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IIIiI!1 KATO U.S.A., INC. ·100 Remington Road· Schaumburg, IL 60173 April 1998 • Volume 9, Number 11 ALL SCALES: Modeling Industry: Cold Storage Warehouses in abandoned m~~ ...... 9 Model the Turner Creamery at Unity, Maine ...... 55 Time Capsule: Extra 22, on the Santa Fe, at Saint Louis, Missouri, September 15, 1997 ...... 35 HO SCALE: Modern Freight Car Modeling: Centerbeam Flat Cars, Part II, from Walthers and E&C Shops Kits ...... 4 Paccar 50-foot box car from Eel River Models Kits ...... 11 XTRA Lease/ J.B . Hunt 53-Foot plate Wall 44 trailer from A-Line's kit ...... ON THE COVER: - Th is HO scale SD39 is a model you can ki t-convert without fear Layout Design: of having a ready-to-run model appear because the prototype is just not common A Bookshelf-Full of Shortlines, five shelf- enough to be a candidate for a ma ss- produced model. Use the techniques shown on size layouts with carfloat staging ...... 14 pages 36-43, and your model wi ll also be rugged. -Stephen Priest photo Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time: the Proto 2000 EMO SW9 as UP 1851 from (Life-Like) S SCALE: DEPARTMENTS: mode/ ...... 24 Layout Tour: Experience-At Your Fingertips, more Modeling Freight Cars of The Fifties: Mike Fyton 's Kaw Valley Railroad ...... 18 about what's in this issue, 50-Foot AAR single-door box cars from Diesels, One-Detail-At-A Time: from articles in previous issues ...... 16 Proto 2000 kits ...... 30 Calendar ...... 67 EMO SW9 as UP 1851 from the S Index of all previous articles on modeling What's New ...... 68-71 freight cars of the fifties ...... 62 Helper Services Model ...... 24 Diesel Modeling: Locomotive Performance: EMO S039 as Santa Fe 4011 from Rail Summary of all previous Locomotive RAlltvIODEL JOURi'IAL is published 12 times a Power Products and Kato Parts ...... 36 Performance Test Reports ...... 66 year by Golden Bell Press, 2403 Champa St., Denver, CO 20205. Price per single copy is S3.95, Index of all previous articles on diesel or S28.00 per yeor in the U.S.A Individual copy modeling ...... 77 SCALE: prices higher in Canada and other countries. Passenger Car Modeling: o Diesels, One-Detail-At-ATime: Foreign subscriptions $36.00 for 12 issues, Hi-Level Amtrak and ATSF passenger cars payable in U.S. funds. RAlltvIODEL JOURNAL,' EMO SW9 as UP 1851 from Atlas from Train Station products kits ...... 47 ISSN 1043-5441 , copyright 1997 by Golden Bell Models ...... 24 Locomotive Performance: Press. All rig hts reserved. Periodicals Postoge paid Summary of all previous Locomotive Locomotive Performance: at Denver, CO. POSTMASTER: Send address Performance Test Reports ...... 66 Summary of all previous Locomotive changes 10 Railmodel Journal, 2403 Chompa SI., N SCALE: . Performance Test Reports ...... 66 Denver, CO 80205. Modern Freight Car Modeling: Centerbeam flat cars, Part II, trom Micro- Trains Kits ...... 4 Layout Design: A Bookshelf-Full of Shortlines, five shelf­ size layouts with carfloat staging ...... 14 Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time: EMO SW9 as UP 1851 from the Life-Like model ...... 24 Locomotive Performance: Life-Like SW9 Performance Test Reports ...... 27 Summary of all previous Locomotive Performance Test Reports ...... 66 Industry Modeling: Model the Turner Creamery at Unity, Maine with N scale plans ...... 55 [PAINT & DECALS] CENTERBEAM F..-: CARS Part II From Walthers and E & C Shops HO Scale Models and Micro-Trains N Scale Models Bill Onorato

These lumber-carrying cars are a common sight on many real rail­ roads. Part I, by D. ScoH ChaHield in the January 1996 issue, describ­ ed the proto~pe cars and their variations. There 1s an index of pre­ vious articles on similar bulkhead CSXT 600639. This is part of CSXT series 600560-600759 built by Gunderson. Except for flat cars on pages 16-17 of this the smaller 'opera windows' toward the ends of the center beam and a few smaller details, . the car is like the Walthers kit. - photo by Bill Onorato Issue. HO Decals: available lettered from Walthers, Islington Station 350-205A

HLSC 2555. HLSC is for Hampton Lumber Sales Co. These cars used to be CRLE 2500-2569 and 2800-2899 (see the, January issue of "The Journal" 1996, page 34). The change in reporting marks may be to facilitate return of cars fo r reloading. Owner Coe Rail is in Michigan, and the cars are loaded in Oregon, so trying to sort these cars from others with the same reporting marks could cause confu­ sion. - photo by Bill Onorato HO Decals: available lettered from Walthers, but change the reporting marks for 7/97 or later

BAR 718. Bangor and Aroostook is the largest owner of centerbeam flats in the Northeast. While most were built by NSC, there are three short series of Thrall Cars. This series BAR 716-727 has opera windows, as does a series purchased used from the Bay Line. Bar 701-715 cars have 'open' center beams. - photo by Bill Onorato HO Decals: Islington Station 350-205A 4 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1 998 TTX 86350. The first series of 73-foot centerbeam flats purchased by Trailer Train was the 'opera window' cars TTX 86275-86374 built 12/86. These cars originally had the Trailer Train logos, and most still do. This car has had them painted out and replaced with a TTX logo . - photo by Bill Onorato HO Decals: Islington Station 250-000A (with Trailer Train Logos)

CNA 623083. This car is part of series CNA 623000-623099 also built 12/86. These cars are in assigned service for loading in Canada for shipment to the U.S. - photo by Leo Landry HO Decals : Islington Station 260-000A

UP 273037. Union Pacific has one of the largest railroad-owned fleet of centerbeam flats. With all of the 'opera windows' the same size, this looks like the Thrall cars, but this car was built by Gunderson. -photo by Bill Onorato HO Decals : Islington Station 350-180

WCRC 2387 This Midsouth centerbeam, part of series WCRC 2300-2399, was leased from Washington Central when photographed in July, 1992. Later that year, these cars were purchased by Midsouth and became series MSRC 2305-2469. When Kansas City Southern bought Midsouth, these cars transferred ownership again, but they are still in Midsouth lettering. - photo by Bill Onorato HO Decals: Coming from Islington Station RAILMODEL JOURNAL - APRI L 1 998 5 BClT 871064. Another of the big owners of centerbeam flats is BC Rail, formerly British Columbia Railway. Most of these cars are assigned for loading in Canada for shipment to the U.S. Notice that this car is 71 teet rather than the the normal 73 feet in length. - photo by D. Scott Chatfield HO Decals: Walthers has the open-style car

MR 9007. The Longtree cars are one of three schemes used by Tricon Forest Products. This car is from series MR 9000-9049 and is paint­ ed light blue. Note the pads to protect the lumber where the tie-downs cross the top corner of the load. - photo by D. Scott Chattield HO Decals: Islington Station 250-01 OA

MR 9088. The second series of Tricon cars is MR 9050-9099 and is dark blue. There is a series of cars similarly lettered, except that they lack the two grey logos, that is painted red and has GVSR reporting marks. -photo by Bill Onorato HO Decals: Islington Station 250-010

CBRY 1646. CBRY 1600-1699 is another of the 'opera windows' centerbeam series. They usually carry Cavenham lumber, and are probably leased to them . -photo by Bill Onorato HO Decals: Islington Station 350-205A

6 RAILMODEL JOURNAL - APRIL 1998 BN 625049, from series 625000-625179, was one of the earliest of the open style centerbeam flats. - D. Scott Chatfield photo, June 1996 HO Scale: as lettered from Walthers.

BClT 873010, from series 873000-873099. Another of the early cars of this style, it has the optional tilting car and whip chain diagrams. These cars are in assigned service to be loaded in Canada for shipment to the U.S. only. -D. Scott Chatfield photo, May 1996 HO Scale: as lettered from Walthers.

nzx 87444, from series 87372-87541. The Walthers cars are lettered for the next car series after this one, and the lettering is almost identical, but note the absence of the wording "73.0' BETWEEN BULKHEADS" that is on the bulkheads of the Walthers model. - D. Scott Chatfield photo, October 1991 HO Scale: as lettered from Walthers.

nzx 86965, from series 86907-87081. This car was built less than a year before 87444, but note the differences in lettering. This car has the Trailer Train logo instead of nx and the tipping cars tilt toward the center of the car on the centerbeam and outward on all bulkhead fJositions . The wording of the warnings is different, too. Also compare it to the earlier nzx 86587 on page 34 of the January 1996 issue of "The Journal", which has only w ritten warnings. nx has the largest fleet of these cars. - Bill Onorato Photo, January 1992 HO Decals: Islington Station 250-000A.

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 7 SRY 73028, from series 73000-73099. Southern Railway of British Columbia is another of the small railroads that have these cars. They are used for international lumber shipments. By the time these cars were built in 1991 , the tilt diagrams were standard. - D. Scott Chatfied photo, June 1996 HO Decals: to be released soon by Islington Station

UP 273584, from series 273500-273679. Union Pacific also has a large fleet of cen­ terbeam flats. Note the UP logo on the upper right of the centerbeam. There's another photo of one of these cars in the January 1996 issue. -Bill Onorato photo, January 1997 HO Scale: as lettered from Walthers, but you must add the UP logo

NOKL 8260, from series 8200-8299. Northwestern Oklahoma cars are early 73- foot centerbeams, and only have the written car tipping warnings. On early cars, the diagrams were an option purchasers had to order. Note the pads to protect the lumber where the tie-down chains cross the top edge of the load. -Bill Onorato photo, May 1997 HO Decals: Islington Station 350-205

MR 9164, from series 9100-9299. McCloud River cars have the full set of dia­ grams. The tiedown cables show up well against the blue background, and the cars were new when photographed; the cables are all neatly aligned. The crews that unload these cars tend to save time and effort by hooking the tiedowns in a distant slot from the winch so they won't have to take up as much slack. -D. Scott Chatfield photo, October 1988 HO Decals: to be released soon by Islington Station.

UP 260119, from series 260100-260219. For comparison, this is the shorter McKean Models centerbeam. There wasn't space for the UP logo on the centerbeam, so they added a plate in the middle. - Christ Butts photo, June 1991 HO Decals: Islington Station 350-1 80

8 RAILMODEL JOURNAL - APRIL 1 998 ------[MODELING INDUSTRY]------

By Robert Schleicher

When trucks took over from the railroads to serve these cold storage warehouses, the empty mine portal was connected to con­ crete loading docks with sealed doors. This is Inland Cold Storage near Kansas City,

The raw stone tunnel portals were sufficient for mining limestone. At this Bonner Springs facility, the concrete walls and loading docks for the highway trucks were placed about 40 limestone cliff and a con­ feet inside the tunnel to provide weather protection for the trailers. crete tunnel portal with a closed steel door are all that's needed to duplicate these cold storage industries in miniature. These warehouses came into existence as the result of hundreds of abandoned limestone mines. Limestone was buried deep enough in the Kansas hills to make it cheaper to mine it rather than establish quarry operations. When the veins of limestone played out, the massive caverns provided immense ware­ houses with virtuall y no construction costs. The temperature inside the mines varies between 55 degrees in winter and 57 degrees in summer. The only constructi on necessary to convert these abandoned mines into warehouses is to provide a loading ramp to reach th e reefers (or trucks) and to build a sealable door so the outside air cannot affect the temperature inside the rnine. Inside, the railroad sid ings were long enough to hold 8 to 10 cars along a concrete loadi ng dock set at the freight The limestone was, apparently, mined in galleries much like coal. A 20 foot-wide mine car floor level, with a ramp down to the open ing was flanked by a 20-foot wide pillar of stone to support the roof of th e mine. RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APR IL 1998 9 ground level of the rest of the abandoned mine. Nearl y all of these abandoned mines­ turned-warehouses were served by th e rail roads. The railroad use of these fac ili­ ti es ceased at about the same rate as many oth er railroad refrigerator- ear- served in ­ dustries. They were quite active in th e forti es, and , gradually, during th e sixti es and seventies, truck transportati on took over. Today, it is rare to see a rail road car being switched into one of these caves, although the tracks are still in pl ace to most of them. There are dozens of these cold storage warehouses near Kansas City, Kansas, so it's not surprising that folks who are mod­ el ing Kansas would have one of th ese local industries. Mike Fyton has one on hi s S scale Kaw Vall ey Railroad that's in thi s issue of "The Journal," and Chuck Hitchcock has one on hi s fa mous HO scale Santa Fe layout. We hear rum ors th at prototypes for these cold storage facili ties exist in other parts of America. If you know of them, send us a photo­ graph or two and we'll run a fo ll ow-up arti cle. RMJ

10 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 [ TECHNIQUES] CA EE • 0 EEL KIT By Gerald Glow

Simple kit-conversion techniques are all that are needed to make a replica of these common 50-foot insulated box cars (commonly used to carry cases of beer) from the Eel River Models 62-foot kit.

RA/LMOOEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 11 bottom edge of the sill to within 2 feet of brake rigging and substituted Plano the ends with Evergreen .030 x .040-inch brake platforms on the ends above the plastic strip. The underframe is a little couplers. I also added a long grabiron more of a challenge, since not only the between the ladders on the ends using length has to be altered but also the end­ .0lD-inch wire with a hand-formed cen­ to-bolster measurement. Remove all but ter bracket (or use a Detail Associates lift 've always admired the Pacific 3.5 feet from the bolsters to ends and ring). Coast and Foundry 62-foot insulat­ shorten the distance between the bolster Home-built "trombone" style cut levers ed boxcars and wanted to model one of and second rib in to 5.5 feet. See the complete the detail. This is a needed part the Missouri Pacific cars. Conversions drawing for clarification. Again, rein­ but would probably be prohibitively ex­ left too many compromises, and scratch­ force the splices. pensive. It is not all that hard to fabricate building was just more work than I want­ The roof is easy enough to shorten by one that may not be totally cOlTect, but ed to extend. The solution came with the trimming one end 6 scale inches to the retains strength and really provides the entry of the Eel River model a few years first small rib then removing 10 feet 6 right look. Use .010-inch Detail ago. It is available factory painted, or inches from the other end. The real trick, Associates wire and 0.10 x .030-inch flat you can use the decal set offered by however is in converting the roof to a flat strip brass. It is essentially a flat "S" pat­ Oddballs Decals. Finally I had my one instead of pitched. The answer is to tern with vertical flat brass added. Tin a Missouri Pacific "beer car." However, do the opposite of typical scratch roof little of the back of the flat brass (keep it research revealed Missouri Pacific actu­ building technique: instead of scoring full length). Add a little flux (I li ke Tix ally had many more 50-foot versions of down the centerline and bending to a for this operation) and carefully sweat it the car than the 62-foot version, and I pitch, score on the underside and on with a clean iron. Cut off the excess actually had a few slides of them! Now straighten to flat. It will be necessary to flat material and dress the cuts with a file what to do? The first thing was wait for remove a bit of material from the under­ or abrasive disk on a Dremel tool. If you the 10-foot door version of the 62-footer side at the ends to provide a flat surface. haven't already made the bends for the since that would be the door required. i Square off the carbody ends in the True­ end, do so at this time. Drill a number 80 obtained an undecorated kit at a Missouri Sander. hole vertically into the car end and glue Pacific Historical Society swap meet a Final assembly can now begin. on a Detail Associates lift ring with few years ago and did a few preliminary Assemble the sides to the ends, then cyanoacrylate cement. The other end measurements on the body. make any final adjustments to the floor inserts into a number 80 hold drilled into I went no further until my friend Lee and glue to the body. Glue in weight to the coupler pocket. With careful con­ Freeman showed me how he had figured bring the car to desired total (4.5 oz. by struction, this can be a rigid assembly yet out the necessary cuts for the underframe NMRA Recommended Practice). Test be removable for coupler maintenance. and roof to go along with those for the the roof for fit and adjust as necessary, Paint the car with your favorite brand sides we had previously determined. Out but no not glue in at this time as it will be of paint, remembering MP equipment came the razor saw, and in a short time left in its "natural" color. Add ladders, tended toward the "maroonish" side. I we had the basic car. Then reality set in brake gear per kit instructions, and used a 2: 1 mixture of Badger Modelflex and we realized there were no decals underbody detail as desired. My proto­ Dark Tuscan Oxide Red and Light available, but that Oddballs had one for a type (782225-782349) had End-of-Car Tuscan Oxide Red. Decal and letter it similar car printed in red for a white car. Air Pacs, hence the large air cylinder with Oddballs decal set 187-l32. Add A call to Tom Stolte (of Oddballs Decals, provided in the kit, which was located the open/close data from a Microscale 26550 227th St., McLouth, KS 66054) to under the door on the right side. Air data sheet and ACI, UI wheel inspection request a custom printing of the set in brake components will also have to be dot, and lube plate from whatever you white, revealed that it really was a differ­ relocated. Check the underframe draw­ have. I did have to put the door dimen­ ent car. Much to our surprise, a letter ing here, or use photos if you model sional data on two lines as it was too long arrived later that week with a plintout of other than this series, as there were vari­ to fit on one. Glue on the roof, DullCote, the 90-percent completed artwork for the ations. Similar cars had Dual Air Pacs and weather as desired. Add couplers set! Tom had been inspired by our inter­ instead. I did fairly complete underbody and trucks and add to your fleet. RMJ est in the project and just happened to find the car in a Kansas City yard. We proceeded with the car construction, now knowing what would be forthcoming in lettering. A more prototypical albeit The kit is perfect for this project since it is "flat" molded, meaning separate more fragile lever may be sides, ends, floor, and roof. Shortening made by cutting off this area the sides simply requires the removal of two panels and corresponding ribs from ~ either side of the door. Use a machinist square and a razor saw to make the cuts just shy of one rib and through the rib two panels over. That way, you can .. square the cuts up in a North West Short 5ft Line "TrueSander" and make a neat, almost invisible splice. Reinforce splices from the backside. Extend the 12 RAIL MODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 ~ i : !! i ; Iii , I ii, . . I '; : : I i I , , ! , I i, : ! ii I: i ! ; I ~ ' I i I: ! : Ii iii j i ~I i I ,r~1III : I ': \ : i! :1 I i 1 . i: ~! n~I . J I. ' ~I : Cut 8" In from end ltYl.I $mall rib I ~ Ii 111~1 Cut 10'6" In trom end thru smaD rib

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Bill of Materials Eel River Models: Jay-Bee: ERM-200U 62-foot insulated box 33-inch wheels with 1O-foot plug door Evergreen: Kadee: 132 .030 x .040-inch strip 5 couplers Oddballs Decals: Detail Associates: 302 MP PC&F 52-foot insulated 2206 Eye bolt box 2503 .01O-inch brass wire 2504 .0l2-inch brass wire Accu-Flex: 2525 Brass Flat bar .010 x .030- 16-13 Dark Tuscan Oxide Red inch 16-14 Light Tuscan Oxide Red

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RAILMOOEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1 998 13 ------[LAYOUT DESIGN]------

By Ed Vondrak Artwork by Craig DuMez

these five layouts are desianed to be index on layout design appears on Desig~ Special Interest Group, Bruce operated as a single shortGne. If you ~ 16-17 Of this issue. Stricldand, 10766 Tullamore Ct., Diefer, ~ can just build two or three. This layout could be built in N scale, Manassas, VA 22111 for annual mem­ the IISliuHle Trays" could be more real­ but I would recommend using the same bership that includes the quarleriy mail­ istic if they were treated as removable general track alTOngements with the illQ5 aiKI the ~ Design NeWs mag­ carfloals~ using Walthers new HO scale extra width for strvc:tures a!ong the emne. This group holds an annual meet­ kit, cut dOWn to a shorter, single-track backside. Similarly, the modules could ing in conjunction with NMRA National carRoat. Additional track plans using be built on 18 x 12-inch shelves for an Conventions, including the one in carfloals on more conventional Iavouti S scale version, ~ps of reinforced Kansas City, Jui)- 20-26. Usually, the have appeared in the AP.ri1 and July blue Styrofoam insulation board. l:aYout Design SIG has several lours of 1997 issues of 'd1e Journal." An indeX For more information on layout their own at these meetings, in addition of all previous articles on Rail/Marine design, consider joining the Layout to the official NMRA lours. ~obert operations and track plans and an Design SIG by sending $15.00 10 Layout Schleicher

ou say you don't have room coved backdrops. Such diorama boxes hold three 40-foot freight cars. The shut­ to build a model railroad? coul d also be mo un ted on simple shelf tle trays themselves coul d be as simple as Well, do you have room fo r a large book­ brackets, or this whole rai lroad coul d be movable segments of roadbed, or they case? If so, then you have room to build bu il t into a large, one-piece bookcase. could be as elaborate as padded boxes this "bookcase" model railroad. The railroad coul d be moved much more Witll appropriate lifting handles. In modern terminology, this is a rai l­ easily, however, if each segment were Not shown in my drawings woul d be road with a virtual mainline, that is, with separate and self-contained, and mounted an "off-road" storage shelf. A shelf 6 feet no mainline at all. Thi s railroad consists on shelf brackets. wide coul d hold 6 to 9 of the shu ttle trays, of several separate segments, connected How many shelves shoul d there be? depending on exact di mensions of the on ly via "shuttle trays," which are typi ­ That depends on your desi res. At least trays and shelves. cally associated with staging on British three shelves coul d be used with ample Let's consider the various rai lroad model rai lroads. For modeling purposes, clearance between them. If you coul d li ve segments that I have suggested in my these can be cal"floats cut down from with tighter vertical clearance, there drawings. Mul berry and Oaks Corners Walthers new HO scale lOts. could be as many as five shelves, pl us an are busy, industrial switching areas. Both My drawings show five possible track extra shelf as the bottom for "off-road" include the necessary ru naround tracks. If configurations that will fit on book­ storage. a modeler were to include as much track shelves measuring 6 feet wide and II My drawings all show the carfloat or as I have drawn, any structures woul d inches deep. I envision that these shelves shu ttle tray in the left front corn er, but have to be just facades mounted along the · wo uld be mounted on a wall , bookshelf­ that's j ust for conve ni ence. It woul d cer­ rear edges of the shelves. style. In their simplest form, each shelf tai nl y be possible to have the carfloats or There is a limited amount of flex ibili­ could consist of track mounted on a I x shuttle trays fi t into different places on ty in placing turnouts . However the mod­ 12 board, 6 feet long. The boards could different segments (d ifferent shelves) of eler chooses to arrange the track, the ta il rest on simple shelf brackets anchored the railroad. tracks need to be a minimum of approx i· into vertical standal'ds screwed to the I envision shu ttling onl y cars, not mately one foot in length, in order to wall studs. Such standards and shelf motive power, between shelves. Each accommodate a short locomotive and one brackets are readily avai lable in hardware shelf segment of this rai lroad woul d have car. stores. its own dedicated motive power that The Wi ll owbrook segment shows how In their most complex form, each seg­ woul d always stay on its own shelf. there would be room to include a wharf ment of this railroad could be a full­ Presumably motive power would be for any modeler with a nautical bend. The blown boxed diorama, complete wi th its mostly small switc hers. Wi ll owbrook shelf also includes the req­ own li ghting, having some type of grid­ My drawings show the shu ttle trays to ui si te runaround track. framework base, and complete with be 21 inches long; hence, each tray could The Hawthorn e segment was my first 14 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 attempt at trying to fit a yard onto one of the shelves. Using a standard turnout lad­ der, things are very tight. The yard tracks are pretty short, and the all -important tail track that accepts cars coming off the shuttle tray is only a foot long. This means that cars can only be moved one at a time between the yard tracks and the shuttle tray. That's not very conveni ent. ------6· ------, As my drawing shows, there is room on the Hawthorne segment, however, to Team include locomotive servicing tracks. } The Birchfield segment is the result I--______~.., ------====~------Tracks of trying to fit a larger yard onto one of 1 ",'L======r======~==:==J I these shelves. Usi ng a sector plate I Mulberry I I in stead of a traditional yard ladder would I I allow movement of a whole cut of cars I I onto or off of the shuttle tray at one time. I I Furthermore, there is room for an extra, I I short track near the shuttle tray. There is I I room for a locomoti ve service track at I \ Team the rear of this shelf, but a large part of \ \ Track the rear yard track must be used in order \ , --~~------~-~~/ to get access to the servicing facilities, in :~ ~------r------~~------1 " switchback fas hi on. 1 I Oaks Corners I All turnouts on all of the drawings are I I number 4, with the exception of the I I number 6 turnout shown on the I I Birchfield segment. At that positi on, the I I number 6 frog angle conveni ently lines I I up with the sector-pl ate ax is. Note that "' I one corner of the sector plate woul d have ~ \ to be beveled in order to permit proper ~ \ ------11 " track align ment when the sector pl ate is .cS \ \ >< j in the most rearward position. ~c 1 ,,:~l======~~======~======;) ~~ The names I have chosen for the var­ ~ " Willowbrook Wharf ~ I o I ious segments of thi s railroad are all :2 I I based on names of trees, but I have some I I peculiar reasons for choosing some of I I them. Willowbrook seemed appropriate I I fo r the layout segment that includes the I I whmf; but it is al so the name of a well ­ \ loco Service \ \ known dancing ballroom near Chicago. \ Hawthorne is actually the name of a pro­ \ , totype railroad yard, and so is an appro­ I'> L- ______~_~~ --- ______~ priate name for the standard-style yard. 1 I Hawthorne I One of the names that has parti cul ar I I meaning for me is Oaks Corners, whi ch I I is an actual, tiny burg in New York state, I I founded several generations ago by the I I Oaks family. Descendant Jeff Oaks is a I I #6, math professor, a colleague of mine at I \ I loco Service the Uni versity of Indianapolis. Jeff hap­ \ \ pens to be a collector and an authority on \ the obscure subject of railroad date nail s. , ~' ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~======~s~e~ct~or~p~la~te~==~r ~, Jeff Oaks is a wiry, energetic fe ll ow, adored by students both for hi s teaching Shuttle Tray Birchfield Pivot ta lent and fo r hi s anti cs in the classroom, which include unexpectedly springing up from the floor onto the desk (ending up standing on top of the desk, (or hangi ng against the wall by hi s fi ngertips from th e top of the chalkboard-much as I envision hanging the Oaks Corn ers shelf as a component of thi s rail road on a wall. RMJ RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 15 r------[E XPERIENCE]

Previous articles that provide additional information for articles In this issue {on the pages indicated}.

