Model Railroader-1963

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January
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Bill of Lading - Caboose in 2 Hours and 74 Minutes (Kit-bashing is the answer when you are short of time.), Me, Him, Her, and How We Built Our Railroad (Man - woman - track plan - infinity!), Alpena & Harwood Western RR. (Track plan for a compact pike with operating features.), Building the Structures at Lizard Head (All-scale instructions for timber building and snowshed.), Speeder Rail Truck (One-piece motive power and rolling stock for general use.), Bluebook of Model Railroad Practice (90) J - Special Data (Trackwork in streets: 1), Redetailing a PFM Reno Loco (Bill converts a PFM Virginia & Truckee 4-4-0.), A Neat Way to Develop a Track Plan (Bob Adams built a miniature layout to plan his railroad.), One Man's Roster (Photos of Duke Roydan's narrow-guage rolling stock.), Texas Railroaders Banish Dust ("Our smartest move - putting our railroad in plastic."), Underbody Detail on Passenger Cars (Part 2 - Where to install the various devices.), Trade Product Features (Magnetic magic with reed contacts.), Prototype Plans and Data - Rio Grande Southern timber station and snowshed, Trackwork in streets
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$4.50

February
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Bill of Lading - The Life of Benjamin Flats Camp (Ben King;s well-known Timber City & North Western RR.), Freeville;s Five-Faced Freight Station (Two lines of the Lehigh Valley cross at it's doorstep.), Add a Division Point to your Track Plan (A yard and some hidden storage tracks provide fine operation.), Top Performance from Locos (Jerry White, well-known loco builder, gives Whit some pointers.), Building Monmouth Co-op (From photos and sketches, a model of a grain elevator.), Bluebook of Model Railroad Practice (91) J - Special Data (Trackwork in streets: 2) Prototype Plans and Data - Freeville freight station, N&W's class K-1 4-8-2, Canadian National wood-sheathed caboose, Monmouth gain elevator, Dependency at Newtown, PA, Trackwork in streets
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March
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Bill of Lading - This Could Be Your Pike (A Garre & Daphetid scene could fit anyone's layout.); Concept & Planning Of The Garre & Daphetid (Planned carefully from the beginning with a thought for traffic.); Small Bulk Plant (An industry for a small space can be varied in design.); Mix 'Em Or Match 'Em (Some unusual practices followed by the nation's railroads.); Civic Center For Boomtown (The Red-Eye Saloon - essential for old-time western pikes.); How To Build Chama's Sandhouse (Its prototype is on the Denver & Rio Grande Western.); Roof Detail On Passenger Cars (Vents, hatches and ladder rests add to a model's appearance.); Modernize With An All-Weather Cab (Assembly and practical construction of locomotive vestibule.); Bluebook Of Model Railroad Practice (92) J - Special Data (Trackwork in streets: 3.) Prototype Plans and Data - EMD E-9 Passenger Diesel; D&H Gun Carriage Car; Petroleum Bulk Plant; All-Steel Interurban Freight Motor; Old West Saloon; Chama Sandhouse; Roof Detail On Passenger Cars; Trackwork In Streets Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Scheduled Arrivals; Trade Topics; New Literature; Railway Post Office; At The Throttle; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Wiring Switch Machines; Kinks; Cartoon
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April V.
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Bill of Lading - I live with a magpie (A bird that is familiar to most model railroaders' wives.), Terminal for a short line: Quincy, CA (Why not change a branch line to a seperate company operation.), Pike and workshop in a trailer (Alex Landesco's solution to model railroad immobility.), Birth of a turnout (Step-by-step instructions for building track switches.), Oil to coal: tender conversion (Customize your locos to burn the fuel that's most suitable.), Moonshine, Still River & Bootleg Valley RR (Narrow-gauge short line with interchange to standard-gauge.), Sheltered Whistle Stop (Long Island RR commuter shelter near Farmingdale, NY.), Outdoor dream is coming true (Walt Miller rendering of 7 1/2" and 15" gauge railroad.), Model car fittings (Adding the steam hose and the other connections to a model.), Bluebook of model railroad practice (93) F-cars (Passenger car and connections.) Prototype Plans and Data - TNO water tank, Quincy (Calif) Short Line, Pullman's cars of 1893, Bridge for a country road, Long Island RR commuter shelter, Passenger car and connections, A.R.A. 40-foot boxcar 1 $5.50
April Good
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Bill of Lading - I live with a magpie, Terminal for a short line: Quincy, CA, Pike and workshop in a trailer, Birth of a turnout, Oil to coal: tender conversion, Moonshine, Still River & Bootleg Valley RR, Sheltered Whistle Stop, Outdoor dream is coming true, Model car fittings, Bluebook of model railroad practice (93) F-cars, Prototype Plans and Data - TNO water tank, Pullman's cars of 1893, Bridge for a country road, Long Island RR commuter shelter, Passenger car and connections, A.R.A. 40-foot boxcar 1 $4.50
June
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Bill of Lading - The Restless Railroad (The model railroad life of Jack Alexander, a pioneer in On3.), Big Level, Colorado of the East (Narrow-gauge railroading in northern Pennsylvania.), Lucky Short line (A track plan that picks its concept from the Big Level railroads.), Old-Time Wood Gondola (Includes some dandy shortcuts for making better cars easily.), Build this Grain-Loading Shed (It lends itself to any model railroad.), Transistor Throttle: Worth the Cost? ("Adds as much ralism to an engine as a lot of detail does".), End of Line (Wayside Notes - Durham, N.C. railroad bumper.), Balsawood Cliff Hides a Switch Machine (Curved or scribed balsawood becomes ashlar building walls.), Improvised Piggyback Ramps (Here's a practical chore for a flatcar with bad trucks.), A Secret of Simpler Switching (Neat way to plan blocking of cars saves time and trackage.) Prototype Plans and Data - L&N Yard Office, DL&W Boxcar, Monogahela Connecting 0-4-0, Durham (N.C.) railroad bumper, Improvised piggyback ramps
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July
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Bill of Lading - A Bad Night at Moorpark (Station activity on Edward Greenberg's On3 Moorpark & Western.), Sometimes You Need a Shoehorn (Concerning the selective reduction of a much-too-big structure.), Portage Hill & Communipaw Ry. (Part 9 - end of the line.), Can Derailments be Banished? Completely? (Fifteen minutes of effort for a few evenings will improve performance.), It's Done with Kits (Modeler builds realistic railroad with commercial equipment.), Wood-Shavings Shed (Plans and construction of a colorful structure for a lumberyard.), Improving the Lead Truck of Steam Locos (Springing arrangement improves guiding ability of truck.), Bluebook of Model Railroad Practice (94) I - Diesel Colors (Lehigh & Hidson, Colorado & Wyoming, Norfolk Southern Switchers.) Prototype Plans and Data - Electro-Motive's GP-20, MKT Mixed-Train Caboose Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Scheduled Arrivals; Trade Topics; New Literature; Railway Post Office; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Steam Locomotive Servicing Facilities; Cartoon
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$5.50

