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| January |
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Bill of Lading - Build a Wood Caboose (Step-by-step instructions make it easy to cut and assemble your own car.), Slow, Smooth Performance (Take a tip from the third-rail men: install sliding contact shoes.), MR Visits Rhe West Bay Lines (Three scales - count 'em: O, S, HO - all blended into one beautiful layout.), Painting Colored Backdrops (With color photos by Paul H. Jansen.), Locomotives With Character (With notes on aging and weathering steam locomotives.), Shingles Galore (A way to have natural-looking shingles made in quantity.), A Safe-Loading Mill Gandola (A colorful car for handling solid rounds in making seamless tubing.), Ben King's Photogenic Modeling (And how he made a small camera to see models as they should be seen.), Dual-Drive For this Pocket-Size Mallet (When you power both engines seperately, a Mallet will really pull.), Second-Chance Track Plan (Make your first railroad an experimental one that can be used later.), Operating Terms (Visual descriptions of words commonly used in model railroading Prototype Plans and Data - D&RGW Narrow-Gauge Caboose Plans, Wabash Wood-Sheathed Caboose Plans, Safe-Loading Mill Gandola Plans, Menlo Park Station Plans, Westminster's Old Station: Wayside Notes |
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| February |
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Bill of Lading - Three in a Row? (Trackside photos of Jack Oilphant's model of Tabermary Mine), Clearances (Have fun moving oversize loads the way the prototype handles them), Handcar and It;s Shed (A dollar model project from the Eagleroast & Koontree TT), Scenery Without Talent (Most neglected technique in model railroading is easiest to learn), OOO Gauge, The Smallest of the Small (Basic facts and future possibilities of the newest popular gauge), Piedmont & Shore Ry. (Making the most of European OOO models to represent American types), Brandon's Big Bunker (How John M. Smith built an HO scale model of a CN coaling station) Prototype Plans and Data - Hall-Scott Old-Time Motor Car plane, Standard Clearances on the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry., AAR Loading Diagram for Long Cylindrical Loads, Colorado Midland 4-6-0 Plans, Canadian National Coaling Station Plans |
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| March |
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Bill of Lading - Dancing Through Railroad Heaven (Robert Hegge's Illinois Terminal four-tracker in an etheral scene.), Build a Green-Sand Bin (Dollar model project provides a place for storing sand before drying.), How I Built my Layout - with Signals (Contact arrangement controls signals and stops trains automatically.), Steam-Road Turnout for City Pavements (Want something a little different in turnouts? Put them in the streets.), Decrepit Caboose (Take an old car and turn it into something only a model rail could love!), Magnificent Performance with Magnetics (The advantage of magnetic uncouplers and hints on how to install them.), Track Plan in Spite of the Devil (NYC's DV interlocking is a natural as a central feature for a pike.), Locating Layouts on Curves (Simplest way to build a curved layout is to start with a straight one.), One Man's Roster: Locos of James EuDaly (Man with a yen for the C&O shows what he can do.) Prototype Plans and Data - CM&StP narrow-vestibule RPO car plans, Passenger car nomenclature, Central Vermont green-sand bin plans, Mopac turnout in city street, PRR work train caboose, Illinois Central EMD trnasfer loco plans, L&N-SR modern tower plans |
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| April | Good + | Ladies in waiting, Short line in New Jersey,Watch her pop, A study in train order signals, Diesel horn works on a dry cell, A Civil War layout, Building a mixed-gauge turnout, Cleaning up the windows Prototype Plans and Data - Old Plattsmouth truss bridge plans, Union Transportation Co., Train order signals, Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 plans, Years ago on the Fall River line | 1 | $4.50 | |
| April |
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Bill of Lading - Ladies in Waiting (It;s early morning of a crisp New England day in Newport Yard.), , Short Line in New Jersey (A railroad you can model: Union Transportation Co.), Watch Her Pop (The second time, a man builds a lot better live steamer.), A Study in Train Order Signals (Whether they work or not, they make a station look railroadlike.), Diesel Horn Works on a Dry Cell (Uses so little current you can solder the cell into the circuit!), A Civil War Layout (A track plan for operation by rail and rifle.), Building a Mixed-gauge Turnout (Or, Basket-weaving in nickel silver.), Cleaning up the Windows (More pains with panes - this time, industrial windows.) Prototype Plans and Data - Old Plattsmouth truss bridge (plans), Union Transportation Co., Train order signals, Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 (plans), Years ago on the Fall River line (Wayside notes) | 2 |
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| May |