BULKHEAD & CENTERBEAM CARS MODELING MILK CARS: Innova ti ons N scale, or At las 0 scale models as illus­ (Article appears on pages 4·8 of this issue.) Bos ton and Maine combines and mil k cars in HO scale trated, step·by-step, in the " March and " Apri l 1990 Kit-conversion: The "Copy-Kit " Method, N scale 60-foot from Funaro and Cameri engo kit s, by John Nehri ch, iss ues), " August 1989 (B&O cars), '*June and centerbea m car using HO scale parts as patterns for December 199 1 **September 1990 and October 1992 issues Evergreen styrene plasti c dupli cates, by Kent Charies, Penn sy lvania Rai lroad baggage cars in HO scale from Pennsylvania Railroad (ex-GAEX) 50-foot single·door October 1989 Bethl ehem Car Works kits by Ralph Gotowski, October "DF" box car from Detail s West HO scale kit, by Bob Bulkhead, V-deck pulpwood cars in the upper Midwest, by 1993 Da vis, April 199 1 Dan Holbrook, October 1989, January and May 1990 and Pri vate-owner milk cars from Fun aro and Camerlenoo kits PROFILE: Pullman Standard PS-I 50-foot doubl e-doo r September 1991 and brass imports, by John Ne hrich, January 1993 box cars from InterM ountain 's HO scale and Atlas or PROFILE: Co mmonwealth (GSI) 53-foot nat cars and MILK TRAIN OPERATIONS : Micro-Trains I scale kits, with ROSTER, by Ed bulkhead cars from Walthers HO and N scale and S Milk car operations at Hoboken, New Jersey and Hawkin s, June and August 1995 and January 1996 Helper Services S scale kits, with ROSTER, "Car Phi ladelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1990 Pullman Standard PS-I 50-foot single-door box cars from Spotters Guide No. 12," by James Eager, December Milk tra in operations in th e Northeast by John Nehri ch, InterM ountain HO scale and Mi cro-Trains N scale kits 1992 November and December 1991 and January 1993 wi th ROSTER, by Ed Hawkins, December 1995 ' MILW 61-fo ot centerbeam car from McKean (now E&C PROFILE: 1951 -1980 General Ameri can (GAEX) 50-foot Shops) HO scale kits, by Bob Ri vard , April 1993 MODELING 50-FOOT BOX CARS "DF" single plug-door and sliding-door box cars from WP 61-fo ot centerbeam car from McKean Models HO scale Branchline Models HO scale, or Pacific Rail Shops S kit, by Brent MacGregor and Pete Arn old, May 1993 OF THE FIFTIES scale kits (or from 40-foot kit·conversions of C&BT Southern , ATS F, CSXT, C&G, A&WP, RF&P, GM&O, MP, (Article appears on pages 30-34 of this iss ue.) Shops HO scale, Deluxe Innovations N scale, or At las W of A, GA and AC L bulkhead pulpwood nat cars, by (* No te: Articles with a sin gle asterisk are repri nted in th e o scale models as ill ustrated, step-by-step, in the Rhett Coates, September 1993 book FREIGHT CAR MODELS , Vo l. II , BOX CA R. ** March and '*April 1990 issues).** March 1990 (w ith BOOK I) . Kit-conversion: SAL 40 and 50-foot bulkhead V-deck pulp­ ROSTER), **Apri l, **June, " September 1990. wood cars from Athearn HO scale kits, by Larry Denton, ('* Note: Articles with two asteri sks are repri nted in the ** Apri l 199 1 and **February 1992 October 1993 book FREIGHT CAR MODELS , Vol. I TECH· 50-foot single-door AAR Box cars, fro m Proto 2000 HO NIQ UES.) Upgrade: Simulated wood decks for plasti c-decked ilat scale kits, by Richard Hendrickson, April 1998 cars, by Robert Schl eicher, April 1994 Upgrade: Addi ng separate ladders to box cars, by Ed Kit-conversion: V-deck pulpwood car from Walthers HO or Hawki ns, May 1995 LAYOUT DESIGN N scale bulkhead nat car kits, by Robert Schleicher, April Upgrade: Simulating separate ladder and grabiro ns with "shadow painting", Au gust 1995 (A rticle appears on pages 9-10 of this issue.) 1994 Most of the art icles on layouts already completed in our Kit-conversion: 50-foOl CP Rail bulkhead nat car fro m Upgrade: Detail ed noors and interiors for HO scale box cars, by Mart in Lofton, ** January 199 1 monthl y series "Your Layout, On Tour" in clude a track dia­ MDC's HO scale kit, by Patrick Lawso n, Nove mber 1993 gram th at indicates approximately where th e track is routed Kit-conversion: 66-foot CP Rail bulkhead flat car from two PROFlLE: Modeling the 50-Foot wood and co mpos ite steel box cars manuFactured between 1894 and 1932, These plans are intended to give you a general impression MDC HO scale kit s, by Patrick Lawson, December 1993 of the layout and where the photographs were taken. Few CGW 53-foot bulkhead nat car from Walthers HO scale kit , wit h ROSTER, from MDC, Westerlield HO scale and Cameron Sca le Models (ex -Berks hi re Valley) 0 scale modelers wo uld have identi cal spaces where they might by Bob Rivard, May 1995 want to duplicate these layouts exact ly. Most of the track PROFILE: Centerbeam fl at cars, prototype and model, kits, by Ri ch Burg and Ri chard Hendrickson, *July, *October, *November 1989, July 1995 and Ju ly 1996 plans li sted below, however, include the precise locations fro m E & C Shops and Walthers HO scale kits and Upgrade: Addi ng grabirons, ladders and other detail s to of curve centers, the locations of turnout points and frogs Micro-Trains N scale models, by D. Scott Chatfield, MDC's HO scale 50-foot single-sheathed box cars, by and the locations of track elevations. All of these locations Janu ary 1996 and April 1998 Ri chard Hendrickson, Jul y 1996 are necessary to recreate andlor modify a plan in full size to Northeastern pul pwood and wood chip cars, by J. Emmons build th at model railroad. Some of the articl es are disc us­ Lancaster, August 1997 PROFILE: 50-foOl single-sheathed double-door box cars from the late twenties from MDC, Westerfield and sions of track planning principles that apply to any layout. Walt hers HO scale, Walthers N scale and Cameron Onawa Silica S and prototype plant photos wi th both MODELING THE Scale Models (ex -Berkshire Vall ey) 0 scale kits, by model and prototype track plans, August and September Richard Hendri ckson, Jul y 1995 1989 REFRIGERATION INDUSTRY Frank Ell ison's town, Donaldson, and its oil depot, PROFILE: 50-foot sin gle-shea thed single-door box cars (Article appears on pages 9-1 0 of this iss ue.) Nove mber 1990 and Apri I 199 1 from the lat e twenti es from MDC, Westerfi eld' s HO The H.P. Hood Creamery at New Junction , Maine, plans B&O on two decks in N scale (4 x 16 feet) or HO scale scale kit, by John Nehri ch, Jul y 1995 and prototype photos, March 1990 (5.5 x 29 feet), March and June 199 1 PROFILE: Pennsy lvania Railroad X32 and X33 50-foot Pittsburgh's co ld storage and reefer facility operation s, pro­ ATSF/BN/D&RGW "Joi nt Line" on two decks, in HO double-door box cars From Bowser HO scale or Fine N totype photos and models, August 1990 and November scale, in 12.75 x 20.5 feet, July and August 199 1) scale N scal e kits, with ROSTER, by Rich Burg, 199 1 Thurmond, West Virginia, February 1990 and April 1992 February 1996 Creamery (bu ilt of fire brick) and grain elevator at Grand Frank Ell ison's town, Raymondale, with plans and back­ Pennsylvania Railroad X-3 1b 50-foot round-roof HO scale Isle, Vermont, plans and prototype photos, Dece mber ground planning "A Town Is More Than A Station," box car from Menzi es (now made in pl as tic by Bowser 1990 and Se ptember 199 1 May 1992 and Apri l 1993 in HO scale and cast resin by Fine N Scale in N scale) Creamery (built of wood) at Grand Isle, Vermont, plans and Modeling the City, a Compact Track Plan (2.5 x 6.5 feet in kit , by Bob Da vis, August 1991 HO scale, I x 3.5 feet in N scale or 4.5 x 12 feet in 0 prototype photos, March 1991 PROFfLE: 194 1 AAR IO ·foot 6-inch interior height , 50- scale, June 1992 H.P. Hood (ex-Turner) creamery at Un ity, Maine, plans and foot double-door cars with 515 Dreadnau ght ends, fro m Layout Design Improve ments for Ex isting Layouts, a cri­ prototype photos, April 1998 Proto 2000 or At hearn HO scale, InterM oun ain N scale, tique of the N scale Cumberland Valley Railroad of Bi ll Modeling the co ld storage warehouses in the abandoned or Old Pullman 0 scale models, by Richard and Wayne Reid , by the Reids and Doug Gurin, Jul y limes tone mines of Ka nsas, prototype photos and Hendrickson, October 1995 and March 1996 1994 model, April 1998 PROFILE: 194 1 AAR 10-foot 6-inch interi or height, 50· Jim Providenza's doubl e-deck Santa Cruz North ern , based foot double-door cars with one 515 Dread naught end on the Western Paci fi c Rail road, appeared in th e MODELING THE MILK INDUSTRY and end doors, fro m Proto 2000 HO scale or Mi cro­ Dece mber 199 1 iss ue, and articles on the operat ions on that model ra ilroad appeared in the May and Jul y 1992, (A rticle appears on pages 55-61 of this issue.) Trains N scale models, by Rich ard Hendrickson, September 1996 May, June and September 1993 and Jul y 1994 issues MODELI NG CREAMERIES : Mode ling Minnewaukan, North Dakota, prototype plans PROFILE: 194 1 AAR IO-foot 6- inch interior height, 50- The H.P. Hood Creamery at New Junction, Maine, plans circa 1902 and 1970, December 1994 and prototype photos, March 1990 fo ot si ngle·door cars with 515 Dreadnau ght ends, fro m 8 x 9-foot double deck HO scale layout, the Coquille & Creamery (built of fire brick) and grain elevator at Grand Proto 2000 HO scale or Old Pullman 0 scale models, Crescent City, by Ed Vo ndrak, February 1995 Isle, Vermon t, pl ans and prototype photos, December by Richard Hendrickson, comin g in 1998 10 x 20-foottrack plan for Ed Spiller's HO scale Vermo nt­ 1990 and Septembe r 1991 PROFILE: 1944 AAR 10-foo t 6-inch interi or height, based Danby, Ludlow & Springfield Railroad, April Creamery (b uilt of wood) at Grand Isle, Verm ont, plans ACF-built 50-foot sin gle-door cars with Improved 4/311 1995 and prototype photos, March 1991 Dreadnaught end s, from Branchline Models HO scale, 10·foot4-inch x 9-foot 7·inch scale (adaptable, in the H.P. Hood (ex-Turner) creamery at Unity, Maine, plans and or Paci fic Rail Shops S scal e kits (or from40-FoOl kit­ same space to HO scale) shelf layout plan. The Westmont prototype photos, April 1998 conversions of C&BT Shops HO scale, Deluxe Central, by Ed Vondrak, June 1995 16 RAILMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 -toOl Inc x ,-toot -JJ1C sca e s e l ayo ut pan, "Two Shortlines," a track plan fo r 20 x 20 fee t in HO scale TRUCK & AUTOMOBILE the Auburn & Winchester, by Ed Vondrak, August 1995 or lOx 14 feet in N scale with the Feyn Point Wharf for 27x47-foot HO scale DM&IR (Missabe North ern ) double- carnoat stagin g, by Ed Vondrak, Apri l 1997 MODELING deck layou t as built and as projected impro ved version , "Waldport and East Ridge," a tJac k plant for lO x 12 feet in (Article appears on pages 44-46 of this iss ue,) by Jeff Ono, Dece mber 1995 HO scale or 8 x 9 feet in N scale, width the car fe rry or CNW and IC 40-foot ex teri or-post trai lers from the sixti es, NTRAK module plann in g us ing transition mod ules and caJ'float staging operations at Wa lport, by Ed Vondrak, Mark Vaughan and D. Scott Chatfield, June 1990 multi-module sets fo r more rea li sti c scenes, by Kell ey Jul y 1997 Fruehauf 48-foot Quantum trailers from A-Line HO scal e Newto n, December 1995 Operat ions at the Southern Pacific's Oakland Mole by kits, by David Hussey, Apri l 1992 IOx20-foo ttrack plan for Ed Spiller's HO scale Vermo nt­ Anth ony Thompson and Pliny Holt's N scale model of Tractors (cabs) and trailers fro m Model Power, A-Line and based Danby, Ludlow & Springfield Ra il road, April th e "Mole," January 1998. Auro ra models, by Ri chard Yaremko, May 1992 1995 Greg's Garage and Monogram (now Con-Cor) HO scale 10-fo0l 4-inch x 9-foot 7-inch N scale (ada ptab le, in the Railroad on a wall ; fi ve I x 6-foot shelf layouts with tru cks and automobiles, Marc h 1990 same space to HO scale) shelf layout plan. The carnoat interchange between shel ves, by Ed Vond rak, Westmont Central , by Ed Vondrak, June 1995 Ap ril 1998 Creatin g reali sti c headli ghts on automobiles and tru cks lO-foot 4-inch x 9-foot 7-inch HO sca le she lf layout plan, with MV lenses and other detail s by Ken Patterson, the Auburn & Winchester, by Ed Vond rak, August 1995 MODELING INTERMODAL Apri l 1995 l7-foot x 7-foot6-inch HO scale Modoc Mine Di vision of Sim ulating chrome trim on auto mobiles and tru cks by Ken the Santa Fe Southwestern , by Ed Vondrak, October 1995 CARS and EQUIPMENT Patterson, March 1996 Us in g removable and interchangeable struc tu res or (Article appears on pages 44-46 of this issue,) Assembling and pain ting metal truck and automobile kits dioramas to model different eras on the sa me layout or 50-foOl piggy back fla t cars and trai ler prototype photos, in HO and N scales, June 1997 module as parts of the "A Change of Scene" series, with model and decal sources, in color, Jul y and Modeling oil tank trucks in HO and N scales, Ju ne 1997 Jan uary 1996 September 1989 . Updat in g, backdatin g and superdetailing trucks and vans, Modeling spec ific real rail road sce nes on th e L&N, as Athearn HO scale 50- foOl piggyback flat car and 24-toot by Mike Budde, Au gust 1997 recreated by Michael George in HO scale, Febru ary 1996 trailer upgrade to match B&O prototype, October 1989. Report on 1997 National Vehi cle Modeli ng Conventi on, Two lOx II-foot rooms, HO scale Cedar Falls & Maple B&O 53-foot 6- in ch fl at cars and 24- and 33-foot trail er October 1997 Valley, by Ed Vondrak, March 1996 photos and equ ipment diagrams, October 1989 Hi-Rail work truck kit- conversio n fro m C in C and Turnou ts versus Sector Plates, a pair of 2x8-foot switching Prototype photos fo r Wa lt hers HO scale "Piggypacke r" layouts wi th the space-sav ing advantages of the sector trail er-l oad in g crane, August 1989 Walthers kits in HO scale by Mike Budde, Janu ary 1998 plate, by Ed Vondrak, May 1996 Intennoda l yard trac k pl an with prototype photos of match­ Pines-built 28 foo t X-post wedge trail ers fro m A-L ine's 110 Building racks to transport and store modular layout sec­ in g Beacon Park (Boston), Massachu setts, yard on the scale kits as Roadway models, by Brian Kreimend ahl , tions, by the Midwest Valley Modelers, May 1996 NYC, October 1989 and August 1989 March 1998 Gifford & Tiosa RR , a bedroom-size layout for HO or N Prototype photo of sixti es-era Penn sylvani a Railroad pig­ 1.B. Hunt 53-foot plate wa ll trailer from A-Line's HO scale scale, by Ed Vo ndrak, August 1996 gyback train of 75-foot Bethl ehem Steel Co rp. nat cars, ki t, by Brian Kreimendahl , April 1998 Modeli no the Norfolk & Western Railroad 's Shenandoah in color, January 1990 Di vision in HO scale in a 52 x 94-foot base ment, by Jim Thrall (A-Line 11 0 and Wa lthers Nand HO ) and Brewer. October 1996 Gunderson doub le stacks (A-Line HO and Deluxe PASSENGER CAR MODELING A point-to:point layout with a loop and easy stag in g for Inn ovations N) Ap ril 1990 (A rticle appears on pages 47-54 of this issue,) two tow ns, by Don Coppola, November 1996. Prototype photos and ROSTER of 75-foot Beth lehem Steel Upgrad in g heavyweight passenger car underframes in HO Ad apt ing a prototype oil refi nery trac k plan to an NTRAK Corp. fl at cars to match Walthers HO scale kits, April scale by Noel Wil son and Bi ll Darna by, May 199 1 module, by Buzz Lenander, November 1996 1990 Boston and Maine combines and milk cars in HO scale "A Change of Scene," using oil depots to recreate indu stri al 40-foOl ex terior post tra ilers (from Walthers 35-foot HO from Funaro and Camerlengo kits, by John Nehri ch, scenes circa 193 1, 1946, 1956 and 1966, Janumy 1997 scale kit s) and prototypes for the Walthers 75-foot December 199 1 Modeling the SO Ulhern Railway's "Rath ole" di vision in HO Bethlehem Steel Corp. flat cars, June 1990. scale, by J.D. Smith, February 1997 Penn sylvania Railroad baggage cars in HO scale from Athearn and A-Line comainers and trail ers and Athearn fl at Bet hlehem Car Works kit s by Ralph Gotowski , October Kniohtstown and/or Princeton, a single or double-deck cars as modeled in HO scale by Robert Rogers, 1993 shelf layo ut for lOx 10-feet in HO or N scale, wi th sec­ September 199 1 Modeling Readin g Rail road baggage cars in HO scale from tor plate staging ya rds, by Ed Vondrak, February 1997 Roadrail er Mark IV raillhighway trailer kit conversion in Steel mills, concrete dealers and other heavy industry on HO scale fro m McKean kits, October 199 1. Beth lehem Car Works kits), by John R. Green, portab le, modular layouts. The Calypso Yard Railroad, Kit-conversion: Baltimore and Ohio class P-35 40-foot December 1992 by Phil Baggley, March 1997 intermodal flat cars (c irca 1960), from Central Vall ey Pri vate owner milk cars fro m Funaro and Cameriengo kits Two shortl in es, a dogbo ne-style wa lk-in layout fo r 10 x 14- fl at car kits and modifi ed A-Line, by Greg La Rocca, and brass im ports, by John Nehrich, January 1993. fee t in HO scale, by Ed Vondrak, April 1997. November 1991 HO scale 1909 Wells Fargo express reefer from MDC kit Adapting N scale mod ular layo ut s to NTRAK interfaces on Ath earn HO scale 85-foot TOFC and COFC flat cars and parts by Darrel Taylor, April 1993 the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail way's New River Mi cro-Trains N scale 89-foOl TOFC and COFC flat Caboose/combine kit-conversion for mi xed train operations Subdi vision, by Bernard Kempinski , August 1996 and cars, prototypes and model s, March 1992 in HO scale fro m MDC's 1900 era wood passenger arss May 1997 Fruehauf 48-foot trailers, prototypes and matchi ng models in by John Swanson, Jul y 1993 A Change of Scene, Part IV: Changing Locomoti ves and HO scale fro m A- Line kits, April 1992 Duplicat in g North ern Pacific passenger cars and consists Rolling Stock to Recreate Hinton, West Virgin ia as it was Trucks and trail ers in HO scale, fro m A-L in e, Model Power on June 15, 1956 and November 15, 1973, May 1997 with kit conversions and painting in N scale by Stephen and Auro ra kits, May 1992 Krau ss, Janu ary 1995 Staging tracks on a giant turntable as part of around-the­ Commonwealth Cast Steel (GSI) 53-foot 6- inch fl at cars Modeling modern streamlined passenger cars in HO scale walllayo Ul designed for lOx 12 feet in HO scale, the from Walthers HO scale kit s (Car Spotters Guide No. with American Model Builders sides on Eastern Car Waldport & East Ridge, by Ed Vondrak, Jul y 1997 II ), December 1992 Two-Decks, No Helix, a double-deck layout in HO scale Upgrad ing Walthers Thrall doub le-stack cars with Pl ano . Works bodi es by Ken Patterson and John Hitze man, for a 9 fOOl 7 inch x II foot space, October 1997 walkways and convert ing stand- alone cars into fi ve-u mt March 1997 12 x 18-foot scale shelf layout based on the BN and arti culated sets, December 1992 Boston and Ma in e and Western Maryland coaches from Uni on Pacific operat ions in the Coeur d' Alene moun­ Athearn, Walthers and A-L in e HO scal e sin gle-uni t double­ Beth lehem Car Works etched metal sides and plasti c tai ns. December 1997 stack well cars, prototypes, model s, paiming and carbodies, June 1997 A "Change of Scene," changing eras from Jul y 1945 to upgrading information, Jan uary 1993 Modeli ng MU (mu ltiple unit) passenger cars in HO and S Jul y 1974, with locomotives, rolling stock and ve hicles 20-foot HO scale containers from A-Line kit s, with paint scales on the Pennsylva nia, Lackawanna, Read in g and on Ri ck McClell an's HO scale Frisco Rail road, and decals for modeli ng and matchin g prototypes, April Illi nois Central by Vic Roseman, Jul y an August 1997 Febru ary 1998 1994 Modeling real world scenes fro m the Fri sco on Rick Passenger car "Want List", readers' chance to vote on the Gunderson Max i-3 (fi ve-un it) intermodal well cars from cars you wa nt produced as easy-to-build inj ection-mold­ McClellan's HO scale layout , February 1998 . Athearn or Con-Cor HO scale models, June 1994 Railroad on a wa ll; fi ve I x 6-foot shelf layo uts wit h ed plastic kits, Dece mber 1997 Derai l-proofing Con-Cor's 'Fuel- Foiler' intermodal articu­ Modeling Air Conditioning Underbody Detail s, by V.S. carfl oat interchan ge between shelves, by Ed Vondrak, lated spine cars, September 1995 Roseman, October 1997 and February 1998 April 1998 Spotting the second ge nerati on of intermodal double-stack cars-matchin g the models to their prototypes, by D. Model ing Air Condition in g Underbody Detai ls, Part III , MODELING RAIL/MARINE Scott Chatfield, September 1995 update by Don Valentine, Marc h 1998 Upgrad ing Walthers N or HO scale or A-Line HO scale Modeling roof-mounted air conditioning ducts for heavy­ INDUSTRIES Thra ll intermod al we ll cars with Gold Medal Models (N weight passenger cars, Part IV, by V.S. Roseman, March (Article appears on pages 14-15 of this iss ue,) scale) or Plano (HO scale) etched-metal wa lk way s, 1998 Pl ans, prototype photos and operations of cartl oat transfer steps and grabiro ns, Ju ne 1996 Modeling the hi-level "EI Capitan" cars on the Sama Fe bridge at Bal timore's Fell s Point Distric t on the Balti­ 1.B. Hunt 53-foot plate wall trai ler from A-Line's HO scale and on Amtrak from Train Stati on's HO scale kits, April mo re and Ohio Rail road, ovember 1992 kit, b Brian Kreimendahl , A ril 1998 1998 RAILMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 17 ------[TOUR]------

Kansas Shortline in S photos by Robert Schleicher

The cold-storage warehouses in abandoned lime mines e~ duplicated with this facility on the Kaw :-Vglley. The siding has room for three cars inside ,I the"warehouse."

he Kaw Va ll ey Railroad operated between Lawrence and Kansas City, Kansas. Mike Fyton is bui lding it in S scale as it was in 1954. The shortline was abandoned in 1961, and Mike has taken a great deal of liberty with recreat­ ing the specific locomoti ves and rolli ng stock. It's the theme of this shortline and its operatin g characteri stics that interest­ ed him. He grew up driving along the tracks with his parents, so he remembers what he is modeling.

