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IN THIS ISSUE:

• WEATHERING MODERN MODELS, page 6

• SUPERDETAILING PASSENGER COACH WINDOWS, page 47

• SCRATCHBUILDING STRUCTURES, page 36

• ATHEARN'S NEW SANTA FE WOOD REEFER, page 18

ALL SCALES: N SCALE: Time Capsule: Locomotive Performance: • Norfolk & Western K2 heading a Coal Turn at • Spectrum, by Bachmann, Amtrak Acela Clinch River trestle, Virgina May 17, 1938, Electric Test Report, by Dean Windsor ...... 11 • Summary of all previous Locomotive ONTHE COVER by Dewey Norton ...... 3 A Kato GP7 crossing the deck girder bridge Performance Test Reports ...... 13 over the Shiawassee River on the Grand Trunk Western Railroad's Holly Subdivision HO SCALE: Diesels, One-Detail-�-A-Time: • EMO S040 as Missouri Pacific 725, 752 and in HO scale. The 30 x 50-foot layout is under Modern Modeling: construction by the South Oakland County • Weathering Modern Cars and Locomotives, 3024 from Kato models, Model Railroad Club, in Hazel Park, Michigan Part I: Fade-Through Paint, by Matt Snell ... 6 by Louis A. Marre ...... 15 (a suburb of Detroit). A "Tour" begins on page 22 of this issue. -Robert Schleicher photo Locomotive Performance: • Summary of all previous Locomotive DEPARTMENTS: Performance Test Reports ...... 13 What's New ...... 57, 65 Calendar ...... 58 Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time: • EMO S040 as Missouri Pacific 725, 752 and 3024 from Athearn or Kato models, by Louis A. Marre ...... 15

Freight Cars of the Fifties: • Santa Fe Rr-30 class 50-foot Reefers from Athearn models, by Richard Hendrickson .. 18

Layout Tours: • Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Holly Subdivision, by the South Oakland County Model Railroad Club ...... 22 • Jerry Strangarity's recreation of South Philadelphia on the Reading Railroad ...... 30 • Index of previous prototype-based Layout Tours ...... 60

Techniques: • Scratch building Structures with Cardboard, Wood and Styrene, by Jerry Strangarity .... 36

Passenger Modeling: • Superdetailing Coaches, Part I: Windows, by V.S. Roseman ...... 47

4 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 Layout Tour: South Philadelphia on the Reading Railroad,

page 30

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 5 WEATHERING · MODERN CARS I.OC TIVES. AND M PART I FRDE·TH:RQUGH PAINT

By Matt Snell

Weathered cars and locomotives on the real r i1roads did not disappear in the sixties, but to look at most "modern"­ era model railroads, you would think that e ery car and every locomotive just left the paint shop or wash rack. This new series of articles will help make any modern-era railroad look more realistic. There's an index of previous articles on painting and weathering on our ebsite at www.railmodeljournal.com/

6 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 This Conrail cylindrical covered hopper started as an Atlas cylindrical hopper decorated for PRR. The model was painted over using a Floquil Red mix. As the paint was drying, some of the paint was wiped off using Floquil airbrush thinner. Once the remaining paint had dried, the model was decaled, then rust streaks were applied down the sides. If you look closely you can still see the PRR keystone showing through the red paint.

n the pursuit of modeling Conrail, I was faced with the as paint, began to show through, which presented the obstacle I challenge of recreating the locomotives and equipment used of creating this in model form. Through trial and error, I've throughout the early Conrail years. Often these remained in been able to establish several techniques for creating this fade­ the predecessor roads' colors with the predecessor markings through paint, and these can be used on both railroad equipment painted over. As this equipment aged, these markings, as well and structures. � FADE.THROUGH PAINT

Another method to create paint fade-through is to paint the decal prior to applying it to the model. Two different effects can be achieved using this method, the first being spotting. Using a fine-tipped airbrush, hold the decal six inches or so away from the airbrush and shoot small quick bursts of paint toward the decal. The paint will dot the decal film creating the effect of paint spotting through the lettering. The easiest method to simulate fade-through paint is to paint, gloss, and decal a model as you normally would. Once the paint and decals are fully dry, lightly drybrush over the decal using the same paint that the model was painted with. Don't try to paint over the entire decal, rather let the paint settle in spots on the lettering, streaking it across the decal. Use repeated light applications until the effect is what you desire. Once the paint-over has fully dried, the model can then be given another coating of GlossCote or a similar product to make the finish uniform prior to weathering. While this method works best on models you paint yourself, it can also be used on factory-decorated models, providing you can find a correct match for the paint.

8 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 9 FADE.THROUGH PAINT

The fifth method I've found for simulating fade-through paint is shown on the Conrail covered hopper, showing the predecessor Penn Central SPRG 03 SPRG 0·3 CE70C CE7{)C markings and jade green paint through the red Conrail paint. For lW STL WHLS lW STl WHlS this method I started with a factory-decorated model in Penn Central green with PC markings. The entire model was then airbrushed with a Conrail Red mixed from Floquil paints. Once the paint had dried, I CR applied airbrush thinner to a rag and began streaking the red off in 7 8 0 15 8 6 a downward motion. Once everything had dried again, the model was (dAN IHStO. OIOOVU 41010 lOt washed to remove any remaining traces of thinner, then glossed and Of ,""on "'011 ClOilHG elUN IHSCU G.OOYU .!'to 'I» decaled normally. 2 8 8004 4 5 01 SliDU ,UO" CLO�IHG ClUH '''''''lOf G'OOvU ..NO IOf 01 JUOO IIIOff ClOSIHG �------� e"AN JHlIOI G.OOVti AHO 'Of' 2880044503 illOU IPOtI ClOSlfrfG Of

You can also create paint fade-through effects for locomotives that have been repainted from one road's scheme into another's scheme. Several locomotives were transferred from the Lehigh Valley to the Delaware and Hudson upon the formation of Conrail. The D&H applied dark blue paint over the Lehigh Valley Cornell Red and Valley markings. It wasn't too long before patches of the red, as well as the large LEHIGH VALLEY began to show through.

Once I had achieved the desired look, the model had to be masked to paint the nose yellow. When using this method, conventional masking cannot be used over the decaled area for fear of peeling off the decal. A small piece of paper was cut and placed over the decal, then masking tape was applied over the top of the paper, to protect the decal.

10 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 TEST REPORT: BACHMAN.IS N SCALE ACELA

By Dean Windsor

Bachmann has the Amtrak Acela electric locomotive in N scale with operating pantographs and a massive amount of weight for electric pickup reliability and pulling power.

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 11 TEST REPORT

istant cousin of the French TGY Nhigh-speed train, the Acela i s mtrak's new high-speed train for the Northeast Corridor in the U.S. Alstom, the builder of the TGY, joined in a partnership that designed and built the Acela. It is not a true TGV locomotive as they have very few things in common. The Northeast Corridor is notorious for its many curves, so to allow higher speeds in curves without causing passenger discomfort they chose a tilting train. A partnership led by the Canadian firm Bombardier, which holds rights to the TGV technology in North America, won with its design. This high-speed tilt train was given the name "American Flyer. "

RAILMODEL JOURNA L The Bachmann Acela features a two­ LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE IREPORT NO. 212 piece cast-metal frame, which encases ------' ------nn Bach nla s A ceIa the entire drive assembly. The drivetrain N Scale consists of a five-pole skew-wound can motor with a stainless steel shaft. On Action Analysis: Observed Performance: As Received: each end of the shaft are two brass Minimum Speed, level (no load, scale miles per hour) flywheels. Additional plastic U-joints With lull wave Rower: 2.36 and drive shafts lead to a brass worm ulse Rower 1.83 � fitted inside the gear tower on top of each 'th DCC: 2.63 � NO. 6 Switch pulse power 1.81 truck. Various idler gears transfer power I th DCC[ over.No. 5:Swltch: 2.55 to gears on each of the four axles. Maximums (at 12 volts max. where apRlicable) _f'!pJpad_top� ?p_e�f!,J!3vel,Ju I L wave, smp!l: 239.6 DCC with maximum throttle, smRh: 330.30 Electrical power is obtained through URhili gr�de maximum, flercent 20.3 each of the eight wheels. It is relayed TractiYejoj'ce ounces: 0.77 -'-- � Number of cars Rulled leve' 45 through stamped-steel plates mounted on Number of cars pulled,�grade: 15 the sides of the truck housings above the

Mechanical measurements axles. From there individual wires carry Motor-to-drivers Qear/reduction ratio: nla power to the circuit board mounted on DriveL-diameter scalejnches' 40 top of the frame. The circuit board carries Driver flarlqe aepth actual inches: 0.025 a built-in DCC decoder and has the Model weight, ounces: 3.80 Truck wheelbase, scale feet ana inches: 44'6" required directional lighting functions for Distance between truck centers scale J�_et: 34'9" this prototype but does not have sound.

Subjectil{l!...Judgments There is also a switch on the circuit board Noise at fast speeo: Excellent to operate via either the track power or Basic shape an e, pro ortions: Excellent pantographs. �nting and marking Quality: Excellent I Downhill run smoot\l.ness: Excellent Cast plastic and fine wire make up the Electronic:Bes 0 ses o e details, and the paint and lettering are Jbrottle esp ns at no oad volts' 3.9 Throttle response at mid loao, volts: 4.2 sharp and clean. Our tests showed a J:nrotJle response affuliToaB, volts: 4.9 very smooth-running engine. The only Jy!ptor current <1-1IuTuoad; ar[lp_eres: 0.06 downside is that it exceeds the maximum Motor�tiilLcurrent at 12 volts -:'ar(lper!'s: 0.400 speed of the prototype. It would be a nice Performance Ratings (1 to 5) complement to your Amtrak fleet. � Tractive force' 4.0 Efficiency: 5.0 -- Noise: 5.0 I �eds: 3.0 - � Assembly workmanshio: 5.0 - OVERALL RATING: 4.4 Prototype Top Speed: mph 62.7 \..

12 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 HO, N, 0, S, & G SCALE LOCOMOTIVES

Manufacturer/Importer Min. Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Manufacturer/Importer Min. Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Prototype Speed No.6 Speed Tractive Response Date Prototype Speed No.6 Speed Tractive Response Date Switch (,mph) (,mph) Fo«e (oz.) Midload (v.) Switch (,mph) (,mph) Force (oz.) Midload (v.)

