he says his "fate was cast." He hired out on the CB&Q in 1964 as a tower operator, and worked for the NATIONAL SALES MANAGER Chris Lane 1-888-338-1700

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Kadee LSBC Boxcar direct access link on the Back Issues page of our web site at Randy, http://www.modelrailroadingmag.com. The .first article appeared in In the August issue, Tim Morris notes in a "Letter to the Editor" the Fall 1982 (Vol.13, No.1) issue.I found it using the Keyword that the LSBC car is done as an owner-changed, re-marked car, with Search for "gondola MDC" (you can also enter "+gondola new paint patches over the old ownership marks. Some of us used to +MDC").Your second request was a little more difficult because the lovingly refer to these partial repaints as "corporate vandalism," and article is about making a hopper from the Gould 22' are CCl1: Keyword it's a good bit of realism for the '70s and ' 80s. Searches for any multiple combinations of "Gollld,""Tichy," "are," The LSBC is/was a real shortline in Illinois, and back in the '70s "22" and" lengthen" produced nothing, but a simple Keyword purchased a fleet (200?) of secondhand NYC 40 ' boxcars from Pc. Search for"Gould" turned up the article in question; it appeared ill These cars were remarked in the patchwork "vandalism" paint the May/June 1984 (Vol. 14, No. 4) issue. scheme Kadee has modeled, and when they reentered interchange Readers without Internet access can obtain an index of the Fall service, it was relatively easy for fans to recognize they had once 1979 to May 1994 issues of MRG from Leroy Slatel; J 32 Tr es Dr:, been Central equipment. Huntsville, AL 35811, (256) 859-5959 for $4.00 postpaid. Leroy also But Kadee may also be having some subtle fun with us. If I has these issues available for $4 each or $250 (plus shipping) for the remember the story as reported in the Wall Street Journal and else­ entire set of available issues (only a handful are missing, but I don'r where, the LaSalle and Bureau County's shops didn't stop with the know which are sold out). Check our Back Issues ad on pages 18, 19 200 cars they bought. They remarked every similar NYC car that for contents of June 1994-present issues. - Randy came in, and soon had a large fleet out collecting per diem (daily car rental) from other railroads. Remember, this was in a period when PC Williamson and N&W Redbirds was having trouble tracing whole trains, and computerized car control Mr. Randy Lee, got a little fuzzy for a while. First of all, I'd like to say thanks for an excellent magazine. I look When the car thefts were finally discovered, responsibility was forward to each month's issue. I first noticed the magazine in 1990 traced to the railroad's officials, who interestingly enough had New when the Williamson, WV, articles were in process. Being born and Jersey addresses and Italian names. What followed was a lot of raised in Williamson, I was ecstatic that someone was undertaking this immoderate jokes about the railroad Mafia and the Mafia railroad. project and, of course, that the results were being published. 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12 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 Walton & Sons Lumber Yard Kit 933-3235, 529.98 Build this kit two ways, as shown above or as open lrackside bins! Superdetailing Kils Available 933-350 I Vintage, 933-3502 Modern, $20.98 each New Cornerstone Series" Structures

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Accurail, P.O. Box 1202, Elburn, IL 60 119, has released the fol­ ... 272/272- 1 Engelhard 55' covered hopper. .. $10.95 lowing new roadnames for their: 3-bay covered hopper - D&RGW, ... 276/276- 1 RI 50' Railbox-type boxcar...$9.95 Golden We st, KCS, Chessie System and NS; 50' exterior-post boxcar ... 2771277- 1 CN 50' Railbox-type boxcar. .. $9.95 - Santa Fe, BN, Sou thern, CSX, Soo Line, GN, data-only mineral ... 279/279- 1 LV 50' outside-braced plugdoor boxcar...$9.95 red, data-only oxide and undec. Future releases will be the 89' ... 280/280- 1 Conrail 50' outside-braced plugdoor boxcar ...$9.95 autorack (open side) bi-Ievel and tri-level car kits. Crystal River Products, American P. O. Box 598, Conifer, CO Model Builders, 80433, offers the following 1420 Hanley laser-cut wood structure kits: Industrial CT., 101-11 Wheeler's Mercantile; St. Louis, MO #103-11 Alpine Real Estate; and 63144, is releas­ #109-1 1 ].L. Green Clothier. ing laser-cut Railroad structure kits, based on wood kits for narrow- or standard-gauge Rio Nine Mile House Grande prototypes, are: # 111-11 (#145, $59.95), Section House, # 112-11 Coal West End Ex­ House, #1 15-14 Single Car & Tool House; #1 10-14 Bunk House change MTA (these 4 kits are also available together in #1 16-11 Section Town); Waiting Room (#146, $38.95), Hillview Vo lunteer Fire House (#147, # 104-11 Telephone Booth (3), # 105-1 1 Oil Storage House; # 1 06- 1 I $42.95) and the New Haven Depot at Wethersfield, CT (# 1 48, $TBA). Double Car & Tool Shed and #114-1 1 Car Repair Office.

Athearn, 19010 Laurel Park Rd., Compton, CA 90220, has announced Depots by John, P.O. Box 2301 1, Mil­ the following SE (Special Edition) releases: October - #2226 BNSF waukee, WI 53223, has the following Repaints (Santa Fe blue & yellow powered GP50 and dummyGP60); resin-cast kits: #HO-129 concrete steps November - #2326 Penn Central 86' 4-door hi-cube boxcar. ($2.49/2), #HO- 130 brick tunnel portal ($6.95), #HO- 131 D-3 depot ($ 1 4.99) and Atlas, 378 Florence Ave., Hill­ #HO- 132 2-hole outhouse ($3.99). side, NJ 07205, has new roadnames for the following freigh t cars: Des Plaines Hobbies, 1468 Lee St., Des Plaines, IL 60018, offers Kaolin tank car in Omya, Thiele black-plastic Viking roof inserts (as used on some C&O, Erie and (gray), Dupont TiPure and Freeport NKP boxcars) to fit InterMountain, IMWX or Red Caboose AAR 40' Kaolin; Evans 53' boxcar in Min­ boxcars (#DPH2004, $4.00). In addition, Des Plaines offers Red neapolis, Northfield & Southern, Northwest Hardwoods and Tropicana; Caboose 1937 AAR boxcar kits wIViking roofs, decorated for C&O 6-bay covered hopper in C&O and GN (aluminum); 3-bay covered hop­ and Erie in four nos. each. per in French's and Wayne Feeds; extended vision cabooses in Montana Rail Link and RF&P and open hopper w/oval ends in Montour and Funaro & Camerlengo, RD#3, Box 2800, Honesdale, PA 18431, C&O. Roadnames previously released on all these cars will be offered is offering several new cast polycarbonate resin kits. Their Bangor & with new road numbers. New Ametica's Historic Railroad Limited Edi­ Aroostook (BAR) 1927 ARA 40' tion 3-packs come in D&H and Seaboard Air Line. wood single-sheathed boxcar is offered as: BAR 61000-61099 wi Bowser, P.O. Box 322, Montoursville, PA 17754, will have the reverse Hutchins ends, BAR PRR G gondola in PRR; 70-ton covered hopper w/open sides in GN 61 100-6 1599 wlflat steel ends, and Colgate Palmolive; 70-ton covered hopper w/closed sides in E-L, and as rebuilt in 1950 D&H (gray) and D&H (silver) and the LOO-ton 45 ' 3-bay hopper in w/Youngstown steel doors and C&O, CSX (C&O) and CSX (B&O). flat ends ($27.99 ea.) Also avail­ able are PRR GS and GSH 38' Campbell Road, P. O. Box 146, Winchester, KY 40392-0146, is pub­ steel gondola kits, each with two lishing the 1998 Freight & Pa ssenger Car Lettering Guide. Guide carslkit ($29.99 ea.) and a DL&W 40 ' 1924 ARA wood double­ comes with a set of dry transfers and sells for $11.99 (S&H included). sheathed boxcar ($24.99). All kits come with decals and Tichy Trains brake and detail parts. No charge for shipping if ordering direct. CM Shops, P.O. Box 49, Newfoundland, NJ 07435, has the fo l­ lowing Athearn custom-decorated Rail-Runner Custom Cars w/2 nos. Great We st Models, P.O. Box 224, Franktown, CO 80116, has the per car: following new products: #500 Acme Distributing ($24.95); #CASfF

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14 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 309 150' chain-link fence kit Rutland Car Shops, P. O. ($15.98) and #90 1 roof toppers for Box 64947, Burlington, VT City Classics Carson St. RaillTruck 05406-4947, announces a cast­ Terminal ($4.95). polyurethane kit (made by Smokey Mountain Model InterMountain, P. O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, is offering Works) for Rutland MoW flanger #X l ll. Kit has Tichy Trains K­ the fo llowing new fully assembled models: brake set and grabirons, Grandt Line turnbuckles, MDC Fox trucks,

T 45484 NYC 40 ' PS-l boxcar (4 nos.) ...$24.95 Sheepscot etched-brass window frames, handrails and scrapper T 4573112 SP "Overnight" (black/silver, resp.) 1937 AAR 40 ' details, Kadee® #5 couplers and Rail Graphics decals. Retail $48.00 boxcar (J 2 nos.)... $24.95 ea. plus $4.00 S&H. T 45464 Ann Arbor 40' PS-l boxcar w/8 ' door (12 nos.) ...$24 .95 Stewart Hobbies, P. O. Box 341, Chalfont, PA l8914, announces future roadnames for their ALCO C628: w/single sand filler for Con­ Kadee®, 673 Ave. C, White City, OR 97503- 1078, now offers rail, D&H, Penn Central, PRR and SP; w/dual sand fi llers for ALCO three road nos. on the LS&I PS-l 40' boxcar w/6 ' Superior door. Demo, ACL, D&H, Family Lines, L&N, LV (ex-Monon), Monon, Another new roadname is Maryland & Pennsylvania boxcar w/6 ' SCL and SP (ex-ALCO demos): First releases in Oct. will be PRR Yo ungstown door. and SP.

Kato, 100 Remington Rd., Schaumburg, IL 60 l73, is releasing Sunshine Models, Box their new ALCO RS2 locos with either water-cooled (w) or air-cooled 4997, Springfield, MO (a) stacks; friction-bearing (f)or roller-bearing (r) trucks and with or 65808-4997, has a cast ure­ without a drop step (d) to match the prototypes. Roadnames for the thane kit for 1939- '53 vin­ RS2 ($115.00) are CP, CGW, D&H, GN, NYC, Santa Fe (zebra tage tractors which can be used as a load on any 42'-52' flatcar. Kit stripe), UP, undec. (alf/no ds) and undec. (w/r/no ds). ALCO RSC2 has six tractors, three types of simulated wood blocking, decals for ($1 20.00) roadnames are MILW, SAL, UP and undec. (all have a/fino tractor lettering and grilles and simulated tie-down wire. Price is ds). Both models come in 2 nos. and unnumbered except Santa Fe $30.00 plus $4.00 S&H for up to 5 kits. RS2 with only 2 nos. Sylvan Scale Models, 32229 LSF, P.O. Box 404, Glide, OR 97443-0404, has announced a plas­ Sylvan Rd., RR #2, Parkhill, tic Boeing Skybox aircraft parts box designed to fit on a Roundhouse Ontario NOM 2KO, Canada, has a flatcar. Johnstown America Aeroflo coal cars come decorated for BN cast polyurethane resin kit for a (48 nos.), CN (24 nos.) and Procor (24 nos.); kits come with Great Lakes steam tugboat. Kit is McHenry couplers, weights and metal wheelsets. patterned after the 81' L. C. Sabin and features a one-piece waterline ife ike, 1600 Union hull with a fully detailed wheelhouse interior; #HO- I 025 is $49.95 L - L Ave., Baltimore, MD (Canada) or $37.95 (US). A diesel version will be released in Nov. 21211-1998, will release their Proto 1000 EMD F3A Walthers, 560 I W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 5320 1 -3039, will (2 nos.) in CB&Q, C&NW, offer their Trainline® EMD GP 15-1 in BN, C&NW, UP, MP, Chessie, PRR, Santa Fe (blue & yel­ Conrail, Frisco, undec w/louvered air intakes and undec. wlFarr Air low freight scheme), UP and LV (no B units will be offered). Proto filters ($49.98 each). New roadnames for the Dash 8-40B are Amtrak, 1000 freight cars will have metal wheelsets, 3 nos. per car and Proto BNSF (Warbonnet w/wide-cab), BNSF (green & orange), UP (2 nos.) 2000 body-mounted couplers: 60' Thrall Door boxcar in LUNX and and Conrail (Labor/Management logo); F40PH in Amtrak (phase II & TCAX; 50 ' hi-roof boxcar in Penn Central and WP, and the 100-ton 1II), GO Transit, Metrolink Los Angeles and Tri-Rail Miami; GP9M hopper in SP and B&O. Proto 2000 GP7 phase II will come in undec, in BNSF, Chess ie, BN (whiteface) and D&RGW; ALCO FA/FB- I in in 3 nos. for Santa Fe and in 2 nos. for C&O, MEC, PRR, Reading, E-L, LV and Soo Line and the wide-vision caboose in Chessie and UP and WP ($85.00). D&RGW. Due in October is the Tri-State Power Co. ($39.98) and the American Locomotive Crane (powered, $54.98; unpowered, $29.98). Monon Railroad Historical-Tech­ nical Society, Inc. , Box 287, Webster Classic Models, Rossville, IN 46065-0287, is offer­ ll20 Hawken PI., Webster ing an InterMountain custom-deco­ Groves, MO 63 1 19, has laser­ rated Monon PS- I 40' boxcar kit cut wood kits based on B&O w/IM couplers. J(jtcomes in 6 nos. prototypes for the Signal w/certificate of authenticity. Price is $16.00 plus $4.00 S&H per order. Tower w/storage house and fuel shed ($99.95), Coal & NKP Car, 8123 Ashgrove Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45244, is now ship­ Oil House ($1 1.95) and Fire ping the L&N Hummingbird/Georgian 1946 ACF Tavern/Lounge Hose House ($8.95). passenger car kit. Kit has .020 nickel-p lated etched-brass sides (w/correct fluting and rivet detail), body kit and roof vent set. Skirts Westeljield, 53 River Ln., Crossville, TN 38555, has the following can be removed to model the 1953 rebuilds. new kits: Harriman standard S-40-4 and Red Caboose, P.O. Box 250, Mead, CO 80542, has added these S-40-6 stock cars; UP products: 4-3- 1 end 10' 6" steel boxcar in CB&Q and C&S; 1937 stock train drover's AAR 40 ' boxcar in NKP and VGN; X-29 boxcar in SAL Silver car; Santa Fe Bx-O, Meteor and High Point, Thomasville & Denton; laser-cut wood inte­ Bx-5 and Bx-l4 box­ rior w/roofwalk kits for X-29/ARA boxcar, AAR 10' 0" boxcar, AAR cars and modernized 10' 0" double-door boxcar and 4-3-1 end 10' 6" boxcar; 42' flatcar versions of the Stan­ wood deck; Mather reefer wood roofwalk and R-30- 12/R30- 12-9 dard Steel hoppers, reefer wood roofwalk. Wood roofwalks to fit all of these cars are also the PRR GLB and as revised to the covered hopper GLE. Disk Cata­ available separately. log 3 comes on a CD.

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 15 N SCALE

Atlas, 378 Florence Ave., T 60736 CN 1937 AAR 40' boxcar (12 nos.) ...$1 2.95 . I " Hillside, NJ 07205, has the Fully assembled models are:

EMD SD60 decorated fo r BN T 65702 NYC 1937 AAR 40 ' boxcar (12 nos.) ...$1 6.95 -----_ SO!' In �: -- -y ea... � '-'-' j - (2 nos.), C&NW, Conrail, � T 6572 1 UP 1937 AAR 40' boxcar (12 nos.)... $1 6.95 ,i� CSX, EMD (2 nos.), NS, T 65722 LV 1937 AAR 40' boxcar (12nos.) ...$16 .95 • , 1I _ Oakway Leasing, Soo Line, T 65726 Ann Arbor 1937 AAR 40' boxcar el2 nos.) ...$\ 6.95 UP and undec. SD60s will be offered in 2 nos. and unnumbered (except BN and EMD) without a Micro-Tra ins®, 35 1 Rogue DCC decoder or equipped with a Lenz DCC decoder PC board with River Pkwy., P.O. Box 1200, only 2 nos. per road name. Prices TBA. The Classic GE U25B phase Ta lent, OR 97540- 1200, has IIa will be offered in Ches ie, Santa Fe and undec. and the phase Ilb released the following items:

in E-L, RI and undec. T NH 50' gondola wlcover (Road No. 62005), RTR #1060 10... $12.10

Blair Line, P.O. Box 1136, Carthage, MO T WP 3-bay covered hopper (Road No. WP 11832), RTR 64836, has released a laser-cut wood loading #93050 ...$22. 10

ramp (#074, $1 1.95) and a one-car garage kit T Richfield Oil Co. tank car (Road No. ROX 670), RTR (#703, $11.95). Add $3.00 S&H. #65430 ...$1 8.80

T CP Rail 50' plugdoor boxcar (Road N o . CP 8078 1), RTR Deluxe Innovations, #38250 ...$1 5.25 P. O. Box 421 3, Bur­ T BN 50' f1atcar (Road No. BN 612765), RTR #45200 ...$8.85

bank, CA 91503- 1667, T Kansas City Specia/! BN Intermodal-Kansas City 45 ' offers the following trailer (Road No. BNZ 237895), RTR #67110... $20.75 new products: T Undec. 40' steel reefer, #59000 ...$1 1.20 T Northern Indiana Public Service (NORX) twin-tub coal T Santa Fe 60 ' boxcar (Road No. ATSF 37575), RTR gondola... $1 1.25; $33.75/3; $67.50/6 ; $109.95/10 w/knuckle­ #103030 ...$1 8.25

style couplers and $154.95/10 w/Micro-Trains® couplers T UP 50' plugdoor boxcar (Road No. UP 492915), RTR T D&H 2-bay covered hopper...$9.95; $29.85/3 #38240 ...$17 .50 T MP 2-bay covered hopper. .. $9.95; $29.85/3 T 4-wheel passenger car trucks (silver), #1017-S... $5.20 T Missouri Portland Cement 2-bay covered hopper...$ 1 9.90/2 T 6-wheel passenger car tI1lcks (silver), #1018 -S ...$6.00 T Zim 40' wrinkle-side containers ...$8 .25/2 T Colorado & Northwestern Nn3 30' boxcar (Road No. 1026), T Lykes Line 40 ' wrinkle-side containers ...$8. 25/2 RTR #15108 ...$14 .50 T Hyundai 40 ' wrinkle-side containers ...$8 .25/2 T Hapag-Llyod 40 ' refrigerated containers (2nd series) The N Scale Architect, 3 Oxford Ln., Hackettstown, NJ 07840, ...$8. 25/2 announces their 16th wood kit, Delhi Paper & Box Co. Kit #998DBP T MKT 2-bay covered hopper... $9.95 requires a 7" x 7" space and sells for $4 1 .95. T SP 2-bay covered hopper. .. $9.95 T MP 1944 AAR 40' boxcar...$13.25 Red Caboose, P.O. Box 250, Mead, CO 80542, will have their X- 29 boxcar (in singles, 3-packs and 12-packs) decorated for NYC, InterMountain, P. O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, is offering PRR (circle herald), N&W (Class BPa) and undec; PS-2CD 4750 3- the following new products: bay covered hopper in UP; wood reefer in Merchant's Despatch and

T 60 1 10 GTA cylindrical covered hopper (l2 nos.) ...$1 3.95 R-40-23 steel reefer in PFE with SPIUP heralds.

T 61305 Canton Tank Car Co. ACF riveted Ty pe 27 tank car (12 nos.) ...$1 3.95 Walthers, 560 1 W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 5320 1 -3039, will T 6130l Robeson Process Co. ACF riveted Ty pe 27 tank car (12 release their 45 ' Logging Flatcar ($8.98; $26.98/3) and the Corner­ nos.)... $1 3.95 stone Series® Mountain Lumber Co. Sawmill in October. ,------,O-SCALE

Atlas 0, 603 Sweetland Ave., Hillside, InterMountain, P.O. Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, is releasing the NJ 07205 , announces the 33,000-gal. following new kits:

tank car in ACFX, Pyrofax, Royster, T 20209 Cotton Belt (SSW) AAR 40' double-door boxcar Suburban Propane, Technical Propel­ (4nos.) ...$29.95

lants, Union Texas Petroleum and undec. Features are see-thru T 203 12 Swift's Premium R-40- 10 reefer (6 nos.)... $31 .95 roofwalk, 2 nos. per roadn ame, separate grabirons and sprung 100- ton roller-bearing trucks. Cars have true '//' scale dimensions, are l7" Walthers, 5601 W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 5320 1 -3039 is long and are priced at $52.95 ea. Wheelsets and couplers are convert­ releasing the 5-Star Service Station ($49.98) and the Steel Water Tank ible to full-scale operation using conversion kit #6036, $12.95. ($44.98) in October. MULTI-SCALE

Avalon Concepts, 1055 Leisz's Bridge Rd., Leesport, PA 19533, minum; CB&Q Red; BNSF Silver, Ye llow; SPISF Overland Light presents Avacoat, a rubberized foam sealant. Avacoat can be applied Gray; SPISF Overland Dark Gray; Rl Maroon, Red; John Deere Ye l­ with a paint brush to protect foam from breakage, harsh paints and low, Green; Light Flesh; Medium Flesh and Dark Flesh. outdoor weather conditions. It is available in whitelbeige but can be colored. Wet Avacoat can be used as an adhesive for scenic materials; Greg Kom.ar Dry Transfers, 15532 Woodway Dr., Tampa, FL l6 oz. Bottle$7.95. 336 13, has dry transfers for 52' 6" War Emergency composite gons in AT SF, RI, N&W, NYC, PRR, CNJ, LV (322-328, resp.) and for the Badger Air-brush Co., 9128 Belmont Ave., Franklin Park, IL C&NW 40' PS-l boxcar w/8 ' door (#352) and billboard lettering 6013l, announces 15 new MODELflex colors: NH Hunter Green, (#349). Sets are $3.95 for HO and $6.95 for 0; add $3.00 S&H. Warm Orange, Imitation Silver, Pullman Green, Imitation Gold, Red­ Orange and Socony Red; LV Cornell Red; SAL Pullman Green; ACL Midwest Products, P.O. Box 564, Hobart, IN 46342, is offering Imitation Aluminum; C&NW Red; D&H Gray; B&M Maroon; B&O micro-cut Basswood Scale Lumber in 12 sizes. On the back of each Dulux Gold; Pullman Harbor Mist Gray; CB&Q Imitation Alu- package is a lumber scale size chart in HO, N and O. $1.95 per pkg.�

16 T MODEL RAI LROADING OCTOBER 1998 JO • '4 .::s�Jf>"'" • You SUPPLY THE GLUE, WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING ELSE

Announcing the first building kit worthy of uniquely designed. When built, these five sepa­ the PROTO 2000 brand. Every inch of the HO scale rate units can be positioned so they're customized

Moore & Company Warehouse measures up to the exacting to fit your space. In the configuration above, this handsome standards of high-quality, authentic replicas that is PROTO kit measures 16'/2"x 6". And the details are incredible! From 2000-but, we've gone a step farther. With this beauty, what you the lightning rod on the tower to the textured roof, downspouts see is what you get! All the pieces are pre-painted, pre-printed and vent pipes-it's all there! We've even included billboards and pre-weathered I Yo u don't need to be Rembrandt to own spanning six decades, from 1930 to 1980, so you'll have no a warehouse such as this. There's no messy, time consuming trouble fitting this magnificent piece into your time period. air-brushing or detail painting involved. This kit undergoes a If you've already got the glue, you're half-way there. four-step painting and weathering process at the factory to Stop into your favorite hobby shop to pick up the perfectly give this timeless classic its highly detailed facades. And, the detailed warehouse every model ra ilroad needs! exquisite molding in the brick walls, wood doors, and concrete 'Bring your own glue fo undation is breath-taking. But, we didn't stop there. It's

