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| January | V. Good |
Bill Of Lading - Out Of The Thundering Past Appears. . , (Photos of the East Hartford Division of the D & RGW); R Is For Railroad (Continuing the construction of the Enfield & Ohio RR); Detailing A Signal System (Dollar model project introduces "sculptured solder" technique); Scratchbuild Your Own Loco Frame (Chassis can be designed and built to suit any prototype in any scale); Turn Backward O Time (Same interesting structures in a 1900-era shortline terminal yard) Drawings - SP 3-Foot-Gauge Stocker; Sandhouse; Coal Loading Derrick; Ashpit Hoist; Yard Office; Central Warehouse Co.; Dilly Manufacturing Co.; McGee Lumber Co. Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Schedules; Trade Topics; Railway Post Office; Cartoon; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; ABC's For Model Railroaders; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Drilling And Tapping Holes In Metal; Kinks; Index Of Advertisers | 2 | $5.50 | |
| February | V. Good |
Bill of Lading - Gondola Cars With A Lifetime Guarantee (Ganged cementing makes it easy to build several cars at one time.); 69th Street: Super Traction Terminal (Some part of this vast track layout may be just the thing for you.); Narrow Gauge In The Vale Of Fawrcarnedd (British OOn3 layout in a small space makes use of a fiddle yard.); Shortline/Narrow Gauge Water Plug (Gives your iron horses a drink from this easily built plug.), 12345: Zip Code For The E & O (The first basic steps of zip texturing hard-shell scenery.); A Yard And A Quarter Long (Track plan for compact shelf space can be used with fiddle yards.); So You Need A Lathe (A portable drill can be mounted on a base to ease your modelmaking.) Prototype Drawings And Data - 69th Street: Super Traction Terminal (Data); Coaling Station In Concrete (Drawings); Soo Line Modern Reefer (Drawings); Louisville & Nashville Wood-Chip Hopper (Drawings); Narrow-Gauge Diesel For Newfoundland (Drawings) Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Schedules; Trade Topics; Railroader's Library; Railway Post Office; Cartoon; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; Scratchbuilder's Scrapbook; ABC's For Model Railroaders; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Vital Statistics; Index Of Advertisers | 3 | $5.50 | |
| March | V. Good - |
Bill of Lading - Bedded at Bluefield (Photography by Paul J. Paling recalls the days at World War II), Wiring the Enfield & Ohio (Match your connections to those shown and you can't go wrong), Reading coaches from Athearns (Railing stock fit for a rail ramble behind a T-! 4*8*4), Remotely operated track gates (Date of a coalyard can be operated from the contral panel), SCR's for power packs (Modeler's memos: a new kind of control device for a model railroad), New freight car detailing (Here's a chance to convert some of your older cars to a new style), Brick enginehouse How to build the centerpiece of the terminal featured in January), Prototype drawings - Articulated hopper car (Southern Ry.), Steam dummy for switching (Harlem Transfer Co.) | 2 | $5.50 | |
| March | Water stains in corner | Bedded at Bluefield, Wiring the Enfield & Ohio, Reading coaches from Athearns, Remotely operated track gates, SCR's for power packs, New freight car detailing, Brick enginehouse, Prototype drawings - Articulated hopper car, Steam dummy for switching | 0 | $3.00 | Temporarily |
| April | V. Good - |
Bill of Lading - Scenery's the thing (Narrow gauge lumber railroad simulates the crags of the High Sierra.), Refrigerator car design (With emphasis on modern mechanical refrigerator cars.), Build a mechanical reefer (Modern 60-ton steel car for PFE has outside bracing.), What's wrong here (Nothing's wrong, really; it just seems that way.), A Prairie from a switcher (Upgrade your shunting engine for local freight service.), Equipment and operation on the E&O (What you can buy in N scale and how you can operate it on the E&O.), Working marker lights (Car carries a battery which recharges during operation.), Working couplers from dummies (They work fine in O scale. Maybe you can adapt the idea to your scale too.), Simple soundmaker for model railroaders (Including a method of simulating the barn of an approaching diesel.), Reducing motor static (Engine circuit helps filter away sound-affects interferences.) Prototype drawings - PFE 40 and 60 ton mechanical refrigerator cars, Indiana RR interurban freight motor | 4 | $5.50 | |
| May |
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Bill of Lading: Enlarging the E&O (Including experiments with plaster-supported track), Quartering Jig for Drivers (Fixture helps prevent side-rod bind, rod and bearing wear), Water Tank for Narrow Gauge - or Standard (Quincy & Torch Lake prototype is rectangular, it sits on a slope), Rock Castings from Rubber Molds (Better than carving rocks and easier to do), Setting Rock Castings into the Scenery (Matching handwork to natural rock textures), Y-6B Panorama (Locomotive owned, painted and weathered), From the Shop of Charlie Mead (What can you do to make a good locomotive better?), Six-ton jimmy (A little car that's easy to build in any scale), From Floor to Rail (A benchwork and roadbuilding program with a circular saw), Club directory Prototype Drawings: Quincy & Torch Lake water tank, New York Central jimmy of the 1870's |
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| June | V. Good - |
Bill of Lading - Model railroading in someone else's basement (Port Able Lines goes together in larger or smaller version.), Shaping tools for styrofoam terrain (Heated Nichrome wire in various shapes carves contours easily.), From the junk box (Letter from an American modeler stationed in Korea.), The Sugar River & Ridgefield (A track plan with emphasis, an operation and scenery.), Displays for treasured models (Stand and racks for setting off your interesting rolling stock.), Air painting equipment (Help in selecting an airbrush and its accessories.), Modern freight station (Union Pacific's Glendale station should be easy to scratchbuild.), Now we build the roadbed (From floor to rails: continued from the May issue.)Prototype Drawings and Data - The original Wm. Crooks 4-4-0 (drawings), St Paul & Pacific baggage car, Coach for the Wm. Crooks train, Union Pacific's Glendale freight station | 4 | $5.50 | |