HO Scale Diesels Proto 2000 (life-like) EMD BU .31 90.7 3.53 5.4 Nov. 1989' Proto 2000 (life-like) EMD GP9 .06 79.2 3.29 4.8 March 1998 Athearn (as-is) EMD GP38-2 .24 126.4 2.76 3.4 Jan. 1990' Proto 2000 (life-like) EMD GP18 .58 99.8 3.40 2.6 Feb. 1993 Athearn (w/Helix Humper EMD Proto 2000 (life-like) EMD GP30 .23 78.2 4.17 4.0 Jan. 2000 GP38-2 can motor conversion) .89 112.1 2.76 2.8 Sept. 1995 Proto 2000 (life-like) EMD E8A .51 95.8 5.94 5.6 March 1994' Proto Power West EMD F7A (& F7B) .35 98.2 4.46 2.4 May 1990- Proto 2000 (Life-like) EMD SD7 .52 73.3 3.58 5.0 July 1995 (Athearn w/can motor) (26) (95.0) (8.92) (2 6) May 1990' Proto 2000 (life-like) Athearn/PPW, weighted EMD GP9 .20 94.2 4.01 3.0 May 1990' EMD SW9/SWI200 .57 55.5 1.36 3.7 May 1996 Athearn w/NWSL motor EMD GP38-2 .21 60.9 2.30 1.8 Aug. 1990' Proto 2000 (liife-like) EMC GP9 2.3I 110.0 2.65 9.5 March 2005 Athearn w/NWSL motor, EMD GP38-2 (with sound & DCC) 8.43 141.0 weighted .24 61.2 3.88 2.2 Aug. 1990' Proto 2000 (life-like) EMD E6A 3.60 79.2 4.09 10.1 April 2005 Athearn/Proto Power West Proto 2000 (life-like) GE U30B 3.49 126.4 3.05 9.4 Jan. 2006 w/replacement Wheelset<: (with DCC & sound) 13.61 194.7 NorthWest Short line EMD GP38-2 .23 97.4 2.56 1.6 Oct. 1990· (with sound & DCC) 5.07 108.0 Jay-Bee EMD GP38-2 .27 97.4 2.40 1.5 Oct. 1990' Spectrum (Bachmann) EMD F40PH Athearn GE C44-9W 1.85 100.7 3.18 3.6 March 1996 Phase" 1.39 80.3 3.79 3.8 Feb. 1992' Athearn GE AC4400W .10 95.8 5.06 4.1 Dec. 1996 Spectrum (Bachmann) GE Dash 8-40C 1.96 87.4 3.69 3.4 May 1990' Athearn EMD sD40-2 1.94 103.3 3.01 3.3 Jan. 2001 Spectrum (Bachmann) Athearn EMD SD50 4.15 88.7 4.83 5.2 March 2004 GE Dash 8-40CW 3.3 109.0 4.54 6.4 Feb. 1996 Atlas Alce S2 65 82.5 3.52 4.4 Feb. 1991' Spectrum (Bachmann) GE 44-Ton 1.28 55.0 0.81 1.3 April 2002 Atlas/Race EMD FP7 A .35 97.4 4.23 6.0 Dec. 1990' Spectrum (Bachmann) F-M H 16-44 2.32 49.5 1.27 2.4 July 1997 Atlas GE U33C 1.18 89.3 3.81 1.8 May 1995 Spectrum (Bachmann) EMC Gas Elec. .41 82.5 2.34 3.0 Aug. 1994 Atlas GE C30-7 .71 78.2 3.92 2.2 Feb. 1997 Spectrum (Bachmann) EMD DDA40X .68 133.5 6.68 3.2 Aug. 1997 Atlas EMD GP40 .33 81.9 3.41 1.7 Nov. 2000 Stewart Hobbies EMD FTA (& FTB) .18 70.3 3.94 2.6 Nov. 1996 Atlas GE B23-7 .96 83.7 3.67 9.3 Dec. 2005 Stewart Hobbies Aleo C628 1.20 69.5 2.92 Aug. 1999 (with DCC & souind) 7.81 109.0 2.2 Stewart Hobbies Baldwin va 1000 Bachmann-Plus GE B23-7 1.75 84.9 3.17 2.9 July 1992· 1.05 77.1 1.65 0.7 Feb. 2000 Walthers/Roco EMD SWI Bachmann-Plus EMD F7A (& F7B) .93 88.7 3.38 2.5 Jan. 1996 .21 53.3 2.47 1.4 March 1993 (93) (84.9) (5.82) (2.4) Jan. 1996 Bachmann EMD GP40 .34 86.1 2.24 3.8 Feb. 2005 Walthers/Trainline Aleo FAI (& FBI) .31 68.7 4.47 4.2 April 1997 with sound & DCC .53 108.0 (.16) (65.3) (8.22) (38) Walthers/Trainline EMD GP9M 1.18 73.8 2.64 Broadway Ltd. EMD E7A 2.19 62.5 4.53 9.4 Sept. 04 4.0 March 1995 Walthers/Trainline with A1co FA 1 .98 92.1 Broadway Lt<. GE C30-7 .88 83.1 3.74 2.4 Oct. 2005 3.9 n/a Sept 1998 MRC DCC Decoder Con-Cor/Roce EMD GP40 .97 112.1 2.93 9.5 March 1991' Con-Cor/Roce EMD GP40 .29 99.0 2.91 3.2 April 1991' (with Mashima can motor) Con-Cor EMD MP15DC .51 69.7 1.46 1.1 Sept. 1996 HO Scale Electric Locomotives Con-Cor EMD SW1500 (SW 7) 1.99 265.9 .57 2.2 Dec. 1997 Atlas EMD AEM-7 2.42 123.8 4.33 1.0 June 2000 E-R Models (Frateschi)Aleo FA1 1.95 114.2 2.39 5.4 Oct. 1993 Spectrum, by Bachmann GE E33 0.07 99.8 2.72 2.0 Sept. 03 E-R Models (Frateschi)Aleo FA 1 .64 89.3 3.70 3.0 Dec. 1995 Trix by Marklin GGI .24 117.6 5.11 4.6 Nov. 2005 E-R Models EMD FP7A 3.70 92.8 3.24 3.4 May 1999 (with DCC & sound) 4.29 132.0 Genesis, by Athearn SD 75 I 2.12 110.0 4.01 3.5 July 1999 Genesis, by Athearn EM D F7A .14 95.0 4.19 4.1 March 2001 Genesis, by Athearn EMD F3A .35 76.2 3.86 4.3 July 2002 HO Scale Steam Locomotives EMD F3A & F3B .24 79.2 7.79 4.1 July 2002 Bachmann-Plus SP 4-8-4 .18 112.1 2.31 1.9 Sept. 1993 IHC EMD E8A (& E8B) 1.96 144.9 2.51 5.0 Feb. 1995 Bowser B&O 0-4-0T .90 102.4 1.46 1.8 Dec. 1992' (1.50) (136.6) (5.03) (4.8) Bowser PRR H-9 2-8-0 .64 89.3 3.70 2.8 Nov. 1995 (with 25 ounces added weight) 2.97 146.7 4.38 7.4 Bowser PRR M I-a (stock) 4-8-2 1.30 78.2 5.97 2.8 July 2000 (1.88) (136.6) (8.75) (6.4) Feb. 1995 Bowser PRR MI-a IHC EMD SD35 4.38 123.75 2.48 2.0 July 1996 (w/Helix Humper can) 1.81 69.1 5.40 NA InterMountain EMD F7AO .78 77.6 1.7 June 2001 3.79 July 2000 Kato EMD SD40 1.18 81.9 3.29 3.0 June 1991 Bowser PRR M I-a KATO EMD SD40 2.86 74.3 3.48 2.2 Dec. 2001 (sW/NWSL can & gears) 1.37 49.1 7.99 2.7 July 2000 Kato/Stewart EMD F3A (& F3B) .38 83.1 4.28 2.9 Sept. 1989' Broadway ltd. NYC 4-6-4 1.73 41.4 2.71 9.2 Feb. 2003 (similar GP7 models by Atlas) (.31 ) (81.9) (9.00) (2 8) Sept. 1989' Broadway Ltd. N&W 2-6-6-4 2.59 90.7 7.97 9.5 Dec. 2003 Kato MD GP35 .29 82.5 2.87 2.2 Nov. 1992' Broadway ltd. USRA 'Heavy' 2-8-2 4.87 82.5 2.71 9.6 July 2004 Kato EMD NW2 .76 67.9 2.44 3.0 Feb. 1994' Broadway ltd.(Stealth) UsRA Kato G. E. Dash 9-44CW 1.52 78.7 4.35 2.0 Oct. 1996 'Heavy' 2-8-2 4.01 78.2 3.15 9.5 June 2006 Kato Aleo RS2 1.48 78.7 3.40 2.0 Feb. 1999 (with DCC/no sound) 8.43 118.8 Kato Aleo RSC2 2.58 75.2 4.19 2.1 Feb. 1999 Genesis, by AthearnUSRA 2-8-2 light .58 52.8 2.51 1.4 Dec. 1999 Keystone/NWSl GE 44-Ton .17 36.9 1.52 2.0 March 1990' Genesis, by Athearn UsRA 4-6-2 Light 1.90 64.6 2.20 1.0 Sept. 2001 Hobbytown EMD E8A .60 81.4 5.92 3.3 Jan. 1991' Heritage, by Proto 2000 InterMountain EMD F7 A .78 77.8 3.79 1.7 June 2001 USRA 2-8-8-2 2.25 46.0 3.52 3.0 Feb. 2000 Lionel Veranda Turbine 4.33 89.3 5.49 5.49 Sept.04 Heritage, by Proto 2000USRA 2-8-8-2 MDC Roundhouse Aleo RS3 .61 94.3 3.98 2.8 April 1994' w/Sound & DCC 2.76 53.0 11.4 9.3 May 2005 Model Power EMD GP9 .26 104.2 2.71 1.7 Nov. 1990' Heritage, by Proto 2000 USRA 0-8-0 2.80 51.0 2.09 3.5 Sept. 2000 Ajin/Overland ModelsEMD SW1500 .36 74.3 2.53 1.2 Aug. 1990' Heritaae, by Proto 2000NKP 2-8-4 0.31 67.9 3.28 4.1 June 2004 Ajin/Overland Models EMD SD60 .37 80.3 4.49 2.0 April 1991' Heritage, by Proto 2000 USRA 0-6-0 0.14 54.0 1.33 3.5 Nov. 2002 (Chassis) Heritage, by Proto 2000 USRA 0-8-0 4.04 61.9 2.62 9.0 Feb. 2006 Ajin/Overland ModelsEMD GP38-2 .42 79.2 1.95 2.0 Nov. 1991' (with DCC & souind) 6.10 86.7 (Chassis) IHC 4-4-0 1.17 56.0 1.14 3.5 Dec. 1994 Ajin/Overland ModelsEMD GP15T 3.55 76.2 4.69 1.2 March 2000 IHC/Mehano B&O 0-4-0T 1.42 132.0 .92 2.0 Dec. 1992' Mantua EMD GP20 .30 78.2 3.07 1.6 Dec. 1991' IHC/Mehano SP 2-6-0 .81 77.6 1.90 4.2 Jan. 1994 MRC (Model Rectifier Corp.) EMD F7A .52 86.1 2.90 1.0 Aug. 2000 IHC/Mehano C&O 4-8-2 .36 89.3 2.71 3.0 Sept 1994 Proto 1000 (life-like) EMD F3 .19 80.8 3.69 3.7 Jan. 1999 IHC 2-8-0 .42 74.7 2.53 2.5 March 1997 Proto 1000 F-M C-Liner .61 90.0 4.97 3.2 April 2000 Key Import< UP 4-8-8-4 .44 62.2 6.47 4.6 Aug. 1991' Proto 1000 (life-like)Budd RDC-23 .71 65.3 1.87 4.9 Dec. 2000 Life-like B&O 0-4-0T 1.37 104.2 1.01 .9 Dec. 1992' Proto 2000 (Life-like)Alco FA2 .20 90.7 3.14 4.2 July 1991' Lionel UP 4-6-6-4 2.60 72.9 3.43 39.2 Feb/April 04

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Manufacturer/Importer Min. Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Manufacturer/Importer Min. Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Prototype Speed No.6 Speed Tractive Response Date Prototype Speed No.6 Speed Tractive Response Date Sw;teh (,mph) (,mph) Force (ox.) M;dload (v.) Sw;teh (,mph) (,mph) Force (ox.) M;dload (v.)

