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The Spectrum GP30 arrived too late to photograph our production sample model for this issue. We'll have our usual Robert Higgins' "Test Report" in the October issue. The locomotive is a very much reworked ex-Bachmann body with a new chassis, handrails and better details cut into the mold. It does NOT share the same chassis as the Spectrum 44-ton G.E. diesel we tested in the June 1988 issue; the GP30 has a newfive-pole motor and all-wheel pickup.

N scale narrow gauge has arrived at last.· Kadee is now shipping their ready-to-run box car in either SP (for $11.40) or D&RG markings (for $12.00). The February 1987 issue of Model Railroading has the addresses of additional sources of N scale narrow gauge including Gold RushModel's locomotive conversion kits for M arklin's Z scale. The Nn3 equipment will run on Marklin's Z scale ready-to-Iay track.

Kadee has released three Nn3 cars. The high-side gondola is available lettered for Rio Grande at $9.40 or Pacific Coast at $8.80, both ready to run with Kadee couplers.

The Kadee Nn3flat car includes stakes (on the SP version - $9.90) or empty stake pockets (on the NCO version - $8.80). These cars are teeny - about 2% inches long.

September 1988 Model Railroading • 3 Model Railroading Magazine's continuing course of instruction in.. . Scratchbuilding �d�!�:�YO���'�':���!�!e e e e More infonnation from Model Railroading magazine back issues*

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Board walls simulated with plastic strips . .. Wi 80 Board walls simulated with Faller color card. Wi 82 ALL BAC� ISSUES ARE AVAILABLE Concrete tilt-up & pre-cast (Yorke kits) . . . Jan/Feb 84 Use the envelope in this issue to order your copies. Concrete texturing techniques . .. Sept/Oct 84 Back issues in Volume 13 (13/1, 1312 , 13/3 and 13/4) and all i ssues Corrugated metal walls ... July/Aug 84 from November/December 1983 through Sept/Oct 85 are $3.00 Cutting window holes quickly (scribe-and-break). . Nov/Dec 83 each. Issue Summer 82 (Su 82) and earlier copies are $2.50 each. Is­ Novelty-style wood (Evergreen sheet styrene). 13/3, 13/4 and sues NovemberlDecember 1985 and later are $3'.2 5 each. All are Nov/Dec 83 postpaid in the U.S. Trim - easy ways to paint and install. 13/4 'NOTE: All back issues are currently in print and available. Use order envelope in this issue.

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Copyright 1988 by Rocky Mountain Publishing, Inc. Prototype Articles (The Source): 7 Results of the Railroad Prototype Modelers Kit Survey, Part \I 16 The Rockport Lime Railroad 24 F3 Diesels in COLOR, Part II 30 Diesel Detail Close-Up: ALCO RS-11 & RS-36 as NKP 573, 870 & 875 32 Plans: Walnut Hill Passenger Station 38 Trailers-on-Flat Cars, the 79 Footers from the Fifties, Part II Fidelity-to-Prototype (how-YOU-can-do-it) Articles: 4 Index: of Scratchbuilding & Kit Building Technique Articles 28 Weathering-with-an-Air Brush: Concrete-Carrying Covered Hoppers 29 Kadee Couplers for the Stewart/Kato F3 Diesels BINDERS 46 Railroad Prototype Modelers, Pacific Coast Report to save your copies of .48 Consists: 80 Car Santa Fe Freight, Circa October 1947, in HO Scale Model Railroading PerfOrmance Articles (Coming Closer to Perfection): Box Files Binders 10 Performance Test Reports: $7.95 each $9.95 each 3 for $21.95 3 for $27.95 10 Stewart/Kato HO Scale F3 Diesel 6 for $39.95 6 for $52.95 26 Model Power HO Scale F3 Diesel Order Direct From: 58 Performance-Improvement: Cary/Proto Power West HO Scale F3 Test Jesse Jones Industries Layout Tours: 499 E. Erie Ave., Dept. MRG Philadelphia, PA 19134 12 Stoughton Atwood's N Scale Maine Limestone Railroad

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South Carolina Shortline SCL unit. The company continued to siter. Or there could be a flat fee per operate two cabooses #30 and #31 , page. however. In 1984, the CN&L was Dear Bob, merged into the Seaboard System. EXAMPLE: The other distinguishing feature of In the material on "Feedback" (page Mike Christian the paint scheme that you did not men­ 66) of the March issue of Model Rail­ 2488 Paige Janette Dr. tion was typical of wooden ACL and roading, you printed a photo of a Co­ Harvey, LA 70058 ACL subsidiary equipment: the dashed lumbia, Newberry & Laurens single­ HAS: OFFICAL RY EQUIP REG 4/43 white lines outlining the base of the sheath car. However, the lettering on and 1/82; OFFICAL REG. OF sides and the bottom of the doors. Note the car, being broken by the z braces, PASS. TRAIN EQUIPMENT 1/52 was interpreted to be Columbia, New the very tiny CN&L initials on the top WANTS: CNR 1 CV 1 GT 1 GTW 1 DWP 1 Berry and Laurens. The three towns center of the door. DT 1 0& TSL 1955 (FRT) named are all in central South Carolina, This was the first CN&L car I've seen and it is Newberry, SC, not New -Berry. in print. Congratulations! The railroad was chartered in 1885 Sincerely, Of course, standard abbreviations as an independent, but under the con­ Tom Fetters could be used to cut down on the trol of the South Carolina Railway sys­ Lombard, IL wordiness. tem. In 1892, this interest was sold to a The magazine would just act as a fo­ combination of both the Atlantic Coast rum for exchange of information and Lines and the Seaboard Air-Line Sys­ would not have any additional responsi­ tem (predecessors of the ACL and bility or work load (other than printing SAL). A year later, the SAL's Georgia, the letters). Carolina & Northern took over and It may even help your own research operated the CN&L. And in 1894, the as you would have a library of sources Atlantic Coast Lines purchased com­ for information. plete control from the GC&N. (What Railway Equipment Since all this sounds so easy to me made this short line so strategic to the (not familiar with the publishing busi­ two rail competitors? The SAL used it to Register 'Sampling' ness), I'm sure there must be some rea­ connect its Washington-Atlanta main­ son why it won't work! Anyway, I just line to the state Capitol at Columbia; thought I'd suggest it. and the ACL used it to connect its line to Hello Bob, Thanks, Columbia directly to its C&WC subsidi­ I just thought I'd drop you a note to let Michael J. Christian ary which in turn reached the cities of you know I am one of the many fans of the Piedmont area. Model Railroading. You have put to­ gether a very informative and useful The CN&L was 75 miles long and ran magazine. If you are using a Railway Equipment along the Saluda Ridge which gave it a I'm not one to categorize a model rail­ Register to help duplicate operations in gentle grade and only two major roading magazine as the "BEST." I a specific year, you should need nearly bridges, a much superior route to the think all of them fill a need and I am just ALL the roads listed. One of the rea­ generally parallel Southern Railway glad that the hobby can support so sons why we are running the photos of mainlines. With the building of the many. I wish all of you success. real freight cars in the "CONSISTS" Clinchfield Railroad, the CN&L pro­ The recent interest you have gener­ series is to illustrate the incredible mix­ vided the bridge from the ports of North ture of prototype road and cars in ated in The Official Railway Equipment and South Carolina served by the ACL nearly any full-size yard and the implied Registers is a mixed blessing. Now and the midwest served by the C&O at there are more people trying to find and (at least) notion that the trains were just the other end of the Clinchfield. In order purchase same, which I guess will as varied. If you need a Register at all, to protect the line, the ACL gained full shorten supply and drive up cost. How­ you should need the entire thing. control in 1926 when the CN&L had ever, I have an idea I hope you will Still. .. there may be lots of readers eight locomotives, six passenger cars agree with. who would like the idea so we'll run it by and a fleet of 61 freight cars. them. Let us know what you think of Passenger service ended in 1952, How about Model Railroading having Mike's idea. and the steam engines were replaced a dedicated column (perhaps called by EMD GP diesels painted ACL silver "The Register"?) where people could and purple in the next few months. In write in, indicating which registers they 1962 the CN&L diesels were free to have and what information they are roam the ACL system with only the seeking? Then, someone who may #102 remaining on line. When the SCL have what the first guy needed could was formed by merger of the ACL with contact him and the two could work out the SAL, the CN&L #102 became an a swap of copies of pages from the Re-

September 6 • Model Railroading 1988 ------Your Choices ... For Tomorrow's Kits, Part II

Railroad Prototype Modeler's "Wish List" Locomotive Car Kit & Survey Results, Part

Some of the "write-in" requests for models the "experts"II overlooked that you enthusiasts want to buy as inexpensive plastiC kits.

Data co mpilation by David Casdorph

We presented the results of the creased the chances of more of you ing about 1965 or later. The survey was model kit survey in the August 1988 is­ voting for a single kit. You averaged somewhat "loaded," however, by the sue. Since then, we've had some time about 11 votes a person so you under­ presence of a vast majority of sugges­ to analyze the results of what kinds of kit stood the "rules." tions for modern-era equipment. If you you modelers are willing to pay $7 to This points up one of the major dilem­ wanted a wide variety of locomotives or $10 to purchase in HO scale (we'll get mas facing a model kit manufacturer rolling stock from the fifties or earlier, to the other scales later). Remember, today - the model railroad market is you had to know the prototypes well these are kits that are supposed to be splintered into very small, very special­ enough to "write in" your requests. We popular enough so that at least 5,000 of ized interest groups. That makes it diffi­ did try to help with a few of our own them will be sold (to justify the cost of cult to produce a kit that will sell enough "write-ins," too. tooling them for an Athearn/Walthers/ numbers, at a high enough price, to We're going to deal with the "write-in" Front Range/MOe-style kit). make a profit. It's great for firms that results in two or three installments. This The most interesting aspect of the can break even selling 50 items of time, we'll hit the most popular of the survey is the lack of a majority. The handmade brass. It also works well for modern era write-ins (except tank cars most popular single item (the cast steel the small volume manufacturers like - they're complex enough to warrant an flat car) received less than a majority of Westerfield and Tichy if they pick items "1.0." article all their own in a later the votes (only about a third) We did you want badly enough. issue). The most requested modern car give you the opportunity to vote for 12 If we judge from this survey alone, the was an 89-foot flat car in a style unlike items but that should only have in- vast majority of our readers are model- Athearn's AND with the option of racks

Four possible automobile racks tofit the Athearn 85-footflatcar: Do those of you who votedfor racks care whichone you'd get? Would you be happy enough ifit fit Athearn's 85-foot car even though the prototyp es are now 89 fe et? Let know. us This is the TTGX254650 car with a Southern rack. The rack itselfis wider than the car so the vertical braces angle inward.David Casdorph photo.

