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Mrr 199911.Pdf o 4470 916 7 THE NEW SPEeTRUM® USRA 4-B-2 LIGHT MOUNTAIN with Glowing Firebox . , Hot on the heels of our award-winning 2-8-0 Consolidation (voted 1998 product of the year by readers of Model Railroader magazine), Bachmann introduces the USRA 4-8-2 Light Mountain. Complete with a glowing firebox, the Light Mountain is an ITEM # DESCRIPTION outstanding representation of post-World War I steam. 81601 Painted Unlettered 81602 Southern This latest addition to our HO scale Spectrum® line is, 81605 Union Pacific of course, DCC ready. Our unique belt drive provides 81604 Nashville, Chattanooga see-through clearance between the boiler and diecast frame, & St. Louis and a sprung axle on the 2nd driver allows for excellent pickup 81605 New Haven and tracking performance. Additional premium features include 81606 Missouri Pacific finescale driver spokes and counterweights, separately-detailed 81607 Southern Pacific leaf springs, and separate sanding lines. Watch for the glow of the Light Mountain's firebox as she Suggested Retail Price: $170_00 emerges from a tunnel or snakes through a shadowy pass SHIPPING NOW on your railroad! You can fire up your imagination NOW with six roadnames and a painted, unlettered model. ® BACHMANN INDUSTRIES, INC . •:. PHILADELPHIA, PA .:. WWW.BACHMANNTRAINS.COM MODEL RAILROADING November 1999 VOLUME 29 NUMBER 11 FEATURES 20 T Modeling Maine Central F3s by Mark E. Sharp 26 T Kitbashing the Psycho Bates House by V. S. Roseman 32 T FREIGHTCAROLOGY. 52 T MODELING MODERN INTERMODAL Kansas City Southern's Boxcars Visual Impressions: by David G. Casdorph Using the Prototype as Your Guide by David A. Bontrager 36 T Greg Gatewood's Colorado Midland & Western (HO/HOn3) - 56 T DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP New Blood in the Cab on the Midland B&O EMD GP30 Phase I by Greg Gatewood by Rich Picariello 44 T DCC UPDATE 60 T ON TRACK MRG Takes a Look at DCC - Part XXII: The Feeding of our Track - Fun & Frustration in Richmond Plus Lots More Part 2: The Techniques by Larry 1. Puckett by Jim Mansfield 49 T SCENERY TECHNIQUES 61 T BEHIND THE SCENES The Fine Art of Ground Texturing Into the Night - Oro Grande: Part 2 by Clayton Ben), by Margaret Mansfield DEPARTMENTS 5 T Editorial 10 T New Products 15 T Product Reviews 19 T Society Page 59 T Book Beat 63 T Dealer Directory 69 T Boys in the Basement 73 T Your Trek Plan 78 T Advertiser Index ABOUT THE COVER Train 540, the Junction Hopper, provides passenger service and protects the mail contracts from Grand Junction to Aspen and Basalt on Greg Gatewood's Colorado Midland & Western. Here the "Growler" is on a return trip leaving Aspen over the high bridge. Below we catch the rear of train 110 (GJDE), "The Graper" eastbound, loaded with fresh fruit from Grand Junction. Turn to page 36 for more. Pharo by Randy Lee. INS ET: Vic Roseman shows us what can be done with Polar Lights' Bates House from Psycho on page 26. Pharo by V.S. Roseman. HO Scale Get It All! HO Scale Speed, Power, Beauty The North American P-51 D Mustang is the legendary plane that helped the Allied Forces win World War II. Advanced for its time, the dependable P-51 D came through the war with fly- ing colors and many saw serv- ice in the Korean War. Fast and maneuverable, these revered fighters are still popular with air racing teams. Perfect for use with the Cornerstone Series" C-47/DC-3 and Roco HO Scale Minitanks. Each kit includes two planes and four USAAF decals: Betty Lee III, Louisiana Heat Wave, HO Scale Missouri Armada and Scat VI, so building up an Lots 0' Lumber entire squadron is easy. 933-1170 series $19.98 A perfect i for Thrall-Door Box Cars, Center Beam Flat Cars, bulkhead flat cars and box cars, Mills Bros. Lumber Wholesaler is a great medium- to large-town business. The kit includes six separate structures; a large shed, an open shed/garage, 2 small open sheds with positionable doors, an outdoor canopy and a corrugated office. Arrange them to fit your layout or combine them with Walton & Sons Lumber Co., 933-3057, to make a huge complex. Parts come molded in appropriate colors and realistic decals are included. 