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RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 19 The engine servicing facilities at Fairfax. The point-to-point operations begin at th e Fairfax yard (right) which has a turntable for turning locomotives at either end of their run s.

Operations The prototype served as bri dge line between the Chi cago and NorthWestern in Fairfax and the Uni on Pacific in Lawrence, and that's the essence of what Mike is building in S scale. Interchanges with both railroads are simulated on th e model. The operations are pri maril y point-to-poin t usin g steam and early diesel power. Turntables are located at Muncie is on the right and Mattoon Junction is on the left of thi s aisle. both Fairfax and Lawrence to turn the steam locomotives. Old Line Graphi cs car cards are used to route indi vidual freight cars over the line. The emphasis of operation sessions is focused on indus­ trial switching along the route. The com­ mon industries of the prototype and the model include concrete dealers, a sand and gravel yard , a cattle pen, two oil dea l­ er depots, a lumber yard, a pallet compa­ ny, an asphalt ready-mix pl ant, two grain elevators and the large Lone Star Cement and FMC Corporation industri es. One of the more unusual industries that's com­ mon enough in eastern Kansas is the cold storage company that utilizes an aban­ doned limestone mine fo r the "ware­ house." There's an article on the proto­ type cold storage warehouses in this issue. 20 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 A close-up of the scenery construction techniques near Mattoon Junction.

The industries are based on Kansas prototypes, but all are considerably shortened to fit the space. These are the major customers for the Kaw Valley at Matton Junction. / -'- ---­ I ~ - ~ --.

Construction Rail Command walk-around command GP9. The layout is one of more than two control system. Scenery is simple corru­ dozen that are operated each week in the The layout is built from lx4s with a gated cardboard strip supports with Kansas City area. The Kaw Valley is, I/2-inch plywood subroadbed and 112- Hydrocal-soaked paper towels for the perhaps, one of the Illost relaxed opera­ inch Homosote roadbed. The track is shapes. Ground texture is a combination tions with its si mple point-to-point mostly handlaid using code 100 ni ckel of real dirt and Woodland Scenics. branchline scenario. It's also one of the silver rail , with about a fourth of the sys­ Currentl y, moti ve power consists of a layouts you can see for yourself at th e tem using Shinohara fl ex track and South Wind Models imported Union Kansas City NMRA National turnouts. The layout is controlled with a Pacific 2-80 and an American Models Convention this July 20-26. RMJ RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 21 This peninsula divides Bonner Springs (out of sight to the left) from Mattoon Junction (right),

The Lone Star Cement is located on the outskirts of Bonner Springs (left), -_.I!r'''''' .

22 RAILMOOEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 The Safeway Cereal plant at Bonner Springs is tucked into a corner of the layout.

The town of Linwood will be located on this shelf (center), w ith Lawrence in the distant left.

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Photo from the collection of Louis A. Marre

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he SW9 is virtually identical to the later SW1200 except for a rounded top piece on the cast coupler pocket of the SW9. Both the SW9 and the SW1200 had 1200 horsepower prime movers. EMD produced 815 SW9s between February 1951 and December 1953 and 1027 SW1200s between January 1954 and May 1966 when it was replaced with the "Second Generation" SW 1500. There is more information on the models and prototype in the May 1996 issue's "One-Detail-At-A-Time" article, by D. Scott Chatfield, on the Baltimore and Ohio number 9620. Since the visible differences are so slight, modelers can effectively use SW9 and SW1200 interchangably. The 800-horsepower SW8 also had the same hood but a single stack. Atlas offers this model in 0 scale, and it would be easy enough to convert the HO, N or S sca Le models to SW8s. The Union Pacific purchased two series of SW9 switchers, 1825-1846 and 1847-1866, in 1953. 1834 has a somewhat smaller number on the side of the cab and the numbers on the side of the cab and the slogan have been painted out. Note too that its rotary beacon is on the hood end of the cab and that it lacks the spark arrestors of 1851. It is probable that both 1934 and 1851 had the all-weather cab on the engi­ neer's side. Both also have canvas radiator 24 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APR IL 1 998 shutters to help warm-up on those cold Paint o Scale: Champ E-l 03, and Atlas offers Wyoming, Nebraska and Utah nights. The UP Armor Yellow: Polly Scale a pre-painted UP SW9 footboards on the pilot of 1851 have been 414170, FloquilllOl66, SMP removed, and extra square-shaped loops Accupaint 67, Pro Color 107, Badger One-Detail-At-A-Time have been added to the coupler cut levers. Modelflex 1624, or Scalecoat 22. (HO Scale) There's an unusual device on the pilot of UP Harbor Mist Grey: Polly Scale 1834 that was apparently used to allow the Step-by-step instructions on how to 414176, Floquil 110167, SMP install many of these detail parts appear­ coupler cut levers to be lifted from the Accupaint 68, Pro Color 106, Badger platform of the diesel. ed in the June 1989 issue of "The Moclelflex 1625, or Sca1ecoat 32. Journal." That article is also reprinted Decals in the book TUNING & UPGRADING Model SW9s ATHEARN LOCOMOTIVES. An article HO Scale: Microscale 87-169 or on how to disassemble an Athearn chas­ HO Scale: Proto 2000 Champ EH-103 sis to install a Rail Power Products frame N Scale: Life-Like N Scale: Microscale 60-169 and body and how to install the handrails S Scale: S Helper Services S Scale: none known, but S Helper and details on the body appeared in the o Scale: Atlas Services offers a pre-painted UP SW9 October 1994 issue.

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A-Line, Box 7916, LaVerne, CA Detail Associates, Box 5357, San Luis Overland Models, Inc., 3808 W. 91750: Obispo, CA 93403: Kilgore Ave., Muncie, IN 47304: 1-29200 Windshield wipers $1.85/8 10-1105 Lift rings $1.25/4 4--9008 Air horns $3.20/2 11-2202 Grabirons 2.50/24 12-9150 Coupler lift bars 1.7012 Cal-Scale (division of Bowser Mfg. Co, 12-2205 Coupler lift bars 2.75/10 17-9103 Flashing rotary Inc.), 21 Howard St., Montoursville, 13-2303 Arm rests 1.25/4 beacon 2.95 ea. PA 17754-0322: 14-2304 Wind deflectors 2.50/3 pro 1-419 Windshield wipers 3.50/2 pI'. 15-2504 Wire .0l2-inch diameter Precision Scale, 3961 Highway 93 2- 277 Air hoses $2.15/4 (for railing) 2.00/1 0 North, Stevensville, MT 59870: 3-322 Bell 2.45 ea. 16-2709 Etched grilles 3.50/2 1-3968 Windshield wipers 1.25/4 4-422 Air horns 2.50/2 17-2901 Rotary flashing 2-3150 Air hoses $2.00/6 5-431 Fuel fillers 2.50/set beacons 1.5012 4-39085 Air hom 2.75 ea. 5-39080 Fuel fillers 1.50/4 Cannon & Company, 3947 Freedom Details West, P.O. Box 5132, Hacienda 15-4868 Wrre .0l2-inch diameter Blvd., Aptos, CA 95003: Heights, CA 91745: (for railings) 1.75/6 6-1504 Cab with separate 3-128 Bells ] .25/2 20-4854 Drain valves 2.50/4 doors $8.50 ea. 4--173 Air horns 2.95/2 7-1505 Laser-cut cab 5-166 Fuel fillers 1.00/4 windows 2.98/set 17-126 Rotary flashing beacon 1.00 ea. Ordering Information: All of these parts Custom Finishing, 379 Tulley Rd., 18-125 Spark an'estors $1.5012 are available to any hobby dealer, so your Orange, MA 01364: dealer can order for you. If you must 4--219 Air hom 4.95 ea. Keystone Locomotive Works, P.O. Box order direct, order the full package quanti­ 8-179 Marker light J, PuUtney, NY 14874: ties shown and include $5.00 per order for brackets $3.89/8 19-3302 Cab interior $9.98/set postage or UPS and handling. RMJ 9-239 Extended-vision side windows $9.95/2

26 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1 998 ------[PERFORMANCE] ------

By Guy Thrams

ife-Like is now producing a surrounds the .38-inch-wide by .55-inch dri ve-wheel ratio of 26 to 1. The truck ready-to-run N scale model of diameter by 1.04-inch long, doubl e-shaft assemblies pi vot freely under the chassis the EMD SW9 diesel switcher. The motor with one .22-inch di ameter by . 17- and contain the worm gear and com­ Electro-Moti ve Di vision of General inch long fl ywheel, and the tru ck assem­ pound spur gear train that power all four Motors Corporati on began producti on of blies. The assembled cast-metal split of the bl ackened drive wheels in each the prototype in the 1940s. Production chassis is open at the top fo r easy access truck. T he compound spur gearing makes began with the 600-horsepower SW I and to the plasti c worm and motor bearings a little more noi se than straight gearing, ex tended to the 15 00-horsepQwer V-1 2 fo r lu bri cation. The printed circui t board but is worth the resul ting smoother and SQl500 road-switcher with flexible (PCB) fo r the headli ght covering one slower operating speeds. trucks that is still in use fo r road service worm is easil y removed fo r access. The The back-to-back measurements fo r today. single-lead worms are mounted directl y the dri ve wheel sets were at an excellent to the motor shafts. Each single-l ead .297 to .299 inch, well within the NMRA Inside the Model worm meshes with the pl asti c worm gear recommended minimum measurement of in each truck. The worm gear dri ves two .297 inch. T he wheel fl anges are .029 The injection-molded pl astic body shell idler spur gears whi ch, in turn, dri ve the inch deep. and sill fits snugly over the die-cast metal geared wheelsets. This compound gear frame, motor and trucks. The spl it frame reduction produces a very low motor- to- RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APR IL 1998 27 Electrical Hardware The half-ax le blackened drive wheels are pressed in to pl asti c gear sleeves to Observed Performance: provide electrical insul ati on from eacr. Action Analysis: (as received) other. The pointed ax le ends run in cop­ CR 9342 per alloy bearing strips that are formed to support and conduct the electric power 1.72 from the ax le ends, giving all eight of the 0.26 wheels electrical pi ckup. The metal all oy 0045 strips are retained in the inj ecti on- molded Maximums (at 12 volts max. were aQplicable) pl asti c outboard truck frame assembly No load top sQeed, leve ull wave, smph : 106.9 Uphil grade maXimum, percent 23.0% and extend above the truck frame. The Tractive forc~ ounces: 0040 metal extensions on each side of both Number of cars pulleo, level: 23 trucks contact fo rmed copper all oy strips Number of cars pulled, 4% grade: 6.5 that are attached to the underside of th e Modifications - None pl asti c body sill. These fo ur formed all oy strips contact the outside of the ca t­ 26 to 1 metal split chassis, when the body shell is 42.56 in pl ace. The motor brushes have spring­ 0.029 1.72 loaded terminals that contact the inside of 96.00 the split chassis to complete the circui t to 22-0 the motor. A simple PCB has an amber Subjective Judgments li ght emitti ng di ode CLEO) with a volt­ Noise at fast speed: Fine age-dropping resistor soldered to it. The Basic shape and proQQrtions: Excellent Painting and markin9...quality: Excellent PCB is inserted in to slots in the chassis. Downhill run smoothness: Excellent The copper traces on each side of the PCB make contact with each chassis half Electronic Responses Throttle response at no load, volts: 1.7 to complete the li ghting circuit. Throttle response at mio load, volts: 2.0 The amber LED is located directl y Throttle response at fUll load, volts: 2.2 behind a cl ear pl asti c li ght rod that is Motor cu rrent at full load amperes: 0.050 Motor stall current al12 volts, amperes: 0.33 inserted th rough two .038-inch-diameter holes in the plastic body shell. This is an Performance Ratings (1 to 5) excell ent representation of a scale 6-inch Tractive force: ===== 4.0 Efficiency: 3.0 di ameter duel headli ght. The amber LED Noise: 4.0 circui t draws .0 12 ampere at 12 volts. In Speeos: 2.0 the forward direction, the LED is bright Assembly 5.0 w:,o~r~k~~;;ii.5:i~"" enough at 2 volts to represent a dimmed OVER LL RATING: ===,_ 3.6 headli ght, and is at full brightness at 6 to Prototype Gear Ratios: 65:12 62:15 12 volts. The relatively large motor in thi s 28 RAIL MODEL JOURNAL - APRIL 1 998 model does not leave enough room to manner, push down on the metal chassis on top of the sill contact strip. If not, add a DCC module over the motor. Some casting until it comes loose. If it binds, remove the chassis and reassemble until of the DCC manufacturers now have gentl y pull on the truck assembly at the the contact arrangement is correct. decoders small enough to fit in the cab. long hood end sill and other details The factory-installed handrail detail (minus the cab) will remain as an assem­ measure a delicate but durable .017 -inch Other Observations bly. di ameter to represent a ful l-size 2 5/8- Before reassembling th e shell to the inch-diameter handrail. The weight The body shell is retained on the chassis, make certain the trucks are inside the cab and the rear of the chassis chassis by four dimples molded inside in stalled in the chassis correctly. weight is painted bl ack so they are not the shell. The dimples fit into and snap Viewing the removed truck assembl y easil y noticed through the cab windows. over matching dimples cast in the frame. from the top, note that one wheel set has The dual headlight (backup light) in the The body shell is easil y removed by first the gears exposed, and at the other end cab is not illuminated. A lamp or LED removing the cab. With a pair of small the gears are covered. Place the truck can be installed by removing some mate­ nose tweezers, pull the two plastic hand assembly in the chassis with exposed rial from the cab weight to make room rails from their mounting holes located at gears toward the fuel tank. The covered for the LED. RMJ rear at each side of the cab door. Grasp end will not clear the plastic motor hous­ th e plastic sill and/or shell just ahead of ing, causi ng the truck to bind. Holding the cab wi th the fingers of one hand and the shell assembly up sidedown, pl ace lift the cab off with the other hand. This the chassis inside the shell whil e keeping wi ll expose the metal chassis casting. the trucks in a straight line. Check to Holding the sill and/or shell in the same make certain the truck contact strips are RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 29 ------[PAINT & DECALS ]------

From The Proto 2000 HO Scale Kits

By Richard Hendrickson

he 50-foot cars with 8-foot doors built in 1941-44 are the prototypes for Life-Like's Proto 2000 models in HO scale. Life-Like's first release includes cars lettered as they were when delivered. You can update these cars to fifties-era service, like the CB&Q, SP and SSW cars in these photo-graphs, by adding DF decals. Later, Life-Like will produce these cars with more mod­ ern lettering schemes.

The Louis iana & Arkansas' 16001-16300 series, delivered in February 1940, were among The Prototype 50-Foot Cars the first 50-foot steel box cars with 8-foot doors. Intended primarily ~or lumber and furni­ ture loading, they were only 10 feet high inside and had 4/5 Dreadnought ends with Fifty-foot box cars began to appear as square corners. -AC&F photo, Hawkins-Wider- Long collection early as the 1890s and were built in HO Scale Decals: None known steadily growing numbers th ro ugh the World War I era and the 1920s. However,

~ ~ - - these cars were al most invariably double­ The new Proto 2000 box car duplicates a series of prototypes that were com­ door cars intended for furn iture, wagon, mon sights in the fifties and later. There's an index of previous articles on or (later) automobile loading with wide fifties-era (and forties-era) 50-foot box cars ~n pages 16-17 of this issu~. (usuall y staggered) side door openings. The first 50-foot box cars with single doors were a mid-1930s development, intended for bulky but relatively li ght lading li ke furniture, lumber, baled cot­ ton, and automobile parts. Some early cars of this type were con­ verted from older double-door cars, as in the case of the Northern Pacific 30000 series and the Union Pacific's B-50-20 class, both consisting of single-sheathed cars ori ginall y built in the 1920s. At about the same time, the first new 50-foot single-door steel-sheathed cars appeared, 50 cars built by Pullman Standard for the Soo Line in 1936. These cars, nu mbered 136200-136298 (even numbers on ly), had six-foot-wide doors when new, though in later years some of them were modified with eight-foot doors. By 1939, with traffic and revenues In April 1940, the Chicago & NorthWestern received 300 fifty-foot single-door box cars in returning to pre-depression levels, orders the 105000-105598 series from Mt. Vernon . Like the L&A cars, they had 4/5 ends with square corners, but they were 10 feet 5 inches high inside and came with straight side sills for new freight cars began pouring in to and 6-foot doors. When photographed in 1960, C&NW 105596 was exactly as delivered the car builders, and some of them were except for having been repainted. - Bob Lorenz collection for 50-foot single-door all-steel box cars. HO Scale Decals: None known Leading the parade was the New York 30 RAILMODEL JOURNAL - APRIL 1998 Central, whi ch had 200 cars of lot 673-B built in its own Despatch S hops. Numbered 9 1000-9 1199, they were direct forerunners of the AAR standard design adopted in j 942, with interior he ights of 10 feet 6 inches, full-length side sill flanges, Murphy pane l roofs, 5-5 Dreadnaught ends, and eight-foot wide wide Youngstown corrugated doors. These cars were followed in late 1939 and earl y 1940 by another 200 cars of lot 677-B, numbered 176000-176 199, whi ch were identical except for be ing an inch wider inside and having round-cornered ends with W-secti on corner posts. Both lots had perforated steel linings for adjustable load restraining crossbars. In February of j 940 the Loui siana & Late in 1940 and again the the summer of 1941 , AC&F delivered a total of 1,500 50-foot Arkansas also took delivery of some 50- single-door box cars to the Illinois Central. Numbered 32000-32499 and 33000-33999, foot cars with eight-foot cars. Built by they were 10 feet 4 inches high inside and had si x-foot doors, AAR side sills, and 5/ 5 AC&F, these 300 cars were numbered Dreadnought ends. The 1940 cars, illustrated here, had Universal handbrakes and were among the last steel box cars built with square cornered ends; the 1941 order had round­ 16001-1 6300, had 50-ton nominal capac­ cornered ends with W-section corner posts and Ajax hand brakes. ities, and were onl y 10-feet hi gh inside. -AC&F photo, Hawkins-Wider-Long collection Slightl y tall er 50-foot cars with six-foot HO Scale Decals: Champ HB 150 or Walthers 934-56150 doors were deli vered to the C hi cago & North western by the M t. Vernon Car Co. (300 50-ton cars in the 105000- 105598 seri es, even numbers onl y) and to the Illinois Central by AC&F (500 40-ton cars numbered 32000-32499). It was also in 1940 that Pullman Standard built 200 50-ton box cars for the Kansas City Southern whi ch had eight-foot doors and 10-foot 4-inch inside height. Numbered 25100-25299, they were equipped with li ghtweight Pullman radia l roofs, 5-5 Pullman ends, and National B- 1 trucks.

50-Foot Box Cars Built in 1941-1944

In the fo llowing year, additional 50- Pullman Standard built the Kansas City Southern's 25100-25299 series 50-foot box cars in 1940 with Pullman -designed lightweight radial roofs and 5-5 ends. The original doors foot, 40-ton cars were built by AC&F for were 8-feet-wide, but by 1948, when this photo was taken at Washington, D.C. , narrow the Illinois Central (1 ,000 cars in the extensions had been added to the right hand edges of the doors and the openings widened 33000-33999 series). The Illinois to nine feet. Note the National B-1 trucks. Terminal also got 50 cars from AC&F -Charles Wales photo, William E. Hopkins collection numbered 7000-7049 which were near­ HO Scale Decals: Champ HN69 plus HN25 plus HD2 duplicates of the IC cars except th at they had 50-ton trucks and Superi or seven­ panel doors. In addition, the Milwaukee Road built in its own shops 475 50-foot single-door versions of its distincti ve all ­ welded hori zontal-rib box cars numbered 50000-50474 (foll o wed in 1944 by another 500 cars in the 50500-50999 seri es). All of these cars had six-foot doors. That wider door openings facili tated loading and unloading was readily appar­ ent, however, and beginning in 194 1 most Bu ilt in January 1940 and originally numbered in the 176000-176199 series, NYC 79613 50-foot single door box cars were built was equipped for automobile axle loading and renumbered in August of 1948. All the cars with eight-foot doors. Buyers included in the 79502-79651 series were a xle cars. The dimples in the side sheathing show where the Grand Trunk Western ( 100 cars in the loading racks were bolted directly to the sheet metal after the interior lining was seri es 573000-573099 built by Pressed removed. -New York Central photo, John C. LaRue, Jr. collection Steel) and Southern Pacific (500 cars in HO Scale Decals: CDS HO-460 dry transfers and the pre-painted Proto 2000 model RAILMODEL JOURNAL APR IL 1 998 31 class B-50-22 numbered 81490-81989 built by Mt. Vernon). In addition, the Burlington, St. Louis Southwestern, and New York Central built simjlar cars in their own shops. The Burlington's 400 cars, assembled at the "Q 's" Havelock, Nebraska shops, were numbered 21000-21399, the last hundred cars being equipped with Allied Full Cushion trucks. The St. Louis Southwestern 's Pine Bluff, Arkansas shops fabricated 95 fifty-foot box cars numbered 20000-20094. Meanwhile, the New York Central System's Despatch Shops in East Rochester were turning out This builder's portrait of Southern Pacific 81989 shows how the B-50-22 class 50-foot box 1,200 50-foot single-door cars both for cars appeared when delivered by Mt. Vernon in 1941 . Full-length side sill flanges with shal­ the parent railroad and for its Western low extensions below the doors provided extra stiffening for the long car bodies. The AAR Pennsylvan ia subsidiary, the Pittsburgh & standard design for 50-foot single-door box cars, adopted in 1942, called for 16-panel Lake Erie. Six hundred New York Central sides, but most of the cars built in the 1940s have 12-panel sides as on the SP cars. cars were built as lot 692-B, numbered -Southern Pacific photo, Tony Thompson collection 176200-J 76799, and another 500 were in HO Scale Decals: Champ HB315, Microscale 87-911 and the pre-painted Proto 2000 lot 700-B, numbered 176800-177299. model. The P&LE got 100 cars of lot 698-B numbered 35900-35999. Several of the railroads that received 50-foot si ngle-door box cars in 1941 acquired additional cars of this type dur­ ing World War IT. The GTW added 500 cars in the 595000-595499 series in 1944, while the Burlington built 330 additional XM-33 class cars in 1943 numbered 22000-22329 and J 70 more in 1944 num­ bered 22330-22499. The St. Louis Southwestern also built 105 more 50-foot box cars in 1944; 15 cars with end doors were numbered 20095-20109 and the rest were placed in the 20110-20199 series.

