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| 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 |
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| February |
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Bill of Lading - Use casein on rolling stock too (Routines for aging cars and locomotives to variuos degrees), Gonpher Coughie builds up a kit ( (or)...sort out all the parts before you start), Turns for the better (How does a great locomotive look on a 36' curve), Plymouth switcher conversion (Small HOn21/2 locos are easily converted so HOn3 or standard gauge), 30-ton timber ore car (Build one or a dozen for their atmosphere and operating interest), The rise and fall of a model empire (Clubs can last for years, but their layouts may come and go), Power for the Sierra Pintada (Modifying turnouts to make them electrically selective), Prototype Drawings and Data - Station at a crossing (Drawings and data), Conventional pullman sleeper (Drawings), Canadian Pacific 30-ton ore car (Drawings), Narrow-gauge Mogul (Drawings of NB&W 2-6-0) |
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| March | V. Good - |
Bill of Lading - Details in the enginehouse (Dollar-model project: here's modeling activity for a dozen rainy days), Timing and use of clock in operation (No guesswork can replace appearance in timing operation), Sudden scenery on the Sierra Pintada (the why and the how of scenerybuilding on the switchboard railroad), Photographing a model scene (The pictures you take will no doubt outlive the models themselves), South Shore soliloquy (It wouldn't be a little side-of-the-road line, they add), Pulpwood yard: a wayside industry (Simple facilities make this lagging operation a valuable traffic builder), Simple signals for traction lines (One of the oldest signaling ideas in model railroading), Plight of a salesman (How to scratchbuild with kits while staying in motels)_, Montauk: a terminal you can model (Feast or famine, that's Long Island's resort-town passenger service), P.c. ties for spikeless tracklaying (Techinque is well suited to lightwight rail), Prototype drawings and data Canadian National's pioneer diesel (drawings), Traction ballast car (Drawings: New Orleans Public Belt), Milwaukee Road four-wheel caboose (Drawings), Mantuak (Data on Long Island's end-of-line resort town) | 1 | $5.50 | |
| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| July | V. Good - |
Bill of Lading - Structures for a logging camp (Models and prototypes data as displayed at Vancover), Independent operation of four trolleys in one block (Modeler's memo basic data for model railroaders), Aroostook Valley RR, the potato pike (A railroad you can model with winter scenery and operations). Free-lance circus stockcar (Two ordinary stockcars from Arkansas get together on this job), All in the family (Give your locos detailing that makes them seem to be related), Simple jigs for speedy tielaying (Improvements in the constructions and use of the piano-key jig), Blend your ballast for realism (Nature does for the prototypes : ergo, you must follow suit), Bonded ballast for natural appearance (With some comments on laying realistic track), Contractor signals for traction lines (How Kenneth Lindquist simulated trolley pan detection) Prototype Drawings - Bucyrus-Erie 250-ton railway crane, Colorado Midland caboose | 1 | $5.50 | |
| August | V. Good - |
Bill of Lading = From timber to tidewater: (How the products are handled and loaded on the lumber railraods) 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 (What Higgins did to an elderly Mike can benefit other locos too), Let's visit the Valley Model Railroad Club (Photos by Bruce Gathman show what has been done at Elgin, IL), Make a pattern for switch frogs (Cut rail and common pine to make a pattern for lost-wear cutting), Old fashioned house (Easy-to-build structure combines colonial and Victorian architecture, Prototype drawings Jersey Central 4-6-2, Switch frogs, Illinois Central yard office | 1 | $5.50 | |
| September |
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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 |
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| October | V. Good |
Bill of Lading - How to start engines-or arguements (Considering everything, it's a wonder locos run as well as they do.), Zack & Southern (Lots of switching on a comact O scale pike), Make your own power pack (How to select the transformer and rectifer), Riding the Fast Mail on the PB&W (When a club layout is a display railroad, special considerations apply), Stewartstown RR: a railroad you can model (Short line in Pennsylvania can be modeled as in 1885 pt 1966), Custombuild a steeplecab switch motor (You can make most of the parts yourself for this traction model) Prototype drawings and data - Rayonier logging caboose, Baldwin 1500-horsepower sharknose diesel, Short girder-type underpass | 1 | $5.50 | |
| November | V. Good - |
Bill of Lading - It's all in TT scale (A lot more remains to be done on this 120:1 proportion railroad), Stacked main lines for mileage (An around the walls track plan and it's philosophy), Working couplers up front (Operation is more interesting with working couples at both ends), The Desert Lines of Dr. J.E.Andes (One man's roster of standard and narrow-gauge O scale models), White-lined car numbers (Got some absolute freight cars? Lease 'em to your industries), Narrow-gauge outfit cars (Basic details can be adapted for standard gauges as well), A small brick station (Part 1 of 2 parts. Findley makes use of mass production) , Turntable indexing with a photocell (Automatic alignment to any desired track), Ride your own caboose (Let your friends see you on this platform of the rear of your train), The camera as a modeling tool (How to take photographs exactly to your modeling scale) Prototype Drawings - Spreckels station on the Southern Pacific, CNJ 4-6-4T for suburban service | 0 | $5.50 | Temporarily |
| December | V. Good - |
Bill of Lading - Modeling in the Nth degree (Beginning the construction of a railroad in 160:1 construction), The Buckley & Onarca RR: a compact plan (Track plan and drawings), The monster diesel horn (An all-electric way to simulate the horn of a diesel locomotive), A look at the Lehigh (Inspiration for structures and track arrangement from a historic spot), How I built my railroad: third try (With comments on decorating a commercial turntable), Rx: model railroading (Building a model pike can be valuable occcupational therapy), A small brick station (part 2: continuing the construction of Spreckles station) Prototype drawings and data - San Joaquin & Eastern short steel observation car (drawings), Orleans-Kenner interurban (drawings), Leihigh Valley RR at Mauch Chunk PA (data) | 0 | $5.50 | Temporarily |