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he 4,000 hp Dash 8-40CW was produced by General Electric between 1989 and 1993 as a follow-up to the successful Dash 8-40C locomotive. The most distinguishing Tfeature of this model was the introduction of GE's version of the wide-nose "North American Safety Cab." This style of cab would become a common sight on railroads across the country. Four major railroads purchased the Dash 8-40CW in fairly large quantities, including Conrail, CSX, Santa Fe and Union Pacific. Most of these units are still in regular mainline and heavy-haul freight service today. Due to various mergers, they can also be seen operating for new owners Norfolk Southern and BNSF.
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For the 2006 Atlas Winter/Spring HO & N Scale Locomotive & Freight [or [atalog, please send $5 ($7 outside the US) to the address shawn below. Railmodel Journal IN THIS ISSUE: Volume 17, No. 9 • OPERATING SYMBOL FREIGHT TRAINS, page 40
February 2006 • ATHEARN'S NEW 65-FOOT GONDOLAS, page 16
• lOX 10-FOOT LAYOUT ON 2-FOOT SHELVES, page 12
• DETAILING ATHEARN GP40-2 DIESELS, page 10
• SWITCHING CARS ON THE ZEHPYR, page 7
ON THE COVER: Ken Gross is recreating the mountain divisions of the Lehigh Valley Railroad on a 20 x 40-foot two-level layout. This is one of the layouts you can visit if you attend the NMRA National Convention in Philadelphia July 2-9, 2006 (www.U2006.org). A tour begins on page 27 of this issue. -Robert Schleicher photo
MODELING from the PROTOTYPE
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4 RAILMODELJOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 Layout Design:
· Track Plan: Branchline layout with Passen er Operations: g interchange on 2-foot-wide shelves in a
BurLington's Afternoon Zephyr at St. PauL 10 x 1 O-foot corner,
circa 1969-1970, from Kato modeLs, page 7 by Ed Vondrak...... 12
Time Capsule:
· Allentown, Pennsylvania on the lehigh
Valley and Conrail circa 1975, 1980,
1985 and 1998, by Matt Snell ...... 14
Freight Cars of the Fifties:
· AAR "Recommended Practice" 65-foot
6-inch Mill Gondolas from Athearn's
model, by Richard Hendrickson ...... 16
Locomotive Performance:
· Heritage, by Proto 2000, USRA 0-8-0
with sound and DCC Test Report,
by Dean Windsor ...... 22
· Proto 2000 G.E. U30B with sound and
DCC Test Report, by Dean Windsor .... 53
· Summary of all previous locomotive
Performance Test Reports ...... 56
Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time:
· Aleo RS-11 as Nickel Plate Road 858 and
859 from Atlas models,
by Louis A. Marre ...... 24
Layout Tours:
· Ken Gross' 20 x 40-foot two-level lehigh
Valley Railroad, lehigh and Wyoming
Divisions ...... 27
. The Operations Road Show recreation of
the Wabash Railroad's Second
Division ...... 40
· Index of All Previous Tours of Prototype-
Based layouts ...... 60
N SCALE:
Passenger Operations:
· Modeling the Zephyrs, Part VI: ALL SCALES: HO SCALE: Burlington's Afternoon Zephyr at St. Paul Passenger Operations: Freight Cars of The Fifties: circa 1969-1970, from Kato models, . Modeling the Zephyrs, Part VI: • Pennsylvania RR number 606092 40-Foot by V.S. Roseman ...... 7 Burlington's Afternoon Zephyr at St. Box Car from Details West 50-foot kit, by Ed Bley ...... 6 Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time: Paul circa 1969-1970, from Broadway · Aleo RS-11 as Nickel Plate Road 858 and ltd., Walthers or Con-Cor, Passenger Operations: · Modeling the Zephyrs, Part VI: 859 from Atlas models, by V.S. Roseman ...... 7 Burlington's Afternoon Zephyr at St. Paul by Louis A. Marre ...... 24 Time Capsule: . Allentown, Pennsylvania on the lehigh circa 1969-1970, from Broadway ltd., Locomotive Performance:
Valley and Conrail circa 1975, 1980, Walthers or Con-Cor, · Summary of all previous locomotive
...... 1985 and 1998, by Matt Snell ...... 14 by V.S. Roseman ...... 7 Performance Test Reports ...... 56
Operations: Diesel Modeling: Departments: Symbol Freights on the Wabash · EMD GP40-2 as NJT 4301 and 4303 from What's New ...... 55 Railroad's Second Division, by John Athearn kits, by Matt Snell ...... 10 Calendar ...... 58 Young ...... 40 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' FEBRUARY 2006 5 [FREIGHT CARS OF THE FIFTIES]
By Ed Bley Prototype photo from the John C. LaRue collection
6 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' FEBRUARY 2006 [PASSENGER OPERATIONS]
By V.S. Roseman
The St. Paul Zephyr of the late sixties was a "rainbow" train that was a mix of the colorful orange and green Great Northern Empire Builder, two-tone green Northern Pacific North Coast Limited cars contrasting to stainless steel of the original Zephyr cars. The article in the January 2006 issue describes how the Zephyr consists were assembled. The article in the December 2005 issue describes how you can recreate virtually any of the corrugated stainless steel passenger cars. You can create replicas of the 8urlington E-5A and E- 58 diesels by simply adding half-round Evergreen styrene strips to the sides of Proto 2000 or Broadway Umited models as shown in the November 2005 issue. There's an article on the Nebraska Zephyr operations at Galesburg and outside Omaha in the November 2003 issue and an article on how to add skirts to Walthers and Con-Cor kits in the April 2004 issue. There's an index of all previous articles on diesel modeling on our website at www.railmodeljoumal.com/
mid a lot of smoke and trains anymore-so we were told. Once Minneapolis section ran only two cars, as diesel odor which is the Aftern.oon Zephyr ran ten or more with most Burlington trains it was clean supposed to be ventilated cars of its own, and while the and comfortable. A from the station platform, the Afternoon Zephyr for Minneapolis arrives in Union Station, eh icago beh i nd s i I ver and red Burlington diesels.
In busy seasons, the Minneapolis bound train would take up most of the long platform, for in spite of the prosaic name of the Afternoon Zephyr, this train had sections running all the way to the west coast. Running as train number 23 in the timetables, this Zephyr train was ru nning combined with both the Northern Pacific's North Coast Limited and Great Northern's Empire Bui/der, and the two trains were heading for identical endpoints: Seattle with a section each to Portland. For this was the eve of Amtrak when nobody was riding
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 7 MODELING THE ZEPHYR
CHICAGO BURLINGTON & QUNICY RR TRAIN #23. CIRCA 1970 THE AFTERNOON ZEPHYR. EMPIRE BULDER. NORTH COAST LIMITED
CB&Q PA SSENGER DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES
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COLOR TREATMENT CHART COLORS ARE AS ACCURATE AS REPRODUCTION METHODS ALLOW. COLORS SHOWN REPRESENT APPEARANCE OF TRAIN WITH BOTH EMPIRE BUILDER AND BIG SKY BLUE GN COLORS. CARS IN BLUE DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESNT ACTUAL CARS PAINTED BLUE AT THIS TIME.
8 RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 A single General Motors "E" unit CHICAGO BURLINGTON & QUNICY RR TRAIN #23. CIRCA 1969 would then be coupled to the two CB&Q CB&Q DOME COACH CB&Q BAGGAGE-MAIL CB&Q DOME COACH dome cars remaining on train number 23 and would depart for about a half hour -- ---_. ------_. --- - hop from St. Paul over to Minneapol is where the train terminated. GN SLEEPING CAR 6-5-2 GN DINING CAR GNFULLDOME BAR/LOUNGE This monster of a train was a popular .. one, but unfortunately, by the late 1960s, even running fu ll of paying passengers, it
NP DINING CAR NP DOME COACH NPDOME COACH did not earn enough for the railroads to break even on the operation. It was the - . ------mail contracts that had kept passenger operations profitable, but they were lost NP SLEEPING CAR 8-6-4 around 1967 (actually they had been ' ' . J", _ .... ,;.. ...IU ••till • eroding since the end of the I 940s), and by the late 1960s the end of significant mai I contracts brought the end of COLOR TREATMENT CHART COLOR S ARE AS ACCURATE AS REPRODUCTION METHODS ALLOW. passenger operations.
Both the North Coast Limited and Empire Builder were still able to attract THE AFTERNOON ZEPHYR. EMPIRE BULDER. NORTH COAST LIMITED customers who wanted to enjoy the CB&Q PASSENGER DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES experience of travel by train while on
• • vacations. Much of the business clientele had already started traveling by jet plane, and would not return to the GN DOME COACH GN DOME COACH GNDOME COACH railroads. With the spectacular scenery of the two railroads, it is not surprising ------1- -- - __ a � . -ii=-::;;;; -. ; =====�;;i=i that Amtrak has used various routings to maintain a Chicago-to-Seattle service NP COACH GN SLEEPING CAR 7-6-1-1 GN SLEEPING CAR 6-5-2 for all these years.
:a •• _ ,.. __ .. ___ p� __ .. __ - - I remember seeing the train at this critical time of change, while most of the DOME SLEEPER 4-2-4 BAR I LNGE. NPDOME SLEEPING CAR 4-4-2 NP SLUMBERCOACH 24-8 GN cars on Empire Builder were blue, a
'.��,.,.... .(1:�.-..,...... � J �.. • '.{':f YiJ; few green and orange cars persisted on , '"'� • " • • � I .. _ 1 r occasion, and NP still had two-tone green cars in their colors of the 1950s COLOR S SHOWN REPRESENT APPEARANCE OF TRAIN WITH BOTH EMPIRE BUILDER AND BIG SKY BLUE GN COLORS. CARS IN BLUE DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESNT ACTUAL CARS PAINTED BLUE AT THIS TIME. predominating. Under BN most of the train would be painted green, with a few stainless cars mixed in. When Amtrak came in 1971, some cars were still in the old colors although most of the cars on [t may not make much sense fo r and a yard switcher would haul the car to the top trains had been repainted. competing trains to Seattle to be the mail tracks for unloading. combined in this way, but it should be With its two cars, the Afternoon The rem'most eight cars of the train remembered that Northern Pacific and Zephyr was on borrowed time fo r it was were all Northern Pacific cars bound for Great Northern were partners in beginning to hemorrhage money for the Seattle (except for the 8-6-4 sleeping car ownership of the Burlington. The railroad, and if not for combining this Chicago, Burlington & Quincy was very and a dome coach for Portland) were once-long streamliner with the two carefu l in their handling of their parent switched out and coupled to the consist transcontinental trains, the Zephyr would road's cars, and an equal number-8 of the North Coast Limited, forming up a have been history by the mid 1960s. each-were handled through to St. Paul. few tracks over behind fo ur passenger The train ran about as shown at the time equipped NP "F" units. RMJ of the merger of these railroads into the Once the string of cars was out of the Burlington Northern in 1970. way, the Great Northern's eight cars At St. Paul Union Station, the would be uncoupled from train 23 and Afternoon Zephyr would arrive with two were taken to the next platform where carloads of passengers riding in Budd Great Northern'sEmpire Builder train 31 dome coaches. The four-unit diesel would was being assembled. The main consist uncouple from the train and run off fo r of this train was going to Seattle, while a servicing. A baggage-mail (storage mail 6-5-2 sleeping car and a dome coach car) terminating at St. Paul was uncoupled, were slated for Portland.
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 9 [ DIESEL MODELING]
Models and prototype photos by Matt Snell
The prototype GP40-2 units are sometimes used to protect the steam excursion with CliO number 614. 4301 and 4302 were photographed in Hohokus, New Jersey on October 26, 1996. The models are Athearn GP40-2 units with added details, new paint and weathering. The anticlimbers were filed from Evergreen strip styrene and the ditch lights and antenna mounts were taken from a Proto 2000 SD60 body shell. The models were weathered with a wash of burnt sienna artist's ink. There's an index of all previous diesel modeling articles on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com/
10 RAILMODELJOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 BILL OF MATERIALS:
Athearn: MV: GP40-2 undecorated LS25 Headlight lenses Detail Associates:
1022 Ditch lights PAINT & DECALS: 1508 MU hoses Floquil: 2202 Grabirons Platinum Mist 2206 Eyebolts Black 2212 Coupler cut levers Reefer Orange 2309 Air conditioners Microscale: Details West: MC4152 NJ Transit diesel decals 150 Snowplow 897-628 Conrail data and stripes 170 ATC cab signal boxes Shellscale: Life-Like (Proto 2000): Numberboard decals SD60 Ditch lights & antennae mounts
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 11 [ LAYOUT DESIGN]
By Ed Vondrak
This 24-inch-wide shelf layout occupies two 10-foot walls with an interchange track that allows off-road inbound and outbound cars to be operated on the "Loads-in/Empties-out-style" system, with the "outbound" cars on one end becoming the "inbound" cars the other end of the siding. There's an index of all previous articles on layout design and track planning on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com/
n recent years I have received an staging track, which I have called in one of the towns could be replaced by increasing number of requests for Welli ngton. With the hidden track, the a small yard if that were desired. small shelf layout plans that fit number of routing possibilities for Some kind of view-block is needed to I along one or two walls. The railroad rolling stock increases substantially, as conceal the staging track at Wellington, presented here is an L-shaped, HO shown in Table 1. pike designed to fit the space available to but access is needed from above. In the one of my l ayout design clients. I used 24-inch minimum radius curves track plan I have suggested large in the corner to make switching industrial building flats as a view-block. This layout began as simplicity itself, reasonably easy and reliable on the If one wanted a more rural town at East with a small town on each leg of an L, interchange tracks. However, I used Lynn, rising background scenery could and a short section of connecting Number 4 turnouts in the towns, in an be used to conceal the Wellington tracks. "mainli ne" between the two town areas. I attempt to maximize the lengths of the The full-blown ELM layout, as drawn have suggested some "over the river and runarounds and tail tracks. Even so, the in the figure, would lend itself to many through the woods" scenery in the corner runarounds will hold only about three 40- hours of interesting operation. Even to make the trip between towns appear a foot cars in the clear, and the tail tracks more flexibility could be built into the bit longer. are only about 18 inches long. One could operation if the East Lynn bench work proportion the lengths of the various The trick was to make operation more were made a bit deepr, and if Well ington tracks to suit personal preferences. interesting, and this was accompli shed were enlarged to two tracks. Even a by adding some interchange tracks. Not Both towns have the appearance of simplified ELM could keep an operator only does each town have an interchange busy industry towns. For a more bucolic busy for some time. However, it might track, but those interchange tracks appearance, some spurs could easily be be constructed, the ELM would be an connect with each other behind the omitted. On the other hand, a spur or two interesting little railroad. RMJ scenery, and I also added a hidden
Table 1 Possible Routings on the ELM
1. Milford industries to East Lynn industries, via visible connection. 2. Milford industries to Milford interchange track, to East LY1ll1 via hidden connection. 3. East Lynn indusuies to East Lynn interchange u'ack, to Milfordvia hidden connection. ' 4. Milford interchange track to East Lynn industries, via visible connection. 5. East Lynn interchange track to Milford industries, via visible connection. 6. Milford interchange track to East Lynn interchange track, via visible connection. 7. Milford industries to Wellington via Milford interchange track. 8. East Lynn industries to Wellington via East Lynn interchange track
12 RAILMODELJOURNAL ' FEBRUARY 2006 1 0' 4" OVERALL WELLINGTON
LARGE INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE FLATS
24" EAST LYNN
EAST LYNN & MILFORD R.R.