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Kato RSC2 by Jim Six

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s a Seaboard Air Line enthusiast and A model railroader, I have long awaited an HO-scale model of the somewhat obscure Alco RSC2. Well, it arrived the other day in the form of Kato's latest offering, and I am not disappointed. Most all of us have come to expect high quality from Kato, and this new model offers plenty of that. Following the Second World War the American Locomotive Company (AJco) launched a program that was to eventually overtake the tremendous lead realized by the carbody diesels of Electro-Motive, AJco itself, and other builders. Release of the RS2 and RSC2 Alco diesel-electric locomotives introduced America to the mUltipurpose "road switcher" and began a trend that would eventually unseat the "F-unit" as the pre­ ferred locomotive of American railroading. The RS2 and RSC2 were identical loco­ motives save for their trucks. Though pro­ duction was short Jived (1946- 1949), these two locomotives made a tremendous impact these locomotives. Crankshaft problems were and RSC2 models "presents a unique and upon power-starved railroads fo llowing the all too frequent, which eventuaIly led Ako to widely varied opportunity for transition era War. In November of 1949, the RS2 and introduce the Model 25 I engine in 1956. hobbyists." As Kato further points out, RSC2 were replaced in Ako's catalog by the In all, 65 RSC2 locomotives were built "While the List of roads having used the RSC- RS3 and RSC3 models. The RS2 rode what for relatively few railroads, among them Mil­ 2 is relatively short, this will be the first time are commonly referred to as AAR-type two­ waukee Road, Seaboard Air Line and Union the locomotive has been manufactured ready­ axle B-B road trucks. The RSC2 was fitted Pacific. The Kato's RSC2 model is offered in to-run in HO scale." My suggestion is that if with three-axle A- l-A trucks for operation two numbered units and one unnumbered you want one of these models get it while you on light rail. The center axle of A- l-A trucks unit fo r each of these roads plus undecorated. can as they were sold out even before arriving is an unpowered idler axle. The suggested retail is $1 19.95. at many train stores, and Kato hints that they Both the RS2 and RSC2 were powered by The Kato RSC2 model is offered only in may not offer a second release. Alco's 12-cylinder Model 244 four-cycle "as-built" configuration with the longitudi­ The model is powered by the famous diesel engine. Power output of the Model 244 nal exhaust stack reflective of the trouble­ Kato drive that has placed the manu facturer engines was 1,500-hp for the 244B and some air-cooled turbocharger. There are at the pinnacle of HO-scale locomotive per­ 1,600-hp for the 244C. Specifics for the full-width end railings with no provision fo r formance. The model has the same five-pole Seaboard's RSC2s are as follows. SAL 1500- drop steps, and the trucks depict the early skew-wound armature motor that has made 1532 were powered by the 1,500-hp Model friction-bearing axle journals. the Kato drive so popular. It is fitted with 244B Spec EI66lB engine whereas SAL A side note is that the Kato RS2 is offered dual turned-brass flywheels. Directional 1532- 1 535 were powered by the 1,600-hp with the options of transverse-mounted headlights are included. The model is fac­ Model 244C Spec J661C engine.'" Most if exhaust stack (to represent the water-cooled tory-equipped with a DCC socket, allowing not all of the early 1,500-hp units were turbo charger), end drop steps, and roller­ for simple conversion from analog operation upgraded to 1,600-hp sometime during their bearing journals on the trucks. Since the RS2 to digital control. The Kato RSC2 rLins as lengthy careers on the Seaboard. An interest­ and RSC2 are identical locomotives save for smoothly as all earlier Kato HO diesels, and ing side note is that the Seaboard upgraded its the trucks, Kato could conceivably offer a that is to say great. I won 't bore you with RSC2s (SAL 1500- 1536) to 1,600-hp and second release of the RSC2 with drop-step charts of numbers or graphs, but instead let reclassified them as RSC3 locomotives ends and transverse-mounted exhaust stack. it suffice to say that if you have operated although the outward appearance remained This would reflect the changes made by the other Kato HO diesels, then you will not be unchanged. This has led to some confusion as railroads to these locomotives during the mid­ disappointed with this model. the Seaboard also owned actual RSC3 loco­ dle to late 1950s. It would also allow Kato to The substantial metal frame is diffe rent motives (SAL 1537-1543) which rode very offer a relatively accurate Seaboard Coast from that of the earlier Atlas/Kato RS3 mod­ different looking A- I-A trucks. The Ako 244 Line RSC2 as well. Only the roller-bearing els. It is more like the frame found under the prime mover was somewhat less than reliable axle journalswould be missing. Atlas/Kato/Alco C424 and C425 models. and a frequent headache for the maintenance Kato points out on their Internet web page Simply put, Kato has sacrificed prototype department of every railroad that operated that the introduction of their HO-scale RS2 appearance for strength and additional

20 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 weight. However, the frame is not readily vis­ the yellow "P' on the frame side near the front branch in Sc. The Starke-Bell branch was ible and should not detract from the appear­ stepwell. There is, however, one notable flaw another line that generally drew an RSC. A ance of the model. A note for kitbashers is in the paint. The model is painted with red couple of RSC2s were also assigned to the that the trucks do not appear to be inter­ pinstripes flanking the yellow band while the Wildwood yard in Central Florida. changeable with the Atlas/Kato RS3 model. prototype had deep orange pinstripes. What I found really "different" was that Both the RSC2 and RS2 come with sepa­ I compared the new Kato RSC2 with one SAL RSC2m units, 1502, 1503, 15 I 3, 1524, rate grabirons on a sprue that the modeler of my older Atlas Kato RS3 models and 1526 and 153/ which had been convelted to must fit to the model. I strongly recommend found some interesting differences. To me, four-wheel trucks were all converted back to using PBL Despruing Nippers for parts the louvers molded onto the hood doors of A-I-A trucks in the mid- 1 960s. Along with removal from parts sprues. The included the RSC2 appear to be more accurately sized the remaining Seaboard RSC2s they remained plastic grabs are a little oversized, and I am than those of the RS3 model, which appear after the SCL merger and operated on many of sure that detail-conscious modelers will slightly undersize. One of the big complaints the same light-rail lines as in their SAL days. want to substitute formed-wire replace­ about the older Atlas/Kato RS3 model was The RSC2 is yet another great model ments. Mounting holes are accurately that the exhaust stack is tapered whereas the produced by Kato. It accurately represents located, making replacement with scale prototype's isn't. The exhaust stack of the the as-built Alco RSC2. Since Kato offers its formed-wire grabs a simple task. RSC2 has vertical sides and is not tapered, RS2 with update options it would be nice to Overall, paint on my Seaboard Air Line making the RSC2 stack an accurate repre­ see a second release of the RSC2 with the sample is good - better than what I have sentation of the prototype. water-cooled turbocharger exhaust stack and come to expect from Kato, but it is not per­ Between 1954 and 1955 the Seaboard drop-step railings at the ends. The needed fect. The Seaboard Pullman Green paint Kato converted most of their RSC2 locomotives parts are already tooled and available, and has used is the best match for the actual from A- I-A trucks to B-B configuration by all Kato would have to do is assemble them Seaboard color that I have yet seen on a removing the center axle and adding a new and paint the model. It would also be nice if model. Paint is opaque, yet very thinly equalizer bar. Modified units were classified Kato offered a roller-bearing A- I-A truck as applied, hiding no detail whatsoever. The by the Seaboard as RSC2m. Only units well. This would make a second release rep­ same is true of the yellow, which is very close 1500, 1512, 1520, 1523, 1527 and 1532- resentative of RSC2 locomotives as they to the pale yellow that was used by the 1543 remained with A- I-A trucks. The units appeared after the late 1950s. Seaboard. The only fault may be that it is ever that remained with the six-axle trucks were

so slightly too yellow. Everything from the assigned to the remaining light-rail * Provided by Warren Calloway, author of walkways down is black, exactly matching the branches, such as the Durham-Henderson SEABOARD, Withers Publishing 1988. War­ prototype. Kato's painters have even included branch, the Catawba Branch, and the McBee ren is also Editor of Diesel Era magazine.

Overland SD80/90MAC Chassis by Mike Acker

with technical assistance from Charlie LeCain Overland chassis was detailed and installed under the author's SD9043MAC. Photos by Mary Acker

he new Overland powered chassis T(OMI #5426, $ I 1l.00) for the Rail Power Products SD80/90MAC plastic shell is their latest powered chassis. Overland has always done a superb job with their chassis, performance wise as well as cosmetically. Their biggest improvement in recent years has been the change from a cast-metal fuel tank to one of brass. After just recently com­ pleting an SD90MAC with a RPP chassis, A­ Line drive train and Athearn trucks(see May and steel underframe. stepped down to accommodate for the lower and June 1998 MRG), I was more than ex­ The top side guides on the chassis allow the deck position of the cab and the front walkway. cited to hear that Overland was going to im­ RPP shell to sit on the chassis snug and straight. When compared to the RPP chassis, the Over­ port this chassis from Ajin in Korea. When I These guides also serve as excellent platforms land chassis is more prototypically con'ect, as got one in my hands I wasn't disappointed. to mount weights, a lighting system or even a the height of the frame is .040 lower. This chassis comes with a hollow brass fuel DCC board. The RPP shell fits onto the new The brass fuel tank is very nicely done tank, low-profile power trucks with fully chassis pretty tight, so you may have to do and is as close to the shape of the prototype sprung truck sideframes and blackened some light filingto make it fit. The underframe tank as you're going to get. Both ends of the wheels, a smooth running BUhler can motor already comes with the forward top edge fuel tank are completely detailed with fuel-

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING ... 21 1/16" Brass Square Channel tapered with file

1132" 'L' Shaped Brass

Figure - EOT Bracket/Holder

assembly. I duplicated this assembly as illus­ trated in the Figure using '/,,' L-shaped and '/,," U-shaped brass. On the side of the plate I added a small yellow decal to simulate the yellow label on the EOT holder. This bracket started to appear on the some of the locomo­ tives in the second (UP 8025-8074) order Both sides of the author-detailed Overland chassis. from UP. From UP 8075 and up, this item is present on all SD90MACs.

Performance Test The "test track" used to test the chassis was a home layout, so be awru'e that this evaluation is fru' from being a scientific analysis. The first test was to see how many stan­ dard freight cars the out-of-the box chassis could pull on level track (with a few curves). It was able to handle 28 cars without any wheel sLippage. On a I % continuous grade it was able to handle 18 cru'S without slippage. Out of the box the chassis weighs approxi­ mately 11'/, ounces. After adding 9 oz. of Close-up showing added truck details described in text. weight and the shell (approximately 2 oz. more) it could hru1dle up to 33 cars on the 1 % tank mounts, overflow tube, rear-facing fuel for the outside-facing sander Lines. Removal grade wid10ut any wheel slippage. The chassis gauge as well as a flange on the lower edge of a portion of these mounts doesn't prevent only drew .2 amps at 4Y. It pulled three more of the tank. The rear face of the fuel tank installing the Kadee #36 coupler box. A cru'S than a Kato C44-9W on the same grade. contains a mjxed bag of details that mostly brake chain was added on the engineer's There are several excellent places to appear on later SD90MAC models. The pro­ sideframe from the rear brake cylinder to the mount additional weights. The hollow brass totype for my SD90MAC (UP 8039) doesn't electronic actuator to the front. I also added fuel tank received 5 oz. of the A-Line weight have these details, but since these are not chains from the sidefi'ame to each side of the cubes and still had plenty of room for mold­ very noticeable, it wasn't worth trying to wheel bearing housings using CA. able weights. Another good spot is on top of remove them. On each side of the fuel tank On the fuel tank the overflow pipe on the the shell guides that bracket the motor drive you'll find a sight gauge and a fi ller tube. forwru'd edge of the tank was cut flush with shafts. This spot also would make an excel­ The sidefi'ames, detail wise, are the best prut the top edge of the tank and a piece of .028 lent spot to mount a lighting system or any trus chassis. They are the con-ect Phase IT HTC brass wire, that was bent around a needle file other type of control system. railial sideframes, and they come with dru'kened handle, was soldered onto the end of the This chassis is very smooth running at any scale 44 " wheels. These sideframes ru'e fully pipe and the other end attached through the speed with great pulling power, especially sprung, wruch helps ilistributethe weight evenly top of the fuel tank. On the engineer's side when the proper amount of weight is added. over the axles. You can even make out the rrused of the fuel tank you'll find a small dimple The price tag may be a little high, but for the GM ru1d Rockwell logos. The gear boxes on the that is supposed to be a round sight gauge. boost in looks and pelformance the diffe rence trucks are very low profile, providing lots of This dimple was drilled out and fitted with in price is well worth it to me. room above for extra goodies ru1d even a cab an Overland (OMI #925 1) gauge. On the interior (if anybody ever makes one). rear of the fuel tank a drrun valve was added SD9043MAC Update Even with the superb detailing of the a well as some piping. Since my SD9043MAC article appeared (May & June 1998 MRG), several new detail parts sideframes, I still added some details to make On the underframe, lengths of '/... " x 3/32 " made specifically for the SD80/90MAC have them look even better. Sander lines (.028 flat brass were glued the fu ll length of the been released. Cannon and Company is releasing an anti-climber set (#AC-2108, S3.50); it also brass wire) were added to both ends of the bottom of the fra me to give the frame the [­ comes with ditchlights. Overland has three new sideframes and supported with support beam look. A traction-motor cable set was releases: DynamiC-Brake Fan Grille w/Screen brackets made from .019 brass wire. The added to the frame above the front truck and (OMI #91 78, 54.35), Cooling Fans (OMI #9218, 54.75) and MU Cable Holders (Cans) (OMI #9355, sideframes even have mounting holes for two cable sets above the rear truck, all on 54.50/4), which can be used for just about any these brackets. For added strength, I soldered the fireman's side. On the fireman's side, modern locomotive. And Train Station Products has released their HTCR II radial truck sideframes the sander lines to the sideframes and then to above the rear portion of the fuel tank, is an (#145, S8.95/set). These new items provide the brackets. A portion of the coupler mounts EOT storage bracket/plate. Like other vari­ excellent new options when choosing to do an SD80/90MAC. may have to be removed to provide cleru'ance ous details, not all SD90MACs have this �

22 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 p..IN" No-n-IING 'IOU GUYS CAN SA.'I '-0 CH ANGE MY MIND:?

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 23 Southernizing GE� U23B . by Larry Puckett Prototyp e photos by Jim King --� ------�. �--

The early 1960s saw a dramatic change in prototype railroading. The first five units (3900-3904) arrived in May 1972 sporting a • With the introduction of the EMD GP30 a second generation unique lettering scheme. GE had used a slightly different type of let­ of locomotive design and power was ushered in. Throughout the tering for the roadname which looked a bit fatter, and the numerals 1960s railroads eagerly replaced aging fleets of F units and early were thin and squared off. In addition the herald was all gold with a road switchers with GP30s, GP35s and GP38s. In addition, the black background instead of the standard green on gold. Also, having 1960s were an era of high-horse­ been built before the ban on foot­ power development. EMD, ALCO boards, these units arrived with and GE were all competing for that them and had a high-mounted oil­ end of the market too. However, at bath air fi lter under the radiator the end of the decade it was realized intake grilles. At some point after that in addition to the high-horse­ their delivery a small (about 2' x 2 ') power locomotives there was a con­ electrical control box was added on tinuing need for 2,000 to 2,500 the right walkway in front of the horsepower units for branchline and cab (remember the long hood is other local switching chores. It was front on these units). This box con­ this need that led GE, in 1968, to de­ tained the electrical equipment for velop the 2,250-hp U23B as an al­ the wheel-slip relays found on those ternative to EMD's GP38. units in the first three orders having Southern had been a good EMD AAR trucks. The AAR trucks came customer since it began dieselizing from the RS3s received as trade-ins. and ordered liberally from the entire When the second order (3905-39 14) GP series throughout the I 960s. The arrived in May and June 1973 they first trial of GE units came in 1967 were essentially the same with the with the purchase of five U30Cs, fol­ exception of the footboards. lowed in 1970 and 1972 by ten In May 1974 locos 39 1 5-3934 U33Cs in five-unit sets. Given the arrived looking very much like the problems Southern encountered with earlier units. By now GE had the these units it is surprising that the correct letters, numerals and her­ motive-power department would try alds, and there was one significant another class. By 1972, Southern change on the cal'body - the oil­ had acquired 162 GP38 units and bath air filter had been changed to had started purchasing the 2,000-hp a paper filter necessitating reloca­ GP38-2 but they decided to give GE tion of the intake grille to just another chance with an order for five above the walkway. U23Bs. Eventually 70 units were The first big change came with purchased over a five-year period the arrival of the fo urth order units with each order having its own dis­ (3935-3954) from May to July tinctive characteristics. 1975. On these units the Southern

24 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 All of Southern's U23Bs came with the standard high short hood - the only U23Bs so built. In addition, they had three-chime Nathan P3- l24 horns on each end, and a bell mounted on the top of the nose on the long hood. Although the long-hood end was designated as front, the control stand was located so that the unit could be operated from either side of the cab, allowing bi-directional running. Origi­ nally they all had bronze gold Scotchcal® stripes, lettering, numerals and heralds, but all appear to have been repainted at some time and received the more visible Dulux Gold Scotchlite®, although it is not uncommon to see photos with the Scotchcal herald used with the Scotchlite stripes, lettering and numerals.

Southern 3918 still has its P3 horn along with Dulux Gold characters and lots of red warning stickers. Monroe, VA; February 18, 1984.

had opted not to trade in any remaining RS3s, instead going with floating bolster (FB2) trucks, and as a result, the electrical relay box was removed from the walkway. Also, the MU walkway chains were attached to separate stanchions from the handrails, and the hood door latches were changed from two to one centered on the door. The final order of 15 units (3955-3969) arrived between December 1976 and Febmary 1977 and came with matching snowplows on each pilot. Southern installed snowplows on their diesels for much the same reason as they had cowcatchers on steam locos - to fend off cars at road crossings. Another minor change was relocation of the marker lights from near the tops of the high hoods to about mjdway up.

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 25 ing all the detail parts. Now I just say that for my home layout I model the 1950s, but at the club I run anything - that's how I ended up with a The final order of U23Bs had snowplows on each end. These trio of GP60s in NS paint pulling a string of RoadRailers! Once I plows were there to prevent vehicles from climbing up over gave in to my fetish for anything Southern, the U23B became one of the pilots - i nstead it was expected they'd be pushed those projects that just had to be done as soon as a reasonable model aside. Lynchburg, VA; January 1 2, 1986. became available - besides I needed another loco to go with my GP30 and 35! As the U23Bs Modeling Southern second-gen­ arrived they were eration and later diesels has always generally placed involved the chore of adding a high into the same short hood, one way or the other. In service as the addition, doing a U23B was down­ RS3s they were right painful unless you were satis­ purchased to fied by using an Athearn U28B or if replace. This you decided to chop and rebuild meant a lot of from the various other shells out branchline and there. Fortunately, Atlas came to general merchan­ dise operations in the Southeast. As the Southern gained more expe­ All you have to do is slide the splice plates rience with them into the shell and get out the styrene glue. and a few minor the rescue earlier this year with a bugs were worked njce U23B, albeit a low-nosed version. As soon as I heard they were out they entered the regular loco pool and became familiar sights over comjng I contacted Jimmy Booth of HiTech and asked rum about the the system. Operationally they were mixed readily with EMD GPs of possibility of doing a hjgh-hood kjt to go with his thin-wall cabs for all types. All but two units (3967 and GE locos. After a few more email messages and calls to Atlas, we 3940 were scrapped in 1979 and 1981, had a shell on the way to Jimmy before the production models even J respectively, after wrecks) made it into left China and by mid-July I had a pre-production kjt to work with. Norfolk Southern paint schemes before Before we move on to the high-hood kit though let's go over the being retired in 1996. Excellent prototype Atlas model. articles have appeared in the October­ Atlas has been churning out six-axle GE locos for the last few November 1992 issue of Diesel Era and years and filling a greatly needed niche in the process. Obviously, with their four-axle U-boat chassis we may see a string of similar ' Here's the completed cab with the locos. Their U23B is essentially the same as its bigger brother but sunshade extendi ng out over the with two fewer axles. Even the lighting circuit board and DCC plug extra set of windows. are the same as previously used (even down to the U33C etched on it), so there shouldn't be any problems there either. The body is a the June 1998 issue of Phase IID and closely matches the third order of Southern units Railroad Model (39 1 5-3934) with the low air-intake filter and two door latches. If you Craftsman. want to model an earlier unit you'll want to reverse the location of the air Fi lter - Jim Teese Choosing a explained how to do this on r.,/o Loco a U33C in the November For years now I've 1996 issue of Model Rail­ been saying that I roading. It is available with don't model the AAR, FB2 or Blomberg Southern after the trucks; however, because of 1950s, however, every the change to single door time a new model for latches with the fourth order, the post- 1950s era you're going to have to put up with this inaccuracy if The complete assembly of shell, cab and high hood should fit you decide to go with the together like the original model. FB2-truck versions. I

OCTOBER 1998 26 .... MODEL RAILROADING decided to take the easy route and go with one of the locos from the third order. Even here I had to make a compromise since the AAR sideframes are not the roller-bearing type that Southern units had, but five of the eight have speed recorders on them so it was an easy com­ promise.

Adding the High Nose Since there aren't any other major modifica­ tions to the shell let's begin with the HiTech high-hood and cab kits. Before gluing these together, drill all the holes you'll need for the hand grabs, horn, fire­ installed, trim them flush from the inside so they don't interfere cracker antenna, brake wheel, wipers and wind-deflector mounts - with the body weight. on these units there were two deflectors on the engineer's side only. Now let's do the bell, which in good Southern fashion is mounted Save the brake wheel from the old shell for installation on the new at the top of the long hood end. The Details West 135 bell is the start­ nose. Now just follow the instructions, making sure you test-fit all ing point - cut and fi le the parts before final assembly as some may need trimming for a both sides of the bell 1 .:...... " , good fit. Both kits go together very easily, fit squarely, and look . mount off(see my photos) .-, . .... I ,-' right. I did run into one small problem with the cab kit, but I'll dis­ . and glue it just under the cuss that later. Set these aside to dry while we chop the nose. sand-filler cap. Speaking This is a pretty easy conversion because unlike most others, the of the sand-filler cap Atlas shell is cast with a continuous connection across the nose. you'll need one for the This construction makes the nose strong even after the front is / 11 ' HiTech nose - I used a removed. We're going to cut the nose off right in front of the cab / ' . similar cap from a DA mounting slots closest to the nose. Before you make the big cut, r Ii I . " ". 1026 ditchlight kjt. wrap a piece of string or wire around the shell over the slot and then I Next remove the Atlas i ', . ' ¥.,if! :(" trace a line in the plastic over the top of the nose, connecting the )'/.:'1 . &;. ". : "' /. . -. horn, putty the hole and (. f" ': .." . two slots on opposite sides - this will serve as your cutting guide. sand. Use a #53 drill to It's very important to make your cut just in front of the slot since make recesses for the the original or new cab will still need the slot as a guide. Now get The small air filter goes in front marker lights, a #77 drill out your razor saw and hack away - I inserted a small block of of the fuel tank. for the holes for the horns, wood inside the shell to give it a little rigidity while making the cut. and then a #65 drill for the It's very important to get a very straight edge here so work slowly. holes for the walkway lights. The only properly sized Nathan P3- l24 Sand the cut edges with a sanding block and you're ready for the horns are the Detail Associates 1603 kjt whjch is a real pain to put next step. together - do it on a day when your hands are rock steady ! If you're Instead of just gluing the high nose to the freshly cut ends of the a real glutton for punishment do a version with all five-chimes shell, I made a couple splice plates for a stronger connection, plus installed (Southern replaced the P3- 1 24s with P5- 1 2345s during the it's easier to get good alignment this way. These are simply a couple 1980s). Install the walkway lights now but hold onto the horns until pieces of styrene long enough to fit inside the nose and extend back just before you paint the model since they break offeasily. an inch or so into the shell. It's a good idea to install the splice The only details on the cab are the firecracker antenna and the plates in the nose first then do a test fit on the assembled model sunshades - we'll do the wind-deflector brackets after pajnting. The including the cab, before gluing the nose in place - you may need antenna goes dead center on the cab roof in about a #68 hole. The to make some final adjustments with sandpaper. A couple clothes- shade is made from a piece of brass strip left over from a package of Atlas track joiners. I use the thinnest piece (there are two sizes in the package) and leave enough of the tabs from the joiners to serve as

pins will hold everything together nicely whjle the styrene cement sets up.

Shell & Cab Details With the nose attached we can add all the small details - let's start with the front and rear nose. Go ahead and install all the hand grabs except the bottom one - for that one you have to wait until the decals are on. I also simulate flag holders with a couple NBW castings added to the sides of the hoods. Once these are all

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING � 27 mounting tabs. Cut a piece of this long enough to extend halfway I decided to use the Atlas cut-lever casting although it is necessary over both of the "extra" windows and bend the mounting tabs at a 45° to add another pair of cut levers above them. These were added to ear­ angle. Glue in place with CA (cyanoacrylate) glue, making sure you lier units after the footboard ban and came on new units to make it eas­ don't fill the holes for the deflector brackets. ier to uncouple cars from the stairwell. I made mine from a DA 2204 that I just cut in half and mounted using the brackets that are included. Drill #77 mounting holes now but wait till after decaling to install. All of Southern's GE units seem to have had small rectangular cutouts in the side of the walkway just before the stairweU. 1 don 't know

Wa ll{way and Pilot There really isn't much to do here, just fillin any holes on the pilot you don't need, such as for the snowplow and the long horizontal hand grab. I did carve offthe MU air-hose nipples and drilled #77 holes for what these were for, and they weren't on other road's locos, but it's easy their replacements. Another nice detail used on some locos is a straight to drill a couple small holes and square them off with a knife and file ­ grab to tuck the MU air hoses in when they're not in use. All you need it's another one of those special Southem touches. Let's not forget the is a straight grab or bend one from some .0 12 brass wire. Also note the relay box that goes on the walkway. This was made from .020 styrene new angled MU connector at the top of the pilot. And if you're doing a - I literally cut out the front, rear and four sides and glued them more recent version, the Southern added a dummy receptacle on the together. Remember this box is about 2' x 2' and opposite side of the pilot as a place to plug in the cable when not con­ as deep as the walkway - we'll mount this too after painting nected to another loco. and decaling.