September 1988 Model Railroading • 7 Your Choices ... For Tomorrow's Kits, Part 11 ------

to carry automobiles or light trucks - just what the prototype does. We let modern freight car exp ert Davi d Casdorph (who suggested this survey first in his Freight Cars Journal maga­ --...-. --- - zine) field the information on that one. - - The two most requested modern - locomotives were the SD50/SD60 (the wiser of you thought that either could

- '4;l,t . be modified to represent the other so ------� '� - --- \ we've grouped them together) and the newer General Electric 8-axle diesels similar to the 823-7 and 839-8. At least j three manufacturers have promised bodies and/or complete locomotives to produce the SD50 or SD60 in HO scale but, so far, we have yet to see them. We know of no one who has even promised the G.E. 823-7 or anything like it . Auto Racks This is an ETTX908149 flat with a B&O rack. The vertical posts are spaced closer There are two types of racks that are together so the)' can go directly down over the sides of the flat. David Casdorph photo. the most common today: the "TTGX" (bilevel) and "ETTX" (trilevel) racks. Both are the modern enclosed type common since the mid-seventies. The flats they go on come in several forms. "low decks" vs. "standard fl decks" and "wide bodies" (that's what .... TT called them) and "standard wides." The Athearn all-purpose flat (also known as the flush deck version) in HO scale is the most appropriate. To be correct it would have to be 89-4 inside length long, meaning one has to stretch the kit (which a lot of people are doing for pig flats - mainly because two 45-foot trailers won't fit on an 85-foot flat!) Oh, and by the way, there is NO prototype for the Athearn All-purpose A ETTX903340 flat with a GT rack. This flat is a bit different than Athearn's (it's a flat in its present kit length. flush deck, however). None of these flats are peifect matches for Athearn's (even The racks are mounted two ways: in ignoring the length) but they are visually close. David Casdorph photo. one the rack is actually wider than the flat and has to angle in to meet the flat for a connection. On the other the join­ ers just go straight down and affix to the flat (these are the wide bodies) Note that externally the basic design is the same between the two TTGX and ETTX racks. Four panels from top to bottom and nine "panels" long. The quickest way to tell the difference (other than the reporting marks) is the doors . note how the TTGX has one "slot" and the ETTX has two "slots." By the way, the "clam" style or solid-type doors are the most common. There are differences in other things . like the end structures, fas­ teners, corrugation types, etc. That will have to be something the kit manufac­ turer will have to decide on. The Thrall a la Whitehead and Kales designs are the most common. So, if a manufacturer could make a flat-sided casting that would fit over the Athearn flat width-wise and have it either so it could be cut down or a sec­ Open·top racks are also used on prototyp�flat cars. Here's a TTRX962063 flat withan tion added for an 85-foot and an 89-foot open-top Southern rack. David Casdorph photo. 4-inch length. we'd have it. David Casdorph. September 8 • Model Railroading 1988 ------Your Choices ... For Tomorrow's Kits, Part II

The SD60 (like this one, from the "Diesel Detail Close-Up" in the May 1988 issue) and the similar SDSO were the most popular locomotive choices in our survey. Con Cor has one in N but, so far, only promises in HO scale. HoI Wagner photo.

General Electric makes alterations to the profiles of their diesels with nearly every season. For most modelers, however, the B39-8, like this unit used on the BN, would be close enough to their idea of a much-needed modernG.E. diesel. So far, there's none available in inexpensive HO or N scale and none on the way. Photo from the collection of Louis A. Marre.

DIESELS: Votes Model 68 EMD SD50/SD60 36 G.E. 839-8 21 G.E. C36-7 18 ALCO C628/C630/C636 13 ALCO FA1 /FA2 A&B 9 EMD FT A and FTB 6 GP15 6 GP50 Two out of three of you who wanted modern B-B (8-wheel) General Electric power FLAT CARS: wanted the earlier B23-7 (post-1977) diesels. It's possible to install an Athearn U33B or Bachmann U36B cab on Bachmann's HO scale BQ23-7 body to kit-convert this one. 35 89' Auto racks You also preferred the same vintage C-C diesel from General Electric, the C30-7 to the 21 89' TOFC/COFC flat cars later G39-8 G.E. units (the Summer 1982 issue has a BachmannlAthearn kit­ 14 Pulpwood cars 3 Greenville 53'6" 14 pocket conversion and Conrail "Diesel Detail Close-Up" and the MarchiApril1985 issue has N&W and Santa Fe "Diesel Detail Close-Ups" of the C30-7). Photo from the collection of Louis A. Mane.

September 1988 Model Railroading • 9 Performance ... StewartlKato HO Scale F3 Test ------,-----­ Model Railroading performance Test Report NO. 120:

TheStewart/Kato latest (and heaviest) HO scale diesel HO from Kato. Scale in Japan. should F3 be their best-running model yet ....

Robert Higgins

More Performance From F-Units: The compact and versatile F3 series The F3 body is wide enough so Kato can fill it with cast metal to produce a of locomotives from the Electromotive model that weighs about 17 ounces. There isn't room for that much weight in­ Division of General Motors are powered side the Kato RS-3,RS- 1 1 and RSD4/5 imported by Atlas, the Kato SW1 500 im­ by V-16 diesel engines of 1500 horse­ ported by Con Cor, or the GP38-2 that Kato sells under their own label. We did, power. Wheel motors on each axle however, fit a Fairbanks-Morse diesel body to the Atlas/Kato RS-3 (the Model drive through gear sets with ratios of Power/Roco FA-2 would also fit) in the May/June 1985 issue AND we added a 65: 12,65: 15 or 56:21 for safe maximum whopping 22 ounces of extra weight. That test unit, however, had also been fit­ speeds of 50, 65 or 107 miles per hour. ted with a Mashima can motor (in the same issue). These and other equipment options Cary (now owned by Bowser) makes a cast F3 body that fits the Athearn F7 make the F3 locomotives suitable for chassis. We tested an Athearn diesel (their "SW1 500") that has a nearly­ freight or passenger service. Identical chaSSIS to the Athearn F7 In the Nov.lDec. 1984 issue and with a Cary Kato in Japan has designed a new body that added 12 ounces to the model's weight on page 58 of this issue. metal chassis for the Stewart Hobbies If you want to compare this Stewart/Kato F3 model's performance to an line of HO scale F3 models. Molded sty­ Athearn diesel, then see the figures in that November/December 1984 issue for rene bodies with fine details accurately the Athearn unit with a total weight that is closer to the Kato F3 than a stock reproduce features of Phase I and Athearn diesel. Phase II A and B units. The heavy die An index of all previous "Performance Improvement Tests" appeared in the cast metal frame positions the drive November 1987 issue. components and adds weight for good An index of all previous HO scale diesel tests appeared in the December pulling power. Our model weighed 1987 issue. 17.33 ounces. A test of the new Model Power F3 appears on page 26 of this issue. We per­ A lamp for the headlight is fitted with formed three sets of tests on that model, including one with an extra 12 ounces a metal tube to concentrate the illumi­ of weight so you can compare its performance to Athearn or Kato models with nation. The lamp was removed for the F3 (or F7) bodies. performance tests.

10 • Model Railroading September 1988 ------Performance ... Stewart/Kato HO Scale F3 Test

MODEL RAILROADING An enclosed motor with a 5-pole PERFORMANCE TEST REPORT NO. 120 © 1988 armature and two brass flywheels drives both trucks through couplings Stewart Hobbles HO Scale and universal joints. A brass worm at EMD F3 Phase II the truck input is mounted on a steel shaft running in sintered bronze TEST RESULT bearings. Out-of-the-box Lubed Metal drivers with 14-tooth axle gears Slowest speed are driven through plastic spur gears (full wave 12V D.C.): .86 smph' .78 smph and idlers. The reduction ratio is 14to 1 . Slowest speed A brass stamping is used to support (pulse-wave 12V D.C.) A5 smph .1 1 smph the driver axles with bearing journals on Fastest speed each side of the truck and to provide for (full wave 12V D.C.): 85.5 smph 83.1 smph track power pickup at each wheel. The Maximum tractive (pulling) remainder of the truck is molded of force (on level): 3A7 ounces 3.90 ounces tough acetal plastic. Detailing of the Maximum uphill grade truck is excellent. (locomotive & tender): 20A percent 23.1 percent Pull how many 41/4 ounce Test Results cars up 4 percent grade? 13 15 Tests with the light oil applied at the Peak motor current draw at factory were compared with runs made maximum tractive force: .25 amps .30 amps with La Belle 106 grease. The headlight Slowest no-stall speed over lamp was removed for both series. A an Atlas or Tyco 12A percent increase in tractive power number 6-size turnout (switch): .84 smph 1.07 smph was noted with the light grease Possible to add how lubricant. much extra weight? The fine design and manufacturing Running noise judgement: Fine Fine effort by Kato produced an excellent Molded-in Detail fidelity: Fine Fine model: tractive force, operating noise Painted-on detail fidelity Fine Fine and scale speeds are rated Fine, with Response - starting voltage drive efficiency and assembly work­ At no load 1.3V 1.0V manship rated Excellent. At full load 4.0V 4AV Performance rating: "4A." Downhill run, full load: Fine Fine Stall current at 12 volts: - 1.25 AMP -

'Note: smph = scale miles per hour

September 1988 Model Railroading • II Tour .. . Stoughton Atwood's N Scale Limerock Railroad ------­ Tour I: Rockland, Maine, In N Scale ... Stoughton Atwood's NTRAK Module One of the more fascinating seacoast operations, reduced to N scale and brought into the twentieth century on three 2 x 4·foot NTRAK modules.

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One of the least-known heavy indus­ Kiln, The Story of Maine's Lime Indus­ in the real world. The quarry, however, tries in America is that of the limestone try, by Roger L. Grindle which has been is on the rear of the layout and effec­ and lime business. Previous articles in out of print for at least a decade. tively isolated so there does seem to be Model Railroading magazine and the The photos clearly show the Maine a reason for the model rai l road's article in this issue will shed some light seaport town of Thomaston including a existence. on the subject. Stoughton Atwood, magnificent view of the schooner Sadie The limestone industry, as served by however, already knew enough about it C. Sumner tied to the docks, the dock­ the railroads, virtually died by the thir­ to make it the theme for his NTRAK side loading and storage sheds for the ties, although many kilns still function. module. lime, and the wooden-covered stone Stoughton has opted to use standard N Stoughton's module buries the three kilns. Stoughton has duplicated the scale ore cars in place of the small NTRAK mainline tracks beneath the general shape of early Rockland, dump cars and four-wheel jimmys used scenery, and all the visible track on the Maine, but moved the kilns a bit and he on the prototypes. He also uses a Bach­ module is devoted to the branchline has not modeled all the wooden enclo­ mann 0-4-0T "Dockside" in keeping operations of a reasonable replica of sures around them (see the prototype with the era of the ore cars. It's a credi­ the Limerock Railroad (see following article). His scratchbuilt schooner is ble possibility of the trains thi?-t might pages for the real thing). also a bit shorter than the one in the have served the quarry and wharves if The layout is based on just two photo­ book. the operations had survived into the graphs (the only two known to have sur­ Stoughton has also modeled the lime forties. vived - we'd sure like to see more) that quarries but placed them about a scale were published in the book, Quarry & mile closer to the docks than they were September 12 • Model Railroading 1988 ------Tour .. . Stoughton Atwood's N Scale Limerock Railroad

A seagull's-eye view of the dock is a dock at Rockland, as modeled in N scale. The three mainline NTRAK tracks are barely visible ducking beneath the scene in the fa r upper left of the photo.

September 1988 Model Railroading • 13 Tour... Stoughton Atwood's N Scale Limerock Railroad ------

The limestone kilns were carved in dental plaster. A latex rubber mold (craft shops sell the material from Mountains-in-Minutes) was then made so duplicates could be cast in more dental plaster.

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At this particular prototypesite, the lime was hauled by horse and wagon to the storage buildings near the docks. The material had to be kept perfectly dry or the heat generated by the moisture's reaction with the lime woulcj be enough to start afire.

September 14 • Model Railroading 1988 ------Tour ... Stoughton Atwood's N Scale Limerock Railroad

The limestone was quarried/rom open pits similar to this one. The stiffleg derrick hoisted large buckets 0/ the material to be dumped into waiting railroad cars. The pits were of ten long, thin ones like those modeled by Stoughton Atwood.