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Bill of Lading - Timber-r-r-r (Stumped by logs? Mass produce your own this easy way.), The DiGiT System of Operation (A practical way to eliminate card handling in freight operations.), "Mansion on Rails" for a Model Magnate (A standard cafe-observation car can become a luxurious private car.), Justifying Two Companies (Track plan features terminal workings from veracious hidden loops.), Controlling Hidden Storage Tracks (President of the Black Mountain Lines solves a problem for Whit.), Conodaquinet Rys. (You can almost hear the click of wheels by just saying the name.) Prototype Plans and Data - Structure at Essington (plans), Lackawanna 4-6-2 (plans(, N&W 85-ton roller-bearing Hopper Car (plans) |
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| June |
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Bill of Lading - The Twain do Meet (Engine 43 of Edward J. Groth Jr.'s Windy Gulch RR.), Custombuild Your Own Tenders (Simple method of assembly allows you to build on or a dozen.), The Locos and Cars of J.W. Barnard Jr. (Photos and tabulations from one man's roster.), Minimizing Monotony *Structures can be arranged many interesting ways.), FES's South Bay Freight Station (This model could be the piece de resistance of an important stop.), What to do about Deep Flanges (Your loco can be its own lathe when it comes to turning wheels.), Sycamore Washout (Solution on page 59 - but don't look first!), "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree---" (A dollar model project that brings the village smithy back to life.), A Dependable One-coil Switch Machine (This type is easy to install and is positive in action.) Prototype Plans and Data - IT Parlor-Observation Interurban, FEC's South Bay Freight Station, Electro-Motive SW-600 and SW-900 |
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| July |
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Bill of Lading - Bill Ryan speaks for the Hobby (President of PFM appears before the United States Tariff Commission,), Superdetailed Rebuilding (Or, how to make a 4-4-0 out of a 4-8-8-4 and have a few parts left over.), Operating Windmill (It's a "breeze" to make a windmill turn - even without a wind!), Interurban Right of Way (Data on prototype practice, with Indiana systems as a focal point.), What You Can Do in Sn2 (For that matter, you can do it in any of the small gauges.), Factory Between Tracks ("Squeeze play" adds traffic yet conserves valuable space.), Photogenic Pike with ATC (RobertDezelin's railroad - and a discussion of "series relay" ATC.) Prototype plans and data: Interurban right of way, L&N's homemade Mikados |
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| August |
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Bill of Lading - The Art of Model Railroading (Here's how to pack real interest into the model railroad scene.), Steaming Up (Smoke gets in your eyes on the live-steam Paoli, Leopard & Sugartown.), Trestle by Jack Oliphant (Another outstanding structure by a three-time national prizewinner.), Little Tower, Big Job (Watchman's elevated lookout guards the Route of the Hiawathas.), Painting SR's Grand Lady, the Ps-4 (How to put a superior coat of paint and striping on any locomotive.), How I Make Steps and Grab Irons (This method even models the flat spots in the irons.), Why Join a Club? (GATSME offers a convincing answer to the "lone wolf" modeler.), Short Line to the Sea (The modeling and operating possibilities of the Branford Steam RR.), Snap-action Power for your Switch Machines (A special power supply for switch machines of the two-coil type.) Prototype Plans and Data - Passenger cars of the Cripple Creek Short Line (plans), Milwaukee Road watchman's tower (plans), Southern Pacific narrow-gauge gravel car (Plans), Covered Hopper for silica sand (plans) |
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| September |
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Bill of Lading - Bill Hoffman's PE Cars (Two more models and another view of the interurban on the cover.), The Main Line is your Setting (The art of model railroading part 2)., How and Why I Rigidize Certain Locos (Rigidizing sometimes helps by inifying the action of moving parts.), How Weeds are Grown on the WLC (Lyle Spears tells how to make a weed-choked right of way.), Structure for Frontier Towns (The Headlight Saloon in scale photos, and how to build it.), Outdoor HO? Why not? (California modeler uses "snowsheds" to beat the weather.), Universal Hand Signals (How to know what the other man's saying without using words.), This Business of "weathering" (Why model the decay of the depression? this modeler wants to know.) Prototype Plans and data - Colorado & Nothern narrow-gauge Climax plans, Universal hand signals |
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| October |
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Bill of Lading - MR reports on Model Railroading in Japan (Few have space for a layout in the land where the best locos are made.): Railroading on the Tatami, Model Railroading the Hard Way,, Timing does it (The art of model railroading: part 3.), TT Diesel Switcher Conversion (How to turn a Treble-O F-7 into a TT hood unit.), Panhandle Traction (A glimpse of Fred Hahman's layout through David L. Waddington's camera.), Change Engines at Sargent (Wayside notes on structures and operation of a helper engine base.), MR visits the Fall River Logging Co. (Every operation of logging transportation is modeled on this pike.), Five-light Flasher for Signs and Beacons (Use it on your model theater marquee.), Short Logging Cars (Every lumber operation can benefit with a few of them.), Hints on Building a Half-breed Diesel (Re-engine an Alco road switcher a la La Grange.), Relayless Signaling with Twin-T (Three-light signals operate properly witn no moving parts.) Prototype Plans - Canadian National 4-6-4, Exton station on the Reading, Half-breed hood diesel | 3 |
