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Fall 1979 NARROW GAUGE ON A SHELf BUILD THE STREAMLINED "TRAIN OF TOMMOROW" A FREIGHT ~4~ STATION, " . ,~. :",,,,,, STEP·BY ·STEP "----_iII_!MODEL Fall 1979 Vol. 1~, No. 1. RAILROADING / Publishers Nick Siegel 4 NARROW GAUGE ON THE FRONT RANGE Sal Pizzoferrato Colorado's mountain railroads on a two-foot shelf Executive Editor: Robert Schleicher 10 A FREIGHT HOUSE (AND TWO "FREEBIES") IN HO SCALE Associate Editors: Bill Wright How to make the common kits into something special Albin Burroughs 16 STEAM POWER ON THE TONAPAH Charles Heperrle Railroads designed with the modeler in mind Managing Editor: Joe K. LeFort 20 DOUBLE-POWER DIESELS Art Director: Michael Minnix Top-notch power from Tyco's "toy" locomotives Assistant Art Director: Cricket Smith 32 THE TRAIN OF TOMORROW A snap-together model of an incredible train Production Editor: Vickie Petersen 38 BUILD A DOME-OBSERVATION CAR Typography: Type-Tronics, Inc. How-to build a fitting end to a streamliner 46 SIMPLE STRIPING FOR CARS & LOCOMOTIVES Model Railroading is published four-times a Two-color paint schemes and decaJ stripes the easy way year by Eastwood Publishing Company, 2901 50 TRACKPLAN: THE ROMFORD & JOLIET RAILROAD Blake St., Denver, CO 80205. Price per single Real railroading operation in just 4x8 feet copy is $2.50, $3.00 in Ca nada. SubSCri ptions are $9.00 in the U.S. or Canada. Unsoljcited 52 CONTAINER CARS man uscripts or photogra phs should be Some authentic pieces of rolling stock from the steam era accompanied by return postage and 58 KIT-CONVERSION: BUILD TWO CONTAINER CARS Eastwood Publishing Company assumes no Usin g kits and ready-builts to make one-off replicas responsibility for the loss or damage of such material. No part of this publication may be 64 MODULAR MODEL RAILROADS FOR N SCALE reprinted without written permission from A new system of cardboard-planning templates for N-TRAK the publishers. This publication is purchased 68 STRUCTURES AS SCENERY with the understanrung that the information The theater's concept of "fla ts" applied to miniatures presented is from many sources from which there can be no warranty or responsibility by 74 PORTABLE MODEL RAILROADING IN On3 the publisher as to the accuracy or originali ty The modular concept of "shelf" railroads really works or safety or completeness. Printed in U.S.A. 78 HOW-TO HAND-LAY YOUR OWN TURNOUTS © Copyright 1979 by Eastwood Publishing The right way to make prototype-perfect track work Company 82 DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP Where to put those HO scale diesel detail castings ABOUT THOSE LABELS . ... 84 N SCALE STEAM CONVERSIONS BASICS FOR BEGINNERS Using what you have .to make what you can't get are a rtides that we fe el contain some of the 88 THE POPULATION EXPLOSION information that any beginner should know Using scale model people to add life to a layout when he orshe is builrung that first or second model railroad (there just may be a few things 91 SUBSCRIBE! thatthe "experts" ca n learn abo ut up-to-date YOl(r first chance to buy collectors items by mail mod eli ng methods, too). 92 GIVE US A HAND! NEW MODELING TECHNIQUES Our plea for YOUR help in getting it right are actually tested methods of making or 93 NEW ACCESSORI~S improving models. We call them " new" 96 NEW ROLLING STOCK because they probably will be new to most of you. These are the articles we feel are 99 NEW LOCOMOTIVES best-suited to "intermediate-level" model railroaders. FOR EXPERIENCED MODELERS OUR MISTAKES: artides are designed for those who have It seems that we got a few things wrong in the Spring 1979 issue: developed their skill s in the hobby by The old address for Live Stream magazine appeared last year; their new address succe ssfully assembling and paifilting several is P.O. Box 581, Dept. GW, Traverse City, MI 49684 and the correct annual of the "Craftsman" -type kits. It is assumed subscription ra te is $16.00 in the United States. that the modeler who follows these articles The models for the Aleo RSC-3 ruesels are the brainchildren of one Lee Riley. knows the basics of the hobby: painting, The fantastic water-front scene on pages 28 and 29 of the Winter 1978 issue was decal-application, simple soldering, etc., the work of Kevin Barnett. etc . .. We hope to make the hobby more interesting and a whole lot le ss of a mystery MODEL RAILROADING is publish~d quarterly at $9.00 per year by Eastwood for the newcomer with these labels . We do the Publishing Co., Inc. at 2901 Blake St., Denver, CO 80205. Application to mail at same thing when we show EVERY ste