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45th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE-The Sunset Valley story, Modeling the Clinchfield RR: 3, Three kitbashed 15-ft railway post offices, ,The history of Mescal Lines Consolidation no. 12, Thaddeus Stepek's PRR E6 Atlantic, A visit with Larry Keeler, A rock quarry for Bud Lines, Perry Shibbel Fruit & Produce Co-op, Scale Union Pacific billboards, Winner's of MR's second color photography contest, The prototype action throttle: PAT-1, MR visits Uncle Eric, Uncle Eric rewired, Modeling your "roots", Prototype drawings and data: Milwaukee Road's water tank at Babcock, WI, Missouri Pacific's USRA-type 0-8-0's, USRA standard eight-wheel cabooses | 1 |
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| January |
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45th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE-The Sunset Valley story, Modeling the Clinchfield RR: 3, Three kitbashed 15-ft railway post offices, ,The history of Mescal Lines Consolidation no. 12, Thaddeus Stepek's PRR E6 Atlantic, A visit with Larry Keeler, A rock quarry for Bud Lines, Perry Shibbel Fruit & Produce Co-op, Scale Union Pacific billboards, Winner's of MR's second color photography contest, The prototype action throttle: PAT-1, MR visits Uncle Eric, Uncle Eric rewired, Modeling your "roots", Prototype drawings and data: Milwaukee Road's water tank at Babcock, WI, Missouri Pacific's USRA-type 0-8-0's, USRA standard eight-wheel cabooses | 1 |
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| February |
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The Carolina Midland Ry, It sure doesn't look like a powder works, James A. Ferguson's gas station, garage & grocery, Table saw surgery, The Rio Grande Southern RR, Locomotive upgrading, An N gauge electromagnet uncoupler, Prairie branch lines, Kitbash a doodlebug, Building the Gopher Gulch & Pine Ridge RR, Back home on a southern Indiana hog farm, Ferroequinology at ICU, The Timesaver in a loop, FA's, Sharks and Kadee couplers, Reduction copying signs, Model railroading: a wife's viewpoint, Prototype drawings and data: Lehigh Valley's 2-8-2 Camelbacks, Prairie Branch Lines (C&NW) | 2 |
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| March |
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The Aberfoyl Junction (A first-rate Canadian 1/4" scale display layout.), Canadian National's Northerns (Notes on modifying and painting models of some of CN's 4-8-4 classes.), The Sunset Valley Story: 2 (The history, goals and current state of the SV.), How about Unpowered Steam Locomotives? (Their rail virtue is that of illusion.), Buzzard's Roost Co-op (With one wall damaged, this vetern mill serves faithfully.), Modern Chemical Tank Cars (Two simple kitbashing projects.), Marshall Greenberg's O scale Ore Tipple (The Model of the Month award.), Modeling the Clinchfield RR: 4 (Wiring for two train operation.), N scale Flasher (Electrically unprofound and easy to build.), Model Railroading on the Manor (Lord Montagu's layout at Beaulieu Manor Estate.), Saturday Night at the Passion Pit (Rated PG....Pretty Good that is.), Train Order Holder (A message system for your model railroad based on the prototype in Deposit, N.Y.), Building N gauge code 40 Turnouts in place (This method makes it possible to fit handlaid turnouts to curves.) Prototype Data and Drawings: Canadian National's Northerns, Train order holders | 4 |
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| April |
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Modeling an EMD SD40T-2, Kelley Morris's D&RGW 2-8-0 class C-25, A turn-of-the -century bakery, The BIGGEST little railroad in Florida, Add a covered highway bridge to your layout, Modified kit buildings on the Whitehall & Valley Jct. RR, A jewel of the Rio Grande, Dearborn Station remembered, Midtrain observation cars, Repowered D&RGW K-36, Build a vapor degreaser, Mechanical turnout control revisited, The Bradley, Epworth & Southern, Florida live steam meet, A sound (?) idea, Rotary switches for turnout control, The Paper Valley RR, The Hopkinsville & Southern, Prototype drawings and data: King-post truss bridge, Rio Grande Oil co. station, Prototype oddities | 2 |
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| May |
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Bill of Lading - Modeling the Clinchfield RR, Al Lindop's Utah Midland RR, The Ohio Southern's walkaround control system, Al Smaltz' Canadian Pacific 2-10-2 Decapod, The DeWitt Clinton, Add a work car to your roster, 1912 wood-sheathed boxcar, The Sunset Valley story: 3, Building a turntable drive, The billboard: an ideal structure to build, Prototype Drawing and Data - The DeWitt Clinton, Arcade & Attica work car, 1912 wood-sheathed boxcar, Prototype oddity |