Mantua 2-8-2 .65 76.2 3.36 3.5 June 1994 Mantua w/Mashima 2-6-6-0 .24 50.6 2.17 4.2 June 1991 Life-Like EMD GP20 3.59 116.6 .57 1.6 June 1999 Mantua 0-4-0 .90 107.0 3.55 4.0 June 1995 Mantua with 812 Can Motor 0-4-0 1.86 84.9 3.39 1.8 June 1995 Micro-Trains EMD FTA .12 1112.4 1.31 1.5 Jan. 2003 MDC (Roundhouse)Class B Shay 2.54 33.1 1.54 2.2 Oct. 2000 Model Power/ MDC(Roundhouse)Baldwin 2-8-0 .49 40.8 .97 2.5 June 2003 Mehanotenika EMD F40PH 3.14 184.7 .83 3.8 Sept. 1990' Model Power PRR 2-8-0 4 .77 73.8 0.85 1.5 Aug. 1996 Samhongsa/Hallmark Ajin/Overland Models NYC 2-8-2 .50 74.3 3.79 1.6 Sept. 1991' EMD F3A (& F3B) .29 150.3 1.03 3.2 July 1989' Precision Scale (Iron Horse) (35) (151.4) (2.04) (32) July 1989' UP 4-10-2 7.02 53.0 3.08 2.9 Jan. 1998 Rivarossi 4-6-6-4 5.90 71.6 9.47 3.3 Jan. 1997 N Scale Steam Locomotives Rivarossi USRA 2-8-2 1.78 70.7 4.47 2.4 May 1997 Atlas Rogers 2-6-0 .20 237.0 .32 1.8 Aug. 2005 Rivarossi UP 4-8-4 3.64 99.0 4.86 4.8 Jan. 2004 Bachmann/SpectrumBaldwin 2-8-0 .22 74.4 .82 2.0 June 2002 Samhongsa/PowerhouseUSRA 2-6-6-2 .28 57.1 8.78 3.0 July 1989' Bachmann/SpectrumUSRA 'Light' 4-8-2 .13 61.4 .37 1.6 Nov. 2004 Spectrum (Bachmann)Reading 2-8-0 .22 104.2 2.38 2.1 Dec. 1993 Bachl11ann/SpectrumUSRA 2-6-6-2 0.30 78.7 0.46 1.4 July 2005 Spectrum (Bachmann)PRR 4-6-2 1.21 91.4 2.32 2.2 Oct. 1994 Con-Cor SP GS-4, 4-8-4 4.32 218.0 .89 2.5 Dec. 2002 Spectrum (Bachmann)PRR 4-6-2 .72 80.8 2.50 2.4 Oct. 1999 Heritage, by Life-LikeUSRA 2-8-8-2 2.21 107.9 .52 4.1 March 2003 Spectrum (Bachmann)Baldwin 2-8-0 .30 83.7 2.83 2.4 July 1998 Heitagae, by Life-LikeNKP 2-8-4 0.25 108.5 0.42 2.0 Jan. 2005 Spectrum (Bachmann)USRA 4-8-2 2.75 64.9 2.41 2.8 Nov. 1999 KatoUSRA 2-8-2 3.10 111.8 .7 2.5 April 1996 Spectrum (Bachmann) & Oct. 1997 ClassB 3-Truck Shay .46 15.3 2.26 1.8 April 2001 Kato USRA 2-8-2 4.80 122.5 1.04 2.9 June 1998 Spectrum (Bachmann)'Russian' 2-10-0 .33 64.2 1.86 4.5 May 2002 (GHQ PRR L-l) Spectrum (Bachmann) USRA 2-10-2 1.59 51.2 2.50 3.8 Aug. 2006 Key Imports C&O 2-6-6-6 .59 96.9 1.27 3.8 June 1997 Spectrum (Bachmann)N&W 4-8-4 .87 73.3 2.88 3.9 Sept. 2002 MDC (Roundhose) Baldwin 2-8-0 .10 110.1 .51 1.6 Jan. 2002 Spectrum (Bachmann) Pecos River ATSF 4-6-2 .44 87.2 .88 4.4 Jan. 1995 Baldwin 4-6-0 (63") .35 77.1 1.67 32 May 2003 Rivarossi USRA 2-8-2 3.00 177.2 1.14 9.0 Oct. 1991 Spectrum (Bachmann) Rivarossi (w/N Scale ofUSRA 2-8-2 Baldwin 4-6-0(57") .20 67.9 1.53 1.8 July 2003 Nevada frame & NWSL Trx UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4 1.40 53.0 5.61 4.3 March 2002 Sagami 1420 can motor) .49 160.3 .66 4.5 Oct. 1991 Trix USRA 'Light' 2-8-2 2.76 86.1 2.37 6.8 Aug. 1994 Westside "Classic" SP 4-6-0 .49 49.1 3.24 1.7 Aug. 1992' S Scale Diesels American Models EMD GP35 .54 78.0 7.85 2.0 June 1993 S Helper Service EMD SW9 .29 55.6 4.32 1.7 Oct. 1998 N Scale Diesels S Helper Service EMD SWI .09 51.3 4.06 1.5 June 2004 Arnold Alco S2 1.90 151.4 .44 2.0 Mar. 1991' S Helper Service EMD F7A 1.06 72.8 6.66 1.1 Dec. 2004 Atlas EMD GP7 .48 237.0 .57 2.0 Oct. 1995 Atlas (with DCC decoder) o Scale Diesels EMD GP 40-2 .42 203.7 .73 3.6 May 1998 Central Loco. Works EMD F7A (& F7B) .25 72.0 20.68 4.4 Sept. 1989' Atlas EMD SD 60 1.63 222.4 0.90 1.6 March 1999 (20) (65.5) (39.10) (4.0) Sept. 1989' Atlas/Kato GE U25B (two) .29 222.4 .64 2.0 June 1989' Key/Samhongsa Aleo PA 1 .41 76.2 21.85 5.6 April 1992' (.31 ) (189.6) (1.37) (2 0) June 1989' P&D Hobby EMD F9A (& F9B) .25 77.1 5.79 1.2 June 1990' Atlas/Kato EMD SD7 1.29 231.9 .60 1.7 April 1990' (24) (74.1) (12.80) (1.9) June 1990' Atlas/Kato EMD GP35 1.07 213.7 .61 2.2 Nov. 1992' P&D Hobby EMD F3B .25 77.1 5.81 1.6 Jan. 1993 Bachmann EMD SD40-2 .74 148.3 1.03 2.'1 Sept. 1989' Red Caboose EM D GP9 .27 81.9 12.78 2.2 June 1992' Bachmann wiN Scale of Weaver (0 scale) Aleo FA2 .22 72.8 15.31 1.9 July 1989' EMD SD40-2 Nevada Chassis .82 155.7 1.25 2.6 Sept. 1989' Weaver (Hi-Rail) Aleo FA2 .21 100.8 12.53 2.2 Aug. 1995 Bachmann/Spectrum EMC Gas Elec. 20.0 11 0.1 0.38 3.2 Aug. 1998 Alco FA2 (& FB2) .25 (94.9) (19.25) (2 0) Aug. 1995 Bachmann/Spectrum GE Dash 8-40C .44 113.0 1.15 5.2 April 1993 Weaver EM D E8 .30 105.6 14.45 2.1 July 1993 Bachmann/Spectrum EMD DDA40X .35 163.9 1.13 3.8 Sept. 1997 Can Cor EMD E7A .57 99.8 4.19 3.4 Oct. 1992' o Scale Steam Locomotives E-R ModelsBaldwin Sharnose A-B .38 75.2 .52 3.4 Feb. 2002 Samhongsa/Hallmark On3-EBT 2-8-2 .22 33.8 9.09 2.4 Aug. 1989' InterMountain EMD SO 45-T2 .60 127.5 .68 2.7 March 2006 Lionel (Hi-Rail) UP 2-8-0 12.64 89.7 20.01 7.6 May 2001 Kato Aleo PAl (& PB1) 1.43 167.7 1.25 1.7 Dec. 1998 (1.07) (156.8) (2.328) (1.8) Dec. 1998 G Gauge Diesels Kato EMD E8A .26 222.4 .96 2.0 Aug. 1993 Atlas EMD SW8/9 .63 60.1 12.49 2.1 April 1999 EMD ESA & (E8B) (26) (220.4) (1.92) (2.3) Aug. 1993 LGB Aleo DL535E 2.67 48.0 27.01 N/A April 1990 Kato GE U30C .48 242.2 .88 2.4 Feb. 1990' Lionel EMD GP7 .38 55.6 14.74 5.9 May 1991 Kato GE Dash 9-94CW .11 198.2 .84 1.4 Nov. 1997 Railway Express AgencyAleo FA 1 3.79 68.2 15.25 N/A July 1990 Kato Aka RSZ .30 167.7 .5Z 1.4 Sept. 1999 G Gauge Steam Locomotives Kato EMD SD70MAC .03 187.9 .70 1.1 Aug. 2003 Aristo-Craft (ART) B&O 4-6-2 1.15 51.9 Z8.08 2.0 Oct. 1991 Key/Endo EMD F7A (& F7B) .39 145.3 .57 3.8 Mar. 1992' Aristo-Craft (ART) & PRR 0-4-0 .94 72.7 12.13 1.6 Jan. 1992' (50) (150.3) (1.27) (3 0) Mar. 1992' Lehmann (LGE) 0-4-0T Z.40 28.7 7.24 N/A May 199Z' Kato Budd RDC-Z .22 211.7 .50 1.2 Aug. Z002 Bachmann 0-4-0T .31 25.6 6.38 2.6 Aug. 1992' Budd RDC-3 .54 234.4 .50 1.3 Aug. 2002 Bachmann Radio- RDC-Z & RDC-3 .44 218.0 1.00 1.2 Aug. 200Z Controlled Baldwin 4-6-0 .55 Z5.2 28.81 N/A June 1989' Life-Like EMD F9A (& F9B) 2.04 177.2 1.4 15.0 Aug. 1989' Bachmann Track- (1.84) (166.4) (2.78) (4.7) Aug. 1989' Powered Baldwin 4-6-0 5.50 38.4 11.23 1.0 Oct. 1990' Life-Like Aleo FA2 (& FB2) 1.19 158.0 .91 4.0 May 1993 Bachmann 2-Truck Shay .95 14.0 29.22 3.3 May 2000 (66) (149.3) (1.81) (3.4) May 1993 Delton Loco. Works D&RG 2-8-0 .12 40.9 17.00 2.0 Dec. 1989' Life-Like Aleo PA 1 2.97 139.7 1.21 3.4 Nov. 1998 LGB 2-6-0 2.65 54.8 22.45 N/A Nov. 1991' Life-Like F-M ALT-200-3 .14 107.4 1.02 1.8 April 2003 LGB Forney 0-4-4T 2.74 36.1 26.39 N/A July 1994 Life-Like EMD GP18 1.20 167.0 .84 3.0 April 1994' Lionel Baldwin 0-4-0T .12 54.5 9.60 1.8 Oct. 1989' Life-Like EMD E8A 1.63 149.3 1.27 4.0 April 1995 Kalamazoo Toy Trains 0-4-0T .48 50.1 13.47 1.1 Jan.1991' Life-Like EMD SD7 .29 121.11 .48 2.45 June 1996 Kalamazoo Toy Trains 4-4-0 .82 67.1 13.18 1.3 Jan.1991' Life-Like EMD E7A 3.14 140.6 1.33 4.3 Feb. 1998 Life-Like EMD SW9 .45 106.9 .40 2.0 April 1998 Note: Figures in parentheses ilre for two locomotives operated together.

14 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 N

Photos from the collection of Louis A. Marre

he "35 Line" was Electro­ T Motive's series of second­ generation diesels, and in 1966, the SD40 was the top of the line. The SD40 was the 3,OOO-horsepower version of the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) 2,500-horsepower SD35 introduced in June 1964.

Production of the SD40 ceased in December 1971 when the SD40 was replaced with "Dash-2" SD40-2. EMD produced about 1,275 SD40s compared to 3,957 SD40-2s.

The SD40 and SD40-2 (and GP40) have three equal-sized round fa ns on top of the long hood. The SD40-2 is three feet OHE.DETAIL·AT.A·TINE longer than the SD40, but the length is 8-435 Bell (modified- 3.75 ea. 6-187 Air horn 3.25 ea. all in the chassis so the end platforms are left side) 3 -188 Cab sunsh ades 1.80/4 longer on the SD40-2. Also, the SD40- 3 -437 Cab sunshades 3.95/pr. 27-206 Snowplow 1.75 ea. 2 truck usually had snubbers or shock 28-220 MU cables 2. 15/2 absorbers over the center journal boxes Cannon & Company, 3947 Freedom 29- 226 Fuel fi lters 1.75/2 on each truck and a small rectangular Blvd., Aptos, CA 95003 window in the right side of the long 9- 1103 Hood $3.50 ea. Overland Models, Inc., 3808 W. hood. ]0-1201 Cab sub bases 6.95/pr. Kilgore Ave., Muncie, IN 47304: 11- 1304 Inertial fi lter screens 1.95/4 7 - 9006 Air horn $3.50 ea. The Missouri Pacific purchased number ]2-1353 Inertial fi lter hatches 2.59/2 20-9050 Antenna 3.35 ea. 724 as part of number series 720-789 in 13-1404 Radiator screens 3.95/2 9-9132 Bell (left side) 2.70 ea. 1968-1971, and they were renumbered 14- 1 50l Cab with separate 5.95 ea. 24-9151 Coupler lift bars 2.50/2 in the 3000-3089 series when repainted doors 21-9250 Fuel sight glass 2.75 ea. with large numbers on the sides of the 15-1505 Laser-cut windows 2.95/set 25-9327 Mirrors (wind 3.35/4 hood and the small wings on the cab sides for 1501 deflectors) (and no more buzz-saw red and white 16- 1602 Blower housing 3.50/2 22-9351 MU hoses 7.35/4 sets heralds). Number 725 was photographed (left side) (set of 4) at Fort Worth, Texas in July 1968, 752 l7-18 53 Cooling fans 6.95/2 28-9352 MU cables 9.20/4 was photographed in Monroe, Louisiana 4-2003 Steps (see-through 4.50/set on December 25, 1973, and 3024 was grid) photographed in Pueblo, Colorado on ] 8 - 2052 Step lights 2.95/6 April 10, ] 983. 8 & 21-2156 Fuel tank 4.95/set fittings SCALE MODEL SD40s Custom Finishing, 379 Tu lley Rd., HO Scale: Athearn and Kato Orange, MA 01364: N Scale: Kato 18-112 Ground (walkway) $3.09/2 lights PAINT 19-113 Antennae 4.95/2 Missouri Pacific Blue: Badger ModelFlex 8- 137 Bell 4.95 ea. 16-86 or SMP AP-4 (BAR Blue) 20- ] 96 Wheel slip monitors 4.95/4 (left side) DECALS 6-221 Air horn 3.69 ea. 21-226 Fuel gauges 4.50/2 HO Scale: Microscale 87-74 (for 725 & 22-258 MU hoses (set 5.39/2 sets 754) or 87-] 13 (for 3024), Champ EH of fo ur) 1199 (for 725 & 754) 2-314 Wipers 3.95/2 pro N Scale: Microscale 60-74 (for 725 & 754) or 60-113 (for 3024) Detail Associates, Box 5357, San Luis 93403: One-Oetail-At-A-Time (HO Scale) Obispo, CA 3 -130 1 Cab sunshades $1.50/6 Step-by-step instructions on how to install (modified) many of these detail parts appeared in 22-1508 MU hoses 2.001 16 the June 1989 issue of "The Journal." 7 -1603 Air horns 1.75/2 That article is also reprinted in the book 19- 1 805 Antennae l.25/6 TUNING & UPGRADING ATHEARN 1- 2202 Grabirons 2.50/48 LOCOMOTIVES. 23-2206 Lift rings (eye bolts) 3.00/36 24-22] I Coupler lift bars 2.25/2 A-Line, Box 2701, Carlsbad, CA 25-2304 Wind deflectors 2.50/3 pro 92018: 26-2504 .OI2-inch-diameter 2.001 10 1- 29100 Grabirons $3.50/50 wire (for handrails ) 2-29200 Windshield wipers 1.85/8 20- 2807 Speed recorders 1.75/4 3-292 10 Cab sunshades 1.95/3 pr. 7-3102 Fuel tank fittings ] .00/2 4-29238 Steps (see-through 2.95/set (fillers) grid) 6-6206 Air hoses 1.25/6

Cal-Scale (division of Bowser Details West, P.O. Box 61, Corona, CA Mfg. Co., Inc.), 21 Howard St., 91718: Montoursville, PA 17754-0322: 8 - 135 Bells (modified- $1.2512 5-320 Air hoses $1.85/2 sets left side) 2-419 Windshield wipers 3.50/2 pro 19- 157 Antennae 2.25/5 6-42 1 Air horn 6.95 ea. 7- 166 Fuel fi llers ].00/4 7 -43 1 Fuel filJers 2.50/set 18-172 Walkway (ditch) lights l.25/8 27 -9555 Snowplow 11.65 ea. 7 -39080 Fuel fil lers 1.00/4 the fu ll package quantItIes shown and (modified) 6-39084 Ail' horn 2.75 ea. include $5.00 per order for postage or 18-9708 Walkway (ditch) lights 7.50/6 3-39087 Cab sunshades 2.54/4 UPS and handling. � (modified) Precision Scale, 3961 Highway 93 5-39 118 Air hoses 1.50/ 10 North, Stevensville, MT 59870: 23-48277-1 Lift rings 2.25/12 30-3935 Short handrail $3.25/20 (eye bolts) stanchions 30-3937 End handrail 2.00/8 Smokey Valley Railroad Products, 339, 38862: stanchions P.O. Box Plantersville, MS 2-3968 Windshield wipers 1.25/4 26 & 30- 19 Preformed $15.95 25-4968 .01 2-inch-diameter l.75/6 GP40-2 handrail & stanchion kit wIre (modified) 22-39059 MU hoses (4) 1.75/4 27 -39062 Snowplow (modified) 3.00 Ordering Information: ea. All of these parts are available to any 30-39073 Extended-height 3.25/20 hobby dealer, so your dealer can order handrai I stanchions for you. If you mllst order direct, order SANTA FE RR·30 CLASS 50·FOQT REFR GERATOR

By Richard Hendrickson

I The unusually long Santa Fe class Rr-30 reefers roamed all over North America in the forties, fifties and into the sixties. Athearn now offers a ready-to-run model of the car. There's an index of previous articles on modeling Freight Cars of the Fifties on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com/ I

