Model Railroader-1966

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CONTENTS
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PRICE
PAYPAL
January
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Bill of Lading - Throwing the track on the Sierra Pintada (Adjust the track and check it, check it again to be absolutely sure.), Adjusting motor brush tension (Simple method gives smoother starts and low-speed operation.), Modern mixed train daily (Wabash (N&W) branch in central Missouri is a railroad you can model.), Columbia, Hollsville & centralia RR. (A track plan by Gordon Odegard.), A Weird & Wondrerful Pike (Ed Schampel built his railroad for one purpose only, to have fun.), A small stub terminal (Grand Trunk station at Portland, ME can be adapted for a model.), Model railroad visitors (Copiously illustrated.), The old red barn (Simple dollar model project can be the showpiece of your contryside.), How to paint a locomotive (Or, How to take an engine apart and put it back just like it was.), Model railroading in 1985? (Small's crystal ball shines its message of things that may come.) Prototype Drawings and Data ; Ma & Pa gas-electric No. 62, Wabash branch line in Missouri, RBNX insulated boxcar, Lehigh Valley ice service car, Grand Trunk stub terminal
1
$4.50

February
Good +
Bill of Lading - Use casein on rolling stock too, Gonpher Coughie builds up a kit, Turns for the better, Plymouth switcher conversion, 30-ton timber ore car, The rise and fall of a model empire, Power for the Sierra Pintada, Prototype Drawings and Data - Station at a crossing, Conventional pullman sleeper, Canadian Pacific 30-ton ore car, Narrow-gauge Mogul
0
$4.50

March V.
Good -
Details in the enginehouse, Timing and use of clock in operation, Sudden scenery on the Sierra Pintada, Photographing a model scene, South Shore soliloquy, Pulpwood yard: a wayside industry, Simple signals for traction lines, Plight of a salesman, Montauk: a terminal you can model, P.c. ties for spikeless tracklaying, Prototype drawings and data Canadian National's pioneer diesel, Traction ballast car, Milwaukee Road four-wheel caboose 0 $5.00
April
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Bill of Lading - Living and Working in the Sierra Pintada Country (Structures for work, for lodging, for shopping in the new mining town), Operations on the Gum Stump & Snowshoe (Track plan for the man with minumum space), King-Size Scale: 7/16" to the foot (Modeling outdoors in the 27.4:1 proportion has its own delights), The Buckingham Branch Line (A vicarage houses one of the best-balanced model railroads in England), Organized Clubs? Why Not? (Readers roar and Ray replies to Ray's remarks regarding railroading rings), I Adopted My Astrac for Walkaround Control (Realistic action as a helper engine cuts off from moving train), If I Could Do It Again ("Maybe you can benefit from my mistakes") Prototype Drawings - Colorado Midland 0-6-0, Colorado Midland Palace Stock Car, Classic Signal Tower on the Central of Georgia
0
$4.50

May
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Bill of Lading - Girder Bridge and Approaches (Recipe for a bridge over another railroad, a highway or a stream), The Building of Puget Junction (You can pack a lot of colorful railroad into an operating diorama), Whistle, Bell, Steam and Exhaust Sounds (An outline of how to produce them and how the PSLA men went about it), Tape Loop Mehod of Producing Bell Sounds (How to use a tape recorder to produce realistic bell tones), Free-Lance Traction Work Car (The Amsterdam Terminal RR needed a Maintenance Car, so), Scratchbuild a Diesel (Methods used on the DD-40 can duplicate any diesel of hood design), Club Directory (Geographical-alphabetical listing of clubs, addresses, guages, etc.) Prototype Drawings and Data - Louisville & Interurban Combine, Bayer-Garratt of New South Wales Covernment Rys. (Photos, data and drawings), Electro-Motive's model DD-40 (Drawings)
1
$4.50

June
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Bill of Lading - Why Use Scale Time? (Suggestions to help you adopt a time schedule for best operation), Cross-Kit PRR Steel Stock Car (The same construction methods can be used to build a similar boxcar), Walkaround Locomotive Control (Based on a letter from a model railroader in Bilthaven, Netherlands), Railroad in a Coffee Table? (Take your pike into the living room where guests may enjoy it too), Moving the Ore on the Sierra Pintada (Western RR figures in the oeration of the switchback short line), Locomotives by Minton Cronkhite (Who knows what model railroading would have been without this man?), Working Booster Increases Engine Pull (Notes on drilling holes for drive wheels are well worth reading), Model Railroad Periodicals of the World (With appreciation to W. Siegwart of MOROP for his special help) Prototype Drawings - Georgia Northern's 2-8-2 no. 105, PRR 40-foot wagon-top boxcar, Parlor-Dining-Lounge Car (PRR's Courageous), Yakima Valley Arch-Window Interurban, Concrete Relay Houses
1
$4.50

July V.
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Structures for a logging camp, Independent operation of four trolleys in one block, Aroostook Valley RR. the potato pike, Free-lance circus stockcar, All in the family, Simple jigs for speedy tielaying, Blend your ballast for realism, Bonded ballast for natural appearance, Contractor signals for traction lines Prototype Drawings - Bucyrus-Erie 250-ton railway crane, Colorado Midland caboose 0 $5.00
August V.
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From timber to tidewater: Lumber railroad operating practices, The equipment, the line and the camp, A glossary of logging terms, The three stages of Timber transportation, Books and articles for further study, Smooth and quiet drive, Let's visit the Valley Model Railroad Club, Make a pattern for switch frogs, Old fashioned house, Prototype drawings Jersey Central 4-6-2, Switch frogs, Illinois Central yard office 0 $5.00
September
V.
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Bill of Lading - Fast Freight LPA-1 on the Alturas & Lone Pine (Take the throttle and learn the A&LP's operating practices), Silver Soldering (More durable and not much more difficult than soft soldering), Plush for your Passengers (Let them enjoy your pike's scenery from this cafe-parlor-observation car), Simple Speed Control for Switching (Can also be used for turntable and other accessory drives), Can a Small-Scale Pike Endure Weather? (Translated by Rolf Asmus: the story of a German garden railroad), The Time of Your Life (With cartoons and needling answers) Prototype Drawings and Data - 1894 Seven-Window Brill Trolley, Canadian-Pacific Cafe-Parlor-Observation Car, PRR Standard Scalehouse and Track, PRR Class XL Camp Car
1
$5.00

October V.
Good
How to start engines-or arguements, Zack & Southern, Make your own power pack, Riding the Fast Mail on the PB&W, Stewartstown RR: a railroad you can model, Custombuild a steeplecab switch motor Prototype drawings and data - Rayonier logging caboose, Baldwin 1500-horsepower sharknose diesel, Short girder-type underpass 0 $5.00
November V.
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It's all in TT scale, Stacked main lines for mileage, Working couplers up front, The Desert Lines of Dr. J.E.Andes, White-lined car numbers Narrow-gauge outfit cars, A small brick station (Part 1 of 2), Turntable indexing with a photocell, Ride your own caboose, The camera as a modeling tool Prototype Drawings - Spreckels station on the Southern Pacific, CNJ 4-6-4T for suburban service 0 $5.00
December V.
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Modeling in the Nth degree, The Buckley & Onarca RR: a compact plan, The monster diesel horn, A look at the Lehigh, How I built my railroad: third try, Rx: model railroading, A small brick station (part 2) Prototype drawings and data - San Joaquin & Eastern short steel observation car, Orleans-Kenner interurban,  Leihigh Valley RR at Mauch Chunk PA 0 $5.00






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