Postwar Developments of Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 35976 was one of a hundred cars in lot 698-B that were built for the 50-Foot Cars the P&LE by the NYC System's Despatch Shops in 1941. It's shown here in the mid-1950s as the first car in a Union Pacific freight train at McCammon, Idaho in the UP's mainline to Immediately following the end of the Pacific Northwest. This car had been reweighed and repainted at McKees Rock in June World War II, the New York Central took 1954. -Emil Albrecht photo, Tom Watson collection. delivery of 1,000 50-foot single-door box HO Scale Decals: CDS HO-458 dry transfers and the pre-painted Proto 2000 model cars in lot 742-B from American Car & Foundry, half of them equipped for auto body service. They were essentiall y iden­ tical to the NYC's 1941 cars except for their ends, whi ch were of the improved Dreadnaught desjgn recently introduced by the Standard Railway Equipment Co. Other postwar cars of this type, as built for the Burlington and Southern Pacific, also had the later style ends as well as cOITugated doors of postwar design and, beginning in 1948, diagonal panel roofs instead of the fo rmer rectangular panel style. As it turned out, the 50-foot single­ At Omaha in May 1959, New York Central 177270 was one of 500 cars in lot 700-B built door box cars built in the 1940s repre­ by the Despatch Shops in 1941 . It had just been repainted in the then -new jade green and sented the wave of the future in freight black paint scheme with giant "cigar band" herald. Note the placement of the reporting marks, numbers, and weight data to the right of the door. This lettering scheme is slated for car construction. By the early 1950s 50- Life-like's second production run of Proto 2000 models. -w.e. Whittaker photo foot si ngle-door box cars were built in HO Scale Decals: Champ HB346, Microscale 87-58 and the pre-painted Proto 2000 large numbers, and by the end of the model decade, they had replaced 40-foot cars as 32 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 In this late 1950s view, CB&Q 22183 looked almost exactly the way it did when new in 1943 except For the "DF" loader stenciling and the parts car symbol stenciled on the doors. The CB&Qs "Everywhere West" slogan was on the opposite side. -Virl Davis photo HO Scale Decals: Champ HB 17, Walthers 934-40150 and the pre-painted Proto 2000 model. The "DF" in the Microscale 87-13 set is similar but you'll have to cut the double-dashes on each side From a spare DF. th e standard box car type on North devices (sometimes, but not always, des­ permanently closed, though left in place). American railroads. The Santa Fe, for ignated with a large "DF" symbol), and Among the 1941-1944 50-foot cars, example, acquired its last new 40-foot as these components were often li ght in several hundred cars from the New York box cars in 1952; thereafter, all new Santa weight, more of them could be accommo­ . Central's lots 692-B and 700-B, as well Fe box cars were 50 feet in length. dated in a 50-foot car, thus reducing ship­ as some of the earlier cars from lots 673- This shift was prompted in large mea­ ping costs per unit. Band 677-B , had been reassigned to auto sure by the geographic di spersal of air­ Accordingly, many 50-foot cars built parts service by 1953 and renumbered in craft and motor vehicle factories during in the postwar era had special loading th e 79000-79651 , 80000-80999 and and after World War II. With assembl y equipment installed from the outset. Such 84000-84085 series. Of the Grand Trunk plants located in all parts of the country, equipment was often retro-fitted to exist­ Western 's 595000-595499 series cars, often far distant from the pl ants where ing 50-foot single door cars as well. (It almost all had part racks or utiLity loaders sub-assemblies were made, it became should also be noted that the supply of installed by 1953, and about two-thirds of increasingly common to ship parts by rail 50-foot single door cars was augmented the Southern Pacifi c's B-50-22 cl ass cars in box cars with custom-built loading in the 1950s and 60s by former double­ were similarly equipped. Almost 300 of racks or adjustable load-restraining door cars which had their auxi li ary doors the Burlington's XM-33s were set up for

Built in 1944, CB&Q 22485 had just been repainted Chinese red when photographed at Zanesville, Ohio in the wi nter of 1960. The "Q's" stenciling had recently been completely revised, with the heralds in black, white, and red, but "Way of the Zephyrs" was still on the other side, opposite "Everywhere West." The small rectangles along the side si lls were reFlectors to ward oFF night accidents at grade crossings. -Paul Dunn photo, Bob Lorenz collection HO Scale Decals: Champ HB336 or CDS HO-246 dry transFers RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 33 like the Southern Pacific's 50-foot box cars, many of the Cotton Belt's were equipped with Evans loaders after World War II; SSW 20032 is shown here in the mid-I 950s with DF and parts rack stenciling . When the car was new, there were lines above and below the report­ ing marks and numbers, and the lightning bolts on the heralds were white, not blue. The stenciling to the left of the door reads "when empty return to agent S.S.W. East St. louis." Of the 50-foot single-door cars built in 1941 -1944, only the Cotton Belt's had AAR-style notched side sills; life-like's models provide for this variation , however. - Bob lorenz collection HO Scale Decals: Champ HB 16, CDS HO-180 dry transfers and the pre-painted Proto 2000 model. The boxed-in "DF" is in Walthers' 934-906653 decal set.

parts loading and numbered in the 20000- 20299 seri es, plus 10 cars numbered 20500-20509 whi ch had been equipped with end doors. On the St. Louis Southwestern , 25 cars numbered 20200- 20224 were fitted with Evans utility load­ ers. This trend continued throughout the remaining li fe of the cars. Many di ffe rent types of loading devices were installed, often repl acing earlier equipment, and these changes were frequently accompa­ ni ed by renumbering, so that the number seri es became increasing confused and fragmented. By the 1960s most of the surviving cars were equipped wi th spe­ By the mid-1950s, most of the Southern Pacific B-50-22s had been equipped with Evans cial loading equipment of some kind, and loaders, as illustrated here by SP 81574 at Bradenton, Florida in May 1956. Note the yel­ their adaptability to thi s type of service low and black "DF" stenciling and the bar-and-ball symbols on the doors indicating spe­ cial loading equipment. This paint and lettering scheme is also planned for life-like's sec­ helped to assure their longevity. Many ond run of models. -Howard Ameling photo remained in service as late as the early HO Scale Decals: Champ HB315 , Microscale 87-911 and the pre-painted Proto 2000 1980s, long after most of their 40-foot model. The boxed-in "DF" is in walthers' 934-906653 decal set contemporari es had been retired. RMJ

This model was built from a stock life-like kit with very few mod­ ifications or addi­ tions . It represents the prototype as it would have appeared when nearly new in 1941 . The St. louis South ­ western prototype cars had full-height end ladders, so the short­ er end ladders sup­ plied in the kit were replaced with Tichy ladders. Detail Associ­ ates uncoupling levers were also added.

34 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 ------[TlME CAPSULE]------

RAIL MODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 35 ;:.;;..------[DIESEL MODELING ]------

By Stephen M. Priest Model Photos by Cinthia and Stephen Priest "'r,..tnl1~ photos from the collection of Thomas Chenoweth

only two radiator fans on the radiator Upgrading the Body section toward the rear of the long hood. Kato released their SD40 several years Kit-converting or upgrading a model ago, and it was this that got my mind to me is the process of creating better working. I was able to purchase several representations of whatever you are of the SD40 drive mechanisms. I was modeling. To keep with that theory, I first originally going to utilize them under removed most of the details that I knew I ..H"",r,·r! in the blue Rail Power SD45 shells, and one was could replace with more highly-detailed with black used that way. However, when I saw Rail parts. Those details included the stock scheme until Power Products new SD38 and SD39 cab, nose, fans, dynamic brake bulge, were repainted and the inertial air filter bin. The fans and bonnet shells, I decided to use another Kato SD40 drive under the SD39 shell, thus dynamic brake bulge came as separate pieces, so I simply did not install them. creating an interesting locomotive that Replacement parts were chosen from a also ran well. variety of manufacturers: Cannon pro­ I began my research by going through vided the nose, cab base, cab and air all of my photographs that supported my intake grills for both the air filter and the era (the late 1970s). I found that none of radiator sections, Precision Scale provid­ the units were equipped with air condi­ ed the new dust bin and the fuel fillers, line~cti4[)nS for use on tioners, but some units had their radio the etched steps ar'e from A-Line, and the yards at antennas mounted on a ground plane (flat handrail stanchions came from Smokey and Argentine steel surface) above the dUst bin above Valley. The remainder of the parts came respectively. the units' inertial air filtration system. I from Athearn, Detail Associates and was fitted for also noticed that both the dynamic brake Details West. the class is still fans and the radiator fans were 48-inch units are periodi­ diameter. The Rail Power Products shell Upgrading the Chassis yards. Their I had purchased had 36-inch dynamic ~Ind€:d by introduc- As I mentioned earlier, I was able to brake fans. The Santa Fe units also had a alter the Kato Flexicoil trucks· by mining rear-mounted brake stand and high­ off the low-mounted brake cylinders and mounted brake cylinders on the Flexicoil replacing them with Athearn SD40-2 trucks. The Kato sideframes come with high-mounted cylinders. The removal low-mounted brake cylinders, but I was was accomplished by chucking a Dremel able to alter these without much work. deburring bit into the motor tool and

JULJnl ',,",L • APRIL 1998 A view of the roofline and the front pilot. Notice the cab roof detail locations and use as a template when removing the expensive little drill bits. Second, once stock nose and cab base from the Rail the parts are in place they need not be Power Products shell. With the cab built glued and they do not move! Third, I can and the cement dry, I cut off the nose and blast through the installation typically the cab base. Care was taken not to dam­ doing the addition of all the parts in less age the locomotive siJl, which is only a than 20 minutes. Don't forget the side­ thin strip of styrene when you are fin­ mounted lift lugs at the rear of the body ished with the removal of the cab base. below the radiator intakes. Now that all of the heavy cutting and The handrails were installed next grinding was complete, it was time to using the soldering iron to affix the stan­ start construction. The cab amd base were chions. I used silver solder to provide a fitted to the shell and carefully affixed in strong attachment between handrails and place with Tenex-7. The Tenex-7 dries the stanchions. 1 bent my handrails out of incredibly fast, allowing you to proceed extremely stiff phosphor bronze wire (it with modeling at lightning speed. is sold for pickup material). I then bent However, you must have your part where and installed the etched steps per A­ you want it as you will have very little Line's instructions. 1 affixed them in time to change your mind. Next the new place using Tenex-7 which squeezes up inertial air filter, turbocharger exhaust through the etched holes in the edges of and two 48-inch radiator fans can be the step and dries, effectively holding the added to their locations on the roof of the step in place and creating a bolt head area. unit. The dynamic brake bulge was a lit­ detail in the process. bell was tle more challenging to create. I needed The rear radiator grille was cut to and replaced. to find a non-extended type brake bulge. length and placed in the knockout pro­ added in lieu I did not find any that suited my tastes so vided on the shell. I then cut a piece of on the plastic I opted to rework one from an Athearn styrene filler to complete the radiator the Precision section. Drop steps, the air horn, beacon a detail of the base, radio antenna and associated con­ good! On the duit, MU connections, headlight castings I added and the rear-mounted brake stand were and its added next. A pair of soft metal draft gear boxes with Kadee number 5 couplers fin­ ished off the shell. Finishing the Model

The shell was then painted in primer, allowed to set for an hour or so and then airbrushed with Scalecoat II TIX yellow. SD40-2. In order to make the bulge cor­ I waited a day or so and then masked the rect, the "extended" section must be shell off in preparation to apply the blue. removed. That section is located in front Once the blue was applied and had dried, of the side intake grilles on the bulge. the masking was carefully peeled off and This area was removed and replaced with the unit was inspected and paint touch­ the non-extended portion from the Rail ups completed. Power Products bulge. Some filing was I used a combination of decals from needed to create a similar contour Microscale and SMP Industries for the between the two manufacturers' parts. majority of the body decaling. Scaleshell But I was very happy with the results. white numberboard backings were added Next I ground off the stock Athearn fans and then covered with homemade num­ ~essil:ate: d removing and the vent from the dynamic brake berboard decals from my computer (I of the cast-styrene bulge and replaced them. The bulge was hate piecing together numberboard tool was called then glued to the model, taking care to decals). I tuck my decals down with of the plastic, with locate it correctly. A thin strip of styrene Solveset and then let the model set for a finishing up the cor- "banding" was added to the aft joint day or so. The shell was then fitted to the work. With the steps between the body and the hatch keeping underframe, and the two were weathered fj¢c:oIIle fragile, so be with prototypical practices. together. I wanted my unit to look as then proceeded to Again, I warmed up my soldering though it had performed a daily battle air intake filters iron and proceeded to melt into place all against heat, gravity, friction and grade, Again this was the cab sunshades, (mine do not break yet was well maintained by her owner. Y , .L:~-r."LO". this time oft). grabirons, lift lugs, brass air hose After completing the weathering, the eJ."t)OlJlt blade. Tape castings and cut lever supports. I find plastic rotary beacon globe was added, from damag­ that utilizing the soldering iron to install and the model was deemed a success. Next I assembled parts serves three functions: First, it RMJ nose and the cab base to saves a king's ransom in destroyed

I;J!.;III::".. " .JUlJ n l"ML • APRIL 1998 The body shell is extremely weak when the stock cab base and nose are removed. The thin SNrenle'S is all that tied the hood to the front platform. Strength however, returns to the shell when the CalnnClIII The cab is detailed with a new air horn, sunshade, cab vent and an antenna conduit. The new the frame. Notice the reworked Kato trucks with the high-mounted (Athearn) brake cylinders.

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The alterations to the Athearn dynamic brake section are evident. I added new fan, and removed with the pieces from the Rail Power Products shell. The brass center section on the fan was DUlnCI11ea rrc:lm nary paper punch. The right side of number 4011 at Newton, Kansas in October 1975. --Photo from the Thomas Chenoweth collection

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This model has nearly all the superdetails you could wish for but the smaller parts sturdy wire attached with a soldering iron so they won't break off easily.

The left ;ide of 4011 taken at Hurley, New Mexico on September 16, 1977. -Photo from the Thomas Chenoweth collection The SD39 is a locomotive that you can kit-convert without much fear that it will be offered as re(ld,,--tc,-rim otively rare in the real world--unless, of course, you are modeling the Santa Fe. ------[PAINT & DECALS ]------XTRA LEASE/J.D. HUNT 53.. FOOT PLATE WALL TRAILER From A-line's HO Scale Kit

By Brian P. Kreimendahl

JBHZ 447410 has 18 vertical stiffeners and 22 tie-down cups (arranged in two horizontal parallel rows of eleven) per side which perfectly matches A-line's model. Note the location of the red and white conspicuily striping on the side. The rectangular document box and cir­ cular registration card holder are next to the air/electrical connection box. The lanaing gear crank handle is painted white. los Angeles, California, May 22, 1997.

This shot of JBHZ 447410 shows the bumper and rear door detail . Red and white conspicuily striping is located at the bottom of the door and on the horizontal lower bar of the ICC bumper. The curvilinear bumper post supports on the far ends of the lower bumper ba r a re called "horns." This van has two-hole disc wheels. Note the air hoses underneath the belly just forward of the wheels. los Angeles, California, May 22, 1997. 44 RAILMODEL JOURNAL - APRIL 1998 The Prototype

Boston-based XTRA Corporati on is a domin ant world wide pl ayer on today's intermodal transport scene. Through its subsidiaries, including XTRA Lease, XTRA Intermodal, and XTRA Inter­ nati onal, XTRA controls a vast portfo li o of intermodal equipment. XTRA's trail er fl eet, with over 130,000 trail ers, is valued at over one billion doll ars and is the world's largest. XTRA's main business is leasing trail ers and other intermodal equipment to trucking and transportati on companies. J.B. Hunt, an Arkansas-based full­ truckload carrier, has been a pioneer in recent years in the use of intermodal to move its freight. Currentl y, Hunt has con­ tracts with ten different railroads to move its trailers and containers across North The trailer body shell on the left is the stock A-line shell. On the right is the A-Line shell with America. Hunt's current intermodal fl eet, part of the ICC bumper cut away and the styrene parts that will be added to the shell to dominated by 20,000 48-foot and 53-foot replicate the specific bumper found on this prototype plate wall trailer. domestic containers, still rosters a num­ ber of Hunt-owned trail ers as well as leased trail ers like JBHZ 447410. In the pantheon of elite intermodal equipment, Wabash Nati onal's Model p­ I 02CW 53-foot plate wall trailer deserves a special shrine. Thousands of these trail­ ers are hustl ed across the landscape every day on the rail s in the li veri es of Dart, Schneider Nati onal, Wern er, XTRA Lease, and many others. The term "pl ate wa ll" means th at the sides of the trail er consist of a seri es of aluminum all oy plates that are butted together. The seams between the plates are covered by verti cal ex truded aluminum stiffeners.

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 45 The air/electrical connection box on ty striping. There are many commercial­ the nose of the trailer is more squarish ly available decal sets with oversized and in a slightly different location than conspicuity striping but the A-Line sheet The HO Scale Model on the prototype. However, the air and is correct. I used Microscale's Trailer and electrical lines were modeled per the pro­ Domestic Container Data Sheet for the A-Line has produced a very fine HO totype by drilling .0135-inch holes just tail and marker lights and warning stick- scale model of an early version (circa under the three connections and again at ers. 1987 build date) of a Schneider National­ the bottom of the pick-up rail under the The floor, landing gear, and sliding owned P-I02CW. Previously available air/electrical connection box. The two tandem bogie were all assembled per the only in an undecorated version, A-Line bottom holes for the air lines were drilled kit's instructions and then airbrushed now has released a new partially-decorat­ offset .050-inch to the left to match the with CP Railroad Gray. The wheels were ed version. The 50506 kit is a white 53- prototype. I then cut three .350-inch airbrushed Stencil White. I brush-painted foot plate trailer with the stiffeners, top lengths of .012-inch brass wire and the landing gear crank handle white. I side rails, and door hardware painted alu­ placed them in the holes to simulate the drilled two holes .130 inch apart in the minum. Included in the kit are the decals air and electrical lines. I then carefully center of the floor bottom between the for modeling an XTRA/Hunt 53-foot brush-painted the air and electrical lines second and third and again between the plate trailer and other XTRA Lease trail­ black. third and fourth cross-members. In these ers. The modifications I made to the kit The final body shell modification was holes, I installed A-Line's air hoses. were to update the trailer to match the moving rearward the lower center mark­ Before assembling the tires, wheels, current version of the PI 02CW owned by er light on each side. Using a sharp and axle and adding them to the floor XTRA Lease. hobby knife, I carefully sliced them off assembly, I weathered the wheels with and reattached them .100 inch farther to heavily-thinned Floquil Rust. The floor Modeling This Prototype the rear from their original location. I assembly was then dull coated. then brush-painted the marker lights alu­ The first modification I made was to minum. Weathering cut away the rear electrical plug and its backing from the trailer body shell. I then Decals The trailer body shell was airbrushed cut the backing from the plug and painted with Semi-Gloss. Because the prototype the plug aluminum. The plug was then I decaled directly on the glossy facto­ was very new and not showing much glued to the upper left-hand (driver's) ry finish without applying a gloss coat. weathering when I photographed it, the side of the license plate holder per the The shell was decorated using the decals shell was weathered wi th successi ve prototype. included in the A-Line kit. I decaled right coats of heavily thinned Floquil Dust. I The stock bumper is correct for one of over the pre-decorated door hinges when applied some Floquil Grime to the bot­ several different bumper styles found on applying the door seals, then I went back tom of the trailer's nose. The floor assem­ the P-I02CW. To create the specific and touched them up by brushing-on alu­ bly was then installed into the bottom of bumper found on the modeled prototype, minum paint to hide the seals on the the trailer body shell. I cut away the lower bumper bar and the hinges. If you model modern intermodal, horns. The horns are the curvilinear por­ At this point in the project, I added chances are that your mix of trailers tion of the bumper between the outside the rear rubber bumper pads, which I doesn't contain enough models of the bottom of the rear door frame and the top made from two .100-inch lengths of .030 XTRA fleet. A-Line's new partially dec­ of the outside lower bumper bar. Next, I x .030-inch strip styrene. Before attach­ orated plate wall trailer kit gives you the glued a 1.130-inch length of .060 x .060- ing them, I brush-painted them black. chance to model an XTRA trailer easi­ inch strip styrene to the horizontal sup­ These were attached at the very outside ly- a trailer that's as contemporary as port posts for a new lower bumper bar. I of the space below the doors. the next hot shot intermodal train created new horns by using needle-nose I used A-Line's conspicuity stripe screaming by you on the nearest main­ pliers and bending into ''J'' shapes two decal set and carefully matched the lay­ line. Thanks to John L. Becker, Joe .l60-inch lengths of .030 x .030-inch out of the prototype's red and white safe- D'Elia, and Ed McCaslin. RMJ strip styrene and gluing them into place. I modeled the bumper's diagonal cross sup­ ports using two .320-inch lengths of .020 Bill of Materials ! x .060-inch strip styrene. A-Line: PAINT & DECALS I next masked the trailer and air­ 50123 Document Boxes Floquil: brushed the roof, front air/electrical con­ 50142 Sliding Tandem Air Hoses 110006 Dust nection box, and an A-Line document 50506 XTRA Lease White Plate 110013 Grimy Black box aluminum. Be sure to mask the roof Trailer Kit 110073 Rust in such a way that the top of the door SMP Accu-Paint frame remains white. Detail Associates: 1 Stencil White 2504.012 inch brass wire 2 Stencil Black Final Details 40 Aluminum (Metallic) I attached the document box to the Evergreen Styrene: 43 CP Railroad Gray nose of the trailer on the lower left side. 123 .020 x .060-inch strip styrene A-Line: To model the circular registration card 131 .030 x .030-inch strip styrene 50162 Safety Stripes holder, I cut a .030-inch length of .080- 153 .060 x .060-inch strip styrene Microscale: inch styrene rod and attached it just above 210 .030-inch styrene rod 87-852 Trailer & Domestic Container the document box. Data Sheet 46 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 ------[PASSENGER CARS ] ------

Part I Modeling the Hi- Level Cars in HO Scale from Train Station Kits . By Robert R. Wright, of Train Station Products, and Michael W. Flick

Amtrak Coach Dorm 39933 at the Los Angeles Union Station in the 1990s. -Bob Wright photo

ram Station Products is now operation by Amtrak. The Hi-Level chair reproduce the Hi-Level chair cars of the producing injection-molded re­ cars and "step-up" cars are available in HO 1970s. Also, Microscale's 87-949 and 87- plicas of the "El Capitan" Hi-Level pas­ scale (decorated and undecorated) as kits 950 decals all ow the refurbished Hi-Level senger cars. In the past, some of these numbered in the 800 series. In addition, cars of the 1980s and 1990s to be easily Train Station Products kits were also mar­ Detail Associates' kit number 904 has modeled. keted and sold through Detail Associates. ma ny detail parts (especiall y for the mod­ Train Station Products Kit 434 contains Train Station offers both the original Santa ern refurbished cars) for these Hi-Level the window inserts so the modeler can con­ Fe "El Capitan" cars and kits to duplicate cars. With decals from Microscale, vert the step-u p Hi-Level chai r car to a the cars that were sold and repainted for Walthers, Champ, and others, it is easy to refurbis hed "Coach Dorm" of the 1980s RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 47 II