Some time before it was photographed in 1957, SFRD 37315 had also been repainted and restenciled with post-1947 style slogans. "Ship and Travel Santa Fe All the Way" replaced the system map on the right sides of all the cars; the slogan on the left side of this car was "Grand Canyon Line." Note the drain hoses from the bunker drains, a 1950s addition that was intended to reduce corrosion of the trucks and running gear from brine melt. -Col. Chet McCoid photo, Bob's Photo collection

arly in the twentieth century, fu U carload fe U weU shOlt of a 4O-foot car's economic depression of the early 1930s E fo llowing a wide variety of load limit. To accommodate such shipments prevented the Santa Fe Railway and nineteenth-century experiments, as preserved fruit, cured fish, and wine in other PFE competitors from fo llowing refrigerator car design became more or barrels, several western railroads began in suit immediately, but in 1936 the Santa less standardized, with ice bunkers at the late 1920s to order refrigerator cars of Fe Refrigerator Department rebuilt some the ends of the cars and overall lengths about 50 fe et in overall length. Rr-lO class 50-foot refrigerator cars with of about 36 feet for meat reefers and heavier insulation, and in 1937 SFRD about 40 feet for produce reefers. These At first, these cars were of conventional ordered 200 Rr-22 class 50-foot steel­ dimensions continued to be almost construction, apart from their length. sheathed reefers from General American universal for two decades. Though some But shortly after they were introduced, which were designed especially for frozen 50-foot refrigerator cars were built in the quick-frozen fo ods began to appear food service. 1920s, they were express reefers with in the marketplace whose shipment high-speed trucks and steam and signal required much colder temperatures than These Rr-22 class cars were so heavily lines for passenger train service. ordinary refrigerator cars could sustain. insulated that their side sheathing had Accordingly, the rai l roads began to build to be indented behind the ladders, door As the shipment of perishables by super-insulated 50-foot reefers that were latches, and grabirons to conform with rail steadily increased after World intended specifically for frozen foods. the trackside clearance limits that were in War J, however, a growing number effect then. They were also equipped with of commodities were being loaded in The first of these were the Pacific Fruit Duryea cush ion underframes to minimize refrigerator cars which were so light that a Express class R-70-2 cars of 1932. The lading damage and ASP self-aligning

18 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 spring-plankless trucks. Ends were General American in 1940 for another that were inboard of the hatch covers inverse Dreadnaught, and roofs were of 100 cars that were slightly revised Rr- instead of completely surrounding them, riveted steel rectangular-panel design. 22s. These were the Rr-30 class. They and National B-1 trucks. In addition, had an improved version of the Duryea the last 25 cars in the series had early The Rr-30 Class Prototypes underframe, later-style 4-4 Dreadnaught Preco mechanical air circulating fans. ends with W-section corner posts, Otherwise, the Rr-30s were exactly like With frozen food shipments increasing abbreviated wood hatch platforms the Rr-22s that preceded them. in volume, the Santa Fe went back to

An additional 50 cars of similar design, the Rr-3 1 class, were built by GATC at the same time. These diffe red from the Rr-30s in having larger ice bunkers and an overall length of more than 52 feet. Immediately after World War II, the Santa Fe improved its fleet of frozen food reefers by adding heavier insulation to 75 former Rr-IO class 50-foot wood­ sheathed cars, which then became class Rr-37, and to 100 Rr-22s, which then became class Rr-42.

SFRD's 50-foot frozen food reefers traveled widely, transporting frozen orange juice and other frozen foods from Californiaand the southwest to distributors in major cities all over North America. For example, there is photographic evidence of these cars being moved from New Jersey to New York City on Hudson River car floats. They were also used at This high 3/4 view of the Athearn model shows the end and roof details. Note the reporting marks times for other types of perishable traffic, and numbers on the ice hatch covers. as illustrated by a sighting of one in a Athearn's HO scale model of Rr-30 SFRD 37343 showing the left side with "Super Chief" slogan.

The right side of Athearn's model shows the early map applied to the Rr-30 class when built, which lacked the word "Ship."

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 19 Rft·30 CLASS

THE ROUTE OF THE e ief Chicaqo-Los inq-I•• S1r •••llner

At San Diego in October 1955, SFRD 37329 had just been repainted at the Santa Fe's West Wichita shops with a post-1947 style "Chief" slogan on the left side_ By this time, the words "All Pullman" had been deleted from the "Chief" slogans, as the consists of the Chief passenger trains began to include chair cars in 1954. Electric air circulating fans were applied to all of the Rr-30s in the 1950s, including those that had originally been equipped with mechanical fans. Note the fan drive box, which was located only on the left side of the car above the A-end truck. -Col. Chet McCoid photo, Bob's Photo collection

Beginning in 1959, many of the surviving Rr-30s were repainted with giant cross-and-circle heralds, as shown here on SFRD 37332 at San Diego in the late 1960s. The original National B-1 trucks on this car, which tended to require frequent maintenance, had been replaced by older Dalman two-level trucks with Barber lateral motion bolsters. -Larry Occhiello photo

Southern Railway train carrying bananas earlier experiments) the first such cars on the eventual retirement of all ice-cooled north from New Orleans. the Santa Fe were the Rr-54 class, which SFRD cars. Most members of the Rr-30 were delivered in 1955. They were soon class remained in service through the Despite the best efforts of the Santa Fe followed by additional mechanical reefers, mid-1 960s, but after that their numbers Refrigerator Department, ice-cooled cars and by the early 1960s frozen fo ods were rapidly declined and almost all had been were nevermore than marginally successful being transported almost exclusively in retired by 1970. at maintaining the temperatures required such cars. to keep frozen foods frozen, even with Athearn's Models frequent re-icing en route and extensive The Rr-30 class and the other 50-foot Athearn's HO scale models of the Santa use of salt in the bunkers to enhance ice bunker SFRD refrigerator cars were Fe's Rr-30 class 50-foot refrigerator cooling. Ultimately, the solution was to then relegated to carrying more mundane cars are offered ready to run and include build refrigerator cars with mechanical perishable lading. In fact, the growing metal wheelsets and knuckle couplers. refrigeration, and (aside from a couple of use of mechanical reefers foreshadowed Their styrene bodies and detail parts are

20 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 This 3/4 view of the A end of SFRD 37343 shows the early version of the system maps, without the word "Ship," which were applied to the right sides of the Rr-30 class when new. Note the National B-1 trucks and the extended draft gear of the sliding-sill Duryea cushion underframe. -Santa Fe Railway, Frank Ellington collection

"lperChief -I·Calif ornia

Fresh from General American's East Chicago, Indiana shops in June 1940, SFRD 37383 shows its left side with "Super Chief" slogan. This was one of 25 Rr-30s that were equipped when new with Preco mechanical air circulating fans located above the trucks at each end (the fan drives were not visible on the right sides of the cars). -Santa Fe Railway, Frank Ellington collection

precisely molded, dimensionally accurate, other four slogans ("Grand Canyon Line," In the past, the Santa Fe's 50-foot frozen and highly detailed. Especially noteworthy "Scout," "El Capitan," and "Chief') that food reefers could be modeled only with are the National 8-1 trucks, developed were applied to Santa Fe reefers from costly (and long out-of-production) brass especially for these models, which include I 940 to I 947. imports. Athearn has now made it possible brakeshoe and brake beam detail. to include these distinctive and colorfu l Though Athearn has not yet announced refrigerator cars in late steam and early Factory paint and lettering are accurate any details about future production runs diesel-era HO scale freight trains. Not and sharply rendered. One version with of these models, versions with later only Santa Fe modelers thus have reason a "Super Chief' slogan models the cars style (1947- 1959) slogans and "Ship and to rejoice; many who model other mainline as delivered in 1940 with an early system Travel Santa Fe All the Way" replacing North American railroads will also want map that lacked the word "Ship" and the system maps will almost certainly be to have at least one or two of these fine with periods in the reporting marks. forthcoming. It is also safe to assume that new models. 1Itft. Other models in the first production run at some point models will be offered with represent cars repainted in the mid- 1 940s; post- 1959 paint and lettering, featuring these have later-style maps with "Ship," the Santa Fe's giant-cross-and-circle reporting marks without periods, and the heralds of that era.

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BY THE SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY MODEL RAILROAD CLUB

By Kerry Albrecht Model photos by Robert Schleicher APH pairOTO of 7. Genesis F3As rumble across the wood trestle on the fill heading for Davisburg.

ThePHOTO club 15. created a small billboard to commemorate the layout's golden spike, installed less than four years after they acquired the building.

GOLDEN SPIKE Holly SUbdivISion February 3 2006 MODEl.ING THE GRAND TRUNK

he South Oakland County Model access aisles are wide, a minimum of 4 turnouts and flex track on the sidings T Railroad Club, in Hazel Park, fe et, but usually 8 to 10 feet I.vide. The and yards are Peco. Kerry Albrecht and Michigan (a suburb of Detroit) tracks on the lower deck are between Michael McCreight designed the layout was established in J 954 and built their 42 and 46 inches from the floor, and the and laid most of the track. The minimulll first layout in the Grand Trunk Western tracks on the upper deck are between turnout size is number 6 with a 36-inch Railroad 's Birmingham, Michigan 62 and 65 inches with a double-track minimum curve radius. The scenery is station. The club then created a modular helix connecting two decks. The track carved frolll Styrofoam sheets. The layout layout and relocated twice before settling is, essentially, point-to-point from the is controlled with a Digitrax system using in their new location. staging yard at Durand down to the radio control walk-around throttles. Kerry staging yard at "Detroit." The yards Albrecht designed and built most of the The club has the good fortune to own at Pontiac and Ferndale are, however, bench work and installed the electronics. their own industrial building. Moreover, operated like real ra ilroad fre ight yards. the club members decided, when moving A second helix connects the scenicked The 700-foot mainline is in place, and their new location in 2002, that they would staging yards at Detroit and Durand for operations have begun. Only about 20 no longer model a "generic" railroad, but continuous operations or to route loaded percent of the massive layout has finished would recreate a specific portion of a trains and empties in the appropriate scenery, but the group expects to triple specific real railroad. The club elected to direction over the line. that amount by July 2007 for the NMRA recreate a relatively short portion of the National Convention in Detroit. -.t. Grand Trunk Western Railroad, the Holly The bench work is I-inch square steel tube Subdivision, between Milwaukee Junction with the tracks and scenery supported on in Detroit and Durand, Michigan. simple sJabs of2-inch extruded Styrofoam. The roadbed is cork with Tillig flex The layout is housed in a 30 x 50- track and turnouts (from Reynauld's Euro foot building with no windows, but with Imports, Inc., 122 North Main Street, central heating and air conditioning. The Elburn, Illinois 60 119, www.reynaulds. layout itself is double-decked, but the com) with code 83 rail. The code 70

APHOTO GTW GP711. crossing the long fill near Holly.

ThePHOTO cement 16. plant complex at Waterford is the a combination of four Walthers kits, with effective paint and weathering by Bill Van de Mark.

24 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 S.O.C. Layout - UPPER LEVEL TRACK PLAN Pontiac/Waterfo rd to Durand

S.O.C. Layout - LOWER LEVEL TRACK PLAN Milwaukee Junction (Detroit) to Pontiac

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RAllMODEl JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 25 MODELING THE GRAND TRUNK

ThePHOTO foliage 14. for the trees is foam that Peg McCreight dyed, then ran through a blender. The technique allows the foliage to actually match the colors of the native trees. PHOA KatoTO GP78. crossing the deck girder bridge over the Shiawassee River.

PHOTOLooking 1.down the main access 4k,lo::;"�,,itI'fth�I"nnl�':lrYard on the lower deck on Clarkson (between the upper deck.

Looking to the right down the main aisle, with Linden on the upper level Ferndale Yard on the lower level.

TraPHOTOin 27 13.from Pontiac heading past the cement plant at Waterford.

PHOTOOn the right, 3. the Detroit staging yard is on the lower level, and the "Durand" staging yard is on the upper level. On the left, Gaines Junction is on the upper level, and Ford Junction is on the lower level.

PHOTOLooking 4.back at the Ferndale Yard on the lower level with Linden on the upper level.

PHOLookingTO 5.back at the Pontiac Yard on the lower level with the Waterford cement plant on the upper level in the far upper right.

NO ELIHG THE READI G • PART II

ThisPhoto overall 1. shot shows the engine terminal on the left and an unfinished city area in the center.

ThisPhoto is 2.the Pennsylvania coal region area with scenery just being started.

PhotoThis area 3. of the layout will represent one of the Reading's rural branchline operations with small industry and hilly scenery. The mainline tracks are being laid with Atlas code 83 track and handlaid code 70 rail being used in some of the other areas. 'PHILADELPHIA'

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ThePhoto Reading, 4. Pennsylvania area will be in the center distance with a freight yard and the engine terminal in the center representing the city.

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 33 MODELING THE READING RAILROAD. PART II

he Reading Railroad that Jerry Strangarity has chosen to The bench work and trackwork fo r the remainder of the layout T recreate includes a brief segment of the industrial area are in, and operations are underway. The hallmarks of the Jayout of South Philadelphia that was fe atured in the December are the structures, the "signatures" that make it instantly clear 2004 issue of "The Journal." He is gradually working his way that this is the Reading Railroad, not some generic hodge-podge. around the walls of an adjacent room to recreate the Reading's Where possible, Jerry works from the Reading's own standard more notable scenes east of Philadelphia. drawings, but in the case of the Pottsville station and the coal breaker, he works from photographs and an intimate knowledge of proportions of the real structures. He explains exactly how he Currently the coal breaker area at Locust Summit is virtually builds those incredible structures in this issue. � complete and the structures for Pottsville are virtualIy complete. A big Reading 110 class 2-8-0 switches the breaker yard. The Reading T-l class 4-8-45 were built from these 2-8-05. ESII.. THEING YViAY

GIlBn. STYRENE

By Jerry Strangarity

The majority of the structures on Jerry Stralilgari- ty's recreation of the Reading Railroad are scratchbuilt. His techniques include all three modeling materiaII; wood, cardboard and styrene plastic. There's an index of previous articles on scratchbuilding on our website at �ww.railmodeljournal.com/

36 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 This section of the city shows a red brick building w,�i�� is'Scratchbuilt styrene and cardstock3ith a Sheepscot fire�re��pe kit added. highway bridge is built from wood and cove�eq\ card stock to ilpnresentconcrete. The large building in the bac�gr, �h�d, is a model of Reading's Terminal Warehouse complex in Pl'1i(lbl lflhla �nd was entirely from cardstock �

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 37 THE S:TRANGARITY

A set of row homes which are very common in Reading, Pennsylvania and other eastern cities. They are built from cardstock, and the dormers and bay windows are built from styrene. Model Hobbies brick paper was used for the brick siding in the front and embossed cardstock brick material used on the sides and backs. The garages are built from styrene. I took photos of many of the row homes around Reading and then built this freelance model from the pictures. The porch railings and posts are Grandt Line parts. This is the seedy section of town down by the railroad tracks. The corner bar was built from cardstock with Model Hobbies brick paper siding and was built from an article in Model Railroader magazine from the '50s. The tenement building behind it was built from an article in Railroad Model Craftsman magazine from many years ago. It also is built from cardstock with the porches and railings in the back of the building built from styrene. The buildings on the other side of the street are kit-converted from Design Preservation kits. This small machine shop is a Woodland Scenics kit which has been heavily weathered and a few extra details added.

