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Bill Of Lading - On3 Modular Model Railroading (The camaraderie and enthusiasm are contagious); Fitting Other Body Shells On The Minitrax U28C (Methods for building an N scale fleet that runs as good as it looks); The Denver HO Model Railroad Club (After several moves, the club found a permanent home); L-Girder Benchwork (The basics of an easy-to-build, versatile framework to support a model railroad); Atlas Power For An F40PH (Repowering a Life-Like model for smoother operation); Jim Harper's Hobby Shop (A display and demonstration layout provide a first-hand look at the hobby); Dave Kunz's Victorian Station In 1/4" Scale (The Model of the Month award); An Operating Wigwag Signal (Build a 1/4" or HO scale signal that both swings and dings); Pike-Size Passenger Trains: Part 2 (Post-Amtrak prototypes and how to model them); Modeling The Ashville Special (An HO pike-size passenger train); Buffalo, Lockport & Rochester Interurban Car (These early twentieth century cars ran from lake to lake); Symposium On Electronics (Joe Giannovario's "Idiot-Pruf" throttle); The Lake Shore Southern RR (Another 4 x 4-foot N scale layout that will fit the flip-top platform); Winners Of MR's Fourth Color Photography Contest (Some spectacular photography made this year's judging especially difficult); The Ozark Wilderness Lines (An HO scale railroad that features prototype operation in the mid-1930s); Building The Green River RR: Part 2 (This month we lay the track, do some wiring, and get started on scenery); The Vacationer (Don't call at 10:30 at night); Modernizing A Steam Rotary Snowplow (Some easy detail changes bring an older snowfighter into the modern era); Spinning Power! (Electronic circuitry allows the rotary to run at a constant speed) Prototype Data And Drawings - Buffalo, Lockport & Rochester interurban car Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Cartoon; Railway Post Office; Schedules; Trade Topics; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; All Aboard; Switching Problem; Paint Shop; Bull Session; Student Fare; Railroader's Library; MR Clinic; Index Of Advertisers |
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| February | V. Good |
Bill of Lading - Upgrading A Varney Dockside (Tips for converting a veteran engine into an up-to-date switcher with sound); Tank Car Water Tank (A little local ingenuity converts a wrecked tank car into a useful water tank); The Panhandle & Santa Fe (John Lott is modeling Santa Fe's Station Division in HO series); Dennis Lochmann's Burlington Northern Grain Car (The Model of the Month award); Build A Ramp Car (A distinctive maintenance-of-way car with working ramps); Closeup: Switch Stands And Targets (Add simple and colorful details to your turnouts); A Pulse-Tone Walkaround Control System (This system means just three wires to the layout and simple phone plugs); BCR&N Standard Station (Variations of this wooden station were built throughout Iowa in the 1870s); MR Takes You To The MRIA Exposition (Manufacturers exhibit their new products); Two Canadian National Freight Sheds (Open sheds llike these can be found on many railroads); The White River & Naches (A tough mountain railroad that brought prosperity to the Wenatchee Valley); All Aboard: Laying Flexible Track (The basics of derailment-free railroading); Ovals And Welterweights (The use of oval track plans and an appropriate prototype to follow); The Ashley, Drew & Northern (An Arkansas short line that combines forests with an industrial comples); Building The Warnerville Water Tank (Procedures for scratchbuilding a familiar-looking water tank); Ultramini Surface Gauge (A small and accurate measuring tool) Prototype Data And Drawings - Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Standard Station; Two Canadian National Freight Sheds; Prototype Oddities Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Railway Post Office; Schedules; Cartoons; Trade Topics; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; Closeup; All Aboard; Trackside Photos; Railroader's Library; It Ain't Prototypes; Paint Shop; Student Fare; Bull Session; MR Clinic; Index Of Advertisers | 5 |
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| March |