September 1988 Model Railroading • 15 Fidelity-To-Prototype ... Lime Kilns Operations ------

Lime Kiln Operations, Part 3:

TheMaine's Rockland, Maine, Limestone limestone quarries and & lime Lime kilns are scenesKiln you Industry might want to recreate for a layout sited in upstate Michigan or on the coast of California.

Robert Schleicher All photos by Mervin Harriman from the collection of J. Emmons Lancaster ------Fidelity-To-Prototype ... Lime Kilns Operations

'1111111111111111111 111111 One of the most interesting aspects with notes on how to recreate them in of lime and limestone operations is that miniature. the products are so visible. Evidence of Briefly, the limestone industry con­ Previous Lime Kiln limestone is clear when you see a cov­ sists of quarries where the raw lime­ Articles: ered hopper or a box car that is stained stone is cut from the ground. The lime­ and streaked light grey (like the cars on stone can then be used as-is or sent on Recreating lime-shipping opera­ • page 28 of this issue) to kilns where it is reduced to lime tions using assigned service car The cars usually carry markings that (chemically, CaO). This is then used to placards, March/April 1985 make them "dedicated" to use in lime produce cement, to help in the pro­ Lime Kiln Operations near • or limestone shipping because the cessing of pickles, in the creation of Thomasville, Colorado, Novem­ commodity contaminates the car for sugar from sugar beets and other in­ ber/December 1985 nearly every other type of shipment. dustrial uses. Those markings and operations are de­ I n the years prior to about 1920, the scribed in the March/April 1985 issue limestone was often sent to kilns before being shipped on to the next industry. This was a risky business because the lime produces intense heat when ex­ posed to water. There are reports of many wooden ships that were con­ sumed by the fires that resulted from The majority of the lime kiln photos by Mr. Perry were apparently leaking hulls allowing water to reach taken after a fire that destroyed most of the wooden structures their loads of lime. around the metal or rock lime kilns at the Rockland, Maine, By the 1920s, most limestone was whaif. This one, however, appears to show the kilns rebuilt with shipped directly to the consuming in­ metal sheathing. The trestle in the upper left carries the tracks to dustries which had, by then, built their dump the limestone directly into the tops of the kilns. own kilns on the site. Virtually all of the lime kilns were abandoned or, at best, their shipments reduced enough so that trucks could handle them. There are some lime kilns very similar to these in places as diverse as Santa Cruz (on the central coast of California), on the south shore of Lake Erie, in east Texas and in Maine. We suspect they were even more common and we'd like to locate photos of other operations. Let us borrow them if you have them. The limestone and lime kiln opera­ tions near Rockland, Maine, flourished from about 1870 to about 1930. By then, larger companies, especially those producing cement and plaster, had bought the small quarries and kilns and consolidated their operations with the needs of the larger firms. For the quarries, that often meant transporta­ tion of the limestone by truck. The kilns were replaced with kilns on the site of the plaster or concrete plant and these kilns sometimes forwarded the lime to other industries. If you are interested in modeling any early era, however, these lime quarry operations can provide a fine prototype in place of the usual gold or silver ore mines. There are a number of 0-4-0T locomotives available in N, HO, S and 0 standard that can provide the power. The Grandt Line 0 scale models would be one place to start or you could back­ date various HO scale models with Pre­ cision Scale parts or N scale models with Detail Associates cast metal parts. The four-wheeled cars can be mod­ eled on the inexpensive 1860-era pas­ senger car trucks made by Bachmann in N and HO and the brass trucks pro­ duced by Precision Scale (no. 901 1) in o scale. The body can be scratch built from wood or styrene strips.

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MOdel Ra ilroadin g. 19 Fidelity-To-Prototype ... Lime Kilns Operations ------

It appears that this trestle extended further to the left of the photo before the fire. The cars would then dump (from the side - they were side dumpers) into the metal bins on tops of the stone kilns.

One of the post-fire photos shows the metaL chimneys and stone kilns. What's missing is some of the wooden structures that surrounded the kilns but it's not clear why the wooden structures were necessary because most of these kilns Looked just Like this ....

One of the trestLes at RockLand Leading to the tops of the lime kilns. This photo was, apparently, taken after the trestle was rebuilt after the fire. The date is uncertain but it was likely in the twenties.

Another Lime-loading trestLe at the Rockport, Maine, dock area.

20 • Model Railroading ------Fidelity-To-Prototype ... Lime Kilns Operations

These photos all depict the Lime Rock Railroad and its trackage near Rockport, Maine. Here is LRRR locomotive number 4 (and 0-4-0T) heading onto the wharf with a string of fo ur-wheel, side-dump cars loaded with limestone.

" r ]. Emmons Lancaster discovered these Lime Rock Railroad maps of their own property and the surrounding industries. Rather than retrace them, we've presented them as they were fo und so you can see the original markings. There are TWO sets of some of the sites, dated 1900 and 1920. ALL of the maps here are of Rockport, Maine. There were at least three docks where the lime was loaded aft er being removed from the kilns. We can only guess at the precise photo locations but the curved trestles help to identify at least some of the locations.

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September Model 1988 Railroading • 23 Diesel Details, In Color ... The Classic F3 , Part II ------

.ese Details. In Color:

A new eseries of color photos toF3 help you. apply proper details, paint and markings to the variety of scaClasle modelsic F3 diesels available fromrt Stewart, II cary, Model Power and Sunset In HO scale, from Con Cor In N scale, from Omnicon In S scale and from All Nation in 0 scale. Part I appeared in the luly 1988 issue.

These Missouri-Kansas-Texas units are examples of the Phase III version of the EMD F3A dieselin nearly as-builtform (number 65C) and modified like many F3 diesels with F7-style grills in place of the "chicken wire" (number 67A). Number 67A also has spark arrestors over the two exhaust stacks on the roof Both photos from the collection of Louis A. Marre; number 65C on January 3, 1963, and number 67 A on July 24, 1964. HO Scale Decals: Micro Scale 87-277 or Champ EH-156 N Scale Decals: Micro Scale 160-278 o Scale Decals: Champ E-156

The sixties-era SP&S paint scheme as applied to a "survivor" F3. Thi,s diesel was part of number series 800-801 . This is another Phase III unit with theforward grill area covered with sheet metal. The diesel also displays many of the "modern"fittings like nose steps. mu hoses, a radio antenna on the roof, etc. Photo circa 1968 by Dave Chornell courtesy Hoi WagT!er. HO Scale Decals: Micro Scale 87-195 or Champ EH203 N Scale Decals: Micro Scale 160-195 o Scale Decals: none available

Historical Societies: Please note: We're looking for color transparencies of more F3 diesels - please let us borrow those you might have. We need: A&SB, A&RF, ACL, CG, CGW, CN, EMD, FEC, GA, L&A, L&N, NC&SL, LV, CMSP&P, NYOW, PRR, RDG, SAL, SP, SOO, WS, SO, WA, and WM. (We have photos of all the other original owners.)

September 24 • Model Railroading 1988 ------Diesel Details, In Color.. . The Classic F3, Part II

The Rock Island allowed the chicken wire to remain in place over the louvers between the portholes on this Phase /IF3A until at least June 0/ 1966 (when this photo was taken). This diesel was built in 1946 and was listed as an F2A but it lacks the third (center) porthole 0/ the F2A units. Photo from the collection of HoI Wagner. HO Scale Decals: Micro Scale 87-18, Champ EH57 or Walthers 934-44930 N Scale Decals: Northeast CRIP-03 or Micro Scale 160-18 o Scale Decals: Champ EH-57 or Walthers 936-44930

Rock Island number 39 is/rom the same production batch (numbers 38-49) as number 42. When photographed in 1962, it still retained the interim/ull-striping but the "chicken wire" had been removed/rom between the portholes. There appears to be an F7B in maroon and black behind it/ollowed by an FA2AB pair and two Geeps. HoI Wagner photo.

The classic Canadian National and, here, Grand Trunk Western diesel paint scheme on yet another Phase III F3A unit. The/orward porthole, however, has been blanked-off. Photo from the collection of Louis A. Marre on April 26, 1962. HO Scale Decals: Micro Scale 87-366, Champ EH191 or Walthers 934-51900 N Scale Decals: Micro Scale 160-366 o Scale Decals: Champ EH1919 or Walthers 936-51900

September 1988 Model Railroading · 25 Performance.. . Model Power HO Scale F3 Test -----

Model Railroading Performance Test Report NO. 121:

TheModel made-In Hong Powe Kong chassis Inr the HO new Model Scale Power diesels F3 have been completely revised - there's one of the new ones beneath this F3.

Robert Higgins

The first F3 diesel electric locomotive drives a 17-tooth plastic helical gear. Previous Articles In built by the Electromotive Division of Compounded with this gear is a General Motors at the La Grange plant 13-tooth spur gear. The 13-tooth spur This Series: was Santa Fe number 16L. The date gears on each drive wheel axle are The Stewart/Kato F3 test appears was November, 1946, and the builder's driven through idler gears. The reduc­ • on page 10 of this issue number was 2729. In this early model tion ratio is 17 to 1. Flat bronze leaf NOTE: We added 12 ounces of there were three round windows with springs pick up track power by touch­ • weight to this unit so you could the center window later made into an air ing the inside face of each wheel. Your make a closer comparison to the inlet. These early models had a single reviewer adjusted each spring before performance of the Stewart/Kato fixed headlight. The 1500 horsepower the test runs were made. The lamp for F3 as well as to the Athearn F3 (an diesel engine furnished plenty of power the headlight was disconnected so that Athearn F7 with a Cary/Bowser F3 for passenger service at a safe, fast accurate motor current readings could body). The stock Athearn chassis speed of 100 miles per hour. be recorded. (an SW1500, but it should run just The Model Power HO scale models like an Athearn F7) appeared in of the F3 are made in Hong Kong and Test Results the November/December 1984 are priced at a reasonable $26.98. A The lightweight model (8.56 ounces) issue in a report on its perform­ highly detailed molded superstructure developed an excellent tractive force ance with an additional 12 ounces is neatly painted in the Santa Fe crim­ as it pulled 2.46 ounces equivalent on of weight son and silver with yellow and black ac­ the test fixture. The addition of 4.00 An index of all previous HO scale cent stripes. A die cast metal frame ounces of lead shot raised the pull to • diesel tests appeared in the supports the can motor and positions 4.24 ounces: an increase of 72 percent. December 1987 issue the powered trucks. The motor is built The scale fast speed was a bit high - as A test of the Proto Power West/ by Mabuchi in Japan - well known for was the operating noise. Slow speed • Cary F3 appears on page 58 of their high-production slot car motors. runs were excellent. this issue A brass worm in each truck gearbox Performance rating: "3.6" 11111111 111111 111111

26 • Model Railroading September 1988 F3 Test ------Performance ...Model Power HO Scale

MODEL RAILROADING PERFORMANCE TEST REPORT NO. 121 © 1988 Model Power EMD F-3

TEST RESULT Out-of-the-box weighted Slowest speed (full wave 12V D.C.): .36 smph* .27 smph Kadee Couplers For The Slowest speed M d (pulse-wave 12V D.C.): .16smph .18 smph o el Power F3 Fastest speed The Model Power F3 has truck­ (full wave 12V D.C.) 188.6 smph 177.3 smph mounted couplers intended for the Maximum tractive (pulling) toy train market. Most model rail­ force (on level): 2.46 ounces 4.24 ounces roaders prefer the realism of Maximum uphill grade couplers mounted to the body. Use (locomotive & tender): 30 percent 35.8 percent a number 5 Kadee coupler mounted Pull how many 4 Y. ounce to a strip of Evergreen 1/8 x 1/4 cars up 4 percent grade? 9.9 17.5 styrene cemented inside the ends of Peak motor current draw at the body, then drilled and tapped for maximum tractive force: .35 amps .49 amps a number 2-56 screw (see the Janu­ Slowest no-stall speed over ary/February 1984 issue for the an Atlas or Tyco technique). The pilot should be re­ number 6-size turnout (switch): .34 smph .34 smph placed with a Detail Associates Possible to add how number 2214 or the sides filled in to much extra weight? 4.00 ounces reduce the width of the opening. Running noise judgement: Poor Poor Molded-in Detail fidelity: Fine Fine Painted-on detail fidelity Fine Fine Response - starting voltage At no load 1.4V 1.4V At full load 2.4V 2.6V Downhill run, full load: Fine Fine Stall current at 12 volts: -1.2 AMP -

*Note: smph = scale miles per hour

September 1988 Model Railroading • 27 Air Brush Techniques:

Weathering Cement-Carrying Ca The characteristic stains that decorate covered hoppers (and some box cars) identifyrs them as cement-carrying cars at a glance.