| July |
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Bill of Lading - Truckee & Western RR.: An Apartment Empire (TT scale railroad packs a great deal of scenery into a foldaway frame); Hide It In The Tender (Narrow-gauge locomotive drive was designed with motor out of sight); Designing Portable Layouts (With an argument for eliminating some main lines entirely); Improved Pulse With Ordinary Power Packs; Superdetailing A Steam Locomotive (How detail was sharpened on an already-fine model C&O 2-8-4); Structures From The Ground Up (Begin a building on a good foundation and work toward the details); Modeler's Doodle Sheet (An animation of ideas: carnival time in your railroad town) Prototype Drawings - Santa Fe 90-Ton Hopper Car; Early Electro-Motive Switcher; Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Schedules; Trade Topics; Railway Post Office; Cartoon; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Homasote; Index Of Advertisers |
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| August |
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Bill of Lading: Rocks And How To Foil Them (Easy ways to reproduce texturing of broken or stratified rocks; Rack For Loco Cleanout Equipment (Based on the East Broad Top's rack at Orbisonia, PA); Cushioned For Real (Building your own cushion underframe for action); Double Your Layout For A Dollar (Some things you can do to make your system more effective); 45 Minutes At Eagle's Nest (Photos and modeling); Silk Screen For Road Names (A way to letter rolling stock in moderate quantities); Fast Circuit Breaker (Protect transistors and silicon diodes with a current limiter); The Interstate & Western (Track plan for a busy medium-size pike); The Bewitched Turnout (What happened when the little people took over) Prototype Drawings: PRR's Devon Baggage Room; Virginian Ry 2-10-10-2 Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Schedules; Railroader's Library; Trade Topics; Railway Post Office; Cartoon; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Facilities for oil burners; Kinks; Index Of Advertisers |
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| September |
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Bill of Lading: One-man prototype railroad (The Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric Co.), 4-4-0 - a dream come true (One man's one-engine roster.), Walpole and the Kissing Bridge (The crossing of two male lines creates a variety of railroad facilities.), Lagged Boilers are easier (Techiques for scratchbuilding any loco boiler with simplest tools.), Nothing could account for this staggering error (Another letter from Jim,) Let's Letter Cars You can get professional looking results with dry transfers.), The Defeat of Dust (Prevention, isolation and removal of dust are taxing tools.) Prototype Drawings and Data: Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric Co. (data), D&IR 4-4-0 and passenger cars (Drawings), Walpole, Mass on the New Haven (Data), New Haven station at Walpole Mass (Drawings), Soo Line modern boxcar (Drawings) |
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| September |
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Bill of Lading: One-man prototype railroad, 4-4-0 - a dream come true, Walpole and the Kissing Bridge, Lagged Boilers are easier, Nothing could account for this staggering error, Let's Letter Cars, The Defeat of Dust Prototype Drawings and Data: Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric Co. (data), D&IR 4-4-0 and passenger cars (Drawings), Walpole, Mass on the New Haven (Data), New Haven station at Walpole Mass (Drawings), Soo Line modern boxcar (Drawings) |
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| October | V. Good - |
Bill Of Lading - Structures in the desert, A block of stores, Track plan for an apartment empire, Build a straining-beam pony truss, Diesel service terminal at Hartford, Custombuilding a motor, An outline of motor design, Headlight reversal improved Prototype drawings and data - Currie, Nev on the Nevada Northern RR, EMD SD45, SP standard straining-beam truss bridge, Soo Line's steel caboose, Three-truck side dump ore car, NH diesel service terminal at Hartford | 3 | $5.50 | |
| November |
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Bill of Lading: To the Plastic Kit makers: a letter (Why not design kits with prototype flexibility), Wilbert's O scale Milwaukee & Sheboygan RR (A layout with three lives and still going well.), Basic Modeling railroading: Wheels , Compact Drawbridge (Scherzer rolling lift bridge of girder construction.), Three controls from two wires (A circuit for experiments.), The psychology ofr model railroading (Reasons behind the passion for "workin' on the railroad") Prototype Drawings: Sacramento Nothern wood-sheathed combine, Lehigh Valley wood-sheathed caboose, RF&P 4-8-4, Scherzer roiling lift bridge |
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| December | V. Good - |
Bill Of Lading - N Scale Saved Space For Me ("I now can sit in my family room and run a 12 to 15 car train"); Basic Model Railroading: Couplers; Model Meet At Takarazuka (With photos of typical Japanese modelwork); Track Plan For A First Layout (How to begin a railroad in a very easy way); Structures For Pidgeon Creek (Work out the dimensions and variations to suit yourself); Build A Baldwin (Styrene is an ideal modeling material for this project); Modifying A Moderately Priced Loco (Whether this is a dollar model project depends on your materials); Gondola Car Load (Photo from the scratchbuilder's scrapbook); By The Rocket's Red Glare (Or, how to make good use of an old bouillon tube) Prototype drawings Baldwin 1500-Horsepower Road Switcher; Maine Central Business Car 333 Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Schedules; Railroader's Library; Trade Topics; Railway Post Office; Cartoons; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Taps; Kinks; Index Of Advertisers | 4 | $5.50 | |