Chassis & Tr ucl

OCTOBER 1998 28 ... MODEL RAILROADING from the DA set, uimmed to sit flush. After reinstalling the casting I added a pair of DW 139 air filters in front of the air reser­ voirs on the left side of the loco. These are simply glued to the underside of the frame with CA. This unit has five speed recorders, four of them on the engineer's (right) side for the wheel-slip detection circuitry. Detail Associates 2808 kit provides everything you need to mount these on the tnlck side­ frames. I removed the smail "pins" cast on the recorder for attaching the "cable," drilled #80 holes in their place and insel1ed brass wire. I've found this to be a more durable way of attaching the "cable" as the plastic ones break off after a few flexes. To serve as a mount for the cables on the chassis, I drilled #77 holes in the side of the frame under••• the walkwaylii and glued The HiTech cab is 30" from walkway to main window whereas in DA 2206 wire eyebolts. Drilling into the Atlas chassis is practically the Atlas cab is 33 ". I checked a recent drawing, but it showed both impossible by hand so I used one of those chucks that allow you to use sizes so I don't know which is correct. That little 3" makes a BIG pin-vise bits with your battery-powered screwdriver - it worked great, difference when you need to fit a 12" loco number and the sub-let­ and I didn't break a single bit in the process I Once you've installed the tering under the cab window. I fudged and modeled a unit owned by cables the eyebolts have to be bent over flush with the frame so as not to the Southern instead of one of its subsidiaries, so I didn't have to interfere with the walkway. use the sub-lettering - I may eventually decide to go back to the Atlas cab but for now I'm satisfied. Paint and Decals The 8" numerals for the numberboards are a tight fit and require I used MODELflex Engine Black on the whole model, painting a little judicious trimming, but as you can see from the photos, the it in sub-assemblies - shell, cab and walkway; the exhaust stack prototypes were a tight fit too. Don't forget the barricade stripes on got a coat of Silver. The wipers and cab window inserts should also the pilot and on walkway steps. A fi nal touch comes from the get Silver paint. The raw details on the chassis and trucks were builder's and lease plates, and those little "F" designations so the handpainted, and I later blended it all together with my weathering crew will know which end of the loco is front. after decals were applied. With all the decals on and dry, install all the remaining details, Microscale's 87-540 set for Southern locos makes this job so including the handrails. (Hold off on the windows and MY lenses). much easier than it once was. Now all I do is apply that gold and Paint the edges of the steps and the railings on each side of the imjtation-aluminum stripe over the black paint and I'm done. I was stairwells yellow. I sprayed the grilles, roof, trucks, underframe modeling a unit early in its life so I used the bronze gold lettering details, fuel tank and random areas of the hood and cab with Grimy and stripes instead of the Dulux Gold. Other time-dependent details Black and Milwaukee Brown, then dry-brushed various other areas are the use of check digits next to the unit number on the cab, red with Milwaukee Brown. As a fi nal cover coat, I use a 50:50 mixture and white warnings on the battery box and hood doors, and sub-let­ of Glosscote and Dullcote for a satin fi nish, and straight Dullcote on tering [0 indicate ownership. Here's where I ran into trouble. the trucks, pilot and roof. Now we have one final thing to do, cobble up some lenses for the headlights on the short hood. This stumped me for a minute then I remembered the clear plastic rod on my work­ bench. All you have to do is hold the rod about 6" over a match and it will form a perfect lens - hold it too long and it will burn. For a perfect fit just spin the lens on a piece of sand­ paper until it's the correct diam­ eter. Once the lens fits, cut the tube so that it is long enough to fit through the slot in the back of the cab just in front of the headlight. To stabilize the light tubes cut a small styrene square and drill 'Is "� diameter holes in it. Glue the piece of styrene behind the opening in the cab and insert the rods. Now install the cab windows and deflectors and reassemble the loco. Finally, I glued the cab to the hood with CA and headed for the tracks. �

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 29 FREIGHT· CAROLOGY

Enclosed Autorack Evolution

by David G. Casdorph

Photos courtesy Freight Cars Journal

TIGX973230 with a Florida East Coast rack. Phase 2.1. Note the center panel ties areon the bottom of each row.

SBD 6001 13 is an example of the W&K enclosed autoracks introduced during the mid-70s. Notice the similarity in the sides of this car with the new articulated racks. Phase 1.

OCTOBER 1998 30 T MODEL RAILROADING oday, nearly all the new automobiles T built in the United States travel on steel rails. For the most part, new automobiles are loaded onto autoracks at the various as­ sembly plants located throughout the United States and then sent to regional or local dis­ tribution centers. From the distribution cen­ ters, the automobiles are usually delivered by truck to local dealers. Transporting automo­ biles by rail is, of course, nothing new. Dating back to when automobiles were intro­ � NORFOLK duced, the method of transporting them has 0::;, SOUTHERN become more specialized. After going through various incarnations (boxcars, open rack , Stac Paks, etc.), the modern-produc­ tion enclosed autorack arrived in the mid­ '70s from Whitehead & Kales of Detroit, Ml. Phase 1 Prior to the introduction of the - Whitehead & Kales (W&K) enclosed autorack in the mid-'70s, the standard auto rack comprised two separate com­ ponents, the flatcar and the autorack. The new W&K design integrated the rack and flat into one component. The sides of the rack structure were solid with small holes for ventilation and light. The new design, in essence, looked like an armored autorack! How­ ever, a number of railroads acquired small quantities of these for their fleets (Trailer Train did not have any). Phase 2 Not long after the W &K design - was placed into service, a new sepa­ rate rack structure design was intro­ duced. Eventually, W&K, Portec, Pacific Car & Foundry, Pullman-Stan­ dard, Thrall and Trinity would pro­ duce this version. These would eventually become the basis for the most common design during the '80s, '90s and beyond. The essence of this design is a separate rack structure with 36 removable panels (four rows by nine columns). Phase 2.1 The first 36-panel separate - enclosed rack structures used special washers in the corners of each panel. These washers, by the way, could be used to identify a rack's manufacturer, i.e., they were builder-specific by size and shape. By far the most common panels had the four-corrugation design. There were experiments with other panel types including translu­ cent fiberglass versions. Phase 2.2 In the late '80s, it was found - that the standard panel washers that came from the rack builder were insufficient protection from burglars and vandals. A new reinforced corner washer was developed and placed on new and rebuilt autoracks. Phase 2.3.1 By 1994, a new panel design - with fewer holes emerged that was stronger. The new autoracks were strut­ ing to look "rumored" again. These were introduced nearly concurrently with the NS 110101 is one of the articulated auto carriers delivered to NS by Thrall in new "fiLler" panels (see below). 1998. TTX Company received similar cars during 1997-'98. Note the solid-looking Phase 2.3.2 In 1998, TTX introduced a - sides with a reduced number of holes in selected locations. Photos show the A­ slightly new version of this panel with unit, 8-unit and articulation detail.

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 31 no holes along two of the corrugations. Phase 2.4 -"Filler" panels were introduced in late 1994/early 1995. The "filler" panels were placed in the spaces along the top and bottom edges of the stan­ dard panels. The "armored" autorack has nearly been reinvented. Phase 3 - The articulated autorack. The first series production of the new articulated autorack design began in 1997. 50 far, there have been deliveries to both TTX and N5. While it is a wholly new design ...the articulated autorack brings back fu ll circle the integrated f1at-and­ rack structure with soLid sides reminiscent of the W &K design from the mid-'70s.

TIGX 940123 with a UP rack. This is a 1980 W&K design. Note the bottom row Notes with three corrugation panels. Phase 2.1. You may notice I haven't talked about autorack doors, which in themselves have gone through a number of changes. How­ ever, the doors haven't been part of the gen­ eral rack-structure evolution (often various doors were customer options). I haven't distinguished between bi- and tri-Ievels as the general layout of the two types are similar (both have four rows by nine columns equaling 36 panels). I have not discussed the small number of varia­ tions in bi- and tri-Ievels as again the varia­ tions did not affect the basic structure arrangement. ••••••••••• I've also not included the 20' 2" tall racks ••••••••••• because these are essentially part of the ••••••••••• above evolutionary tree (a row was "added" ••••••••••• to the basic 36 panel rack). Modeling Walthers enclosed bi-Ievel most closely represents the Phase 2. 1 versions built from the mid-'70s to the late-'80s when the new re in­ This photo shows an example of the original washer-retainer system used that forcement washers were introduced. Notice the was identified in the text as Phase 2.1. Compare to next photo. Walthers panels have three corrugations.

Towards a Geography of Autolllobile Asselllbly Plants Th e fo llowing are known assembly plants located in the Un ited Sta tes. Th ese are arranged alphabetically by states. Th e last known product is listed in parentheses. Please send any corrections or additions to David G. Casdorph, Po. Box 2480, Monrovia, CA 9101 7 or FR 8CARS@ao/.com

Delaware Lallisville - Ford-Mercury Pontiac (Sunfire) Wilmington - Chevrolet (Malibu) (Explorer/Ranger/Mountaineer) Morail/e - Chevrolet (Blazer) Georgia Michigan Marysville Honda (Accord) - Atlanta - Ford (Taurus) Isn't the whole state one big auto plant? All three To ledo - Chrysler-Jeep Doraville - Chevrolet (Venture) big US auto builders have plants in various cities OklaholDa Illinois plus a Mazda plant in Flat Rock. Oklahoma City - Chevrolet (Malibu) Belvedere - Chrysler (Neon) Minnesota Tennessee Indiana Minneapolis/Sr. Pa ul - Ford (Ranger) SlI1yma - Nissan (Altima/200SX/Frontier Lafayette - Honda (Passport), IsuZll Missouri King Cab, etc.) (Rodeo) and Subaru (Legacy) St. Louis/Fenton - Ch rys ler alld Dodge Sp ring Hill - Saturn Roal/oke - Chevrolet (CISOO) St. Lauis - Ford (Explorer) Texas Kansas New Jersey Arlil/gfOl/ - GMC (Yukon) Kansas City (Overland Park) -Pontiac Edisol/ - Ford (Ranger) Virginia (Grand Prix) Ohio NO/folk - Ford (F- lSO) Kentucky East Liberty - Acura and Honda (Civic) Wisconsin GeorgetolVl/ - Toyota (Camry/Sienna) LordsfOwl/ Chevrolet (Cavalier) and Jal/esville - Chevrolet (Tahoe) -

32 T MODEL RAI LROADING OCTOBER 1998 ETIX 902302 with an NS rack (note NS rack number which takes priority in identification over any logos). Phase 2.1. Note the center panel ties on this rack are located on the bottom of the lower two rows only. .

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...... &:. t...... (p � ..... ,..". "....,... ."...... This photo shows the late '80s improvement with a "rein­ This shows the sta ndard panel used from the mid-70s to forcement" washer behind the original washer. Identified the mid-'90s. There are 23 rows of holes. Identified as in the text as Phase 2.2. Phase 2.1 in the text.

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� � :: :: L 90'-0 ;� : . ASMH-10 :: . . . f'... " The new panel introduced during the mid-'90s has a •• •• ; f:'rrr]r �� .. . , reduced number of holes. This photo also shows the solid new "filler" panel that fills the previous interstices . . .. �. � . between the rows. Notice the previous "reinforcement" TIX introduced their own autoracks in 1998. Note the each washers are still retained. Identified as Phase 2.3.1 and 2.4 panel still has four corrugations - however, the middle two in the text. do not have holes. Identified as Phase 2.3.2 in the text. �

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING 'f' 33 ING MODERN ERMODAL SPINE I

BY DOUG GEIGER, MMR TIAX 76418-8, 48' Trinity. The characteristic side rib clearly shows on this car. Denver, CO; May 1997. PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR UNLESS OTHERWISE INOICATEO

n Parts One and Two of this series (No articulated cars, each "section" of a car is length. For containers, all the units can carry I vember and December 1997 MRG), the called a unit or platform. from 40 ' to 53' boxes. Both ISO and domes­ specific-purpose spine cars were discussed. tic containers can be carried. Only the A and Those cars could only deal with a single type TTX. []WNED B units can carry either one or two 20' con­ of intermodal package, either all containers The TTX Company owns almost all of tainers. Trailers and containers can be inter­ or all trailers. Combinations of containers the all-purpose spines, with only a few mixed on a single car. The container support and trailers are not allowed on those cars (ex­ belonging to other owners. Table 7 lists pedestals are collapsed within the tire plat­ cept for one Santa Fe lO-Pack conversion). these TTAX cars. All of the TTX-owned all­ forms. Some pedestal types can even be We covered both the TTX-owned (the ma­ purpose spines carry the TTAX reporting operated from the ground (like the National jority) and the minority owned single-pur­ mark. There are two main varieties in the Steel Car's 53' spine). Also, all trailers on pose spine cars. However, as increased TTX all-purpose spines: a 48' and a 53' ver­ either a 48' or 53' spine-car unit can have productivity at intermodal hubs has been the sion. With the longer 53' vans and 53' con­ nose-mounted refrigeration units and can watchword these past years in the industry, a tainers, the 48 ' version spine was "stretched" have either a 36" or a 42 " kingpin location. more versatile spine car was needed. for greater versatility. Walthers HO-scale Like other spine cars, the all-purpose cars In 1989, TrailerTrain (later TTX) die-cast spine car kit closely matches the 48' cannot be double-stacked with containers. researched and designed their requirements RAF55 series of all-purpose spines built by All the hitches on any all-purpose spine for this more versatile car. They provided Trinity. All the prototype cars by Trinity must be retractable. Usually, however, none overview drawings to the then-current inter­ were built in their Chicago Heights, IL, of the hitches are cushioned. Depending on modal freight-car builders. This all-purpose plant. During production, Bethlehem Steel the builder, hitches can be Trinity LP- I O-SA, spine car was developed to allow both con­ (BSC) became Johnstown-America (JAC) LP-ll-SA or LP- 12-SA models (found on tainer boxes and trailers on the same car, and kept its spine-car production in Trinity, some Thrall, some Gunderson and with retractable hitches and collapsible con­ Johnstown, PA . For comparison, the 48' ver­ some JAC cars) or they can be ACF Model tainer pedestals available on each unit. The sion measures 264' 8" over the couplers, and 6P (found on some Thrall, some Gunderson, car remains much like the cars explained in the 53' version is 290' 8" long. all BSC and some JAC cars). Container Part One - usually a five-unit car with a Loading capabilities are uniform across locks can be Portec Automatics or Holland single truck under each articulation joint. the two types of all-purpose spines, regard­ Automatics, depending on the builder and The all-purpose spine, like the specific-pur­ less of builder. For the 48' car, all the units TTX class. pose spine,. can only single-stack containers. can load either a 28', 40', 45 ' or 48' trailer. In On some cars, especially the Thrall-built And like many of the specific-lading spines, addition, units A, B and D can have a 53' ones, protection braces and bars can be the all-purpose rides on 33" wheels on each u'ailer if units C and D are empty (due to the found around the air reservoir and control 70-ton truck, including the end units, but excessive trailer overhang). For containers, valves. Some cars have these bars and others there are a few exceptions as noted later. For all the units can have either a 40', 45 ' or 48' do not, yet they all can be found within the the majority of the all-purpose cars, the five lading. On both the A and B units, two 20' same class of car. It is not known if the units are labeled A-E-D-C-B, with manual containers can be stored (no 20-footers on builder added this protection or TTX did. brakestands on both the A and B units and the C, D or E units). For the 53' car, all the The flexible connection found in the train­ truck-mounted brake cylinders. Like all units can carry trailers from 28' to 53' in brake pipe hanging on the sides of some

OCTOBER 1998 34 ... MODEL RAILROADING TTAX 76858-C, 48' Trinity. Note the wavy angled container pedestal support. Longmont, CO; May 1993.

TTAX n070-A, 48' Thrall. Besides the Thrall nameplate, this car can be identified by the uniform side of the tire platform. Laramie, WY; September 1995.

TTAX n070-E, 48' Thrall. This builder can be classified by the symmetrical articulation joint with beveled truck stabilization pads. Laramie, WY; September 1995.

TIAX 79012-D, 48' Gunderson. Note the squared-off truck stabilization pads. Longmont CO; May 1993.

TTAX 79012-B, 48' Gunderson. The tire platforms do not have a uniform side on these cars. They are very similar to a Thrall all-purpose. Longmont, CO; May 1993.

TTAX 78063-A, 48' Bethlehem. The large, boxy tire platform support is quite visible on this car. Eagle, CO; July 1992. units enables maintenance workers to dis­ the first all-purpose spines have the older TT (class RAFSS), Thrall (TAFSS), Bethlehem connect individual units and test each brake lettering. Most of the fleet, however, has the Steel (BAFSS), Johnstown-America (JAFSS) system independently. These hoses are usu­ newer TTX speed lettering. and Gunderson (GAFSS). While following ally a standard car-to-car brake hose with TrailerTrain's basic blueprints, each builder twist couplings. SPOTTING FEATURES - implemented their version of the all-purpose Since delivery of the TTAX cars began 4S1 CAR spine a bit differently. The major spotting before the corporate name change from There are five builders of the 48' all-pur­ features concern the articulation joint, the TrailerTrain to TTX (July 1991), some of pose car. For the 48' spine, there is Trinity container pedestal mounts and brackets, and

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 3S TIAX 78583-C, 48' Bethlehem. The articulation joint is overlapping, as opposed to symmetrical, but both are the same height. Green River, WY; May 1998.

the TA F55 has a triangular end piece. See the accompanying prototype photos for details. The tire-platform end supports on both the JAF55 and BAF55 are large and quite boxy-looking. The other three builder's cars are much smaller. The RAF55, GAF55 and TAF55 cars all have an almost seamless side to their tire platforms with a cover below the side to hold the container pedestal when folded down. A very distinctive spotting feature for the Trinity (RAF55) car is the wavy container­ pedestal support bracket located on dle non­ tire platform end of each unit. However, only Trinity's 48' version spine car has this feature. This car also hasa unique horizontal rib added to the side of the center sill.

SPOTTING FEATURES - 531 CAR TTAX 78831-A, 48' Johnstown. Like all 48' all-purpose cars, the container There are three builders of the 53' all­ pedestal hatches of this car are parallel to the body as can be seen here. purpose spine. These include: Trinity (class Laramie, WY; March 1996. RAF53), Johnstown-America (JAF53) and

TIAX 78830-C, 48' Johnstown. This car is virtually identical to a Bethlehem all-purpose. However, one of the ove rlapping articulation joints is higher than the other on each joint, unlike the Bethlehem car. Helper, UT; May 1998. the trailer-tire platform supports. There are also some minor differences in the walk­ ways. Some photos are provided in this arti­ cle for describing the spotting fe atures on each builder's car. As always, it is best to use prototype photos when modeling a particular car. Of the five 48' spine cars, the Gunderson GAF55 car is the rarest. The articulation joint on the JAF55, the BAF55 and the RAF55 is overlapping, i.e., the truck stabilization bars are not symmetri­ cal. One unit's bars will encompass the opposing unit's bars. The JAF55 and BAF55 cars are virtually identical. However, the JAF55 has a vertical plate welded to the side of the articulation joint that the BAF55 does not have. Both the GAF55 and TAF55 cars have a symmetrical truck stabilization bracket, i.e., neither unit's bars surround the TIAX 753103-0, 53' National Steel Car. Note the air reservoir hidden under the opposing bar. The GAF55 has a square end tire platform. Laramie, WY; April 1996. piece over the truck stabilization points and

36 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 TIAX 753103-8, 53' National Steel Car. All 53' all-purpose cars display the "53" decal on each unit. Laramie, WY; April 1996.

TIAX 653401-A, 53' Johnstown. The control valve and air reservoir are hung on the same side of the center sill on this car, unlike the other builders' cars. Denver, CO; May 1997.

TIAX 653700-8, 53' Johnstown. Note how one of the arms of the overlapping articulation joint is higher than its mate. Pueblo, CO; October 1994.

TIA X 554088-A+E, 53' Trinity. This car has a single, huge, boxy structure supporting the tire platform on each unit. March 1995.

TIAX 554088-0, 53' Trinity. Like its 48' cousin, this car also has a horizonta length of the sidesill. March 1995.

National Steel Car (NSC53). Like the 48' spot a 53' spine car as TIX affi xes a label of 53' version also has the horizontal rib car, the 53' car is based on a standard TIX "53 ' All-purpose Spine Car" to the wheel added to the side of the center sill. The blueprint with some differences between platform sides! The 48' spines do not have other two spines do not have this rib. builders. Photos with spotting details are this marking. The articulation joint on all three cars is also provided for these cars. One can always As on the 48' Trinity-built spine, their the overlapping type. However, the lAF53 car

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 37 has one arm of the joint higher than its oppos­ ing unit's arm. The anns on the other two cars, TA BLE 7 - TTAX CARS RAP53 and NSC53, are the same height. Numbers Length Class Build Date Builder The brake air reservoir and control valve 76000-76229 48 RAF55 10/89-3/90 Trinity are located on the same side of units A, B Trinity 76230-76239 48 RAF55B ? and D on just the JAF53 car. Both the 76240-76524 48 RAF55 4/90-6/90 Trinity RAF53 and NSC53 separate the control 76525-76584 48 RAF55B Trinity valve and air reservoir on opposite sides of 76585-76756 48 RAF55 Trinity 76757-76846 48 RAF55B Trinity the center sill. The air reservoir on the D 76847-7686 1 48 RAF55B Trinity unit is hidden under the tire platform on an 76862-76936 48 RAF55B 7/91-10/9 1 Tri nity NSC53 car; it is exposed on an RAF53 and 76937-76986 48 RAF55B 4/9 2-5/92 Trinity JAF53 car. 76987-76999 48 RAF55C 6/92 Trinity The tire-platform main support on the 77000-77 199 48 TAF55 3/90-7/90 Thrall RAF53 car is a large, rectangular box. It is 8/90- 1 0/90 Thrall 77200-77324 48 TAF55 U-shaped on the NSC53 spine. Both these 77325-77424 48 TAF55 7/9 1-8/9 1 Thrall supports house the fold-up/down container 77425-77504 48 TAF55 8/91-10/9 1 Thrall 78000-78199 48 BAF55 12/89-2/90 Bethlehem Steel Co. (BSC) - JohnsLOwn, PA pedestal. On the opposite end of each unit, 78200-78359 48 BAF55A 4/90-5/90 BSC - Johnstown, PA the container-pedestal mounting bracket is 78360-78399 48 BAF55B 6/90 BSC - Johnstown, PA a single piece on the NSC53 car and a 78400-78419 48 BAF55B 6/90 BSC - Johnstown, PA multiple piece on the RAF53 car. Both of 78420-78584 48 BAF55A 7/90-9/90 BSC - Johnstown, PA these cars have a trapezoidal bracket as 78585-78699 48 BAF55B 9/90- 1 2/90 BSC - Johnstown, PA opposed to the straight bracket on the 78700-78769 48 BAF55B 2/9 1-3/9 1 BSC - Johnstown, PA JAF53 spine car. 78770-78819 48 JAF55 4/9 2-5/92 Johnstown America (JAC) - Johnstown, PA Finally, the three-unit Trinity car 78820-78869 48 JAF55A 5/92-6/92 JAC - Johnstown, PA 79000-79099 48 GAF55B ? Gunderson - Portland, OR (RAF33) is virtually identical to the five-unit 79 100-79 124 48 GAF55 ? Gunderson RAF53 car, except that it is minus two units! 79500-79536 48 RAF55C 6/9 2 Trinity Only the A and B units have brake appli­ 79537-79636 48 RAF55D 8/92- I 1/92 Trinity ances on the RAF33 car. 79637-79756 48 RAF55D 1/93-3/93 Trinity 79757-79796 48 RAF55D 2/93 Trinity OTHER OWNERS 79797-798 16 48 RAF55E Trinity There are just two known non-TTX 798 1 7-79876 48 RAF55D Trinity owners of the all-purpose spine car: 110040* ? Burlington Northern (BN) with 18 cars and I 10052 RAF50P 2/9 1 Trinity 110 066 53 RAF53P Trinity South Orient (SO) with ten cars. Table 8 110069 53 JAF53 JAC - Johnstown, PA lists their all-purpose spines. 110082 53 RAF53 Tri nity The BN cars are ex-KWTX (K&W 355000-355 199': 53 RAF33 12/97- 1/98 Trinity Trucking Company, Inc.) numbers 800800- 553000-553 159 53 RAF53 Tri nity 8008 17, sold to the BN in 1987. These 553 1 60-553374 53 RAF53A Trinity should not be confused with the Whitehead 553375-553379 53 RAF53 Trinity ? & Kales (W&K) prototype car covered in 553380-553405 53 RAF53A ? Trinity Part 1. These BN cars also carried the 553406-553444 53 RAF53 Trinity 553445-553468 53 RAF53A Trinity moniker, "Alaska's Total Transportation 553469-553486 53 RAF53 Trinity System." Do any readers know anything 553487-553714 53 RAF53A Trinity about this? They also carried BN reporting 5537 15-553761 53 RAF53 ? Trinity marks and K&W heralds (the trucking com­ 553762-553803 53 RAF53A ? Trinity pany) at the same time. The cars were 553804 -553828 53 RAF53 ? Trinity painted yellow (not BN Cascade Green), 553829-553893 53 RAF53A Trinity although by now they are very dirty. They 553894-55392 1 53 RAF53 Trinity were built to handle 20', 35 ', 40' and 45' 553922-553979 53 RAF53A ? Trinity containers or a 40' or 45 ' trailer. The con­ 553980-554 159 53 RAF53 Trinity 554 1 60-554659 53 RAF53B Trinity tainer pedestals are moveable along the cen­ 555000-555239 53 RAF53C 12/97 Trinity - Saginaw, TX ter sill to match different container ISO-post 653000-653174 53 JAF5 3 JAC - Johnstown, PA locations. A Front Range model kit (cur­ 653 1 75-653484 53 JAF53A ? JAC rently unavailable and quite rare) was based 653485-653609 53 JAF53A ? JAC on these prototype cars. They marketed the 6536 1 0-653654 53 JAF53 JAC kit as an "Articulated Rail Car." They were 653655-653665 53 JAF53 lAC packaged two units per box, with both an 653666-653853 53 JAF53A JAC end unit and a center unit offered. Two kits 653854 53 JAF53 JAC built four units, so the modeler needs to dis­ 653855-653866 53 JAF53A JAC card one of the center units to match the 653867-653879 53 JAF53 JAC 653880-654 154 53 JAF53A JAC prototype three-unit car. 654 155 -654304 53 JAF53A JAC Although not confLrmed, by careful com­ 654305-654404 53 JAF5 3A JAC parison of the photos, it appears that the 753000-753299 53 NAF53 3/95- 1 0/95 National Steel Car (NSC) - HamilLOn, Ontario articulation-joint trucks on these spines 780000-780029 48 JAF55A 7/92 JAC - Johnstown, PA have a 33" wheel and the trucks on the ends 780030-780179 48 JAF55B 8/92- 1 1/92 JAC - Johnstown, PA of units A and B have smaller 28" wheels. If 780 1 80-780399 48 JAF55B 1/93 JAC - Johnstown, PA so, this makes these cars fairl y unique JAF55B 780340-780399 48 JAC - JohnsLOwn, PA within articulated spine cars. These cars are not any derivative of the ATS F/ltel Impack this TTAX spine car has only two p latforms . * ,;, these cars have three platforms. cars. According to a current (August 1998) car trace, these cars are sti II in service, found scattered through the US. None of the

38 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 TA BLE B - OTHER ALL:PURPOSE OWNERS

# Build Owner Numbers Platforms Date Builder 4/97 0RER 1/92 ORER BN 637300-6373 17 3 8/84-7/85 Pacific Car & Foundry - Renton, WA Y Y SO 1000- 1 009 5 12/94 Trinity Y N

TTAX 355127-A, 53' three-unit Trinity. This car is virtually identical to the five-unit 53' Trinity all-purpose spine car. Green River, WY; May 1998.