933-3082 $49.98 HO Scale Under Cover Unique 56' Thrall-Door Box Cars, combining the efficient loading of flat cars with the load protection of box cars, are favorites of modelers and shippers alike. Flashy paint schemes and unique, angled rooflines make them popular with railfans; load protection and easy loading make them popular with shippers. These detailed cars feature popular details like separate ladders, door latch bars, door release handles and wire grabirons . This ready-to-run car rides at prototype height and comes with free-rolling trucks and working knuckle couplers. Roadnames include: Weyerhaeuser, US See these hot new products at your Walthers dealer. Plywood, Boise Cascade, St. Regis Paper, Idaho Forest Industries, Masonite Corp., Canfor Ltd., Georgia Pacific, www.walthers.com Undecorated, singles: 932-7000 series each, 5601 W. Florist Ave. $15.98 Milwaukee, WI 53218 2-packs: 932-27000 series (with different numbers), $29.98 Pre-production models shown: some details may vary. Colors shown are painted by modeler: paint not included. Figures. vehicles and other accessories sold separately. 01999 Wm. K. Wallhers, Inc. MODEL EDITORIAL RAILROADING EDITOR I PUBLISHER Randall B. Lee CONTRIBUTING EDITORS The Adventure Begins David A. Bontrager ...but Hits a Snag David G. Casdorph Doug Geiger, MMR n my September editorial, "What's Yo ur Excuse?" I men­ Patrick Lawson, MMR Itioned that I was looking forward to getting started on a Jim and Margaret Mansfield layout in the basement of our new house ... if I could find the George Melvin time. We ll, as most of you probably have learned, you don't Rich Picariello .find time ... you rnake it. So, with a strong commitment to that philosophy, work began La rry J. Puckett in the basement the weekend of October 23-24. But I'm a firm believer that the base­ Larry E. Smith, MMR ment should be fi nished before a layout is built in it. Why? Well, there are numerous reasons, but the most important one in my mind is the simple fact that I expect to be CIRCULATION I OFFICE MANAGER spending a lot of time working on and enjoying my layout...and I really don't want that Donald R. Strait time to be spent in a "basement" atmosphere. Psychologists and employers know the simple truth of how much the environment we find ourselves in affects not only our fee lings, but also our productivity. Bright, NATIONAL SALES MANAGER Chris Lane pleasant surroundings go a long way to improving how productive we are. Since I expect to be spending countless hours in my basement in the years ahead, I want it to 1-888-338-1700 be a bright, cheerful environment with finished walls and ceiling and generous light­ ing... not a dark, concrete-walled hole with floor joists and spider webs above. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Another important reason for fi nishing the basement involves future layout photog­ Rhett B. Lee raphy. Over the past several years I have had the privilege of photographing a number of layouts for the magazine, Many of those layouts have been in basements which Volume 29, Issue 11. MODEL RAILROADING is pub­ were finished, but some were in unfinished ones. Not only does an unfinished base­ lished 12 times a year by Highlands Station, Inc., 2600 S. ment change the ambiance of a layout, it also makes photographing it more difficult. Parker Rd., Suite 1-211, Aurora, CO 80014, (303) 338- The added difficulty is caused by the inability to bounce as much light off an unfin­ 1700. Price per single copy is $4.50 in U.S.A. Subscriptions are $34.95 in the U.S.A. or $43.00 in Canada (or foreign) ished ceiling. I should also mention that the color of a finished ceiling can also greatly - payable in U.S. funds. Unsolicited manuscripts or impact how much light can be bounced. A black ceiling (or any dark color) may help photographs should be accompanied by return postage, focus attention to the layout, but it makes photography much more difficult. and Highlands Station, Inc., assumes no responsibility for So anyway, back to finishing the basement. After obtaining enough of the neces­ the loss or damage of such material. No part of this publi­ sary lumber, nails, screws, etc., to keep me going for awhile, I started framing out the cation may be reprinted without written permission from basement walls. I have chosen to frame the outer basement walls with 2x4 studs rather the publisher. Printed in U.S.A. than attaching fin'ing strips directly to the concrete wal ls. My reasons for this are two­ The information contained in the various articles in this fold: first, J don't want to use the skinny electrical boxes mandated when firring strips magazine is presented in good faith, but no warranty is are used, and second, I want to add insulation. given, no results guaranteed, nor is any freedom from any Living along Colorado's Front Range has many benefits, but one drawback is the patent or copyright to be inferred. Since we have no con­ need to build "floating" basement walls. What is a "floating" wal l? And why is it nec­ trol over the physical conditions surrounding the applica­ essary? The second question real ly needs to be answered first.
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