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Bill of Lading -Gary Salzgaber's HO Pennsylvania RR (The "standard railroad of the world" lives on in this modeler's basement); Doug Nagel's Rogers 4-6-0 In O Scale (The Model of the Month award); Kitbashing An AD&N Wood-Chip Hopper (It's a simple matter of adding a styrene box to a Roundhouse hopper car); Building The Green River RR: Conclusion (Wiring, structure and landscaping complete this project); Modeling AD&N Equipment (Modeling a prototype for which painted equipment isn't available); A.R. Gilmore Feed Mill (Mills of this type were once common in most farm communities); C&NW Chippewa Falls Station (A northern Wisconsin station with an unusual combination of exterior finishes); Scratchbuild A Box Motor (Easy techniques used to build an all-wood box-motor express car); Modeling Furlow's Slough (A beginner can get his feet "wet" with this project); Decal Application Jig (A neat little gadget that solves the decal-alignment problem); Modeling Trucks And Recreation Vehicles (Here are some inexpensive ways to add variety to your model highway vehicles); Children's Museum Lionel Layout (An operating toy train display in Indianapolis); Symposium On Electronics (Chase light and signaling circuits); All-Aboard: Two-Rail Wiring (Three basic rules make it simple); Scale Feed-Mill Signs (Full-color signs for the walls of your model grainery); Scioto Valley Southern Motive Power Update (The later history of the locomotives on this eastern narrow gauge line); Simple Turnout Control (This rotary-switch control is always within easy reach) Prototype Data And Drawings - A.R. Gilmore Feed Mill In Lakeville, N.Y.; Chicago & North Western Chippewa Falls, Wis. Station; Prototype Oddity Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Cartoons; Railway Post Office; Search Puzzle; Schedules; Trade Topics; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; Trackside Photos; It Ain't Prototype; Electronics Symposium; All Aboard; Bull Session; Student Fare; Paint Shop; Railroader's Library; MR Clinic; Index Of Advertisers |
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| April |
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Bill of Lading - Turbine fever (Kitbashing Con-Cors N scale Veranda turbine to represent two UP (Big Blows"), Flex-On Packaging Co. (A contemporary plastiocs industry structure you can model.), All aboard: ceiling tile rocks (The basics of attractive and easy to build rock faces), The Argus Tap & Die Co. (Tips for building a moderate size industry available), Closeup: Switch stand appertenances (Supplemantary devices to be used with mainline switches), Robert Cadaret's HO scale Union Pacific 4-8-4 (The Model of the Month award), The Big Horn Lumber Co. (A fine example of logging railroading on Vancouver Island in the 1920's), Union Pacific's new CA-11 cabooses (A special Paint Shot feature), Kitbash a Tyco light tower (An easy, inexpensive project to light up your layout.), The Crescent City Model Railroad Club (Operation and a modular layout highlight this New Orleans groups activities), Balancing brass locomotives (An imrovement that isn't noticeable - until the locomotive starts to move), Ohio Power Co. fireless 0-4-0 (A fireless steam-storage switching locomotive), Turn asparagus fern into corn (There's no magic in this "corny" little trick), Improving Roundhouse old-time reefers, (Variations on an early 1900s theme) Prototype Data and Drawings Flex-On Packaging Company near Senoia GA.,, Union Pacific CA-11 caboose, Ohio Power Co fireless 0-4-0 | 4 |
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| May |
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Bill of Lading - The Calapooya Pacific RR (Railroading in the Pacific Northwest as practiced in Central Florida); Ann Arbor Central Mills (A timeless industrial complex that can be used for many industries); Backdating Sunset's HO "Bull Moose" (Tips for shifting details to produce an unusual articulated); Paul Larson's Mineral Point & Northern Ry. (An overall look at one of the great model railroads of all time); Budd's SPV-2000 (Up-to-date and self-propelled); All Aboard: Kadee Couplers (The basics of using a popular coupler that looks good and works even better); Uranus No. 2 Mine (A small ore-loading bin and bucket conveyor that requires very little space); Symposium On Electronics (Donald Decker's "Total Steam Sound" circuit); From Steel To Wood In A Few Easy Steps (Converting a Bachmann N scale 60-foot steel combine into a wood combine); Wallace vs. Cupo's 1/20 Scale CB&Q Caboose (The Model of the Month award); In Defense Of Sable (A brush painter says it's all in the tools and the techniques you use); HIA Highlights (A report on the 40th Anniversary Hobby Industry of America trade show); Sandbags, Frogs And Jaws (For every time you've wished you had another hand) Prototype Data and Drawings - Ann Arbor Central Mills; Budd's SPV-2000 Departments And Miscellany - Off The Train Wire; Cartoons; Railway Post Office; Schedules; Hobbyshop Window; Trade Topics; At The Throttle; All Aboard; Electronics Symposium; Club News; Student Fare; Paint Shop; Bull Session; MR Clinic; Index Of Advertisers |