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TTAX 355127-C, 53' three-unit Trinity. The reinforcing rib clearly shows on the middle unit. Green River, WY; May 1998.

TTAX 355127-B, 53' three-unit Trinity. Both the A and B units have a control valve and air reservoir (on opposite sides of the center sill). Green River, WY; May 1998. other BN spines are in active service (see Part Two). If you see one of these unique spine cars, photograph it! The SO cars are owned by a shortline named South Orient, located in Brownwood, TX. These cars are identical to TTAX cars, even to the car color and font and color of the lettering! �

RE FERENCES BN 637311-A. This PC&F all-purpose spine car was photographed at Tu cker, GA. Railroad Model Craftsman, October Note the tall upright handrails on the end of this unit. 1991: "Trailer Train's TTAX all-purpose Doug Stark collection spine cars"; text, photos and plans of the Bethlehem Steel (BSC) BAF55 spine car. Model Railroading, March 1994: "Walthers All-purpose Spine Car"; text and photos of an intensive review of the HO­ scale kit. Freight Cars Journal, Number 11: "Sin­ gles, Arctics, and Stacks"; text of the then­ known (1985) intermodal equipment. BN 637311-C The container pedestals were always available (not collapsible), Freight Cars Journal, Number 55: "Ros­ but could be slid along the top of the center sill to accommodate different con­ ter of the Q Cars"; roster of the then-known tainer ISO-post locations. BN had 18 of these cars painted in a yellow livery. (1993) Q-code cars. Doug Stark collection

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 39 ftlA 11 ong

he beautiful Colorado Front Range and T the famous Joint Line are the backdrops for Jim Lipper's Old Colony Railroad. "Wait a minute," you say. "The Old Colony was a New England Railroad." This is true, and the native New Englander has transported a bit of HO-scale New England of the 1950s to his basement in Colorado. "By adopting this rail­ road and running it in the 1950s era, I have a chance to freelance in the Northeastern style using the 'what if' concept of what the rail­ road would be like if the New Haven had not absorbed the Old Colony," states Old Colony Brass Hat Jim Lipper. The prototype Old Colony Railroad was a connection to the New Haven before the New Haven took it over completely. The line ran from Boston to Cape Cod and Newport, RI, through Brockton, MA, the hometown of Jim and Karen Lipper. Jim built and com­ pleted a layout in Brockton based on the Old Colony, with the furnace and washing machine being moved as much as possible. Jim was ready to start over. A trip to Colorado inspired by a Tra ins magazine article convinced Jim and Karen that a move to the West was what they wanted. They settled on a location only "five minutes from the switch at Palmer Lake" where the Joint Line out of Colorado Springs changes from a one-track mainline using modular principles so that if he moves Boston engine yard and the Maintenance of to a two-track mainline into Denver. again, he can salvage more of his work. Way yard for access into the layout as ''I'm The Brockton layout was not conducive The layout is in a 23' x 25' portion of the getting too old to be ducking under." The to moving so the buildings and rolling stock basement and is basically an around-the­ railroad will not run when the bridge is not were salvaged and the "new" Old Colony wall layout with a big peninsula which is the in place so there can be no major accidents was ready to begin in Colorado utilizing an location of the New England town site, the of dropping into the canyon. area approximately twice the space available centerpiece of the layout. Jim engineered a Jim uses Code 100 flex track on cork in Brockton. Jim's new layout has been built drop bridge located between the South roadbed for the mainline and places the

40 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 track right on the plywood in the yards. The trains to flow smoothly track is weathered, which makes it look through each scene. He uses #6 switches on more realistic and smaller. He uses Atlas the mainline and #45 in parts of the yards, switches that are modified so the frogs are but the major yard areas use #6 switches that powered when contacting. All the switches Jim shortens by cutting the lead rails. are manual and operate with hand throws on The scenery is formed with plaster over the KISS concept with Jim's coat hanger, screen wire and colored using latex paint paper clip, sheet-rock screw and rubber band and Woodland Scenics ground foam. The method of operation. These have proven to roads are "black top" which he achieves by be very reliable as the only maintenance is using a dark gray instead of black paint. The occasionally replacing a rubber band. street lines are silvered tape instead of a His love of railfanning shows up on his white and this gives the scene an immediate railroad. The mainline has 40" radius curves weathered look. In keeping with the era,

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING Y 41 buildings to give the appearance of a full building. Jim is planning on taking this method to a new level by modeling the twin New Haven stations at Brockton. The real stations were mirror images of each other across the tracks, and Jim is going to do this by modeling one of the stations and then using a mirror to show the second station. The signs will be made so that they read cor­ rectly in the mirror. Everyone has a favorite part of the hobby and for Jim, setting an urban scene with detail is his major objective. He likes to cre­ ate scenes, not necessarily make scenery. The prime objective in his scene setting is keeping within the 1950s by the use of signs, prices, practices and paint schemes. This objective is enhanced by Jim's skill at modeling buildings and using a great deal of kitbashing to achieve the desired outcome.

there are no yellow lines on the streets or highways - those were introduced in the I 960s. As the roads go into the background, they become narrower to project distance in a forced perspective. The Blue Hill area shows how coloration helps create distance and the "graying" down of scenery gives the illusion of reality and distance. An unusual method Jim uses as a scenery technique is the use of mirrors. Jim has vari­ ous buildings that are against a wall backed by a slightly tilted mirror. This gives the illu­ sion of greater distance while not allowing the viewer to see their retlection in the mir­ ror. He also uses this method behind half

OCTOBER 1998 42 'Y MODEL RAILROADING An example of this is the combining of an or month) and, as Jim explains, "three plastic traction car with brushes to keep the snow Alloy Forms truck and Walthers REA body people gave their lives for the display in the and ice out of the grooves and prevent them to create a 1950s Civil Defense truck, a very shoe-store window." from becoming a hazard. This is one of the unique model that is not found on many lay­ The town is served by the Eastern Massa­ many "little" details that are incorporated on outs but identifiesthe Cold War period. chusetts Street Railway. The street railway the layout to give it a completed feeling. The peninsula is the location of the typi­ has both trolley cars and a freight cab. Box­ The town will never be without adequate cal New England town with its town square cab #6 is a model that Jim kitbashed by fire protection. Jim combines his hobby of and park in the center. It is purposely using a Cary white-metal cab on an Athearn unnamed so that you get the feeling of the Hustler frame. area and era, but are not constrained by the Once again the little concepts of the need to duplicate a particular town. Many of street railway are modeled. In many New the buildings in the town were brought from England towns, the street railway was given the old layout in Brockton and show much of the right-of-way in return for being responsi­ Jim's skill and personality. Included is a ble for snow removal. Therefore, the street model of his home in Brockton that has a railway has snow removal trucks as well as a complete interior, even down to a layout in the basement. Most of the buildings are kit­ bashed, and you have a mixture of Fine Scale Miniatures models next to plastic kits. The detailing on the buildings makes them fit in together; buildings which have large win­ dows and doors are enhanced with interior scenes, lighting and removable roofs. Jim is known for his wry sense of humor, which exudes through the naming of towns, industries and businesses that poke fun at his friends or are gag names. This creates a lot of tongue-in-cheek fun, as there are intriguing or humorous stories to go along with their nam­ ing. An example is the print shop (Jim works for a printing company) which has a complete interior including various pieces of equipment in use and an occupied rest room. The various businesses in the town have humorous signs (hotel has rooms advertised by the hour, day

owning an old fi re truck and belonging to a fire engine collectors club with his railroad hobby. The fire station is large and has a complete interior, but there is not enough room for all the model fire engines. One of his objectives is to have an exact model of the fire engine thatevery member of his club owns with the diffe rent types and colors. Another example of his efforts at creat­ ing scenes around the railroad is the Quincy Granite Quarry No. I. It is modeled below "tabletop" which gives it a unique fe eling to start with. It is serviced by Shay #8, which is owned by the Shaughnessy Stone Co. Th is highly detailed area is tucked into a space located at Quincy between the town and the South Boston Engine facility. The small water tower in the quarry was made from Fine Scale's first kit. The quarry ties in with the J. J. Saxton Granite Grave Stone Com­ pany, with their sign that declares "Drive Safely, We Can Wait," and the Granite Curb Stone Company. This gives the railroad

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING ... 43 The layout is block controlled and can be run as a double-track mainline or as point-to­ point by using a reverse loop and a double crossover that is under the town on the penin­ sula. There is a hidden staging yard behind Brockton that can be watched by two 45° angled mirrors that allows the operator at the main control panel to monitor and operate the staging yard. The main control panel is located at the tracks and includes a six-stall roundhouse. end of the peninsula. There are two tethered Jim kitbashed two three-stall kits and used walk-around throttles for mainline operation the remaining walls to create an engine as well as special switches to operate the house against the wall behind the round­ lights in the town and for the operation of his house. Besides the usual engines at the facil­ steam sound system. There are also local cabs ity, a snowplow and a dynamometer car are for the South Boston Engine facility, the stationed there. The Maintenance of Way Brockton Ym'ds (with its separated freight and yard is fi lled with highly detailed, award­ passenger yards), the New Haven yard and winning equipment of various types. Jim the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway. took a brass Jordan spreader and gave it There are 30 engines in the fleet, of which interior detail and people. "This is what you about 20% are steam. The 120 freight cars buy when your layout is complete and your and 30 passenger cars are joined by 20 pieces modeling money is burning a hole in your of MoW equipment. On the traction line there pocket," Jim jokes. are representations of a variety of equipment complementary businesses as well as a While not into true operation at this time, including a boxcab, steeple cab and trolleys. source of revenue for the Old Colony RR. Jim likes to run the trains and have them In keeping with the 1950s era, his motive Across the track is the Aveni Junk Yard and become pmt of the scene he is trying to show. power is steam and first-generation diesels, a lake. As a dig at environmentalists, the To create variations on the scenes, Jim has set mostly representing the Old Colony RR or lake is contaminated with the waste from the up the lighting for the railroad room on a one of the New England railroads with sev­ Midnight Chemical Disposal Company. dimmer switch and uses street lighting and eral still belonging to that famous "Undec The South Boston engine facility has 23 building Lights to run night scenes. Railroad." But employing the concept of hav-

44 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 ing things he likes and enjoys, he also has a SP 4-8-4 in Daylight colors and a Rio Grande passenger train. The ' 50s were a time of many passenger trains, and Jim has a variety of passenger-train consists to go along with his many freight cars and cabooses. The majority of the equipment is Pennsylvania, New York Central and New Haven, but is mixed in with someequipment from railroads run by other modelers. The rai lroad is an ongoing project, one that will never be finished. Jim tries to have a major project to complete each year, with the most recent being a New England cranberry bog. The bog and reservoir is the sight of a fire muster with water being drawn from the bogs and fire hoses shooting water back into the bogs. This scene, where he uses epoxy for the water, even shows the su·eams of water from the hoses. "This is probably the only fire muster depicted on a model railroad." � Jim Lipper's Old Colony Railroad

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3-Track MofW Yard 6) Main Lines & Yards

Passenger Coach Yard ------Trolley Line

------Hidden Trackage Old Colony Yards

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MODEL RAILROADING ... 45 P&W SD9 1851 was originally SP 5360, then 3819 and 4326. It was rebuilt to an SD9E by Sp,as evidenced by the raised panel on the roof behind the cab. Built in April 1954 with a steam generator, it has the large fuel/water tank which doubt­ less has been converted to carry all fuel by this date. It has the GP7/SD7-style bolted handrail stanchions. One of the sidesill doors has been closed up; notice the shiny builder's plate, an oddity on an old unit. It carries extra warning lights above the headlights and has a sunshade and wind deflectors. Willamina, OR; July 14, 1995. Decals: None. John Benson photo, George Melvin collection

HE EASTERN HALF OF OREGON was once the with the Canadian maple-leaf symbol, and T domain of the Southern Pacific, with two the roadnames are separated with a dash, north-south mains reaching into the state such as "Quebec-Gatineau." A very stylish from California, meeting near Eugene at the arrangement! The Willamette & Pacific foot of the Cascade range. From there north was formed in 1993 to operate about 180 to Portland spread the fe rtile Willamette miles of track in Oregon stretching west Valley with the rich conifer forests of the from Albany across the Coast Range to Coast Range to the west. This region was a To ledo and from Dawson north to Newberg, major source of traffic and focus of opera­ crossing the To ledo Branch at Corvallis. Its tions for the SP. The operative word is WA S, cousin, the Portland & Western is to the as the Union Pacific has taken over the SP north of the W&P, running several different and all but the mainline across the Cascade branches east and northeast of Portland. All Range into Eugene and north to Portland these lines were the haunt of the Southern have been spun off to several shortline or re­ Pacific fleet of early SDs, where sets of gional operators. Genesee & Wyoming In­ SD7s and SD9s plying the deep forests and dustries, which operates a family of timber trestles of the region were one of the shortlines from Quebec, Canada, to the Pa­ SP's trademark operations. While the SP is cific is a player along with Rail-Tex and gone from this country, all their early SD other "chain" operators of shortlines. units are not, as the two roads share a total Our concern will be with GW Industries, of four early SDs - two SD7s and two which operates two different shortlines on SD9s. The SD7s are numbered ISO I and former SP turf west of the present Union 1853, originally SP 5280 and 5288, respec­ Pacific main. With its roots in the salt-haul­ tively. The SD9s are numbered 1851 and ing Genesee & Wyoming in upstate New 1852 and were originally SP 5360 and 5438, York, the GW Industries railroads carry a respectively. Also operating on the lines is a common paint scheme both in the US and former SP GP9 painted in the old Black Canada - a brilliant orange with black Widow scheme and lettered for the W &P, stripes and a yellow sidesill. All the names along with several switchers and a group of for the lines in the US are "something & fonner Santa Fe GP39-2s. something" names for locations on each One unit, SD7 1853, was chop nosed in road, with two opposing arrows each carry­ the road's Albany shop; it carries the road's ing the initial of one of the name points and orange livery. The pair of SD9s were, at the name spelt out above and below the "&" least a couple years ago, quite different in in the center. In Canada, the "&" is replaced appearance; the 1851 in fu ll G&W Indus-

OCTOBER 1998 Similar in heritage but dissimilar in appearance is W&P SD9 1852, shown at more info rmation and photos of the Albany, OR, in August 21, 1994. It was originally SP 5438, then 3916 and 4397. P& W /W &P, see the fe ature by Larry Built a year later than the 1851, in April 1955, it has the stamped handrail stan­ Cantrall in the January 1998 issue of Rail· chions. Notice the base for the three extra warning lights which SP had main­ fa n & Railroad magazine. tained on the unit, the firecracker antenna, three-chime horn and large rotating The Reserve Mining Company Rail­ beacon, the latter mounted atop a bracket on the added raised panel behind the road was one of two lines built brand new cab roof. This unit also has a paper air filter box just forward of the dynamic­ in northern Minnesota in the 1950s as a brake housing. Built without passenger heating equipment, this unit has the result of the development of a process for 2.400-gallon fuel tank. It is named Hillsboro for an online town. Decals: None. the successful use of taconite ore as a raw Aiken Rail Service photo, George Melvin collection material in steel production, replacing the raw deposits of "red" iron ore which were P&W SD7 1853 is now considered an SD9M by its owners, according to the sten­ being depleted. The other company was cil on the sidesill. Built as SP SD7 5288 in January 1953, it was later numbered Erie Mining Company. Both lines were built 2709 and 1409 and finally 1532 - four numbers while working for SP. It was from large deposits of taconite discovered built without a steam generator and with the small 1,200-gallon fuel tank. It east of Virginia, MN, to the north shore of now boasts a neatly done chopped nose with the headlights in the nose and Lake Superior where the product is warning light in the numberboard assembly on the cab. Four of the sidesill trans loaded in lake carriers bound for steel doors toward the rear have had their louvers removed. At Albany, OR, on June mills to the south. 21, 1997, it is named for Forest Grove. Decals: None. Reserve Mining, built in 1952, was head­ John Benson photo, George Melvin collection quartered in Babbitt where two open-pit mines were worked, using huge earth-mov­ tries orange but the 1852 still in a thread­ Port of Tillamook Bay also operates early ing equipment to feed the rock into crushers bare SP gray and scarlet with white W&P SDs from the SP. While the SP is gone which then fi lled rotary-dump hoppers by heralds. Another nearby shortline which from Oregon, at least some of its trademark the trainload to be handled to the processing connects with the Portland & Western, the locomotives can still be seen there. For plant located 48 miles away on Lake Supe-

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 47 RMCo. SD9 1220, their first SD9, sits in storage at Babbitt, MN, on September 17, 1985. Normally stored during the winter months, this unit likely had been stored all that season. Notice the fabricated covers which fit snugly over each exhaust fan and stack, and sheet-metal panel over the dynamic-brake grille. Note the additional warning light above the headlight, the stack for the "watchman heater," used for cold-weather shutdown of the diesel engine, the hood-mounted bell and pair of single horns. A rerailer is mounted on each truck. Decals: None. George Melvin photo

RMCo. SD9 1221 differs slightly from the 1220, with the herald on the cab and road number on the short hood. It has round screened spark arrestors. The rerailer hung on the front truck is pai nted black, and the one "assigned" to the rear truck is elsewhere, while the brackets can be seen. It has the all-weather cab-window insert. Despite the fact that these units were stored each winter; it would have been useful even in the late Fall in that northern climate. Babbitt, MN; July 25, 1979. Decals: None. Ken Douglass photo, Dave Sweetland collection

48 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 Soo Line SD9 2381 represents the only sale of a single SD9 among 17 original US buyers. Built in December 1952, it lacks dynamic brake and passenger equipment, but even more unusual, it lacks a winterization hatch which were common to most Soo Geeps. Note the solid front handrail despite being MU equipped, also the rotating beacon atop the short hood, pa ir of single horns and tall screened spark arrestors. Minneapolis, MN; September 4, 1982. Decals: Herald King 1-102, Microscale 87-1 17. John Benson photo, Pete Coulombe collection rior at Silver Bay. Initially operating with Superior, operated about eight months, couple exceptions, it ran through only mod­ leased power until reaching higher produc­ hauling 30 million tons of ore on 50 trains erately hilly country where its fleet of cab tion, Reserve was directly influenced by the per week. A loaded train of 157 cars weigh­ units and Geeps were quite at home. But, in fleet of early SOs operated by the Great ing 18,300 tons would leave Babbitt every fact, the Soo did buy a single early SO. an Northern. Reserve started out with a pur­ three hours on the 2'/, hour run over the SD9 delivered in December 1954. Actually chase of three S09s, numbered 1220- 1222 double-track CTC-equipped line to Silver bought by the original Wisconsin Central in June ·1955. Equipped with dynamic Bay and return with empties. However, the which became part of the modern Soo Line brakes and no passenger equipment (this steel industry came on hard times in the Railroad when merged with the Minneapo­ road was stlictly an industrial carrier fo r its mid 1980s. lis, St. Paul & Sault St. Marie and the owner's product), these units started the line When your author visited in September Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic in 1960. on its way to being the only "SO industrial," 1985, the operation was down to ten trains Almost all original MStP&SSM and WC similar to the SO railroads which we have per week, and many of the older units were diesels were four axle; the former did buy chronicled. Two more S09s came the fol­ in storage; only two S09s were operating six AlA-trucked Alco road switchers in lowing year, the 1223 in May 1956 and the that FaIL That was the last fu ll season for 1949-'50, and WC bought a single similar 1224 in Oecember. A final S09 an'ived, the Reserve Mining, as the road shut down in unit in 1951, while the DSS&A indulged 1225, in June of 1959; this was the final the summer of 1996; it was determined that further, acquiring a dozen six-axle Baldwin S09 built. All were painted a medium brown the market would not support its operation road switchers and four more exotic Bald­ with white striping. The striping was elimi­ and Reserve Mining called it quits. Four win double-end transfer units. The solitary nated as units were repainted, and the hood S09s, all except the 1225, were sold to the SD9, numbered 2381 above the single WC ends were painted solid white. Escanaba & Lake Superior which operated RSC3, was certainly an oddity. According As the operation increased in volume, them in their brown-and-white Reserve col­ to the November/December 1996 issue of more SO units arrived: seven low-nose ors and road numbers. The S038-2s went Diesel Era, it was bought for special duty as S018s numbered 1226- 1232, then four rare into the GATX lease fleet and could be seen befitting its SD type; it worked a local to S028s numbered 1233-1 236, and finally frequently on the BN. The SD18s and Milwaukee from the shop town of North nine S038-2s numbered 1237- 1 245. Four SD28s sat silent for a time until the opera­ Fond du Lac, WI, and also in pusher service switchers, a pair of SW8s (1200-120 1) and tion was sold to Cyprus Mining which on Byron Hill just south of Fond du Lac. a pair of SW1 200s (1210-1211) were reopened it as the Cyprus North Shore Min­ Later on, it was found in Superior, WI, and acquired to work the two loaders at Babbitt ing RR in 1990. the Tw in Cities area, in heavy yard service. and the un loader at Silver Bay. The fleet of It could be argued that the Soo Line had It was retired in 1986. 26 SO units were kept busy. At its peak, this no reason to buy an early SD. Its branch­ Next month we conclude our look at seasonal carrier, geared to the warmer lines could support the standard four-axle EMD's early SOs with the Southern Pacific months when ships can navigate on Lake power which replaced steam, and with a and Union Pacific. �

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 49 Model by Jim Six and Early Murphy Model photography by the author

or readers that have long fo llowed my One might conclude that the "worms are of Mainline Modeler even re-titled my Southeastern modeling articles I am back." The one-time hated PC worms now Penn Central U25B article as a Conrail NOT abandoning the South, but simply adorn the sides of a rapidly increasing num­ U25B although my article had not one doing a few "diversionary" projects like the ber of models including the ALCO DL-701 photo of, nor a single mention of, Conrail. Penn Central RS II featured here. In this model featured on these pages. In fact, my Believe me, Rodney Dangerfield has noth­ case, I feel that there is real interest in the Internet e-mail has become crowded with ing over the Penn Central. Talk about get­ Penn Central and as a "former" PC modeler I messages discussing the Penn Central and ting no respect! feel obligated to do a few models repre­ modeling the PC, as hobbyists want to know To say the very least, the Penn Central senting this road. I would love to see interest more about its locomotives, rolling stock was a fi nancial wreck and an operational flourish in this short-lived but most notorious and operations. Knowing that I "used to" nightmare. However, all of those shenani­ of American railroads. So, bear with me over model both Penn Central and Conrail, sev­ gans make for some interesting model rail­ the next several months as I sprinkle in a few eral people have even sent me messages roading. No need to invent reasons to slow Yankee subjects with my on-going South­ requesting that I do up a few PC diesels and trains to increase transit times. Long operat­ eastern modeling projects! freight car articles! It wasn't but a few years ing sessions are a natural when modeling the It's interesting that the Penn Central, ago that I was ridiculed for wasting maga­ Penn Central ! long without friends, is fast becoming so zine pages with the green and black of the As for the subject of this article, the well liked among prototype enthusiasts and Penn Central...and now people want more of Penn Central got its ALCO DL-70 1s from model railroaders alike. Considering this ] it. Imagine that! three sources - the New York Cenb'al, the have to ask myself, "What's wrong with Nasty, sometimes k.idding but often not, New Haven, and the Pennsylvania. The DL- this picture? Can this really be happen­ comments used to eat away at me. Penn 70 I is popularly known as the RS II to most ing?"The answers to these questions are Central and 13-0 were synonymous. of us, so don't be fo oled by the designation. "Nothing," and "Yes." Though there is littIe Yes ... 13-D as in dull, drab, dirty, degrading, The Penn Central RS lis were numbered to debate about the horrendous condition of disheartening, disgusting, detestable, dis­ 7600-7674 with some gaps in the number­ the PC as a viable business enterprise, the tasteful, and on and on ! You get the pic­ ing. The 7600-7608 came from the NYC. railroad has plenty to offer prospective PC ture? One of the more bothersome episodes The 7617-7639 and 7645-7647 came from model railroaders. was when Editor/Publisher Bob Hundman the PRR. The 7660-7674 were from lhe NH.