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| June |
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Bill of Lading - George Konrad's Tonapah & Tucumcari Caboose (The Model of the Month award); Ivy Junction Station (Designed to look good on a curve - or build it straight); The Moth Lake & Mount Ahab RR (A walk-in HO scale layout to fit an 11 x 18 foot room); Outside Braced Gondolas Of The 1940's (An interesting mixture of metal, styrene and plastic car parts); Kitbash A Rail Bus (Modify a Tyco trolley and add a Mack truck nose); The Denver & Western RR (A Easterner named North built a beauty of a Western-style railroad); Modeling The Clinchfield RR (Notes on modeling the structures plus advice on detailing the layout); Modeling LeWot Bog (A bath towel makes mighty fine swamp grass); A Test Stand For Locomotive Motors (Compare motors and determine the results of cleaning and tuning); The Unlikely & Improble RR (In the 1860's Improbabyiliym was discovered and the U & I was born); Rejuvenating Old Die-Cast Locomotives (You can make those old-timers look as good as they run); An Operating Mail-Crane (Now that's good mail service!); Whistle Handle For The Fyffe Electronics Steam Sound Generator (Use a lever, not a dial, to blow your whistle) Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Railway Post Office; Cartoons; Schedules; Trade Topics; Hobbyshop Window; At The Theottle; MR Photo Contest Rules; Paint Shop; Search Puzzle; Student Fare; Bull Session; Railroader's Library; MR Clinic; Index Of Advertisers | 3 |
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| July |
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Bill of Lading - Clinchfield's Rolling Stock (A rundown of the locomotives and cars you can modify for the Clinchfield.), Mallory Hope Ferrell's On3 West Side Lumber Co. (The Model of the Month award.), Building a Great Northern 50-foot Cushion-under-frame Boxcar (Plastic kit parts and sheet styrene are combined to produce a seldom-modeled but very common prototype freight car.), Souvenir Geep (Detailing an Atlas N scale GP30 for Southern Ry.), A Prototype Siding you can Model (Look what you can do with a few feet of track.), Modeling the Clinchfield RR:Conclusion (Operating the layout in prototypical fashion.) The Sunset Valley Story: 4 (Mountains and buildings play a key role in creating the illusion that the SV is a complete, operating rail transportation system.), Chicago & North Western's tandard Way Car (Prototype plans for a caboose in service until the 1950's.), The Choo-Choo Barn (Ever wish you could turn your model railroad into a business?), Modeling a Derail on the D&RGW (It's not Broken Rail Jct....it's a simple modeling project.), The Buhl Planetarium's Miniature Railroad & Village (A look at a popular museum display on its 25th anniversary.), The Clinchfield Takes to the Road (Disassembling and packing the layout for shipment to a model railroad show.), Prototype Drawings and Data - Clinchfield's rolling stock, Great Northern 50-foot cushion-underframe boxcar, Trackside structures at Harrisonvill Mo siding, Chicago & North Western's standard way car, A derail on the D&RGW | 4 |
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| August |
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Bill of Lading - The Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville RR (A little background and a day's ride on this New York short line), Modeling ideas from the FJ&G (Trackside items from the FJ&G that you can build for your own layout), A track plan for the Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville RR (Combining shortline operations and heavy mainline running), FJ&G enginehouse, Fonda,NY (A no-frills building that gets the job done), FJ&G station, Broadalbin,NY (A classic station with a lopped-off roof.), FJ&G toolhouse, Broadalbin,NY (A ornate structure from an age of prosperity), FJ&G no. 2 flanger (This machine for getting at that hard-packed ice and snow) Scratchbuild the Star Hotel (It;s not a Hilton, but the homestyle cooking cooking can't be beat), Using TTRs for power supplies and constant lighting (Three-terminal regulators are IC's with model railroad applications), The Somerset & Mount Vernon RR (An expansion program turns a loop into an operations-oriented railroad), A rolling coaling facility (The Lake Superior & Ishpeming RR had an unusial coaling car.) Building an FJ&G boxcar (A Reynolds kit privided the basis for this O scale model) , The Kingfield Chemical Co. (This small, free-lance structure captures the feeling of a larger New England mill_), Prototype drawings and data - : FJ&G trackside items, FJ&G enginehouse Fonda NY, FJ&G Station Broadalbin NY, FJ&G Toolhouse Broadalbin NY, FJ&G no, 2 flanges, Coaling car of the LS&I RR, . FJ&G 40-foot AAR boxcar) | 2 |