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| June |
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Bill of Lading - Western fun in '81, Island Central lines, Ed Kruse's O scale 1860's open-platform coach, SPUD power, all aboard: 4 x 8 track planning, 23-ton industrial locomotive, Closeup: Instrument cases, Chicago & North Western Class D Atlantics, The Denver & Western Ry., An update on S scale, Wandering sleepers, Lowering a Pennsy RR standard tender, Bethlehem Steel's 65-foot mill gondola, Coal-unloading trestle, Will it (live steam) happen again, HOn3 Timesaver, Beehive coke ovens, America's last beehives, Prototype data and drawings: Whiting 23-ton Trackmobile, H.C. Frick Co. standard electric lorry | 1 |
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| July |
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Bill of Lading - The Connotton Valley & Straitsville RR, Pat Homan's HOn3 Denver & Idaho Springs Ry passenger cars, All aboard: narrow gauge, A block of brick industrial buildings, An ET&WNC train you can model, Tweetsie: Narrow gauge on the Blue Ridge, Symposium on electronics, Sheridan, Colorado 1927, Durango Yard, Towards a Tweetsie Ten-wheeler, Rebuilding HO Alco 420 and 424 road switchers, Free-lanced narrow gauge freight cars, HO scale signs for the Binghampton buildings, | 3 |
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| August |
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Bill of Lading - The Cumberland Valley Systems (The Reid Brothers' beautiful N scale railroad.), Ortner five-bay hopper cars (These bulk commodity cars are operated mostly in unit trains.), Closeup: Instrument houses (Wayside structures from a few pieces of wood or styrene and wire.), Eric Bronsky's Illinois Terminal HO scale class B locomotive (The Model of the Month award.), A frugal factory kitbash (Our unstoppable kitmingler turns two barbershops into an all-purpose factory.), Designing and scratchbuilding a roundhouse (Fundamental concepts to guide you in building a tailor-made roundhouse.), Wild Willie's uncoupler (It makes manual uncoupling of Kadees so easy you could do it in the dark.), Downtown Chicago in HO scale (These skyscrapers are the highlight of the Chicago Terminal District RR.), Kitbashing a free-lanced Twelve-Wheeler (Ideas for changing a popular heavy 0-8-0 switcher into a husky road engine.), The ghosts of Allentown Terminal (A once-bustling terminal remembered with a camera and some HO scale models.), Lackawanna wheel crane (A simple and minute servicing facility for a freight yard.), Modifying a Tyco/Mantua 4-6-0 (Change your "Petticoat Junction" 4-6-0 into a "typical" Ten-Wheeler.), HO scale automatic brake system (A gadget that solves the lurching problem in long trains running downgrade.), Prototype Date and Drawings - Ortner five-bay Rapid-Discharge hopper cars, Lackawanna wheel crane |
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| September |
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Bill of Lading - Jo Jo Hannsen's Lake Tahoe Ry. Transportation Co. (Jim Hediger visits a double-deck On3 model railroad.); Build a 100-ton Boxcab Switcher (Tips for converting MDC's 60-ton boxcab into it's bigger brother of the 1930's.); The Substation at Winterthur (Scratchbuild a substation like the one on the Crooked Mountain Lines.); Painting Scale Figures (Tips on how to improve the looks of the people populating your layout.); Installing CTC-16 Receivers in Powered Diesel Units (H. Denny Taylor and Richard C. Kamm use X-ray photos to show how it's done.); Colorado Midland Consolidations (These 2-8-0's were reported to be the largest of their type in the 1880's.); Handlaying High-speed Turnouts (Closing-frog turnouts provide smooth operation.); Our Layout is in the Family Room (It fits in just like another piece of furniture.); Symposium on Electronics (Featuring train detection circuits.); The Norton Brothers' Connecting RR (Combining a farming town and a thriving seaport on a 2 x 4-foot layout.); All Aboard: Roadbed (Some basics of modeling a right-of-way that looks like the real thing.); Building a Museum Diorama (The author modeled a slice of Smethport for the county historical society.); The Mobile Hobbybench (It's easy and inexpensive to build, and it keeps you near the family.) Prototype Data and Drawings - Colorado Midland Consolidations Departments - Off The Train Wire; Railway Post Office; Schedules; Trade Topics; Cartoon; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; Electronics Symposium; All Aboard; Club News; Student Fare; Bull Session; Paint Shop; Railroader's Library; MR Clinic; Index Of Advertisers |
