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| January |
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Bill of Lading - David T. Callahan's High-Hood SD40 (The Model of the Month award), Wind River & Northern (I built it to combine mainline and branch operations), The Brakeman on the Yellow Extra (More operations on the Sunset Valley), Make Better Trees from Bought Ones (Anyone in the family might enjoy this dollar model project), Store Signs and Billboards (Designed by Edward J. Leonard), Dozens of Streetlights (A dollar model project), Modifying a Rotary Snowplow (A way to power the cutter blade at a constant speed), Compact Layout Folds Away (Decorative bookshelf converts to a 36" x 60" layout), CP Square Water Tank (How we built it in wood), An Introduction to Castings (Make one piece and then produce copies of it in quantity), Prototype Drawings and Data - Detroit & Macinac Car 100, Signs in Color, Canadian Pacific Square Water Tank | 5 |
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| February |
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Bill of Lading - Echo Mountain Incline Re-created (Photos by Cher Tayloe), Four Routes into Plymouth (A railroad you can model: C&O in Michigan), Tom Mix's UP Electric Locomotive (The Model of the Month award), Useful Freight Platform (A layout could use a dozen of them), Modern Steel Stockcar (Begin with a plastic boxcar), New Jersey Northern RR (Maj. James E. Dolberg patterned it after the Lacawanna), Try a 5-foot Ruler (An aid for scaling prototype photos), Operations On the Kinnickinnic Railway & Dock Co. (MR's project railroad: conclusion), Mechanism For a Searchlight Signal (Modeled by Walter C. Howell), A Spruced-Up Heisler (Additions to this model include a PFM sound system), Prototype Data and Drawings - C & O at Plymouth, MI (Date), Bethlehem Twin-Span Turntable (Data and drawings) |
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| March |
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Bill of Lading - Making a Q1 from a Q2 (The biggest single change is in the driving-wheel arrangement), Jig-made Epoxy-Mounted Switches (Easy method of making any number of turnouts accurately), Lights and Markers for Cars (Minibulbs are the answer), 45 Years of the Toluca Lines (Photos and captions by W.C. Taylor), James F. EuDaly's C&O 2-10-4 (The Model of the Month award), Automatic Turntable Indexing (Select a track, press a button and the turntable does the rest), Updating the Atlas Plug-Door Boxcar (This is kitbashing at its simplest), Bill Everett's PE System (One-man layout provides lots of railroad in half of a two-car garage), D&RG's K-27: Part 1 (The locomotive as it was origanally, and its first conversion), More Power from Throttles (Booster provides up to 8 amperes for heavy trains), Brass from Japan (Factors affecting the manufacture and sale of handmade locomotives), Prototype Data and Drawings - IC Flatcar for Heavy Loads, D&RG's K-27: Compound and Slide-Valve Versions |
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| April |
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Bill Of Lading - John Allen (One of the grandest of all model railroaders); CAPY Detection In Phoenix (The a.c. circuit used by the Vista Model Railroad Club); The Fox Coupler By Terrier (This design has a number of advantages); Europe's New Automatic Coupler (The changeover is expected to begin in 1970); Harry Gill Did It Again (This modeler gets much use out of a layout of moderate size); Modeling with Fiber Optics (All about guiding light into tiny places); A Modeler Of New Haven Revisited (See what came from an AHM 0-8-0); Cal's Lumberyard (An industry with a covered unloading dock for boxcars); Jack Collier's Western Maryland Shay (The Model of the Month award); Fitting A Modern Passenger Platform (CP Rail's Windsor Station in Montreal); Dome Flashers For Locomotives (It makes trains more visible) Prototype Drawings And Data - GE 44-Ton Switcher; CP Rail's Windsor Station Rebuilding Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Schedules; Railway Post Office; Railroader's Library; Trade Topics; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; Student Fare; Cartoon; Bull Session; MR Clinic: Questions And Answers; Index Of Advertisers |
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| May |
