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| January |
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Bill of Lading - What Amtrak Means to Model Railroaders (Editor of Trains gives ideas for modernizing your passenger service), Carolina Foundry (Dollar model: a trackside industry with a rusty disheveled appearance), Milwaukee's Stowell Yard (A railroad you can model: a tie-in with the how-to-do-it on page 60), Bill Lafaye Combines Steam and Traction (Quarter-inch scale railroad uses outside third rail for power), Circus Train on the Sunset Valley (Big things sprang from a small Christmas package), Chuck Brammer's Branchline Bucket Coaling Station (The Model of the Month Award), Kinnickinnic Railway & Dock Co. (Part 1: Developing the plan and building the benchwork), Layouts in Modular Sections (Technique features portability and variety in operating patterns), Basic House Car Construction (The standard way is good for 90 percent of boxcar and reefer models), Model Train Control Methods: 1 (The ABC's of model railroading) Prototype Drawings - Kodak well car, Wood-sheathed boxcar of the CNJ |
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| February |
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Bill of Lading - Kaw Valley Traction Layout (Its size was ideal for modeling modestly), Gil Stovicek's American Central Road (It bagan more than 35 years ago and has survived four rebuildings), Kinnickinnic Railway & Dock Co.: 2 (Laying track, installing switch machines and ground throw switchstands), Carl A. Lundquist's Lake City Depot (The Model of the Month award), Building a Ventilated Boxcar (This house car has a personality of its own), Kunzelmann Builds a Roundhouse (Free-lance design is strongly based upon early day railroad practices), Planning a Roundhouse (How to lay things out to accommodate your engines), Model Train Control Methods: 2 (The ABC's of model railroading) Prototype Drawings and Data - EMD's FP45 Locomotives Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Schedules; Railroader's Library; Railway Post Office; Cartoon; Trade Topics; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Questions And Answers; Index Of Advertisers | 5 |
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| March |
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Bill of Lading - Some Notes on Diesels for Model Railroaders (What you can do with diesels and keep prototypically true): A Geep is Many Kinds of Locomotive, What Diesels Replaced what Steam Engines, Build a Turntable (Follow a free-lance design or a strict prototype with this method), We Wire the KR&D (Kinnickinnic Railway & Deck Co), Sagatukett River RR Track Plan (A layout for lots of switching with a modest amount of shelf space), Pingree Grove Machine Shop (A structure to fit odd corners between track and street), Construction Crane (The Model of the Month award), Photograph Your Models Easily (The ABC's of model railroading), Prototype Drawings and Data - Enginehouse and 90-foot Turntable, IC Bilevel m.u. cars |
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| April |
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Bill of Lading - Student Fare (Beginning a new department); William E. Aldrich's HO Scale New Haven 4-6-2 (The Model of the Month award); Adding Three-Color Signals (The Sunset Valley RR, finds them useful as well as decorative); Two Locomotive Conversions: Athearn-Hobbytown F7 Becomes An FP7 And A 2-8-0 From The Atlas 0-8-0; Jack's Workbench (Solves space problem for apartment dwelling modelers); Charles Small's LG & B RR (Out of the cellar and into the sunshine with a Gm scale railroad); Prototype Drawings And Data - The GS Classes And The Daylights Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Railroader's Library; Schedules; Railway Post Office; Cartoon; Trade Topics; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; Student Fare; Trackside Photos; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Engine Whistle Signals; Conversion Of A Skeptic - 3; Index Of Advertisers |
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| May |
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Bill of Lading - R.W. Bide's View of William Gorge (The Model of the Month award), Hard-Shell Terrain on the Kinnickinnic Railway & Dock Co. (MR's project railroad - 4), Sierra Pass Revisited (A two-tier track plan with plenty of railroad action), Building a Locomotive from Wood and Card (You don't have to use brass and solder to model a prototype), Approach Indicator Lamps (Automatic circuit helps operators determine track conditions), Magnetic Couplers for O Scale: 1 (Models in O gauge scales can now be switched quite readily), Prototype Drawings and Data - D&H caboose in Four Variations, M&PA Engines 41, 42 and 43 |
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| June |
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Bill of Lading - The GSV Moves West (Moving day is an opportunity to begin anew.), Saga of the Central Indiana (Each layout can be better than the one before it.), The Lewisis' Live-Steam Heritage (The family business of Little Engines keeps going on at full steam.), Nickels Milling and Feed Plant (A structure with an interesting stuccoed brick foundation.), The Eleventh Ps-4 (Southern Ry. 1410 is a 1:16 model of its full scale sister.), Ed Groth's HO 24" gauge 0-4-0T (The Model of the Month award.), Epithet Creek RR and its Track Plan (It follows Nameless Valley through the Appellation Mountains.), Magnetic Couplers for O scale: 2 (Continuing the conversion of 1/4" scale models for every switching.), Three Color Signals on the TSL (Module logic circuits make it easy to control any aspect of any signal.) Prototype Drawings - Signs for Structures and Streetcars (In color), Toronto's Class F four-wheel Streetcars, Reading Camelback 2-8-0 (Class I8sa: Baldwin 1905), Columbus & Greenville caboose |
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| July |