50 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 Va lley Associates frame and fuel/water/air tanks were used on this model of a former NYC DL-701 .

The New York Central had placed a substan­ tial order for RS II locomotives but was so unhappy with the fU 'st nine units delivered that the remainder of the order was can­ celed. Those remaining units had already been delivered - in NYC lightning stripes no less - but the Cenu'al refused to accept them. They sat dead, never placed into ser­ vice on NYC property for many weeks before they were tinally disposed of to the Delaware & Hudson. There were difference between the Penn Central RS 11s of the former NYC, NH and PRR. For one, the New York Central units were set up to operate long-hood forward. The Pennsy and New Haven units were not. Note the small white "F" on the sides ills just inboard from the stepwell on the long-hood end of PC 7600-7608. Another significant difference was that the former Cenu'al units did not have dynamic brakes whereas both the Pennsy and the New Haven did. This feature (or lack thereof!) is noted externally with the lack of grids and flat boxes on the top of the long hood. Also, the NYC units had only three square vents on each side of the long hood instead of the five vents of the dynamic-brake-equipped PRR and NH units. One other noticeable detail difference is that the NYC units had EMD-like drop steps at the locomotive ends. The Pennsy had longer plate-steel drop steps, and those of the New Haven were see-through grate-type drop steps. Unique to the former NH units were the Hancock air horns. Both the NYC and PRR units had variolls configurations of standard trumpet air horns.

The model featured here was first pre-

An EMD-style drop step was used and all of the railings were replaced with brass rod. Cast-on grabs were also replaced.

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 51 brakes would be more fitting for a magazine article. Earl's paint job was retained as I carefu lly removed the dynamic-brake details. Mind you, this was performed on a model that had already been completed, cus­ tom painted and all! Am I nuts? The obvious starting place for this pro­ ject would be the AtlaslKato RS 11 HO-scale diesel. Thought the model has been out of production for some time, Atlas will reintro­ duce it in the not-too-distant future. Though originally produced in Japan, Atlas has taken the tooling out of Japan, and the RS II along with the other Atlas ALCOs will be pro­ duced in the Atlas "Classics" series by the same manufacturer in China that has been producing the U23B, U33C, C30-7 and the most recent run of GP7s. I do not know at this time if improvements other than the addition of DCC capability will be included. The model featured here has had three of what most model railroaders would consider major modifications. One is the removal of the dynamic-brake detai I. Second is the removal of the standard handrails and replacement with custom-formed brass rail­ ings. The third is replacement of the cast white-metal framewith a pewter frame from Valley Associates. This was done to accom­ the original railing/stanchion assemblies were retained modate a Valley Associates fuel tank that accept brass-rod railing that was formed to match the better matched that of Penn Central 7605. molding. Earl had performed the frame replacement during the first incamation of the model. As with most HO-scale plastic diesel of pared by friend Earl Murphy as a "layout out as I decided that modifying the model to the 1980s, the Atlas/Kato RSll came with engine." Earl added all the grabirons, homs, represent an ex-NYC unit without dynamic molded-on grabirons and too-thick railings. antenna, MU hoses along with other add-on detail, then painted and decaled the model. With the model originally intended as just Close-ul>of the rea� end of the enginee�'s side. another layout model, Earl had not researched the specifics of the prototype and simply enhanced the detail, then numbered the model to represent a former New York Central ALCO RS 1l. One day Earl decided that he had far more locomotives than he would ever need - or could ever use. Sound familiar? Conrail, Penn Central and New York Central locomotives dominated the shelves of Earl's train room. In the name of common sense he decided to bquidate sev­ eral models including the PC RS 11 shown here . I became the fortunate and proud owner of this fI De model. Earl's Penn Central RSI I projects a "feel" to me that is appeabng. It has been a favorite of mine since the first time I saw it. I had taken the model out of storage to show a visitor and once again became enthralled with it. Why not do a magazine article about it? Following a bttle research I found that several details would have to be altered if the model was to match any specific proto­ type. Earl had numbered it as a former NYC unit, but for the most part its details matched that of an RS 11 of Pennsy 1 vania heri tage. Decision time. The choice was to keep the dynamic-brake features and re-letter the model as an ex-Pennsy locomotive, or remove these features and retain the lettering of ex-NYC 7605. Obviously, the latter won

OCTOBER 1998 52 T MODEL RAILROADING that comes with the model. The pewter can also be soldered. The reason for swapping frames is that the Valley Associates frame has a smaller section beneath the fuel tank which allows the various Valley Associates fuel-tank options to be added. All of the Atlas/Kato drive components swap right over to the Valley Associates frame. Te st the upgraded drive unit before proceeding. REMOVAL OF DYNAMIC BRAkE DETAIL This step is for prepar­ - ing a non-dynamic-brake version of the

Close-up of front end of engineer's side. Note how well the weathered amber class lights appear.

Sand hoses were added to the trucks, but cast-on brake cylinders were left in place.

That's the down side. On the other hand, this model has the finest molded grille work on the hood sides that I have ever seen - bar none. Too bad the circular radiator grille atop the long hood is not so good. As most of us already know, performance of the Atlas/Kato ALCOs is also second to none. When the few detractors are cOlTected, the Atlas RS 11 makes for an excellent model of its prototype.

REPLACE FRAME AND FUEL TANk The fU 'st step is to replace - the cast-metal frame with a replacement from Valley Associates. This replacement frame is cast in pewter and is softer and slightly heavier than the hard-metal frame

OCTOB ER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 53 PC 7660. a former New Haven DL-701, is seen at Hartford, CT. on June 30, 1976. Note that the short hood is forward on this former NH unit.

Joseph R. Snopek photo. Mike Rose collection ... '" ��

P.C: 7672 is another former New Haven unit. Note the Hancock air horns on this unit and on 7660. JoseRh R. SnofJekpho to, Mike Rose collection

OCTOBER 1998 54 ... MODEL RAILROADING if.. :Remove the dynamic-brake equip­ Install the grabs applying CA cement to fi nd myself in complete agreement with ant £tOm the roof. This includes two flat secure each in place. Earl on this. hox sections and the flanking grids. I used One thing about this model that will try The radio antenna is a Detail Associates rn:Y Dl'emel Tool with an auger bit and your patience is the grabirons. There are Sinclair antenna. It is cemented to the cab ground off these items. The flat panel two sets up both ends of the hoods along roof with the closed end facing the long beneath them was retained, albeit with a with one ladder set up the side of the short hood. It is offset to the engineer's side and

hole in the center area. Two rectangular sec­ hood on the engineer's side. Apparently, toward the long hood. Exact placement is not tions of .010 sheet styrene were then cut to only the former NYC units had this last set critical as it varied from locomotive to loco­ cap these panels. Cut them to exactly match of grab ladders. Fortunately, Earl had motive on the prototype. The horns are the dimensions of these panels. Yo u can see already installed all the grabs before I Details West single-trumpet affairs. where the hold-down hardware is that sur­ inherited the model! Besides, Earl does a One detail that I added is the pair of drop rounds these panels - four on each side and better job at grabs. Don't forget the small steps at the end of the walkways. Those two at each end. I drilled a hole just inboard grabs on each side of the headlights. found on the former New York Central RS 11 TRUCk DEniL of each and fit a Detail Associates bolt head. - Truck units are not your typical ALCO-type drops, This was done to represent the hardware that detail includes a speed-recorder drive/cable but instead they appear to match those of secures the panels in place. Right or wrong, and sand hoses. Earl decided to I:etain the Electro-Motive Geeps. I added Detail Asso­ it looks good! molded-on brake cylinders, and I stayed ciates drop steps, cementing each in place With the roof dynamic brake modifica­ with this. I prefer separate brake cylinders, withli quid styrene cement. tions complete the frame around the two but at this point my model-building ener­ REPLACING THE THICk square vents closest to the cab on each side gies were waning. To be honest with you, I PLASTIC RAILINGS - One of the weakest of the long hood had to be carefully trimmed simply decided to forego the fuss of carv­ details of early Kato diesels are the too­ off. I suggest using a chisel blade fit to an X­ ing them off and replacing each. thick railings. If you have formed brass-rod Acto® knife holder. Next, putty over all four MISCELLANEOUS DETAIL railings before, this will prove to be real of these grilles trying not to get putty where - Among the details added by Mr. Murphy obstacle. I retained the stanchions that is it not wanted! When dry, carve, scrape and include ALCO-type sand-filler hatches and come with the model by clipping the rail­ sand it smooth. Apply putty one more time some very realistic appearing classification ings from each stanchion using PBL and repeat the process. At this time you have lights. The Atlas RSll comes with both Despruing Nippers. The head of each stan­ a non-dynamic brake RS 11 that is ready for molded on, but as with so many other chion was then drilled to clear .015 brass detail and painting. molded-on detail items on plastic diesels, rod that was used for railings. Use the REMOVAL AND they are too shallow and not up to standard. existing railing/stanchion sections as a REPLACEMENT OF MOLDED-ON Carve off the molded-on sand-filler guide to form each railing. Only after the GRABIRONS - The next step is to replace hatches, drill a centering hole, and CA replacement railings have been completed the molded-on grabs. My suggestion is to cement the four white-metal Details West should you cut the stanchions free and drill carve off the grabs but do not smooth the hatches in place. Since Earl so detests them. Note: The stanchions on the surface. This way you can see where the "clear" class lights that appear more like "porches" surrounding the cab are shorter holes have to be drilled for the formed-wire headlights than class lights he used MV than the others. Do not mix them up. Slip replacements. Drill all the mounting holes LS301 amber lenses, then weathered over the stanchions over the railings and press for the grabs, then smooth the surfaces. them. I find the effect rather convincing. I each stanchion into place. I use a small dab of CA cement to secure the stan­ chions into the walkway and also to lock the stanchions to the rail- ings. PAINT AND DECALS - Yo u are in luck. Painting a Penn Central diesel locomotives is Manufacturer Part No. Description one of the easier paint applications A-Line 29200 Diesel dual-arm windshield wipers you will ever perform. I recom­ Atlas Undecorated RSll mend spray painting the entire Detail Associates 1009 Headlights locomotive with MODELflex 1402 EMD-type drop steps Engine Black. I diluted this 1508 MU hoses acrylic paint to between 40% and 1708 Class-light lenses 50% isopropyl alcohol (labeled 1803 Sinclair radio antenna 70% alcohol on the bottle). Next, spray the model with Floquil 2202 Drop-type grabirons Crystal Coat thinned to about 60% 2203 NBW castings lacquer thinner. This will seal the 2204 Coupler lift bar acrylic paint and provide an excel­ 2506 .015 brass rod (for railings) lent surface for decal application. 2808 GE-type speed recorder After the Microscale Penn Central 6206 Trainline air hoses decals have been applied, again Details West 174 Air horns spray on a coat of Crystal Coat. 202 Aleo-type sand-filler hatches Brush paint the railing ends and Microscale 87-84 Penn Central diesel decals pilot cross grabs along with the MV Products LS22 Headlight lenses step and pilot running-board edges Valley Associates 1006 Cast fuel tank, water tank and air tank kit with Polly Scale SCL Hopper Car ? Cast pewter RS3 frame Yellow. Paint the fuel-filler caps red. At this time the model is ready for weathering, which I leave to you. �

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the w t\oor th SS \Ie e trU or\<.trom 1 o remo M t . tirst step is section.

Here we see the finished deck and scenery sans truss work. The Kato track was replaced with Micro Engineering's code 55 Bridge Flex-Trak. The track was further enhanced by adding guard timbers made of basswood strips.

and " hY scratchbuild a bridge when there are excellent I'eady-made ones wood orts W available?"That was the question my friend Brinton lones, known d \ supP as Jonsie, put to me. w trom p Y "Well, I want something that looks a little more realistic than an off­ b t en torme 1he a s ere the-shelf model," was the answer I shot back. du m t in pl"'\,ace' Realism is important to me because the trackwork on my new layout is secure ..� �'l!!�� being done with a weathered code 55 track. Jonsie assured me he knew how to enhance a Kato Truss Bridge, Being a tool and die man by trade, he's the sort of fe llow who understands how to take things apart, improve them and put them back together. He knew that a Kato bridge is assembled from two major pieces, a truss canopy and a floor section. Jonsie fo und a way to carefully pry the two sections apart using a hobby knife. The truss rests inside two channels on the floor section with five tabs on each side holding the bridge together. Once he got the sections apart, he removed the tabs with a file. Now the truss canopy can sit in position in the channels without tabs. This allows the canopy to be removed for track cleaning or to reach a piece of rolling stock. Separating the truss work from the floor beams for cleaning was just one reason to take the bridge apart. The other purpose was to be able to get to the Kato track so it could be removed from the floor structure. With the track removed, several bumps (pins) remained. They were used to fasten the track in place. Jonsie lIsed Xuron nippers and a sanding block to remove the pins so a more realistic track could be glued directly to the floor structure. Micro Engineering Company offers Bridge Fiex-Trak, a code 55 rail system with accurate tie spacing and rail spike patterns for guard rails. Guard timbers made from basswood strips were stained and added to the outer edges of the ties to complete the bridge floor. (These are not supplied with the Bridge Flex-Trak kit.) Midwest Products, #8002 Micro-Cut Scale Lumber was the pelfect answer. Now I had the prototypical look I desired and a match to the other track on my layout. Installing a bridge requires precision, A firm and square foundation is critical. Jonsie cut matching '/, " plywood abutments and fastened them in place with carpenter's glue and large staples inserted by a pneumatic staple gun. Throughout the process the bridge was tested for fit. Now it was my turn to have some fun. I fashioned the rockwork around each abutment using plaster castings and Sculptamold®. With the abut­ ments (plywood supports) now anchored firmly into the granite walls of the river canyon it was time to cover the bare wood with vinyl spackling plaster (joint compound works just as well), After the spackle had cured it was sanded smooth and coated with artist's gesso. The abutments were beginning to take on the look of real concrete supports, The scenery was painted and textured, and the final detailing was done to the bridge which consisted of light weathering. Sparse amounts of rust were applied to the truss structure with chalks. The abutments were painted with Floquil Concrete Gray. Rust and water streaks were added with acrylic paints that were applied with a fine brush, The techniques used to enhance and install the Kato Truss Bridge are not difficult for most model railroaders to do and in my opinion are certainly worth the effort. �

OCTOB ER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING .... 57 BEHIND THE SCENES

Can't See the Forest ... by Margaret Mansfield

Photos by Jim Mansfield

ome years ago, while visiting my parents S in northwestern New lersey, I wandered into the woods behind their house and found myself deep in the area known locally as the "Big Bear Swamp." Never mind the increas­ ingly soggy ground, pesky mosquitoe and poison ivy - with my sketchbook in hand and eyes wide open, I was ready to capture the perfect woodland scene on paper. "This is New Jersey," I thought, "there's no way I can get lost." Well, three hours and many wrong turns later, I fi nally found myself at the wel­ come edge of blacktop. To my amazement, I was 2'/, miles down the road from home in an 1 - The strategic placement of trees and' foliage in the area surrounding this area totally unfamiliar to me. Deep in the busy railroad junction will create a forest-like "screen" between the high moun­ woods, I had lost my bearings and all sense of tains of Gran Quivera and the big city structures of Vilsousterrs. Placing a few direction; everywhere I looked, my eyes were trees here and there aids in planning the final size, type and number of trees greeted with similar groupings of hardwood required. The trees seen here are considered scenic anchors and will be used in and pine - oak, maple, ash and birch trees, these locations when we fill in the forest. surrounded by tangles of underbrush and hillocks of grass. With no fixed reference point and no path, I had lost my way among the leafy denizens of the swamp - I couldn't see the forest for the trees! It is experiences similar to this that create in us a deeper respect for the pioneers who first tamed the forests of the new world. Without paths or maps to guide them, they built farms, roads, villages and towns - and eventually railroads as well. The first steel highways were hewed from the hardwood forests of the eastern woodlands; they then struck across the great plains and prairies of the Midwest and finally through the mighty pine forests and mountains of the West. The builders of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad found themselves confronted with tall stands of scrawny pine scattered among 2 - Cardboard mockups of the support structures for the upper level track were the rocky mountain peaks of New Mexico, created as planning tools to be used in designing adjacent scenery, including the yet still they forged towns and stretched relative size, location and effects of future foliage. The mockups can also be their rail line over the desolate countryside. used as templates when it comes time to model the actual scale structures they One of the spots they took for their own was represent. a bit of high mountain territory known locally as "Gran Quivera." Here, pine trees from high mountain scenery to the big city proud reminders of the forest that once cov­ some hundreds of years old blanketed the atmosphere of Vilsousterrs (see July-Sep­ ered a land now occupied by asphalt and summits of rocky hillsides. Rather than raze tember 1998 "Behind the Scenes" for back­ concrete. Photo I depicts the completion of this primeval forest to the ground, the rail­ ground information concerning this the first steps in creating this transition; only road builders struck through it, leaving transition). From the main operating aisle of a few of the trees that will eventually cover stands of trees that to this day provide wel­ the raiLroad, a thick screen of trees will serve the upper hillside are visible, yet the fi nal come shade and cool relief from the hot to hide from view the tops of the buildings effect can readily be imagined - the tops of summer sun. springing up from the city beyond the junc­ the tall pines extend well above the top tion, as well as the backs of buildings visible edges of the cardboard mockups that are A Forest in Miniature below the nearest of the upper tracks. From being used to simulate the actual buildings The remnants of the forest at Gran Quiv­ the Vilsousterrs side of the junction, how­ of downtown Vilsousterrs. Our real-life era junction appear on the lersey Western ever, the trees wi II function as part and par­ experience of this "City in the Trees" Railroad as an essential part of the transition cel of the city scene - they will stand as occurred when we lived in north Atlanta.

58 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 Using Mockups to Plan the Forest Several elements were used to create the scene visible in Photo l. First were the card­ board mockups of several buildings located in VilsoustelTS. Three of these may be seen in the photo: two are located against the backdrop, behind the Station Highway mainline, and the third stands directly behind the Shining Time lead. The building mockup farthest to the right in the photo, and directly against the backdrop, represents a pOltion of a large industrial stTUC­ ture that will dominate this part of the city. The mockup next to it and also against the back­ drop will function as a remodeled hotel in the downtown area; and the third mockup depicts the back of an office building located directly across from the hotel. ote that the th i I'd mockup must be hidden from two diffe rent 3 - This "bare bones" view of the area below Gran Quivera Junction and above vantage points - the top third of the structure, Tortilla Flats Yard shows the location of support risers and wiring, as well as a extending above and behind the Shining Team clear view of the cardboard mockups of structures in Vilsousterrs. Adding con­ lead, must be disguised so that it does not crete embankments, a retaining wall and an arched bridge to the area hides the appear to be the side of a city building; and the supports and adds scenic interest and variety. side of the building visible below the track must also be hidden from view. These three each piece can then serve as a pelfectly sized building mockup that is visible through the simulated structures were created in temporary template to use when modeling the real thingl second open area below the Shining Time fo rm and placed in location so that we could lead. We therefore decided to cover this side judge the relative sizes and locations of the Can't See the Forest Without of the building with a painted forest back­ scenic devices that we would use to screen the the Trees ground covered with clumps of foliage. One city from the main aisle of the layout. In fact, Looking at the photos in sequence, from of these clumps is seen in the photos. From three different techniques will be used to create bare bench work to cardboard mockups to the main aisle, this entire area will appear as a trus "screen," but all will use trees and fo liage the addition of trees and fo liage, it is easy to tangled growth of trees and underblUsh - not as part of the scenic illusion. see why we decided that trees would be the the side of a city building - and from the city The next essential element visible in key elements in creating our forest "screen." aisle, it will not be visible at all. The clumps Photo I is the series of cardboard mockups With this key factor determined, the next will be fashioned using extra fo liage from the that simulate future concrete and rock retain­ questions were: how big, what kind and how Architrees pines, Woodland Scenics fo liage ing walls and embankments that support the many') Hiding the large industrial structure clusters, and lichen. upper level tracks. Photo 2 shows these vari­ next to the backdrop in Vilsousterrs meant In fact, each of the open areas underneath ous structures sans the added foliage. Far­ that we would need trees about 12" high (or the upper track will be fi lled with the thest to the left is a vertical retaining wall a scale 87'). In New Mexico, native trees Architrees small trees and underbrush, inter­ that will be constructed of rough cut rock; rarely exceed 20' in height unless they are spersed with simple bridge supports. In this next is a rock embankment, fo llowed by an evergreens, so fir trees were the obvious way, all the city struCUu'es will be hidden from open area, then a concrete embankment, an choice for the largest of our forest inhabi­ the viewpoint of an observer in the main aisle, additional open area, and fi nally a large tants. Along with the tall trees, however, we while, at the same time, light will be allowed arched bridge that supports the Shining Time also needed smaller evergreens to fi ll in the through the foliage into dle city on the other lead as it begins to make its way around the forest, and even smaller hardwood varieties side of the scene. In fact, without this added periphery of Vilsousterrs. Of course, from for contrast. light, the area of Vilsousterrs directly behind this, the mountain side of the scene, the Based on these criteria, we selected Gran Quivera junction would be too dark for track goes acro s the arch and then disap­ Architrees as our source for the Gran Quiv­ normal operations. That is one beauty of this pears behind some rock. Once again, by era forest. Their 12" HO pines featu re type of foliage treatment; it can serve both to using these temporary cardboard mockups straight, fi nely textured trunks and hardy hide and to illuminate. In a similar way, the as a planning aid, we were able to design dark green foliage that may be plucked and area underneath the rock arch bridge to the specific aspects of the scenery so that the trimmed where necessary to fit. We also pur­ right of the scene will be fi lled with small city could be hidden from the viewpoint of chased their 8" pines and a selection of their U'ees and foliage. Adding bridge supports to an observer in the main operating aisle. By small HO trees, including several pine and each of the open areas helps to make the scene the way, all photos this month are taken aspen varieties. Using a sketch of the area as plausible - the upper U'ack appears to be sup­ from Jim's eye level. a guide, we determined that we would need ported by a series of walls, embankments and The specific arrangement of the retaining approximately 2 I of the 12" trees, along small bridges, rather than running on an anifi­ wall, concrete embankments, open areas with 48 of the 8" pines and a dozen or so cial "shelf' of rock above TortiLla Flats yard. (future blidges) and arch bridge was no acci­ smaller trees, in order to fi ll in our forest. The Shining Time lead is therefore separated dent; rather, it resulted fi'om the spacing of the The tall trees will be placed both in front of from the lower yard u'ackage veltically, hori­ wood risers that support the upper level track. and behind the Shining Te am lead so as to zontally, and scenically, adding depth and Photo 3 shows the area when we started, with hide the city without creating an artificial interest to this portion of dle layout. all the risers and wiring exposed. From these "wall" of trees; the trees on the other side of Certainly, creating the elements of a fo r­ bare bones, a drawing was made and measure­ the track will be planted in the city itself, as est in the high mountain scenery at Gran ments were taken - then the cardboard pieces scenic accents for the downtown area. Quivera solves a number of the scenic prob­ were cut, fit into place and temporarily Along with the tall trees, smaller trees and lems involved in the transition from moun­ attached to the track sub-board with Atlas track fo liage will be used to hide other aspects of tain to city. Next time we will detail one of nails so as to hide each of the risers. An added the city. For example, it is obvious from Photo the structures featured as a cardboard benefit of using the cardboard mockups is that 2 that we need to hide the ponion of the third mockup in this article. Til then ! �

OCTOBER 1998 MODEL RAILROADING T 59 Illinois Central (IC) GP1 0 Paducah Rebuilds

HO Scale GP9 Models (listed in the text) N Scale GP9 Models by Atlas, Life-Like and Rapido by Rich Picariello

Photos from the author's collection

he Prototype IC GPIO: Illinois Central the cab was rebuilt. Later rebuilds, classed hood (adding numberboarcls, cab front, T (later Illinois Central Gulf) started as GPl ls, were rebuilt using (EMD) Dash 2 headlight and front windshield) would be their pioneering Capital Rebuild Program in electrical equipment. Many GPSs, GP I Os necessary. early 1968, converting their GP7s to GP8s and GP Ils went to other Class I railroads or For N scale, the Life-Like GP IS (in high­ and their GP9s and GPISs to GPIOs (GPS shortlines. TCG's rebuilding program ended and low-hood versions) or the GP9 phase III and GP I 0 are IC, not EMD, model designa­ in 19S1. The photo of 9125 is of an unre­ could be used. Rapido and Atlas also once tions). All work was done at IC's Paducah, built GP9. made GP9s. Kentucky, shops. Only GPS 7960 and GP I 0 The Scale Models: In HO scale, GP9 Note: Current, Life-Like (N) and Life­ SO 19, S009, S025 and SOS2 retained their models are avai lable that can be used as a Like Proto 2000 (HO) models are limited­ high short hoods; the rest were rebuilt with starting point to model the TC GPIO. Life­ production items that may not always be low short hoods. Most units received Horst Like Proto 2000 makes a GP9 phase III available. paper air fi lters, but other air-fi lter types w/4S" fans (high-hood only) and a GP IS Paint and Decal Notes: IC modernized were also used, and all units were rebuilt (high- and low-hood versions); Model their paint scheme by using white and with a fo ur-stack "liberated" exhaust mani­ Power/Walthers GP9 comes with a low orange with a new "split rail" IC logo. The fold. IC's program was so successful that nose and the Trains Unlimited GP9 (ex­ underframe, trucks and fuel tank are black. they decided to rebui ld for others. Their Front Range) is available in high hood Handrails are orange with white at the step main customer was Precision National only. The Life-Like Proto 2000 GP IS can areas. This paint scheme lasted through Corp. (PNC). PNC supplied secondhand be backdated to a phase III GP9 by adding the merger with the GM&O to form Illi­ GP7s and GP9s for the IC/ICG program. If grilles from Train Station Products. On nois Central Gulf. Recently, the "new" these units were equipped with dynamic some of the models, the addition, reloca­ Illinois Central dropped "Gulf' from its brakes and/or a high short hood, the brakes tion or removal of some of the louvers, title and is now using an all-over dark gray were removed, the hood was lowered and fan replacement or lowering the short paint scheme.