48 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APR IL 1998 RA/LMODEL JOURNAL - APRIL 1998 49 Santa Fe Car 535 in the 1970's after Amtrak had taken over Santa Fe's passenger trains. -Dennis Kogan photo

and 1990s. American Model Builders has a upper level worked very well. Thus, Santa laser-cut window kit (number 258) for Fe had the Budd Company make a few these cars whi ch includes the vertical bars needed changes in the design of the chair found on the upper level windows. cars and directed them to start building a These HO scale Hi-Level chair cars are fl eet of Hi-Level passenger cars including accurate models of the full-size 1964 pro­ a di ner and a loun ge car fo r their premi er ducti on cars. The designers for Train chair car train. Station Products decided that the kits could In 1956, Budd deli vered 47 Hi-Level be less expensive if the modeler added a "El Capitan" passenger cars to the Santa luggage door (which are difficult to see Fe. Ten of these cars (numbers 528 through and not very discern able) on each side to 537) were "step-up" or "step-down" transi­ make a model of a 1956 car th an it would ti on chair cars. This car enabled passengers be to try to cover-up or take out the doors to walk from a normal passenger car level if one wanted a 1964 car. If one wants to at one end and climb a small set of steps model a 1956 car, then adding the baggage ri ght inside th e car to the upper level of the doors by usin g a scribe, paint, bl ack line car where th e 68 seats were located. The decals, or other means is not th at difficult. end door at th e other end was at th e upper level height so that th e The Prototype "EI Capitan" passengers could then access th e rest of th e Hi-(evel Cars Hi -Level train on the upper level. Twenty five of these cars (numbers 700 th ro ugh The Hi -Level passenger car was devel­ 724) were strai ght chair cars with 72 seats oped jointly between the Budd Company on the upper level and a hi gh door at each and the AT&SF (Santa Fe) Rail way for use end . The lower level of both of these types on the "EI Capitan" which was Santa Fe's of cars contained restrooms, a lu ggage premi ere chair car train between Chi cago storage area, a room for railroad personn el, and Los Angeles. In 1954, Budd deli vered and mechanical equipment rooms above to AT&SF two experimental Hi-Level th e trucks of the car. The entrance doors chair cars. for passenger loading and unl oading were These two experimental cars (num­ in the center of each car on th e lower level. bered 526 and 527) were well received by There was a rectangul ar spiral stairway in both th e traveling public and the railroad the center of each car fo r the passengers to personnel. The concept of a long-di stance comfortable for th e chair car passenger. bi-Ievel passenger car with seating on the The reclining seats had in dividual spot 50 RAILMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 reading li ghts, leg rests, and foot rests and 3477 through 3482. Because of the lack of need for those were very far apart from each other using In 1964, Budd delivered to the Santa Fe doors, the 1964 set of cars were deli vered 50-inch centers for the location of each 24 more Hi -Level cars. Twelve of these without lu ggage doors. seat row. The cars were carpeted and had a cars (numbered 538 through 549) were With the 1964 purchase of the extra Hi­ public address system which provided con­ "step-up" or "step-down" chair cars whi ch Level chair cars, Santa Fe was able to use tinuous recorded music. The remaining 12 were very simil ar to the 1956 "step-up" or these cars on other passenger trains in cars (of this 1956 production) were the six "step-down" cars. The remaining 12 Hi­ addition to the "EI Capitan." The Santa Fe Hi-Level Dining Cars (numbers 650 Level cars (n um bered 725 through 736) of ran th ese cars on the "San Francisco Chief' through 655) and th e six Hi-Level Lounges thi s 1964 ord er were "convertible" cars, and to a lesser extent on the "Texas Chief" (numbers 575 through 580). whi ch meant th at one of th e end doors in addition to their normal consists on the To go with th eir new Hi-Level "EI could be lowered and set at the normal pas­ "EI Capitan" and then the "EI Capitan" train, Santa Fe took six conven­ senger car height. In this position, the car Capitan/Super Chi ef." These cars saw con­ tional baggage dormitory cars (whi ch they became a "step-up" or "step-down" car. It tinuous service on the Santa Fe from their already had in their fleet for previous" EI also could set at the Hi-Level height with in troduction in 1956 and 1964 to May Capitan" trains) and fitted each of them both end doors accessing the upper level. 197 1 when Amtrak took over Santa Fe's wi th a roof adapter on the rear portion of Thus, in the hi gh position, the car was a passenger service. the car. These roof adapters (whi ch were Hi -Level straight chair car all owing it to be mainly cosmetic) gave a gentl e slope up used in the middle of the train . The 1956 Hi-Level Cars in Amtrak Service from the roof lines of the conventional chair cars (both the step-up cars and the 72 streamlined passenger cars to th e roof lines seat cars) had an outside lu ggage door on In 1971, with th e formation of the of th e Hi-Level cars. The six "EI Capitan" each side that accessed the luggage area on National Passenger Railroad Corporation baggage dormitory cars whi ch were used the lower level. It was fo und that very few (A mtrak), vari ous U.S. railroads were with the Hi-Level cars were numbered people ever used that luggage door. given the opportuni ty to buy into the new

Santa Fe Car 700 was built in 1956 with a high door at each end. (Photograph credited to Santa Fe Railway.)

RAILMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 51 Opposi te side of Santa Fe car 535. - Dennis Kogan photo

passenger railroad corporation and not run height of the stripes on the normal height passenger trains under th eir own name. passenger cars. Some had stripes hi gh on Santa Fe along with most oth er railroads th e car whi ch went through the upper win­ bought in to Amtrak (Southern Rail ways, dow area. Some had normal width stri pes Ri o Grande, and the Rock Island were while others had wide stripes. Us uall y three railroads which did not join in 1971 ). th ere was onl y one all'ow on the side of the Although the Santa Fe kept some of th eir car whi ch was on the ri ghthand end . These passenger cars (such as a Big Dome, a Hi -Level cars were re-numbered by "Super Chi ef" diner, some baggage cars, Amtrak to the 9900s. The Santa Fe Hi­ some sleepers, and some other cars includ­ Level chair cars 526 and 527 became ing their business cars) most of Santa Fe's Amtrak 9900 and 9901 , respecti vely. The excell entl y-maintained passenger cars Santa Fe 528 through 549 became Amtrak were used as part of their buy-in. Thus, in 9902 through 9923, respectively. Santa Fe 1971 , all the Santa Fe Hi-Level passenger 725 through 736 became Amtrak 9925 cars became the property of Amtrak. through 9936, respectively, and Santa Fe The Hi-Level cars were not changed in 700 th rough 724 became Amtrak 9940 the early Amtrak days. Other than repaint­ through 9964, respecti vely. The six Santa ing them, they ran pretty much the same as Fe Hi-Level lounge cars 575 through 580 they did on the Santa Fe. However, became Amtrak 9970 through 9975, because they were in such good shape and respecti vely, and th e six Santa Fe Hi -Level they gave such a comfortable ride, Amtrak diners 650 through 655 became Amtrak started using them on many of their west­ 9980 through 9985, respecti vely. The six ern ro utes. They were used as regul ars on baggage dormitory cars with the sloping the "EI Capitan/Super Chi ef" whi ch roof adapters (3477 through 3482) were became the "Southwest Limited" which renumbered to Amtrak 9990 though 9995, became th e" Southwest Chief". They were respecti vely. also used as regulars on the "Chi ef" Up to the early 1980s, the six Hi-Level (before Amtrak dropped thi s train in the lounge cars (9970 and 9975) and the six early 1970s), the "Lone Star," the" Sunset Hi-Level diners (9980 and 9985) along Limited," for a short time on the San with the six baggage dormi tory cars (9990 Di egans and then later on the "Coast and 9995) ran exclusively on Amtrak's pre­ Starli ght." There were many di fferent paint mi er Chicago to Los Angeles train C"EI schemes for th ese cars in the 1970s. Some Capitan/Super Chi ef", th e" Southwest had stri pes low on the cars to match the Limited" , or the "Southwest Chi ef"). The 52 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 II

rest of the Hi-Level chair cars were spread Amtrak's Hi-Level Rebuilding 39933 has five small upper level windows around on the western trains as mentioned Program on one side (the side with five lower level above. With the in troducti on of Amtrak's windows) and four (4) small upper level Superliner passenger cars in the late 1970s, The "step-up " or "step-down" transi­ windows on the other (the side with two the Hi-Level cars were sent to the shops tion chair cars along with the 1964 "con­ lower level windows). The small er win­ for rebuilding. The stra ight (72 seat) Hi­ vertible" chair cars were re-done with HEP dows are al ways located on th e end with Level chair cars were re-done with HEP heating and cooling and fitted with crew the low end door. The di aphragm on the heating and cooling and fitted with the dormitory space at one end (the end with low door end of these cars was not Amfleet style diaphragms on both ends so the low door) and with coach seating at the changed and is th e standard 1950s style they can mate easi ly with the Superliner other (the end with th e hi gh door). These "S anta Fe diaphragm" with th e support cars whi ch were manufactured with the cars were renumbered to the 39900s bars and upper leaf spring. The diaphragm Amfleet style di aphragms. These straight (39902 through 39936) and given the title on the high door end was changed to th e (72 seat) Hi-Level chair cars were then of "Coach Dorm." During thi s refurbishing Amfleet style diaphragm so they can mate renumbered into the 39900s by simply and upgrading process, the dormitory easil y with a Superliner car or with a refur­ adding the digit "3" as a prefix to their old space had th eir exteri or windows made bi shed Hi-Level chair car which has th e number. Thus, 9940 through 9964 became small er. Thus, the side windows on the Amfleet style di aphragms. The Hi-Level 39940 through 39964, respecti vely. The upper level of th ese cars are now two dif­ "Coach Dorms" or "Transition Cars" (as Budd Hi-Level cars sit sli ghtly lower ferent sizes. On the sides of some of the Amtrak also call s them) have been used on (approx imately 4 inches) th an a Superl iner Hi-Level coach dorms, th ere are five upper most of the modern Amtrak's trains where car. Thus, there is a slight step up or down level windows that are small er and on the both conventional passenger cars and when going from one type of car to anoth ­ oth er sides there are onl y fo ur windows Superliner cars are used togeth er. The Hi ­ er. th at are small er. For example, Coach Dorm Level "step-up" and "convertible" cars

Santa Fe Car 720. - Stan Kistler photo

RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1 998 53 The bagage door is visible just to the right of the number . board on 72-seatlii-Level chair car. I -Stan Kistler photo --

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have been in continuous service (other trucks whi ch were similar to the trucks For those who would like more info r­ than the time for refurbishing and mainte­ whi ch rode under the Santa Fe "Big mati on about these cars and the consists in nance) from the 1950s and 1960s through Domes." The Hi-Level diners were the which they were used, we suggest that you 1996. heaviest single dining cars ever manufac­ look at the six-part series of arti cles about These Hi-Level passenger cars (all tured for any railroad. The entire upper these cars by Michael W. Flick in the except the Hi-Level dining cars whi ch level was devoted to passenger dining Santa Fe Modeler magazine of 1985 and rode on six-wheel trucks) used a 9-foot (capacity of 80 people) while the kitchen 1986. "Santa Fe's Hi-Level Cars " by wheelbase 41-CDO outside swing hanger was on the lower level with dumb waiters Dennis 1. Kogan, Larry Oschiell o, and passenger car truck. This was the type of transporting th e food up and down Nelson H. McCormick: Prototype Mod­ passenger car truck (outside swing hang­ between the two levels. Train Stati on eler; [nco by John Longo, Editor (1975). er) that was used on most of the modern Products is currentl y working on both the PASSENGER TRAIN CONSISTS OF Santa Fe passenger cars. However, be­ six-wheel trucks and the Hi-Level dining THE 1970s: Wayner Publications; New cause of their weight (97 tons) the Hi­ cars. Hopefull y, these new HO scale items York ( 1981). RMJ Level diners needed heavy-duty six-wheel will be avail abl e in 1998.

The two different Amtrak paint schemes from the early Amtrak era are visible in this photo taken at Winslow, Arizona in 1974. -Pete Arnold photo

54 RAILMOOEL JOURNAL APR IL 1998 I ------[ CREATE YOUR OWN KIT ] ------~--

photos from the J. Emmons Lancaster collection plans by David Prince

The building changed somewhat over the years. In this forties-era photo, a two-story unpainted ice house was still standing, but a diagonal office has been added to the far left of the main building and a lean-to with a small square window has been added to the street side of the building iust to the left of the locomotive.

This photo probably dates to the twenties. This is the building's side opposite from the tracks. The ice house is visible to the left. RAILMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 55 11 I-

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56 RAILMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 This early Fifties photo shows the creamery, but the ice house has been removed. The creamery is now owned by H.P. Hood & Sons, accord­ ing to the sign on top of the diagonal add-on structure.

The same General Electric 70-ton switcher and PFaudler steel milk car heading past the Unity station to run around to the head end of the mixed train . Yes , open-platForm coaches were still used in the Fifties, a s were mi xed Freights. It's probable that the steam locomotive in the earlier-era photo was perForming the same task of adding a milk car to the same train with that same coach serving as both caboose and For some passenger revenue. RAILMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 57 FULL SIZE FOR HO SCALE

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(Article appears on pages 65-67 of this issue)

FREIGHT CARS IN THE FIFTIES • Kit-conversion: C&O rebuilt 1937 AAR 40-foot foot 6-inch interior height, ACF-built 40-foot box car with Hutchins ends and diago nal panel single-door cars with Improved 3/4 Dreadnaughl (Article appears on pages 53-59 of this issue.) roof, by Scott Pitzer, May 1996. "Rolling Pin "-shaped ends, from C&BT Shops Articles are listed in (more or less) chronological • PROFILE: 1937 AAR wood-side box cars with HO scale models, by Bob Davis, September 1991. order of first appearance of prototype cars. "PRO­ 5/4 Dreadnaught ends fro m Sun shine or Athearn • Wabash 1944 AAR IO-foot 6- inch in terior height, FILE" articles describe the prototype and its match­ HO scale kits, by Martin Lofton , February 1994. ACF-built 40-foot si ngle-door cars with ing model. Us uall y, articles on individual cars that • PROFILE: Modified 1937 AAR 40-foot box Improved 4/4 Dreadnaught "Rolling Pin"-shapec\ fo ll ow "PROFILE," "Upgrade," or "Kit-conversion " cars wi th 5/5 Dreadnaught ends from ends, from C&BT Shops HO scale model, by Ed li stings are indi vidual examples of the same car type InterMountain, Sunshine and Athearn HO scale, Hawkins, May 1991. with a photograph of the model and its prototype. Delu xe Innovations N scale, Pacific Rail Shops S • PROFILE: 1944 AAR 10-foot 6-i nch in te ri or 40-FOOT BOX CARS: scale and Old Pullman 0 scale kits, with ROSTER, height, ACF-built 40-foot single-door cars wi th (* Note: Articles wi th a single asterisk are reprinted by Ed Hawkins, August, October and December "Transitional" rectangul ar-panel roofs, and in the book FREIGHT CAR MODELS, Vol. n, 1996 and March 1997. Interim Improved 4/4 Dreadnaught ends, from BOX CAR, BOOK I.) • PROFILE: 194 1 AAR 10-foot 6-inch interi or C&BT Shops HO scale models, with ROSTER, ("" Note: Articles with two asterisks are reprinted in height, 40-foot single-door cars with 5/5 Dread­ by Ed Hawki ns, Pat Wider and Ray Long, the book FREIGHT CAR MODELS , Vol. I naught ends, from InterMountai n or Athearn HO "' February 1990. TECHN IQUES.) scale, Delu xe Innovations N scale, or Old Pullman • Kit-Conversion: ITC 1944 AAR 10-foot 6-inch • Upgrade: Adding etched-brass or stainless steel o sca le models, by Ed Hawki ns, February 1995 interior height, ACF-bu ilt 40-foot single-door roofwalks to box cars and reefers, by Robert and Ri chard Hendrickson, March 1997. cars with "Transiti onal" rectangul ar-panel roofs, Sc hleicher, January 1992. • Pennsylva ni a Railroad X-37 40-foot single-door, and Interim Improved 4/4 Dreadnaught ends, • Upgrade: Add ing separate ladders to box cars, by 1937 AA R box carfrom Athearn's HO scale kit, from C&BT Shops HO scale model by Ed Ed Hawkins, May 1995. by Curt LaRue, September 1990. Hawkins, February 1991. • Upgrade: simulating separate ladders and grab­ • Pennsy lva ni a Railroad X-37B 40-foot double­ • PROFILE: 1944 AA R 10-foot 6-inch interi or irons with "shadow painting." door 1937 AAR box car from Athea rn and Front height, ACF-built 40-foot single-door cars with • Upgrade: Detailing Athearn underframes for 40- Range parts, by Curt LaRue, November 1992. Interim Improved 4/4 "Dartnaught " ends, from foot box cars and reefers by Martin Lofton, May • PROFILE: 1944 AAR 10-foot 6-inch interi or C&BT Shops HO scale, Deluxe Innova ti ons or 1991. height, ACF-built 40-foot single-door cars with Con-Cor N scale, or Atl as 0 scale models-all • Upgrade: Detailed floors and interiors for HO Interim Improved 4/4 Dreadnaught ends, by Ed with modified ends, with ROSTER, by Ed scale box cars, by Martin Lofton, ** Jan uary 199 1. Hawkins, Pat Wider and Ray Long, from C&BT Hawki ns, Pat Wider and Ray Long, "' Oc tober • PROFILE: Z-braced 40-foot sin !!le-sheathed Shops HO scale, Deluxe Innovations or Con-Cor 1990. single-door box cars from Accur~1 and Sunshine N scale, or Atlas 0 scale models, with ROSTER, • Kit-conversion: Modeling the "Dannaught" ends Models HO scale kits, by Richard Hendri ckson, by Ed Hawkins, Pat Wider and Ray Long, on C&BT Shops HO scale kits, by Ed Hawkins, February 1993. "September, "October and ':'November 1989. May 1992 . • Kit-conversion: 1-1 /2-door single-sheathed 40- • PROFILE: 1944 AAR IO-foot 6-inch interi or • PROFILE: 1944 AAR 10-foot 6-inch interior foot box cars from Accurai l's HO scale kits, by height, ACF-built 40-foot double-door cars with height, ACF-built 40-foot single-door cars with Ri chard Hendrickson, April 1993. Interim Improved 4/4 Dreadnaught ends, from Improved 4/3/1 Dreadnaught ends, from C& BT • Rebuilt 40-foot USRA single-sheathed box cars C& BT Shops HO scale models, with ROSTER, Shops HO scale, Deluxe Innovations or Con-Cor from Tichy's HO scale kits, by Martin Lofton and by Ed Hawk ins, Pat Wider and Ray Long, June N scale, or Atlas 0 scale models, with ROSTER, Ri chard Hendrickson, Apri l, May, June 1992 and 1992. by Ed Hawkins, Pat Wider and Ray Long, July 1993. • Upgrade: 1944 AAR IO-foot 6-inch interior "'November 1990. • PROFILE: USRA 40-foot double sheathed box height, ACF-built 40-foot double-door car with • Kit-conversion: 1944 AAR IO-foot 6-inch interior cars from Ertl or Westerfield HO scale kits, Interim Improved 4/4 Dreadnaught ends, from height, ACF-built 40-foot single-door with 1/3/4 Micro-Trai ns N scale model s or Berkshire Valley C&BT Shops HO scale kit, by Ed Hawk in s, June tapered-rib Dread-naught ends and welded-side box o scale kits, by Richard Hendrickson, May 1998. 1992. car from Accurail (ex-McKean) HO scale double­ • PROFILE: Pennsylvania Railroad X26C box cars • PROFILE: 1944 AAR 10-foot 6-inch interi or door kits, by Ed Hawkins, April 1994. (rebuilt from USRA single-sheathed X26 cars) height, ACF-built 40-foot double-door cars with • Kit-conversion: 1944 AAR 10-foot 6-inch interior from Athearn and Sunshine Models kits by Martin Interim Impro ved 3/4 Dreadnaught ends, from height, ACF-built 40-foot single-door box car Lofton and Thomas Meacham, August 1992. C& BT Shops HO scale kits, by Ed Hawki ns, Pat with 1/3/4 tapered-rib Dread-naught ends and ri v­ • PROFILE: Pennsylvania Railroad X29 box cars Wider and Ray Long, *January 1990. eted-side from Accurai l (ex-McKean) HO scale from Red Caboose, Sunshine Models, or Walthers • PROFILE: 1944 AAR IO-foot interi or height, double-door kits, by Ed Hawki ns, April 1994. HO scale or Fine N scale kits, by Mm1in Lofton, ACF-built 40-foot single-door cars wi th Interim • PROFILES: PS-I 40-foot single-door box cars: September 1993 and by Richard Hendrickson, Improved 4/3 Dreadnaught ends, with step-by-step Color photos of MNS, LS &L and D&H cars August 1997. how-to aI1icle on kit-converting the C&BT Shops appeared in the ':' June 1989 issue. Part I of the • PROFILE: 1929 Standard Canadian National 40- HO scale kits, by Richard Hendrickson, se ri es, with a roster of all the cars built by foot single-sheathed box cars from Steam Shack's "' December 1989. Pullman-Standm'd , plus a step-by-step "how-to" kit, with ROSTER, by Stafford Swain, June 1994. • Kit-conversion: Updati ng the TMW 40-foot box articl e on upgrading the HO sca le McKean • Pennsylvania RR class X3 1 round-roof box cars, car with cast-resin Improved 3/4 Dreadnaught ends, Models kits (no w offered as an im proved kit fro m with ROSTER, by Rich Burg, March 1995. by Scott Pitzer. Accurail), appeared in the March 1993 issue. • PROFILE: 1937 AAR IO-foot interior height, • Kit-Conversion: Pennsy lvania Railroad X29B Parts II, III, IV, V, VI, VI!, VlIl , IX, X, XI and ACF-built 40-foot single-door cars fro m Red "Merchandi se Serv ice" 40-foot single-door box XU appeared in the May, June, August, October Caboose (ex-IMW) HO scale, Pacific Rail Shops cars from Front Range HO scale kits, by Bob and November 1993, January, June and November S scale and InterMountain 0 scale (with ROSTER), Davis, March 199 1. 1994, and June, July and December 1997 issues. by Ed Hawkins, Pat Wider and Ray Long, *Jul y • Kit-Conversion: Pennsylvania Railroad X29B An updated roster, with more informat ion on door 1991 and by Richard Hendrickson, November 40-foot single-door box cars from C&BT Shops styles and details, appeared in the November 1993 1992. and Sunshine Models kits, by Martin Lofton, issue. An index of all the photos (over 130!) that • PROFILE: 1937 AAR IO-foot interior height, January 1994. had been publi shed in "The Journal" to that date, 40-foot double-door ACF-built cars from Red • PROFILE: 1944 AAR IO-foot 6-inch interi or appeared in the June 1994 issue. A compari son of Caboose HO scale, Pacific Rail Shops S scale and height, ACF-buil t 40-foot single-door cars with the HO scale InterMountain, Accurail (improved InterMountain 0 scale, by Richard Hendrickson, Improved 3/4 Dreadnaught "Rolling Pi n"-shaped McKean), Walthers, Model Power, Con-Cor and January 1998. ends, from C&BT Shops HO scale models, by Ed Cannonball make cars (except for the newer • Upgrade: IMW 1937 AAR HO scale box car kits, Haw kins, Pat Wider and Ray Long, "July 1990. InterMountain model) appeared in the March by Richard Hendrickson, July 1994. • Pennsylva nia Railroad class X-43 1944 AA R 10- 1993 issue. An article on Kadee's new HO sca le 62 RAILMODEL JOURNAL - APR IL 1998 ------[INDEX]------