Albin Burroughs model by Albert Hetzel

Cars like these are of ten stained by rain dribbling down the sides Thin some Floquil no. 130 SP Lettering Grey with 9 parts thinner and setting the concrete dust. Simulate the stains by brushing and carefu lly spray it over the car side to blend the grey streaks to streaks of Polly S No. 82 "Concrete" mixed with 5 parts thinner eliminate the "zebra stripe" look. It's wise to study photos of (or water). Use a number a-size brush. When it dries, cover the prototype cars to determine where the streaks and dust settle. reporting marks and numbers with small rectangles of Scotch Remove the rectangles of Magic tape. Magic tape.

Add touches of actual dirt and Previous Air Brushing grime by spraying Articles: light coats of The July 1987 issue contained an • Floquil Engine index of all previous air-brushing Black around the articles. Sand-blasting to remove paint. Au­ bottom of the car • and the ends. Add gust 1988 Weathering diesels. May 1988 patches of rust • Weathering N scale freight cars, with some thinned • Box Car Red. September 1987

September 28 • Model Railroading 1988 ------KatolKadee Conversion ... Couplers For Stewart's F3 Kadee Conversion:

ACo testup reportlers on the For new StewartiKatoThe Stew F3 appeartarsiKato on page 10F3 You can install them without screws but it's hardly a snap-in installation .

The Kadee number 5 coupler and coupler pocket will fit both the fr ont and rear of the new Stewart HO scale F3 (made by Kato in Japan - the same maker as that usedfo r some Atlas and some Can Cor locomotives). You can couple F3 units nose-to-nose without the Kadee hose hitting the pilot. The coupler protrudes too fa r fr om the body, however. If you are willing to fiddle a bit with the shape of the metal Kadee hose and to trim some off any pilots, you can use the shorter-shank Kadee number 7 coupler in the number 5 coupler pocket. Be sure to check the coupler height using the Kadee gauge as shown. If the coupler is too high, you may need to drill and tap the mounting hole fo r a number 2 -56 screw so you can install plastic shims between the pocket and frame to lower the coupler. If the coupler is too low, try leaving off the top plate from the number 5 pocket and installing the top plate (but no bottom plate) upside down.

Remove the body by spreading both lower sides. The Kato coupler Trim 118 inchfrom thefront of the top and bottom of the Kadee is attached with this E-shaped clip. The pivot pin will clear the number 5 pocket fo r the front of the Stewart F 3. Trim only 1/16 center hole in the Kadee no. 5 pocket (center) so you can use it inch fr om the Kadee pocket fo r the rear of the unit (and, and the number 5 spring, coupler and (not shown) coupler pocket presumably,for the yet-to-come B units) . Do NOT trim anything bottom. fr om the spring, however.

More of the Kadee pocket must be removedfrom the coupler fo r the front of the Stewart diesel so the Fit the Kadee coupler to the rear of the unit, first, to get thefeel of the installation. Assemble the pocket will clear the pilot. Test-fit coupler, spring and pocket as shown, then hold it in place on the chassis while you snap the the cut pocket inside the E-shaped retainer through the hole and around the pocket. Yo u'll do the same thing on the front E-shaped clip. but the body will be mounted so it's more difficult to see what's fitting where. Again, number 7 couplers will provide a more realistic closer-coupled pair of diesels.

Install the body. Hold the Kadee coupler together with pointed tweezers while you insert the assembled coupler and pocket through the pilot of the Stewart F3. The E-shaped clip can then be snapped in place to retain the coupler and pocket.

Model Railroading · 29 Diesel Detail Close-Up: Previous Articles In This � RS-11 as Nickel Plate No. 573 Series: ALCO RS-1 1 as Maine Central no. • :: AL(and eCALCO RS-36 as NKP nos. 870 & 875) 802, May/June 1986 o to help you duplicate full-size diesels in miniature. ALCO RS-1 1 as Delaware & Hud­ A paint, decal and part-by-part guide • � son no. 5002, January 1987 ;:0 rre A full index of all previous "Diesel Photos from the collection of Louis A. Ma • e1. Detail Close-Up" articles (98 of a them) appeared in the May 1988 � issue rICI::­

Nickel Plate Roster & IIModernll RS-36 The April/June 1988 issue (no. 87) of the "diesel locomotive newsmag a- �!!!I��l!I� zine" Extra 2220 South has a full ros­ ter of Nickel Plate diesels including a color photo of the number 429 GP9 in black with slim, yellow stripes. There is also a color photo of the blue, black and yellow ex-NKP RS-36 (no. 873) as North Central Oklahoma number 2873, California Western (a tourist line) maroon and yellow (ex-SP) RS-1 2 and bright green, yellow and black (ex-SP) � Cementos Portland Nationale �������� (Mexico) RS-1 1. The magazine is ����� $13.75 a year (four issues) from Rail- -�� ��� � x, 1 e Dr., Dept. MRG, � � fa 0890 Lemari �������� � ��� ��� ������ ����� � ��� ��;:������E:5� ���� �������� ���� �� �� � HO Scale RS-1 1 Made By: Atlas only numbers 874 and 875 had high (Kato) and M odel Power (Mehano­ noses - the other NKP RS-36s had low tenika). noses like number 870. HO Scale RS-36 Made By: None The Nickel Plate was absorbed into available but the RS-1 1 can be con­ Norfolk & Western in 1959 and these verted by filling in the five air intake RS-1 1 and RS-36s were repainted and grills with sheet styrene and installing renumbered 2558-2577 and three new grills framed in 1 x 2 Ever­ 2850-2864. green styrene with Detail Associates HO Scale Decals: Herald King L400 number 2709 grills (cut from the mate­ or Micro Scale 87-41 rial in this SW switcher grill kit). N Scale Decals: Micro Scale 160-41 N Scale RS-1 1 Made By: Atlas Paint: Black: use weathered or (Kato) darker black depending on assumed N Scale RS-36 Made By: None avail­ age of paint scheme. Stripes are in­ able but RS-1 1 is similar. cluded in decal sets.

Full-Size Locomotive: The succesor Details: (HO Scale): to the popular ALCO RS-3 but still con­ DA1 003 Headlight $1 00/2 sidered to be a "first generation" diesel. DA1 101 Lift rings 1.25/36 The RS-1 1 was produced between DA1 301 Cab sunshade 1.00/6 February of 1956 and May of 1961 . It DA1 408 Drop step (modified) 3.00/2 was superseded by the similar-style DA1 502 mu Receptacles 1.00/2 RS-36 which was produced until Au­ DA1 508 mu Hoses 2.00/1 6 DA1 601 Air horn (modified) . 1.25/2 gust of 1963. The RS-1 1 was built with DA1 708 Classification lights 1.25/1 2 five square carbody fil ters spaced DA2201 Grab irons 1.75/1 8 evenly along the side (see the previous DA221 1 Coupler lift bars 2.00/2 RS-1 1 "Diesel Detail Close-Up" articles DA2304 W i nd deflectors 2.50/3 pro - or the HO or N scale models). On the DA2504 Wire for rail ings 2.50/1 0 RS-36, the filters were grouped to­ DA2702 Etched fan grill 2.75/2 gether in a set of three just behind the DA2709 SW switcher grill cab. The RS-32, in turn, succeeded the (cut) 3.50/set Air hoses RS-36 and it is virtually identical exter­ DA6206 1.00/12 DA6402 Brake wheel 1.25/2 nally. The RS-32 was produced from DA6502 Etched caboose steps June of 1961 until June of 1962. The (modified) 2.50/1 2 RS-36 and RS-32 also have shorter rear intake grills on the rear sides of the DW135 Bell (modified) 1.50/2 hoods. DW1 57 Antenna 1.50/5 The Nickel Plate number 573 is part DW166 Fuel filler 1.00/4 of number series 573-577 built in 1960. At some point in its life, it has been re­ PSC3933 Headlight (use round portions of casting cut to simulate built with the five carbody filters plated four lift pads) 1.25/pr. over and a set of three RS-36 style fil­ PSC3967 Wipers 1.75/4 ters installed just behind the hood. It re­ PSC31 513 Filler hatch 1.25 ea. tains the original tall rear grills on the PSC39034 ALCO brake cylinders 2.75/4 sides of the long hood, however. The PSC39072 Running lights (covered Nickel Plate also had the RS-1 1 in num­ with shim brass or .005 ber series 558-562 (built in 1956) and Evergreen styrene) 1.25/6 rect from the manufacturer, include MRG, Hacienda Heights, CA 563-572 (1958) PSC48237 Chain 2.25/10" $1 .50 with each order for postage and 91745 Number 875 is part of number series handling. You must purchase the full PSC: Precision Scale Co , 1120 Gum SV1 09 End railings & brac�ets 5.29/4 package quantities shown after the Ave , Dept. MRG, Woodland, CA 865-875 built in 1962 but it is an RS-36 SV1 08 Stanchions 4.49/22 in nearly as-built condition with the price. 95695 three air intakes behind the cab and the NOTE: All of these detail parts are avail­ DA: Detail Associates, Box 197, Dept. SV: Smokey Valley RR & Machine Co., short rear grills. Number 870 is part of able from your local hobby dealer, so MRG, Santa Maria, CA 91456 6120 Northeast 203rd St., Dept. this same number series - apparently contact him first. If you must order di- OW: Details West, Box 5132, Dept. MRG, Seattle, WA 981 55 No. 2 Prototype Plans ...The Walnut Hill Station On The B&M .....::::s::���:::.... 24 28 foot x Plans Series Wa lnut Hill Station

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Previous Plans This is the kind of station that has been a popular design with model rail­ FMC 4700 Cu. Ft. Covered Hopper, May 1988 • roaders for nearly fifty years. It is similar General American Car 4500 Cu. Ft. Covered Hopper plans, March 1988 • to Lionel's plastic model, to American Conoco Oil Depot at Telluride, Colorado, January 1988 • Flyer's and to the printed cardboard kit Warehouse 'A' at Telluride in HO and N scales, August 1987 • produced by Ideal in the forties. Mather 36-foot Stock Car in HO, N and 0 scales, November 1987 • Walnut Hill was on one of the second­ C&O bucket-loading coaling tower at West Hamlin, WV, March 1987 • ary lines of the Boston and Maine Rail­ Telluride depot, May 1987 • ACF 3960 cu. ft. capacity cylindrical covered hopper, July 1987 road about 10 miles north of Boston. • The plans suggest that Walnut Hill was Kay More Mine & Coke Ovens series, August, September, October, Novem- • ber, December 1987 and February 1988 a part of Woburn, so we would surmise Coke that it was used primarily for commuter • Ovens at Sewell, WV, April 1988 Water Tower at Telluride on the RGS, June 1988 traffic. • Freight House (and Engine House) on the Illinois Central, July 1988 The station itself had a waiting room • --- and baggage room inside but there is �1II=1�1II 111 �1I11I1�11I1II11�1 �������������lIIn�m���� h=t;�111111111111111111111111 no indication of a freight station. The end of a box car on a set of pilings is, however, just visible to the left of the photo so there was probably a small freight and team track siding. The station itself rested on a wood

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Model Railroading September 1988 • 37 Trailers-On-Flat Cars, Part XII: Foot Pennsy, Erie Trailer Train 75- & � E}t�t�ka2fB !�e� st�, tf!!�a�ars of the mid-fiftieS _ that set the standards for the 89-footers of the eighties ....