This is a model of a Reading water tank built from actual Reading plans. It is built from styrene with the spout and other fittings made from brass. The brick siding is Holgate & Reynolds siding. A construction article for this tank appeared in Railroad Model Craftsman magazine.

42 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006

5TR CTURE5. THE STRA G RITY WAY

n this age of ready-to-run rol linab some of the smaller ones on my layout stock and "built-up" I structures, were built with Strathmore. Ty pically I scratchbuilding of models has become wlil use Artist's Illustration Board for less common than it once was. Ye t, it can wall sections. It is not a Strathmore board be a satisfying and often relatively easy but is of about the same composition as means for building a model of something. Strathmore. It also can be fo und in art I have been model bu ildin g for about 45 supply and hobby stores. It is II16 -inch years now, and I have tried many different thick and can be cut with a hobby knife methods and mate rials. Someti mes, what or slllgie-edge razor blade. The secret to works for someone else doesn't work using any cardboard in model buildinab for me and . vice versa. The important IS to brace it well to prevent warping. thlllg IS to try different techniques and I use bass stripwood (minimum 1/8- Window pieces have been cut from thin materials and use what is comfortable fo r inch square) for bracing. For the larger cardstock with one piece for the lower and one you and giv for the upper window (double-hung doors). es the desired results. I still structures, 1/4-inch-square stripwood is use techniques that were common in the preferable. Glue the bracing to the wall 1950s (c ardboard for structures) because section and lay it on a flat surface with (brick) were common and some still are. they give the results I'm looking for, but weights on it to ensure it will be flat They are easy to glue to the cardboard I also do a lot of work in styrene, which after the glue dries. Another and score and bend around corners advantaaeb is a common building material today. of Strath more over common cardboard is and around window openings. Again, Let's look at some of the model structures that it is sandable. So, if the edges of the I would recommend Ambroid glue for I've built for my layout and examine the bracing and the cardboard don't line up this application to prevent warping. The techniques and materials used. exactly, it can be sanded smooth. Use a vacuumed-formed styrene sheets of brick new, sharp knife blade to cut out window and stone from N Scale Architects should Cardboard and door openings. Yo u will be able to tell be glued to the cardboard with a contact when the knife blade is dulling because it cement. I use a neoprene-based contact will become harder to cut with it and the cement made by Borden (makers of cardboard wi II "swell" up on each side of Elmer's Glue-Ali). It has the advantage of not being solvent-based (like Walthers the blade as you cut. That is the time to Goo) and thus not causing warping or change blades. "bubbling" of the glued surfaces. Some of the structures that are built of cardboard The windows and doors can be made in my city are the Central Trust building, from thinner plys of Strathmore. Window the Philadelphia Refrigeration Co., the and door openings should be laid out on Reading Terminal Warehollse, Tony's the cardboard using a sharp pencil and Bar, and the tenement building. The some sort of a small square. Windows advantages, then, of cardboard are that it This photo shows a wall section cut from in models can be as simple as a single is relatively inexpensive, is easy to work cardstock (Strathmore) with the window window frame or as complex as a multi­ openings cut out and brick siding paper glued with (layout, cutting), and is easy to glue in place. The brick paper is scored and bent piece double-hung type window. Again, to similar materials. It is therefore great around the inside corners of the windows. a sharp knife blade is a must for cutting for large city-type bui ldings where you window and door pieces. [t does not take don't necessari ly need lots of detail. as much time as you may think to cut out a number of window or door pieces. Your In the early days of this hobby, cardboard Wood and wood were the common materials mind sort of goes "blank" after starting Wood has always had a place in model for model building. They were relatively to cut and before you know it you are building and will continue to have a place. inexpensive and easy to obtain and were done ! Another "trick" to obtaining sharp, There are many excellent brands and types also easy to work with. Cardboard still crisp window and door pieces is to take of stripwood and siding available. Styrene has a place in model building, although the pieces after they are cut and dip and even cardboard can be made to look not many people use it today or are aware them in a clear lacquer. This will have like wood, but real wood still gives the of its possibilities. The type of cardboard the effect of sealing all porous edges to most realistic appearance. Gruber Wagon to use is a kind called Strathmore. It prevent warping and giving all surfaces Works on my layout is made entirely from comes in diffe rent plys (thicknesses) and a nice satin fi nish. The window and door is a hard-pressed board with a smooth pieces will, in effect, look and feel like wood with Grandt Line window castings surface. It produces a clean edge when cut styrene when dry. These pieces are then and Precision Lasercraft slate shingles. I with a knife or razor blade and is much glued to the backs of the wall sections. I used Northeastern clapboard siding for stiffer than the grades of poster board like to use Ambroid (the amber-colored this model and distressed it slightly with and other cardboards used for school stuff in a tube) for much of the gluing on a wire brush to put a I ittle more "grain" into the wood. Go easy on the distressing, projects among other things. Strathmore cardboard structures as it is not prone to especially if the structure represents one can be fo und in art supply stores and water absorption like the "white" glues that has had a coat of paint and is not in some hobby stores. I get mine from such as Eimers. Craftsman Specialty Supply in Rogers a rundown condition. I see many models City, Michigan. The plys range from as The wall sections can be covered with where the distressing of the wood is much thin as paper to around 1116 inch. Many any of the many siding materials now too heavy even fo r a dilapidated structure. of the large buildings in the city and available. Ye ars ago, siding papers As with the cardboard structures,

44 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 To make styrene look like wood requires a adequate wood bracing is a prerequisite model i ng wi th cardboard and wood, I have few steps. I use an X-Acto razor saw and a fo r ensuring your model is square and come to embrace styrene as an all-around wire brush to distress the styrene and add looks the same 30 years from now as it modeling material. Some examples of "grain" to it. Fine sandpaper must then does in the present. I cannot overstate the styrene models on my layout are the be used to remove any fuzz after doing importance of interior bracing and using big coal breaker, the Locust Summit this step. Any other weathering effects a lot of it. I still have models I. built 45 station, the Reading RR station next to such as knotholes and loose boards can years ago that look the same as when I the Gruber Wagon Works, the Reading also be added using a knife. [ have found built them because I have always used freight station in my city of Philadelphia a simple method to color and weather lots of interior bracing. I use 1I8-inch­ and the interlocking tower in the city. The plastic to look like wood. First paint it sq uare stripwood or larger and apply it in biggest advantage, 1 think, with styrene with either Polly Scale earth color or the same way as the cardboard models by modeling is the speed with which a model undercoat gray and let dry thoroughly. laying the wall sections flat with weights can be built. You can literally build as The material can then be stained with an to ensure they dry flat. fa st as you can gl ue. I can typicall y bu i Id a small structure model in about a week. alcohol/India ink stain or an alcohol/shoe As with the other materials that [ also use, dye stain or any other concoction you If nail holes are desired in the siding, they my techniques are mostly gleaned from might use. The important point is to apply can be put in individually with a sharp the work of others that I have read about it in thin washes to build up the color pointed tool, or a faster way is to use a in the magazines over the years or ideas gradually. The use of these stains and pounce whe el. These are available in art that I got from friends. washes often give shadowy effects that supply stores and look like a small gear enhance the real ism of the finish. with a handle. Run the pounce wheel up the side of the wall using a straight edge I use somewhat the same techniques for to guide it. It may not put exactly the styrene that I usc fo r cardboard and wood. Roofing is also easy with styrene. If same number of "nails" in each board of Depending on the size of the structure representing a ribbed standing seam type the siding, but at least in HO, the eye will and the thickness of siding material used, of roof, Evergreen has roofing material not see the diffe rence. I may use styrene strip or wood bracing already made for it. If using shingles on wal l sections. The coal breaker model or tarpaper for roofing, an extra step is uses Evergreen corrugated siding and is required. I use a base piece of .030-inch I typically use Strathmore fo r the roofs on my wood build ings because it comes so large that I used wood interior bracing. or .040-inch styrene for the roof. I then in larger sizes than the typical basswood I use the contact cement to glue the wood use the Elmer's contact cement to glue sheet. Whether wood or cardboard is to the styrene and have even used Goo a piece of paper to the styrene. Paper or used fo r roofing again merits plenty of with no problems so far. For smaller cardboard shingles and tarpaper roofi ng wood interior bracing. Any trimwork on buildings, usually no brac ing is required materials can then be easi I y gl ued to the structure can be done with stripwood. if the siding material is at least .040-inch the roof. Advantages of using styrene A good idea is to take some fine steel thick. I use Te stor's liquid plastic cement include ease and speed of assembly and wool and run the stripwood through it to in a bottle although there are many other capability of producing almost any kind remove any fuzz. A word about painting brands to choose from. Cutting window of surface fi nish (steel, wood, etc.). is in order. [1' the wall sections will be and door openings in styrene can be a bit more work than with cardboard and painted or stained with an acrylic paint I have used all of the above techniques wood. The thicker the styrene siding, the or alcohol-based stain, do it be fore the and materials in my structure building more difficult it is to cut openings out of wood brac ing is applied. I have stained plus a few others. Each has its place in it. Sometimes it is easier to cut the wall walls with an alcohol/shoe dye stain after what I am trying to represent as far as section up into pieces so that the window the bracing was applied and the whole structure siding and roofing and structure and door pieces are then left out and thing warped. If staining, it is preferable fi nish and weathering. There are some become the window and door openinCTs� to apply the stain to both sides of the . structures where I have used several after gluing all the pieces back together siding and then glue the bracing to it diffe rent mat erials in the same model. again. Th is technique has been illustrated afterward. If using non-acrylic paints The eastern-style "row" homes in my many times in the hobby press. Tichy and (such as Floquil's solvent-based paints), city of Philadelphia are made this way. Grandt Line, among others, have many this is not a problem. In any event, a The basic building core is made from excellent window and door castings that thinned paint wash will usually give a Strathmore as well as the windows and better fi nish to the model than using paint can then be glued into these openings doors. The dormer and bay window units straight from the bottle. It all depends to make building fast and neat. When and some of the building trimwork are on how much of a weathered effect is cutting styrene, a small raised edge is made from styrene and the roof is a mix produced along the side of the cut. If desired. The advantages of using wood of plastic shingle material and paper objectionable, this can be removed with for models are about the same as for shingles. [ use the Strathmore for the core the scrape of a file or knife. Also, it is cardboard with the additional factor that as its easy to work with and easy to cut not always necessary to cut all the way real wood looks like real wood. window openings from. I use styrene for through a piece of styrene. The score­ much of the trimwork because it gives a and-break method can often be used. Styrene cleaner, crisper appearance than wood or Make several cuts along the line you Strathmore for smaller detailing. Tn the The most popu lar modeling medium want to cut into. Then take the styrene end, there are a plethora of materials and today is styrene. [t comes in all kinds of and "snap" it along the line, and it will techniques available to the scratchbuilder shapes and sizes and is quick and easy to produce a nice clean break. today. Find what is comfortable for you. bond and takes paint well. Although still but don't be afraid to try new ideas.

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 45 STRUCTURES. THE STRANGARITY WAY This is a scratchbuilt model of the Reading's Oley Street tower which, at one time, controlled the Reading yards in Reading, Pennsylvania. The model is based on photos of theprototype with the brick first story being made from cardstock and the upper 'bay window' story made from styrene. The first floor brick is Model Hobbies brick paper which has long been out of production.

This is the rear of the tower and is not finished because it is not viewable when on the layout.