p. controlled circulation postage rate is pending at Denver, CO. Please, experts, be patient and remember Postmaster send address changes to Eastwood Publishing Company, 2901 Blake what it was like when you were learning .. St., Denver, Colorado 80205. NARROW GOAGE ON THE FRONT RANGEl The cha,rm of 3-foot equipment on a 2-foot shelf Robert Schleicher There are at least a hundred model economical in times when labor was The very inefficiency of the narrow railroaders who talk a bout narrow guage relatively cheap annd ma terials were gauge is the root of its charm for the for every one that actually models it. relatively expensive. The distance modeler. Mostmodel railroaders want to Narrow guage railroading is , you see, a between the rails o£ a "standard" ga uge run as many trains as possible of a 3/4-size replica of real railroading during railroad's trackis 4-feet 81/z-inches; most reasona bly short length over a twisting the heyday of steam. That makes the real of America's "narrow ga uge" railroads and turning track system. That's just railrpads themselves models, of a sort, were built with the tops of their rails what the real narrow ga uge lines were and that makes them very appealing spaced 3-feet apart. The locomotives and forced to do. We do because it's fun, but indeed to anyone who loves model cars were about 3/4 the size of the it's rather nice to know that there was a trains. The narrow ga uge railroads were equivalent standard gauge equipment as time when this time of fun was an active built around the turn-of-the century well. This meantthatthe curves could be business. There is an aura of romance or when it was economical to have tight sharper, the bridges lighter and any cuts, charm a bout the narrow gauge railroads curves and steep grades. You might fills tunnels or other earthwork made that few standard ga uge lines can match. compare them to the country roads smaller. It also meant that the cars could That romance is heightened by the fact around the hills before the days of the only haul about half the weight of the tha.t a good many of the narrow gauge Interstates. The standard gauge , standard ga uge items and that the trains lines were built to bring gold and silver railroads tried to take the same kind of a them?elves were a bout half the length of out from the mountains to the mills in straigh t-ahead pa th through the the standard gauge trains of any given the flatlands. mountains that the Interstate highways time period. It took a lot of manpower to Narrow gauge is the segment of the did. The narrow gauge lines simply ran move each ton of freight over a narrow hobby that collects a major portion of the around those same obstacles. That ga uge railroad beca use more engines real "enthusiast" modelers. It takes a means that the real railroads built to a and, therefore, more engineers, fireman, good bit more care to get HOn3 narrower ga uge had more of the curves brakemen and other workers and equipment to operate nearly as well as model railroaders so desperately need to maintenance people were required. stay within the con vines of their la yout tables. The narrow gauge lines were, indeed, perfect prototypes for almost any model railroad. The engineers and surveyors who designed the real railroad systems found narrow gauge appealing when there was a lack of time or money to reach a particular destination by rail. Many of the narrow ga uge railroads of the 1880-1900 period were made obsolete when a standard guage line w'as constructed between the same towns but on a more direct route. In some cases, like much of the Rio Grande Railroad in Colorado and Utah, the narrow gauge track was simply replaced with standard gauge and some of the curves broadened. There are no freight-hauling narrow gauge railroads left in America today; they just are not efficient enough freight haulers to compete with either trucks or standard gauge railroads. Several tourist lines have taken over portions of the narrow gauge systems like the East Broad Top in Pennsylvania or the Cumbres and Toltec in Colorado. These railroads exist much like active ghost towns; to show the tourists some truly living his tory. The narrow gauge railroads were 4 Most of lim Miller's On3 locomotives are Most of the structures on the layout are brass imports equipped with PFM's sound sys scratchbuilt using Northeastern miffed wood tem. This is the master control panel but the sheets for the walls and Grandt plastic door and la yout also has walk-around throttles so the window castings. The railcar is a modified enginners can follow their trains around the Matchbox toy.