"THE ELM"
HO Scale Minimum Radius: 24" #4 Turnouts
Scale of Drawing: 3/4" = 1 foot
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RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 13 [TIME CAPSULE]
By Matt Snell
[ FREIGHT CARS OF THE FIFTIES]
By Richard H. Hendrickson
� , Athearn has shipped an all-new ready-to-roll replica of the AAR 65-foot 6-inch mill gondola. The model includes separate grabirons, steps, interior details and full underbody detail. There's an index of all previous articles on modeling Freight Cars of The Fifties on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com/
arly in the twentieth century, gondola cars began to be built , specifically for the E transportation of steel mill products and machinery rather than coal or other bulk minerals. These mill gondolas had low sides, and often, drop ends so that long loads could be extended past the ends of the cars over idler flat cars. The earliest mill gondolas were about 40 feet long, but the desirabi lity of longer cars for this service soon became evident. In the years during and after World War I, mill gons of 46 to The first long mill gondolas built to what later became the AAR recommended design were the 25 50 feet in length became common. cars of the Santa Fe's Ga-47 class built by General American in 1937. Here is ATSF 170861 as it appeared in rather grimy condition at San Diego 20 years later in February 1957. The trucks were In the late 1920s, several railroads 70-ton AAR with spring planks. -Chet McCoid photo, Bob's Photo collection serving the eastern industrial states began ordering some unusually long (60- foot to 65-foot 6-inch) 70-ton mill and the New York Central and its cars, numbered 170850- 1 70874, were gondolas which could handle larger subsidiary, the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, built to a new design that incorporated loads without the use of idler cars and, had 600. Smaller numbers were rostered unusually deep fishbelly sidesills to with drop ends, transport extremely long by the Erie, Nickel Plate, and Central of provide adequate strength over the long loads that extended over idler flats. New Jersey, all of them cars of similar span between the truck bolsters. They Similar cars continued to be built, though design which were built by Bethlehem had steel floors and Dreadnaught drop in relatively small numbers, through the Steel. The Lackawanna, Leh igh Valley, ends, and their mechanical equipment 1930s. With their extended wheelbase, Norfolk & Western, Southern, and included AAR cast-steel spring these long mill gondolas had to be Western Maryland also owned a few plankJess trucks and Ajax geared hand unusually narrow so that their overhang long mjll gons, with the Lackawanna brakes. They were followed in 1940 by at the center of the cars would not exceed cars being near-duplicates of the another 50 identical cars of class Ga-48 clearance limits on tight curves. Pennsylvania Railroad's G26 class. numbered 170875-1 70924.
By 1940 the Pennsylvania Railroad, Long mill gondolas were slower to The Burlington also ordered 25 long which owned the world's largest freight appear on midwestern and western lines. mill gondolas in 1937, 10 of which went car fleet, had the most long mill gons, The Santa Fe ordered 25 seventy-ton 65- to its Colorado & Southern subsidiary, 1,650 seventy-ton cars of class G26. The foot 6-inch mill gondolas of class Ga-47 but they were of a somewhat different Baltimore & Ohio owned 750 such cars, from General American in 1937. These design than the Santa Fe cars. The
16 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' FEBRUARY 2006 SP 340226, a G-70-9 class mill gondola built by Greenville in February 1953, was still exactly as delivered to the Southern Pacific except for a three-year accumulation of dirt when photographed at San Diego in December 1956. Trucks were 70-ton Barber S-2s. -Chet McCoid photo, Bob's Photo collection
The Santa Fe's Ga-55 class, built by GATC in 1941, was exactly like the cars that preceded it except that it was equipped with 70-ton National B�1 trucks. ATSF 170951 was at San Diego in February 1954. About the only thing that changed on these cars over the years was the reporting marks, which were A.T.&S.F. before 1938, A.T.S.F.between 1938 and 1944, and AT S F (without periods) after 1944. -Chet McCoid photo, Bob's Photo collection
The Southern Pacific built its first group of 65-foot 6-inch mill gondolas in its own Sacramento car shops, though closely following the Santa Fe/General American design which was later designated AAR recommended practice. SP 94250 is shown when brand new in June 1941. Note that the sides on these long gondolas were barely wider than the truck frames in order to avoid clearance problems on sharp curves. ------Shasta Division Archives photo, To ny Thompson collection
Five long mill gondolas were built by Greenville for the Central of Georgia at the same time, and to exactly the same specifications, as the Southern 52150-52169 series. This builder's portrait shows CG 16001. Note the reinforced top angles with tie-down loops welded to the outer edges. -G reenville Steel Car Co. photo, Ed Hawkins collection
The last of the riveted gondolas built to the AAR recommended practice design were delivered to the Erie-Lackawanna in 1964 by Greenville. At that time, many new freight cars were being equipped with roller bearing trucks, but the E-L gondolas came with solid bearing Barber S-2s. E-L 15644 was only four years old when photographed at Potomac Ya rd, Virginia. -Col. Chet McCoid photo, Bob's Photo collection
Though it began life as an electric interurban ra ilroad, the Illinois Terminal handled a lot of freight in the East St. Louis area, and its traffic justified the purchase of twenty-five 65-foot 6- inch mill gons numbered 2600-2624 from Greenville in March 1953. Here is a builder's photo of ITC 2600; these cars were also black with white stenciling. -Greenville Steel Car Co. photo, Ed Hawkins collection
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 17 ATHEARN GONS
CN 155021 was one of 200 AAR-design 65-foot 6-inch mill gondolas built for the Canadian National in 1958 by Canadian Car & Foundry. Trucks were Barber S-2s. This photo shows the car repainted with 1960s-vintage "wet noodle" CN emblems. -Ian Cranstone collection
At the same time in 1958 that CCM was building long mill gons for the Canadian National, they also constructed 100 nearly identical cars for the Canadian Pacific. Here's CP 336887 late in life with its original Barber 5-2 solid bearing trucks converted to roller bearings. -Ian Cranstone collection
The Western Maryland's 53000-53049 series mill gondolas were built by Pressed Steel in 1949. WM 53040 is shown here as it appeared in 1976 with the Western Maryland's striking "speed" stenciling. Note the weathering and rust inside the car which is visible in this high-angle view. Trucks were ASF A-3s. -E. Roy Ward photo courtesy of Larry Kline
18 RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 This end view of Ga-48 170902 when new in 1940 shows the details of the drop end and "side-saddle" mounted Aiax hand brake and linkage. Note the air brake retainer valve which, though usually mounted on the car end, was located on the left side of gondolas with drop ends. -Santa Fe photo, Frank Ellington collection
design than the Santa Fe cars. The Burlington re-ordered cars of this type in 1940 and again in 1949, and the Denver & Rio Grande Western bought some similar cars in 1939. [n 1941 the Union Pacific also ordered fi fty 6S-foot 6-inch mill gondolas of its own design from Pullman-Standard.
In April 1941, General American delivered another fifty 6S-foot 6-inch mill gondolas to the Santa Fe, designated class Ga-SS and numbered 170925- 1 70974, which were of the same design as the previous two Santa Fe classes except that they had National Type B- 1 trucks. The Louisville & Nashville also ordered SO cars of this design in 1940 and another SO in 1941, numbered 25000-25049 and The Louisville & Nashville began buying long mill gondolas of AAR recommended practice design 25050-25099. Meanwhile, the Southern before World War II and continued to do so after the war. Here is a builder's photo showing LOIN Pacific was building 55 closely similar 26000 of the 26000-26199 series as built in 1956 by the Greenville Steel Car Co. Tr ucks were 6S-foot 6-inch mill gondolas in its own 70-ton ASF A-3s. Note the Universal lever-style hand brake. -Greenville Steel Car Co. photo, Ed Sacramento shops, classified G-70-2 and Hawkins collection numbered 64250-64304. The SP subsequently built another SO cars of this design for its Texas & New Orleans subsidiary which were delivered in 1942 as class G-70-4, numbered 43500-43549. The Wabash also got long mill gons of GATC/AT&SF design, building SO cars numbered 12000- 1 2049 in its own shops in December 1941, as did the Rock Island, which purchased 100 cars in the The Rock Island also acquired long mill gondolas in 1953,200 cars in the 2700-2999 series built 800-899 series. by Pullman Standard. This builder's portrait of RI 2800 clearly shows its Pullman-design ends, ASF With American involvement in A-3 trucks, and Universal lever-type hand brake. Tie-down loops were fitted under the top angles World War [] appearing increasingly on the sides. -Pullman-Standard Car Co. photo, Ed Hawkins collection likely, the AAR Car Construction Committee began in 1941 to survey recent freight car production for the purpose of identifying existing des igns that represented the best contemporary car-building practice. Because tooling for these cars already existed, they could be produced rapidly and economically under wartime conditions.. As i ts "recommended practice" long mill Pullman built 50 AAR recommended practice design 65-foot 6-inch mill gondolas for the Seaboard gondola, it selected the Santa Fe Ga-SS Air Line in January 1949 which were equipped with Universal lever-style hand brakes and ASF A- class, thus placing the AAR's official 3 trucks. SAL 6523 was photographed at Hamlet, North Carolina in April 1949. -Chet McCoid stamp of approval on the design that photo, Bob's Photo collection General American and the Santa Fe had
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 19 ATHEARN GONS
Few new 65-foot 6-inch mill gondolas subsidiary. Both the WM and Southern In 1958 the two major Canadian appeared in 1943-45, as the construction cars were of AAR recommended practice railways joined the ranks of long mill of special-purpose freight cars was design, unlike the long gondolas those gon owners. Canadian Car & Foundry discouraged by the War Production two rai l roads had purchased before built 200 cars of 65-foot 6-inch AAR Board. In 1944, however, Pullman World War II. recommended practice design for the Standard built 50 long mill gondolas of Canadian National which were A number of railroads that had not AAR recommended practice design for numbered 155000- 155 J 99. At the same previously owned long mill gondolas also the Denver & Rio Grande Western ti me, 100 identical cars were also received 65-foot 6-inch AAR which provided rai I service to the new I; deJivered by CC&F to the Canadian recommended practice mill gons from the built Geneva Steel plant in Utah. (In Pacific and numbered 336800-336899. 1947, after the war ended, the Rio Grande Pressed Steel Car Co. in 1948-49. These sold the surviving 48 cars of this group to included the Chicago Great Western Probably the last of the AAR design the Alaska Railroad, where they were (CGW 71001-71010); the Chicago & long mill gondolas were built for the numbered 13800- 1 3847). It was also in Northwestern (C&NW 1 3200 I- Erie-Lackawanna in the mid-J 9605. 1944 that the Milwaukee Road built 30 1320990); the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Greenville delivered 250 cars numbered cars in its own shops, numbered 93500- (GM&O 10000- 10049); the Illinois E-L 15000- J5249 in 1964. By that time, 93534, which were almost identical to the Central (IC 99950-99974); the Nashvi lle, riveted construction was becoming an AAR design except that they were of all Chattanooga & St. Louis (NC&StL anachronism, as were the plain bearing welded construction. 41000-4 1024); the Seaboard Air Line ASF A-3 trucks applied to these cars. (SAL 6500-6549); and the St. Louis-San [n the years following World War II, Francisco (SL-SF 70000-70049). At the As the Milwaukee Road had already many of the railroads that already owned same time, Greenville built 50 cars demonstrated, the AAR long mill AAR-design long mill gons ordered numbered 900 1 -9050 for the Western gondola design lent itself well to all additional cars of this design, and a Pacific. welded construction. The Great Northern number of other railroads purchased cars built 25 welded cars in its own shops in that were built to the AAR The construction of AAR 1955, numbered 79000-79024. The recommended-practice design with, at recommended practice long llliJI gondolas Reading had 700 GHo class welded cars most, only minor variations. The Santa continued into the 1950s. In 1953 the built in the mid- J 950s and numbered Fe's fleet of long mill gons nearly Illinois Term inal received 25 cars 31000-3 1199 and 31200-3 1699 which doubled in size in 1948 with the arrival numbered 2600-2624 from the Greenville were essentially of AAR dimensions and of 100 Ga-70 class cars (numbered Steel Car Co., and the Chesapeake & specifications except for fixed instead of 168600- 168699) from Pressed Steel Car Ohio got 50 cars numbered 32450-32499 drop ends. Then in the 1960s the Co. Another 50 Ga-76 class cars, from Pressed Steel. The Rock Island also Reading got 350 GHt class welded cars numbered 168550- 1 68599, were built in received 300 additional long mill gons numbered 30200-30399 and 30400- the Santa Fe 's own shops in 1951. Both from Pressed Steel in 1953 numbered 30549 which were nearly identical to the of these classes duplicated the prewar 2700-2999. In 1956 the Frisco bought GHo class except for having drop ends. another two 200 AAR-design long mill Eleven of these GHt class mill gons later cars except that they were equipped with went to the Reading-controlled Central ASF A-3 trucks. gondolas from Pullman-Standard numbered SL-SF 70050-700249. Also in Rai Iroad of New Jersey, where they were The Southern Pacific, too, added 1956, the Louisville & Nashville received numbered 89250-89260. considerably to its fleet of AAR-design an additional 200 long mill gons As this history attests, the long mill 65-foot 6-inch mill gondolas in the numbered 26000-26 199 from Greenville, gondola design originally built by postwar years by acquiring another 400 fo llowed by 100 more in 1958 numbered General American for the Santa Fe in cars in classes G-70-6 (1950), G-70-9 38900-38999. (1953), and G-70- 14 (1957). The first two 1937 was so successful that it continued to be constructed with little variation for classes, originally numbered 160000- Down south, the Southern got an additional 40 cars from Greenville in almost three decades, and many rai I roads 160099 and 160550- 160649, were January 1957, half of them numbered owned them, though seldom in large renumbered 340055-340 154 and 340155- 52 150-52169 while the other half were numbers. Furthermore, most of the gons 340254 in the mid- 1 950s; the G-70- 14s, built to this design lasted a long time. As delivered after the renumbering, were numbered 290000-290029, a Cincinnati, special-purpose cars, long mill gondolas numbered 340255-340404. The Louisville New Orleans, and Texas Pacific number series. At the same time the Central of were not constantly in use and were and Nashville also received another 200 Georgia received five identical cars from spared much of the abuse suffe red by cars from Pressed Steel in 1948, numbered in the 25 1 00-25299 series. Greenville that were numbered 1650 1- other types of gondolas, so they tended 16505. Later that year the Southern got to have long lives. Many of the AAR The Wabash got an additional 50 long 50 more 65-foot 6-inch mill gons from design mill gons built in the late 1930s mill gons numbered 12050- 1 2099 in Greenvil le, numbered 290030-290079, and early 1940s remained in revenue 1947, followed in 1953 by another 150 which duplicated the previous order service into the J 970s, and some cars cars numbered 12100- 1 2249, both series except that they were equipped with built to this design in the late 1 950s and purchased from Greenville. Pressed Steel Barber S-2 roller bearing trucks. These J 960s lasted as late as the 1990s. built 50 additional cars for the Western and other AAR mill gondolas cars Note: for research assistance, I am Maryland in 1949, numbered 5300 1- delivered in the late 1950s generally had indebted to Jim Eager, Ed Hawkins, AI 53050, and for the Southern, numbered reinforced top side angles and lading 3J 8000-3 18149, which (as the number anchors when new, features that were Hoffman, Larry Kline, Tony Thompson, series indicates) were assigned to the often added to older cars in the 1950s and Bill Welch. RMJ Southern's Alabama Great Southern and '60s as well. 20 RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 Construction of AAR recommended practice design 65-foot 6-inch mill Also built by Pullman-Standard in 1954 were the 200 cars of the Frisco's gondolas continued in the late 1950s. The Southern Railway receiv�d 20 of 70050-70249 series, which were similar in design to the 70000-70049 . them with reinforced top angles and tie-down loops from Greenville In 1957 series built in 1948. As shown in this builder's view of SL-SF 70068, numbered 52150-52169. Trucks were Barber S-2s. -Greenville Steel Car these cars also had Pullman-design ends, ASF A-3 trucks, and lever-style Co. photo, Ed Hawkins collection hand brakes. In addition, they had continuous lading tie-down loops on the tops of the sides. -Pullman-Standard Car Co. photo, Ed Hawkins r------'!":"�"!'I!I�r_��-:-��_:_.;:�, collection
Three years later, the Santa Fe received another 50 identical cars of class Ga-48 from General American. ATSF 170913 was at San Diego in 1968 with a load of long (up to 72 feet) creosoted pilings which well illustrated the versatility of an unusually long gondola with drop ends. Note that its original Ajax brake wheel had been replaced with a later style wheel. -Richard Hendrickson photo
Brand new in December 1941, WAB 12035 was one of 50 cars built in the Wabash shops at Decatur, Illinois. Wabash gondolas were painted black, unlike those on many other railroads which were some shade of mineral red. -M.D. McCarter photo
Pressed Steel built COlO 32499 in January 1953, which accounts for the
snow clinging to the car in this builder's portrait. The car was painted L-.!;jiii�=:;;;;;;;;""______..... black with white stenciling; the white line along the bottom of the side The Western Pacific got fifty 65-foot 6-inch mill gondolas from Greenville was intended to prevent grade crossing accidents. Trucks were ASF A-3s, in June 1949. They were painted black with aluminum lettering and rode and the hand brake was a lever-style Universal. -Pressed Steel Car Co. on ASF A-3 trucks. -Greenville Steel Car Co. photo, Ed Hawkins photo, Ed Hawkins collection collection
Athearn's HO scale replica of the AAR "Recommended Practices" 65-foot 6-inch mill gondola.
RAILMODELJOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 21 [ LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE] TEST REPORT: HERITAGE. BY PROTO 2000 USBa 0-8-0 WI'TH Dee AND SOUND
By Dean Windsor
The Proto 2000 locomotives are now available with either conventional power (and Dee-ready ports) or with DeC and sound already installed. Here's how the USRA 0-8-0unit runs on DeC power and how it runs with conventional DC power. I
n important milestone in designed these locomotives to have the creation of the USRA was over only four the locomotive's evolution latest and most modern fe atures. From months after the USRA's fi rst was the introduction of mid 1918 through 1919, the USRA locomotive was ready for service. The 0- A standardization by the oversaw the production of approximately 8-0 became the preferred switch engine United States Rail road 1,900 steam locomotives. The 0-8-0 was over 0-6-0s and 0-4-05 as they were Administration in 1918. The United one of 12 standal'dized locomotive deemed too small for increasingly States Railroad Administration (USRA) designs developed and manufactured heavier yard switching and transfers. was created with the authority to oversee while U.S. railroads were under the Over its short lifetime the USRA the nationalization of the privately control of the USRA during World War commissioned 175 0-8-0 locomoti ves to owned American railroads. The USRA r. Ironically, the war which prompted the 2l railroads fro m 1918 to 1920.
The Proto 2000 model fe atures a two piece cast-metal frame. This large casting includes both the frame and the interior of the boiler giving the unit a lot of weight. Encapsulated in the frame is a five-pole skew-wound can motor with two brass flywheels on each end of a stainless steel shaft. A single brass worm before the rear flywheel turns two idler gears leading to another gear on the rear axle. The other three driving axles are powered via the side rods. The rear wheelset has rubber traction tires that give th is unit a substantial boost in tractive effort in our tests.
The driving wheels turn in bronze bushings, which also act to transfer electrical power to the frame. The frame
22 RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 The unit has very nice plastic and is hard wired to the tender where all the decoder and sound system is located in metal details, and the paint and lettering electronics are contained. Power is also the tender along with two speakers in the are very fi nely done. The unit comes picked up from all tender wheels and bottom of the tender. LEOs are used to with working front and rear knuckle transferred through brass wipers to the light the front and rear lights. couplers already mounted. Qur tests electronics package. The Quantum QSI show a nearly perfect fast speed rating for this model along with excellent RAILMODEL JOURNAL tracti ve effort. LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE REPORT NO. 204 Several manufactures are now offe ring their locomotives with built-in HO Scale Digital Command Control (DCC), and some also include sound. Atlas, Proto Action Analysis: Observed Performance: 2000, Athearn, Trix and B roadway As Received: Limited offer their locomotives with
Minimum Speed, level (no load, scale miles per hour) either conventional control electronics or With full wave power: 3.1 5 with optional DCC. This Performance With pulse power: 4.24 Test Report provides test numbers for the With DCC: 6.4 Over NO. 6 switch, pulse power: 4.04 DCC-equipped locomotive using both a With DCC over NO. 6 switch: 6.10 DCC and conventional power supply. We are using Bachmann's E-Z Maximums (at 12 volts max. where applicable) No load to p spe ed, level, full wave, smph: 61 .9 Command DCC as the power supply fo r DCC with maximum throttle, smph: 86.72 all these tests because it is one of the Uphill grade maximum, percent: 19.8 lowest-cost systems-our intention is to Tractive force, ounces: 2.62 Number of cars pulled, level: 61 test the locomotive's performance not Number of cars pulled, 4% grade: 12 the performance of the control system or Mechanical Measurements power supply-any DCC-equipped Motor-to-drivers gear reduction ratio: nla locomoti ve may have somewhat Driver diameter, scale inches: 51 improved performance with more Driver Flange depth, actual inches: 0.027 Model weight, ounces: 13.25 expensive DCC power supply systems. To tal drivillg wheelbase, scale feet and inches: 15'1" The starting voltage of the E-Z Model turntable length, actual inches: 9.94 Command out-of-the box is higher than Subjective Judgments that used for our conventional tests---that Noise at fast speed : Excellent in combination with default settings that Basic shape and proportions: Excellent are programmed in the locomotive's Painting and marking quality: Excellent Downhill run smoothness: Excellent decoder by the locomotive manufacturer may cause some locomotives to start Electronic Responses Th'rottle response at no load, volts: 8.9 moving at a higher speed than the desired Throttle response at mid load, volts: 9.0 slow speed of 3 miles an hour or less. Throttle response at full load, volts: 6.2 You may, however, be able to adjust th e Motor current at full load, amperes: 0,09 Motor stall current at 1 2 volts, amperes: 0.620 starting speed with most DCC systems to allow the locomotive to start at less than Performance Ratings (1 to 5) 3 miles and hour. The E-Z Command Tractive force: 5.0 Efficiency: 4.0 DCC does not offer some of the Noise: 5.0 fu nctions and fi ne-tuning adjustments of Speeds: 4.0 other systems, but the basic locomotive Assembly workmanship: 5.0 performance should be very similar to OVERALL RATING: 4.6 these results with other brands of DCC Prototype Top Speed: 56.1 mph power systems. RMJ
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 23 [ ONE-DETAIL -AT -A-TIME] a&eo BS·II AS HICKEL pE.aTE BOIID 858 aND 859
Photos from the collection of Louis A. Marre
The parts, paint and decals you'll need to duplicate this full-size diesel in miniature from Atlas HO scale or N scale models.
he Aleo RS-1 1 was one of the locomotives that competed with EMD's GP9 for sales to Treplace steam locomotives. The 1 ,800-horsepower RS-11 replaced the 1,600-horsepower RS-3. The RS- 1 1 was produced from February 1956 through June 1961. Aleo built 327 of these locomotives for American railroads and 99 for Mexican lines, plus 4,092 GP9 diesels during a similar period. Previous "One-Detai l-At-A Ti me" articles 00 the Aleo RS-1 1 diesels appeared in the October 2003 issue (PRR 8624), January 2004 issue (SP 29 13 and 292 1), May 2004 (BN 4]80 and 4181), and November 2005 (New Haven ]402 and 1404).
The Nickel Plate units were photographed on January 20, 1960 (number 859) in New Haven, Indiana and June 1965 (oumber 858) in Toledo, Ohio. These RS-1 1 s were part of number series 850-864 in 1959. The NKP was merged with Norfolk & Western in 1964, but 858 had not been renumbered. The NKP RS-I l fleet was eventually renumbered N&W 2850-2863. The units have been updated with additional MU hoses and receptacles on the end handrails and the New Haven added several walkway or ditch lights, rerail frogs, cab sunshades, wind deflectors and bells to their RS-I ls.
SCALE ALeC RS-1 1 s
HO Scale: Atlas N Scale: Atlas
PA INT
Black: Floquil 110010, Polly Scale 4141 10, SMP Accupaint 2, Badger
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RAILMOf)EL )OURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 25 ALCO R5·1 1
Detail Associates, Box 5357, San Luis Overland Models, Inc., 3808 W. Ordering Information: Obispo, CA 93403: Kilgore Ave., Muncie, IN 47304: All of these parts are available to any 14-1 107 Lift rings $1.25112 13-9008 Air horns $3.5012 hobby dealer, so your dealer can order 1.25/2 10-1202 Bells 10-9 130 Bell 3.70 ea. for you. If you must order direct, order 2-1303 Cab sunshades 1.50/4 ]7-915] Coupler lift bars 2.10/2 the fulJ package quantities shown and 15-1405 Drop steps 3.0012 18-9327 Mirrors (wind 3.35/4 include $5.00 per order for postage or 6- 150 I MU stands 1.25/2 deflectors) UPS and handling. RMJ 16-1508 MU hoses 2.00/16 16-935 ] MU hoses 7.35/4 sets 13-1608 Air horns (modified) 2.00/4 (set of 4) 1-2202 Grabirons 2.50124 8-9708 Walkway (ditch) lights 7.50/6 3-22 10 Chain 2.25/12 in. 17-22 11 Coupler lift bars 2.50/2 Precision Scale, 3961 Highway 93 18-2304 Wind deflectors 2.50/3 pr. North, Stevensville, MT 59870: 19-2504 .01 2-inch-diameter 2.50/J 0 4-3968 Windshield wipers $1.25/4 wire (handrails) 19-4968 .012-inch-diameter 1.75/6 20-2703 Etched grilles 3.00/2 wire 7-3102 Fuel tank fittings 1.0012 16-39059 MU hoses (4) 1.75/4 (fillers) 7-39080 Fuel fillers ] .00/4 5-6206 Air hoses 1.25/6 5-391 18 Air hoses 1.50/10 3-48237 Chai n 2.50110 in. Details West, P.O. Box 61 , Corona, CA 20-48427 Pipe fi ttings set l.75/set 91718: 10-129 Bells $] .25/2 Smokey Valley Railroad Products, 7- 166 Fuel fillers 1.00/4 P.O. Box 339, Plantersville, MS 13-173 Air horns 3.25/2 38862: 16-265 MU hoses 3.95/4 sets 21 & 19-45 Preformed $15.95 5-267 Air hoses 1.2512 handrail & stanchion kit
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Photo 6. The mighty 4-8-4 Wyoming works hard to start its train on the uphill grade. (By the end of 1951, steam will be gone from the LV RR. The Wyoming was replaced by new A-B-B-A sets of F-7s for mainline freight service.)
Photo 8. I use George Sellios's methods for detailing my track. First, I spray paint the track with Floquil Earth and then a light coat of Rail Brown. I then stain individual ties with Floquil Flo Stain Driftwood and Oak and add ballast
r • • Lashed up with the F-3s are FTs number 504- 505. (The four EMD FT sets delivered in 1945 " were the LV 's first diesel road power, permanently coupled with drawbars in A-B - sets. Nicknamed "bombers" by their crews, they were primarily used in pusher service over the mountain between Lehighton and Coxton.) The B&O wagon top hopper is a Central Hobby Supply resin kit. Photo 2. On this fine summer morning in 1950, with an eastbound freight in tow, the four LV F-units clear Rockport Tunnel. (The LV mainline originally followed the bank of the river around Summer Mountain. Then in 1884, Rockport Tunnel was built, shaving 3 minutes from passenger train schedules.)
