RSD4J5 • COMING SOON Two NEW BOOKS from ROCKY Mountain PUBLISHING, INC
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IDGIlliGHTS OF TIDSISSUE: • Freelancing!Part 1- DevelopingGuidelines • ConrailsD40s and How toModel Them • VermontRailway Diesels • • Wood-Sided 19J7 AAR Boxcars • OUtdoorModel Photography • On TRACK:Vertical Curves • PrototypeModeling in G Gauge • • TwentyYears and Countingon the DT&R • Norfolk andWestern's Pond Creek Colliery • DieselDetaiJ: Railway Utah RSD4J5 • COMING SOON tWO NEW BOOKS FROM ROCKY MOUNtAIN PUBLISHING, INC. MODEL RAILROADING'S GUIDE TO THE RAILWAY EXPRESS, by V. S. Roseman Available Late Spring 1992 • Approximately 100 Pages • $12.95 retail A comprehensive study of the Railway Express Agency... its history, equipment, practices and operations. During the days when "Travel by Train" was the norm, REA was "the" way to ship it. Author V. S. Roseman follows REA up through its final days. Also includes specific information for modeling REA. • • • MODEL RAILROADING'S GUIDE TO THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY: WILLIAMSON TERMINAL -1953, by Vern french Available Late Spring 1992 • 100+ Pages • $12.95 retail A must-have book for N&W historians and modelers alike. Author Vern French chronicles the story of Williamson and his modeling of it. Includes comprehensive information on N&W motive power; freight, passenger and MoW rolling stock; and closely examines the facilities and operations at Williamson, WV, circa 1953. June 199� VOLUME 22 NUMBER 6 Photo by David A. Bontrager FEATURES 14 MODELING FROM THE PROTOTYPE WITH BACHMANN'S G GAUGE KITS by Chris Lane 17 ON TRACK: VERTICAL CURVES by Jim Mansfield 18 ADVENTURES WITH LAYOUTS: REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST - PART II by Larry Smith 22 TWENTY YEARS AND COUNTING ON THE DT&R by Larry Puckett 26 BEHlND THE SCENES: AT CORN JUNCTION - PART 3 by Margaret Mansfield 28 OPERATIONS PLANNING FOR OPERATION - PART THREE: TRAIN SCHEDULING by Jim Mansfield 32 FREELANCING! PART I - DEVELOPING GUIDELINES by David A. Bontrager 37 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS: SWITCHER FOR THE MAC AND A SIG FOR ATARI OWNERS by Larry Puckett 38 WISCONSIN CENTRAL'S MAROON PSI by Ed Sanicky 49 CONRAfL'S CRESSON HELPER POOL - PART 3: CONRAIL SD40s AND HOW TO MODEL THEM by Jim Six 48 THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN'S POND CREEK COLLIERY by Vern French 52 MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES #18: OUTDOOR MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY by Bruce Nail 54 DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP: UTAH RAILWA Y ALCO RSD4/5 by Rich Picariello 56 VERMONT RAIL WA Y DIESELS by George Melvin 58 WOOD-SIDED 1937 AAR BOXCARS by Martin Lofton DEPARTMENTS 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR II YOUR TREK PLAN 68 VIDEO REVIEW 5 EDITORIAL 12 SOCIETY PAGE 69 DEALER DIRECTORY 6 NEW PRODUCTS 13 RAIL PROJECT RESEARCH 73 SHOPPING GUIDE 9 PRODUCT REVIEWS 78 ADVERTISER INDEX ABOUT THE COVER The crew of train #722 ('N.Pueblo-Durdy Dawg local) is on the ground watching as a Pueblo-W. Pueblo transfer crosses over to main #2, which connects to the yard leads. Ten miles west, the hot #407 (BN LA-DEN mixed interrnodal) is coming in hard for a crew change. Tum to page 32 for the first part of Dave Bontrager's series on freelancing. PhOIO by David A. Bontrager. INSET: See page 38 for more on Ed Sanicky's Wisconsin Central PS I boxcar. Pholo by W. Teny SllIarl. TO THE EDITOR Bigger Is Better UP Dash 8-40CWs Dear Randy: Dear Randy, I'll live without a green stripe or two for eight extra pages any Regarding Rich Picariello's Diesel Detail article on the UP time! Dash Ss in the May 1992 MRG, I just wanted to mention that the The last issue (April) was outstanding! You've brought MRG up numbers on the Dash S-40CW wide cab units only go through to the level of RMC and Mainline Modeler. Great job. 94S0 rather than 9505 as he indicated. No more Dash S units are Here's my subscription order. on order for 1992. It should also be noted that on the last order of wide cabs Jim Senese received from GE (9456-94S0) the anti-glare gray was applied Walnut Creek, CA only to the horizontal surface of the short hood rather than extend ed over the tapered panels as shown in the photos. Although 94S0 is externally identical to the other units in this order, it is a one-of a-kind unit equipped with state-of-the-art IFC (Integrated Func tional Computer) and second-generation electronic air brakes. How About steom? George R. Cockle, Research Consultant Dear Randy, Union Pacific Railroad I received the latest issue (April) of Model Railroading today, Omaha, NE and I'm glad to see that you've added more pages. That's great. I wouldn't care if you used recycled paper (I'd actually feel better if IMWX Boxcars you