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| October |
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Bill of Lading - The Southern Consolidated System (This layout in a Florida fairground is modeled after railroading in the Southwest.), Charles F. Martin's HO scale Big Warrior River Bridge (The Model of the Month award.), Pennsylvania H30A Covered Hoppers (An unusual car with bridge-truss side bracing.), All Aboard: Scenery Profiles (The basics of cross-section sketches that help you leave room for scenery.), The Dirge Mountain & Ichabod River (An HO scale railroad with a checkered past - and present.), Build a Concrete Plant (Step-by-step procedures for the construction of a major industrial facility.), A Balanced Freight Car Fleet (Creating a logical roster of N scale cars that look right together.), Rehabilitating the Midland Electric (There've been some changes made since we last visited this traction layout.), Cocooning (Your railroad's answer to the recession.), Closeup: Railroad line poles (Telegraph and signal lines - where and how to use them.), A Visit with Ed Ravenscroft (MR spent an afternoon with one of the major innovators of the hobby.), The British Model Railway Scene (Portable layouts featuring branchline operations are popular.), The Great British Model Railway Exibition (It spawned similar shows which have greatly influenced the hobby in England.), Prototype Data and Drawings - Pennsylvania H30A covered hoppers |
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| November |
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Bill of Lading - Charlie Martin's Interlake Vulcanian Ry. (A return visit to a fine layout that features iron ore railroading.), Althearn: Innovator of the Model Railroad Industry (A brief tour of the new plant and a review of this well-known product line.), Baldwin's 2-4-0 Industrial Locomotive (A little locomotive for a lumber line.), Evans National Bank (An interesting false-front structure dating back to 1900.), Designing the new Carrabasset & Dead River Ry. (The name and distance between the rails will be the same, but beyond that...), Railroading with the Millers (Even a 3-year-old gets in on the family fun.), Shrink Modeling (Kids have known about this technique for years.), Symposium on Electronics (Circuit design for signaling and collision protection.), Scratchbuilding a Simple Free-lance Log Car (A good, first project in brass, complete with parts and tool lists.), All Aboard: Lichen (The basics of making the scene with this versatile, time-honored material.), Casting Parts in Polyester Resin (Crank out miles of L structure, or anything else, using simple equipment.) Prototype Data and Drawings: W.L. Clement Lumber Co. Baldwin 2-4-0 industrial locomotive, Evans National Bank in Forestville, N.Y. | 3 |
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| December |
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Bill of Lading - John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid (A model railroader's dream.), Remembering John Allen (The greatest model railroader was also a friend.), Closeup: Dreails (Simple scenic elements to enhance model track and locate uncoupling ramps.), All Aboard: The Kitty Hawk Central: Part 1 (Building benchwork and laying track for a small oceanside HO railroad.), Tab-on-car Operation (How to use the GD Line's car-forwarding system.), The Granger, Denrock & Southern (Jerry Breat's HO railroad was inspired by the Gorre & Daphetid.), New England Stone Walls (Flexible sections of stone wall can be made to fit any model terrain.), Illinois Central 5000-series Locomotives (Casey Jones rode this engine to fame - and death - in 1900.), Kitbashing a Hall-Scott Motor Car (Cut apart a couple old-time Pullman cars to make Nevada Copper Belt's #21.), New York, Ontario & Western Milk Stations (Several of these would be appropriate on a turn-of-the-century layout.), A Solution to your Short Siding Problems? (This little one-evening project needn't be limited to loading effluvium.), The Art of Using Mirrors (How to expand your layout in the same space.), Kitbash a Triple Hopper (Make a striking Soo Line hopper using a commercial HO kit as a base.), Lionel's Santa Fe F3 (Though he preferred steam, Joshua Cowen bet on the F3 - and hit the jackpot.), 1981 Prize Parade (Winning contest models from the NMRA National Convention in San Mateo, Calif.), Prototype Data and Drawings - Illinois Central 5000-series locomotives, New York, Ontario & Western milk stations, Soo line triple hopper |
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