Photos courtesy Mark Va ughan and the collection of George Drake

Previous Piggyback Articles: 75-foot Pennsy Flat Cars & Private • Owner Trailers, part I, August 1988 Tie-downs for 50-foot flats • (triangular-style), June 1988 1966-era 89-foot General Ameri­ • can piggyback flat cars, prototype and model, May 1988 Railroad-owned 24- to 36-foot • highway trailers (some in color), February 1988 Union Pacific 40- and 50-foot pig­ • gyback cars with chain-style tie­ down devices, March 1988 Part VI: Modeling the winch-style • tie-down devices in HO scale, January 1988 Part V: Modeling the 24- to 25-foot • snub-nose trailers in HO scale, December 1987 Part IV: Modeling the 53'6" flats in • HO scale (Con Cor kit-con­ version), November 1987 Part III: The Wabash 50-foot piggy­ • back flat cars and trailers, October 1987 Part II: The "50s" from the Fifties," • the flats and trailers in use on the real RRs at the end of 1954, Sep­ tember 1987 Part I: The first few hundred 50-foot • flats and trailers on the South Shore, CGW and New Haven, August 1987 40- and 50-foot flats (prototype • and models), Summer 1980 Modeling Icl and piggyback ter­ • minals, November/December 1986

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The Pennsy's exterior post trailers of the 1954 era carried this paint scheme on Tuscan Red sides. Theflat car is part of the initial 200 75-footers the Penn-sy ordered in late 1954. Bethlehem Steel Corp. Freight Car Divi sion photo from the collection of Mark Vaughan.

38 • Model Railroading IM.':tWI ------Frieight Cars O/ The Fifties: 75-Foot TOFC Flats, Part 1I The Pennsylvania Railroad was one Model Railroading. simply relettered from PRR to TTX. In . of the pioneers in piggyback trailer The flat cars that the Pennsy used for addition to these early Pennsy class transportation, especially so in the pur­ those "Truc Train" activities are pio­ F39 flats, 300 more cars from the F39a, suit of transporting private-owner trail­ neers in their own right. They were the F39b and F39c classes were contrib­ ers. While most railroads concentrated first of the modern (in the sixties, seven­ uted to the startup of Trailer Train. on Icl shipments in their own trailers, the ties and early eighties) fleet of 85- and In 1956, the Erie Railroad received Pennsy promoted the use of their new 89-foot flat cars. Also, those 200 cars fifty 75-foot flat cars similar to the Penn­ fleet of 200 75-foot flat cars for the were part of the initial "core" of 500 cars sys from Bethlehem Steel. They were trucking companies for long-haul use - that were used to start the Trailer Train numbered 7550-7599. Some of these, they were at least 20 years ahead of Corporation's (TTX) first piggyback however, were used for the typical Icl their time - the photos of the Pennsy's operations in March of 1956. service (with Erie's own trailers) that initial "Truc Train" promotions The Pennsy "Truc Train" flats, in was common on the other railroads in appeared in the August 1988 issue of number series 470400-470599, were the mid-fifties. PIGGY BACK I Frieight Cars O/ The Fifties: 75-Foot TOFC Flats, Part II ------w.:._ �_ �

The class F 39 cars were equipped with hinged end ramps fo r circus-style loading. The brake wheels (on both ends of the car) apparently could be telescoped downward to rece s the wheel in the half-round cutouts in the deck. Bethlehem Steel Corp. Freight Car Division photo from the collection of Mark Vaughan.

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The Bethlehem Steel Corp. Freight Car Division's builders photos of the Pennsy class F39 cars (in number series 470400-470599). This one carries the "Pennsy" billboard that appeared on alternate cars with the "True Train" billboards shown in the August 1988 issue of Model Railroading.

The Pennsy flats were renumbered TTX when the fleet was reassigned to Trailer Train Corporation in 1956. This series of cars includes at least 470624 with two private owner trailers. Photo courtesy George Drake.

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A partial view o/ the F39A series o/ Trailer Train (ex-Pennsy cars) that are nearly identical to the F39 series. Overland Models imported the F39 in both H 0 and 0 scale brass . With the all-welded construction, it would be relatively easy car to bl£ildfr om strips a 0/ styrene. These cars have also been fitted with the ACF-style hitches that replaced the 8 tie-doums,fifth wheel support and wheel chocks. Photo courtesy George Drake. Model Railroading 42 • September 1988 PIGGY BACK '. ..' -- �- . Frieight Cars Of The Fifties: 75-Foot TOFC Flats, Part II

Technical Data Length over end sills: 75'0" Length over strikers: 75'8" One of the Erie's 75-foot Bethlehem Steel Length between truck centers: 63'0" Corp. flat car with three Erie 20-foot city Length over pulling face of couplers: 78'4%" delivery lel trailers. The car to the left, Width between guide rails (TTX): 8'2" however, has at least one private owner Width between tie-down rails (ATTX): 8'10W' trailer. Photo fr om the collection of the Height of deck: 3'5%" Erie-Lackawanna Historical Society by Lightweight (TTX): Load Limit (TTX): Joe Slanser near Marion, Ohio, in July of F39 79,400 Ibs.' F39 130,500 Ibs.' 1957. F39A 78,800 Ibs.' F39A 131,200 Ibs.* F39B 76,300 Ibs.* F39B 133,700 Ibs.* F39C 82,000 Ibs.* F39C 128,000 Ibs.* 'Note: ATTX cars have a lightweight approximately 4,000 Ibs. less, which in­ creases the load limit 4,000 Ibs.

75' Flatcars Classes: F39, F39A, F39B, F39C. BIT 1954 - First cars in the fleet. The underframe on the majority of 75' cars is an all-welded steel structure with a small percentage of cars (F39B) having a cast steel underframe. The welded steel and cast steel underframes have fish belly center sills. Trailer Train's own description of the Class F39, F39A, and F39C have a wood deck with an exposed steel center sill top cover plate extending the full length of the car. Class F39B has an all­ F39 class cars. Courtesy Trailer Train wood deck. Corp. Conventional friction draft gears are used for end-of-car cushioning. 1. TTX- These cars are equipped with two (2) hitches for the transportation of two (2) trailers up to 35' in length. 2. ATTX - These cars are equipped with continuous tie-down loops at the cen­ ter of the car and tie-down rails at the sides, for the transportation of small ve­ hicles such as army trucks, jeeps, mail trucks, and other general commodities.

September 1988 Model Railroading • 43 ------Chris Komloski's HO Scale Crystal Valley & Central

Layout Tour II: Chris Komloski's HO Scale Double­ Deck Crystal Valley & Central The Layout On This Month's Cover

A brief glimpse at a well-detailed 9 x 20-foot layout just before it was moved from the end of the Komloski living room.

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Ninefeet of the Komloski's 25 x 20joot living room was occupied by this double­ deck HO scale layout. Recently, the layout has been moved to a larger space in a special structure outside their home. Both the red-walled mine in the background and the "Uhr Place Ore Mine" are detailed and modified Campbell kits.

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The end-of-the-linefor the HOn3 branchline is this mining complex at the top of the double-deck layout's upper deck. The mines are combinations of Campbell kits and scratchbuilding. The narrow gauge starts in the town on the cover of this issue.

44 • Model Railroading September 1988 An HO scale mainline wraps around the 9 20joot layout spacefrom a set x of hidden holding yard to the main yard, then upgrade a scale 1.5 miles to the narrow gauge yard. The D&RG 2-8-8-2 is a brass import and most of these cars are Athearn kits. The cattle pen is scratchbuilt. This scene is on the transition deck between the layout's upper and lower decks.

The narrow gauge line loopsfrom the town on the cover of this issue through a reverse loop to climb this pallisade to reach the mines. The locomotives are all brass imports painted by Chris. We 'll try to bring you another visit to the layout af ter it is assembled in its new location.

September 1988 Model Railroading • 45 Railroad Prototype Modelers ... Shop Report ------

The Railroad Prototype Modelers 1988 Pacific Coast Meeting (and news of the forthcoming Niagara/Frontier get-together)

An example of what happens when a few of the members of the RPM get together - we'll show you some of their models from the Birmingham NMRA Convention get-together in a future issue ....

Photos by Richard Hendrickson After a series of successfu l display/contests at NMRA national conventions, the Railroad Prototype Modelers held their first regional Railroad prototype meeting early in June in conjunction with the Modelers Niagara/ NMRA Pacific Coast Region convention at Santa Rosa, Califo rnia. In both quality and variety, the Frontier models shown compared fa vorably with those at Announcement the previous RPMnational meetings, and attendance wasn't soley regional: Tony RAILROAD PROTOTYPE MODEL­ Thompson was there from Pittsburgh, Red Davis ERS is sponsoring a regional meet! flew infrom Nebraska, Frank Hodina sent display/clinic/contest at the NMRA models fr om Illinois, and a whole contingent Niagara Frontier/North East Regions came fr om Southern California and Arizona. Joint Convention in Rochester, N.Y., There was goodfellowship as well asfine October 15 at the Ramada Inn, 1273 modeling, and general agreement that there Chili Avenue at 1390. should be more regional RPM gatherings like After holding several successful this one. meetings at the NMRA national con­ ventions since 1985, RPM is holding These are just a fe w of the many modern-era its second regional meeting. RPM fr eight car models displayed at the Santa Rosa meetings provide a gathering place RPM gatherings; note the prototype photos that for prototype modelers to meet, accompany many of the cars, attesting to the share ideas and information, swap modelers' concern fo r accuracy. David Hussey's tips and techniques, and display kit-bashed Rio Grande hopper car (left center) their models. All prototype modelers tookfirs t place in this category; others whosefine who attend the NFR/NER Regional modeling is shown in this photo include Red convention are encouraged to take Davis and John Rogers. part. D i scussions, displays, slide shows, and clinics on researching the prototype and building accurate scale models and even layouts based on prototype railroads will be part of the program. A popular vote contest, in which only entrants may vote, will also be conducted as a part of the display. Models must represent actual rail­ road rolling stock or structures, present or past, and should be ac­ companied by prototype photos or drawings. There will be separate categories for modern (1955-1 988) and classic (1930-1955) era loco­ motives, passenger cars, freight Union Pacific diesels made a clean sweep of the cars, caboose/MOW equipment, . modern-era locomotive class with David Hussey's and railroad structures. But compe­ first place Union Pacific SD-40-2 3488 (lower tition is NOT the focus. Sharing infor­ left). Bill Thompson's nicely weathered UP 3769 mation IS, so bring your prototype (left rear) , and Joe D'Elia's UP 3411 (right models for display. center). Dan Smith built the Santa Fe GP-SOs For additional information contact and the other models included in this photo are Jim Eager, 327 Winona Dr., Toronto, by Bill Thompson. Ontario, Canada M6C 3T2, 416-652-3832.