did) to keep your costs down to bring us more useful material. Thanks. Dear Sir: Now for the negative part of my letter: every issue I read about I read, with great interest, an article by Mike Nesbitt on the detailing or weathering some diesel engines. I'm a steam nut and IMWX Model Boxcar featured in the December '91 issue of quite frankly I'm bored reading about diesel. And now you have Model Railroading. the audacity to come out with a book on Modeling and Derailing I have been searching for this model since then and am unable Diesels! to find it. How about some articles on the proper detailing and weathering I would most appreciate learning the manufacturer's (IMWX) of steam locos? And while you're at it, when is Volume 2 (I hope address so that I may order this model. Apparently it is exceptional, it's all steam !) due out? the kind of model I like to build. Seriously, I'd like know where and how to apply the stains that Thank you for your help. sand, water, mud, grease, etc., leave on a steam engine. Alan Jones AI Gurka Redlands, CA Highland, CA (lMWX (Innovative Model WorksJ continues to expand Iheir dealer (Your wish is my command. Several steam articles are in the works nelwork, but their boxcars may be difficult lo find in some areas. If and will be appearing before year's end. As a transition-era mod . YOll are having trouble .finding them, you can write .ferry Porter of eler myself� I wish more modelers would submit articles aboul IMWX ar Box 2513, Longmonl, CO 80502, or call (303J modeling Sleam. It appears to me, however. Ihat most serious p.o. 776- 0105. They are bringing out new paint schemes for their 1937 sleam modelers are heavily inro brass and many, if not most, of AAR-design boxcars almosl every month. A SASE will get you a Ihese individuals don'l do anYlhing more to their models than list of cIIITenrly available schemes. - Randy) painl Ihem (or have Ihem painred). How abollt some of you sleam modelers proving me wrong? Voilime 2 of Modeling and Detailing Diesels probably won'l be OUI IIntil mid- 10 lale-'93, bUI as the Tender First to Pittsburgh name indicales, il will just be diesels. - Randy) Back in the good 'ole days, when Pittsburgh still had local trains, hefty PRR 4-6-0s, class G5, called "shooters" by the employees, made daily round trips to the big city. It is known that some of their destinations had no way to turn locomotives, so many Yard Usage came back to Pittsburgh ... TENDER FIRST' Several Pennsy fans who are researching these local operations need to know which G5 Dear Mr. Lee: tenders were equipped for this "back-up service" by having tender Jim Mansfield's succinct description of how a yard is used in pilots. Photos showing PRR locals traveling "tender first" are also the March "On TRACK" was much appreciated. Bill Henderson's needed. Anything provided will be shared with others that are inter article on scenery was interesting, especially for the way he used ested in Pittsburgh local operations. aquarium filter floss. Please tell Rich Picariello that Life-Like makes a pretty good/pretty inexpensive N scale GP3S-2. Hugh Debberthine 16703 Groverdale Geoff Dunn Covina, CA 91722 Albany, NY (SIS) 966-3007 � ..June 1992 4 • Model Railroading Publishers S. S. Danielsen, Nick Siegel Executive Editor Randall B. Lee Production Manager LaDonna T. Vaughan EDITORIAL Contributing Editors Scott Anderson, David A. Bontrager, Vern French, Patrick Lawson, Jirn Mansfield, George Melvin, Rich Picariello, Larry J. Puckett, Jim Six, Time for a Change Larry E. Smith, W. Terry Stuart s soon as I had them built up, I suspected I was going to have some trouble. Circulation A Unfortunately I was right. The "them" to which I refer were the new Walthers' Susan Haskins double-stack container cars. Oh, don't get me wrong; the problem isn't with the model, it's with the prototype ...sort of. Advertising Susan Goggin The availability of modem freight equipment like the double-stack container cars from A-Line and Walthers and the multi-level autoracks from Walthers, Custom Rail Typography and Schaefer Rail (plus the brass ones offered by importers like Overland) have TypeTronics, Inc. opened a new world of opportunities for modem modelers. But they have also forced Typesetter modelers to face the same problem the real railroads have had to confront with these Kristin Doughty types of cars ...CLEARANCE. For the prototype ro ads, the primary problem with both the double-stacks and autoracks has been the height. Between the two types of cars, however, the modeler Model Railroading is published 12 times a year has to deal with three basic problems - height, length AND depth. Although most of by Rocky Mountain Publishing, Inc., 2929 Blake us probably aren't surprised by the first two items, many of us, myself included, have St., Denver, CO 80205, (303) 292-0124.