model appeared in the May 1997 issue. Dreadnau ght ends, from Proto 2000 or At hea rn Loco-M ot ives lex -V-line) N scale, or Weaver 0 • Upgrade: McKean (now improved by Accurail ) HO scale, InterM ounain N scale, or Old Pullman sca le kits. Jul y 1990 and (by Ed Hawkins, Pat HO scale PS-I kits with roofs and underframes, o scale models, by Richard Hendrickson. Octobe r Wider and Ray Long. with ROSTERS , April , by Ed Hawkins, November 1993. 1995 and March 1996. Augu st. October and December 199 1, by Jim • Soo 40-foot PS- I box car from McKean Models • PROFILE: 1941 AAR IO -foot 6-i nch interior Eager. March and May 1994 and by Richard HO scale kit, by Dan Holbrook, December 1990. height, 50-foot double-door cars with one 515 Hendri ckso n. September 1997. • Upgrade: InterMountain HO scale 40-foot PS-I Dreadnaught end and end doors, from Proto 2000 • Upgrade: Eastern Car Works HO scale ACF two­ with backdating information, by Ed Hawki ns, HO scale kits or Micro-Trains N sca le mode ls, by bay covered hopper. by Ed Hawki ns, April 1991 . December 1994. Ri chard Hendrickson, September 1996. • Kit-conversion: Bowser, Kato or Eastern Car • Soo 40-foot PS-I box car from McKean Model s • PROFILE: AAR 50-foot single-door box cars Works HO sca le ACF two-bay covered hoppers, HO scale kit, by Dan Holbrook, December 1990. from Proto 2000 HO sca le kits, by Richard by Alan Me nde. March 1994. • Rock Island 40-foot PS-I single-door box car Hendrickson , Ap ril 1998. • Kit-conversion: ACF two-bay covered hoppers from Micro-Trains N scale model , by Robert • PROFILE: 194 1 AAR 10-foot 6-inch interior from Con-Cor N sca le fo ur-bay covered hoppers Ortiz, November 1994. height, 50-foot sin gle-door cars with 515 by Kent Charl es. August 1990. • Kit-conversion: CN 40-foot box cars from Dr;adnaught e nd s,~fro m Proto 2000 HO scale or • PROFILE: Pullman Standard PS-2 two-bay McKean Model s (or C&BT Shops or Old Pullman 0 scale models, by Richard covered hoppers From Atl as or MDC HO scale, InterMountain) HO scale kits and CRM cast resin Hendri ckson , com ing in 1998. Atl as N sca le, S Helper Services S scale, or parts, by Stafford Swai n, December 1992 and • PROFILE: 1944 AA R 10-foot 6-inch interi or Weaver 0 scale kits, by Rich Gher, July 1990 and May 1993 . height, ACF-built SO-foot single-door cars with by Ed Hawk ins. April, June, September and • Kit-conversion: Linde 40-foot boxltank cars Improved 1/3/4 Dreadnaught ends, from November 1995. from McKean Models HO sca le or Con-Cor N Branchline Models HO scale, or Pac ific Ra il • PROFILE: Pullm an Standard PS-2 two- bay scale kits, by John Ryczkowski , Jul y 1993. Shops S sca le kits (or from 40-foot kit-conver­ covered hoppers. as Pennsylvani a Railroad class • PROFILE: Santa Fe Extended-Height 40-foot sions of C&BT Shops HO sca le, Deluxe H34. from Atl as or MDC HO scale, Atlas N box cars from Westerfield's HO scale kit, by Innovations N scale, or Atl as 0 scale models as sca le. S Helper Services S scale or Weaver 0 Richard Hendrickson, May 1995 . illustrated, step-by-step, in the "' *March and scale kits. with H34 ROSTER, by Rich Burg, • Kit-conversion: Pennsylvania Rail road class X- ** Ap ril 1990 issues),'''''Augu st 1989 (B&O December 1993 and January 1994. 29G 40-foot box car fro m Details West 50-foot cars) , *"' June and "' *September 1990 and October • General Ame ri can single Airslide covered hoppers kit, with Athearn doors, by Ed Bley, February 1992. fro m Walthers, Con-Cor and Eastern Car Works 199 1. • Pennsylvani a Railroad (ex -GAEX) 50-foot single­ HO scale and Atlas N scale kits, "Car Spotters • Kit-conversion: Penn sylvania Railroad class X- door "OF" box car from Details West HO scale Gu ide No.5" (private owner cars), December 54 40-foot plug-door box car fro m Deta il s West kit, by Bob Davis, April 1991. 1990 and October 1992. HO scale 50-foot kit, by Ed Bley, January 199 1. • PROFILE: Pullman Standard PS-I 50-foot dou­ • General Ameri can single Airsl ide covered hoppers SO-FOOT BOX CARS: ble-door box cars from InterMountain's HO sca le from Walthers, Con-Cor and Eastern Car Works (** Note: Articles with two asterisks are reprinted in and At las or Micro-Trains N scale kits, with HO scale and At las N scale kits,"Car Spotters the book FREIGHT CAR MODELS , Vol. I ROSTER , by Ed Hawki ns, June and August 1995 Guide No.8" (railroad-owned cars), February TECHNIQUES.) and Jan uary 1996. 1991 and October 1992. • Upgrade: Adding separate ladders to box cars, by • Pullman Standard PS-I 50-foot si ngle-door box FLAT CARS: Ed Hawkins, May 1995. cars from In terMounta in HO scale and Micro­ • Bethlehem Steel 75-foot piggyback fl at cars from • Upgrade: Simulating separate ladders and grab­ Trains N sca le kits, with ROSTER , by Ed Walthers HO scale kits, with ROSTER , by Mark irons with "shadow painting." Hawk ins, December 1995. Vaughan , April 1990. • Upgrade: Detailed floors and interiors for HO • PROFILE: 195 1-1 980 General American • B&O 50-foot Tofcee (Piggyback) Flats & scale box cars, by Martin Lofton, "~' J a nu ary (GAEX) 50-foot "OF" single plug-door and sli d­ Trailers, prototype photos and diagrams with 1991. ing-door box cars from Branchline Model s HO Athearn "stand-in" kit-conversion , **October • PROFILE: Modeling the 50-foot wood and com ­ scale, or Pacific Rai l Shops S scale kits (or from 1989. posite steel box cars manufactured between 1894 40-foot kit-conversions of C&BT Shops HO • Bulkhead, V- deck pulpwood cars in the upper and 1932, with ROSTER, from MDC, Westerfield sca le, Delu xe Innovati ons N scale, or Atlas 0 Mid west, by Dan Holbrook, October 1989, HO scale and Cameron Scale Models (ex­ scale models as illu strated, step-by-step, """March January and May 1990 and September 199 1. Berkshire Valley) 0 scale kits, by Rich Burg and and **April 1990 issues,**March 1990, with • Common wealth (GS!) 53-foot flat cars and bulk­ Richard Hendrickson, *Jul y, *October, ROSTER, ** April, **June **September 1990, head cars fro m Walthers HO and N scale and S "'November 1989, Jul y 1995 and July 1996. **April 1991 and **February 1992. Helper Services S scale kits, with ROSTER, "Car • Upgrade: Adding grabiro ns, ladders and other CABOOSES: Spotters Guide No . 12," by James Eager, details to MDC's HO scale 50-foot single­ sheathed box cars, by Richard Hendri ckson, July • Kit-conversion, D&RGW (ex-D&S L) wood December 1992. 1996. caboose from MDC's HO scale kit by Darrell • Upgrade and prototypes for Tichy HO scale 40- • PROFILE: 50-foot single-sheathed double-door Taylor, August 199 1. foot flat cars by Richard Hendrickson, June 1993. box cars from the late twenties from MDC, • Eastern-style steel cabooses fro m Proto 2000 HO • Southern, ATSF, CSXT, C&G, A&WP, RF&P, 0 Westerfield and Walthers HO scale, Walthers N sca le kits, Life-Like N sca le kits or Weaver GM&O, MP, W of A, GA and ACL bulkhead scale and Cameron Scale Models (ex -Berkshire scale kits on the Shaw mut, October 1991. pulpwood flat cars, by Rhett Coates, September Valley) 0 scale kits, by Richard Hendrickson, • Lehi gh Va ll ey eastern-style cabooses from Li fe­ 1993. Jul y 1995. Like (or Proto 2000) HO scale kits, by Steve • Kit-conversion: SAL 40 and 50-foot bulkhead • PROFILE: 50-foot single-sheathed single-door Kley, October 199 1. V-deck pulpwood cars from Athearn HO scale box cars fro m the late twenties from MDC and • Assembling etched-brass caboose kits, step-by­ kits, by Larry Denton, October 1993. Westerfield's HO scale kits, by John Nehrich, July step, by David Lawler, January 1992. • Upgrade: Simulated wood decks for plas ti c­ 1995 . COVERED HOPPERS: decked flat cars, by Robert Schl eicher, April • PROFILE: Pennsylvania Railroad X-32 and X-33 (* *,) Note: Art icles with three asteri sks are reprinted 1994. 50-foot double-door box cars from Bowser HO in the book FREIGHT CAR MODELS , Vol. III , • Kit-conversion: V-Deck pulpwood car from scale or Fine N sca le kits, with ROSTER, by Rich COVERED HOPPERS, BOOK I. ) Walthers HO or N scale bulkhead flat car kits, by Burg, February 1996. Upgrade: adding separate grabirons and steps to Robert Sch leicher, Apri l 1994. • Pennsylvani a Railroad X-3IB 50-foot round-roof plas ti c hoppers and covered hoppers by Bi ll Northeastern pulpwood and wood chip cars, by 1. HO scale box car from Menzies (now made in Wright and Ed Hawkin s, December 1991. Emmons Lancaster, August 1997. plastic by Bowser in HO scale and cast resin by Upgrade: Sca le-size covered hopper ends from • PROFILE: USRA -design 42-foot flat cars from Fine N Scale in N scale) kit, by Bob Davis, brass angle, strip and wire, step-by-step, by Ken Red Caboose HO or 0 scale kits, by Ri chard August 1991. Patterson, December 1995. Hendrickson, January 1997. • PROFILE: 1941 AAR 10-foot 6-inch interi or PROFILE: ACF two-bay covered hoppers from GONDOLAS: height, 50-foot do uble-door cars with SIS Bowser, Kato, or Eastern Car Works HO scale. • Kit-conversion: C&O 100-ton gondol as, with RAILMODEL JOUI'lNAL - APRIL 1998 63 ------[INDEX]------

prototype photos and plans, from Athearn three­ hoppers, by Richard Hendrickson, August 1995. TANK CARS bay offset-side hoppers, (and how to cast the • PROFILE: Pennsylvania Railroad H-35 and • Kit-conversion: Skelgas propane 40-foot tank car sides and ends in resin), by AI Westerfield, H-37 three-bay hoppers from Stewalt's HO scale from Athearn 's LPG tank car by Frank Hodina, December 1989. kits, with ROSTER, by Ri ch Burg, June 1996. July 1989. • Pennsylvania Railroad class G-31 54-foot gondo­ • PROFILE: Pennsylvania Rai lroad H-2 1 four-bay • LPG 40-foot tank cars, circa 1952, from Athearn la from Con-Cor's HO scale kit, by Ed Bley, hoppers from Bowser's HO scale kit, by Rich Burg, HO scale and Rivarossi N scale model s, from December 1990. May 1993. ACF Industries, September 1989. • Kit-Conversion: EJ&E 50-foot gondola from • PROFILE: Pennsylvania Railroad class H-22A • Prototypes for the Tichy HO scale small-dome AHM's HO scale model , by John Nehrich, fo ur-bay hoppers from Bowser's HO scale ki t, tank car, October 1990 & Apri l 199 1. October 1994. wi th ROSTER, by Rich Burg, May 1994. • Kit-conversion: Linde 40-foot box/tank cars fro m • PROFILE: CN 14 1000- 142749 48-foot REEFERS: McKean Models HO scale or Con-Cor N scale gondolas from Westerfield's HO scale kit, with • Upgrade: Adding etched-brass or stainless steel kits, by John Ryczkowski , July 1993. ROSTER, by Stafford Swain, September J996. roofwalks to box cars and reefers, by Robert • PROFILE: GATC 12,500-gallon and 10,000- • PROFILE: Greenville-design 52-foot mill gon­ Schleicher, January 1992. ga llon tank cars from kit-converted Athearn ki ts dolas from Proto 2000 HO scale kits, by Richard ' . Upgrade: Adding separate ladders to reefers and in HO scale and Micro-Trains N scale models, by Hendrickson, November 1996. -- box cars, by Ed Hawkins, May 1995. Richard Hendrickson, August 1996. HOPPERS: • Upgrade: Simulating separate ladders and grab­ • PROFILE: GATC 12,500-gallon tank cars from • Upgrade: Adding separate grabirons and steps to irons with "shadow painting." modified Athearn kits in HO scale, by Richard plastic hoppers and covered hoppers by Bill • Upgrade: Detailing Athearn underframes for 40- Hendrickson , August 1996. Wright and Ed Hawkins, December 199 1. foot box cars and reefers by Martin Lofton, May • PROFILE: AC&F ICC-I03W 10,000-gallon • PROFILE: USRA 55-ton twin hoppers from 1991. welded tank cars fro m Red Caboose HO or 0 Accurai l, Tichy, Westerfield and Life-Like jn HO • PROFILE: Santa Fe Rr-5 through Rr-II wood­ sca le kits, by Richard Hend ri ckson, April 1996. and interMountai n in 0 scale, with ROSTER, by side reefers from Sunshine Models HO scale kits, • PROFILE: AC&FType 271CC-103 10,000- Richard Hendrickson, May 1995. with ROSTER, by Ri chard Hendrickson, January ga ll on riveted tank cars from InterMountain's HO • C&S (photos and equipment diagram) and 1992. scale kit, by Richard Hendrickson, Ju ly 1997. Berwind USRA 55 -ton twin hoppers fronJ • PROFILE: Santa Fe steel-sheathed ice bunker • PROFILE: AC&F Type 27 8,000-galion riveted Accurail, Tichy, Westerfield and Life-Like in HO reefers from C&BT Shops (or InterMountain) HO tank cars from InterMountain's HO scale kit, by and interMountain in 0 scale, July 1989. scale kits, with ROSTER, by Richard Hendrickson, Richard Hendrickson, October 1997. • Upgrade: Accurail's HO scale USRA twin hopper, November 1994. • PROFILE: AC&F Type 21,8000 ga ll on riveted by Richard Hendrickson, May 1995. • Upgrade: C&BT Shops HO scale Santa Fe tank cars, models and prototypes, from Proto • Pennsylvania Railroad class H-3 1 two-bay reefers, by Ri chard Hendrickson, Nove mber 2000 HO scale kits, by Richard Hendrickson, hopper from Athearn's HO scale kit, by Ed Bley, 1994. February 1998. Jul y J991. • Upgrade: InterMountain HO scale Santa Fe • PROFILE: AC&F Type 21 Tank Cars fTom • PROFILE: B&O, CNJ, D&H, LV, N&W, RDG , reefers, by Richard Hend rickson, December 1996. Proto 200 HO scale kits, by Richard Hendrickson, and WM fishbelly two-bay hoppers from • PROFILE: Union Refrigerator Transit (40-foot Febru ary 1998. Stewart's HO scale kit, with ROSTER, by John wood reefers fro m Westerfield and Tichy HO BRAKE WHEELS Nehrich, February 1992. sca le and Micro-Trains N scale kits, by Al • Finding a model for specific prototype brake • Western Maryland two-bay fi shb ell y-side hopper Westerfield, June and August 1989 and July 1992. wheels circa 1930- 1960, by Ed Hawkins, from Stewart's HO scale kit, by Scott Pitzer, June • PROFILE: Swift wood and steel refrigerator cars September 1996. 1994. from MDC, Sunshine Models and Tichy HO TRUCKS • C&O version ofWM two-bay ti shbelly hopper scale, Micro-Trains N sca le and Ye Olde Huff n • Identi fy ing the HO scale freight trucks, by from Stewart's HO scale kit, April 1993. Pu ff 0 scale kits, by Martin Lofton, February Ri chard Hendrickson, February and Apri I 1990, • Kit-conversion: CNJ and Reading fishbelly-side 1993. December 1993 and February 1995 . two-bay hoppers from Stewart's HO scale kit, by • Upgrade: PFE40-foot R40-23 , R40-10 , R40-20 PAINTING Alan Mende, June 1994. and R40-25 steel reefers from Athearn (or C i' Note: Articles with two asteri sks are reprinted in • Western Maryland channel-side two-bay hoppers InterMountain) HO scale kits (and InterMountain the book FREIGHT CAR MODELS, Vol. I from Stewart's HO scale kit, with ROSTER, by Nand 0 scale kits), by Terry Metcalf, September TECHNIQUES.) Ed Hawkins, May 1997. 1993. • Authentic railroad color chips matched to model • Upgrade: Athearn or Atl as 50-ton offset-side PROFILE: PFE 40-foot R40-23 reefers in HO, N rail road paints, Parts I and fl: box car red, mix­ twin hoppers with B&O and three MP prototypes, and 0 scale by InterMountai n, by Ri chard tures and matches with Floquil, SMP and with step-by-step instructions, by Ed Hawkins, Hendrickson, October 1994. Scalecoat paints, by Ed Hawkins, Pat Wider and March 1998. • PFE R40-1 0 and R23 reefers from InterMountai n Ray Long, August 1989 and **June 1990. • Upgrade: Athearn or Atlas 50-ton offset side N, HO and 0 scale kits- "G uess The Scale?" , by • Authentic railroad color chips matched to model twin hoppers, by Ed Hawkins, March 1998. Richard Hendrickson, March 1995. railroad paints, Part [[1: Baltimore and Ohio box • 40-foot, three-bay rib-side hoppers from Stewart I • PROFILE: PFE wood reefers in HO scale from car colors, by Ed Hawki ns, Pat Wider and Ray HO scale kits, with ROSTER , "Car Spotters Red Caboose, Westerfield and Tichy kits, with Long, August 1 989. * ' ~ Guide No. 6," by Jim Eager, January 1991. ROSTER, by Richard Hendrickson, April 1997. • Pennsy lvania Railroad "Freight Car Red" by Curt • Pennsy lvania Railroad (and MlLW, PC, CR, WM , \! . PROFILE: 36-foot and 40-foot wood reefers LaRue, Ralph Gutowski and Brady McGuire of DRG , CN, E-L and P&LE) class H-39 triple from MDC and Red Caboose HO scale and the PRRT&HS, **November 1990. hoppers from Stewart's HO scale kit, "Car Micro-Trains N scale ki ts, by Richard Spotters Guide No. J6 ," by Jim Eager, April 1993. Hendrickson, February and October 1996 and • Upgrade: MDC/Roundhouse 40-foot three-bay, March and Jul y 1997. (Note: Articles on color-matchi ng real rail road color rib-side ACF-built hoppers, from MDC/Round­ STOCK CARS chips with the newer acry lic paints are scheduled house HO scale kits, by Ed Hawkins, December • Swift wood stock cars, by Martin Lofton, for publication in 1998). 1991 and February 1994. 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The more significant figures from Guy Thrams' and Bob Higgins' evaluations of model locomotives in past issues of this magazine. Th e issues with asterisks are out of print, but photocopies of these reports are available for $2.00 each (a I/o w 30 days for shipment). Explanations of how Bob Higgins and Guy Thrams test these locomotives appeared in the March 1990 and September 1992 issues. , HO, N, C), S e:4 G SCALE LOCOMO"FIVES