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OCTOBER 1998 60 ... MODEL RAI LROADING

Illinois Central GP10 Paducah Rebuilds

Detail Parts for HO Scale: 32 - AL29210 Sunshade (photo-etched brass) ...... 2. 35/6 1 - DW139 Air filter ...... I.OO/ea. DA1301 Sunshade (plastic) ...... 1.50/6 2 - CS425 Air horn (brass) ...... 4.9 5/ea. DW188 Sunshade (plastic) ...... 1.00/4 DA 1601 Air horn (delrin) ...... 1.75/2 PSC39047 Sunshade (brass) ...... 2.25 /4 DW175 Air horn (brass) ...... 2. 95/ea. 33 - AL29239 Steps, GP7/9 (etched see-thru)* ...... 3. 15/set 3 - DA1801 Antenna, can type ...... 1.00/6 34 - CF112 Underframe/step light (brass) ...... 2.95/2 4 - CF111 Bell, front mount...... 4.95/ ea. DWI72 Underframe/step light ...... 1.25/8 5 - CF109 Bell, side mount ...... 4.95/ea. 35 - DA2312 Wind deflector, straight (clear plastic) ...... 1.25/4 6 - DA2809 Brake-cylinder air line, Blomberg 4-wheel...... 1.2514 OM9327 Wind deflector, straight (brass)...... 2.50 /4 7 - DW132 Brake ratchet" ...... 1.00/ea. UP77 Wind deflector/mirror (brass) ...... 2. 00/2 PSC39082 Brake ratchet* ...... ] .5012 ...... 36 - DA2311 Wind deflector, angled (clear plastic) ...... 1.25/4 Note: Not shown, mounted on end of long hood. 37 - RUN1853 Window glass, GP7- 18* ...... 2. 00/set 8 - ASM 0103 Chain, 28, 42 & 56 1pi (etched brass sheet) .... 1O.00/ea. 38 - AL29200 DA2210 Chain, blackened ...... 2.2511 2" Windshield wipers (delrin) ...... 2.95/8 PSC48237 Chain 2.75/10" CS419 Windshield wipers (brass) ...... 3.50 /4 ...... 9 - DAI0l7 Classification lenses ...... 1.25/6 ME WS Windshield wipers (brass) ...... 2.98 /set MV300 Classification lenses ...... 2. 00/4 PSC3968 Windshield wipers (plastic) ...... 1.50/4 10 - CS476 Coupler lift bar ...... 3.7512 UP94 Windshield wipers (beryllium copper) ...... 2. 00/4 DA2205 Coupler lift bar ...... 2.75/ 10 UP97 Windshield wipers (plastic) ...... 1.50/4 OM9150 Coupler lift bar ...... 1.7512 11 - OM9171 Door handle (brass) ...... 1.7012 Detail Parts for N Scale: PSC3998 Door handle (plastic) ...... 1.50/6 1-ME NF5 Air filter ...... 2.50 /set 12 - DA1402 Drop step ...... 1.50/2 2 - DA8204 Air horn, 3-chime ...... 1.25/2 13 - DA2402 Exhaust stack, GP7- 18 ...... 1.2512 JNJ1l3 Air horn, 3-chime ...... 3.50 /2 14 - DW142 Fan, 36" (plastic)* ...... 1.25/4 SE N700 Air horn, 3-chime ...... 1.65/ea PSC3990 Fan, 36" w/open ribs (plastic)"' ...... 2. 25/4 3 - SE N454 Antenna, can type ...... 1.65/ea. 15 - DA2706 Filter, Horst Paducah ...... 3. 25/ea. 4 - SE N359 Bell, nose mOllnt ...... 1.85/2 16 - DA2208 Footboard, pilot* ...... 3. 2512 5 - SE N352 BeU, body mount w/bracket ...... 1.65/2 17 - DA3101 Fuel gauge, round, side tank mount (plastic) .... 1.00/6 8 - ASM OI03 Chain, 28, 42 56 Ipi (etched brass sheet) .... 1O.00/ea. OM9251 Fuel gauge, round, side tank mount (brass) ..... 1.75/ea. & DA2210 18 - AL29100 Grabirons (formed wire) ...... 3. 25/50 Chain, 40 Ipi ...... 2.2511 2" DA2202 Grabirons (formed wire) ...... 2. 50124 12 - DA8206 Drop step ...... 1.0012 UP54 Grabirons (cast brass) ...... 5.95 112 14 - JNJ104 Fan. 36"* ...... 3.0 0/2 19 - DAl004 Headlight, front & rear ...... 1.00/2 15 - JNJ134 Filter, Horst ...... 3. 00/ea. 20 - DA1023 Headlight, front, oscillating ...... 1.00/2 20 - DA8218 Headlight, front, oscillating ...... 1.2514 21 - MV22 Headlight lenses ...... l.15/4 23 - PSC6704 Hose, air line (brass) ...... 1.50/6 22 - MV220 Headlight lens, red ...... 1.50/4 PSC6705 Hose, air line (plastic)...... 2. 50/24 23 - CS227 Hose, air line (brass) ...... 2.15 /4 24 - ASMOIOI Lift lug /eyebolts/u-bolts (etched brass sheet) ... 8.29/ea. DA6206 Hose, air line (deLI'in) ...... 1.25/6 27 - SE N550 MU hoses ...... 3. 95/4 24 - DA2206 Lift rings ...... 3. 00/36 31 - SE N499 Speed recorder ...... 1.65/2 25 - DA Louvers 32 - DA8201 Sunshade (plastic) ...... 1.25/4 26 - DA1501 MU stand...... 1.25/2 ME NS6 Sunshade (brass) ...... 2. 00/2 Note: Make a low stand by cutting-off bottom MU connector. 38 - ME NWI Windshield wipers ...... 3. 33/4 27 - CF257 MU hoses, 3lbracket (brass) ...... 7. 95/4 DA1508 MU hoses, individual (delrin) ...... 2.00 116 The fo llowing parts must be fabricated by the modeler: DW266 MU hoses, 3lbracket (metal) 3.50/4 ...... •...... A Underframe piping - make from various sizes of wire. OM9349 MU hoses, 3lbracket, long (brass) ...... 7.4 5/4 - Plate w/AC! label - make plate from thin styrene, add ACT decal. 28 - DW153 Oscitrol headlight ...... 1.0012 B - C "Frog eye" headlight mounting bracket - make from styrene. 29 - DA2220 Pilot grab bar, GP7- 18 ...... 2.0 0/2 - D Handrail - make from .015 wire. 30 - DA3002 Sand-fill hatch, GP7-20 (plastic)* ...... 1.0014 - DW201 Sand-fill hatch, GP7-20 (metal)* ...... 1.2514 OM9401 Sand-fill hatch, GP7-20 (brass)* ...... 4.0 012 " Similar parls, either separate or molded on, are included with the listed HO 31 - CF196 Speed recorder (brass) ...... 4.39 /4 or N scale models; replacement of any or all original parts is left to the dis­ DA2807 Speed recorder (deLI'in) ...... 1.50/4 cretion of the modeler.

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62 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 ON TRACK

Bridging the Gap: The Dilemma 1 Here is the abutment support - (Part2) assembly for the north end of the Two Stick Draw bridge installed on the lay­ by Jim Mansfield out. The cutting dimensions of the 2 Here is what we started with - lumber are based on the design of the when we built the north abutment for Photos by the author final bridge that will eventually be set Tw o Stick Draw bridge. Notice that the into place on the layout. The tempo­ riser is vertical and is not at the end of ast time, a simple bridge was offered as rary bridge we saw last month is the plywood track sub-board. Notice L a solution to postponing the construc­ much thinner than the final bridge too that there is a 1x2 that is the tion of a scratchbuilt bridge. The design of and will require that we add a spacer actual support of the track sub-board. the scratchbuilt two-section bridge has a 161 ' between the bottom of the temporary This piece of 1 x2 was attached to the double-track deck truss bridge resting on the bridge and the abutment. While the already-in-place riser. The thin ply­ north portal of the span. This end of this por­ shape of the assembly is a bit odd, it wood atop the 1x2 is shim material tion of the bridge has a square-ended truss in­ will be covered by styrene sheet. used when setting the plywood track stead of the typical diagonal end. The other support in place. The back of the abut­ end of the truss is in fact a diagonal-ended in place on the layout. Since I was using ment support assembly is seen here design sharing a concrete bent with the styrene sheet, I need to provide a SUppOlt for sitting atop the track ties second bridge, a 50' thru-girder bridge. the six primary surfaces (two sides, a top, a The reason for the selection of the square­ face, the bridge support surface and the face bridge, I removed the inch plus another '//' ended truss on the north end of the bridge is of the abutment that enters the ground below from the end of the sub-board. If I had planned two-fold. From a modeling perspective, we the bridge). To provide the SUPP0ItS for these to set the riser at the end of the sub-board, that needed to drop the scenery quickly on the sUlfaces, I used lx2 and I x4 lumber. extra '//' would have had gotten me into trou­ nOIth end of the bridge so that we could get the Before starting the support assembly (see ble. (By the way, always have your risers maximum effectof the small valley (Two Stick Photo 2), I had to detennine how I was going to attached in place prior to the final measuring Draw) below the bridge. We did not want to add the SUppOlt to the layout since there is no riser and cutting of any piece of track sub-board.) use a sheer rock face cliff, and any kind of rea­ on which to connect the SUppOlt assembly. The Photo 2 shows the back of the abutment sonable looking slope for the land below the reason there is no riser at the velY end of the ullck support assembly sitting on the ties of the bridge occupied too much of the valley floor. sub-board is two-fold. First, the L-girder SUPPOlt­ track. Photo 1 shows the SUppOIt in place on Using the square-ended truss, the abutment ing the liser is not in a position to easily SUPPOlt a the layout. The I x4 that attaches to the bot­ face measures a scale 26' (3.5 "), and the bot­ liser that would be even with the end of the sub­ tom of the sub-board is only partially as wide tom portion of the abutment adds another 15' board. Notice in Photo I that the I x2 sub-board as the sub-board because it hits the support (2 'j. This total of over 40' of vertical face takes SUppOit attached to the liser is not parallel with the that is attached to the riser. I had planned the care of one half of the distance to the valley end of the plywood track sub-board. piece to be a bit wider, but because of the '//' floor. We also see that the full truss structure The second reason that there is no riser at I had to shorten the width. Notice that the I x4 sitting on the abutment will take some atten­ the end of the sub-board goes back to nearly six is attached to the very end of the plywood. tion from the sloping land below it, and we can years ago. The south end of the bridge across Also notice in Photo I that the corner of make the slope a bit steeper than is realistic. Two Stick Draw was built when the backdrop the I x4 is in direct contact with the riser. The This trick of the eye allows us to drop more was first set into place. The final detailing of riser is vertical (as measured using a level) than 10" with just over 2" being used horizon­ this south abutment is given in the March 1993 and the sub-board is on a grade (the bridge is tally from the end of the track above. "Behind the Scenes." On the other hand, the on a 1.5% grade) at the abutment. In order for The second reason we are modeling a track piece sub-board that the nOl1h end of the the 26' abutment face to be vertical, the sup­ square-ended Uuss is because the prototype engi­ bridge attaches to was just recently set into port design re lies on the corner to be in con­ neers, when they were deciding on the bridge place as one end of a 10' piece of sub-board tact with the riser. The corner is attached to design, chose the square-ended truss for this end that contains Gran Quivera Junction and the the riser with Elmer's Glue-All®. of the bridge due to the steepness of the nOl1h start of the big city bridge that Margaret has In order to have enough depth for the truss, side of the valley. They realized that there would been showing you in the past few "Behind the the long I x2 attached to the I x4 needed to be be a lot of extra site work dLlling the consu'uction Scenes." This particular piece of sub-board was very near the bottom edge of the I x4 (see the of the abutment. If they had chosen a diagonal­ designed prior to the start of the layout and cut assembly in Photo 2). I added the second piece ended design, the height of the pOltion of the from plywood nearly tlu'ee years ago; it fi nally of I x2 in order to strengthen the joint. Each abuunent supporting the bridge would take a lot had the track, turnout switch machines, a DS54 piece of I x2 was set in place with Elmer's of extra concrete, fOIm clibbing and u'ansp0Ita­ for the DCC system and all wiring installed this Glue-All and held there with a 2" C-clamp. tion of raw matelials. The concrete mixing alone past spring. With all of this coming together The #6- 1 " wood screws were added while the was a time-consuming chore, since the bridge over the course of nearly ten years, I left myself glue was still wet. Once the glue was dry, the was hundreds of miles from any major town. some leeway when I was to set the piece of clamp was removed. The long I x2 was trackwork in place on the layout. T allowed attached first (to a line that had been measured The Abutment Support myself I" of extra sub-board when T cut the and drawn) and the smaller piece of I x2 was The abutment on the layout is being made piece out from plywood sheet. Then, when I set added last. Once the glue was completely dry, from sheet styrene. In order to simplify the the piece in place and did the final alignment of the assembly was attached to the sub-board construction of the model, I chose to build it the two abutments fo r the Two Stick Draw using the #6 wood screws. �

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SARASOTA CHICAGO NASHVILLEJBROWN COUNn' EL CERRITO SAN FRANCISCO GULF COAST MODEL RAILROAD KIT & CABOODLE FRANCISCAN HOBBIES CHICAGO TRAIN COMPANY NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY 3222 CLARK ROAD 1922 W. IRVING PARK ROAD PO BOX 1273 550 EL CERRITO PLAZA 1920-A OCEAN AVE. CONNECTICUT 34231 941-923-9303 ALABAMA 94530 510-524-9942 94127 415-584-3919 60613 312-929-4152 47448-1273 B12-988-1558 TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS

ESCONOIDO BRANFORO BIRMINGHAM (HOMEWOOO) SAN LUIS OBISPO TALLAHASSEE CHICAGO BRANCHLINE HOBBIES BRANFORD HOBBIES THE HOBBY CABOOSE TROST HOBBY SHOP HOMEWOOD TOY AND HOBBY LAWS HOBBY CENTER 609 BOSTON POST RD. 250 F CREST S1 855 MARSH 1000-24 W. THARPE S1 3105-3111 63RD S1 2830 S. 18TH S1 92025 619-489-5020 WEST MAIN W IOWA 53209 205-879-3986 93401 805-544-5518 32303 850-385-9728 60629 733-925-1000 DAILY 10-6, TH. 12-9, CLOSED SUN 06405 203-4BB-9865

DECATUR MANCHESTER TAMPA CEDAR FALLS FRESNO SAN MATEO NEW ENGLAND HOBBY SUPPLY CHESTER HOLLEY MODEL DES PLAINES CRUMP CAMERAlHOBBY SHOP FRESNO MODEL RAILROAD TALBOT'S HOBBIES DES PLAINES HOBBIES CABOOSE STOP HOBBIES 806 BANK NE - THE TRAIN EXCHANGE RAILROAD SPECIALIST 1468 LEE S1 301 MAIN S1 744 P. STREET 445 SOUTH B S1 71 HILLIARD Sl 06040 3818 S. HIMES AVE. 35601 205-353-3443 93721 209-266-2805 94401 415-342-0267 60018 847-297-2118 50613 800-642-7012 800-353-3446 860-646�10 wml!NEHOBB�COM 33611 813-831-7202

LOS ANGELES (CULVER Cln') HARTSELLE SANTA CLARA OLD LYME OOWNERS GROVE CEDAR RAPIDS ALLIED MOOEL TRAINS TRAIN SHOP HOBBY CENTER DOWNERS GROVE HOBBIES BOX KAR HOBBIES CRUMP CAMERA/HOBBY SHOP 4411 S. SEPULVEDA BLVD. 138 WEST MAIN S1 1829 PRUNERIDGE AVE. 151-3A BOSTON POST ROAD 6234 S. MAIN S1 109 THIRD AVE. SE 90230 FAX 310-313-9365 408-296-1050 06731 860-434-5309 GEORGIA 60516 708-960-5900 52401 319-362-1291 35640 205-773-8018 310-313-9353 95050

ATLANTA (KENNESAW) MONTGOMERY LAKEWOOD TORRANCE RIDGEFIELD ELGIN OES MOINES TRAINS & HOBBIES INC. B & G TRAIN WORLD HOBBY HAVEN UNCLE AL'S HOBBIES HOBBY WAREHOUSE ALL ABOARD MODEL RR HOBBY JUNCTION 2B44 S. MAIN Sl 6017 E. SHIRLEY LANE 4118 E. SOUTH S1 3867 PACIFIC COAST HWY. 56 DANBURY ROAD 829 WALNUT AVE. 7672 HICKMAN RD. 30144 770-528-0990 847-B88-2646 50322 515-276-8785 361 17 334-277-1715 90712 213-531-1413 90505 213-791-2637 06877 203-438-4452 770-528-0910 60120

SHELTON CHAMBLEE LODI VENTURA SHELTON RAILROAD SYSTEMS GANDY DANCERS FRANKLIN PARK MASON Cln' RODGER'S RAILROAD JUNCTION VENTURA HOBBIES END OF TRACK HOBBIES EAST SIDE TRAI NS 15 ELM S1 PEACHTREE SHOPPING CTR. 9706 FRANKLIN AVE. 932 B E. STATE S1 12 W. OAK S1 2950 JOHNSON DR. #128 5438 PEACHTREE IND. BLVD. ALASKA 93003 805-658-8138 PO BOX 2272 60131 708-455-2510 50401 515-423-1748 95240 209-334-5623 06484 203-924-8761 30341 404-451-7425

KENNESAW SOLDOTNA MILPITAS WESTMINSTER VERNON LA GRANGE HOBBY TOWN USA GRANGE HOBBY CENTER INC. CRAFTSMAN HOBBIES HOBBYTOWN USA ARNIES TRAINS J&E TRAIN DEPOT 800 E. BARREn PKWAY , LA 35060 KENAI SPUR HWY. 1465 LANDESS AVE. 6450 WESTMINSTER AVE. 911 HARTFORD TPK., (R1 30) 25 S. LAGRANGE RD. SUITE 20 60525 708-354-1220 KANSAS 99669 907-262-2B39 95035 408-945-6524 926B3 714-893-1015 06006 860-870-7311 30144 770-426-B800

LENEXA MORENO VALLEY WOLCOn MACON MUNDELEIN DESTINATION TRAIN CENTER LONG'S DRUG STORE #224 THE HOBBY GALLERY HOBBYTOWN USA RON'S MUNDELEIN HOBBIES 13444 SANTA FE TRAIL DR. ARIZONA 25070 ALESSANDRO BLVD. COLORADO 1810 MERIDEN RD. 225-B TOM HILL SR. BLVD. 431 N. LAKE Sl 66215-3655 913-541-B800 92388-4313 909-242-5060 06716 203-879-2316 31210 912-474-0061 60060 708-949-8680 913-541-8B60

COLORADO SPRINGS MESA MOUNTAIN VIEW MARlEnA PALATINE MISSION ROY'S TRAIN WORLD SAN ANTONIO HOBBY SHOP CUSTOM RAILWAY SUPPLY PALATINE HOBBY, LTD. J'S HOBBY HAVEN 432 W. FILLMORE NATIONAL HOBBY SUPPLY 1033 S. COUNTRY CLUB DR. 2550 W EL CAMINO REAL W. 353 PAT MELL RD. 712 W. EUCLID AVE. 5303 JOHNSON DR. 85202 602-833-4353 94040 415-941-1278 80907 719-634-4616 DELAWARE 30060 404-333-0190 60067 B47-359-788B 66205 913-432-B820 1 BLOCK EAST OF 1-25

WILMINGTON RIVEROALE NAPA COLORADO SPRINGS RIVERDALE STATION PEORIA TOPEKA LOOSE CABOOSE KRIS KRINGLE LTD. MITCHELL'S, INC. MIKE'S MAINLINE HOBBIES FUN FOR ALL HOBBIES 2303 CONCORD PIKE 6632 HWY. 85 4225 SOLAND AVE 2403 W COLORADO AVE. 1227 D. WESTGLEN AVE. 2023 SW GAGE BLVD. ARKANSAS 94558 707-258-1222 80904 719-633-1210 FAIRFAX SHOPPING CENTER RIVERDALE PLAZA 61614 309-692-1909 66604 913-272-5772 19803 302-652-3258 30274 770-991-6085

COLORADO SPRINGS SAVANNAH SKOKIE NORTH LlTILE ROCK NORTH HOLLYWOOO PLUM LOCO Of COLORADO WICHITA MADIJO HOBBY HOUSE THE ROUNDHOUSE BULL STREET STATION NORTH SHORE HOBBY AND ENGINE HOUSE HOBBIES 5302 MACARTHUR DR. 12804 VICTORY BLVD. 6543 N. ACADEMY BLVD. 151 BULL S1 COLLECTORS GALLERY 80918 719-594-4123 4901 OAKTON S1 271B BOULEVARD PLAZA 72118 501-753-0495 91606 818-769-0403 FLORIDA 31402 912-236-4344 67211 316-685-6608 WWWPLUM-LOCD.COM 1-800-611-8521 60077 847-673-4849

COLORAOO SPRINGS CLEARWATER SPRINGfiELD ORANGE WICHITA fRANK'S HOBBY SHOP TRAIN SHOWCASE TRAINS AND TREASURES, INC. SPRINGfiELD HAMMERS HOBBY CENTER INC. 666 N. TUSTIN AVE. 38 S SIERRA MADRE 1710 N. HERCULES AVE. HOBBIES 1034 E. HARRY CALIFORNIA 92667 714-639-9901 (IN OLD RIO CRANOE STATION) SUITE 104A1105A IDAHO 2448 S. 10TH S1 67211 316-269-3063 80903 719-471-1887 33765 813-29B-0350 62703 217-523-0265