This photo shows the heavy wood bracing in the interior of the tower. One-eighth to 1/4-inch square stripwood is usually adequate for interior bracing. �===__ -:======::=�! s. W H PART I: WINDOW DE� By V. S. Roseman UPGRADING COACHES

oday there are many models fumes from gaslights. Considered far more steel framed usi ng an angled design that of heavyweight passenger cars T elegant and aesthetically pleasing than the permitted the roof to become a structural available in kit and ready-to-run arch roof, the complex clerestory roof was element in the car design. H&M rapid fo rm. The state-of-the-art models include weaker than the arch roof and was more transit cars, plus a significant fleet for the detai Is that were once called optional expensi ve to build to keep waterproof. Erie RR and the cars of the New York, superdetails, and now that so much of the Westchester and Boston, (a New Haven work of building these cars is done for us, An exception was the Common Standard RR subsidiary,) used Stillwell's design. we can heighten the realism of passenger design cars of the Harriman railroads Furnaro and Camerlengo offers these cars equipment by making improvements to which included the giant Southern in HO scale. our ready-to-run models or kits to upgrade Pacific, Union Pac ific and other roads them to create even better models. depending on the particular year. The Most heavyweight coaches were externally more modern-type arch roof was used similar regardless of their intended service, All-steel cars began to supersede on most of their cars, but later on, the varying mostly with interior fittings and wooden cars beginning about 1900. The various roads reverted to clerestory roofs seating capacity. One visible difference Harriman-owned railroads in the mid in new cars. Harri man-design coaches between coaches was the use of paired and fa r west, Pennsylvania Railroad and served up through the start of Amtrak windows (such as on Pennsylvania New York Central were among the first in 1971, and in the SP San Francisco Railroad P70s and Baltimore and Ohio large railroads to commit to fleet-sized commuter service later than that. A ISs) and single windows used in coaches construction of steel cars. on the New York Central, Reading and Trucks, underbody equ i pment and New Haven. THE ROLE OF THE HEAVYWEIGHT "hardware" such as diaphragm striker DAY COACH plates, steps and battery boxes was ordered THROUGH SERVICE AND DELUXE On many rai Iroads, there were more from catalogs of various manufacturers' HEAVYWEIGHT COACHES products, and this equipment varied slightly coaches than all other types of passenger Most coaches built for long-distance among diffe rent groups of coaches. cars combined, and the majority of trains service were nominally SO feet over the ran with all-coach consists. Even on fa ncy coupler knuckles, but a number of railroads trains with lounge cars and sleepers, Underframes were nearly all of the steel built fleets of shorter coach cars. there was nearly always a substantial fishbe lly centersi II type which was very coach section ahead of the dining car, strong. This paralleled the geometry of A great number of coaches ran on six­ and the only exceptions were either the both truss bridge construction and the wheel trucks similar to those used on few flagship all-Pullman formations (of Queenposts and truss rods of wooden car Pullman cars, but generally railroads which fe w roads had more than one construction. These heavy underframes running east of Chicago used four-wheel were strong enough that in collisions or two) and some solid trains of milk, trucks under their coaches, and there mail and express that did not maintain they often showed little damage while the were exceptions. a coach for local passengers. So the I ightly framed passenger compartments coach deserves some consideration and are revealed in photos to be split in half By the late 1920s, coaches in long­ attention when you equip your road's or crumpled by the underframe of a distance services on the top limiteds were passenger trains. fo llowing car be ing pushed upward and be ing fitted with comfortable reclining on top of a leading car's frame. seats and air conditioning. Some were The "Heavyweight" period usually refers modernized with the same paint schemes to the time these all-steel riveted cars A notable exception to the use of the used on the new lightweight streamlined fishbelly were being constructed by car bui Iders, centersill was Pennsylvania cars so older equipment could be mixed around 1900, until the last were built Railroad 's P70 coach which employed into streamliner consists without ruining an IS-inch box girder made up of steel in the 1930s. By that time orders were the effect of the pop art colors. My B&O for streamlined or "lightweight" cars channels. This was a straight bar frame long-distance coach (Walthers model with a lighter stiffening centersill and and had additional members from the 933- 10 110) shows the appearance of a strengthening members throughout the floor up to the windows to stiffen the car, standard paired-window coach fitted with carbody. and it was used in all P70s and MPS4 S6 reclining seats arranged in pairs. Other coaches of the railroad. than removing many of the external vents Heavyweight steel passenger car designs and adding the York air conditioning unit carried over many features of wooden A third important design , from an under the car (or someti mes in a locker or cars. Heavyweight cars relied on a strong engineering standpoint, was that of L.B. a converted vestibule) not much external underframe for their strength, and had Stillwell of the H udson and Manhattan modernization was done to these cars. comparatively light fram ing in their Railroad, an early rapid transit company. superstructures. The car had a I ighter bar steel frame and Coaches in ordinary through or local had much of its strength in the structure of services had plain bench-type seating Nearly all heavyweight coaches had the the suprestructure. one-quarter-inch-thick ("walkover" or flip-over backs to reverse archaic clerestory roof which had an upper steel plate was stamped to fo rm arches the seats) or had high-density seating and lower deck with a low pair of side along the car sides, and diagonal members about 60-S0 passengers) providing less were used low down on the car sides. The walls which was usually used to hold vent leg room for commuter or short-haul roof was a structural improvement on windows. One of the original purposes of service than in the through-service cars. this roof design was to permjt exhausting the clerestory type. Stillwell's roof was

48 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 by car with a pencil, which is much faster than BRANCHLINE SERVICE COACHES Window shades were adjusted railroads. measuring. But we each have our faVOrite AN D MIXED-TRAIN COACHES cleaners before each ru n on most Shades were typically kept lowered 5 methods. l road operated mixed trains Where the rai inches from the top, although it is possible (with both freight and passenger cars on that various roads had their own standard Some typical colors for shades in coaches a train) the coaches might end up back 111 rule for this. Passengers who fo und the were gray, (seen on Pennsylvania RR behind fre ight cars, separated from the lower their . sun shininoo in their eyes could the postwar period) tan or dark green locomotive and the necessary steam I \I1es individual window shades as far as they (used in some Pullman sleeplllg cars). used for heating the cars. For this reason, liked, and cars in service often had all the Many ra ilroads used dark green shades coaches assigned to mixed-tra\ll service shades pulled to different heights. too. Some rai Iroads had more than one had their own stoves for heating the cars. shade color, especially after pop art The way to spot cars built for this kind American Model Bui Iders ofi'ers laser-cut streamliner colors came into use. of operation is usually by a smokeJack assortments of window shades designed to on the roof. fit the Branchline Pullman cars, but these should work with paired-window cars of CLEAR WINDOW MATERIAL North Western had a number Chicaoo other types too. (They might not leave IMPROV EMENT ice coaches with these of lo�al-serv enouoh material on the sides to leave room and I saw that they also Some of the older releases of coach sl11okejacks, for gluing when used with single-window ional steam line metallic models used plain clear styrene window had convent cars.) AMB Laserkit sets number 380 ctions for use on passenger trains. moldings which could appear waxy, wavy conne (pale gray) and 383 (olive green) have riding these one of these cars looking, or might even show machllling While 172 assorted shades that come ready to on a Geneva local many years ago, I marks from the molds (this looks Itke be pressed out of their carrier sheet and made a point of looking for the stove heavy circ ular scratching of the surface), installed. One set is enough to fit out up to in my coach, but could not find it. The which can obscure interior detatl. Wavy about fo ur cars. In addition to the raised conductor showed me that the stove unit windows make the model look unrealistic shades, there are some set up at various was enclosed into a modern recessed but fortunately, most windows of this heights to represent a car in service. The covered housing near the washroom-l type can be upgraded. AMB shades could even be painted before had been looking for an exposed pot­ installation if you want to match a specific bellied stove. color that is not available. Acrylic (brand names Lucite, Plexiglas, Perspex, Acrylite and others)is a good The Rivarossi CN W prototype substitute for molded-styrene parts that You can use white glue such as Sobo, heavyweight util ity 60-foot coach and come with some kits because it is clear Elmer's or Te stors canopy cement applied combine in HO scale have a smokestack, with a toothpick to adhere shades in as glass, is dimensionally stable, and and the enclosure for the stove in the does not shatter like thin microscope place. I am now trying Hobb-E-Tak from interior of these models. Woodland Scenics for this purpose. Hobb­ cover glass. Clear acrylic is available E-Tak and the similar Eimers sticky glue in .030-inch or 1I32-inch thicknesses COMMUTER TRAINS AND COACHES permit doing a neat application of glue that resemble plate glass when installed on models. Plastruct is one source for Rail lines bu ilt from large cities often with a toothpick or similar to ol, letting this material. Acrylic can be scOt·ed and helped develop suburban towns in the the glue dry and then addthe paper shades snapped with an acrylic cutter avai lable surrounding area by providing frequent with no worries about the glue oozing out from hobby shops, craft stores or retai I local services. Strings of up to about 15 over the clear areas of the windows. plastic suppliers. "Olfa," maker of many heavyweight coaches could be seen on the types of cutting tools, is one brand name most densely populated commuter lines in I have also used clear Scotch tape cut into of these. Acrylic can be glued with either rush hour. Some trains carried a combine small strips to tape the shades, into place non-sol vent types of cement such as car too. Commuter railroads can be an at several locations along their length. Woodland Scenics Accent Cement, or it attractive theme for a model train layout you have wide temperature variations If can be held in place more firmly with because they justify operating a lot of in your layout room, you may want to various solvent-type acrylic cements such passenger trains. Cars built fo r short haul cut the shade material into short sections as industrial formula 25, or Ambroid's and commutation were always the simplest which will help allow for expansion and Pro We ld which also bonds styrene. I coaches possible, for passengers only had contraction . also sometimes use Dap contact cement short rides to and from the suburbs. applied with a toothpick to make a very To make your own window shades you strong yet flexible bond. UPGRADING MODEL COACHES: can cut card stock, Bristol board or other stiffpaper into a strip the length of the WINDOW SHADES If you don't like the appearance of such windows of yourcoac h. Leave occasional This is one of the most visible deeply recessed window material, and longer or shorter "shades" to represent a improvements you can doon a passenger you have a great deal of patience, you few that are raised or lowered. Line up car model-and one of the easiest. Shades can install individual windows. Measure the shade material with the windows and add an additional color to a car model and some of your coach's windows with a mark the pillar locations between the they are easy to install, yet few modelers micrometer to be sure windows are all windows so you can trim the lowered or manufacturers choose to add window the same size (many models are not), shades accurately. 1 usually hold the strip shades. If your model has no interior, and cut individual windows from a sheet to the car side and lightly mark the pillars shades can mask that nicely. of acr ylic to fit the window openings.

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 49 UPGRADING COACHES

"(ommon Standard" design cars ran on the Harriman-owned railroads. This combine has beenup graded with AMB vestibule gate, marker light sockets, brake beams, steam air and signal connections, handrails and other new parts. Several manufacturers offer models of these cars. A Branchline coach with additional end detailing at the end of a commuter train. Ako models HO plastic kit of a P70 in Pennsylvania lettering. Window shades and handrailswere added, aswere the belts to the generator and the signal, air and steamhoses.

Standing in for an 3D-foot (&0 coach which it generally resembles, this Athearn 75-foot car now has brake appliances, window shades, interior bulkheads, generator and diaphragms in addition to the full treatment of handrails.

Prototype window shades (on wooden car, at illinois Railway museum)

50 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 Pennsylvania �>;I.. ..v >�"","'I"ri"P"l'A near the end of its career. See the�tli,(t·�Qf"clititils... oo these cars were structurally unique. This car has Inn,liD''''''' trucks, but needs a new knuckle or it won't be going anywhere. -Atlantic City, ca. 1�68

The windows must be installed from the have to allow for this when fitting interior These should be applied to the bottom front because, to get the plastic material details. window sash and can be permitted to flop to release from the rigid metal molds, over inside the car. In this way you do not have to measure every window frame the windows are not made with edges The recently introduced Branchline HO exactly perpendicular to the surface of scale single-window coaches use crystal to be cut. You can also cut some strips to the car body. Rather they are slightly styrene panels applied individually which the height of the windows and apply to tapered inward in what is known as a works very well. Do not force the clear the two sides of the window openings. I "draft angle." windows into the recesses fo r these or consider these optional depending on the you may warp the side of the car. The appearance of the prototype and the size If you want to slightly recess your windows should have the top (or bottom) of the side window frame recesses on the windows, fi le the edges a little at a time edge fi led down slightly. model itself. until the window pane sits at the level you prefer, then glue it in place. Models with clear window strips that On my Bethlehem Car Wo rks HO scale press into the window openings from cars, I painted a piece of .030 x .040-inch For most models, Ambroid Pro We ld the back to provide fl ush or nearly flush styrene and glued it carefully along the has worked, although I have also used windows can be improved by blackening bottom of the window frames inside the Testors canopy cement (a white glue). T all the ra ised edges of the windows with car. For wood sashes, paint the car after suggest this adhesive if you aren't sure a black marker such as a Sharpie from these strips are installed. For insulated if your model may be made of ABS Sanford. This reduces internal reflections aluminum window sashes, you can paint plastic which sometimes appears to weld that otherwise can make clear inserts look the styrene strip dull silver and put it (chemjcally link) for a while after the unprototypically thick. in place along the inside lower edge of glue dries, but then lets go later. I found the windows after the rest of the car is painted. In both cases, the clear acrylic this out the hard way with some flat ALUMINUM WINDOW FRAMES molded models I built, that went back to window strip will be fitted above the new In the 1940s many coaches had their old kit form when I went to paint them a fe w window sashes. For most other cars, the wooden window sashes replaced with months after I had assembled them (for decal option is probably the easiest and the fi rst time, that is). insulated aluminum ones. If your model will create the neatest results unless you has window sashes molded into the body are really skillful at painting tiny straight (Branchline's paired window car for lines and enjoy it a lot. Where your model has thin-walled sides, example) the lower sash of the windows you can cut the clear acrylic into a strip to (or all fo ur sides) can be painted with American Model Builders has another allow .050 to .lOO-inch flanges above and dull aluminum color mixed with a drop method of making these insulated below the window area. The new window of black to reduce the contrast with the window frames. The Laserkit set they strip will be glued inside the car after the car color. model is assembled and painted. Use the offer fo r Branchline coaches is a sheet thinnest acrylic you can get, because the of thin clear plastic with the individual You may find it easier to begin with a sheet new windows mounted inside the car will window outlines laser cut with just tiny of M icroscale aluminum decal trim film cut take up some interior space. You will attachment points preventing them from into strips the width of the car windows. falling out. Peel off only the window

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 51 UP-GRADING COACHI�S

Nicely preserved are the Central Railroad of New Jersey coaches at Steamtown Historical Site at Scranton, Pennsylvania. This car has insulated windows with aluminum frames.

surrounds from the paper covering the plastic and spray the sheet silver. When dry, snap out the windows, peel off the remaining backing sheet covering the window panes themselves, leaving perfect aluminum wi ndow surrounds. These are ready to install in a Branchline car- an elegant solution.