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Bill of Lading - London's Benchwork and Tracklaying (What this Canadian club learned could be of help to everyone.), Julius Marino's N scale Covered Hopper Car (The Model of the Month award.), A Town is More than Structures (The arrangement of the buildings can make or break the effect.), Track Contacts (The ABC's of model railroading.), Mad River Navigation Ry (Track plans for one - to - four man operations.), Alhambra & Lilliputia goes way back (It was begun "when you couldn't buy nothin'".), A High Side Pulpwood Conversion (Two gondolas, stacked, can make a "different" model for your railroad.), Down by Mitchell Yard (A photo story from Milwaukee's South Side.), Operation Royal George (Two locomotives, cooperating, save many moves for the way freights.), Prototype Drawings and Data - Illinois Central outside-braced caboose (Drawings), C&NW's Mitchell Yard, Milwaukee (Data) | 3 |
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| June |
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Bill of Lading - The Noble Art of Desk-Drawer Modeling (How to build models during office hours.), Chesapeake & Allegheny RR (A look at the Severna Park (Md.) Model Railroad Club.), D&RG and RGS K-27's: Part 2 (The modern versions of this favorite 36"-gauge locomotive.), A Trio of Office Cars (MR staffer builds three by mocifying three easily available models.), Takeout Layouts (Suggested standards for display layout modules.), Joe Kunzlemann's Milk Express Car (The Model of the Month award.), Stistle Whop Junction (Some thoughts on N scale structure selection.), Wood for your Woodburners (Wooding up an early steam-engine was a never-ending chore.), Marvelous Moss ("...the next thing I knew...dinner got colder and colder".), Trackside Telephone Box (Photo and data by Joe Wilhelm.), Prototype Drawings and Data - D&RG and RGS K-27 - modern versions, Canadian National smooth-side business car | 3 |
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| July |
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Bill of Lading - Simulating Prototype Trackway (Good drainage is of good importance to the prototype.), Don Manlick's CP Rail High-Side Gondola (The Model of the Month award.), Sunset Valley's "neat cabeese" (The recipe begins with any plastic model caboose you care to use.), Detail your Interiors with a Camera (Include real people to add life to the scene.), Scratchbuild a Waterfall (Simulate water in ripples, cataracts or rapidly flowing streams.), A Malt Tower beside a Harbor (Adapted for use on a model railroad.), Build a Dome Observation Car (Combine an AHM observation car with an AHM vista-dome coach.), Installing Working Headlights (The ABC's of model railroading.), Prototype Drawings and Data - Saint Paul Road hopper ore car, Liberation Mikado (American-built French 2-8-2.), Malt Tower (With appropriate signs in color.) | 3 |
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| August |
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Bill of Lading - Bunn's Feed & Seed Plant (What can be done with a prototype that's unsuitable for modeling.), Bob Kjellender's Santa Fe 4-6-4 (The Model of the Month award.), How to Make Neat Signs (A structure can be spoiled if it's signs aren't up to par.), Bay Point & Clayton Valley RR. (Track plans and photos by Robert Hartley.), Modelers Camera with Roll-film Holder (With suggestions for making scale stereo slides.), A Jog in the Track (A reverse curve with a reason on the Penn Central.), Roving Uncoupling Ramps (Spot the magnetic uncoupler under any car.), Dayton & Western RR (Paul Gorath loves steam - and operates it on his 1/4" scale layout.), The Case for Dual Polarized Feeder Wiring (Seperate feders eliminate a cause of signal detection failures.), Op Detection Circuit (A simple, low-cost, sensitive detection circuit.), Prototype Drawings and Data - St. Clair Tunnel Co. 0-10-0 (Drawings), Reverse curve on the Penn Central (Data) | 3 |
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| September |