BERKElEY DENVER LAKELAND IDAHO FALLS BERKELEY HARDWARE PASAOENA THE ORIGINAL WHISTLE STOP CABOOSE HOBBIES PERKINS HOBBIESI HATCH'S HOBBIES & MORE 2145 UNIVERSIn'AV E. 500 S. BROADWAY COLLECTIBLES 2159 E.17TH S1 94704 510-845-0410 2490 E. COLORADO BLVD. 91107 818-796-7791 80209 303-777 -6766 1117 S. fLORIDA AVE. B3406 20B-523-5144 INDIANA KENTUCKY fAX 510-845-3617 WWWCABOOSEHOBBIES.COM 33803 813-683-3251 WWWNRRC.COM

ENGLEWOOD BUR8ANK PETALUMA NISSEN TRAINS & HOBBIES LANTANA BREMEN LOUISVILLE BURBANK'S HOUSE Of HOBBIES MODELS AND MORE THE DEPOT BREMEN HOBBIES SCALE REPRODUCTIONS, INC. 911 S. VICTORY BLVD. 218 PETALUMA BLVD. N. 1835 W. BAKER AVE. 603 RIDGE RD. 3073 BRECKINRIDGE LANE 801 10 303-922-5765 30B N. BOWEN AVE. 91502 818-848-3674 94952 707-762-2378 33462 561-585-1982 ILLINOIS 46506 219-546-3807 40220 502-459-5849 NISSTRAINS@WORLONETATTNET

BURBANK REDDING FORT COLLINS MIAMI 8LOOMINGTON EVANSVILLE THE TRAIN SHACK TRAIN DEPOT HOBBY TOWN ORANGE BLOSSOM HOBBIES HOBBYLAND INC. A A HOBBY SHOP 1030 N. HOLLYWOOD WAY 2334 RAILROAD AVE. 2531 0 S. COLLEGE AVE. 1975 NW 36TH ST 616 N. MAIN ST 2023 W. FRANKLIN ST 91505 818-842-3330 96001 916-243-1360 80525 303-244-5445 33142 305-633-1517 61701 309-828-1442 47712 812-423-8888 LOUISIANA

BURLINGAME BOURBONNAIS ROSEVILLE FULTON (SANTA ROSA) BROUSSARD TRACKS IDE TRAINS MILTON THE OWL'S ROOST INDIANAPOLIS RON'S MODEL RAILROAD & BOOKS EXCLUSIVELY RAILROAD HOBBIES fULTON TRAINS WEST fLORIDA RR MUSEUM N GAUGE TRAIN SHOP MODEL RRs 119VERNON 51 3204 FULTON RD. 206 HENRY ST MODEL RR SHOP SHOP 1675 ROLLINS ROAD B-1 263 N. CONVENT, SUITE 8 4759 N. POST RD. 95678 916-7B2-6067 95439 707-523-3522 32570 904-623-3645 46226 317-B98-4883 106 E. MAIN STREET 94010 650-692-9724 60914 815-932-6100 70518 318-837-3799

SACRAMENTO KOKOMO HAMMOND CAMPBELL BRUCE'S TRAIN SHOP GRAND JUNCTION ORLANDO BOURBONNAIS 0&J HOBBY DEPOT TRAINS COLONIAL PHOTO & HOBBY INC. DANNY'S TRAINS AND PLANES TOLIN K&K THE TRAIN STATION 96 N. SAN TOMAS AQUINO RD. 2752 MARCONI AVENUE 403-405 ARNOLD C1 1415 S. MORRISON BLVD. 95821 916-485-5288 201 SOUTH AVE. 634 N. MILLS 51 636 SOUTH MAIN 51 95008 408-379-1696 81501 970-245-5504 32803-4675 46902 317-453-9793 1-55 71-12 SACRAMENTO'S lARGEST TRAIN STORE 407-841-1485 90914 815-932-2000 aUALlTY CUSTOMER SERVICE 70403-5705 504-345-7601

SAN DIEGO (LA MESA) MERRILLVILLE COSTA MESA GREELEY ORLANOO/WINTER PARK BURBANK NEW ORLEANS TRAIN CROSSING REEDS HOBBY HOBBYTOWN - MERRILLVILLE 8039 LA MESA BLVD. DON'S HOBBIES THE TRAIN DEPOT GOLDEN SPIKE TRAIN SHOP HUB HOBBY SUPPLY 1089C BAKER 51 815 10TH STREET 900 S. ORLANDO AVE. (17-92) 6357 W. 79TH S1 1858 E 80TH AVE 91941 619-464-1672 46410-5734 219-736-0255 2618 S. BROAD 51 92626 714-549-1596 80631 303-353-3115 32789 407-629-1365 60459 708-598-3114 70125 504-822-3914 DAilY 10-/ SAT 10-5 SUN 12-4

CULVER Cln' SAN DIEGO WESTMINSTER PENSACOLA CHICAGO MICHIGAN Cln' SHREVEPORT ALLIED MODEL TRAINS THE WHISTLE STOP MIZELL TRAINS INC. BOBE'S HOBBY HOUSE CHICAGDLAND HOBBY B & A HOBBIES & CRAFTS COOK'S COLLECTORS CORNER 4411 SEPULVEDA BLVD. 3834 4TH AVE. 3051 WEST 74TH AVE. 5719 NORTH W ST 6017 NORTHWEST HWY. 408 FRANKLIN 4402 YOUREE DR. 90230 310-313-9353 92103 619-295-7340 80030 303-429-4811 32514 904-433-2187 60631 773-775-4848 46360 219-874-2382 71105 318-865-7632

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NORTON OOWNTOWN MERCERVILLE SPENCER NORTON HOBBIES TAYLOR Z & Z HOBBIES HICKSVILLE lITIlE CHOO CHOO SHOP, INC. 46 MAIN ST RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP HICKSVILLE HOBBYS W 22661 NORTHLINE RO. 116 FLOCK RO. 500 S. SALISBURY AVE. MAINE 02766 508-285-2805 08619 800-586-2281 230 WEST OLD COUNTRY RD 48180 313-287-7405 NEBRASKA 11801 516-822-8259 28159 800-334-CHOO OPEN MON. - SUN. fAX 609-586-7765 704-637-8717

GRANO ISLAND PARK RIDGE fALMOUTH SUDBURY WESTLANO INTERLAKEN FALMOUTH HOBBIES KEN'S TRAINS OAVE'S HOBBY & HOBBYTOWN USA RAILROAD SWITCH TV 3537 W. 13TH ST 126 PARK AVE. ROCK RIVER MODEL HOBBIES 847 MAIN ST MILL VILLAGE, RTE. 20 29026 WARREN RD. 7762 ROCK RIVER ROAD NORTH 02540 508-540-4551 01776 978-443-6883 48185 313-422-4464 IN STATE ONLY 1-800-286-3451 07656-1324 206 440-8448 68803 308-382-3451 206 363-6569 14847 607-532-9489 DAKOTA

LINCOLN NORTH YARMOUTH WARREN WESTLANO PENNSAUKEN ISLIP BISMARK TRAIN & TROOPER TUCKERS HOBBIES HOBBYTOWN NANKIN HARDWARE & HOBBY EAST PARK MALL TED'S ENGINE HOUSE GOLD SPIKE HOBBIES OAVE'S HOBBIES 68 MEMORIAL HWY. (ROUTE 9 BOX 1090 - 8 BACON ST 35101 FORD RO. 6307 WESTFIELD AVE. 189 ISLIE AVE., RT 111 200 W. MAIN 04021 207-829-321 ) 01083 413-436-5318 48185 313-722-5700 220 NORTH 66TH ST 08110 68505 402-464-2858 609-662-0222 11751 516-277-3700 58502 701-255-6353

WARWICK OMAHA PISCATAWAY JOHNSON CITY GRANO FORKS A.A. HOBBIES HOBBYTOWN USA MODEL RAILROAD SHOP THE TRAIN SHOP MCGIFFIN'S 655 JEFFERSON BLVO. 14655 W CENTER RO. VAIL AVE. & NEW MARKET RD. 210 GRAND AVE. 1200 S. WASHINGTON MARYLAND 02886 401-737-7111 MINNESOTA 68144 402-697-9514 08854 732-968-5696 13790 607-797-9035 58201 701-772-5311

ARNOLD lITIlE CANADA OMAHA RUTHERfORO KINGSTON STAR HOBBY HUB HOBBY CENTER HOUSE OF TRAINS CHOO CHOO EDOIES J&J'S HOBBIES, INC. 1244 RITCHIE HWY., STE. 15 82 MINNESOTA AVE. 8106 MAPLE ST. 38 AMES AVE. 37 N. FRONT 914-338-7174 21012 410-544-7547 MICHIGAN 55117 612-490-1675 68134 402-391-2311 07073 201-438-4588 12401 FAX 914-338-7381 OHIO

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BERLIN ANN ARBOR SPRING LAKE PARK LAS VEGAS SOMERVILLE MINEOLA CINCINNATI DENNISON'S TRACKSIOE UNIVERSITY HOBBIES HOBBYTOWN USA THE BIG lITIlE RAILROAO SHOP WILLIS HOBBIES GOLf MANOR HOBBIES HOBBIES RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP 115 W. LIBERTY 8185 UNIVERSITY AVE. NE 5085 W SAHARA #134 5 NORTH DOUGHTY AVE. 285 WILLIS AVE. 2235 LOSANTIVILLE AVE. 14 S. MAIN ST 48104 313-668-8950 55432 612-780-4189 B9102 702-889-9554 08876 908-429-{)220 11501 516-746-3944 45237 513-351-3849 21811 410-641-2438

WAYNE PAINTED POST COLLEGE PARK CANTON ST. PAUL NORTH LAS VEGAS TOTOWA HOBBY SHOP LACKAWANNA TRAIN SHOP CLEVELANO BURRffi HOBBIES RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP SCALE MOOEL SUPPLIES IMAGINATION UNLIMITEO WING'S HOBBY SHOP, INC. 131 MT VIEW BLVO. 86 VICTORY HIGHWAY 17112 OETROIT AVE. 9920 RHOOE ISLANO AVE. 42007 FORO RO. 458 N. LEXINGTON PKWY. 4934 EAST TROPICANA US HWY. 202 RT 17 EXIT 43 20740 301-982-5032 48187 313-981-8700 55104 651-646-7781 89030 702-434-5696 ( ) 44107 216-221-5383 07470 973-696-5170 1 4870 607-962-5164 SCHENECTAOY FINKSBURG COLOMA THIEF RIVER FALLS RENO WESTMONT COLUMBUS A&E RAILROAO MOHAWK VALLEY RAILROAD STRm HOBBIES TRAIN WORKS J & W MOOEL TRAINS HIGH SIERRA MODELS SATIlER'S HOBBY SHOP COMPANY 2934 CEOARHURST RO. 6450 BECHT RD E HIGHWAY 325 4020 KIETZKE LANE 14 HAOOON AVE. 3655 SULLIVANT AVE. 56701 218-681-4251 2037 HAMBURG ST 43228 614-279-6959 21048 410-526-001 B 49038-9546 616-468-5586 89502 702-825-5557 08108 609-854-7136 12304-4793 518-372-9124

GAITHERSBURG fARMINGTON RENO SMITHTOWN COLUMBUS PASTIMES JOE'S HOBBY CENTER HOBBIES OF RENO THREE GUYS HOBBIES THE TRAIN STATION 531 QUINCE ORCHARD RD. 35151 GRAND RIVER AVE MISSISSIPPI 535 E. MOANA LANE NEW MEXICO 99 E. MAIN ST 4430 INDIANOLA AVE. 20878 301-977-7902 48335 248-477-6266 89502 702-826-6006 11787 516-265-8303 43214 614-262-9056

KENSINGTON fliNT ALBUQUERQUE SYRACUSE EAST JACKSON TRAINS WEST INC. CENTRAL HOBBY SUPPLY LORAIN MAYBERRY & SONS RIDER'S HOBBY SHDP OF FLINT HOBBYTDWN USA THE CORNER STORE TRAIN & HOBBIES 2061 S. lINDEN ROAD NEW 6001 SAN MATEO BLVD. NE 716 WEST MANLIUS ST 1249 COLORADO AVE. 6880 D. RIDGEWOOD COURT SUITE B-3 13057 315-437-6630 10527 SUMMIT AVE. 48532 810-720-2500 39211 601-957-9900 44052 216-288-2351 20895 301-564-9360 FAK 810-720-2505 HAMPSHIRE 87109 505-881-2322 WWWCENTRALHOBBYCOM

LAUREL FRASER LAUREL HAMPTON LAS CRUCES UTICA MAUMEE PEACH CREEK SHOPS P & D HOBBY SHOP HOBBY CORNER NEALS N-GAUGING TRAINS THE HOBBY HUT VILLAGE HOBBIES J & M HOBBIES 201 MAIN STREET 31902 GROESSBECK HWY. 1534 N. FIRST AVE. 86 TIDE MILL RD. 126WYAn DR. 2011 GENESEE ST. 1238 CONANT ST 20707 301-498-9071 48026 313-296-6116 39440 601-649-4501 03842 603-926-9031 88005 505-524-0991 13501 315-733-0611 43537 419-893-2621

NORTH HAMPTON WAPPINGERS FALLS GRAND RAPIDS PHDTO & HOBBY SHOP VALLEY MOOEL TRAINS NORTH CANTON HOBBY WORLD Fins NICK'S SALES & SERVICE 79 LAFAYffiE RD 91 MARKETST., STE. 32, BLOG. 10 7251 MIDDLEBRANCH NE 2851 CLYDE PARK SW 03862-2406 603-964-9292 NEW YORK 12590 914-297-7511 MASSACHUSETI'S 49509 616-538-6130 MISSOURI 44721 216-494-0125 603-964-9417 14 YEARS IN BUSINESS

BLAUVElT TOLEDO BEOFORO GRAND RAPIDS BLUE SPRINGS HUDSON SHORES STEVE'S FALLEN FLAGGS BEDFORO TRAIN SHOP RIDER'S HOBBY SHOP MAINLINE TRAINS MODEL TRAIN NORTH HOBBIES 32 SHAWSHEEN AVE. 2055 28TH ST SE 807 MAIN ST. NEW JERSEY 547 D WESTERN HIGHWAY 5414 MONROE ST 01730 617-275-7525 4950B 616-247-9933 64015 816-224-6962 10913 914-398-2407 CAROLINA 43623 419-843-3334

fLORISSANT DENVILLE BUFFALO CHARLom DEOHAM PORT HURON TROY HENZES HOBBY HOUSE INC F&M HOBBIES K-VAL HOBBIES TRAINS LTD. LLC. THE EIRE RAILWAY DEPOT B.G'S MDDEL TRAIN SHOP BLUE WATER HOBBIES 5600 ALBEMARLD RO SUITE 300 715 S NEW FLORISSANT 3118 ROUTE 10 277 HINMAN AVE. 319 PUBLIC SQUARE sw. 16 FOX MEADOW LANE 4018 LAPEER ROAD 63031-7748 314-839-0600 07834 FAX 201-361-3855 14216 716-875-2837 28212 704-566-9070 810-984-8764 45373 937-335-9983 02026 781-407-0067 48060 201-361-0042 WWWKVAlHOBBIESCOM FAK 704-566-9007

PARKVILLE BUFFALO CHARLom EAST WEYMOUTH ROYAL OAK J&L HOBBIES EDISON NIAGARA HOBBY & CRAfT MART CHARLom ELECTRIC TRAIN SOUTH SHORE HOBBY CENTERS TRAIN CENTER HOBBIES MEYER'S OOLLS, TOY & HOBBIES OPEN EVENINGS & SUNDAY CENTER 1362J NW HWY. 9 561 ROUTE 1 SOUTH 1245 COMMERCIAL STREET 33722 WOODWARD 64152 816-746-1282 3366 UNION RD. AT WALDEN 114-D FREELAND LANE OKLAHOMA 617-331-7275 48073 248-549-6500 08817 732-985-2220 02189 WWW ISTPA GE.COMlIIJANOITRAIN 14225 716-681-1666 28217 704-527-0392

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP HARRISBURG OKLAHOMA CITY SAGINAW ST. LOUIS EAST ROCHESTER HANSON ROGER'S HOBBY CENTER INC DOUBLE TRACK HOBBIES BEACHCOMBER COLLECTIBLES A READY TO RUN HOBBY SHOP WOOOWARDS THE BRASS CABOOSE SHOP DESPATCH JUNCTION 3600 HIGHWAY 40 4401 WEST MEMORIAL ROAO 5620 STATE RD 7726 WISE AVE. SHORE MAl� 100 STATION RO. 1 669 W WASHINGTON, RT 14 48603-3680 517-790-0080 63117 314-644-5545 6725 BLACK HORSE PIKE 28075 704-455-2220 QUAILBROOK CENTER 7B1-447-0100 4445 716-385-5570 02341 517-790-0358 1-B88-0BL-TRACK 08234 609-645-1031 3 MILES FROM CHARLOTTE SPEEOWAY 73134 405-751-4994

FERNOALE SHElBY TOWNSHIP (OETROIT) HIGHTSTOWN MOUNT AIRY TULSA LEOMINSTER SUSIE-Q HOBBY SHOP ORY BRIDGE STATION ACTION HOBBIES THE SHEPAUG RAILROAD CO. GREAT LAKES HOBBY & TRAIN D K & B RAILWAY SUPPLIES RD BOX 220 24 COLUMBIA ST 46660 VAN DYKE 116 MAIN ST 236 N. MAIN ST 4955C SOUTH MEMORIAL MONTANA BUSHVILLE-SWAN LAKE RD. 27030 336-786-9B11 74145 918-663-8998 01453 508-537-2277 48317 810-323-1300 08520 609-448-5070 12734 914-292-0921

TULSA MALDEN ST. CLAIR SHORES BILLINGS JACKSON GLENS fALLS SELMA CHARLES RO SUPPLY CO. WHISTLE STOP HOBBY TRAINS JIM'S JUNCTION JACKSON HOBBY SHOP TRAINS PLUS THE FREIGHT YARD WINGS-N-THINGS, INC. 21714 HARPER AVE. 811 B 16TH STW 2275 W. COUNTY LINE RD. 12 WARREN ST. 1108 S. POLLOCK ST. 5241 S. PEORIA 662 CROSS ST. 918-745-0034 02148 617-321-0090 480BO 313-771-6770 59102 406-259-5354 08527 908-364-3334 12801 51B-761-0173 27576 919-965-6101 74105

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OLYMPIA STRASBURG S1 AL8ANS MILWAUKEE PACIFIC SCALE MOOELS CHOO CHOO BARN, INC. NORTH JUNCTION HOBBIES TERMINAL HOBBY SHOP 503 CHERRY ROUTE 741E, BOX 130 227 LAKE STREET 5619 W. FLORIST AVE. OREGON TEXAS NEXT TO FOREIGN AUTO PARTS ONTARIO 17579 717-687-0464 05478 802-524-0733 53218 414-461-1050 98501 360-352-9261

SEATIlE BADEN FOREST GROVE YORK AMARILLO VERGENNES MONROE AMERICAN EAGLES INC CHIPPEWA CREEK RAILROAD MAINLINE TRAINS G. & L. HOBBY SHOP HOBBY TIME C & J HOBBIES THE HOBBY DEPOT 12537 LAKE CITY WAY, N.E. 57-3 UNIT B, SNYDER'S RD. E. 2707 PACIFIC AVE. 1706 MARKET S1 1409 S. HARRISON RTE. 7, BOX 2510 835-17TH STREET W 98125-4424 206-440-8448 BADEN, NOB lGO 97116 503-992-8181 17404 717-843-2520 79101 806-374-6643 05491 802-877-2997 53566-2347 60B-325-5107 206-364-6569 519-634-8836

OSHKOSH LA GRANDE AUSTIN SEATIlE BURLINGTON HOBBYTOWN USA HOBBY HABIT KING'S HOBBY THE TRAIN CENTER HUTCH'S TRAINS RHODE 2601 S. KOELLER 411 FIR 8Bl0 N. LAMAR 3310 W LYNN S1 490 BRANT S1 VIRGINIA AVIATION PLAZA 97850 1-800-963-9602 78753 512-836-7388 98199 206-283-78B6 ON L7R 2G4 905-637-3721 ISLAND 54901 414-426-1840

BEDFORD KINGSTON PORTLAND CRANSTON ALEXANDRIA SEATIlE/TUKWILA WEST BEND HOBBY MAKER PETER MACDONALD HOBBY WHISTlE STOP TRAINS AA HOBBIES OBIES TRAIN EXPRESS STATION HOBBIES WEST BEND HOBBIES INC. 1424-F AIRPORT FREEWAY SUPPLY 14037 SE STARK 655 JEFFERSON BLVD. 6461 EDSALL RD., STE. 405 640 STRANDER BLVD. 144 N. MAIN S1 76022 817-267-0991 20 MONTREAL S1 97233 503-252-7118 02886 407-737-7111 22312 703-658-9520 98188 206-271-3809 53095 414-334-0487 BE7VIEEN DALLAS & F[ IVORTH ON 183 K713G6 613-548-8427

SALEM DALLAS CHAR LOnESVI LLE SPOKANE PETERBOROUGH SKYSPORT SOUTH BOBBYE HALL'S HOBBY HOUSE THE TRAIN JUNCTION SUNSET JUNCTION COSBURN'S HOBBY DEPOT LTO. 4564 COMMERCIAL S1 SE 4822 BRYAN S1 3550 SEMINOLE TRAIL E 213 SPRAGUE AVE. ARGENTINA 242 CHARLOnE S1 97302 503-363-4345 CAROLINA 75204 214-821-2550 22911 804-974-9499 99202 509-838-2379 ON K9J 2Vl 705-743-0244

GREENVillE DALLAS FAllS CHURCH TORONTO- MARKHAM TACOMA BUENOS AIRES GREAT ESCAPE COllBRI'S INC. ARLINGTON HOBBY CRAFTERS RAILVIEW TRAINS PACIFIC RAILWAY HOBBIES HOBBY MUNDO PLEASANTBURG SHOPPING CTR. 5600 W. LOVERS LANE WILLSTON CENTER 550 ALDEN RD. UNIT 101 5115 100TH SW NO. 7 AV CORDOBA 868 PENNSYLVANIA 1426 LAURENS RD. SUITE 139 230 W. BROAD S1 L3R 6A8 98499 253-581-4453 1054 54-1-322-1874 29607 803-235-8320 75209 214-352-3394 22046 703-532-2224 905-470-6200 FAX 905-470-6302

OALLAS LYNCH8URG ALLENTOWN SIMPSONVILLE PHILS HOBBIES TRAINS UNLIMITED 7TH STREET DEPOT GOLDEN STRIP HOBBIES 2740 VALWOOD PARKWAY 6010 FORT AVENUE 619 N. 7TH STREET 315 FAIRVIEW RD GG WEST il05 24502 804-239-8377 AUSTRIA QUEBEC 18102 610-432-4453 29681-3210 803-963-7149 75234 214-243-3603 800-728-3850 VIRGINIA

WEST COLUMBIA BRIDGEPORT WIEN OORVAL BETHLEHEM FORT WORTH MANASSAS NEW BROOKLAND RAILROAD Ow. REED'S HOBBY STOP, INC. BRUMMI HOBBY JUNCTION EXPRESS CHRISTMAS CITYHOBBIES OLD TIME HOBBIES KMAJUNCTION & HOBBY 142 WEST MAIN STREET GLOCKENGASSE 23 1761 CARDINAL 312-316 S. NEW S1 5030 TRAIL LAKE DR. 9786 CENTER STREET 405 STATE S1 26330 304-842-2742 A-l020 43-1-2149787 H9P lY5 514-631-3504 18015 610-974-9590 76133 BI7-927-5208 22110 703-257-9860 29169 803-791-3958 AUlHORIZEO LiONEL SALES & SERVICE 43-1 -2149787 514-631-1376

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CHAnANODGA SPRING LANCASTER ROANOKE EAU CLAIRE CHAnANOOGA DEPOT SPRING CROSSING SMITTY'S HOBBY & CRAFT THE RAIL YARD BOB'S HOBBY JUNCTION HOBBY SHOP 1420 SPRING CYPRESS RD. 1226 MILLERSVILLE PIKE 6711 A WILLIAMSON ROAD 3621 E. HAMILTON AVE. BRITISH 3701 RINGGOLD RD. 77373 281 -353-9484 17603 717-393-2521 24019 540-362-1714 54701 SWITZERLAND 37412 423-622-0630 EXCLUSMLYMOOEL RAILROAOING 71 5-832-4445 COLUMBIA

SPRINGFIELD KILCHBERG LANSOALE JOHNSON CITY KENOSHA NEW WESTMINSTER GRANDDAD'S HOBBY SHOP TRANMASTER BY WERNER MEER HENNING & ASSOC. SOUTHERN STAR HOBBIES IRON RAILS OF KENOSHA CREATIVE HOBBYCRAFT STORES 5260-A PORT ROYAL RD. 135 SEESTRASSE 128 S. lINE S1 122 SPRING ST. 2031 22ND AVE. 43 6TH ST. UTAH 22151-2113 703-242-8668 CH-8802 INT. 411-715-3666 19446 215-412-7711 37604 423-929-7955 53140 414-552-8075 BC V3L 2Z1 604-525-6644 OPEN 7 OAYS A WEEK INI FAX: 411-715-3660

MAGNA STERLING ZURICH LANSDALE KNOXVILLE MAOISON VANCOUVER COPPER BElT HOBBIES RIDEN'S HOBBY SHOP FEATHER'S US-TRAINSTORE PENN VALLEY HOBBY CENTER TENNESSEE MODEL HOBBIES HOBBY CRAFT OF MADISON CENTRAL HOBBIES 9115 2700 S. 21800 TOWN CENTER PlAZA, HERMETSCHLOOSTR. 75 837 W. MAIN ST. 8903 OAK RIDGE HWY. W 6632 ODANA ROAD 2845 GRANDVIEW HWY. 84044 801 -250-7688 SPACE 236 CH-8010 19446 215-855-1268 37931 423-927-2900 53719 800-429-2738 BC V5M 2El 604-431-0771 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 20164 703-430-2202 INI FAX: 411-433-1464

MEMPHIS MANHEIM OGOEN WOOD8RIDGE MODEL RR HOBBY SHOP RULES MODEL TRAINS WONDERFUL WORLD OF TRAINS THE "RIP TRACK" 1266 SYCAMORE VIEW RD. 43 MARKET SOUARE 3061 WASHINGTON BLVD. 2885 PS 8USINESS CENTER 38134 901-324-7245 17544 717-664-5155 84402 801-392-0391 22192 800-790-6901 A Listing In Our NO. VIRGINIA HO & N EXCL USIVELY

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READING PIGEON FORGE SANDY FERNDALE CALL -rODAY IRON HORSE HOBBY HOUSE PIGEON FORGETOY & HOBBY MRS HOBBY SHOP M & M DEPOT 60 S. 6TH ST. 2919 E. MIDDLE CRK. RD" STE 2 9445 S. UNION SQUARE 2032 MAIN ST, PO BOX 1828 19602 61 0-373-6927 37868 615-428-0918 84070-3402 801 -572-6082 98248 206-384-2552 (303) 338-1700 READING ADVERTISE YOUR 8USINESS KENNEWICK G & K HOB8Y CENTRE THETRAN STAT IONATf1INTASTCKS 720 GORDON ST. IN THE DEALER DIRECTORY FOR ONLY $9.00 PER MONTH VERMONT 135 VISTA WAY 19601 610-374-8598 99336-3120 509-735-1750 Deadline is October 7 for the November issue.