Manufaclurernmporter Prototype Min. Max. Max. Pulling Throttle Magazine Manufacturer/lmporter Prototype Min. Max. Max. Pulling ThroWe Magazine Speed (over Speed Power Response Date Speed (over Speed Power Response Date #6 switch), (Tractive at Mldload #6 swilch). (Tractive at Midload Scale Miles Force (Volts) Scale Miles Force (Volts) per Hour In Oz.) per Hour In Oz.) HO Scale Diesels Atheam (as·is) EMD GP38-2 .24 126.4 2.76 3.4 Jan. 1990' N Scale Steam Locomotives Alheam (wlHelix Humper EMD GP38-2 .89 112.1 2.76 2.8 Sepl. 1995 Kalo USRA 2-8-2 3.10 111.8 .7 2.5 April 1996 can molor conversion) & Oct. 1997 Proto Power West EMD F7 A (& F7B) .35 98.2 4.46 2.4 May 1990 Key Imports C&O 2-6-6-6 .59 96.9 1.27 3.8 June 1997 (Atheam w/can motor) (.26) (95.0) (8.92) (2.6) May 1990 Pecos River ATSF 4-6-2 .44 87.2 .88 4.4 Jan. 1995 AtheamIPPW, weighled EMD GP9 .20 94.2 4.01 3.0 May 1990 Rivarossi USRA2-8-2 3.00 177.2 1.14 9.0 OCl.1991 Atheam wlNWSL motor EMD GP38-2 .21 60.9 2.30 1.8 August 1990 Atheam wlNWSL motor, EMD GP38-2 Rivarossi (wiN Scale 01 USRA2-8-2 .49 160.3 .66 4.5 Ocl.1991 weighted .24 61.2 3.88 2.2 August 1990 Nevada frame & NWSL AtheamiProlo Power Sagami 1420 can molor) West w/replacemenl Wheelsets: N Scale Diesels NorthWest Short Line EMD GP38-2 .23 97.4 2.56 1.6 Oct. 1990 Jay-Bee EMDGP38-2 .27 97.4 2.40 1.5 Ocl. 1990 Amold Alco S2 1.90 151.4 .44 2.0 Mar. 1991 Atheam GEC44-9W 1.85 100.7 3.1 8 3.6 March 1996 Atlas EMD GP7 .48 237.0 .57 2.0 OCI. 1995 Atheam GEAC4400W .10 95.8 5.06 4.1 Dec. 1996 Atlas/Kato GE U25B (two) .29 222.4 .64 2.0 June 1989 Atlas Alco S2 .65 82.5 3.52 4.4 Feb. 1991 (.31) (189.6) (1.37) (2.0) June 1989 Atlas/Roco EMD FP7A .35 97.4 4.23 6.0 Dec. 1990 AtlaS/Kato EMD SD7 1.29 231.9 .60 1.7 April 1990 Atlas GE U33C 1.18 89.3 3.81 1.8 May 1995 Atlas/Kato EMD GP35 1.07 213.7 .61 2.2 Nov. 1992 Bachmann-Plus GE B23-7 1.75 64.9 3.17 2.9 July 1992 Bachmann-Plus EMD F7A (& F7B) .93 88.7 3.38 2.5 Jan. 1996 Bachmann EMD SD40-2 .74 148.3 1.03 2.4 Sepl. 1989 (.93) (84.9) (5.82) (2.4) Jan. 1996 Bachmann wIN Scale of EMD SD40-2 .82 155.7 1.25 2.6 Sepl. 1989 Con-CorlRoco EMDGP40 .97 112.1 2.93 9.5 March 1991 Nevada Chassis Con-CorlRoco EMDGP40 .29 99.0 2.91 3.2 April 1991 Bachmann/Spectrum GE Dash 8-40C .44 113.0 1.15 5.2 April 1993 (wilh Mashima can motor) Bachmann/Spectrum EMD DDMOX .35 163.9 1.13 3.8 Sepl. 1997 Con-Cor EMD MP15DC .51 69.7 1.46 1.1 Sepl. 1996 Con Cor EMD E7A .57 99.8 4.19 3,4 Ocl. 1992 Con-Cor EMD SW1500 (SW 7) 1.99 265.9 .57 2.2 Dec. 1997 Kato EMD E8A .26 222.4 .96 2.0 Aug. 1993 E-R Models trateschil Alco FAI 1.95 114.2 2.39 5.4 OCI. 1993 E-R Models Frateschi Alco FAI .64 89.3 3.70 3.0 Dec. 1995 EMD E8A & (E8B) (.26) (220.4) (1 .92) (2.3) Aug. 1993 IHe EMD E8A (& E8B) 1.96 144.9 2.51 5.0 Kalo GE U30C .48 242.2 .88 2.4 Feb. 1990 (1.50) (136.6) (5.03) (4.8) Jan. 1994 Kato GE Dash 9-94CW .1 1 198.2 .84 1.4 Nov. 1997 (wittl 25 ounces added weighl) 2.97 146.7 4.38 7.4 Key/Endo EMD F7A (& F7B) .39 145.3 .57 3.8 Mar. 1992 (1.88) (136.6) (8.75) (6.4) Jan. 1994 (.50) (lSO.3) (1.27) (3.0) Mar. 1992 IHC EMD SD35 4.38 123.75 2.48 2.0 July 1996 5.0 Aug . 1989 Kato EMDSD40 1.18 81.9 3.29 3.0 June 1991 Life-Like EMD F9A (& F9B) 2.04 177.2 1.41 KatoiStewart EMD F3A (& F3B) .38 83. 1 4.28 2.9 Sepl. 1989 (1.84) (166.4) (2.78) (4.7) Aug. 1989 (similar GP7 models by Atlas) (.31) (81 .9) (9 .00) (2.8) Sepl. 1989 Life-Like Alco FA2 (& FB2) 1.19 158.0 .91 4.0 May 1993 Kato EMD GP35 .29 82.5 2.87 2.2 Nov. 1992' (.66) (149.3) (1.81) (3.4) May 1993 Kato EMD NW2 .76 67.9 2.44 3.0 Feb. 1994 Life-Like EMD GP1 8 1.20 167.0 .84 3.0 April 1994 Kal0 G.E. Dash 9-44CW 1.52 78.7 4.35 2.0 Ocl. 1996 Lile-Like EMD E8A 1.63 149.3 1.27 4.0 April 1995 .17 36.9 1.52 2.0 March 1990' KeystonelNWSL GE 44-Ton June 1996 Hobbytown EMD E8A .60 81 .4 5.92 3.3 Jan. 1991 Life-Like EMDSD7 .29 121.11 .48 2.45 MDC Roundhouse Aico RS3 .61 94.3 3.98 2.8 April 1994 Life-Like EMDE7A 3.14 140.6 1.33 4.3 Feb. 1998 Model Power EMDGP9 .26 104.2 2.71 1.7 Nov. 1990 Lile-Like EMDSW 9.45 106.9 .40 2.0 April 1998 AjiniOveriand Models EMDSW1500 .36 74.3 2.53 1.2 August 1990 Model Power/ AjiniOverland Models EMDSD60 .37 80.3 4.49 2.0 April 1991 Mehanotenika EMD F40PH 3.14 184.7 .83 3.8 Sepl. 1990 AjiniOverland Models EMDGP38-2 .42 79.2 1.95 2.0 Nov. 1991 SamhongsaiHalimark EMD F3A (& F3B) .29 150.3 1.03 3.2 July 1989 .30 78.2 3.07 1.6 Dec. 1991 Manlua EMDGP20 (151.4) (2.04) (3.2) July 1989 Model Power PRR 2-8-0 4.77 73.8 0.85 1.5 August 1996 (.35) Proto 2000 {Lile-Likel Alco FA2 .20 90.7 3.14 4.2 July 1991 o Scale Diesels Nov. 1989" Proto 2000 (Life-Like EMD BL2 .31 90.7 3.53 5.4 Cenlral Loco. Works EMD F7A (& F7B) .25 72.0 20.68 4.4 Sept. 1989 EMDGP9 79.2 3.29 4.8 March 1998 Proto 2000 (Life-Likel .06 (39.10) (4.0) Sept. 1989 Proto 2000 (Life-Like EMDGP1 8 .58 99.8 3.40 2.6 Feb. 1993 (.20) (65.5) Prolo 2000 (Life-Like) EMD E8A .51 95.8 5.94 5.6 March 1994 Key/Samhongsa Alco PAl .41 76.2 21.85 5.6 April 1992 Proto 2000 (Lile-Llke) EMDSD7 .52 73.3 3.58 5.0 July 1995 P&D Hobby EMD F9A (& F9B) .25 77.1 5.79 1.2 June 1990 Proto 2000 (Lile-Llke) EMD SW9/SW1 200 .57 55.5 1.36 3.7 May 1996 (.24) (74. 1) (12.80) (1.9) June 1990 Spectrum lBaChmann) EMD F40PH Phase 111.39 80.3 3.79 3.8 Feb. 1992 P&D Hobby EMD F3B .25 77.1 5.81 1.6 Jan. 1993 Speclrum Bachmann) GE Dash 8-40C 1.96 87.4 3.69 3.4 May 1990 Red Caboose EMDGP9 .27 81.9 12.78 2.2 June 1992 Spectrum (Bachmann) GE Dash 8-40CW 3.3 109.0 4.54 6.4 Feb. 1996 Weaver (O scale) Alco FA2 .22 72.8 15.31 1.9 July 1989 Spectrum lBachmannl F-M H16-44 2.32 49.5 1.27 2.4 July 1997 Spectrum Bachmann EMC Gas Elec. .41 82.5 2.34 3.0 Aug. 1994 Weaver (Hi-Rail) Alco FA2 .21 100.8 12.53 2.2 August 1995 Spectrum (Bachmann) EMD DDMOX .88 133.5 6.68 3.2 Aug. 1997 Alco FA2 (& FB2) .25 (94.9) (19.25) (2.0) August 1995 Stewart Hobbies EMD FTA (& FTB) .18 70.3 3.94 2.6 Nov. 1996 Weaver EMDE8 .30 105.6 14.45 2.1 July 1993 (.13) (72.0) (7.67) (2.6) WaithersIRoco EMDSWI .21 53.3 2.47 1.4 March 1993 Scale Steam Locomotives Walthersffrainline Alec FAI & FBI .31 68.7 4.47 4.2 Feb. 1995 o .16 65.3 8.22 3.8 SamhongsalHalimark On3-EBT 2-8-2 .22 33.8 9.09 2.4 Aug. 1989 WaitherslTrainline EMDGP9M 1.18 73.8 2.64 4.0 March 1995 S Scale Diesels HO Scale Steam Locomotives American Models EMD GP35 .54 78.0 7.85 2.0 June 1993 Atlas GE C30-7 .71 78.2 3.92 2.2 Feb. 1997 Bachmann-Plus SP 4-8-4 .18 112.1 2.31 1.9 Sept. 1993 G Gauge Diesels Bowser (English's Alco DL535E 2.67 48.0 27.01 N/A April 1990 Model RR Supply) B&O 0-4-0T .90 102.4 1.46 1.8 Dec. 1992 LGB Bowser PRR H-9 2-8-0 .64 89.3 3.70 2.8 Nov. 1995 Lionel EMD GP7 .38 55.6 14.74 5.9 May 1991 IHC 4-4-0 1.17 56.0 1.14 3.5 Dec. 1994 Railway Express Agency Alco FAI 3.79 68.2 15.25 NlA July 1990 IHClMehano B&O 0-4-0T 1.42 132.0 .92 2.0 Dec. 1992 IHC/Mehano SP 2-6-0 .81 77.6 1.90 4.2 Jan. 1994 G Gauge Steam Locomotives Sepl. 1994 IHC/Mehano C&04-8-2 .36 89.3 2.71 3.0 Aristo-Cralt (ART) B&O 4-6-2 1.15 51.9 28.08 2.0 Oct. 1991 2-8-0 .42 74.7 2.53 2.5 March 1997 IHC Aristo-Cralt (ART) PRR 0-4-0 .94 72.7 12.13 1.6 Jan. 1992 Key Imports UP 4-8-8-4 .44 62.2 6.47 4.6 August 1991 B&O 0-4-0T 1.37 104.2 1.01 .9 Dec. 1992 and 0-4-0T Lile-Like 7.24 NIA May 1992 Mantua 2-6-8-2 3.00 70.2 5.27 7.0 June 1991 Lehmann (LGE) 0-4-0T 2.40 28.7 Aug. 1992 Mantua 0-6-OT NA 126.4 2.09 3.2 June 1991 Bachmann 0-4-0T .31 25.6 6.38 2.6 Mantua 2-8-2 .65 76.2 3.36 3.5 June 1994 Bachmann Radio- Mantua w/Mashima 2-6-6-0 .24 50.6 2.1 7 4.2 June 1991 Controlled Baldwin 4-6-0 .55 25.2 28.81 NlA June 1989 Manlua 0-4-0 .90 107.0 3.55 4.0 June 1995 Bachmann Track· Mantua with 812 Can Molor 0-4-0 1.86 84.9 3.39 1.8 June 1995 Powered Baldwin 4-6-0 5.50 38.4 11.23 1.0 Oct. 1990 AjiniOverland Models NYC 2-8-2 .50 74.3 3.79 1.6 Sept. 1991 Delton Loco. Works D&RG 2-8-0 .12 40.9 17.00 2.0 Dec. 1989 Precision Scale (Iron Horse)UP 4-10-2 7.02 53.0 3.08 2.9 Jan. 1998 LGB 2-6-0 2.65 54.8 22.45 NIA Nov. 1991 9.47 3.3 Jan. 1997 Rivarossi 4-6-6-4 5.90 71.6 LGB Fomey 0-4~4T 2.74 36.1 26.39 NlA July 1994 4.47 2.4 May 1997 Rivarossi USRA2-8-2 1.78 70.7 Lionel Baldwin 0-4-0T .12 54.5 9.60 1.8 Ocl. 1989" .28 57.1 8.78 3.0 July 1989 SamhongsalPowemouse USRA 2-6-6-2 Kalamazoo Toy Trains 0-4-0T .48 SO.1 13.47 1.1 Jan.1991 .22 104.2 2.38 2.1 Dec. 1993 Speclrum (Bachmann) ~ading 2-8-0 4-4-0 .82 67.1 13.18 1.3 Jan.1991 Spectrum (Bachmann) RR 4-6-2 1.21 91.4 2.32 2.2 Oct. 1994 Kalamazoo Toy Trains Westside ' Classic' SP 4-6-0 .49 49.1 3.24 1.7 August 1992 Note: Figures in parentheses are for two locomolives operated togelher.

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Multimode Designs and Accessories, 6212 Copperwood Lane, Bakersfield, CA 93306 is now producing the TrackVac ™track cleaning car that actually vacuums. The vacuum is driven by four AA batteries and pushed around the layout by any locomo­ tive . The vacuum is $39.95 plus $4.00 postage.

Sunshine Models, Box 4997, Springfield, MO 65808-4997 is now shipping cast­ resin kits to create replicas of the Union Pacific A-50-16, Southern Pacific A-50-13 and Cotton Belt 46200-series 40-foot dou­ ble-door box cars. The kits are $30 for the UP and SP cars with metal running boards and $28 for the SSW cars with wood run­ ning boards. The cars include decals or dry transfers but no trucks or couplers. Add $4.00 shipping and handling.

Westerfield, 53 River Lane, Crossville, TN 38555 is now shipping cast resin kits to duplicate the Southern Pacific modernized B-50-6 and B-50-9 double-sheathed box cars with either DS or SS ends. The kits are $27 with decals, less trucks and couplers.

Resin Unlimited P.o. Box 1056, Menomonee Falls, WI 53052 is New England Hobby Supply, 71 Hilliard St. , Manchester, CT producing a series of cast resin work vehicle kits including this six­ 06040 has a variety of ready-built streetlights including Bishop's wheel pulpwood forwarder for $21 .99 plus $4.00 shipping and Crook lamps at $7.95, Double-Boulevard lights at $9.98 , gaslights handling. at $8.98 and bracket arm streetlights with telephone poles for $8.95 each. 68 RAILMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 ------[ WHAT'S NEW-IN N] ------

GHQ, 28100 Woodside Rd ., Shorewood, MN 55331 is now sh ipping a complete cast metal , and brass conversion kit for the Kato 2-8- 2 USRA Mikado to convert it into this Penn sylva nia Railroad L-1. The kit includes full instructions and decals and is $99.95 plus $4.95 postage and handling (and your Kato 2-8-2) . We' ll have a full report on the model in the May issue of liThe Journal." -Model and photo by Bill and Wayne Reid

Walthers is now shipping N scale ballast hoppers in UP, CSX, ATSF, Conrail, MOW, BN, NS, CNW, SP, DRGW, AMtrak, CP Rail at $9.98 each kit or three-packs for $29.98 ready-to-run.

Overland Models is now shiopping SD90MAC diesels ready-to-run with oper­ ating lights in a choice of Union Pacific or Conrail paint and lettering . See your deal­ er.

Key Imports is importing ready-to-run, painted and lettered replicas of the New York Central J-3A Hudson with either Scullin Disc Box Pox drivers. See your dealer.

The N Scale Architect, 477 Spinnaker, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33326 is now shipping this Key Lime Company kit with wood dies and cast metal details. The kit is $43.95.

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Mid-Century Models, 157 So. Pueblo, Ojai, CA 93023 is also producing this 40- foot Cotton Belt 46000-46199-series dou­ ble-door box car with resin sides and ends, a Red Caboose roof and Accurail under­ frame. The kit is $15.00 less trucks, cou­ plers and decals plus $3.00 postage and handling .

Mid-Century Models, 157 So. Pueblo, Ojai, CA 93023 is producing thi s General American/ Evans "DF" box car with cast resin sides made from C&BT Shops compo­ nents with a Life-Like underframe and plas­ tic detail parts from Terry Wegmann. The kit is $24.00 plus $3.00 postage and han­ dl ing . The GAEX decals were included with the March 1990 issue of Railmodel Journal which is out of print, but similar decals are available from Champ HB-162 for a 40- foot car.

JL Innovative Design, P.O . Box 322, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 is this die-cut wood and plastic Saw Pit Store that includes 20 cast metal detail parts, 186 posters and signs, the Mobil sign, and two decorated oil drums for $23.95.

Atlas is now producing the Ford LNT9000 Tractor Cab in black, dark blue, medium blue, green, orange, red, white and yellow for $7.95. Atlas is a lso oftering the 45-foot Pines-built trailer in The L.B .F. Company, 200 Shady Dr., Roseburg, OR 97470 is now Burlington Motor Carriers for $12.95 and in Chicago Central & shipping injection-molded plastic kits to build the Jumbo Johnstown Pacific, CSX, Kanakee, Beaverville & Southern, Norfolk & America wood chip hoppers. The model is available painted and Southern, Redon, Vermont Railway, Xtra Intermodal and Xtra Lease lettered for NS, Federal Paper Board (shown) and undecorated for paint and markings for $11.95 and undecorated (shown) for $ 18.95 plus $4 .00 shipping and handling. $8 .95. See your dealer. 70 RAILMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1 998 ------[ WHAT'S NEW-IN HO ]------

Bowser is now shipping plastic kits to dupli­ cate the ACF 70-ton two-bay covered hop­ pers in a choice of NKP, Clinchfield, WM, GN or undecorated with the trianular open­ ings and undecorated with no triangular openings. The models include modeled-on grabirons with separate hatch latch bars for the eight hatches, underframe braces, end grabirons and see-through roofwalk. Each kit is $9.95 with trucks and horn-hook cou­ plers. The short-shank Kadee 23 couplers drop into the draft gear boxes, however. The roofwalks are see-through open grates and they are available for use on other kits for $4.95 a set of two.

Ri x Products, 3747 Hogue Road , Evansville, IN 47712 is now ship­ ping this "Pikestuff" Atkinson Engine Facility as part of their "Kit­ bashers Series" for $17.95.

Lonestar Models, 2701 W. 15th St. , Suite 113, plano, TX 75075 is now shipping this White Ford L9000 cab and chassis with flat bed, etched rear cab window protector bars, and decals for five lumber companies. The kit is $17.95 in black, red or grey. The flatbed alone is $9.95.

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1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 III 1111 U!I un 1111 lin 1111 Alpine Di vision Scale Models, P.O . Box 641154, Los Angeles, CA 90064 is now producing the wood and card kits formerly sold by Suydam. These one and two-story California Bungalows. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for their price list.

Con-Cor is producing this injection-molded plastic "North Star Glass Co. " kit. The main building is $48.98 including the truck and tailer and the five-story chimney is $16.98. See your dealer. RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 71 A -LINE ''Come Alive with Detail"

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RAILMODEi.. JOURNAL • APRIL 1998 73 Near the docks, industrial branches run down the centers of busy streets. Freight car flanges squeal on the sharp curved sidings and through tight alleys next to warehouses, piers and terminal buildings. From giant aprons, freight cars are loaded onto enormous carftoats. Small switchers move cars 'round the clock through this web of spurs and sidings. A fiddle yard of railroad action - all within a few city blocks - that's raih:oadiilg along The Waterfront.

The Waterfront installment FEBRUARY THE WATERFRONT: AN series 933·901 includes The floodgates ALL NEW CORNERSTONE (s ing le kit pri ces shown): open with the SERIES®HO SCALE LINE Railroading Along release of OF STRUCTURES AND The Waterfront $49.98 Railroading Along The ACCESSORIES LAUNCHES Pier and Traveli ng Crane $74.98 Waterfront. IN FEBRUARY, 1998. Municipal Pier Terminal $59.98 This idea packed book Bring the romance of The Waterfront to Carfloat Apron $39.98 shows you how your layout! Reserve your seven month Railroad Carfloat $39.98 easy it is to add a water­ Waterfront series now. Rai lroad Tug Boat $59.98 front to your Just $44.98 per month. Warehouse No.1 $49.98 layout. Noted photographer With your participating dealer's monthly Total Retail Value $374.86 Railroading Along The Waterfront Ken Patterson install ment payment plan*, you'll get You r Cost $44.98/month $314.86 re veals an these fascinating kits as soon as they're easy way to make realistic water. Get great tips on released. At only $44.98 per month, The You Save $60.00 detailing the Waterfront series structures. Waterfront series makes budgeting easy. 913-103, $49.98 Order the co mplete series. Save $60. A $374.86 value for just $314.86. ------[DIESEL MODELlNG] ------DIE fL MODElt. G Articles from past issues of liThe Journal" -

Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time FfA and FrB as Santa Fe 189 Nov. 96 OP38-2 as Conrail 8077 April 93 Aleo F3 diesels in color B&M, OM&O July 89 OP38-2 as BN 2088 Feb. 98 FA I as ON 3 1OA July 90 F3 diesels in color Erie. OL&W and E-L Sept. 89 OP40 as Penn Central 3252 Jan . 90 FA I as Union Pacitic 1640 April 97 F3 diesels in color TP&W, SN(WP). Nov. 89 OP40 as Rl 4705 Nov. 92 FAI as L&NE 70 1 Oct. 93 CNJ. SAL OP40 as CN 4007 Jan. 93 FA2 as NYC 1110 Aug. 9 1 F7 A as Penn Central (PRR) 1903 Oct. 90 OP40-2 as Chessie (B&O) 4302 March 92 FA2 & FB2 spotting guide Sept. 91 FP7 A as C&O 8031 Dec. 90 OP60 as EMD Demo 5 June 95 PAl as ATSF 58 Sept. 89 FP7 A as PRR 9835 Nov. 91 OP60 as SSW 9704 March 93 RS3 as O&H 4085 May 94 F40PH as Amtrak 206 Sept. 90 OP60M as ATSF 105 Jail. 97 S2 as NYC 854 1 Aug. 93 OP7 Phase 1 as WM 2 1 Feb. 90 MPI5DC as CNW 1304 and 1307 Sept. 96 S4 as NYC 9736 March 9 1 OP7 Phase n as PRR 8557 Aug. 89 P40 "Oenesis" as Amtrak 806/808 March 98 S2 as B&O 9133 and 9 166 Dec. 97 OP7 Phase lJ as MEC 574 Jan. 92 NW2 spotting guide Nov. 93 Baldwin OP9 Phase 11 as Chessie (B&O) 6607 June 92 NW2 as ATSF 2405 Feb. 94 RS-l2 as SAL 1466 Dec. 92 OP9 Phase Il as SP 5788 June 90 S07 as SP 143 1 Sept. 95 EMD OP7 Phase n as ATSF 2837 March 97 S09 as Southern (ex-CO) 207 April 90 BL2 as C&O 83 Nov. 89 OP9, Phase nr as Southern Pacific 5713 July 97 S09 as C&S (CB&Q) 823 Oct. 95 eF7 spotting guide Aug. & Oct. 90 OPI5- 1 as Conrail 1633 Oct. 89 S09 as Chessie (B&O) 1836 Sept. 93 cn in color ATSF. NS, MC, PY, Aug. 90 OPIS as B&M 1752 Sept. 92 S09 as SP4418 Aug. 91 AMTRAK, BRW OPI8 as Rl 1352 March 95 SD9 as Southern Paci fic 3914 June 97 CF7 in color FN. PY, JR, FM, CC&O Oct. 90 OPI8 as TCO 94 10 Oct. 97 SD35 as Conrail 6022 July 96 CF7 as SEK 1000 (ex-ATSF 2542) Aug. 90 OP 18 as Norfolk & Western 92 1 Jan . 98 S038 as B&LE 862 June 96 0D35A (D040-A) as UP83 June 93 GP35 spotting guide April 92 S040 a CR 6249 Sept. 9J E7A as PRR 5865 Oct. 92 OP35 as B&O (Chessie) 35 10 July 95 S040 as C&O 7450 Apri l 96 E8A as ATSF 81 and 85 Jan. 91 OP35 as C&NW 826 April 94 S040-2 as Fami ly Lines 8 100 June 91 E8A as C&O 4005 Feb. 95 OP35 a CR 2276 April 92 S040T-2 as SP 8304 May9J E8A as IC 4025 March 94 OP35 as SP 6333 Sept. 94 S045 as C& W917 Feb. 93 EgA as PRR 5793 July 93 OP35 as UP 757 Aug. 92 SD45 as CNW 8582 Jan. 95 E8A as UP 936 May 93 OP38 as B&O 38 16 Nov. 93 S045 as CSX 8903 Oct. 9 1 FT spotting guide Nov. 96 OP38-2 as MKT314 (w/HO decals) Ju ne 89 S045 as SP 7558 Aug. 95 RAILMOOEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 77 WATERFRONT louse No. 1 com­ ACCESSORIES ; Th e Waterfront ; in grand style. This iful red brick struc­ GSC Flat Cars, 7 new road names, hown above, typical $9.98 each, April delivery. 932-3763 IC 932-3767 SOU ~r warehouses and 932-3764 MP 932-3768 WAB Street Track Inserts, 511 .98, 933-3140, comes with both 932-3765 RI 932-3769 SCL May delivery. ~ rd molded and SW1 Locomotives, 7 new road names, 932-3766 N& W S79.98 each, Febru ary delivery. 1 printed wi ndows. 932-1367 Erie 932-1370 SO U ecide what detail to 932-1368 B&O 932-1371 GN e. This versatile 932-1369 SP 932-1372 PRR (tiger slripes) 932-1373 CNJ 19 measures 6-3/4 x Idler Car Set, 933-968, S21.98, June delivery. 3 x 10". 069, $49.98 Ten Dock Workers 590-1010053,519.98, Six Tug Boat Crew Figures, March delivery_ 590-1010052, 514.99 , June delivery. 40' Meat Reefers wi new sides, 6 new road names, 510.98 each, May delivery. 932-2557 Raskin 932-2560 American Packing Co. Beef Packers, Inc.