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Bill of Lading - Ric Collin's 2-foot Gauge 2-6-2 in 1/4" Fine Scale (The Model of the Month award), St. Clair Northern RR (A preview of the NMRA North Central Region meet in October), One Answer to Layout Dust (With added suggestions by the MR staff), Tenders First (The logic of detailing a tender before working on the engine), Veneer Car Conversion (A whole industry can begin with this project), Oregon Division Track Plan (A small part of UP inspires a basement-size railroad), Light Beams Detect Trains (It's much easier to do now than it used to be), Use Clay to Build Models (It's an extremely versatile modeling medium), Prototype Drawings and Data - Faber's Cyclery Drawings of a corner store building), Electro-Motive E2 Passenger Locomotive (Drawings), Scenic Details on the Union Pacific (Photos), Signs for Model Co-Ops (Reproductions of trademarks) | 5 |
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| October |
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Bill of Lading - Rectangular Water Tank (Northern Pacific prototype.), Wood Coke Car by David H. Roberts (The Model of the Month award.), The Terminal Central Layout (Track plan packs just about the most in its compact space.), The STL System (Steam, diesel and electric railroad grew by stages.), Bash a Bridge (Custom-fit a bridge to your situation.), Hanging Catenary for Pantograph and Bow Collectors (As it is done on the Crooked Mountain Lines.), Lamps that Remember (Turnout position is indicated even when you first turn power on.), Build a Flanger Car (Wood, card or styrene provides the principal material.), Prototype Drawings and Data - Northern Pacific Rectangular Water Tank, Pennsylvania RR A5's 0-4-0 | 5 |
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| November |
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Bill of Lading - Top Performance and Sound from a Shay (The tuneup of a mechanism plus the installation of sound), LF&S RR. Track Plan (Adapted from the original design of Christol Lindenstruth), Try a Trundle Layout (It's fun to build and operate in both HO and N scales), John MacGown's Produce Building (The Model of the Month award), John Allen Memorial Bridge (A steel trestle made of two truss and two girder spans), Pieces of Sunset (Modular construction helped surmount a number of problems), The Gingerbread House (Silicone detailing molds disguise common kit parentage), Sawmill Symphony (Pictures without words recall the fretsaw period), Try Updating Freight Cars (The ABC's of model railroading), Modeling an Early Trailing Truck (Backdate a locomotive to an interesting period), Zuberdusti's Delight (Sometimes you can't take it with you), Prototype Drawings and Data - PRR combine of the nineties, The fretsaw period (Photos) | 5 |
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| December |
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Bill of Lading - Echoes Add to Sound Effect (Systems can be modified to create sounds of a faraway train), Add-on for a Christmas Layout (Quaint structures give an engine terminal an old-time atmosphere), Assemble Your Own Custom Decals (It's easier on the drawing board than on the side of the model), Start with a Layout like This? (Don't underrate it. Author Seeley manages to turn lead into gold), Douglas W. Hughes Jr's 1:26.5 GE 44 Ton Switcher (The Model of the Month award), A Taste of 1:48 (A scene within a turnback curve), Prize Parade: first section (The gold award and three first-place winners in the 1973 NMRA contest), Easiest Detailing (Model railroading is fun, in more ways than one), Chattahoochee Valley's Short Line (A railroad you can model), Train Situation Indicator (A light beam detects the passing of equipment), Average Modeler, Above Average Model (A willingness to try results in a Model of the Month award), Prototype Drawings and Data - B&OCT bascule bridge (Drawings), Chattahoochee Valley Ry. (Data) | 3 |
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| December |
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Echoes add to sound effect, Add-on for a christmas layout, Assemble your own custom decals, Start with a layout like this? Douglas W. Hughes Jr's 1:26.5 GE 44 ton switcher, A taste of 1:48, Prize parade: first section, Easiest detailing, Chattahoochee Valley's short line, Train situation indicator, Average modeler, above average model, Prototype Drawings and Data - B&OCT bascule bridge, | 1 |
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