THE orLEHIGH of VALLEY IN HO the basis my HO scale serving the Lehighton area. An If r had a mISSIon statement for Black Diamond route I interesting operating fe ature at this building this layout, it would be with the elected to model parts or'the location was a wye for turning local use of period correct structures, motive LehIgh and Wyoming passenger trains, which is included on power and rolling stock along with P . divisions of the Lehigh Valley the modeled version. Long-distance detaIled, accurate scenery, portray the Railroad. This is roughly the mjddle locals out of Lehighton with cars Lehigh Val ley Railroad as it would have portion of the mainline between Buffalo destined for the industries of the lower appeared in the summer of 1950. If and New York City. Lehigh Valley were referred to as guests ascending from my basement feel "Lehighton-Lehighs." The traffic from like they have just taken a ride on the The area presented the prototype with these local s combined with numerous route of the Black Diamond, T will fe el many operating challenges. These local and through passenger trains along like r have completed my mission problems ranged from the high traffic successfully. density section of the .lower Lehioh with the abundant amount of cement and steel products being generated from this Valley to the railroad's bigg;<;t layout Construction operations headache, the climb over the area made the lower Lehigh Valley one The layout is built on conventional L rugged mountain territory between the of the busiest places on the entire girder bench work with 1 x 4 cross joists Lehigh and Wyoming valleys. These railroad. The solution fo r the congestion tied into the stud walls for support. 5/8 problems were amplified by the fact that in this area came in the form of a fo ur plywood was used for the sub roadbed the Lehigh Valley mainline was SO miles track mainline which he.lped keep the with Homasote and Homabed bol ued longer than the DL&W from New York traffic flowing throughout the lower . dIrectly to the plywood and then sealed to Buffalo. To stay competitive, the LV Lehigh Valley. This four track mainline with gray .latex paint. Code 83 flextrack was forced to run trains fast wherever which helped keep the traffic fl owing was used on the mainline along with possible. Although troublesome for the throughout the lower Lehigh Valley. code 70 on siding and spurs. A minimum prototype, these operating fe atures make This four-track mainline along with the 3D-inch radius for curves and number 8 for some very interesting model interchanges with the LNE and Reading frog for mainline turnouts was railroading. Helpers will be uti lized, just at Catasaqua are portrayed as they established. Turnouts are from Walthers as they were with the prototype, to help would have appeared in the summer of and Micro Engineering and are all DCC heavy freight trains over the mountain 1950. friendly. grades between the two river valleys. Several issues pertaining to the These helpers will be based out of Control layout's design had to be addressed Coxton and Lehighton. Helper crews before a fi nal track plan could be I use a combination of System One working out of Lehighton will have the established. Foremost was including the and Northcoast DCC which is divided added fringe benefit of working in the into two separate power districts and awe-inspiri ng scenery of the Lehigh Jersey Central on the layout with a then into sub districts protected by power Gorge, and may be called upon to assist mainline that ran virtually parallel to the shield circuit breakers. Both tethered and the occasional heavy freight up the steep Lehigh Valley from Wilkes-Barre to wireless radio throttles are used for grades of the Hazelton branch. This New York City. It was a key player in controlling train movements. Soundtrack climb gave access to the many coal many of the scenes I wanted to include sound decoders are installed in most of operations in this area along with a route on the layout. I made the decision, rather my locomotives with a goal to have all to the city of Hazelton, which has the than add bi ts and pieces of the CNJ my engines sound equipped someday. distinction of be ing the llighest city in mainline that would end up going Mainline turnouts are controlled by Pennsylvania. nowhere, to include enough of this CNJ Tortoise switch machines and all other mainline to enable the rai !road to operate turnouts are hand thrown. Traffic generated from thi s branch through freights between two stagi ng will be mainly in the form of coal but yards. This along with its interchange Scenery will also include a significant amount of with the LV at the Packerton Junction Trying to build recognizable scenery general freight from the businesses in the gave the Jersey Central an operations to match a particular prototype scene was Hazelton area. Strategically located near base which in turn contributed to the challenging yet rewarding to me. the coal branches was Packerton yard total operating capabilities of the entire Working from photos as reference, I first with its central location in the Lehiob h layout. Another major design concern .. started with a masonite backdrop. Next a RIver Valley, It handled both through was the fact that the LV mainline made cardboard web skeleton was constructed freight traffic and all the coal extracted several river crossings on its way up the which was then covered with pl aster from the surrounding region. Located at Lehigh River Valley. I was faced with cloth. Rocks were cast in home-made the east end of Packerton yard were the the decision to model these particular molds and then affixed to the scenery Lehighton engine servicing facilities, scenes correctly which would have base using Gypsolite as a mortar. The which were crammed in a narrow space required the layout to be built with duck rock castings were then pai n ted to between the yard tracks and the Jersey unders. This was not an option as r represent rock formations in the modeled Central main.line. Servicing of mainline wanted to maintain the layouts linear region. Remaining exposed areas were fre ight power along with the power fo r walk-around design. The solution was to painted a brown earth color and real dirt the Hazelton-area branches were all build the scenes reversed, a mirror image along with assorted round foam textures handled here. Continuing east, passing of the prototype. I fe el this solution has were applied. Realistic trees were under the truss bridge which carried the been successful as visitors can easily modeled ll sing Super Trees and Jersey Central over the Lehigh Valley, identify these scenes as replicas of the Woodland Scenics Fine Leaf Foliage were the freight and passenger stations actual locations. along with ready made pine trees from 32 RAILMODELjOURNAL · FEBRUARY 2006 Photo 9. Photo 10. Whitehall Cement was a large customer on the LVRR. The model provides View showing the corner of the layout where the town of Mauch Chunk, many switching opportunities, with manufactured cement products Pennsylvania will be located along with hidden west Coxton, Pennsylvania outbound. Raw materials such as coal, sand, clay, and slag inbound. (This staging below. industry is built from a combination of kit-converted Walthers and scratch built structures and is a work in progress.)
Photo II. Photo 12. Overall view of double-decked area. the cities of Hazelton will be on the This view shows the Allentown, Bethlehem, and lines east staging yard. upper and Wilkes-Barre on the lower.
Hiki. Enviro Tex two-part epoxy resin was used for creating all the water on the layout. Structures will be either kit converted or scratchbuilt to match a specific prototype.
Motive Power and Rolling Stock Modeling steam on the LV is not an easy task. I own the few brass models available and with nothing accurate in plastic, there is a large void to be filled in my steam roster. On the other hand, with all the new first-generation diesel models that have become available on the market, my diesel roster is almost full. I 13. enjoy detailed accurate freight cars, and I Vie\�s�lowingthe LV four roster only rolling stock for my chosen track mainline heading 1950 era. The models range from into west Catasauqua.The detailed Athearn to resin kits from tracks of the Hazelton Funaro and Carmelengo, Sunshine, and branch are left. Westerfield. RMJ
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 33 THE LEHIGH VALLEY IN HO
Photo 4. The train continues downgrade toward Penn Junction. (The F-3s and ITs are Stewart Hobbies products.)
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36 RAILMODEL)OURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 Photo 14. View showing LV mainline heading from Cementon, Pennsylvania toward Treichlers. On the peninsula to the left, are the tracks of the Hazelton branch.
Photo 15. View showing the Lehigh Gap with the LNE bridge crossing the Lehigh River and both the LV and CNJ mainlines. On the left is Jeddo Tunnel on the LV Hazelton branch.
Photo 16. The view on the left shows both the LV and CNJ mainlines heading from Glen Onoko into the Lehigh Gorge. On the right is the LV mainline from Packerton Junction towards Mauch Chunk.
Photo 17. View showing Lehigh Gorge on the right with Packerton yard and the town of Lehighton on the left.
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 37 38 RAILMODELJOURNAL ' FEBRUARY 2006 Photo 5. East of Penn Junction, T- 2 number 5207 gets the clear to proceed through the junction across the CNJ tracks on its way up the lehigh River Gorge. (The 4-8-4s were the lV 's most modern steam power. The 5207 is a Custom Brass import made in the 1980s. [OPERATIONS]
By John Yo ung Photos by Robert Schleicher
The Operations Road Show portable layout recreates the Wabash Railroad's Second Division. The club's layout, although portable, is designed to recreate all the movements of the symbol freights on the real Wa bash, right down to matching a slightly modified Wabash timetable. The layout was photographed at the 2003 NMRA Convention in Seattle and at the 2005 NMRA Convention in Cincinnati. There's an index of all previous articles on operation on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com/
Photo 6. the daily (except Sunday) westbound local, Extra 482 West, with work to do in Delphi. The large building in the background is one of a number of stand-in buildings we have created out of hardboard with laminated details to represent significant businesses until the detailed structures
perations Road Show's of the 12 operating sessions held over the Fast clocks are positioned around the Wabash Second Division is course of the convention week. The layout. Report to the "Fiddle" a modular layout built by a layout's operating sessions are conducted Yardmaster at the assigned location O sub-group of the Rails on using timetables and train orders with our Peru or Logansport. Tell the yardmaster Wheels model railroad club club members available to help answer which train you are assigned to and get of Saline, Michigan. It was presented at our guest operators' questions. instructions. You may ask to return to the the 2005 National Model Railroad waiting area and be told when to report The foc us of our operating sessions is Association's National Convention in back if the train is not yet ready. the adherence to prototype operating Cincinnati, Ohio. This is Rails on Loitering around the "Fiddle" yard or rules and the use of prototype Wheels' fourth presentation at a NMRA Dispatcher areas is prohibited (and communications, both written and verbal. National Convention or National Train disruptive). Show, and the third different layout The layout simulates the Wabash railroad presented. The layout was part of the in central Indiana in the autumn of 1964. You will be handed a pack of cards Layout Design SIG and Operations SIG representing your train consist. The General Instructions displays in the Special Interest Group Conductor is responsible to carry out the room at the convention. Attendees of the Train crews will report for duty 10 instructions contained on the cards. The convention were invited to join us for one minutes before the "called" time listed. top card, or train card, has instructions
40 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' FEBRUARY 2006 perishable interchange with PRR and Monon. Sets out cars blocked for L5-LIO at Logansport and picks up b locked cars for TW. Sets out cars blocked for L Il L 13 at Delphi and picks up blocked cars for TW. Sets out cars blocked for Ll4- Ll6 at East Yard and picks up blocked cars fo r TW.
KB-2 Called Lafayette 3:15 A.M. Daily
Sets out cars blocked for L16 on the NYC interchange track at Lafayette Jet. Continues to Peru as a through freight, only doing additional work if di rected by message from the dispatcher.
WESTBOUND LOCAL Called Peru 6:00 A.M. Daily
Sets out cars from train at industries along the line. Picks up cars at industries Photo 7. The paperwork for an extra on the Operation Road Show layout. Lower left is the car card when car cards are in the "Pickup" box. pack with the train description top, engine cards, and out of sight deeper in the card pack, the car Blocks cars and picks up at Keesport. cards and waybills for the cars in this train. The yellow sheet below the car cards is the train order Blocks cars for pickup by road freights at and clearance form for this train. The train order creates the train and describes its authority on Delphi and Logansport. Does additional the mainline. The clearance form gives this crew's train authority to occupy the mainline. work as directed by Agent. If you have a car for an industry with a facing point for that train. You are encouraged to read We operate on a 3: 1 "fast clock." This switch, or an eastbound pickup is on a the additional information on your train means each hour has 20 minutes (contrary trailing point stub track, and the town has in this sheet. The pack also contains to the telev is ion program's assertion). no run-around capability, take the car to cards· for the locomotive(s), cars, and You may be surprised by the slow speed the next station to pick up. Do not take caboose. You should check them with necessary to run your train around the TW cars picked up along the way beyond your train as you depart. The car cards layout. A correct speed is a very slow the next yard; set them out at Logansport have pockets containing waybills, or walk. The throttle display is a percentage, or East Yard. Additional cars may be give return empty instructions. If there is not a speed. You will find that a number in picked up at Logansport and Delphi for no online destination, the car is a the low 20s should give you the destinations beyond. Pick up cars at east "through" car in the direction of the appropriate speed for your train. It should yard LIS and LW. Originating cars home road. If the station code on the take about 2- 112 fast hours to complete the should be blocked in station order; this waybill in the first car card is a TE or run between Peru and Lafayette. may not be true of cars positioned at TW, then your train is a through train Logansport and Delphi for your pickup. All freight trains run as an Extra, for unless given other instructions. if the top example, Extra 703 West. The arranged card waybill has an L+number station SM-2 service number is only for planning and code, then the train has cars to set out Called Lafayette 7:15 A.M. Daily tells the origin and final destination. according to the instructions. Sets out cars blocked fo r LJ6 on the Watch the fast clock time and read Road freights will only set out and NYC interchange track at Lafayette Jet. your timetable carefully so you don't pick up cars that are properly blocked. Sets out cars blocked for L6 on the PRR block a passenger train. Read your order That means you will not "dig out" a car interchange track at Logansport. (Form 19) carefully to ensure you if it is buried behind others. Road crews Continues to Peru as a through freight, understand where a meet has been will not "spot" cars at industries; this is a only doing additional work if directed by scheduled for your train. job for the Local. message from the dispatcher. If you have any questions or do not Cars will be set out on the most SB-4 convenient track that will not interfere understand an instruction, please ask a with other operations. When you set out host for help Called Lafayette 9: IS A.M. Daily a car, place the car card in the "Setout" Sets out any cars not blocked for TE (except box. if your instructions are to pick up Descriptions of Symbol Freight Train cars, find the appropriate car cards in the Operations L6) at East Yard. Picks up cars blocked for "Pickup" box for the cars going in your TE at East Yard. Sets out cars blocked for assigned direction. 2BS-l L6 on the PRR interchange track at Called Peru 2:45 A.M. Daily LoganspOlt. Continues to Peru as Through Train crews will not change the freight, only doing additional work if waybills. We have an agent who will Picks up cars left by the local and pre directed by message from the dispatcher. work all bills. positions cars for the local. Does non-
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Photo 15. An eastbound Wabash extra waiting at the signal to leave double track at the east end of East Yard to enter the modeled dark territory of the Wabash Second District. Engines detailed and decoder equipped by Fritz Milhaupt.