September
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Bill of Lading - Mudhen Metamorphosis" A Free-Lanced Cross-Kit Loco (Develop your own idea of a locomotive suited to your pike), Three Railroads in Full Color (Modeling by Wakefield, Clauser and the Salt Creek Society), A Turntable for the PH&C (Part 2: building the bridge), L-Girder Framework (Versatile way to support track and scenery on old and new pikes), The Bellefonte & Snowshoe: A Railroad Planned for Solo Operation (It all began with a short line in Pennsylvania), Confessions of a Pioneer Model Railroader (Cynical? or serious? history of Charles's Cerra Azul RR) Prototype Plans and Data - Board-and-Batten Station on the Reading
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$4.50

Temporarily
Sold Out

October
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Bill of Lading - Made by Radebaugh (Photos by Whit Towers of a cab-forward that wasn't.), San Diego's Two-Layout Club (O and HO gauges get together - the idea was fine.), Fie on Oval Operations! (Even a small pike can eliminate oval operation.), Old Boxcars Need Never Die (Former cars provide atmospheric needs for your pike.), Making Better Use of Industries (Points of origins and destination selected wisely.), Build a Liquid Oxygen Tanker (You may not be able to buy it, but you can build it easily.), Live Steam Friendships (Le Petit Train de Wichita in Orleans' Pasteur Park.), Structure with Character: Edison's Birthplace (With notes for modifying structures to Greek Revival style.), Detail at the Sais Switch (The Western end of Abo Pass in New Mexico on the Santa Fe Trail.), A Dilly of a Signal (It has lasted a long time on the New Haven and Central of Vermont.), You Must Stoop To See This Pike (Charlie Frisk's Cimarron Valley is a lot of railroad.) Prototype Plans and Data - Old boxcars on the UP, 15,000-gallon liquid oxygen car, Soo Line boxcar of the 1890's, H.K. Porter standard and narrow gauge 0-4-0T, Edison's Birthplace, Detail at the Said switch, New Haven-Central Vermont tilting target signal.
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November
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Bill of Lading - Between Trains at Ophir (An incident at Elev. 9236 on Johnnie Novak's On3 railroad.), C&O's White Sulphur Springs (A station you can model to serve the resort town on your pike.), People for the PH&C (Making new figures out of old ones is easy.), The GG&PR Packs Operation into a Portable Layout (As oval layouts go, this one isn't as ordinary as you might think.), Diesels - I Like 'em! (Try some diesels on your own railroad. You'll like 'em too.), Bluebook of Model Railroad Practive (95): G - Common Standard Concrete Culverts (Harriman and Southern Pacific practice.), Taking Pains with Panes (Improved techniques for detailing model windows.), Highway and Mars Light Flashers (Liven up that otherwise lifeless scene with flashing lights.) Prototype Plans and Data - C&O's White Sulphur Springs Station, Station Scene at Sheffield, Ill: Wayside Notes, Lattice-post Watchman's Tower, Electro-Motive's FP-9 Locos, Common Standard Concrete Culverts
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December
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Bill of Lading - Locomotive Under the Magnifying Glass (Bigger-than-scale photos of Dick Arthur's scratchbuilt CP Northern.), Is Astrac on the Right Track? (Answers to questions about General Electric's carrier control system.), Many Structures from One Kit (How to disguise a kit building so even it's manufacturer wouldn't know it.), Pioneering in Interurbans (Photos of a steam dummy and a traction-line work car in O gauge.), Western Logging Company: A Model Paradise on a 6-foot shelf (Structures on this HO pike are patterned after the real thing.), Turnpike to Nowhere (First-prize entry in MR's Railroad & Highway contest.), Painting and Lubricating Imported Locomotives (Some pointers for better appearance and better performance.), Tackle a Timber Trestle (Dollar model project will add atmosphere to any railroad.), A Classic Switching Problem (Try to solve it, then look for the answer next month.), Lettering Cars and Signs (Draftsmen's lettering guides insure neat home lettering.), Worthington Feedwater Heater - Type S (It's easy to make your own by this method.), Convert old Kadees to Magnetic (Sometimes, its easier to convert a coupler than to replace it.), Improving Magnetic Uncouplers, Horn-Hook Type Prototype Plans and Data - Milwaukee Road at Sayner, Wis: Wayside notes, Canadian Pacific 4-4-4 Plans, Timber Trestle Plans, PRR Civil Wartime Passenger Coach Planes
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