Model Railroader-1983

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January
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Bill of Lading - Alturas & Lone Pine RR, A USRA Mikado in brass: 3, Backdrops for the Jerome & Southwestern, Casting your own freight cars, Kitbash a GP50, First of the Fifty Series: The GP50, Winners of MR's sixth annual color photography contest, Command control comes to the Sunset Valley, Searchlight signals, Bill Nielsen's On3 Sierra Timber & Transportation Co. tool car, Symposium on electronics, Broadway posters for your layout, A cylindrical-type tender for your Bull Moose, I won't criticize, Prototype Data and Drawings - EMD's GP50, Searchlight signals
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$4.50

February V.
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Bill of Lading -The Jerome & Southwestern grows, Operating the Alturas & Lone Pine RR, North Orwell General Store, The Sierra & White river RR, The Ohio Southern's bi-level benchwork, Charles J. Dyxin Sr.'s free-lanced wood caboose, Model Sanford & Son's junkyard, A coal loader for the Roakandee Mountain RR, Boston & Main well-hole flat, Close-up: Coloring track for maximum effect, Basic scenery for the Washita & Santa Fe, All aboard: adhesives, Making an N scale street lamp, L&N rapid discharge hopper car, Improving KMT diesel performance 3 $4.50
March V.
Good-
Bill of Lading - Last days on the Duquesne (A layout that lost out to progress, but not without a fight.), A Rebuilt "President" in HO scale (Prototypeical details for the Mantua 4-6-2.), Building Kopays Furniture Store (Basic techinques for scratchbuilding brick turn-of-the-century buildings.), Boxcab Oil-electrics (Convert Althearn cabooses into a pair of early diesel units.), The New York Central's Station at Woodard, NY (Harold Russell drawings of a small wood combination station.), A USRA Mikado in Brass: 4 (Engine trucks and coupler in this month's installment.), Build the Wireless Throttle: 1 (This CTC-16 compatbile requires no layout modification.), The Winners of our Layout Planning Contest (It was a big success, and we'll be bringing you lots of plans.), The Galena Division of the C&NW (A turn-of-the-century HO scale layout set in Elgin, Ill.), Symposium on Electronics (Featuring an update on Bruce Chubb's Optimized Detector.) Prototype Plans and Drawings - New York Central station at Woodard, N.Y. 4 $4.50
April
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Bill of Lading - Kitbash a Rebuilt Baldwin (Duplicate EMD's rebuilding (almost) in N scale), An HO Version of the Rebuilt Baldwin (Kitbash a pair of HO scale models for another variation), Kitbashing a Trio of Gondolas (How to make three different modern gondolas for another variation), Tim T. Swan's HO Scale Monon Consolidation (The Model of the Month award), The Quartz Hill Tramway (HOn2 1/2 in the Rockies, 2nd place winner in MR's layout planning contest), Build the Wireless Throttle: 2 (Finishing the work on the controller and building the power pack), The Very Short Line Ltd. (Even though it's for the birds, this layout won a Special Imagination Award), The VLA-CI RR Complex (A Special Imagination Award for this HO layout on the frontiers of astronomy), Trackside Stock Pens for your Layout (Featuring drawings of the Sioux City stockyards), End Twin-coil Switch Machine Frustrations (How to fix them and how to keep from breaking them), Shift Time (Don't be a slave for the 24-hour clock), Computerizing the Great Southern (Lorell Joiner, Paul Zucchino and Ted Williams describe computer cab control), The Brooklyn East River Terminal Ry. (Turn-of-the-century waterfront railroading: 3rd place in the contest), Closeup: Bumping Posts and Car Stops (Simple devices to keep cars from running away), The Cloverleaf Subdivision (Ken Regula's CN layout to be featured at the 1983 NMRA convention in Winnipeg), The Sykes Seagull Rail Bus (Alvin A. Lawrence drawings of this New Haven motor car), Prototype Data and Drawings - Sioux City stockyards, Bumping posts and car stops, New Haven's Sykes Seagull rail bus
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$4.50

May
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Bill of Lading - The Galveston Wharves, Southern Pacific Ten-Wheelers, The New York Society's HO railroad, The Bellevue & Cascade RR, Build a single-stall enginehouse, Symposium on Electronics, Randy Wilson's St. Louis Southwestern 1/4" scale caboose, Flat background trees, PLM dans la Massif, A USRA Mikado in brass: 5, Die Lindental-Neuffen-Siebenbruken Bahn, Seven profiles in rhyme Prototype Data and Drawings - The Galveston Wharves Terminal Ry., Southern Pacific Ten-Wheelers
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$4.50

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Sold Out

June
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Bill of Lading - The Great Southern revisited, Build a Lehigh Valley four-wheel caboose, Structures for the Washita & Santa Fe, Scratchbuilding Pauls Valley station, The GV&W finds a basement (er...) home, The Vos Mountain RR, Building turnouts at the workbench, Robert E. Boudreau's HO scale enginehouse, Sneak preview: the Winnipeg convention, The Maine Central's Innsmouth Branch, Quandry at New Lisbon, Prototype Data and Drawings - Lehigh Valley four-wheel caboose, Pauls Valley (Okla.) Santa Fe station
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$4.50