MS-5 East Yard and picks up blocked cars for TE. timetable showing scheduled times Sets out cars blocked for L II-L 17at Delphi between Peru and Lafayette Called Lafayette 9: I 5 A.M. Daily and picks up blocked cars fo r TE. Sets out Junction. Sets out any cars not blocked for TW at cars blocked for L6-L I at Logansport and • A scheduled train is not allowed to East Yard. Picks up cars blocked for TW picks up blocked cars for TE. at East Yard. leave a station before its scheduled BS-3 departure time. EASTBOUND LOCAL Called Peru 8: IS P. M. Daily • Unless otherwise specified in the Called Lafayette 1:00 P. M. Sets out any cars not blocked for TW at train orders, a scheduled train is Daily except Sunday East Yard. Picks up cars blocked for TW superior to an unscheduled (extra) at East Yard. train. Spots cars from train at industries along the line. Picks up cars at industries when KB-6 • Once you have passed through a car cards are in the "Pickup" box. Blocks Called Lafayette 10: IS P.M. Daily mainline turnout, you must leave it cars for pickup by road freights at lined to the normal, mainline Logansport and Delphi. Blocks cars and Does no en-route work. All cars blocked position. Unless otherwise marked picks up at Keesport. Does additional for TE. on the fascia, pushing in the turnout work as directed by Agent. If you have a ABS-1 knob will align the turnoutto its car for an industry with a fac ing poi nt normal position. switch, or a westbound pickup i s on a Called Peru 10:35 P. M. Daily trailing point stub track, and the town has • A train is superior to another one by Does no en-route work. All cars blocked no run-around capability, take the car to train order (right), class or direction: for TW. the next station where it can be set out o Train Order-instructions in a for the Eastbound Local to pick up. Do BS-1 not take TE cars picked up along the way train order overrule any Called Peru I I :30 P.M. Daily beyond the next yard; set them out at considerations of superiority by East Yard or Logansport. Additional cars Does no en-route work. All cars blocked class or direction. may be picked up at East Yard, Delphi for TW. o Class-First class trains are and Logansport for destinations beyond. superior to second class trains, Originating cars should be blocked in EXTRA etc. Extra trains are the lowest station order; this may not be true of cars Called as required positioned at East Yard, Delphi and in this hierarchy, unless Logansport for your pickup. Does no en-route work, except as overridden by a train order. directed by message from the o Direction-Eastbound trains 2SB-4 Dispatcher. are superior to westbound trains Called Lafayette 3:30 P.M. Daily General Rules • Within Yard Limits (at Peru and Picks up cars left by the local and pre • For purposes of operating on this East Yard/Lafayette Junction), you positions cars for the local. Does non layout you need only concern may only proceed at a reduced speed, perishable interchange with Monon and yourself with the parts of the PRR. Sets out cars blocked for Ll5-L 13 at approximately 15-20 scale mph. 42 RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 • • Train order stations are not open all • Do you have the pack of car cards If the signal is set agai nst YOLl (the the time. The hours during which a and waybills for the train? If not, get semaphore blade is down and the train order station is open are posted them fr om the (Fiddle) Yardmaster. indicator on the fascia shows red for on the fasc ia. You do not "OS" at a Make sure the cards in the pack the direction your train is train order station if it is closed. match your train. traveling), stop. Do not fo ul any switches or adjoining tracks-you • Any time you stop on the mainline • Check the timetable to determine may be instructed to wait for a meet. or leave cars on the mainline while whether there are any scheduled Next, "OS" in, and pick up the switching, you must protect your superior trains (going either orders for your train from the cI i P on train with a flagman behind the direction) YOLl need to wait for. YOLI the fascia. If the train orders are not train. To do this, set out a paper must check the train register at the there yet, you must wait for them to flagman on the tracks \8-24 inches terminal to determine whether any be issued. You may contact the be hind the last car of your train. If scheduled trains you must wait for dispatcher to ensure that. the order your train orders indicate that you within the last 12 hours have already board is not set against your train by do not have to protect against trains arrived. mistake. fo llowing yours, you do not have to • Are there any other trains you need do this. Always remember to pick up to wait for before departing, per • Do not pick up orders that are not the flagman before leaving. your train orders? You must check addressed to your train.
• When you're done switch i ng an the train register at the terminal to • Verify that your orders are good. A determine whether any you must industry, make sure to leave the car valid set of train orders must include wait for have already arrived. cards for any cars you've set out and a clearance form issued at the station take the cards for any cars you have • [I' your train is scheduled, is it time at which you pick up the orders. It picked up. to leave yet? Your train may not must list the numbers of all train orders included in the set of orders. • If you need to set out a car in any depart any station ahead of schedule. place other than the one it is billed if you have a clearance fo rm that • Check that no train order or to, leave its card in the "Set Out" lists one or more train order interlocking signals are set against pocket and notify the Agent or the numbers that do not correspond to you. Dispatcher. The traveling agent will trai n orders in the set, the orders are
tag it as an off-spot car and move the • The Train Card (the first card in the invalid and you must inform the card to the "Pick Up" pocket for a pack of car cards) will explain what Dispatcher. later train to re-spot. work your train is supposed to do. • If the signal is set against you, you
• Train crews should not change or As always, feel free to ask a Host if you will need to receive a written remove the waybills on the car have any questions! clearance before you may proceed cards. The Agent will handle all past the station, even if there are no bills. Upon Leaving Yo ur Initial orders for you. Te rminal • If you do not understand what to do l. Fill out an entry in the train register • Once you have received your orders in a particular situation, we for that terminal. and clearance, indicate to the encourage you to ask a Host for dispatcher that you have received clari fication. 2. "OS" out of the initial terminal to the your orders. When the dispatcher dispatcher. clears the order board, you may • Crews, off-duty personnel. and proceed. visitors should refrain from 3. Ensure that any turnouts you had to throw in order to depart have been distracting the Dispatcher and • Once the end of YOLlr train passes the Fiddle Yardmaster. The railroad realigned to their normal (mainline) train order signal, "OS" out of the runs most smoothly when they are position. station. ab le to focus on their jobs. Upon Approaching a Upon Reaching a Meeting Point • Take your time when running trains. Tra in Order Station Meeting points are determined either by Even the fastest passenger train Train Order Stations are marked by a being specifically arranged in a train which has no meets should take over train order signal (semaphore) beside the order, or by your determining that you one "fast" hour to ru n between Peru track �nd a repeater on the layout fascia. need to get out of the way of a schedu\ed and Lafayette Junction. Freight superior train. trains should be even slower! • If the signal is not set against you
(the semaphore blade is LIp and the • When meeting a passenger train, you Upon Reporting fo r Duty at indicator on the fascia shows green need to be in the clear on a siding by Yo ur Initial Te rminal fo r the direction your train is the time that the timetable indicates • Pick up your orders from the order traveling), you may proceed past the that the passenger train is scheduled clip. Do you have your clearance station, so long as your orders do not to leave the last station the fo rm? Do you have all of the orders state that you must stop there. [f the passenger train passes before the listed on the clearance fo rm? station is open "OS" by. siding where you are waiting.
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• At a meeting point, the inferior train responsibility to play the role of the "Extra," fo llowed by the number of the should take the siding unless it has station operator and report in. lead engine and the direction of the train received a train order indicati ng such as "Extra 450 West." I. Determine that the train order station otherwise. is actually open. The hours of operation Upon Arriving at Yo ur Final
• The crew of the first train to arrive at for each station are printed in the Te rminal a meeting point is responsible for timetable and are marked on the fascia. I. Do not run your train into the Fiddle lining the switches to prevent a Yard until the (Fiddle) Yardmaster 2. Pick up the phone at the train order collision. instructs you to do so ei ther verbally station, wait for a break in the (at Peru) or by signal indication (at communication traffi c, then say "OS • If the meeti ng location is at an open Lafayette Junction). [location name]." train order station, the crew of each train must "OS in" to inform the 2. Sign the train register for that • If the train is passing through term i nal. dispatcher that it has arrived. without stopping, "OS by" as fo llows; "[train designation] by at 3. Give the packet of car cards and • Similarly, if the meeting location is [time]," at an open train order station, the waybills to the (Fiddle) Yardmaster.
crews must "OS out" when they • If the train is arriving and will be 4. Give the (Fiddle) Yardmaster the depart. stopping to wait for another train or throttle you have been usi ng. to do switching, "OS in" to the How to "OS" at a dispatcher as fo llows: "[train 5. lnform that Dispatcher that you are Tra in Order Station designation] in at [time ]." now off duty.
Under Timetable & Train Order When you report the time, be sure to 6. You may keep the trai n orders or Operation, the only way the dispatcher indicate whether it's AM or PM. throw them away. knows your train's location is if the 7. Go to the bullpen to wait for your operator at a trai n order station reports in 3. Hang up the phone. next assignment. when your train arrives or passes by. The train designation is either the train Since we don't have operators at the train number (for scheduled trains), such as RMJ order stations, it is the train crew's "Number I," or for extras it is the word
Photo 1. The US-24 overpass of the Wabash mainline , between New Waverly and Danes.
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Photo 5. The westbound Wabash local and the northbound Monon local are both in Delphi, --..._--, Indiana. The Monon enjoys track rights over the Wabash at this junction. The grain elevator in the right foreground is the Carroll County Elevator jointly served by the Wabash and the MONON.
Photo 8. A Wabash F-7 leads freight Extra 713 East in Delphi.
46 RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 Photo 9. The station at Delphi, Indiana with orders hanging for an eastbound extra.
Photo 10. On the top of the backdrop are the Logitech fast time clock that is tied into the Digitrax LocoNet and an elevated UR-91 radio receiver to support our UT-4R radio throttles.
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Photo 11. looking into the aisle leading to ll!I1 Delphi. In the right foreground is Rockfield, Indiana. Aisle width for the layout is set at a four foot minimum. This aisle is five feet wide in this area.
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Photo 12. The dispatcher's table. From left to right on the table are the telephone microphone and the call button box for the telephone system, then the train order signal control board, and in front of that the dispatcher's train sheet.
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extreme Wabash Second District mainline looking east at Lafayette Junction. The shared NYClNKP double track mainline is in the foreground with the gray ballasted Wabash mainline crossing a little farther into the scene. Further along the aisle are Lafayette and then East Yard.
Photo 24. The Fiddle Ya rd modules in a test setup in 2004. The Fiddle Ya rd representing the rest of the world, in our case Peru, Indiana in the east and Tilton, Illinois in the west. The three curving tracks at the front of the module represent (from the near edge) the New Yo rk Central/Nickel Plate mainline; the Wabash mainline entering Lafayette Junction; and the Monon mainline.
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Photo 16. Engine Number 380 at the East Yard engine house. East Ya rd is the city yard for Lafayette, Indiana. Some of the local work originates here, mostly handling the traffic generated by the Anheuser-Busch yeast plant located in town. This is the first area of the layout to have 'finished' scenery applied. -courtesy of member AI Robertson.
HAND-LAID TRACKWORK1 IN AN INSANT
All of the track on the Wabash Railroad's Second Division is assembled from ready-laid track, but ready-laid with a difference. Custom Trax, P.O. Box 581, Indianapolis, IN 50125 has an incredible line of ready-laid HO scale track. The track has individual wood ties, four spikes in every tie, weathered rail, ra il ballast and flexible rubber roadbed. The track is flexible enough to be bent into a smooth 14-inch-radius curve. Three-foot straight sections are $11.80 each or $104.00 for a case of 10.
The Custom Trax turnouts are offered in numbers 5, 6 or 8 sizes. Each turnout has a cast-resin frog to make them DCC friendly with metal contacts at the switch points and a built-in mechanism for manual operation, including a working switch stand. The Number 5s are $22.95, the 6s are $23.95 and the 8s are $24.95.
50 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' FEBRUARY 2006 Photo 3. An eastbound extra led by a pair of Wabash F-7s is crossing the PRR diamond at Logansport, Indiana.
layout in early stages of stacked modules in upper
"AAILMOQ£LJOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 51 U1 N Operations Ro ad Show 2003 Trackplan
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New Waverly C&o CW To wer c&o Peru Fiddle Ya rd [ LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE] TEST REPORT: HERITIlGE. BY PROTO G.E. U30B WITH Dee AND SOUND
By Dean Windsor
n 1960 General Electric finally got serious about the domestic diesel market with it's introduction of the first of it's "Universal" series, I . the U25B also called the U Boat. Although having the highest horsepower Action Analysis: Observed Performance: rating of any domestic locomotive GE As Received: came up with several improvements over
Minimum Speed, level (no load, scale miles per hour) existing designs by EMD and Alco to get With full wave power: 3.77 them into the market. In 1966 GE With pulse power: 3.58 With DCC: 13.6 introduced the U288 with a new 2800 Over NO. 6 switch, pulse power: 3.49 horsepower, 16 cylinder engine. GE was With DCC over NO. 6 switch : 13.61 already in the works for a 3000 Maximums (at 12 volts max. where applicable) horsepower unit (as well as 3300 and No load top speed, level, full wave, smph: 126.4 DCC with maximum throttle, smp-n: 194.5 3600 models)so the U28B was soon Uphill grade maximum, percent: 19.1 replaced in late 1966 with the U308. Tractive force, ounces: 3.05 Number of cars pulled, level: 71 Number of cars puJlea, 4% grade: 14 Mechanical Measurements Motor-to-drivers gear reduction ratio: nfa Our unit fe atures a single piece cast Driveraiameter, scale inches: 40 metal frame. In the center of the frame is Driver Flange deptll, actual inches: .025 Model weight, ounces: 15.95 a 5 pole skew wound can motor sitting in TrucK wheelbase, scale inches: 106 a plastic carrier. In front and back of the Distance between truck centers, scale feet: 36' 8" Illotor are 2 cast metal pieces that Subjective Judgments completely encase the 2 brass flywheels, Noise at fast speed: Excellent Basic shaQe and proportions: Excellent dri ve shafts and gea r towers. The Painting ana marking quality: Excellent stainless steel drive shafts are connected Downhill run smoothness: Excellent to brass worm gears in the towers Electronic Responses through plastic u-joints and couplings. Throttle resRonse at no load, volts: 9.1 hrottle response at mid load, volts: 9.4 Various idlers gears connect the drive Throttle response at full load, volts: 9.6 train to each of the four axles in the Motor current at full load, amperes: 0.08 Moto sta!.lSurrent at 12 volts, amp-eres: 0.730 trucks.
3.0 5.0 5.0 Electrical power is picked up on all 1.0 eight wheels and transferred through 5.0 bronze bearings to bearing plates that are OVERALL RATING: 3.8 hard wired directly to the electronics. 70 Prototype Top Speed: mph Prototype Gear Ratios: 74:18 The Quantum Qsr decoder and sound system are mounted between the two cast
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metal weights above the motor. Dual speakers are mounted in the forward weight. LED's provide the l ighting effects and are hard wired to the decoder/sound system board.
Details are fi nely molded plastic and the intakes screens look very nice. The exterior is well detailed and the paint and lettering are very nicely done. Although the speed ratings were not as close to the prototype as 1 expected, the tractive effort was very good. RMJ
54 RAILMODELJOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 WHAT'S NEW IN HO SCALE
Kadee continues to expand their series of 40- foot PS-1 box cars. So far, they have pro duced 13 different doors, 6 different brake wheels, two different roofs, and about a dozen different sidesills so each car is an exact match for a particular prototype. This SSW car (Kadee number 34149) has the black ends and roofs that were applied to the cars when built. The GTW car (Kadee number 5268) has a silver roof to match its proto type. The cars now include Kadee 21000 "scale" couplers and draft gear boxes, sprung trucks with metal wheelsets and brake shoe detail, and on these two cars, see-through roofwalks. The cars are $30.95 ready-to-run.
The 52-foot 6-inch War Emergency gondolas with Duryea Cushion underframes are now available as cast-resin kits with decals for CN] and CRP from Funaro and Camerlengo, 10 Funaro Court, Honesdale, PA 18431 for $29.99 less trucks and couplers but with decals.