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The Mann's Creek RR layour (A railroad you can model), Bill Martinsen's 36" gauge D&RGW derrick (The Model of the Month award), Adding color, foliage and details to the Kinnickinnic Railway & Dock Co. (MR's project railroad:5), Refinements for CCT car forwarding (Combine two bodies to make a typical mainline hack), Stretching Athearn's work caboose (Combine two bodies to make a typical mainline hack), Turn out turnouts by the dozens (Jigs make precise assembly easy), Dimensions for switches(NMRA RP12 data plus new figures for N scale andSn3), Gaps and feeders in blind faith (The ABC's of model railroading), Traub's wheel collet (A fixture for holding a complete pair of wheels), Ambitious club solves it's layout problem (Large indoor model railroad is built in New Jersey)Prototype drawings and data - Milwaukee Road sleeper, SP's EMD SD45T-2 | 1 |
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| August |
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Bill of Lading - Eleven years of Gold Award models (Perhaps yo'll see some of these in Seattle this month.), The Harbor on the KR&D (Construction of the car ferry and the loading apron.), The Digitrack 1600 (New command system can control 16 trains independently.), Planned for Operation: the GSV (How the routing was developed and fitted into a nearly square room.), Philadelphia & Western System (A railroad you can model.), Bob Pohl's Three-truck Shay (The Model of the Month award.), Magnetic Couplers for O Scale: 3 (Converting the Casey Jones 4-6-0 and EMD F3 A and B diesel units.), Simple Surface Gauge (Easily made tool helps keep level things level, Dollar Model.), Preparing Sorghum Trees (Method produces thousands of miniature trees. Dollar model.), Sacramento Club's Next Layout? (Perhaps it will be housed in the California State Railroad Museum.), Prototype Drawings and Data - Colorado Midland Boxcar and Gondola (Drawings), Philadelphia & Western System (Data) |
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| September |
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Bill Of Lading - Commuter track plans (Two plans with itendical general specifications), The most realistic layout (Here's a man who models the action rather than the plant), Aptakisic-that swinging town (One way to solve the hidden-yard problem), What's happening in Webster Groves (Veteran club is getting near to the finishing of a new layout), Evolving a D&RGW ditcher (...or, how to build a model from nearly nothing), PRR-NJB's walkaround controls (Cable throttles can't be plugged into the wrong speed controls), Motor magnets and how to charge them (Including a low-cost magnet recharging fixture you can make.), Equalizers for steam locomotives (The work is easy, but there are many steps) Prototype drawings and data - Six-coupled double-end switcher, CS&CCD caboose, CP enclosed water tank, Small grain elevator | 3 |
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| October |
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Bill of Lading - The Interlake Vulcanian Ry. (A home layout to be seen at NMRA Midwest Region fall meet), EMD's History in Models (New locomotives were designed to meet the needs of transportation), Aging Wood Cars (Simulate the affects of eind, and rain, and a searing sun), Build a dome car, Three-in-one Benchwork on the GSV (It's neat; it's sturdy; it's convenient; it's useful), Where Should the Switcher be Spotted? (An operation problem. Solution on page 78), Epithet Creek gets a Terminal (Second unit of a modular track plan produces tricky switching moves), The Rock Mill LIne (J.N. Stanbery's structures give the railroad it's personality), Prototype Drawings and Data - NYC class T3a Electric Locomotive, EMD's History, Crooksville Bank Block Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Schedules; Railway Post Office; Trade Topics; Cartoon; Railroader's Library; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; Student Fare; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Twin-T Circuit; Index Of Advertisers |
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| November |
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Bill of Lading - 1972 Prize Parade (Some of the winning entries in the NMRA convention model contest), Ramshackle Yard Office (It's long and lean so as to fit between two tracks), Five Layouts in Ten Pages: The WUT-a Portable System ("...the sectionalized portable layout is often the answer"), How the AT&S is Operated ("...a model railroad should duplicate what is ... on the prototype"), Railroad With a Helper Grade ("... it can provide twice as much main line in a given room"), The Timesaver ("The object ... is to make the required moves in the least time"), Central Michigan RR ("The interchange is an important and prominent part of a railroad"), Kinks for Anyone (They make use of low-cost diodes added into the regular wiring), Choosing and Using Diode Rectifiers (With a list of diodes by type number), ACC for Bonding Model Parts (In many ways it's a wonder cement, but it has important limitations), Prototype Drawings and Data - The Great WM 2-8-0, D&RGW Narrow-Gauge 30-foot Stockcar |
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| December |
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Bill of Lading - Are Scales New to You?, World Models 1973 (Overseas models available through North American suppliers), Aging with Chalks (A technique for making rolling stock and structures come to life), Lehigh & Ohio Track Plan, A Lost Art Returns (Building from kits and parts was almost forgotten in the sixties), All This is 3 feet Wide! (Layout in N scale provides intriguing operation and modeling goals), Harry Romanetz's O Scale Open Hopper Car (The Model of the Month award), Signs for the Layout (In color), Signs From Catalogs and Other Sources (Add atmosphere to the layout quickly and easily), The Chair and Desk Factory (It's hard to beat this one for the amount of prototype represented), Baggage Cars into Logging Cars (Chehalis Western did it; you can do it too), 1972 Prize Parade: 2 (More winning entries in the NMRA Evergreen Convention model contest), Prototype Drawings and Data - Wedge Snowplow from MP, Signs for the Layout, C&O Wood-Sheathed Caboose |
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