46 . Model Railroading September 1988 A close-up of the PFE reefe r moc/,el which eamedfirst placefor Frank Hodina and a tank car kit donated by Tichy. The prototype's plywood side sheathing is represented by sheet styrene spliced on to the kit's molded sheathing bands and side sills; door hardware is Grandt Line. This model represents a later R-30-9 which was rebuilt without hatch platforms. Frank mixed sand in his paint to simulate the anti-skid coating PFE applied to reefe r roofs in the '40s and '50s, and the model's realism is also enhanced by such added details as ice bunker drain spouts, uncoupling levers, and chalk markings.

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September 1988 Model Railroading · 47 3: Consists: Part XI o i� An SO-Car Santa Fe Freight AS It Wa s In �. 1947 OcA "typical"to trainbe consr ist of 1947 as it would have been based on yard inventories and equipment registers of the era.

Richard Hendrickson Richard Hendrickson used every knownform of prototype reference material to recreate a Santa Fe fre ight train as it would appear in October of 194 7. Beca e his "consist" is us based on actual consists and equipment registers, it should be even more typical than a prototype yard scene fo r there's no chance of any " blocks" of unusual cars (like flat cars carrying tanks to be scrapped af ter the war). The photos on the fo llowing pages are matclled to these color pictures to identify each of the cars in this consist. If you are modeling the late fo rties, a major proportion of these cars should app ear on your layout. The trackage and scenery are part of a module built by Ellaine Jones, Kerry Baird and William B ain. PHOTO 1

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Previous "Consists": Allentown, Pennsylvania's yard circa April 16, 1976, in full color, October • 1987 Union Pacific freight with 4-8-8-4 and 4-6-6-4 steam circa 1951, Sherman Hill, • Wyoming, May 1987 HO scale 8-car consist of fifties-era 40-foot boxcar kit-conversions or kit­ • upgrades, April 1987 Rio Grande standard gauge articulateds, circa 1954 on Tennessee Pass, Col- • orado, March 1987 Burlington SD9s circa 1965, February 1987 • Burlington F3 ABBA and freight in Nebraska circa 1958, January 1987 • South Boston, on the New Haven, four full pages of yard circa 1949, January • 1988

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PHOTO 2. (With only afew exceptions, the cars shown in Athearn kit. Ambroid wood kit. photos 2 -6 have been repainted and relettered with decals or 19. Great Northern69534, 69500-6999 series 42' steeljlat 24. Union Pacific OWR&N 189168, Class B-50-27 40' dry transfers. All carsare lettered, aged and weathered to car built in 1924; kitbashedfrom AHM flat car. AAR steel box car built in 1939; superdetailedfrom an represent the appearance of their prototypes in October of 20. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 36951, Class Bx-22 Evergreen Roundhouse (Athearn) kit. :: 1947.) (former Clinton & Oklahoma Western) 40' single­ 25. Central 0/ Georgia 6427, 6300-6999 series 40' AAR o sheathed box car built in 1927; kit bashed/rom a Train steel box car built in 1939; superdetailedfrom an Q. 15. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 91506, Class Ft-V AAR !!. 70-ton, 53 '6"jlat car built in 1944; kitbashedji·om Miniature kit. Evergreen Roundhouse (Athearn) kit. :::0 Athearn 50 ' flat cars. 21. SouthernPaci fic 65358, Class A-50-12 50' AAR steel 26. Bessemer & Lake Erie 76055, Class HT-11 70-ton ..,� 16. New York Central 499372, Lot 724-F AAR 70-ton, auto car built in 1940; modified and superdetailed triple hopper built in 1937; superdetailed/rom an from an Athearn kit. Ulrich kit. o 53 '6"jlat car built in 1946; kitbashedfrom Athearn I)) 27. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 273397, Class Bx-49 40' Q. 50' flat cars. 22. Milwaukee Road 708022, 70500- 708499 series 40' 5· C1Cl 17. SouthernPacific 46155, Class G-50-9 Enterprise single-sheathed box car built in 1927; kitbashedfrom a steel box car rebuilt in 1947; kitbashedfrom an Athearn kit. general-service steel gondola built in 1923; Train Miniature kit. superdetailedfrom an Ulrich kit. 23. Atlantic Coast Line 17190, Class 0-17 36' wood­ 28. Union Pacific18 3005, Class B-50-19 40' AAR steel box car built in 1937; kitbashedfrom an Athearn kit. 18. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 5999, Class Fe-19 40' sheathed ventilated box car built in 1927; builtfrom an steel auto car rebuilt in 1939; kitbashed from an -­ - - 39..- ...._-

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29. Delaware & Hudson 15612, 15600-15699 series 40' gondola built in 1941; kitbashedfrom Athearn kits. 38. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie (NYC) 4001 7, Lot 740-G 52 ' 6" steel gondola built in 1944; kitbashedfrom a Tyco 34. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 97198, Class Ft-M 44 '6" steel mill gondola built in 1945; kitbashedfrom an gondola. flat car built in 1924; kit bashed from Athearn kits. Athearn kit. � 30. Union Pacific 69067, Class 0-50-6 oil car built in 35. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern32386, 31550-32749 series 39. St, Louis Southwestern36532, 36000-38499 series 40' 1937; kitbashedfrom an Athearn kit. 48' 6" steel mill gondola built in 1941; kitbashedfrom {u(iQd';sjj.eatfrcd box car built in the early '20s and 31 . Pere Marquette 18852, 18850-18946 series 52 '6" steel Athearn kits. rebuiltjn 'the '30s; kitbashedfrom an Athearn kit. 3 g mill gondola built in 1944; kitbashedfrom Athearn 36. Baltimore & Ohio 430018, Class W-2D ARA quad 40. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 10431, Class Fe-2450 .., kits. hopper with Duryea cushion under/rame built in 1930; 50' AAR steel auto car built in 1941; superdetailed and 32. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 36095, Class BX-Z 36' modifiedand superdetailedfrom an Athearn kit. reletteredfrom an Athearn kit. wood-sheathed box car built in 1915; built fr om 37. Missouri Pacific 56037, 55500-56499 series ARA quad 41. Pennsylvania Railroad 220558, Class H31 twin hopper A thearn kits. hopper built in 1930; modifiedand superdetailedfrom built in 1941; modified and superdetailedfr om an 33. Southern Pacific 94052, Class 6-50-14 52 ' 6" steel mill an Athearn kit. Athearn kit. (J'J I'D "0 tt 3 a I'D ..,

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53. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 169875, Class Ga-63 fr om an Athearn kit. steel box car built in 1937; modified and superdetailed 52 ' 6" "war emergency" composite mill gondola built in 58. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 6943, Class Fe-23 50' Trains, Inc. brass import. 1944; superdetailedfrom an Ulrich kit. steel auto car with end door, rebuilt in 1940; kitbashed 63. Wilson & Co. WCLX 7526, 7501-7616 series 36' wood­ 54 . Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 96310, Class Tk-G from an Athearn kit. sheathed meat reefer; kitbashedfrom a Model Die 10,500-gal. water service tank car built in 1906; Pecos 59. SouthernPacific 975 41, Class B-50-23 40' AAR steel Casting kit. River Brass import. box car built in 1942; modified and superdetailedfrom 64. SouthernRailway 55408, 55000-55960 series 40' steel '" an Athearnkit. I't> 55. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 2076, 2001-2200 series gondola; modi/ed and superdetailedfrom a Model Die '"0 steel caboose built in 1942; modified and superdetailed 60. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 128784, Class Bx-12 Casting casts meteil kit. tt 3 fr om an Athearn kit. composite single-sheathed box car built in 1930; 65. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 18051 7, Class 6a-62 g 56. Louisville & Nashville 4968, 4000-5049 series 36' kitbashedfrom a Model Die Casting kit. AAR "war emergency" composite twin hopper built in "'\ wood-sheathed box car; kitbashedfrom a Mudel Die 61. St. Louis-San Francisco 85327, 85000-85999 series 1944; modified and superdetaiLedfrom an Athearnkit. � Casting kit. USRA 40' composite gondola built in 1919; modified 66. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 9411, Class Fe-25 50' 00 57. Shippers Car Line SHPX 3145, 11,OOO-gal. insulated and superdetailedfrom a Wa lthers kit. steel auto car rebuilt in 1943; kitbashed from an LPG tank car built in 1945 ; modified and superdetailed 62. Baltimore & Ohio 381798, Class M53 40' wagon-top Athearn kit. PHOTO 6

67. Chesapeake & Ohio 29907, ;29900-29999 series 48' 6" 72 . Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe SFRD 16142, Class Rr-X Pennsylvania Railroad Class R7); modified and gondola built in 1939; kitbashed /i'Oln an Athearn kit. 40' wood reefe r built in 1921; kitbash.edfrom a Train superdetailedfrom a Red Ball wood and metal kit. :: 0 68. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe SFRD 34294, Class Miniature kit. 77. Union Pacific 474067, Class A-50-16 40' steel auto Co � Rr-21 40' steel reifer with Duryea cushion undeiframe 73. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe SFRD 8758, Class Rr-42 car built in 1940; kitbashed fr om an A thearn kit. :::0 built in 1937; kitbashedfrom an Athearn kit. 40' steel reefe r rebuilt in 1947; kitbashedfrom an 78. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 100091, Class Tk-J � 69. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe SFRD 724 7, Class Rr-35 Athearnkit. 1 0,500-gal.fuel oil tank car built in 1915; Pecos River "'\ 40' steel reefe r rebuilt in 1945; kitbashedfrom an 74. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe SFRD 3529, Class Rr-44 Brass import. 0 � Athearn kit. 40' steel reefe r rebuilt in 1947; kitbashedfrom an 79. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 99132, Class Tk-J Co 70. NorthernPacific 910 47, 91000-91249 series 40' steel Athearn kit. 1 0,500-gal.fuel oil tank car built in 1912; Pecos River (1Cl:i" reefers built in 1947; modified and superdetailedfrom 75. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 9143, Class Fe-20 50' Brass import. Co11 an Athearn kit. steel auto car rebuilt in 1940; kitbashedfrom an 80. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 96883, Class Tk-H Co11 71. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe SFRD 25708, Class Rr-9 Athearn kit. 10,500-gal.fuel oil tank car built in 1910; Pecos River 40' wood-sheathed reefe r built in 1930, neLl! roof 76 . Fruit Growes Express FGEX 43566, 43500-46799 Brass import. app lied ca. 1940; kitbashedfrom an Athearn kit. series 40' sinf(le-sheath.ed refrif(eratorcar (former Feedback Updates on history, from YOU, our readers

Milk Car Colors The General American Pfaudler (later section of overnight express mail trains 1987 issues with a kit-conversion article General American Refrigerator) milk or in solid trains of milk cars in the on a Tichy (Gould) underframe in the cars of the thirties and forties are some 1930-1950 era. We included articles July/August 1986 issue. The colors of of the most interesting cars ever oper­ and photographs on the cars in the these cars, however, are questionable. ated on the real railroads. These cars May/June 1986, July/August 1986, We may have a possible proof ... were commonly used in the "head end" September/October 1986, and March Max Schwanda has this 0 scale model in his collection. The car sides are printed and the kit can be guessti­ mated to date from the forties if not from the thirties. The sides are printed card­ board and, like a number of kits from this era, they may be more accurate than any other color source. Since this scheme was used on dozens of differ­ ent dairy cars (with the name of the dairy in place of "Wieland Dairies"), it could be very useful. The car itself was about a match for Floquil R-48 Coach Green, and the lettering and the band were all in (what else?) cream with the letterboard in gold decals. Any better proof of the color of the Pfaudler cars?