Sunshine Models, Box 4997, Springfield, MO 65808-4997 now has replicas of the complex Santa Fe Class Sk-Z and Sk-4 convertible deck stock cars. The Santa Fe rebuilt 200 single-sheathed box cars to create these unusual cars. The kit is $34.0Q with decals but less trucks and couplers, plus $5.00 ship ping and handling.
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 55 r------[PERFORMANCE]------� The more significant figures from Dean Win dsor's, Guy Thrams' and Bob Higgins' evaluations of model locomotives in past is sues of this magazine. The issues with
asterisks are out of print, but photocopies of these reports are available for $2. 00 each (allow 30 days for shipment). Explanations of how these locomotives are test ed appeared in the March 1990 and September 1992 issues.
HO, N, O, 'S &" (j ScALE LOCOMOTIVES
Manufacture,nmporter PrototypeI M n. Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Manutacture,nmporter Prototype MIn. Max. Max. Throttle MagazIne SpeedNo. 6 Speed TractIve Rlllponte Date SpeedNo. 6 Speed Tractive Reaponte Data SwItch (.mph) (.mph) Force (oz.) Mldloed (v.) SwItch(.mph) (.mph) Force (oz.) Mldloed (v.) HO Scale Diesels Mantua EMD GP20 .30 78.2 3.07 1.6 Dec. 1991' MRC (Model Reclifier Corp.) EMD F7 A .52 86.1 2.90 1.0 August 2000 Athearn (as-is) EMD GP38-2 .24 126.4 2.76 3.4 Jan. 1990' Proto 1000 (Life-Like) EMO F3 .19 80.8 3.69 3.7 January 1999 Athearn (w/Helix Humper EMD GP38-2 .89 112.1 2.76 2.8 Sept. 1995 Proto 1000 F-M C-Liner 0.61 90.0 4.97 3.2 April 2000 can molor conversion) PrOia 1000 (Life-Like) Budd RDC-2 3.71 65.3 1.87 4.9 Dec .. 2000 Proto Power West EMD FlA (& FlB) .35 98.2 4.46 2.4 May 1990' Proia 2000 (Life· Like) Aleo FA2 .20 90.7 3. 14 4.2 July 1991' (Athearn w/can motor) (.26) 1 (95.0) (8.92) (2.6) May 1990' Proto 2000 (Lile·Like) EMD BL2 .31 90.7 3.53 5.4 Nov. 1989' AthearnlPPW, weighted EMD GP9 .20 94.2 . 4.01 3.0 May 1990' Proto 2000 (Lile-Like) EMD GP9 .06 79.2 3.29 4.8 March 1998 Athearn w/NW8L motor EMD GP38·2 .21 60.9 2.30 1.8 August 1990- Proto 2000 (Lile-Like) EMD GP18 .58 99.8 3.40 2.6 Feb. 1993 Athearn w/NW8L motor. EMD GP38-2 Proto 2000 (Life-Like) EMD GP30 .23 78.2 4.17 4.0 Jan. 2000 weighted .24 61.2 3.88 2.2 Augusl 1990' Proto 2000 (Lile-Like) EMO E8A .51 95.8 5.94 5.6 March 1994' Athearn/Proto Power West w/replacement Wheelsets: Proto 2000 (Lile-Like) EMD SD7 .52 73.3 3.58 5.0 July 1995 NorthWest Short Line EMD GP38-2 .23 97.4 2.56 1.6 Oct. 1990' Proto 2000 (Lile-Like) EMD SW9/SW 1200 .57 55.5 1.36 3.7 May 1996 Jay-Bee EMD GP38-2 .27 97.4 2.40 1.5 Oct. 1990' Proto 2000 (Liile·Like) EMC GP9 2.31 110.0 2.65 9.5 March 2005 Athearn GE C44·9W 1.85 100.7 3.18 3.6 March 1996 (with sound & DCC) 8.43 141.0 Athearn GE AC4400W .10 95.8 5.06 4.1 Dec. 1996 Proto 2000 (Lile·Like) EMD E6A 3.60 79.2 4.09 10.1 April 2005 Athearn EMD 8040-2 1.94 103.3 3.01 3.3 Jan.2001 Proto 2000 (life·Like) GE U30B 3.49 126.4 3.05 9.4 Jan. 2006 Athearn EMO 8050 4. 15 88.7 4.83 5.2 March 2004 (wilh DCC & sound) 13.61 194.7 & Feb. 2006 Atlas Alco S2 .65 82.5 3.52 4.4 Feb. 1991· (with sound & DCC) 5.07 108.0 AtlaS/Raco EMD FP7A .35 97.4 4.23 6.0 Dec. 1990' Spectrum (Bachmann)EMO F40PH Phase 111.39 80.3 3.79 3.8 Feb. 1992' Atlas GE U33C 1.18 89.3 3.81 1.8 May 1995 Spectrum (Bachmann) GE Dash 8-40C 1.96 87.4 3.69 3.4 May 1990' Atlas GE C30-7 .71 78.2 3.92 2.2 Feb. 1997 Spectrum (Bachmann) GE Dash 8·40CW 3.3 109.0 4.54 6.4 Feb. 1996 Atlas EMD GP40 .33 81.9 3.41 1.7 Nov. 2000 Spectrum (Bachmann) GE 44-Ton 1.28 55.0 0.81 1.3 April 2002 Atlas GE B23-7 .96 83.7 3.67 9.3 Dec. 2005 Spectrum (Bachmann) F·M H16·44 2.32 49.5 1.27 2.4 July 1997 (with DCC & souind) 7.81 109.0 Spectrum (Bachmann) EMC Gas Elec. .41 82.5 2.34 3.0 Aug. 1994 Bachmann·Plus GE B23·7 1.75 84.9 3.17 2.9 July 1992' Spectrum (Bachmann) EMD DDA40X .68 133.5 6.68 3.2 Aug. 1997 Bachmann-Plus EMO F7A (& F7B) .93 88.7 3.38 2.5 Jan. 1996 Stewart Hobbies EMD FTA (& FTB) .18 70.3 3.94 2.6 Nov. 1996 (.93) (84.9) (5.82) (2.4) Jan. 1996 Stewart Hobbies Alco C628 1.20 69.5 2.92 2.2 Aug. 1999 Bachmann EMD GP40 .34 86.1 2.24 3.8 Feb. 2005 Siewart Hobbies Baldwin va 1000 1.05 77.1 1.65 0.7 Feb. 2000 with sound & DCC .53 108.0 Walthers/Roco EMD SWI .21 53.3 2.47 1.4 March 1993 Broadway Ltd. EMO E7A 2.19 62.5 4.53 9.4 Sept. 04 WalthernlTrainline Alco FAI (& FBI) .31 68.7 4.47 4.2 April 1997 Boradway Lts. GE C30·7 .88 83.1 3.74 2.4 Oct. 2005 (.16) (65.3) (8.22) (3.8) Con-Cor/Roco EMD GP40 .97 112.1 2.93 9.5 March 1991' WalthersiTrainline EMD GP9M 1.18 73.8 2.64 4.0 March 1995 Con·Cor/Roco EMD GP40 .29 99.0 2.91 3.2 April 1991' WalthersiTrai nline with Alco FAI .98 92.1 3.9 nla Sept. 1998 (with Mashima can motor) MRC DCC Decoder Con·Cor EMD MP150C .51 69.7 1.46 1.1 Sept. 1996 Con-Cor EMD 8W1500 (8W 7) 1.99 265.9 .57 2.2 Dec. 1997 E·R Models (Frateschi) Alco FAI 1.95 114.2 2.39 5.4 Oct. 1993 HO Scale Electric Locomotives 1.0 June 2000 E-R Models (Fraleschi) Alco FAI .64 89.3 3.70 3.0 Dec. 1995 AUas EMD AEM·7 2.42 123.8 4.33 2.0 Sept. 03 E·R Models EMD FP7A 3.70 92.8 3.24 3.4 May 1999 Spectrum, by Bachmann GE E33 0.07 99.8 2.72 4.6 Nov. 2005 Genesis. by Athearn SD751 2.12 110.0 4.01 3.5 July 1999 Trix by Marklin GG 1 .24 117.6 5.11 Genesis, by Athearn EMO FlA .14 95.0 4.19 4.1 March 2001 (with DCC & sound) 4.29 132.0 Genesis, by Athearn EMD F3A .35 76.2 3.86 4.3 July 2002 EMO F3A & F3B .24 79.2 7.79 4.1 July 2002 HO Scale Steam Locomotives IHC EMO E8A (& E8B) 1.96 144.9 2.51 5.0 Feb. 1995 Bachmann· Plus SP 4·8·4 .18 112.1 2.31 1.9 Sept. 1993 (1.50) (136.6) (5.03) (4.8) Bowser B&O Q.4·0T .90 102.4 1.46 1.8 Dec. 1992' (with 25ounces added weight) 2.97 146.7 4.38 7.4 Bowser PRR H-9 2-8-0 .64 89.3 3.70 2.8 Nov. 1995 (1 .88) (136.6) (8.75) (6.4) Feb. 1995 Bowser PRR Ml-a (stock) 4-8-2 1.30 78.2 5.97 2.8 Juty 2000 tHC EMD S035 4.38 123.75 2.48 2.0 July 1996 Bowser PRR Ml·a (w/Helix Humper can) 1.81 '69.1 5.40 NA July 2000 InterMountain EMD F7A 0.78 77.6 3.79 1.7 June 2001 Bowser PRR Ml·a (sW/NWSL can & gears) 1.37 49.1 7.99 2.7 July 2000 Kato EMO S040 1.18 81 .9 3.29 3.0 June 1991 Broadway Ltd. NYC jle 4·6-4 1.73 41.4 2.71 9.2 Feb. 2003 KATO EMO S040 2.86 74.3 3.48 2.2 Oec.2001 Broadway Ltd. N&W 2·6·6-4 2.59 90.7 7.97 9.5 Dec. 03 Kato/Stewart EMD F3A (& F3B) .38 83.1 4.28 2.9 Sept. 1989' Broadway Ltd. USRA 'Heavy' 2-8·2 4.87 82.5 2.71 9.6 July 04 (similar GP7 models by Atlas) (.31) (81.9) (9.00) (2.8) Sept. 1989' Broadway Ltd.(Slealth)USRA 'Heavy' 2·8-2 4.01 78.2 3.15 9.5 June 2006 Kato EMO GP35 .29 82.5 2.87 2.2 Nov. 1992' (with DeC/no sound) 8.43 l1B.8 Kato EMO NW2 .76 67.9 2.44 3.0 Feb. 1994' Genesis. by Athearn USRA 2·8-2-Light .58 52.8 2.51 1.4 pec. 1999 Kato G.E. Dash 9-44CW 1.52 78.7 4.35 2.0 Oct. 1996 GeneSiS, by Athearn USRA 4-6·2 Light 1.90 64.6 2.20 1.0 Sepr. 2001 Kato . Alco RS2 1.48 78.7 3.40 2.0 Feb. 1999 Heritage, by Proto 2000 USRA 2-8-8-2 2.25 46.0 3.52 3.0 Feb. 2000 Kato Alco RSC2 2.58 75.2 4. 19 2.1 Feb. 1999 Heritage, by Proto 2000 USRA 2·8·8-2 Keystone/NWSL GE 44-Ton .17 36.9 1.52 2.0 March 1990' w/Sound & DCe 2.76 53.0 11.4 9.3 May 2005 Hobbytown EMO E8A .60 81.4 5.92 3.3 Jan. 1991' Heritage. by Proto 2000 USRA 0·8·0 2.80 51.0 2.09 3.5 Sept. 2000 InterMountain EMO F7A .78 77.8 3.79 1.7 June 2001 Heritaae, by Proto 2000 NKP 2-8·4 0.31 67.9 3.28 4.1 June 04 Lionel Veranda Tu rbine 4.33 89.3 5.49 5.49 Sept.04 Heritage, by Proto 2000 USRA 0·6·0 0.14 54.0 1.33 3.5 Nov.2002 MOC Roundhouse Alco RS3 .61 94.3 3.98 2.8 April 1994' Heritage, by Prolo 2000 USRA 0·8-0 4.04 61 .9 2.62 9.0 Feb. 2006 Model Power EMO GP9 .26 104.2 2.71 1.7 Nov. 1990' (with DCC & souind) 6.10 86.7 Aj iniOverland Models EMO SW1500 .36 74.3 2.53 1 .2 Augusl 1990' IHC 4·4·0 1.17 56.0 1.14 3.5 Dec. 1994 Ajin/Overland Models EMO SD60 .37 80.3 4.49 2.0 April 1991 ' IHC/Mehano B&0 0-4-0T 1.42 132.0 .92 2.0 Dec. 1992- (Chassis) IHC/Mehano SP 2·6-0 .81 77.6 1.90 4.2 Jan. 1994 AjiniOverland Models EMO GP38-2 .42 79.2 1.95 2.0 Nov. 1991' IHC/Mehano C&O 4-8,2 .36 89.3 2.71 3.0 Sept. 1994 (Chassis) IHe 2·8·0 .42 74.7 2.53 2.5 March 1997 AJiniOverland Models EMO GP15T 3.55 76.2 4.69 1.2 March 2000
56 RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 Manufaclul8l'nmporter prototype Min, Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Manulacturernmportar Prototype Min, Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Speed No, 6 Speed TractIve Raaponae Date Speed No.6 Speed TractIve Raaponae Date SwItch(amph) (.mph) Force(Oz.) Mldl08d(v,) SwItch(amph) (.mph) Force (oz.) Mldl08d (v,)