OPEN WINDOW COACHES Heavyweight coaches could be seen with The open windows from spring until the early coacheB�:���s. I added i���the aluminum��:�� window: I�:frame���� �� �� fall months. Coaches in local service described In the article. CDS� dry transfers were used to � ����� often never received air conditioning, and many remained "open-window" cars through the 1970s. You can simu late across the bottoms of these panes with for Branchline's cars, they are usable these cars by modeling some windows in the decal strips. You will have to trim the with most model trains by either gluing open positions. clear window material you use to fit the them to the inside of the body behind windows you model in the open po sition. the original clear window of other kits, by adding styrene strips around the clear To "open" a window of most coach windows so they fit in larger openings, models, carve out the bottom window WASHROOM WINDOWS or by filing them down to press-fit the sash from the car side if one is present. Some heavyweight coaches had plain window openings of other makes of Glue a bar of .03 0-inch x .040-inch frosted bathroom w indows but most had passenger cars. See the AMB catalog for styrene to fo rm the bottom bar of the fancy prismatic design windows. Frosting their full selection. The photo shows how window at the height you prefer and cut a window can be done by rubbing fine the etched lines catch light much as the the appropriate windows open from the sandpaper in two or more directions on the prototype faceted glass did. strip or individual window panes. Do back of plain w indow material. Prismatic this with as many windows as you like. windows use image scattering patterns Some cars in the post World War II On the Bethlehem coaches with molded to permit light to enter while preventing sides, you can apply a styrene bar across viewing into washrooms. While some period were modernized with washroom the window behind the car and fill the models such as those from Rivarossi windows having alternate horizontal bands etched glass. To simulate these, window area with a small piece of acrylic and Branchline include excellent molded of use a paint masking tape (such as Tamiya or similar clear plastic. American Model simulations of these prismatic patterns, Builders has a set of windows to provide American Model B uilders has acr ylic into bands about .060-inch (1.5 mm) wide open windows with painted lower sash washroom windows that are laser etched and place these with .060-inch spacing to fit the Branchline kit, but this can be with several unique railroad designs. on your bathroom window material. modified to fit most other coaches. There is the "extended diamond" design I spray the masked side with Testors used by the Pu llman Company, and a Model Maker DullCote fi nish, and when thoroughly dry, I spray the back of the On cars that have molded windows that graceful rendition of their "waterfall" strip lightly with the DullCote. This press into the window openjngs to provide style. Rai lroads sometimes had their will simulate the modern-look bathroom flush or semi-flush windows such as the own heralds etched into the glass, and windows.  Walthers cars. you can cut some windows AMB has some etched windows with open first from the strip of windows in popular heralds of several popu lar the kit, and then apply the decal fi lm railroads actual ly cut into the windows. While the AMB windows are designed

52 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 coal theliM'·l.\Irere almost identical to the Branchline model single-window coach. I substituted four-wheel Pullman dlllvf1l111i1 and added window shades and the marker light brackets.

This coach shows a Harriman coach in fancy dress for Southern Pacific's long-distance trains. At one time the Overland route, Chicago to San Francisco had matching gray consistsbefor e the lightweight cars were being painted in the more familiar yellow. E�;;�;;�!!!t

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Clearance dia ram for Lackawanna com ute with enclosed ve6tibules ' '=

Use a fine felt tip marker to line the edges of clear windows that insert into the window openings to eliminate reflections that make these inserts look too thick.

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 53 UPGRADING COACHE!;

Another Bethlehem car, this time shown with imitation wood window sashes in the 1928 lettering scheme done with CDS dry transfers. I opened the windows in these carsand added the shades (similarto the Steam town prototypes). S Helper service marketed these carsin S scale several years back.

The official railroad diagram of Lackawanna Railroad long-distance car showing the ample leg room for each seatin cars of this type of service.

r------DELAWARE LACKAWANNA AND WE STERN RR LONG DISTAN CARS 245-260

MINER FRICTION BUFFER a-lOX PULLMAN MECH . AIR COND . ON CARS 246 TO 252 MINER FRI CTION DRAFT GEAR A-5-X AIRTEMP ELEC .MECH . AIR COND ON CARS 253 TO 257 GOULD COUPLER E206 'SAFETY CAR H&L.CO ELEC . MECH AIR COND ON CARS 258 TO 260 N.M. ST.C.CO CAST STEEL YOKE 1581 'SAFETY CAR H&L.CO.7-1/ 2KW. GEN . ON CARS 246 TO 252 2" METT . HEAT CONN . SAFETY CAR 8&L . CO . 20 KW GEN . ON CARS 253 TO 260 WEST .AIR BRAKE UC -1-16 SPICER DRIVE ON CARS 258 TO 260 . SIMPLEX CLASP BRAKE S GEAR BOX & "V" BELT DRIVE ON CARS 253 TO 257 . "V" BELT DRIVE ON CARS 246 TO 252 VAPOR FIN PIPE AND THERMOSTATIC HEAT SYSTEM WO ODS SIDE BEARINGS 989-E .

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54 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 FIT WINDOW SHADE STRIP TO WINDOWS

CE HWT COACHES

CLEAR WINDOW STRIP

CAR SIDE SHOWN FROM THE BACK � GLUE OR TA PE THE PA PER SHADES IN PLACE Applying window shades

FLOOR COVERING : 1/8" LINOLEUM . ��f]�Z�CLEAR WIN DOW STRIP MASKING TAPE LOCKING CENTER PIN H 539 & H 540 . "CENCO"SIDE STEM SNUBBERS COMM . TRUCK FRAME - # 13021 L]0j\D 0 t% SEAT COVERING - RUST # 6707

MODERNIZED BY THE AC &F CO . AT WILMINGTON , DEL . DURING 4-45 TO 6-45. MASK ENTIRE CAR SIDE. LEAVE ONLY THE OLD COACHES Nos . 110 to 124 SHADE AREA UNMASKED

Painting shades inside the clear windows.

SPRAY COLOR FOR SHADES AND REMOVE THE MASKING TA PE

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 55 UPGRADING COACHES

Fit the window sash strips into the car body, and add window plastic directly above the strips after they are painted.

CLEAR WIN DOW SET RECESSED SLIGHTLY INTO OPENING

For flush windows, insert acrylic pieces from the outside.

� INSERT CLEAR WINDOWS FROM THE FRONT "'

American Model Builders Laserkit washroom window. The four square panels below center are for car numbers usually indicating Pullman routes. Several different etched designs are available.

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RAllMODEl JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 59 INDEX F PREVIOUS PROTOT'I E·BASED l.AYOUT T URS (ALL ARE HO SCALE ltJNLESS INDICATED OTHERWISE)

Ann Arbor: Burlington Northern (BN) Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) Arnt Gerritsen's 33 x 33-fo ot southern Norris Zinn's 15 x 20-foot Camas Prairie Vic Roseman's II x lA-foot Lafayette Michigan car float operations, November layout, March 1995. Branch, December 1996. 200 1. Tim Dickinson's 20 x 33-foot layout, July 1996. Chesapeake & Ohio ATSF (see Santa Fe) John Swanson's 30 x 70-foot Nebraska (also C&O, Chessie, & CSX) mainline, July 1997. Gary Burddette's 2 112 x 5-foot module BNSF (see ATSF & BN) Steve Rosnick's 18 x 36-foot Iowa of Thurmond, West Virginia, April 1992. Division on two decks, June 1998. Paul Fulk's 2 x 8-foot N scale Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) Mike Soebbing's 25 x 29-foot BNSFI NTRAK module of Thurmond, West Larry Kline's 30 x 20-foot 0 scale layout, CP Joint Line, April 1999. Virginia, July 1993 April 1991. Pete Mathews' 3 x 12-foot N scale Ribbon Bernard Kempinski's Quinnim ont Greg Smith's 14 x 16-foot Monongah Cliff, Washington NTRAK modules, NTRAK module, New River layout and Division, October 1991. August 1999. 21 x 30-foot home layout, August 1996. Steve Krauss' 16 x 40-foot Nostalgia Line Dan Holbrook (and Range Research) John Plant's 6 x 14-foot Hinton, West in N scale, May 1995. Duluth-Superior layout, Part I, Nov. 2000. Virginia NTRAK module set on the New John Listermann's 25 x 30-foot Jim Brooks 22 x 25-foot Glens Falsi and River, May 1997. Cumberland Division, November 2004 RIchmond Hill diu'icts, March 2006. Ted Wilke's 18 x 50-foot layout on four Bob Bales' 22 x 45 helepr district, January decks, August 1998. 2005. Canadian National (CNR): C. Bryan Kidd's 2 x J6-foot Allegheny, John Miller's 36 x 44-foot Cincinatti Ian Wilson's Grand River in 12 x 12-feet Virginia, October 1998. layout, March 2005. in HO scale, September 2000. John Plant's Kanawha Falls, on tbe New Tony Michael's J 8 x 25-foot 0 scale Richard Chrysler's 18 x 30-foot River, as an NTRAK module set, August layout, April 2005. Hagersville Sub, March 2003. 200 1. John Sleen's 11 x 12-foot Mapleburst John Brown's 20 x 26 New River Bessemer & Lake Erie (B&LE) Subdivision, December 2003. Division, April 2003. Harry Smith's 2x 12-foot NTRAK N scale Andy Panko's 18 x 32-foot Niagra ore docks, September 1997. Canadian Pacific (CP) Region, June 2003. Mike Soebbing's 25 x 29-foot BNSFI Boston & Maine Railroad (BM) CP Joint Line, April 1999. Chessie System (see B&O, C&O Charles Harmantas' 2 x 24-foot Nashua Tom Combs' 15 x 20-foot layout, & CSX) layout, August 1997 February 2000. Roy Audas' Sudbury Division 20 x 20- Chicago & North Western British Prototypes: foor layout, February 2003. (also CNW, CM&O, Omaha) Dave and Shirley Rowe's 4 x 9-foot AI Crisp's 24 x 54-foot CP Sub, May Dennis Blunt's 18 x 28-foot Omaha Road, Exebridge Quay, August 1993. 2003. June 1997. Tim Watson's 5 1/2 x ll-foot Caldecot Roger Chrysler'S II 112 x 42-foot Bob DaBruzzi 's 13 x 48-foot St. Croix Green on the London, Midland and CPR Electrified Lines, May 2003and Division, February 1999. Scottish, in N scale, December 1994. May 2005. Andy Panko 's 18 x 32-foot Niagra Chicago Great Western (CGW) Burlington Route Region, June 2003. Bob Mozawa's 13 x 23-foot layout, May ( also CB&Q, FW &D & C&S) Ron Culpitt's 15 x 30 Revelstoke Sub in 1997. Midwest Mod-U-Trak 10 x 20-foot N scale, July 2003 modular layout, April 1990 and reprinted Waterloo Model Railroad Club's 40 x Clinchfield (CRR) in LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS 50-foot seven-deck Sudbury Division, David O. Johnston's 22 x 40-foot Mike Palmiter's HO scale recreation July 2003. Clinchfield, January ] 995. of downtown Chicago in 20 x 52-feet, Anthony Craig's 22 x 28-foot double-deck October 2001. Kettle Valey Division, November 2003.

60 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 NTRAK module set, February 200 1. Sam Parfitt's 33 x 47-foot Duluth-Seattle layout, March 2005.

Great Western (sugar) Railway (GW)

George Booth's 20 x 20-foot layout, February, .March and June1991.

Illinois Central Railroad (IC) Mike Palmiter's 12 x 27-foot Chicago Te rminal in S scale, January J 996. Mike Palmiter's HO scale recreation of downtown Chicago in 20 x 52-feel, October 2001. � i Kaw Valley Railroad i Mike Fyton is recreating the shortline Kaw Valley Railroad between Lawrence r and Kansas City, Kansas in S scale on his 21 x 31-foot layout, April 1998.

Steve Lamora's 30 x 3D-foot recreation of the Fonda, Johnstown lit Gloversville Railroad was Lackawanna included in the February 2004 issue. (see also Erie-Lackawanna) Lackawanna's (now D&H) Tunkhannock Colorado Midland Doug Talyor's 12 x 36-foot HOn3 Viaduct at Nicholson, Pennsylvania on Alan Jackson's 34 x 47-foot layout, July EBT (all of it), May 1998 a 2 x 6-foot NTRAK module, by Bud 2004 Pedley, March 2001. Erie: Paul Cappelloni's 26 x 38-foot three-level Conrail (CRR) Harold Wirthwine's basement-size Bangor and Portland Branch, January Mike Hulbert's N scale 18 x 22-foot Trap, divisions in operation, January 2002. 2006. N ' Garnett Ridge, November 1991. Matat Snell's 24 x 40-foot New Jersey Erie-Lackawanna (see also Lehigh and New England: Division, July 2006. Lackawanna): James Schall & Phil Brooks 2 ]/2 x 8- E-L Operations in Pennsylvania in foot N scale modules, April 1997. Delaware & Hudson Railway (D&H) HO scale, by Joe Lofland, March 200 1 To ny Steele's 25 x 39-foot Second Paul Cappelloni's Bangor and Portland Lehigh Va lley Railroad (LV) Subdivision on four decks, October and Branch 26 x 38-foot three-level layout, Doug & Steve Kley's 16 x 36-foot , November 1999. January 2006. two-deck, Lehigh Valley and Reading Tu nkhannock Viaduct (ex-Lackawanna) railroad, December J 990. at Nicholson, Pennsylvania on a 2 x 6- Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville: Ken Gross' 20 x 40-foot two-level Lehigh foot NTRAK module, by Bud Pedley, Steve Lamora's 30 x 30-foot FJ &G, Valley and Wyoming Divisions, February March 2001. February 2004. 2006.

Denver & Rio Grande Western Frisco (SLSF) Long Island Railroad (URR) (standard gauge) (D&RGW) Rick McClellan's 25 x 40-foot Springfield Brian Sheron's 17 x 31-foot layout, Larry Swanson's, Sailda-to-Montrose Te rminal Division, February 1998. September 1997. D&RG on two decks, February 2002. NEON's club Tu lsa, Oklahoma "Inter­ Locker" NTRAK modules, July 2002 Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N ) Denver & Rio Grande Western Michael George's Knoxville & Atlanta (narrow gauge) (D&RGW) Grand Trunk Western (GTW): Division in 24 x 3 I-feet, February 1996 Harry Sage, 1rs.' 15 x 22-foot HOn3 South Oakland Country Model Railroad and September 1998. Chama Subdivision, April 1992. Club's 30 x 50-foot Holly Subdivision, Perry Simpson's 38 x 42-foot Lousiville­ Slim Gauge Guild's 30 x 30-foot HOn3 September 2006 to-Nashville Divisions, May 2006. layout, May 1996. Mert Gardiner's 12 x 47-foot Utah Great Northern Railway (GN) Maine Central Division, June 2006. Jeff Otto's 27 x 47-foot Missabe Northern Neil Horning's 21 x 54-foot MC and on two decks, December 1995. S&SC bracnhline, September 2004. Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic: Ole Melhouse' II x 22-foot Dakota Gregg Condon 's 11 x 70-foot DSS&A, Northern, November 1997. Milwaukee Road (CMSt.P) April 2004. Dan Hollbrook's (and Range Research) Bill Denton's 12 x 20-foot Chicago, Duluth-Superior layout, Part I, November Rockford & LaCrosse Railroad, in N East Broad To p (EBT) 2000. scale, February 1994. Pittsburgh Model Railroad Society J 2 x Gordon Bossen's ore dock at Jim Nelson's lO x 22-foot layout on two 20-foot modular HOn3 layout, May 1990. Allouex, Minnesota on a 2 x 12-foot decks, April 1999.