Southern 4500 Cu. Ft.Cove red Hoppers Dear Sirs: are more popular to model railroaders loco that was built. After all, how many Just received a copy of your March than the Southeasterners. If they would manufacturers produce a GP38-2 or 1988 issue of Model Railroading. The take their polls in model stores in the GP50 high-nose? "Prototypes Worthy of Scratchbuilding" Southeast I believe that they will be sur­ is always a favorite section of mine. prisedl Being a SOUTHERN RAILWAY Yours truly, However, I want to comment on the fan, I have to nearly kitbash every car or Mark S. Mosely "General American Car 4500 Cu. Ft. Covered Hopper" article. I can't believe that you omitted the SOUTHERN and SANDERSVILLE railroads. These cars are seen by the tons throughout the Southeast. For starters, the SOUTHERN used these cars like their BIG JOHN series to carry huge bulk commodities, mainly flour and sugar, main staples of the South. According to the Official Railway Equipment Register, Vol. 98, No. 2, Oct. 1982 (just before the takeover of Nor­ folk & Western), numbers 85000-85499 were the 4500 cu. ft. cars that the SOUTHERN used. Numbers 600-699 were the SANDERSVILLE series. I'm enclosing a few photos of these cars. I cast my vote in your survey that was conducted a couple of months ago concerning cars that manufacturers would make. In particular, I wanted very much to see this car produced in plas­ tic (not brass!) for us budgeted model railroaders. I haven't attempted to scratchbuild this car yet since I'm in the early stages of expert modeling. Furthermore, if a manufacturer does decide to produce this car, I hope they make one in the SOUTHERN. I do not know where manufacturers and maga­ zines get ideas that Western railroads

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Dear Bob, About the photo of the two Maine Central 1932 AAR box cars in the photo on p. 61 of the July 1988 Model Rail­ roading - if that's a Union Pacific car between them, as stated in the caption, how come it says "Illinois Central" on it? The "Freight Car Feedback" letters in the July issue address several topics that invite some further comment. box car kit as a starting point, even if the merly one of 125 CV cars in the wood kit were still in production. 42000-42124 series with 1 V2 doors and Ends As for what to call the trucks on these 10' door openings (the CV also had 500 Tom Heinrich's letter about the DT&I cars, they were generally known in rail­ similar cars with end doors numbered 17000 series single-sheathed cars way engineering circles as "Bettendorf 41000-41499). In the early '50s some of prompts me to send youan H.B. Miller Single Truss" trucks; "T-Section" is a them were rebuilt as single-door cars photograph which, if you look carefully, term used only by modelers. Which (note that the side panel to the left of the shows the Hutchins panelend that Tom leads in turn to another point about door is wider than the others and that describes. There's also a partial end truck nomenclature. Modelers are so the door tracks for the auxiliary door are view of DT&I 17157 on p. 149 of James accustomed to using "Bettendorf" as a still in place) and renumbered into the Valle's The Iron Horse at War. In addi­ generic name for trucks with one-piece 43000 series. tion to theother departures from USRA cast steelside frames that there's prob­ standard specifications that Tom men­ ably no stopping them, but strictly GS Gons tions, these cars were10 '0" high inside, speaking the only Bettendorf trucks The Boston and Maine gondola pic­ significantly taller thana USRA car, and were those manufactured by the Bet­ tured in the January '88 issue (p. 51) this helps to account for the difference tendorf company. The principle of cast­ wasn't really a GS gondola; it had only in the appearance of their side framing. ing the journal boxes integral with the eight drop-bottom doors, leaving a Like other DT&I cars, they were used a side frames, which Bettendorf pio­ large area of the car body that wasn't lot for shipping auto parts, and the Jan­ neered, was adopted in the mid-20s as self-clearing. The distinguishing fea­ uary 1948 ORER shows 61 of them re­ standard ARA practice, and ARA (and, ture of a GS gon was that the drop numbered into the 17000 series and later, AAR) standard trucks were made doors spanned the entire length of the equipped with racks for shipping auto in many variations by a number of dif­ car, even over the trucks, making it al­ body stampings. ferent manufacturers. An ASF A-3 was most entirely self-unloading. not a Barber S-2, and a Buckeye was Finally, let me belatedly express my USRA Box Cars not a Symington-Gould; each of these appreciation to Richard Burg and Carl Gordon also suggests modeling the was somewhat different in appearance Shaver for their December '87 letters SP/PE B-50-14 class box cars using the from the others and none of them were correcting some errors in my August old Ambroid/Northeastern wood kit "Bettendorf" trucks since Bettendorf '87 article on round-roof box cars as #K-12. Actually, it's easier to model the didn't make them. well as adding much additional data on earlier B-50-1 1 s and B-50-13s with this While I'm at it, here are some brief these cars. "Nit-picking" has a deserv­ kit, since they had metal-sheathed follow-ups on other items that have ap­ edly bad name in the hobby, but con­ roofs with flat seam battens like the roof peared in previous issues of Model structive criticism and a willingness to in the kit, and many years ago I did ex­ Railroading. share information benefit everyone who actly that, with the results shown in the Scott Pitzer asks (May '88) about the is interested in prototype research and enclosed photo. The model is a reason­ roman-style lettering used by Atlantic in building accurate models. Your pol­ ably accurate representation of the SP Coast Line in the '40s; this lettering, in­ icy of publishing such letters deserves prototype car but it's completely cluding the circle herald with roman commendation, also, especially since lacking in rivet or bolt head details and characters, is available in Walthers some other model railroad publications the body framing is considerably over­ #25001 steam-era combination freight are notorious for pretending that every­ size. By comparison with a model built set. thing they print is gospel. from a current Westerfield or Storzek kit Regarding the Central Vermont Best regards, it's pretty crude, and today I'd probably single-sheathed car shown on p. 66 of Richard H. Hendrickson use Dennis Storzek's molded resin CN the March '88 issue, this car was for-

September 1988 Proto Power We st/A thearn Chassis & Cary's F# Body ------­ Kit-Conversion:

You can BUY power.P Protowe Powerr we west offersst/Ca this Instrumentry HO motor-e Scaquippedle Ath F3earn F7Pr chassisoto and Caryo provides an F3 body In a lead/tin alloy that weighs a whopping 14 ounces. The two bolt together. Just add paint. decals and try to find enough cars for an ABBA lashup of these to pull!

Test Report by Robert Higgins

Previous Articles In This Series: Test of the Stewart/Kato F3 on page 10 of this issue • Test of the Model Power/Mehanotenkia F3 on page 26 of • this issue Test ofProto Power West Instrument-Motored Athearn F7 • with stock Athearn body (no extra weight), Vol. 13, No. 2 issue

MODEL RAILROADING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT TEST REPORT NO. 58 © 1980 Proto Power F7 Coreless Motor TEST RESULT 14 Oz. weight Out-of-the-box Modified Slowest speed (full wave 12V D.C.): 1.50 smph' . smph 84 Slowest speed (pulse-wave 12V DC.): .36 smph .44 smph Fastest speed (full wave 12V D.C.): 51.0 smph 50.1 smph Maximum tractive (pulling) The largest motor you can squeeze inside the F3 (or F7) in a force (on level): 3.29 ounces 6.16 ounces Maximum uphill grade tuned chassis with extra lead in the tanks is the result of the Proto (locomotive & tender): 20.4 percent 20.4 percent Pull how many 4 ounce Power West $57.00 ready-to-run conversion chassis. Add the 14 y, cars up 4 percent grade? 1 2.3 23 ounces of weight from a Cary F3 body (now available to dealers Peak motor current draw at fr om Bowser at $18.95 per A or B unit body) , and the result maximum tractive force: .20 amps .25 amps should be one of the most poweiful bolt-together locomotives in Slowest no-stall speed over an Atlas or Tyco HO scale. number 6-size turnout (switch): .44 smph .44 smph The Proto Power West chassis are also available through your Possible to add how much extra weight? 1 4.38 ounces dealer or direct from Proto Power West at 3432 Lucero Ave., Running noise judgement: Fine Fine Dept. MRG, La Verne, CA 91750. 'Note: smph = scale miles per hour

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An outdoor ra ilroad (that will outlive your house!) * * USRA "Standard" RPO cars * Railway Post Office kit-conversion (for HO or N) * PS- 1 box cars (the final chapter?) Modeling Maine's Lime lines, part II * Scenery: riverbank foiliage in COLOR *

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September 1988 Model Railroading · 59 New Products

LCB will also have a simulated steel replica of the East Broad Top narrow gauge hoppers (that are currently in work service in This number 4080 Conoco tank car will be added to the LCB line Durango, Colorado). It's car number 4076. It will also be fo r 1988. It's a new tank resting on a.llat car similar to the available in yellow with DSP&P or Rio Crande markings and original LCB flat. A silver Conoco, black Cramps, box car red blue with Santa Fe markings. RCS "Water Car" and yellow Shell markings are also coming.

LGB For 1988: The 1122.5 scale LCB line to be shipped this fa ll includes this 1930 vintage Colorado & Southern locomotive. Pre-production samples have shown the unique "Beartrap" stack (there's one on page 18 of the June issue) but is not in productionfor 1988. It's based on the previous LCB 2-6-0 but the superstructure, tender and pilot are all to duplicate another C&S locomotive.

September 1988 60 • Model Railroading N Scale of Nevada is producing some clever loadsfo r conventional or bulkhead (shown) flat cars. The loads are (literally) photographs of real stacks of bare lumber (top) or paper-wrapped plywood and wallboard with the manufacturer's markings (bottom). The thin cardstock is die-cut so you just punch, fo ld and glue to assemble each "stack." The HO scale versions are $39.99/6 car loads. The N scale versions (shown) are $29.99/6 car loads. At your dealer or order direct from N Scale of Nevada, 15150 Sheri-K-Bar Rd., Dept. MRG, Reno, NV 8951 1, and include $1 .50 postage.

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September 1988 • Model Railroading 61 • • . And The Grand Prize Winners Are . • • The winners in the first Model Railroading magazine Sweepstakes drawing announced in the January, February and March 1988 issues.