3 al participating dealers. Some 932-2558 Royal 932-2561 Iowa xallaws may prohibit this type Packing Co. Beef Packers, Inc. card payment plan. 932-2559 Mid- 932-2562 Rock Island nd diorama base by Ken Patterson. ,clion models shown : some details States Packers, Inc. Colors shown are painted by 5601 W. Florist Ave_ pain t not included. Railroad equip­ Pier Add-On Sec tions, 933 -3154, 519.98, Milwaukee, W I 53218 Jres . vehicles, scenery materials r items shown sold separately. March deli very. http://www.walthers.com MARCH MAY JUNE AU( Start driving pilings for your Pier and Traveling Ware Crane, a modular kit with four pier sections (two plete: used above) and a heavy-lift crane. Customize serie: the pier to fit your space with Pier Add-On sec­ beau tions. Each pier section measures 12-5/8 x 5-3/4 ture ! x1-1/2". The crane is 4 x 4x 9-1 /8".933-3067, $74.98 of ole mills , stane screE You e inclue Move cars across your layo ut prototypically with buMi this floating transfer yard. A waterline model 15-3/ measuring 36 x 6 x 1", the Carfloat is easy to 933-:' Expand your waterfront with the Carfloat Apron . add to your layout. 933-3152, $39.98 Featuring corrugated metal machinery housing, steel supports and a positionable float bridge, the JULY Apron is just th e place to dock the three-track Move the carfloat into its apron with another The Pier Terminal's stone facade. Front view Railroad Carfloat. Th e model measures 8-1 /2 x great looking waterline model, the Railroad Tug °Ava!labl As you place your pier, leave room for the 8-1 /2 x 8-5/8". 933-3068, $39.98 Boat. This attractive tug measures 13 x 3-1 /2 x state or afcredit Mu nicipal Pier Termin al. This impressive building 3-7/8".933-3153, $59.98 Photos c Preprodl features a stone facade and large freigh t doors in mayva~ modeler front and along the sides. The model measures ment. lig 12 x 16 x 7- 1/2". 933-3066, $59.98 andothE SD45 as E-L 802 Dec. 95 GP 15- 1 as Missouri Pacific 1562, from Sept. 92 GE SD45-2 as E-L 3679 Dec. 94 Athearn and Smokey Val.ley parts by Lee Freeman Superdetailing the Dash-Ss Nov. 92 SD50 as CSXT (B&O) 858 1 July 94 GP 18 Proto 2000 as Rl 135 J March 95 (a step-by-step bow-to) by David Hussey SD60 as EMD/Oakway 9038 Dec. 89 by Bob Rivard B23-7 Rail Power body/A thearn as July 91 SD60 as NS 6591 April9J GP 18 as MoPac 1858 by Lee Freeman UP 124 by Warren Johnson SD60 as NS 6634 Jan. 96 GP35 Rail Power body/Kato Motor/ June 92 B23-7 Rai l Power body/Atllearn July & Oct. 93 SD60M as UP 6259 Oct. 94 Athearn as RT 321 by Bob Rivard as ATSF 7431 by Dana Stark SD75M as ATSF 205 Nov. 95 GP35 Rail Power body/Athearn Aug. 92 B30-7 as CSX5672, from Athearn and Aug. 96 SD90MAC as UP 8012 and 8024 Sept. 97 as Sao 730 by Bob Rivard Rail Power Products parts. by Alex King 8W1 spotting guide Jan. 93 GP35 Rail Power body/Athearn May 93 C30-7 Rail Power body/Athearn Oct. 90 as ATSF 2858 by Dana Stark as NW 8024 by Gordon Cardell Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time GP35 Kato as SSW 6502 by Bob Rivard Jan. 95 C30-7 RaiJ Power body/Athearn Feb. 91 SWI asBN 88 Jan. 93 GP35 as EMD Leasing 182. by Mike Rose Oct. 96 as ATSF 8077 by Great Escape Hobby SW9 as B&O (Chessie) 9620 May 96 GP38-2 Athearn as GTW 6223 Dec. 94 C30-7 Rai l Power cab/Atllearn as June 94 SW9 as Union Pacific 1851 Apri198 by Tony Horvatin UP 244B by Mike Daniels 8W1000 spotting guide Feb. 91 GP38-2 Athearn (how-to add June 89 B30-7B Smokey Valley cab/Athearn Feb. 91 SW 1200 as Baltimore and Ohio May 96 "One-Detail-At-A-Time") as MKT 304 as BN 4018 by Gordon Cardell (Chessie) 9620 GP40 Cannon cab/Athearn as WM 3798 Sept. 92 C36-7 Rail Power body/ Atllearn as May 93 8W1500 spotting guide Feb. 91 by Ed San icky UP 9029 by Warren Johnson SWI500 as SLSF 329 Feb. 9] GP40 Con-Cor as RJ 4712 by Bob Rivard Oct. 92 Dash 8-40B Rail Power body/ July & Oct. 93 GP40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as Feb. 92 Athearn as ATSF 800 by Dana Stark FAIRBANKS-MORSE D&RGW 3099 by Mike Elkin Dash S-40CW Rail Power body/ Nov. 92 H10-44 as PRR 9080 Feb. 92 GP40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as July 92 Athearn as ATSF 800 by Dana Stark HI6-44 as N&W 114 June 94 Reading 3673 by Ed San icky Dash 8-40CW RaiJ Power body/ Nov. 92 GE GP40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as Sept. 92 Athearn as ATSF 814 by David Hussey AC44CWas CSXT 9 JOO Feb. 96 WP 3548 by Clyde Queen, Jr. Dash 9-44CW Rail Power body/ Feb. 95 AC44CW as UP 9998 Dec. 96 GP40-2LW as Canadian National 9607, an Athearn (kit-conversion, how-to) as B30-7 as CSX 5562 Aug. 96 iJJustrated kit-conversion from an Athearn CNW 8503 by Ray Meyer C30-7 spotting guide Feb. 97 HO scale GP40-2, by Tony Horvatin Ap(il 96 Dash 9-44CW as British Columbia July 96 C30-7 as Conrail 6582 Feb. 97 GP60M Cannon cab/Athearn as May 9 1 Rai14645, an N scale kit-conversion Dash 7 spotting guide Sept. 89 ATSF 100 by Ernest Rizzuto using Prototype N's body on a Spectrum Dash 8 spotting guide May 90 GP60M Can nOll cab/Alhearn as AprLl 92 Dash 8-40CW chassis, by Michael Livingston Dash 8 spotting guide Sept. 90 Maersk 146 by Ed McCaslin Dash 9-44CW as UP 9735 Nov. 97 Dash 9 spotting guide March 96 NW2 Kato as Sao 300 by Bob Rivard July 95 U28B Stewart as RT 253 by Mike Daniels Aug. 93 Dash 8 and Dash 9 spotting guide Dec. 96 SD7 Proto 2000 as CB&Q (C&S) Oct. 95 (the AC4400CW units) 810 (kit-upgrade how-to) by Robert Sch leicher N SCALE MODELING PROJECTS: Dash 8-40BW as ATSF 507 May 97 Santa Fe SD 39 by Stephen Priest April 98 ALeo Dash 8-40C as UP9162 May 90 SD40 Kato as Sao 738 by Bob Rivard May 92 PAl, Upgrading Con-Cor's models. April 97 Dash 8-40CW as CSXT 7777 Apri195 SD40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as July 90 step-by-step by BiU Pearce Dash 8-40CW as CR 6055 July 92 SD40-2 Athearn as UP 3593 Oct. 91 EMD Dash 9-44CW as ATSF 632 March 96 "Desert Storm" by Warren Johnson Scale-size wire handrails for N scale Feb. 96 Dash 9-44CW as CNW 860 I Oct. 96 SD 40-2 Cannon cab/Atllearn as Ju ly 92 diesels (step-by-step how-to) by Bil.l Pearce 44-Ton as ATSF 460 March 90 MKT 629 by Rick Groom E8A and E8B Upgrading the Kato Nov.-96 U25B as C&O 8114 Dec. 93 SD40-2 Atheam as Montana Rail Link Feb. 93 Models. by BLII Pearce U25B as Milwaukee 5000 Nov. 93 256 by Tami McClung GP20 Proto 2000 (kit-conversion Mar. 96 how-to) as ATSF 1122 by Bill Pearce U25B as SP 6750 July 89 SD40-2 GSB body/Athearn as Sept. 93 GP35 Atlas/N Scale of Nevada as Aug. 92 U28C as L&N 1526 Nov. 90 Rl 4792 by Nuke Daniels UP 740 by J. Fred Coots, Jr. U30C as CR 6838 Dec. 91 SD40-2 Cannon cab/Atheam as April 94 GP38-2 Kato/N Scale of Nevada as Nov. 91 U33C as ATSF 8511 May 95 KCS 675 by Mike Daniels SD40-2 Athearn as MKT 631 May 95 SP 4843 by J. Fred Coots, Jr. HO SCALE: by Scott Bimson GP50 Kato/N Scale of Nevada as Jan. 92 SD40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as Feb. 96 SSW 9620 by J. Fred Coots. Jr. Alco GP60 KatolN Scale of Nevada as Mar. 92 RS 18 (MLW) Atlas (kit-conversion Jan. 91 BN 7277 by Mike Daniels SD40-2 as Norfolk Southern 6131, July 96 SP 9704 by J. Fred Coots, Jr. how-to) as CN3618 by Jay Rotsch SD9 Kalo/N Scale of Nevada as July 91 HH660 kit-conversion how-Io fTom Atlas from Athearn's HO scale kit. by Alex King SD40-2B Cannon cab/Athearn as Jan. 92 SP 4418 (Kodachrome) by J. Fred Coots, J r. S2 and RS3 parts, by Stan Rydarwicz Dec. 97 SD40 Kato/N Scale of Nevada as Sept. 91 EMD BN 7500 by Richard Barnes SD40T-2 Athearn as SP 8352 May 91 SP 7360 by J. Fred Coots, Ir. Santa Fe ]450 "Beep" by Bob Ernst Feb. 1998 Jan. 93 by Kermit Gaines SD40 Kato as SP7347 by Bill Pearce Wrecked Santa Fe GP 7 on flat car March 98 SD40-2 Bachmann/N Scale of Nevada Aug. 91 SD40T-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as March 94 by Bob Ernst as SP 5022 by J. Fred Coots, SP 8338 by Mike Daniels Ir. CF7 Rail Power body/Athearn as Aug. 90 SD40-2 BachmannlN Scale of Nevada May 92 SD45 Cannon cab/Athearn as UP 25 May 94 ATSF 2543 by Gordon Cardell as UP 3526 by J. Fred Coots. Jr. CF7 Rail Power bodv/Athearn as Oct. 90 by Mike Daniels SD40-2W as Canadian National 5241 May 96 ATSF 2634 by Gordon Cardell SD50 Rail Power body/Athearn as Nov. 91 and 5248, N scale kit-conversion from Kato E8A IHC (Rivarossi)/Hobbytown Jan. 91 D&RGW 5507 by Gordon Cardell and Prototype N parts. by Michael Livingston as ATSF 87 by Alben Hetzel SD60 Rail Power body/Athearn as Dec. 90 AP38-2 as MoPac's diesel, May 97 E8A IHC (Rivarossi)/Athearn Jan. 91 EMD Demo 1 by Bi ll Schultz by Buzz Lenander (Proto Power West-kit conversion how-to) SD60 Rail Power body/Athearn as Apri l 91 GE as ATSF 87 by Albert Hetzel SD60 Rail Power body/Athearn as Jan. 96 Scale-size wire handrails for N scale Feb. 96 F3A and B Stewart as KCS 30 April 92 NS 6632 by Alex King djesels (step-by-step how-to) by BiLl Pearce by Tom Bartzen SD60M Rail Power body/Athearn as Nov. 90 Dash 9-44CW as British Columbia July 96 F3A and B Stewart as CB&Q Nov. 92 BN 9221 by Gordon Cardell Rail 4645, as N scale kit-conversion using 125A& 125B SD60M Rail Power body/Athearn Oct. 94 Prototype N's body on a Spectrum Dash F7A on tbe Soo, from Stewart's kit June 97 (k it-conversion how-to) as UP 6292 8-40CW chassis. by Michael Livingston by Bob Ri vard by Robert Schleicher Dash 8-40B Kato/N Scale of Nevada Aug. 94 F7B Highliner body/Stewart Nov. 95 SD60M Phase 11 as Burlington June 96 (kit-conversion how-to) ATSF 7432 as Soo 2204C by Bob Ri vard Northern 9289. an HO scale kit- by Bil l Pearce F40PH Life-Like/Proto Power West Sept. 90 conversion from Athearn drive GP38-2 on the Missouri Pacific, May 97 (Atheam kit-conversion how-to) as Amtrak 229 train components and Rail Power from Kala'S model by Buzz Lenander GP7 Tyco body/Atlas as 5002411 June 93 Products body and chassis, by Mike Daniels U30C Kato as UP 286 by 1. Fred Cools. Jr. Mar. 92 by Bob Rivard SD90MAC in HO scale witll Rail Power Sept. 97 U30C Kato body/Minitrix as Oct. 92 GP7 as MoPae diesels. by Lee Freeman AprLl 97 Products and Atllearn patts Western Pacific 7924 by Kent Char'1es GP9 Front Range as SP 5603 & 5604 June 90 SW 1200 Cannon cab/Athearn as April 92 U33C Kato body/Minitrix as Oct. 92 by Joe Swain Sao 433 & 437 by Bob Rivard ATSF 873 1 by Kent Charles GP9 Cary body/Athearn as UP 211 April 91 SW I200RS Athearn (SW7 kit-conversion) OCI. 93 U33C Kato as BN 5704 Oct. 91 by Ti m Fornstrom as CN 1.396 by Tony Horvatin by J. Fred Coots, J r. GPI5-J Smokey Valley body/Athearn, Jan. 92 SWJ500 Athearn as WP 1501 June 95 U33C Kato as CR 6569 Dec. 91 MP 1680 by Richard Barnes by Clyde Queen, Jr. by J. Fred Coots, Jr. 78 RAI LMODEL JOURNAL APRIL 1998 Stay on Track With E-B Products DIGITRAX USERS! "'est otlJ .\ts H.O. Scale Freight Car Trucks The PT-6-2©Power ':,11\0 1'-""c Standard or Non-Magnetic '1\'6 Transformer Kit, 1>0\\ '\ ",-' Black or Co lored ~ \',v",· a l 6V AC. 6.25 Amp. power supply now includes Fully Assembled R.T.R .• RP- 25 W!heels - Fully Sprung thermal circuit breaker. You assemble to provide ample power for the all Digitrax boosters (or Bettendorf • Andrews • National Timken other appropriate high-power needs). Available Non-Shorting . Precision Made direct for $33.00. plus $6 s/h . e. . • • Made in U. S.A. Send large self-addressed stamped envelope for price lists and selection to: The PNP-? a "completer" for the DigitroxlM PR o] E-B Products 1522 Crown Lane, Glenview, IL 60025-1261 computer decoder programmer. No assembly required - take it home, plug it into your computer (along with the PR-l) and start pro­

gramming your Digitrax decoders in minutes I The PNP-2 consists of a power supply and harness to enable connections between your computer and TM your programming track. Available direct for Digitrax Command Control System Professional Starter Set $20.00, plus $5 s/h. Run your trains, not your track! Realistic multi·train operation without blocking or computers! Dealer Inquiries Welcome ~~~\\~~~ ~~ P.O. Box 1424 Norcross, GA 30091 0 Digitrax Command Control .1)1 9I !LAx.. (770) 441-7992 Fax (770) 441-0759 SPRINGHAVEN SHOPS Basic Starter Set 'V 'V 'V THE OF FUTURE aEJ Authorized Digitrax Dealer l1li DIGITAL COMMAND CONTROL WAVE THE Loco Net"' IG BOYN The Digitrax Dept D. 13416 Springhoven Drive . Fairfax, VA 22033· 1228 l ~00 Wond Wide Web Site http://www.digitrax.com Difference Phone/Fax: (703) 742 -6073 E·moil: Sp rShops@aol. com Digitrax Command Control Contact your local Digitrax dealer for a demonstration. Get off the BUls www:http ://members.aol.com/sprshops/homepage.html Advanced Starter Set Call or write DigHrax for afree product information catalog. & on the Net.

Micro-Trains® offers a new choice of truck sideframe design with our new line ofAndrews Trucks. Developed in the early 1900's this style was contemporary with both the Archbar style and later the AA R Standard trucks. The low-maintenance, heavy duty cast sideframe #1051 Andrews Truck w/o couplers ... $3.00 pro Andrews design was introduced to replace fatigue-prone Archbar trucks. The railroads saved money in the process because they were able to recycle the scrapped Archbar journal boxes by bolting or fitting them to #1052 Andrews Truck wIshart #1053 Andrews Truck w/medium the underside of the Andrews castings. extension couplers ... $4.55 pro extension couplers ... $4.55 pro

Produced by different truck manufacturers, their appearance varied slightly, but Available from your common to all versions are the bolts that local Authorized attach the journal boxes, and the short tie­ ~M;AL..l:l, '" Micro-Train ~ Dealer! 1I]~[tti~~~ bars from the bottom of each journal box to THE COMPLETE COUPLER SYSTEM the diagonal of the casting.

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RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1 998 79 Your "0" SCALE Headquarters for ...

• P&D A & B F-units in Kit and Ready-To-Run Form • Power and Re-Power Motor Kits for Atlas, P&D, Weaver and Red Caboose locomotives • Brass and Plastic Detail Parts and Interior Kits for Atlas and P&D F-units, Weaver FAs and RS-3s • P&D Exclusive Custom-Painted Weaver and InterMountain Rolling Stock • Structure Kits by Gloorcraft, Suncoast, Berkshire Valley, DPM

See your Dealer for Railmodel Journal Books -Tuning & Upgrading Athearn Locomotives - Freight Car Models, Vol. I, Techniques -Freight Car Models, Vol. II , Box Cars - The Journal of N-Scale Modeling -Covered Hoppers-Book One - Layouts of The Master See Your Dealer First

The Twin St ar Rocket In the 1930's the Pennsy enlist ed noted indus· some of th e Rock trial designer Raymond Loewy (designer of Island 's best equipment the famous GG l 's) to re·design its and in the 1950's it fea · passenger trains. Ca lled tured E·unit power. The "The Fleet of Modernism" , Deluxe Set contains Proto his classic 2·tone tu scan 2000 E· 7 A&B locos in red pa i nt scheme fe a· "Rocket" pai nt scheme . • ':;fJ!!Ir tured gold Fu tura le tter· ing and striping. Th e scheme lasted we ll into the ea rl y 1950's . PROT02(XX) E7A POWERED & E7B DUMMY LOCOS Baggage, Diner, Coach. S J ~~ r, Observation Silver wIBh:u.: k Lettering "Twin Star Rocket" Coach #14916 $19.98 "Twin Star Rocket" 5 Car Set #14917 $99.98

80 RAILMODEL JOURNAL • APRIL 1 998 CAN You SPOT THE THREE FEATURES THAT MARK OUR GP9 As A PHASE III VERSION?

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But it shou ldn't take you long to find th e and all whee l dri ve and electrical pick-up; sma ll double louvers on the sub-base, the 48" fans the model ranks far above industry sta ndard s on the long hood, and two-step side sill with forward fo r perfo rm ance, too. For added convenience, the fuel fill, because th is is a true sca le replica ... the best GP9 comes with PROTO 2000 magneti c knuckle co upl ers prototype model made correct to the phase 3 changes for installed; X2 F couplers are also supp li ed. To study this American roads. PROTO 2000 has captured the wea lth of limi ted edition bea uty up close, hurry in to your hobby detail on th is locomotive, including workin g cab doors, dea ler today. see-th rough steps and footboard s, fa n gri li es with visible Th e 2nd rel ease of the PROTO 2000 GP9 is now ava il ab le blades and constant and directiona l lighting. Roadnam e undecorated and in the fol low ing road names with two to three specific options ava ilable in cl ude dynam ic brakes, sun ­ road numbers each: Ba ltimore & Ohio, Great Northern, Illinois shades, all weath er cab windows and more. Powered by Centra l, Lehi gh Va ll ey, Mil waukee Road, Rock Island, Seaboard an extremely smooth running motor with a 5-pol e skew Coast Line, and St. Loui s South Western in the Black Wiclow wound balanced armature, dual ma chin ed brass flywhee ls paint scheme.

101997 Life-Like Products, Inc., 1600 Union Ave., BaltimoreMD 21211 In Canada: 140 Applewood Crescen, Concord, Ontario L4K4E2 Give Your Railroad aBig Lift There's always a lot of activity where railways cross waterways. The new Cornerstone Series'" Motorized Bascule Bridge will be the centerpiece of any water cross­ ing on your pike. Measuring approximately 33-1/2" long , includ­ ing counterweights, this single track bridge stands over 11" tall and is about 3" inches wide. It'll handle anything from heavy steam locomotives to modern double stacks. And best of all , it includes hard­ ware and complete instructions for making it operate. With its moving deck, you 'll have your railroad's dispatchers marveling at this new operational highlight. 933-3070, Motorized Bascule Bridge $79.98, February delivery.

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Photos and ground work by Ken Patterson. Preproduction models shown; some details may vary. Colors shown are painted by modeler: paint not included. Figures. vehicles. track and othe r accessories sold separately. _ OM. ~HO' MOTORS NEEDA TINY GEARBOX? Our new HO SCALE motors are now in How about this precision NWS L #170-6 gearbox. 50: 1 ratio, suitable for N, TT. HO ,scale stock and ready for use! These motors are excellent for repowering your favorite Yep, this drawing is actllal si=e - model. Each is low-profile and offers @ e _ ", consider this new precision miniatllre smooth and cool operation. Now avail '.' ..:.-- -" ; ~' :'" able for delivery to your favorit gearhox for YOllr HO, HOn3, 77: N - _. -- Overland dealer. and similar small scale locomotives. OMI #2394 - 12VDC 5 Slot Motor with = - Skewed Armature, Motor Mounts, Twin Flywheels (10,1 OOrpm) locomotives in a selection of axle fit sizes, Eliminate fast, jerky. wobbly, noisy, unreliable, poor . Suggested Retail $18.00 operation with the aid of NWSL precision quality motors. gearboxes. gearing, components. tools, OMI #2395 - 12VDC 5 Slot Motor wit Availahle at heller hobhy shops everywhere, or inqllire directforfllrther il!jiJrmation Cl nd Skewed Armature, Motor Mounts. with­ complete product listing ($1.00 handling please) - reqllest gearbox -,pec, sheet -1-/0, out Flywheels (10,1 OOrpm) Suggested Retail $16.00 NORTHWEST SHORT LINE BOX 423 fax 206-935-7106 SEATTLE WA 98111-0423

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RAILMODEL JOURNAL - APRIL 1998 83 ATLAS HO FREIGHT CARS! Just because these HO 3-Bay and 6-Bay Cylindri((ll Hoppers with new road numbers will disappear soon from your 10(01 hobby store is no reason to rush out and get some. Does it really matter to you that they have great looking inlet roof hat(h­ es and outlet boys, detailed broke gear, free rolling 1~O-ton roller-bearing trucks with bla(kened metal wheels? So what if they have body mou nted couplers with screw-attached (oupler covers that accept Kadee® #5, InterMountain, M(Henry, or A(wMate® couplers? Big deal if these gorgeous looking freight ((Irs are among the best pointed and printed freight ((Irs on the market today. It doesn't mean you should run them on your layout, even if they are perfect for it. Do you ((Ire if these HO ACF 3-Bay and 6-Bay Cylindri(al Hoppers are at your 10(01 hobby shop today? Finally, are you really going to listen to this ad, or in the end are you going to do what's best tor your layout?

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AB :LWESl1iNqLouSE N'o. 20) S(dtNllhEt P~R This 14-axle Schnabel Car was built to transport extremely heavy transformers across the country from the Large Transformer Division of Westing Ol,lSe Electric (now ABB). The prototype car was constructed in 1976 and has an empty weight of 300,000 pounds. The maximum weight of the car fully loaded is an amcw:ing 'l,OSO,OOO pounds. Needless to say our HO Scale model weighs less than a millionth of the prototype! When not in use, this car is stored at th ABB Large Tta sformer ~ i Xl ision plant right here in Overland's hometown of Muncie, Indiana. Both Conrail and Norfolk Southern pickup these cars and return th m to the Muncie plant. Movement requires special care and extra cars are added to the consist to increase braking power. These highly accurate models are exquisitely handcfafted in brass by Ajin Precision of Korea and are now available in three different paint schemes. Contact your friendly OMI dealer today to place your order. Mardao ebolography

.. WECX 203 Schnabel Car with Transformer load, Factory Painted li~ht Gray and Completely lettered With Red ABB - OMI #1394.3

~ WECX 203 Schnabel Car with Transformer load, Factory Painted fJlue and Completely lettered - OMI #1394.1 [Not Pictured] WECX 203 Schnabel Car with Transformer load, Factory Painted Battleship Gray and Completely lettered - OMI #1394.2