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| September |
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New Railbox ABOX boxcar, Consider electrification, The Houston Society of Model Engineers, Don Cassler's truck-dump coal loader, Towards reliable operation, Hegge builds a boxcab electric, Motive power and rolling stock on the Sunset Valley RR, A visit with Ed Radebaugh, Right of way detailing: stock guards, The Button Works, Toy parts into flatcar loads in one easy lesson | 2 |
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| October |
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There's still gold in the hills under the Cecile Mining Co., Dean Freytag's Davies Steel Co blast furnace no.2, Denver & Rio Grande Western's K-37 Mikados, Coal dock operations on the Northern Ohio Belt Line, Become a master riveter with a mini riveter, Two narrow gauge engines for under $100, Scioto Valley Southern's rebuilt Lima Shay, Baja Arriba's building boom, The Jefferson, Memphis & Northern RR, A coffee table N scale empire, Charlie Trombley's Lavegas Mineral & Mining Co. RR, Mahjek Furniture Co., Measuring structures, It happened one night, Building an N scale Pennsy 2-10-2, Building a modern 60-foot automobile parts boxcar | 2 |
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| November |
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Maple Street, USA, Gordon L. Johnson's Howe timber truss bridge, Commercial Command Control Systems, Buying that first depot, Ride the Carrabasset, The Wawbeek & Sunmount Ry., The Seneca Valley lines, Altering Athearn baggage cars, An elevated watchman's shanty, D&RGW 100-ton quadruple hopper car, Montpelier & Wells River RR water tank, 1979 prize parade, A short through plate-girder bridge, Prototypical operation on the Sunset Valley, The Fairhill Central RR., Fill that unsightly gap, Peel-and-stick walls | 0 |
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| December |
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Bill Of Lading - Introducing The CTC-16 (You can build a 4-channel command control system for less than $200); Scratchbuild A Free-Lance Signal Bridge (The variety of prototype bridges makes this a free-lancer's delight); Build An NW2 In HO Scale (A late steam/early diesel era model you can convert from an Athearn unit); The Saga Of Combine No. 23 (An experimental weathering technique brought this hybrid car to life); The Houston, East And West Texas Ry (A Southern Pacific subsidiary in East Texas, modeled in HO scale); The Coal Company Of Fulton County (A coal retailer's building with interesting framing and wall textures); Building A Waffle-Side Auto Parts Boxcar (This heavy-duty, 60-foot, hi-cube boxcar fits in with your 40- and 60-footers); Building A Deck Girder Bridge (An easy, inexpensive, and good-looking way to span those big canyons); Octagonal Way Stations (Passenger shelters for interurban stops); 25 Years And Counting (The Nassau Model Railroad Club celebrates its silver anniversery behind steam); Mark Henley's 1930's Era Hillside Barn (The Model of the Month award); Building An Air Supply For Airbrush Painting (A hand-powered, regulated air supply made from easy-to-find materials); The Texas Subdivision In N Scale (A modern Kansas City Southern-theme track plan for a small space); Return To Goat Wells (Memories of a desert oasis in the last days of steam); Streamlined Steam: The Toys And Their Prototypes (Some fine toy replicas of streamlined steam locomotives were offered in the 1930s); Three Track Plans For The J M & J Lines (Builder and planner got together via our classified ads); Switching Prototype-Style (An old-timer shoots some holes in typical model railroad switching techniques); Memories Of Christmas Pilgrimages (I loved to see those toy train displays each year); The Wood Wizard (A short tour of the Kappler Mill & Lumber Co.) Prototype Data And Drawings - An NW2 In HO Scale; The Coal Company Of Fulton County; Octagonal Way Stations Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Railway Post Office; Schedules; Trade Topics; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; Cartoons; Student Fare; Railroader's Library; Paint Shop; Bull Session; MR Clinic; Index Of Advertisers | 2 |
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