Key Imports UP 4-8-8-4 .44 62.2 6.47 4.6 Aug. 1991' Model Power/ 184.7 .83 3.8 Sept. 1990' lile-Like B&O 0-4-OT 1.37 104.2 1.01 .9 Dec. 1992' Mehanotenika EMD F40PH 3.14 150.3 1.03 3.2 July 19S9' lionel UP 4-6-6-4 2.60 72.9 3.43 9.2 Feb & April 04 SamhongsaiHalimark EMD F3A (& F3B) .29 (151.4) (2.04) (3.2) July 1989' Mantua 2-6-6-2 3_00 70.2 5.27 7.0 June 1991 (.35) Mantua 0-6-0T NA 126.4 2.09 3.2 June 1991 N Scale Steam Locomotives Mantua 2-8-2 .65 76.2 3.36 3.5 June 1994 Alias Rogers 2-6-0 .20 237.0 .32 1.8 Aug.2005 Mantua wlM ashima 2-6-6-0 .24 50.6 2.17 4_2 June 1991 Bachmann/Spectrum Baldwin 2-8-0 .22 74.4 .82 2.0 June 2002 Mantua 0-4-0 .90 107.0 3.55 4.0 June 1995 Bachmann/Spectrum USRA 'Light' 4-8-2 .13 61.4 .37 1.6 Nov. 2004 Mantua with 812 Can Motor 0-4-0 1.86 84.9 3.39 1.8 June 1995 Bachmann/Spectrum USRA 2-6-6-2 0.30 78.7 0.46 1.4 July 2005 MDC (Roundhouse) Class B Shay 2.54 33.1 1.54 2.2 Oct. 2000 Con-Cor SP GS-4, 4-8-4 4.32 218.0 .89 2.5 Dec. 2002 MDC(Roundhouse) Baldwin 2-8-0 .49 40.8 .97 2.5 June 2003 Heritage, by L1le-Like USRA 2-8-8-2 2.21 107.9 .52 4.1 March 2003 Model Power PRR 2-8-0 4.77 73.8 0.85 1.5 August 1996 Heitagae, by Lile-L1ke NKP 2-8·4 0.25 108.5 0.42 2.0 Jan. 2005 Aiin/Overland Models NYC 2-8-2 .50 74_3 3.79 1.6 Sept. 1991' Kato USRA 2-8-2 3.10 111.8 .7 2.5 April 1996 Precision Scale (Iron Horse)UP 4-10-2 7.02 53.0 3.08 2.9 Jan. 1998 & Oct. 1997 Rivarossi 4-6-6-4 5.90 71.6 9.47 3.3 Jan. 1997 Rivarossi USRA 2-8-2 1.78 70.7 4.47 2.4 May 1997 Kato USRA 2-8-2 4.80 122.5 1.04 2.9 June 1998 Rivarossi UP 4-8-4 3.64 99.0 4.86 4.8 Jan. 04 (GHO PRR L-l) SamhongsaiPowemouse USRA 2-6-6-2 .28 57.1 8.78 3.0 July 1989' Key Imports C&O 2-6·6·6 .59 96.9 1.27 3.8 June t 997 Spectrum (Bachmann) Reading 2-8-0 _22 104.2 2_38 2.1 Dec. 1993 MDC (Roundhose) Baldwin 2-8-0 .10 110.1 .51 1.6 Jan. 2002 Spectrum (Bachmann) PRR 4-6-2 1.21 91.4 2.32 2.2 Oct. 1994 Pecos River AT SF 4-6-2 .44 87.2 .88 4.4 Jan. 1995 2.4 Oct. 1999 Spectrum (Bachmann) PRR 4-6-2 .72 80.8 2.50 Aivarossi USRA 2-8-2 3.00 177.2 1.14 9.0 Oct. 1991 Spectrum (Bachmann) Baldwin 2-8-0 .30 83.7 2.83 2.4 July 1998 Rivarossi (w/N Scale 01 USRA 2-8-2 .49 160.3 .66 4.5 Oct. 1991 Spectrum (Bachmann) USRA 4-8-2 2.75 64_9 2.41 2.8 Nov. 1999 Nevada Irame & NWSL Spectrum (Bachmann) ClassB 3-Truck Shay .46 15.3 2.26 1.8 April 2001 Sagami 1420 can motor) Spectrum (Bachmann) 'Russian' 2-t 0-0 .33 64.2 1.86 4.5 May 2002 Spectrum (Bachmann) N&W 4-8-4 .87 73.3 2.88 3.9 Sept. 2002 Spectrum (Bachmann) Baldwin 4-6-0 (63") .35 77.1 1.67 3.2 MAY 2003 S Scale Diesels Spectrum (Bachmann) Baldwin 4-6-0(57") .20 67_9 1.53 1.8 July 2003 American Models EMD GP35 .54 78.0 7.85 2.0 June 1993 Tf)( UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4 1.40 53.0 5.61 4.3 March 2002 S Helper Service EMD SW9 .29 55.6 4.32 1.7 Oct. 1998 Tr ix USRA 'Light' 2-8-2 2.76 86.1 2.37 6.8 Aug. 1994 S Helper Service EMD SWI Westside 'Classic' SP 4-6-0 .49 49.1 3.24 1.7 Augus1 1992' .09 51.3 4.06 1.5 June 2004 S Helper Service EMD F7A 1.06 72.8 6.66 1.1 Dec. 2004 N Scale Diesels o Scale Diesels Arnold Alco S2 1.90 151.4 .44 2.0 Mar. 1991' Central Loco. Works EMD F7A (& F7B) .25 72.0 Atlas EMO GP7 .48 237.0 .57 2_D Oct. 1995 20.68 4.4 Sept. 1989' Atlas (with OCC decoder) EMD GP 40-2 .42 203.7 .73 3.6 May 1998 (.20) (65.5) (39.10) (4.0) Sept. 1989' Atlas EMD SO 60 1.63 222.4 0.90 1.6 March 1999 KeylSamhongsa Alco PAI .41 76.2 21.85 5.6 April 1992' AtiasiKato GE U25B (two) .29 222.4 .64 2.0 June 1989' P&D Hobby EMD F9A (& F9B) .25 77.1 5.79 1.2 June 1990' (.31) (189.6) (1.37) (2.0) June 1989' (.24) (74. 1) (12.80) (1 .9) June 1990'
AtiasiKato EMD SD7 1.29 231.9 .60 1.7 April 1990' P&D Hobby EMD F3B .25 77.1 5.81 1.6 Jan. 1993 AtlaS/Kato EMD GP35 1.07 213.7 .61 22 Nov. 1992' Red Caboose EMD GP9 .27 81.9 12.78 2.2 June 1992' Bachmann EMD SD40-2 .74 148.3 1.03 2.4 Sept. 1989' Weaver (0 scale) Alca FA2 .22 72.8 15.31 1.9 July 1989' Bachmann wiN Scale of EMD SD40-2 .82 155.7 1.25 2.6 Sept. 1989' Weaver (Hi-Rail) Alca FA2 .21 100.8 12.53 2.2 August 1995 Nevada Chassis Alco FA2 (& FB2) .25 (94.9) (19.25) (2.0) August 1995 Bachmann/Spectrum EMC Gas Elec. 20.0 110.1 0.38 3.2 Aug. 1998 Weaver EMD E8 .30 105_6 14.45 2.1 July 1993 Bachmann/Spectrum GE Dash 8-40C .44 113.0 1.15 5.2 April 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 Models Baldwin Sharnose A-B .38 75.2 .52 3.4 Feb. 2002 SamhongsaiHallmark On3-EBT 2-8-2 .22 33.8 9.09 2.4 Aug. 1989' InterMountain EMD SD45-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 Alco PAl (& PB1) 1.43 167.7 1.25 1.7 Dec. 1998 (1.07) (156.8) (2.328) (1.8) Dec. 1998 Kato EMD E8A .26 222.4 .96 2_0 Aug. 1993 G Gauge Diesels
EMD E8A & (E8B) (.26) (220.4) (1.92) (2.3) Aug. 1993 Atlas EMD SW8/9 .63 60.t 12.49 2. I April 1999 Kato GE U30C .48 242.2 .88 2.4 Feb. 1990' LGB Alco DL535E 2.67 48.0 27.01 N/A April 1990 Kato GE Dash 9-94CW .11 198.2 .84 1.4 Nov. 1997 Lionel EMD GP7 .38 55.6 14.74 5.9 May 1991 Kato Alco RS2 .30 167.7 .52 1.4 Sept. 1999 Railway Express Agency Alco FA 1 3.79 68.2 15.25 N/A July 1990 Kato EMD SD70MAC .03 187.9 .70 1.1 Aug. 2003 Key/Endo EMD F7A (& F7B) .39 145.3 .57 3.8 Mar. 1992' (_50) (150.3) (1.27) (3.0) Mar. 1992' G Gauge Steam Locomotives Kato Budd RDC-2 .22 21 1.7 .50 1.2 Aug. 2002 Aristo-Craft (ART) B&O 4-6-2 1.15 51.9 28.08 2.0 Oct. 1991 Budd RDC-3 .54 234.4 .50 1.3 Aug. 2002 Aristo-Craff (ART) & PRR 0-4-0 .94 72.7 12.13 1.6 Jan. 1992' RDC-2 & RDC-3 .44 218.0 1.00 1.2 Aug. 2002 Lehmann (LGE) 0-4-0T 2.40 28.7 7.24 �IA May 1992' Bachmann 0-4-0T .31 25.6 6.38 2.6 Aug. 1992' Life-Like EMD F9A (& F9B) 2.04 177.2 1.41 5.0 Aug. 1989' Bachmann Radio- (1.84) (166.4) (2.78) (4.7) Aug. 1989' Conlrolled Baldwin 4-6-0 .55 25_2 28.81 N/A June 1989' Lile-Like Alco FA2 (& FB2) 1.19 158.0 .91 4.0 May 1993 Bachmann Track- (.66) (149.3) (1.81) (3.4) May 1993 Powered Baldwin 4-6-0 5.50 Life-Like Alco PA l 2.97 139.7 1.21 3.4 Nov. 1998 38.4 11.23 1.0 Oct. 1990' Life-Like F-M ALT-200-3 .14 107.4 1.02 1.8 April 2003 Bachmann 2-Truck Shay .95 14.0 29.22 3.3 May 2000 lile-Like EMD GP18 1.20 167.0 .84 3.0 April 1994' Delton Loco. Works D&RG 2-8-0 .12 40.9 t7.00 2.0 Dec. 1989' lile-Like EMD E8A 1.63 149.3 1.27 4.0 April 1995 LGB 2-6-0 2.65 54.8 22.45 N/A Nov. 1991' lile-Like EMD SD7 .29 121.1 1 .48 2.45 June 1996 LGB Forney 0-4-4T 2.74 36.1 26.39 NlA July 1994
Lffe-Like EMD E7A 3.14 140.6 1.33 4.3 Feb. 1998 Lionel Baldwin 0-4-0T .12 54.5 9.60 1.8 Oct. 1989' life-Like EMD SW9 .45 106.9 .40 2.0 April 1995 Kalamazoo Toy Trains 0-4-OT .48 50.1 13.47 1.1 Jan.1991'
Lile-Like EMD GP20 3.59 116.6 .57 1.6 June 1999 Kalamazoo Toy Trains 4-4-0 .82 67.1 13.18 1.3 Jan.1991' Micro-Trains EMD FTA .12 1112.4 1.31 1.5 6an. 2003 Note: Figures in parentheses are lor Iwo locomotives operated together.
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L ______� RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 59 [INDEX] PREVIOUS PROTOTYPE· BASED LAYOUT TOURS
Ann Arbor: Arnt Gerritsen's 33 x 33-foot southern Michigan car float operations, November 2001.
ATS F (see Santa Fe)
BNSF (see ATS F & BN)
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) Larry Kline's 30 x 20-foot 0 scale layout, Apri l 1991.
Greg Smith's 14 x J6-foot Monongah Division, October 1991.
Steve Kraus ' 16 x 40-foot Nostalgia Line in N scale, May 1995.
John Listermann's 25 x 30-foot Cumberland Division, November 2004.
Bob Bales' 22 x 45-foot helper district, January 2005.
John Miller's 36 x 44-foot Cincinatti layout, March 2005 .
Tony Michael's 18 x 25-foot 0 scale layout, April 2005.
Bessemer & lake Erie (B&lE) Harry Smith's 2 x 12-foot NTRAK N Mike Palmiter's HO scale recreation of Dan Holbrook (and Range Research) scale ore docks, September 1997. downtown Chicago in 20 x 52 feet, Duluth-Superior layout, Part I, Nov. 2000. October 2001.
Boston & Maine Railroad (BM) Canadian National (CNR): Charles Harmantas' 2 x 24-foot Nashua Burlington Northern (BN) Ian Wilson's Grand River in 12 x 12 feet layout, August 1997. Norris Zinn's 15 x 20-foot Camas Prairie in HO scale, September 2000. layout, March 1995. Richard Chrysler's 18 x 30-foot British Prototypes: Tim Dickinson's 20 x 33-foot layout, Hagersville Sub, March 2003. Dave and Shirley Rowe's 4 x 9-foot July 1996. Exebridge Quay, August 1993. John Sleen's J 1 x 12-foot Maplehurst John Swanson's 30 x 70-foot Nebraska Subdivision, December 2003. Tim Watson's 5-1/2 x II-foot Caldecot mainline, July 1997. Green on the London, Midland and Steve Rosnick's 18 x 36-foot Iowa Canadian Pacific (Cp) Scottish, in N scale, December 1994. Mike Soebbing's 25 x 29-foot BNSF/CP Division on two decks, June 1998. Joint Line, April 1999. Burlington Route (also CB&Q, FW&D Mike Soebbing's 25 x 29-foot BNSF/CP and C&S) Tom Combs' 15 x 20-foot layout, Joint Line, April 1999. February 2000. Midwest Mod-U-Trak 10 x 20-foot Pete Mathews' 3 x I2-foot N scale modular layout, April 1990 and reprinted Roy Audas' Sudbury Division 20 x 20- Ribbon Cliff, Washington NTRAK in LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS. modules, August 1999. foot Jayout, February 2003.
60 RAILMODEL)OURNAL ' FEBRUARY 2006 Chessie System (see B&O, C&O & CSx)
Chicago & North Western (also CNW, CM&O, Omaha) Dennis Blunt's 18 x 28-foot Omaha Road, June 1997.
Bob DaBruzzi's 13 x 48-foot St. Croix Division, February 1999.
Chicago Great Western (CGW) Bob Mozawa's 13 x 23-foot layout, May 1997.
Clinchfield (CRR) David O. Johnston's 22 x 40-foot Clinchfield, January 1995.
Colorado Midland Alan Jackson's 34 x 47-foot layout, July 2004.
Conrail (CRR) Mike Hulbert's N scale 18 x 22-foot Trap, N ' Garnett Ridge, November 1991.
Delaware & Hudson Railway (D&H) To ny Steele's 25 x 39-foot Second Subdivision on four decks, October and November 1999.