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Sierra Division/PCR/NMRA, European Train Enthusiasts, Sacramento Modular Railroaders & ·AII new paint schemes Roseville Roundhouse Model RR Club International Rail­ fair. Nov. 14. IOAM-5PM; Nov. 15, IOAM-4PM. Placer Tw o road numbers available for each road: ANCHORAGE '" Military Soc. Of Model RR Engineers County Fairground. Washington Blvd. at Junction Blvd. Fall Model RR Expo. Oct. 17-18. IOAM-5PM. Basement SOO Line 55, kids 5-12 $2, Sat. admission valid on Sun: Sunday $10 4002 &-1 of Matanuska Hall (Bldg 31-250), Elmendorf AFB. Free. family day; parking I. Info: Eugene or Lori Volz, 1024 4006 &-1 Reading info: Jeff Childs, (907) 274-4 186 eves, (907) 264-0530 5 0 St., Rio Linda, CA 95673: ( 9 1 6) 99 1 -4343: e-mail: 4007 &-1 Pennsylvania days. e-mail: [email protected]. [email protected]; web: wlI'lI'.mei-protel.com/irf.htm. 4009 &-1 Southem Pacific ARIZONA SAN DIEGO San Diego Model RR Museum Toy Train 4010 &-1 Rock Island ... & Model RR Show/Operation Exhibit. Oct.-Dec., Tues-Fri 401 1 &-1 Canadian Pacific TUCSON '" 'MRA Arizona Division Fall Meet. Nov. I IAM-4PM (closed Thanksgiving), Weekends I IAM-5PM. Milwaukee Road 15, 9AM-4PM. Pima College, West Campus, 2202 W. 4012 &-1 Also open Ve terans Day (Nov. II, IIAM-4PM), Casa De Anklam. $5, under 21/ NMRA member $2.50, joining Balboa Building in Balboa Park, 1649 EI Prado. (619) 696- $99 .95 from your local hobby dealer. NMRA/PSR at meet free. info: Matt Furze. 17237 N. 16th 0199. $3, discounts for students/seniors/military ID, under Ave., Phoenix. AZ 85023, (602) 375-8229. 15 free. Nov. 3, Dec. I free days. info: Barbara Hultenius. Model Importers, Ltd. ARKA NSAS San Diego Model RR Museum. 1649 EI Prado. San Diego. CA 92101, (619) 696-0 199. E-1000R S. Main St. • Newark, NY 14513 FAYETTEVILLE '" NW Arkansas Model RR & Toy http://www.ermodels.com Show. Nov. 14, 9AM-3PM. Ramal' Jr. High School. $3, under 16 free. Info:Steve Beal, (501) 521-209 1. Dealers only 800-365-3876 GLENWOOD SPRINGS '" Roaring Fork Valley Model LITTLE ROCK ... Arkansas Valley Model RR Club Fall RR Club. Oct. 24, IOAM-8PM; Oct. 25, IOAM-4PM. (315) 331-0288 · FAX (315) 331-4090 Open House. Nov. 7, 10AM-SPM; Nov. 8. 1-5PM. Free. Hotel Colorado, 526 Pine. Free. info: Jay Buchanan, 218 info: Jerry Fussell, 412 W. 51st St.. North Little Rock, AR Ash. Rille, CO 81650. (970) 625-3045. 72 118. (501) 758-2590. GREELEY '" The Northern Colorado Division '98 Model NIA RR Sholl'. Oct. 17-18, 9AM-5PM. Island Grove Regional Park, Exhibition Hall # 1 , 510 N. 14th Ave. $3, $1 children ANAHEIM '" Orange County Model RRers meeting. Real Rail Effects, Inc. 12-6 IV/adult. under 5 free . Info: NCMR Train Show 46 10 Second Wednesday of each month. 7:30PM-9PM. Ana­ Shoreline Dr , Ft. Collins, CO 80526. presents heim Public Library, corner of Harbor & Broadway in Ana­ : heim. Info: Steve Tibbetts. e-mail: [email protected]. CONNECIIC (714) 843- 1 820. MANCHESTER '" Silk City Model RR Club Fall Show CROCKETT Bay Area NTRAK Model RR Club's N ... & Open House. Oct 17, all day. 71 Hilliard St. Free. info: Sound Systems scale modular layout group in operation in retired So. Robert Bell. 71 Hilliard St., Manchester, CT 06040, (860) for All Pacilic depot has openings for new members. Wed. 10AM- 646-06 10 3PM & 7PM-9PM, Sat. IOAM-4PM. Depot on Rolph St. Scales! next to the SP mainline, 900 Loring Ave.. Crockett, CA. MERIDAN '" Southington's Antique Books Annual Train Free. Info: John Marshall, 2472 Hill View Lane, Pinole. & Toy Show. Nov. 8, IOAM-3PM. Knights of Columbus CA 94564, (510) 758-93 10. Hall, North Colony Rd. $3, $2 (seniors). $2 (6-12), under 6 free. Info: EU2ene Sokol, 1835 Mt. Vernon Rd., Southing­ HAWTHORNE Los Angeles Model RR Soc. Open ... ton, CT 06489 (860) 628-9225. PRIMEConforms MO to NMRAVER DCC baseline House & Swap Meet. Oct. 17-18, Swap Meet 7 AM-Noon : Standards (Sat): Open House IOAM-5PM (Sat/Sun). 14005 Cren­ NORTH HAVEN '" New Haven RR Hist. & Tech. Soc. Prototype specific Steam & Diesel shaw Blvd .. Unit G. Free. info: Leland A. Roe, 3168 W. Train Show. Nov. 13, 7PM-?; Nov. 14, 9AM-3:30PM. Hol­ sounds 157th St., EI Camino Village, CA 90249. (310) 679-4745: iday Inn, Rt. 5, Exit 12 off 1-9 1. $3. family $5. info: 5-function integrated sound lighting club phone (310) 675-336 1. JohnKasey, 252 Nicholas Ave., Stratford. CT 066 1 4-4927. • & decoder (203) 378-0373 eves. 6- IOPM. LOS ANGELES '" East Valley Lines N-Scale Model RR Provides high-quality, realistic, onboard or • Open House. Every Sat. & Sun. IIAM-3PM. Traveltown, OLD SAYBROOK '" Mohegan & Pequot Model RR undertable sounds at a reasonable price Griflith Park. Free. info: Lowell Majors. P.O. Box 5732. Club Train Sholl', Flea Market. Oct. 18. Old Saybrook Glendale. CA 9130 I (213) 662-8339. Shopping Plaza, Rt. I. $3. kids 5- 12 $2. uncler 5 free. Inlo: NORWALK '" California Southern Model RR Club Bill Paradis (860) 434-7040 Open House. Nov. 14- 15 & 17, IOAM-9PM (Sat). Noon- STRATFORD '" NMRA Metro North Dil'. Fall '98 LIVOperatesE STOCK with any model train • 6PM (Sun), 7PM-9PM (Tues). 12140 Firestone Blvd. Free. NMRA Northeast Region Cony. "The Merchants Limited," Comes track, battery powered or use as • Info: Don Philpott, 171 19 Alfred Ave .. Cerritos, Ca Oct. 16-18. Ramada Inn, 225 Lordship Blvd., Stratford. CT a track-side accessory. 90703. (562) 926- 1762. 06497. info : SASE to Dan Gallo, 14 Fairview Place. New Motion activated onboard sounds • Rochelle, 10805-3502, (914) 235-6026. recorded from the source. PA SADENA ... Pasadena Model RR Club Open House. NY Interchangable sound chips allow you to Nov. 7. 8, 10. 14, 15, 7:30PM- IOPM (Tues). IPM-5PM • (Sat & Sun). 7PiVI- IOPM (Sat). 5458 Alhambra Ave., Los DELA WA R swap Sound without buying another unit. Angeles. $3, children $1. uncleI' I 0 free II'/adult. Info: Joe WILMINGTON '" The Delaware Transit Corp. & the Call your dealer or Mike at Behan (626) 284-2664. Delaware Dept. ol' Transportation Rail to the Fair ' 98. 30th (773) 202-9931 or send SASE to: Slim Gauge Guild Model RR Club Open St. Station/Philadelphia. Claymont, DE. Wilmington. RRE PASADENA '" House. Nov. 15, IOAM-7PM: Nov. 17, 6PM- IOPM. Slim Neward. Middletown. Dover & the Delaware State Fair at PO BOX 1627 Highland, IN 46322 Gauoe Guild Model RR Club, 300 S. Raymond Ave. (base­ Harrin�ton. Info: Christie Hoffmann x 34 12 or Doug www.ttrains.comlrre ; men ), Pasadena 91 105. Free. info: Jeff Smith (626) 44 1- Andre, s x345 I. Delaware Transit Corp., 400 S. Madison EMAIL: realrail @aol.com f 6272 or e-mail: [email protected]. St., Wilmington, DE 19801-5 1 14, (302) 577-3278.

74 ... MODEL RAI LROADING OCTOBER 1998 AT LANTA '" Metro Atlanta N-Scalers Meetings. 1st Tues. of each month. 7:30PM. Church of the Atonement. Fo r the best in precision layouts ... 9�S Hi2h Point Rd .. Atlanta. Info: Charles Leake. (404) 262-2969. AT LANTA '" Piedmont Division Monthly Meeting. 2nd Tuesday each month. 7PM. Bldg. K. Habersham Oflice Park. Northlake Pkwy .. Tucker. Free. Info: Ed Palmer. 70S8 Stephens C1.. Morrow. GA 30260. (770) 968-1921.

MARIETTA " Monthly Meeting of the Georgia Society of Ferroequinologists & field trips. 2nd Fri. of each month. 7:30PM. Nations Bank of Waddell St. Free. Info: Dave Muller (404) 974-4608 or Larry Smith (404) 926-0739.

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MARLBOROUGH T The Great Train Show. Nov. 8. 10AM-4PM. Marlborough High School Fieldhouse, Rt. 85. Bolton St. (Rts. 495/290 exit 25A). 54. seniors $3 (60+). kids 6- 12 $1. under 5 free. Info: Bill Goldthwait. 30 Baker St. Lexington. MA 02173. (781) 862-8078, chansEn@jhan­ cock.com.

WORCESTER T Worcester Model RRers meetings. Tuesdays, 7:30PM. 70 James St., Room 200. Info: Ralph Kimball, (508) 755-1873.

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KALAMAZOO T Kalamazoo Model RR Hist. Soc. Annual Open House. Nov. 7. Noon-4PM. 9336 Riverview Dr., Kalamazoo. Free. Info: John Conal' (616) 343-8269 or (616) 629-6071 7PM- IOPM.

c I WARREN T Gratiot Va lley RR Club Show & Sale. Nov. c:» c:» I, IOAM-3PM. Macomb Comm. Call. Field House. between 12 Mile & Martin Rd. and between Hayes & VVe b Bunen (off 1-696). $4, 12 & under free. Info: UlVe Thor­ maehlen. 28 1 onh Ave., Mt. Clemens. MI 48043. (810) Si�e! 468-4877 or http://www.michvhf.com/-gvrr. MISSISSIPPI

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Info: Dou­ W'LORK glas Baney, 9300 S. Redwood Rd, Apt. 16-07, West Jordan, UT 84088, (80 I ) 256-35 18. BUFFALO (GRAND ISLAND) T International Divi­ sion, NFR, NMRA Division Meeting. OCI. 3, Dec. 5, Feb.6. 1999; Registration 9:30AM: Meet starts lOAM. Grand Island Recreation Centre, 3278 Whitehaven Rd., RICHMOND T Richmond Freelance & Prototype Model Grand Island. $3, $2 members. free if you enter a model. RRers Annual Show. Nov. 7-8, 14- 15, 9:30AM-5PM. Sci­ Info: Ed Norman 40- 18 Carson Dr., Hamilton, Ontario ence Museum of VA, 2500 W. Broad Sl. $5, $4.50 Canada L8T 4Y3; (905) 318-03 13. (seniors), $4 (children). under 4 free. Info: Ted McCor­ mack, 2032 Wrens Nest Rd., Richmond, VA 23235, (804) 320-8403,[email protected]. Only THEyou can choose BE theST Dee DCC system that's ? best DAYTON 23rd Annual Train Show. Nov. 7-8 , IIAM- T you! Only TTX offers, supports and provides the 5PM. Hara Arena. East Hall & Ballarena, 100 I Shiloh SALEM-ROANOKE T Train-Toy Show. Oct. 17, 9AM- you need, on all the major Dee systems! Only Springs Rd., Dayton. $4, under 12 free. Vendors tables h 5PM; Oct. 18, 10AM-4PM. Salem Civic Ctr. $5, under 12 as the experience, the unbiased perspective $25.00 ea., Electricity $10.00 more. Info: Larry Zeller, show you the pros and cons! Only guarantees free. Info: Skip, Tri-city Shows, P.O. Box 825. Johnson TTX 4646 US #36 West, Piqua, OH 45356, (937) 773-7 186. your satisfaction! The best Dee for you! City, TN 37605, (423) 474-39 10. FINDLAY T Putnam Association of Railfans Model RR NEW PRODUcrS & Farm Toy Show & Swap Meet. Sunday, Oct. 18, 10AM- VIENNA T Northern Virginia Model RRers Inc. Open NorthCoast: Powerhouse Pro"'" most user-friendly DeC System S399.00 Adv, 1 Amp dec 11.0x.65x.18) 3 funct, variable load compensation 4PM. Findlay High School, 1200 Broad Ave. & U.S. 224. House. Oct. 17, Nov. 14 & Dec. 12: IPM-5PM. Washing­ & S3, under 12 free w/a dult. Info: Randy P. Gratz, 3396 Old pulse width control. AC/DC use, function moping, DeC compatible MX61N: ton & Old Dominion RR Stalion, 23 1 Dominion Rd. (at I St. Rt. 224, Ottawa, OH 45875, (419) 456-3325. 542.9S, 4@$39.9S * MRC: AD520 Aulo Reverser MSRP 534.98 T1X 524.9S Ayr Hill Rd.). Donations. Info: (703) 938-5 157 or * Dlgltrax! Genesis DeC Starter System $199.00, Empire Builder DeC System S284.oo MANSFIELD T Mansfield Train & Toy Show. Oct. 17, www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6 120. IOAM-4PM. Richland Co. Fairgrounds, 750 N. Home Rd., COMMAND CONTROL PROFESSIONALS Mansfield. $2 plus $1 fair board parking. Tables $18 in SHINGJ"ON advance.Info: Laway Promotions, 1120 Sherwood Dr., �)le ors of service WE SUPPORT MORE COMMAND Bucyrus, OH 44820. OLYMPIA T Olympic Model RR Soc. Swap Meet. Oct. CONTROL SVmMSTHAN ANYONE ! 24. IOAM-4PM. Natl. Guard Armory, 515 S. Eastside St. MAUMEE (TOLEDO) T Toledo Toy & Hobby Expo. Nov. 14- 15. IIAM-7PM (Sat). 9AM-5PM (Sun). Lucas £3, $2.50 (60+). under 12 free. Info: Jeff Schultz, (360) County Recreation Ctr., 290 I Key St. Info: RR Promotions 456-0546, [email protected]. Signs Galore We are computerized Inc., PO Box 6094, Plymouth, M1 48170, (734) 455-2 110. for you to get what Model Railroad [email protected]. you need. Thereare Gra.phics over 200 sheets Most at $3 BLUEFIELD T Pocahontas Chapter NRHS Model RR Show. Nov. 14-15. Stadium Dr.. Bluetield. $3, Family $5. ARE YOUR BUILDINGS TULSA T Indian Nations Div. (NMRA) Annual Tulsa Info: Kelley Massie, P.O. Box 151, Bluefield, WV 2470 I, Line Train Show. Oct. 17-18, IOAM-5PM (Sat), 10AM- BLAH?? 4PM (Sun). Tu lsa Convention Center. $5, kids free. Info: (304) 43 1 -2593. George Maulsby, Clover Creek Dr., Claremore, 3049 PARKERSBURG T Mid-Ohio Valley Model RR Club We have 44 Business OK 74017, (918) 341-9446. 3rd Annual Flea Markel & Open House. Nov. 7. 10AM- signs for businesses OR GON 4PM. Parkersburg Boys & Girls Club, 1200 Mary St. $2. and industries. kids 6- 12 $1. under 6 free. 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PORTLAND T Mt. Hood Model Engineers Open House. BURNABY T British Columbia's Largest 16th Annual Nov. 14-15, 21-22. Noon-5PM. 5500 SE Belmont St. $1. Model Railway Show & Meet. Nov. 7-9; Sunday, Novem­ Info: Gerry Howard, 6207 N. Concord Ave.. Portland, OR ber 8-Public. 9AM-4PM. Cameron Recreation Center, Over 500S 1/64cataloged Sc locomotivesale & 972 17. (503) 289-9457. 9523 Cameron S1. (north side of Lougheed Mall). $5; fr eight cars. (Too many for magazine ads) ROSEBURG All Aboard RR Club for All Scales. 1st & T seniors/students £2; family $10; meet fare $10; NMRA Scale and Flyer Flyer compatible items. 3rd Saturdays at 3PM, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays at 7PM. 427 SE AC rebate $2: participanl rebate $3; layout lour $16: banquet Main St. Info: Debi or Kim Wing (503) 672-0280. Color catalog & S information Web Site: $25. Info: Brian C1ogg, 15440 99a Ave., Surrey BC, V3R 9H4. (604) 588-2 194: show registrar Dick Sutcliffe, 12140 230 St., Maple Ridge, BC V2X 6R5 ALLENTOWN T Allentown Train Meet Assn. "First www.Worlds amLargesterica 3/16=1'nmo Manufacturerdels.com Frost" Train Meet. Nov 14-15, 9AM-3PM. Agriculture Hall. (604) 467-4301 or John Moore, (604) 463-7745, Publicity. 17th & Chew Sts. $4.75, 52 under 12. InfO': Bob House, As Seen on Na tion Wide TV 1120 S. Jefferson St., Allentown, PA 18103. (610) 821-7886. ONTARI Send $1 for information AMERICAN MODELS onAWA Raillilir '98. Oct. 18, I lAM-5:30PM .. Oct. TENNE T 10087 COLONIAL IND. DR. 18. IOAM-5PM. Algonquin College Woodroffe Campus. MONACA T Beaver County Model RR & Historical Soci­ SOUTH LYON, MI 48178 ety Fall Train Sale. Oct. 18, IOAM-3PM. PNA Hall. 1725 $6, leens/seniors $3, kids 5- 12 $1. Info: Tom Patlerson, 248-437-6800 Fx 417-9454 159 McCurdy Dr.. Kantana. Ontario. Canada K2L 2Z7. Pennsylvania Ave. $2.5, kids under 12 free. Info: Joe Ricker. [email protected] 245 Wilson Ave., Beaver, PA 15009: (724) 774-54 14. (613) 83 1-1133.

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78 T MODEL RAILROADING OCTOBER 1998 PRECISION RAILROAD MODELS (@ IDqrlu inu Jnat iarpnrtrr � A FICTITIOUS NEWSLETTER DEVOTED TO REAL NEWS IN THE MODEL RAILROADING HOBBY WORLD KATO Enters N Scale Freight Car Market With ACF Covered Hopper Set

Schaumburg, IL U.S.A. after-market assemblies avail­ KATO Precision Railroad able on the market today. - Models has recently an­ There should be considerable nounced details of their new excitement in the marketplace N scale ACF 70-ton Closed now about the new, smaller Side Covered Hopper models. trucks. News of this model was These hoppers will also be first heard at the NMRA equipped with the new KATO Convention and Show in knuckle coupler. The proto­ Kansas City, MO inlate July. KATO typical shape and scale size of Visitors to the show also had these couplers will further ACF 70-To n Closed Side an opportunity to view a pre­ enhance the overall appear­ production sample of a COVERED HOPPER Burlington set. Although no ance of the cars. A set of Two-Car Set Rapido couplers will be specific details were released Item # Roadnal!1e at that time, public reaction to included with the models for 186-0101 Santa Fe; set #1 the production "commitment" those hobbyists wanting to 186-0102 Santa Fe; set #2 and sample was very positive. utilize this style of coupler. 186-0103 Santa Fe; set #3 Chesapeake Ohio; set Now, KATO has released As final proof of the acute 186-0 104 & #1 186-0105 Chesapeake & Ohio; set #2 complete information about attention to detai l, these cars 186-0106 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; set #1 these two-car sets to N scale will be delivered with two 186-0 107 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; set #2 hobbyists worldwide. This is styles of brake wheels. 186-0108 Erie the first recreation of North Modelers will "finish" off the 186-0109 St. Louis Southwestern American prototype rolling model by simply press fitting 186-01 10 Union Pacific; set #1 stock in N scale for the world­ 186-0 1 11 Union Pacific; set #2 their choice of wheel into the renowned leader of N scale 186-01 12 Union Pacific; set #3 car's end wall. One early locomotive models. The mod­ report from Kansas City said Please note there will be no duplication of road numbers els are to be pre-assembled by between sets fo r roadnames having more than one set these brake wheels are among the master craftsmen at the produced. Each car number is available in one set only. the finest available in the KA TO factory. industry. Expe cted Release in Oct./Nov. 1998 The units ride atop Expe cted Suggested Retail Price If your model railroad is KATO's new N scale ASF $28.00/Set U.S. "Ride Control" trucks. Most hauling sand, cement or a dealers and modelers agree bulk commodity such as the HO scale version of these sugar, you'll love the "load of liIttII trucks are one of the finest detail" to be found in these KAT O U.S.A., INC. 100 Remington Road · Schaumburg, IL 60173 detailed and smoothest rolling hoppers from KA TO. www.katousa.com If you need a letter-perfect replica of Flawless duplication of the prototype one of railroading's most stylish diesels, this is paint schemes is the fi nishing touch. And the model for you. With a wealth of realistic detail for added convenience, PROTO 2000 magnetic and outstanding performance, the PA is truly prototypi­ knuckle couplers come standard (X2F couplers are cal perfection. Original ALCO blueprints inspired the included.) We don't have to spell it out for you-the exact duplication of the distinctive boxy nose and the limited edition ALCO PNPB won't be around long,

1S1/2 foot trucks and provided the information for so visit your local hobby dealer today. road-specific features like Mars light, dual or single The third release of the ALCO PNPB is available in the headlights, dynamic brakes and straight or 4S-degree following paint schemes: Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe, Denver number boards. As elegant inside as out, the PA offers & Rio Grande Western, Erie Lackawanna, Lehigh Va lley, Missouri silent and smooth running thanks to a dynamically­ Pa cific, New Haven, Pennsylvania Railroad and Southern Pacific. balanced, five pole skew-wound DC motor, heavy die-cast chassis and all-wheel electrical pick-up.

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