July
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Bill of Lading - Superdetailing a Pacific Coast Shay: 1, Conrail track scale and switchman's shanty, Zero 1 for N scale, Fred Gill's Diamond Valley Line, Oscar Neubert's O scale Southern Pacific F7 A and B units, Seaboard Coast Line BQ23-7, A USRA Mikado in brass: 6, The Delaware & Lehigh RR, When is a rock mold not a rock mold?, Repowering Mantua's Camelback Mikado, Improving the looks of your iron-ore "Jimmies", 48-star flags, All aboard: Scratchbuilding your first wood structure, The Sierra Silverton RR, Prototype Data and Drawings - Conrail (Lehigh Valley) track scale and switchman's shanty, Seaboard Coast Line BQ23-7
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$4.50

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August
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Bill of Lading - My Pacific Electric empire, MR tests the PDt, Kitbashing Edison Supply Co., Closeup: Smashboard signals, Floral shop trees, Brass caboose finishing techniques, Finger Lakes Live Steamers, It's 1916 again in downtown Dallas, Model railroading at the Ohio State Fair, Detailing a Pacific Coast Shay: 2, Symposium on electronics, A deluxe spray paint booth,
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$4.50

September
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Bill of Lading - The New England, Berkshire & Western, Build a digital fast clock, Build a high-nose Century in HO, Hinged yards are easier, Louisville & Nashville's K-4 and K-4A Pacifics, Torque arms for KTM gearboxes, John N. Shephard's HO scale coal mine and double tipple, A USRA Mikado in brass: 7, Milk car pickup at Strong, The Orbisonia, PA firehouse, USRA steel boxcar, The yard at Westport 2 $4.50

October
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Bill of Lading - The Model Railroad Club: a progress report, Superdetailing a Pacific Coast Shay: 3, Build the Southern Pacific Double-Stack, Southern Pacific's Double-Stack, Build a straddle loader, MR visits Kadee, N&W hopper-bottom gondola, Charley Hansen's HO scale NYC light road switcher, Eskew's Junkyard on the Tioga Pass, Doug Taylor's East Broad Top, Southern Central RR Station, Oil storage tanks that cost next to nothing, A working radial coupler, Makin' pallets, Jute trees, The winners in Winnipeg, Prototype Data and Drawings - Southern Pacific's Double-Stack, N&W 1890s wooden hopper-bottom gon, Southern Central 1870s depot
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$4.50

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November
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Bill of Lading - The Pacific Southern (An HO club railroad that grows through serving its community.), Building a Whiting Gantry Crane (A styrene scratchbuilding project in HO scale.), Whiting 20-ton Gantry Crane (Harold Russell and John Everson drawings of a crane on the Canadian National.), High-tech Woodworking (A visit to Northeastern Scale Models.), Patrick Davis HO scale CB&G Pioneer Zephyr no. 9900 (The Model of the Month award.), Creating Shingles and a Mood (Recycle those TV Guides into beautiful structures.), Ride the San Juan Central (We get our first look at MR's next project railroad.), Fred Wilson's Traveling Layout Show (This model railroader made a living by taking his layout on the road.), A USRA Mikado in Brass: 8 (Tender construction and painting conclude the series.), Modular Signals (IC sockets and standardized wiring can make routine maintenance easy.), Building a Derelict Depot (Tips on how to model a decrepit structure.), Symposium on Electronics (This month's column marks the third anniversary of Symposium.), Spreckels Station Odyssey (A model that's been around.), 50th Anniversary Sweepstakes Drawing (Announcing the winners of our first drawing.), Some Tips on Interior Lighting (Try some unpluggable ones.), Some On2 1/2 motive power ideas (Tips for converting standard HO mechanisms into On2 1/2 steam locomotives.) Prototype Data and Drawings - Whiting 20-ton Gantry Crane on the CP in Toronto, Canada 4
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December
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Bill of Lading - My Santa Fe Argentine Division, All aboard: The basics of airbrush painting, John Wittmus' Great Byron & Western, Winter comes to Ginger Creek, Forty-five years after, Build a track gang headquarters, Reading track maintenance structures, S.J. Young & Son's Coal Co., Santa Fe baggage car of 1880, Hidden Magne-Electric uncoupling ramps, My favorite model, Modeling the great American deserts, Bob Boudreau's HO scale Fundy Northern machine shop, Benchwork for the San Juan Central, Dirt highway crossings, Fun at Christmas, The Christmas homecoming, Esthetics and model railroading, Prototype Data and Drawings - Typical Reading track maintenance structures, S.J. Young & Sons Coal Co. of Windsor N.Y., Santa Fe baggage car of 1880
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