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 61 LAYOUT TOURS O-tl.;Q£Jlluth,South Shore Atlantic was the featured

Tacoma, by the Puget Sound Model Mike Palmiter's HO scale recreation Penn Central (PC) RR Enginers, 25 x 80-foot layout, January of downtown Chicago in 20 x 52-feet, John Lassahn's 16 x 24-foot Penn Central 2003 October 200 I . on two decks, in N scale, October 1994. Nathan Mulldren's 25 x 40-foot two-deck Mike Palmiter's HO scale recreation of John Miller's 36 x 44-foot Cincinatti "Roads East" and Roads We st", March downtown New York City in 20 x 52- layout, March 2005. 2004. feet, December 200 J . Doug Nighswonger's 20 x 20-foot Coast Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Division, October 2005. Norfolk & Western (N&W) Bill and Wayne Reid's 23 x 27-foot Jim Brewer's 52 x 94-foot Shenandoah Cumberland Valley Railroad, February Missabe Railroad (DM&IR) Division, October 1996. 1990 and reprinted in THE JOURNAL Jeff Otto's 27 x 47-foot Missabe Northern OF N SCALE MODELING. on two decks, December 1995. Northern Pacific Railway(NP) Howard Zane's 26 x 26-foot Piedmont Dan Hollbrook (and Range Research) Herb Chaudiere, Chuck Swanberg, Robert Division, November 1990. Duluth-Superior layout, Part I, Nov. 00. Johnson and Howard Duffy 's 2 x 8-foot Bob Davis's 20 x 20-foot Blue Mountain "Puget Short Line Associaton" layout, Division, March 1993. Missouri Pacific: March 1990. Ken McCorry 's 16 x 32-foot Buffalo Lee Freeman's Missouri Pacific 15 x34- Norris Zinn's 15 x 20-foot Camas Prairie Division, on four-decks, May 1993. foot April 1996 and September 2002. layout, March 1995. Ken McCorry's "new" 31 x 79-foot NEON's club Tulsa, Oklahoma "Inter­ Dan Holibrook (and Range Research) Buffa lo Division, on two-decks, March Locker" NTRAK modules, July 2002. Duluth-Superior layout, Part I, Nov. 00 1994 and reprinted in LAYOUTS OF Tacoma, by the Puget Sound Model THE MASTERS. New Haven Railroad (NH) RR Enginers, 25 x 80-foot layout, January Nick Kallis' 11 x 26-foot Sunnyside Yard, John Klotz 25 x 35-foot York Haven, 2003 July 1998. November 1989 and reprinted in Puget Junction (ficticious) in 2 x 1 2-feet by AI Buchan's Erie & Ashtabula Division, LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS the Puget Sound Short Line Association Erie & Pittsburg Branch, in HO scale, Mike Palmiter's HO scale recreation of (circa 1966), October 2003 February 200 I. downtown New York City in 20 x 52- Doug Tay lor's 21 x 42-foot Middle and feet, December 2001. Norfolk Southern (NS) Pittsburgh Divsions, July 2001. ( see N&W and Southern) Bill Neale's 22 x 25-foot two-deck New Yo rk Central System (NYC) Robert Martin's 10 x 50-foot N scale "Panhandle" at We irton Junction, January Ron Parisi's 2 x 6-foot New York City's layout, June 2002 2004. West S ide module, December 1992 Robert Mackendrick's 12 x 28-foot and reprinted in LAYOUTS OF THE Northwestern Pacific (NWP) single-track banchline, October 2004 MASTERS. Don Cabrall's 15 x 18-foot Hessel & Lone Curt LaRue's 15 x 35-foot "Panhandle" Mike Palmiter's 12 x 27-foot Chicago Pine, April 2000. at Weirton Junction, February 2005. Te rminal , January 1996. John Wright's 2 x 13-foot Whitehall

Mike Palmiter's S scale 12 x 27-foot Pacific Electric Branch (South Pittsburgh), July, August Hudson-Harlem Division, September Charles Hepperle's Las Palmas 2 x 8-foot and September 2005. 1999. module, August 2004 Bill Blackburn's 18 x 24-foot Great Valley

62 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 Dick Davis' 22 x 24-foot 2 112-deck Dick Davis' 22 x 24-foot 2 II2-deck model of the Santa Fe Railway's Cajon Division, June 2004. . Caj?n Divi,(iion was the Layout Tour in the June 2004 issue. Rick Stearn's 25 x 30-foot Los Angeles

. Division, May 2005. , .�!� . � '.' " .. .J' . 1. .. . . Seaboard Coast Line (SCL) • -'t

Sierra Railway (SRR) Edward Petry's 34 x 50-foot Sierra (all of it) on three-decks, June and July 1999.

Soo Line (SOO) Bob Rivard 's 20 x 30-foot layout, on two decks, January 1992 and reprinted in LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS, January 1993 (the St. Paul Waterworks), and January 1999. Ray and Renee Grosser's 14 x 34-foot modular layout, March 1998. Marv Koening's 24 x 40-foot St.Paul to Chippewa Falls on two decks, March 1999. Dan Hollbrook (and Range Research) Duluth-Superior layout, Part I, Nov. 00

Southern Pacific (SP) Joe Fugate;'s 25 x 45-foot Siskiyou Line, I on two decks, September 1993 and Juned 2005. Russell Straw's 2 x 20-foot N scale Sugar Land, Te xas, December 1993 and April 2002. Sy Simonton's 26 x 48-foot 0 scale layout, June 1996. Pliny Holt's N scale Oakland Mole layout, Division, November 2005. Richmond, Fredricksburg & Potomac in 18 x 22-feet, Jan uary 1998 Larry Reynold's 27 x 43-foot Middle (RF&P) Pelle Soeborg's 15 x 16-foot Te hachapi and Pittsburgh Divisions ("Altoona to John Cook's 2 x 12-foot NorthernVir ginia layout, December 1998. Horseshoe Curve"), December 2005. N scale NTRAK modules, July 1996. Gene Martin's 12 x 16-foot Lodi, Carl Corsi 's 22 x 28-foot Susquehanna California layout, March 2000. Division, March 2006. Rutland Railroad (RT) Scott Kew's 26 x 61-foot Dunsmuir to Jim Hart's 12 x 40-foot Octaroro Branch, Rensselaer Model Railroad Club's 22 Black Rock layout on two decks, June April 2006. x 58-foot New England, Berkshire & 2000. Mark Frysztacki's 20 x 40-foot Northern Western, December 1989 and reprinted in Jim Sweeney's IS x 44-foot S scale Division, May 2006. LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS Oakland-to-Reno layouat, July 2000. Dan Adair's 24 x 42-foot Marietta Chris Palomarez' 45-degree Free-Mo Division, August 2006. Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) module, January 200 1 John Altschool's 25 x 40-foot Santa Fe AI Mack's 14 x I8-foot N sclae Te achapi Reading Company (RDG) Southwestern,Apri l 1993. layout, November 2002. Doug & Steve Kley's 16 x 36-foot , Russell Straw's 2 /12 x 12-foot N scale Patrik Stanaley's 13 x 42-foot Fo Donner two-deck, Lehigh Val ley and Reading modules of Sugar Land, Te xas, December Pass layout, November 2004. railroad, December 1990. 1993. David Skiff 's 27 x 33-foot James Schall & Phil Brooks 2 112 x 8- Pelle Soeborg's 15 x 16-foot Tehachapi "Rathole" Division, May 2005. foot N scale modules, April 1997. layout, December 1998 and October Jay Styron's 12 x 32-foot Friant Branch, Jim Hertzog's 32-4 1 -foot Shamokin 2002. August 2006. Division, December 2000 Mike Soebbing's 25 x 29-foot BNSFI Jerry Strangarity's 2 112 x 16-foot CP Joint Line, April 1999. Southern Railway (SRR), Philadelphia city scenes, Decmeber 2004 Gregg Fuhriman's 2 x 12-foot Free-Mo (SOUTHERN) and September 2006. module set, January 200 1 Wayne Sidelinger's 3 x 16-foot pulpwood NEON's club Tu lsa, Oklahoma "Inter­ paper plant modules, January 1991. Locker" NTRAK modules, July 2002 1. D. Smith's 32 x 41-foot Rathole Division, February 1997.

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Steve Abernathy 's 4 x 4-foot Juliette, Georg ia ("Fried Green Doug Taylor's 21 x 42-foot To matoes") module, October 1997. Pennsylvania Railroad, Middle and 1. D. Smith's 56 x 61-foot "Rathole Pittsburgh Divisions, was the layout II" Southern Railway in HO scale, June Tour in the July 2001 issue. 200 1 Patarick Thoney's 24 x 40-foot Rathole Division, October 2004

Susquehanna (New York, Susquehanna and Western), (NYSW)

Toronto, Hamilton & Buffa lo (TH&B) Andy Panko's 18 x 32-foot Niagra Region, June 2003. Greg Whayman's 11 x 17-foot layout, June 2003

Union Railroad (URR): Modeling United States Steel's Union Railroad in 220x 20-feet, by Bob O'Neil, September 2003

Union Pacific (UP) Bob Gilmore's and Kelley Newton's Utah N Rail modules of the Weber River canyon in N scale, April 1993, February and December 1995. Bill Pistello's Los Angeles Subdivision in 1 112 x 22-feet in N scale, March 1994. Norris Zinn's 15 x 20-foot Camas Prairie layout, March 1995 . Buzz Lenander's 3 x 8-foot N scale NTRAK module of McPherson, Kansas oil refinery, November 1996. John Swanson's 30 x 70-foot Nebraska mainline, July 1997. Mel Johnson's 2 112 x I 2-foot modules of Marysville, Kansas, November 1998 and August 2004. Charlie Stapleton's 24 x 40-foot Kansas Division, March 1998. Pelle Soeborg's 15 x 16-foot Te hachapi layout, December 1998. Brad Joseph's Wyoming Division in HO scale, April 200 l. Jim Coshun's 1 x 2-fo ot N scale module Ta coma, by the Puget Sound Model of Detour, Maryland, November 1993. RR Enginers, 25 x 80-foot layout, January Alden SMith's 18 x 26-foot Cumberladn 2003 & Pennsylvania Divisions, July 2006. Mel Johnson's Marysville, Kansas 2 x l2-foot module, August 2004 Western Pacific Railroad (WP) United States Military Railroad: Jim Providenza's J 8 x 20-foot layout, on two decks, D ecember 1991 and reprinted Bernard Kempinski's 10 x 12-foot Cival in LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS and War -era layouat with car flat, October December 1999. 2002 Jim Dias ' 20 x 20-foot Feather River Western Maryland Railway (WM) layout, May 2000. Bill and Wayne Reid's 23 x 27-foot Yosemite Valley (YV) Cumberland Valley Railroad, February Jack Burgess' 20 x 20-foot Yosemite 1990 and reprinted in THE JOURNAL Val ley (all of it) on four decks, January OF N SCALE MODELING. 2000. Larry Kline's 30 x 20-foot 0 scale layout, April 199J.

64 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2006 Atlas is now shipping an all-new replica of the General Electric B30-7 and B23-7. The model has very fine handrails and stanchions and grabirons, all pre-assembled. The B-23-7 is available in Chessie (COlO),Frisco, BN, Family Lines (L&N), P&W, NS, Southern or undecorated. The B30-7 is available in BN (shown), Chessie (C&O), Frisco or undecorated. The models are $249.95 with DCC decoders installed or $259.95 with decoders and sound.

The "Pella Brick Depot" is a new Cornerstone Series® Built-Up. The "Clarkesville Depot" is the newest addition to the Walthers This unique brick station is based on a Rock Island prototype that Cornerstone Series® Built-ups. Previously offered in kit form, this still stands at Pella, Iowa. The station is $54.98 fully assembled assembled and weathered structure will be available in three color including separate luggage, pallets, figures, a baggage wagon, schemes. The station includes benches, soda machine, figures, a soda machine and more. Railroads went to great lengths to provide baggage cart and more are included to help create a lively station scene important towns with a "proper" depot that in minutes. The Clarkesville Depot retails for $49.00. The Santa Fe's Portales, New Mexico, depot is the prototype for the new Walthers" Mission-Style Depot" kit. With its terra cotta tile roof, stucco walls, wood doors and windows, this easy-to-build kit captures the look and styling of a typical "southwesternized" passenger depot. Other railroads used similar styling for their stucco buildings. Portales, Las Cruces and other stucco depots had attached freight houses to handle the traffic. The Mission-Style Depot kit is $39.98, the freight house is $29.98 or a kit with both structures is $54.98.

Walthers new depressed-center Flat Car is a replica of cars the Soo Line constructed (class FD) at their North Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, shops in 1968 to meet the needs of an on-line firm that built and shipped large electrical transformers. The cars were built in the late 1960s and are still in use today. The all-metal, die-cast ready-to-run 4-Axle, 90-Ton GSC Depressed­ Center Flat Cars are $19.98 in a choice ofITX, Trailer-Train, Kasgro (KRL), Soo, Up, NYC,Mi lwaukee or undecorated.

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