Tunkhannock Viaduct (ex-Lackawanna) at Nicholson, Pennsylvania on a 2 x 6- foot NTRAK module, by Bud Pedley, March 2001. AI Crisp's 24 x 54-foot CP Sub, May 2003. Paul Fulk's 2 x 8-foot N scale NTRAK module of Thurmond, West Virginia, Roger Chrysler's 11-112 x 42-foot CPR Denver & Rio Grande Western July 1993. Electrified Lines, May 2003. (standard gauge) (D&RGW) Larry Swanson's, Sailda-to-Montrose Bernard Kempinski's Quinnimont Andy Panko's 18 x 32-foot Niagra D&RG on two decks, February 2002. NTRAK module, New River layout and Region, June 2003. 21 x 30-foot home layout, August 1996. Denver & Rio Grande Western Ron Culpitt's 15 x 30 Revelstoke Sub in John Plant's 6 x 14-foot Hinton, West (narrow gauge) (D&RGW) N scale, July 2003. Virginia NTRAK module set on the New Harry Sage, Jrs.' 15 x 22-foot HOn3 Waterloo Model Railroad Club's 40 x River, May 1997. Chama Subd ivision, April 1992. 50-foot seven-deck Sudbury Division, Ted Wilke's 18 x 50-foot layout on four Slim Gauge Guild's 30 x 30-foot HOn3 July 2003 . decks, August 1998. layout, May 1996. Anthony Craig's 22 x 28-foot double-deck C. Bryan Kidd's 2 x 16-foot Allegheny, Kettle Valley Division, November 2003. Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic: Virginia, October 1998. Gregg Condon's 11 x 70-foot DSS&A, April 2004. Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) John Plant's Kanawha Falls, on the New Vic Roseman's 1 I x 14-foot Lafayette Ri ver, as an NTRA K modu Ie set, Branch, December 1996. August 2001. East Broad To p (EBT) Pittsburgh Model Railroad Society 12 x John Brown's 20 x 26-foot New River 20-foot modular HOn3 layout, May Chesapeake & Ohio (also C&O, Division, April 2003 . 1990. Chess ie, & csx) Gary Burddette's 2- 1/2 x 5-foot module Andy Panko's 18 x 32-foot Niagra Doug Talyor's 12 x 36-foot HOn3 EBT of Thurmond, West Virginia, April 1992. Region, June 2003. (all of it), May 1998.
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 61 LAYOUT TOURS
Erie: Tunkhannock Viaduct at Nicholson, Nathan MuJldren's 25 x 40-foot two Harold Wirthwine ' s basement-size Pennsylvania on a 2 x 6-foot NTRAK deck "Roads East" and Roads West," divisions in operation, January 2002. module, by Bud Pedley, March 2001. March 2004.
Paul Cappel loni's 26 x 38-foot three Doug Nighswonger's 20 x 20-foot Coast Erie-Lackawanna (see also level Bangor and Portland Branch, Division, October 2005. Lackawanna): January 2006. E-L Operations in Pennsylvania in HO scale, by Joe Lofland, March 200 l. Missabe Railroad (DM&IR) Lehigh Va lley Railroad (LV) Jeff Otto's 27 x 47-foot Missabe Paul Cappelloni's Bangor and Portland Doug & Steve Kley's j 6 x 36-foot, two Northern on two decks, December 1995. Branch 26 x 38-foot three-level layout, deck, Lehigh Valley and Reading January 2006. Rai Iroad, December 1990. Dan Hollbrook (and Range Research) Duluth-Superior layout, Part I, Nov. Ken Gross' 20 x 40-foot two-level 2000. Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville: Lehigh Valley and Wyoming Divisions, Steve Lamora's 30 x 30-foot FJ&G, February 2006. February 2004. Missouri Pacific: Lee Freeman's Missouri Pacific IS x 34 Long Island Railroad (URR) foot, April 1996 and September 2002. Frisco (SLSF) Brian Sheron's 17 x 3 I-foot layout, Rick McClellan's 25 x 40-foot September 1997. NEON's club Tulsa, Oklahoma "Inter Springfield Terminal Division, February Locker" NTRAK modules, July 2002. 1998. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N) NEON's club Tulsa, Oklahoma "lnter Michael George's Knoxville & Atlanta New Haven Railroad (NH) Locker" NTRAK modules, July 2002. Division in 24 x 31 feet, February 1996 John Klotz 25 x 35-foot York Haven, and September 1998. November 1989 and reprinted in LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS. Great Northern Railway (GN) Jeff Otto's 27 x 47-foot Missabe Maine Central Mike Palmiter's HO scale recreation of Northern on two decks, December 1995. Neil Horning's 21 x 54-foot MC and downtown New York City in 20 x 52 S&SC branchline, September 2004. feet, December 2001. Ole Melhouse' 11 x 22-foot Dakota Northern, November 1997. Milwaukee Road (CMSt.P) New Yo rk Central System (NYC) Dan Hollbrook's (and Range Research) Bill Denton's 12 x 20-foot Chicago, Ron Parisi's 2 x 6-foot New York City's Duluth-Superior layout, Part I, Rockford & LaCrosse Railroad, in N West Side module, December 1992 and November 2000. scale, February 1994. repri nted in LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS. Gordon Bossen's ore dock at Allouex, Jim Nelson's 10 x 22-foot layout on two Minnesota on a 2 x 12-foot NTRAK decks, April 1999. Mike Palmiter' s 12 x 27-foot Chicago module set, February 200 l. Terminal, January 1996. Tacoma, by the Puget Sound Model RR Sam Parfitt's 33 x 47-foot Duluth-Seattle Enginers, 25 x 80-foot layout, January Mike Palmiter's S scale 12 x 27-foot layout, March 2005. 2003. Hudson-Harlem Division, September 1999. Great Western (sugar) Railway (GW) George Booth's 20 x 20-foot layoLlt, February, March and Junel99 1.
Illinois Central Railroad (lC) Mike Palmiter's 12 x 27-foot Chicago Terminal in S scale, January 1996.
Mike Palmiter' s HO scal e recreation of downtown Chicago in 20 x 52 feet, October 200 I .
Kaw Valley Railroad Mike Fyton is recreating the shortline Kaw Valley Railroad between Lawrence and Kansas City, Kansas in S scale on his 21 x 31-foot layout, April 1998.
Lackawanna (see also Erie Lackawanna) Lackawanna's (now D&H) 62 RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 Ken McCorry's 16 x 32-foot Buffalo Mike Fyton is recreating the shortline Kaw Valley Railroad between Lawrence and Kansas Division, on fo ur decks, May 1993. City, Kansas on his 21 x 31-foot layout in 5 scale. The Layout To ur appeared in the April 1998 issue. Ken McCorry's "new" 31 x 79-foot Buffa lo Division, on two decks, March 1994 and reprinted in LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS.
Nick Kallis' II x 26-foot Sunnyside Yard, July 1998.
AI Buchan's Erie & Ashtabula Division, Erie & Pittsburg Branch, in HO scale, February 200 L.
Doug Taylor's 21 x 42-foot M i ddle and Pittsburgh Divsions, July 200 I.
Bill Neale's 22 x 25-foot two-deck "Panhandle" at We i rton Junction, January 2004.
Robert Mackendrick's 12 x 28-foot single-track branchline, October 2004.
Curt LaRue's I S x 35-foot "Panhandle" at Weirton Junction, February 2005.
John Wright's 2 x 13-foot Whitehall Branch (South Pittsburgh), July, August and September 2005.
Bill Blackburn's 18 x 24-foot Great Valley Division, November 2005. Mike Palmiter's HO scale recreation of Norfolk Southern (NS) (see N&W downtown Chicago in 20 x 52 feet, and Southern) Larry Reynold's 27 x 43-foot Middle and October 2001. Robert Martin's 10 x SO-foot N scale Pittsburgh Divisions ("Altoona to layout, June 2002. Horseshoe Curve"), December 2005. Mike Palmiter's HO scale recreation of downtown New York City in 20 x 52 Northwestern Pacific (NWP) feet, December 2001. Reading Company (RDG) Don Cabrall's IS x 18-foot Hessel & Doug & Steve Kley's 16 x 36-foot, two Lone Pine, April 2000. deck, Lehigh Valley and Reading Norfolk & Western (N&W) Railroad, December 1990. Jim Brewer's 52 x 94-foot Shenandoah Pacific Electric Division, October 1996. Jim Hertzog's 32 x 41-foot Shamokin Charles Hepperle's Las Palmas 2 x 8- Division, December 2000. foot module, August 2004. Northern Pacific Railway (NP) Jerry Strangari ty's 2- 112 x 16-foot Herb Chaudiere, Chuck Swanberg, Penn Central (PC) Philadelphia city scenes, December Robert Johnson and Howard Duffy 's 2 x John Lassahn's 16 x 24-foot Penn 2004. 8-foot "Puget Short Line Association" Central on two decks in N scale, October layout, March 1990. 1994. Richmond, Fredricksburg & Norris Zinn's I S x 20-foot Camas Prairie Potomac (RF&P) John Miller's 36 x 44-foot Cincinatti layout, March 1995. John Cook's 2 x 12-foot Northern layout, March 2005. Virginia N scale NTRAK modules, July Dan Hollbrook (and Range Research) 1996. Duluth-Superior layout, Part 1, Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) November 2000. Bill and Wayne Reid's 23 x 27-foot Rutland Railroad (RT) Cumberland Val ley Railroad, February Tacoma, by the Puget Sound Model RR Rensselaer Model Railroad Club's 22 x 1990 and reprinted in THE JOURNAL Engineers, 25 x 80-foot layout, January 58-foot New England, Berkshire & OF N SCALE MODELING. 2003 . Western, December 1989 and reprinted Howard Zane's 26 x 26-foot Piedmont in LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS. Puget Junction (ficticious) in 2 x 12 feet Division, November 1990. by the Puget Sound Short Line Santa Fe Railway (ATS F) Association (circa (966), October 2003. Bob Davis's 20 x 20-foot Blue Mountain John Altschool's 25 x 40-foot Santa Fe Division, March 1993. Southwestern, April 1993.
RAILMODELjOURNAL . FEBRUARY 2006 63 LAYOUT TOURS
Russe\! Straw's 2-1/2 x 12-foot N scale Gene Martin's .12 x 16-foot Lodi, Norris Zinn's 15 x 20-foot Camas Prairie modules of Sugar Land, Texas, California layout, March 2000. layout, March 1995. December 1993. Scott Kew's 26 x 61-foot Dunsmuir to Buzz Lenander's 3 x 8-foot N scale Pelle Soeborg's 15 x 16-foot Tehachapi Black Rock layout on two decks, June NTRAK module of McPherson, Kansas layout, December 1998 and October 2000. oil refinery, November 1996. 2002. Jim Sweeney's 15 x 44-foot S scale John Swanson's 30 x 70-foot Nebraska Mike Soebbing's 25 x 29-foot BNSF/CP Oakland-to-Reno layout, July 2000. mainline, July 1997. Joint Line, April 1999. Chris Palomarez' 45-degree Free-Mo Mel Johnson's 2-1/2 x 12-foot modules Gregg Fuhriman's 2 x 1 2-foot Free-Mo module, January 200l. of Marysville, Kansas, November 1998 module set, January 2001 . and August 2004. Al Mack' s 14 x 18-foot Nscale NEON's club Tulsa, Oklahoma "Inter Tehachapi layout, November 2002. Charli.e Stapleton'S 24 x 40-foot Kansas Locker" NTRAK modules, July 2002. Division, March 1998. Patrick Stanley's 13 x 42-foot Donner Dick Davis' 22 x 24-foot 2- 1 /2-deck Pass layout, November 2004. Pelle Soeborg's 15 x 16-foot Tehachapi Cajon Division, June 2004. layout, December J 998. David Skiff' s 27 x 33-foot "Rathole" Rick Stearn's 25 x 30-foot Los Angeles Division, May 2005. Brad Joseph's Wyoming Division in HO Division, May 2005 . scale, April 2001.
Southern Railway (SRR), Tacoma, by the Puget Sound Model RR Seaboard Coast Line (SCL) (SOUTHERN) Enginers, 25 x 80-foot layout, January Wayne Sidelinger's 3 x l6-foot Wayne Sidelinger's 3 x 16-foot 2003. pulpwood paper plant modules, January pulpwood paper plant modules, January 1991. ] 99 1. Mel Johnson's Marysville, Kansas 2 x 12-foot module, August 2004. J.D. Smith's 32 x 4l-foot Rathole Sierra Railway (SRR) Division, February 1997. Edward Petry's 34 x 50-foot Sierra (all United States Military Railroad: of it) on three decks, June and July 1999. Steve Abernathy's 4 x 4-foot Juliette, Bernard Kempinski's 10 x 12-foot Civil Georgia ("Fried Green To matoes") War-era layout with car flat, October module, October 1997. 2002. Soo Line (SOO) Bob Rivard's 20 x 30-foot layout, on two J.D. Smith's 56 x 61-foot "Rathole II" decks, January 1992 and reprinted in Southern Railway in HO scale, June Western Maryland Railway (WM) LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS, Bill and Wayne Reid's 23 x 27-foot 2001. January 1993 (the St. Paul Waterworks), Cumberland Valley Railroad, February and January 1999. Patrick Thoney's 24 x 40-foot Rathole 1990 and reprinted in THE JOURNAL Division, October 2004. OF N SCALE MODELING. Ray and Renee Grosser's 14 x 34-foot modular layout, March 1998. Larry Kline's 30 x 20-foot 0 scale Susquehanna (New Yo rk, layout, Apri I 1991. Marv Koening's 24 x 40-foot St. Paul to Susquehanna and Western), Chippewa Falls on two decks, March (NYSW) Jim Coshun's 1 x 2-1"00t N scale module 1999. of Detour, Maryland, November 1993. To ronto, Hamilton & Buffalo (TH&B) Dan Hollbrook (and Range Research) Andy Panko's 18 x 32-foot Niagra Western Pacific Railroad (Wp) Duluth-Superior layout, Part I, Region, June 2003. Jim Providenza's 18 x 20-foot layout, on November 2000. Greg Whayman's II x 17-foot layout, two decks, December 1991 and reprinted June 2003 . in LAYOUTS OF THE MASTERS and Southern Pacific (SP) December 1999. Joe Fugate's 25 x 45-foot Siskiyou Line, on two decks, September 1993 and June Union Railroad (URR): Jim Dias' 20 x 20-foot Feather River Modeling United States Steel's Union 2005. layout, May 2000. Railroad in 22 x 20 feet, by Bob O'Neil, Russell Straw's 2 x 20-foot N scale September 2003. Sugar Land, Texas, December 1993 and Yosemite Va lley (YV) Jack Burgess' 20 x 20-foot Yosemite April 2002. Union Pacific (Up) Valley (all of it) on four decks, January Bob Gilmore's and Kelley Newton's Sy Simonton's 26 x 48-foot 0 scale 2000. RMJ Utah N Rai l modules of the Weber River layout, June 1996. Canyon in N scale, Apri l 1993, February Pliny Holt's N scale Oakland Mole and December 1995. layout, in 18 x 22 feet, January 1998. Bill Pistello's Los Angeles Subdivision Pelle Soeborg's 15 x 16-foot Tehachapi in 1-112 x 22 fe et in N scale, March layout, December 1998. 1994. 64 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' FEBRUARY 2006 Call To day ro r .4 See Yo ur Dealer for Color Chip Chart! Railmodel Journal
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