Paul Willer, of Sodus, Michigan, was fifties to duplicate its cars. He started ond place prize. There's an article on drawn as the grand prize winner in our the hobby in 1947 with a Varney card their usefulness to a modeler in the Jan­ Sweepstakes contest. Paul gets his and wood 40-foot Southern box car and uary 1988 issue. Brian's choices were choice of anything he can buy at his fa­ got hooked on the M. Dale Newton the 1956 and 1966 . . Registers. He's vorite hobby shop, J&W Model Trains, (Red ball)car-a-month promotion in the modeling the Lehigh Valley in a in Coloma, Michigan. We didn't press late forties - he's been in the hobby 15 x 20-foot space in HO scale to in­ him to make up his mind between brass long enough to know where he wants to clude part of the Sayre Shops and and kits by press time, but the choice is spend that $1,000. trackage near Allentown, Pennsylvania. his. Our second place winner is Brian C. CD. Humphrey, of Sacramento, Cali­ Paul modelsthe Midwest in the fifties, Petroziello of Clayton, Ohio. Brian has fornia, won third prize, all 48 original especially the Nickel Plate and only been in the hobby since 1986 but back issues of Model Railroading mag­ Wabash. His favorite road, however, is his dedication is such that he had al­ azine - 1979 through January of 1988 - the Indiana Service Corporation's old ready discovered the Railway Equip­ a full collection. interurban line - he was scratch build­ ment Registers that we offered as sec- ing models from wood and card in the

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" ...more and more N scale modelers are going June 1988 Volume 18, No. 7 beyond the ready-to-run train set to create truly $2.50 per issue realistic miniature railroads .... PrototypeFreight Cars ArtIcles: of the Thirties USRA Double-Sheathed Cars • Freight Cars of the Ffties: USRA: Rebuilt D-S CarsBox • i T i Box "Today, you can build an scale model railroad that : ��iTd:��W����tco�i:�;:a P�����E� w����� the CB&Q N ss i not only looks every bit as realistic as the best scale : �CF ��8 00& %SoIl:�J��1 C��t�r2��9�ered Hoppersin COLOR HO • Diesel Detail Close-Up: G.E. U33B as SCl no. 1724 equipment, but you can have scale FldeJlty-to-PTototype Arttc lu: N that runs just as Atlas N Scale GP7 and GP9Chassis Kit-Conversion • " Modeling Triangular Piggy-Back Tie-Downs in HO Scale smoothly as the best HO scale ... • HO Scale StationKit-Conversion fromPatal Kits • Railroad PrototypeModelers 1 88Convention Announcement • 9 "The techniques to achieve that quality of PerformanceN Scale of Nevada Article.: Chassis for Atlas GP7 and GP9Diesels • Perfonnance Test Report: operation are in the pages of this book." • Spectrum(Bachmann) G.E. 44-Ton HO Scale Diesel The above from "Serious Fun", the introduction to Operations!Whit Towers on Walk-Around Control THE • Timetable Operationson the Alturas& lone Pine RR • by Robert Narrow Gauge: N SCALE Model Railroading MANUAL, Plans for the RGS Standard Water Tower Schleicher. • TrackFour Plana: Shelf-Style Track Plans • 96 pages. including 8 pages of full color and 18 locomotive test Scenery: • A Forest-FUll of Trees in Minutes -In COLOR

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September 66 • Model Railroading 1988 This translucent polylpropylene case weighs only 10.5 Ibs. The dimensions are 20" long by 12" high by August 1988 Volume 18. No. 9 deep with an 8" x plexiglass top mounted win­ $2.50 per issue 12" 5" dow to allow more direct light in. It is easy to clean Prototype Artlcle.: and comes with a RPM inductance shaded pole • Index of "Freight Cars of the Fifties"Articles 3100 Resultsof the Railroad PrOIOwrModelers Kit Surve • h e h tr in blower with replaceable filter and complete instruc­ : ���CI�,�� : ��t u2l��� c18 n� �i 4 a Freight Cars of the Fi�es: 1932 AAR4O-Foot Boxcars tions on venting. • Freight Cars of the Thirties: 1932 AAR4Q-Foot Boxcars See your nearest dealer or for more information • i e Color : �:a71����n���::'��a��o!��,.���o� te n���A�� write for a complete 24 page full color catalog. Send Fldellty-ta-Prototype: to cover postage and handling. Air Brushing: Paint Removal by Sand Blasting,in Color $1 .00 • g - 9128 W BELMONT AVE. FRANKLIN PA RK. IL 60131 : ��e�;1�� c:� (C�rVC�4J.��t�l:c���HOa & Scale BADGER AIR-BRUSH CO. • 0 Scale 4O-Foot Boxcar Modeling UlithLow-Cost Kits Parts � DisLin Canada HOBBY INDUSTRIES· 24 Ronson Rexdale.Ontario 1B4 Perfonnance ArtIclu: by: Drive · M9W • Performance Test Reports: • OrientaliSamhongsaHO Scale Low-Cost 2-4-4-2 • Ufe-Uke N Scale GP38-2 Operation.: • Symbol Freight Operationson Rick Kang's Layout Scenery: • Tree Constructionwith "Individual" Leaves, in Color Layout TDun: �:� � O b';� onhemlSPModoc Subdivsion Yo u DO Have : �I � H�� �e r��� the Space for an HO (or N) scale layout Room-size (not basement­ full) layouts, modular layouts, for home or club, "Town Site" plans that use shelf-size layouts. A variety of other plans for satisfying operations. "These are much more than track plans. A detailed text describes the type of operation for which the design is suited and major scenic features are detailed". Model Railroad Constructor, March 1984. July 1988 Volume 18. No. 8 $2.50 per issue Please send the books marked Prototype Articlu: D Index of Freight Cars of the ThirtiesArticles below: • n I : �e� � �: ��:����JJ ��� �Nlr�D�g�!r�COse1 988 __ Copies How To Build �3e� �[ o�t�� : PS-1 40 Ft. BoxCars Part X : � , n I � I , Yo ur NEXT Model Railroad. 92 "For shipment outside U.S.A. add $1 .00 (U.S. Funds) • Diesel Detail Close-Up EMD F3A as KCS No. 50 pages @ $7.95" each. My check D money order D is enclosed for $ ___ • Freight Cars of the Sixties:40 Ft. Grain DoorBox Cars Fldellty-to-Prototype (how-YOU-can-do-It) Article.: N Scale Please. no cash or credit card orders __ Copies Model (U.S. Funds) u O rack Sy-3tem : G:��:��L�:�a���1��� T Railroading Manual. 96 pages Athearn�� Kit-Upgrading: 40 Ft. Grain Door Box Car • ______Pmormance ArtIcles: @ $7.95" each. Name

• Perfonnance Test Report: __ Copies The Best of SamhongsafOriental0 Scale Brass Aleo C420 Diesel Address ______Narrow Gauge: Model Railroading Track Plans. s t h 96 pages @ $6.50" each. : ��:�����a� �����r�� h� 2a� R6ster 1907-1922 City ______State _____ Zip + 4 ____ _ Layout T oura: Eastwood Publishing Allow 4 to 6 weeks for 2nd class postage. • Hugh Brown's 12' x 30' HO Scale Canadian-prototype Layout 2901 Blake St.. Dept. B • BobTreat's Outdoor LGB Layout Colorado residents: Add applicable sales tax. Denver. CO 80205

September 1988 Model Railroading · 67 • • • � Layout Books are Always in Season! From the basic to the complex, AHas books offer large, easy-ta-follow diagrams, photos, instructions & listings of all needed track.

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Precision Scale is importing these brass HO scale 6-wheel trucks in a choice of April 1988 Volume 18. No. 5 $2.50 per issue Commonwealth standard (right, no. 3127-1) or leaf spring (left , no. 3186-1) fo r Prototype Articles: · $13.95 a pair. � l f . n oke CNens : �f;�Fre ht-Cars-of-the-Thirties:��i��V tp1a�� Heinz ��r,J; 34'��: Reefers��� • � '· ' r o their look-aUkes) l i; CI��:�;c�S_�:San� ��. �3�5 :Fldellty-to-Prototype �� t'!� ArtIcle.: Model-a-Model: Building a Scale Track Plan in 3-Dimensions • Decal Application, the Easy Way, in Full Color • Kit-Conversion: Rivarossi "Heavyweight" Air-Conditioned Pullmans • Atlas Scale Foot Box Car Prototypes •Paionnance 0 ArtIcles:40 Performance Test Report: Bachmann N Scale GPSO Diesel • Performance-Improvement Bachmann N GPSO in Multiple-Unit •Operation.: Index of Prototype and Model OperationsArticles Track• Plan.: The Triple Deck "Corkscrew-PLUS" for 21 '7" x 20'6� in HO Scale Layout• Toun: The modern Buckeye 6-wheel trucks are also available from Precision Scale in H 0 in United Northwest Model RR Club's Portable N Scale 12'xlS' Layout either plain journal style (right, no. 3397-1) or Timken roller bearing style (left , no. • 3399-1) at $17.50 a pair. September 68 • Model Railroading 1988 The 500 Line Historical and Technical New Society's three kits represent cars built by the 500 Line in their North Fond du Lac shops Products during the late Forties and early Fifties and illustrate the introduction and evolution of the large "billboard" lellering scheme. The 1951 series was begun with the same dollar­ sign herald used on the cars built in 1949-50. In the middle of the 1951 production, however, the "billboard" lellering was introduced, placed high on the cars ide and close to the door. Later, the large lellering was spread out to a more balanced position on the carside and lowered to allow it to match lellering applied to the lower 19305 box cars as they were repainted. This then became the January 1988 Volume 18. No. 2 standard through the rest of the Fifties, and $2.50 per issue the third car of our set represents a car fr om Prototype Articles: • Consists VI: South BostonYard, drca the series built in 1953, aft er the black ends • Freight Cars of the Fifties: 40fool 1949Box Cars. X • Diesel DetailClose-Up; EMOPS-l GP40 as 3517 in Color used on the previous cars were discontinued. WP •Fldellty-te-Prototype: Scratchbuilding: Wood BoxCars in Styrene Our HO scale Fond du Lac cars are based • Photo-Plans I: Great Northern40 foot Box Car in Color on the easy to assemble Front Range kits, • Plggy-Back Two-Tone Trailer Paintinglips VI: e n �o:;! ��pl�: t�:/}���tion custom decorated by Accurate Finishing, : ���S;��¥J: r Inc., and CO!1l.e with one-piece trucks and : �a������� t� ���������lesl Winners • RPM Kit Wish PartI Kadee compatible knuckle couplers. They are US!, •Perfonnance Index of 35 HO ArtIcles: Scaleand Sn3 Steam LocomotiveTest Reports available direct fr om 500 Box Cars, P.O. Box • N Scale'Super' P()OJ,Ier: Conear/Kato Two PAl Diesels 2086, Dept. MRC, Manitowoc, WI 54220,jor •Operation.: Railway Equipment Registers as "Time Machine" Programs $8.00 each plus $1.00 per order postage. layout Toun: • BobRi vard's HO Scale Une, Part I: The Proto Soo type NalTow• Plans, Gauge:for the Conoc.o OilDepot at Telluride

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September 70 • Model Railroading 1988 WA LTHERS CODE 83 CURVED TURNOUTS FLEX TRACK

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Your search for G Scale knuckle Just unscrew the old coupler, knuckle couplers that capture couplers is over ! LGB has and screw on your new LGB the look of America and the captured the look of American knuckle coupler ! quality of The Big Train®. railroading with the quality that Like LGB's growing lineup of you expect from LGB - American trains, LGB's new Captu.-ed by : The Big Train®. knuckle couplers are made of It takes just seconds to convert high-impact Luran from BASF for your old couplers to LGB knuckle rugged indoor / outdoor use. couplers. LGB knuckle couplers Unlike some off brands, LGB's fit all LGB Americanstyle freight knuckle couplers work in curves cars, passenger cars and Mogul and with LGB's manual and locomotives along with most electric uncouplers. other LGB cars built since 1980. Ask your dealer for the G Scale The Big T ..ain

September 1988 Model Railroading • 71 " Th e "Little En gine Th at Could ... G E 45-To n Siderod Diesel Switcher

TYPE I - With overhanging cab roof lip, thin frame, full handrails with side steps. Owners included AT&N, Alaska, Frisco, Monarch Cement, Port Bienville and the u.s. Army. OM I #5032

TYPE II - This version features thin frame, steps at all fo ur corners and looped handrails. Owners included American Car & Foundry (ACF), Alaska, Becker County Sand & Gravel, Cass Scenic, France Stone, Iowa State University, Purdue University, U.s. Army and Michigan State University. OM I #5033

TYPE " I - This type features the small "44-Ton" style cab, a different style headlight, step-up cab floor, simpler handrail arrangement and steps at all fo ur corners. Owners of this type included Jones & Laughlin Steel, Koenig Mining, Marquette Cement, Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG), Saskatchewan Potash and Vulcan Materials. OM I #5034

All three versions of this interesting little HO scale diesel have arrived fro m M. S. Models of Ko rea. Minimum opera ting ra dius is 15-inches ...pe rfect fo r small layouts.