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| November |
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Of Space, Time and the Railroad (Part 4 of "The art of model railroading" provides distance on the pike), Measuring Scale Speed (An easy way to calculate speed on a test oval), "Engine 2351 Run psgr extra west" (Many a meet and many a pass on the Cambria & Black Mountain RR), Anita Builds a Billboard Fence (A dollar model project for the distaff side), Three Very Small Layouts - For Operation (Can be built in a coffee table in N, TT or HO), Santaland and Southern (Two serious modelers had a lot of fun building a not-so-serious pike), Carry Your Equipment in Styrofoam (A traveling modeler learns how to protect his equipment from shock), Add Snowplows to your Locos (Here's an excellent project for the man who has never modified a loco), Paint Jar Becomes a Spray Gun (You may find you have all the needed parts in your scrapbox), Troubleshooting Transistor Throttles (Step-by-step test program requires no special equipment or tools), Coalyard Bunker (Plans of an actual structure with suggestions as to how to model it) Prototype plans and data: Industrial traction line (photos), CN overhead-bunker reefer (plans), B&O flat- and hopper-bottom boxcar (plans), Canadian Pacific snowplow pilot (plans), Coalyard bunker at Sheyenne, Wyo (plans) |
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| November |
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Of Space, Time and the Railroad (Part 4 of "The art of model railroading" provides distance on the pike), Measuring Scale Speed (An easy way to calculate speed on a test oval), "Engine 2351 Run psgr extra west" (Many a meet and many a pass on the Cambria & Black Mountain RR), Anita Builds a Billboard Fence (A dollar model project for the distaff side), Three Very Small Layouts - For Operation (Can be built in a coffee table in N, TT or HO), Santaland and Southern (Two serious modelers had a lot of fun building a not-so-serious pike), Carry Your Equipment in Styrofoam (A traveling modeler learns how to protect his equipment from shock), Add Snowplows to your Locos (Here's an excellent project for the man who has never modified a loco), Paint Jar Becomes a Spray Gun (You may find you have all the needed parts in your scrapbox), Troubleshooting Transistor Throttles (Step-by-step test program requires no special equipment or tools), Coalyard Bunker (Plans of an actual structure with suggestions as to how to model it) Prototype plans and data: Industrial traction line (photos), CN overhead-bunker reefer (plans), B&O flat- and hopper-bottom boxcar (plans), Canadian Pacific snowplow pilot (plans), Coalyard bunker at Sheyenne, Wyo (plans) |
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| December |
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The Model Railroad with a Future (Compact layout has just about everything, including lots of operation.): Developing a Track Plan, The Ma & Pa Stage 1 (Track plan), Laying roadbed & track, "North Westerning" a Varney 4-6-0 (This approach to loco conversion offers interesting methods, good ideas.), Monorail Anyone? (Photos and drawings of the Seattle World's Fair attraction.), Scheduling from Scratch (A few lines on paper can save hours of calculating.), Sound Practices in Model Railroading (Questions and answers on trends; suggestions for satisfactory performance.), The Passenger-Train Challenge (Did you ever hear of a train hauled by a B unit only?), Down by the Depot (A dollar model project.), More about Snap-Action Switch Machine Power (An Australian cimments on an August feature - and cuts costs.), Prototype plans and data - Alweg monorail cars and track(plans), Ma & Pa caboose (plans), B&O wagon-top boxcar (plans) |
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| December |
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The Model Railroad with a Future (Compact layout has just about everything, including lots of operation.): Developing a Track Plan, The Ma & Pa Stage 1 (Track plan), Laying roadbed & track, "North Westerning" a Varney 4-6-0 (This approach to loco conversion offers interesting methods, good ideas.), Monorail Anyone? (Photos and drawings of the Seattle World's Fair attraction.), Scheduling from Scratch (A few lines on paper can save hours of calculating.), Sound Practices in Model Railroading (Questions and answers on trends; suggestions for satisfactory performance.), The Passenger-Train Challenge (Did you ever hear of a train hauled by a B unit only?), Down by the Depot (A dollar model project.), More about Snap-Action Switch Machine Power (An Australian cimments on an August feature - and cuts costs.), Prototype plans and data - Alweg monorail cars and track(plans), Ma & Pa caboose (plans), B&O wagon-top boxcar (plans) |
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