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Bill of Lading - The Hoosier Road, The Morgan Valley RR, 12 ways to improve your layout, Legendary layouts and the men who built them, Weather-strip water, Steel Railway Express reefer, Laying track on our traction layout, Manchester's skid row district, Modeling a mood, Dave Renard's HO scale Key System heavy interurban car, Heritage Fleet: Lionel's 226E 2-6-4, Elementary model railroading, Paint shop: Lehigh Valley passenger Alcos, An interview with Harry Albrecht Prototype Data and Drawings - Passenger Alcos of the Lehigh Valley |
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| February |
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Bill of Lading - Modeling tenements, Adding overhead wire to our traction layout, James Hickey's PROTO:48 Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Ry. caboose, Northern Pacific RS-3 no. 852, The White Pass & Yakima RR, Milwaukee Electric's snow sweepers, Modeling Southern Pacific's GP38-2, Heritage Fleet: Lionel's C&O switcher 624, Build an authentic diesel horn for your railroad, Don Phillips' large scale diesels, The Kanawha Valley RR, Marklin's Train-ing, Repowering Atlas N scale diesels, Paint shop: Rio Grande modernized waycar, Model railroad magazines around the world, Symposium on electronics Prototype Data and Drawings - Northern Pacific RS-3, Milwaukee Electric snow sweeper |
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| March |
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Bill of Lading - Structures and scenery for O'Dell Traction (Tricks for modeling a large city in a small space.), Winners of MR's 12th Annual Photo Contest (Our staff selects the seven best color shots received.), Detailing Small Layouts (The tiniest layout can be big on realism.), Richard Krueger's On3 Private Car Margaret (The Model of the Month award.), Sticky Business (Adhesives for model railroading.), The Fairbanks-Morse Train Master (Data on this 2400-hp, first-generation road switcher.), Steel Instrument Shed (Wilhelm drawings of a structure housing signal controls>0, Sway-belly Modeling (The secret is leaving you stripwood out in the rain!), Computers in Model Railroading (Layout operation alalyzer and spreadsheet traffic generator.), The Laurel Highland RR. (A short connecting HO railroad in Pennsylvania.), The Northern Electric Railway & Light Co. (An O scale traction system with a Milwaukee flavor.), An HO Scale Brass Sanding Tower (A scratchbuilding project from out second-place winner.), Working Streetlights (In a few evenings you can light up your model towns.), A Tale of Two Cabooses (Free-lance or prototype?), Heritage Fleet: 115 Lionel City Station (A brightly colored beauty introduced in 1935.), Paint shop: Weathering With an Airbrush (Easy methods you can use in any scale.)Prototype Data and Drawings - Fairbanks-Morse H-24-66 Train Master, Steel instrument shed |
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| April |
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Bill of Lading - The Quincy Club's Chesapeake & Lake Erie Ry. (It's 1958, and industry is humming in the heart of Pennsylvania.), New Streetcars for O'Dell County Traction Co. (Adding inexpensive yet good-running cars to the traction fleet.), The Hazel Green & Grant Valley RR (The Blackjack Lead Mine was its main customer.), Long Island RR Interlocking Tower (This abandoned tower now serves as a police facility.), A Tale of Two Sanding Facilities (Variations of an easy-to-build Z scale structure.), Modern Windows for an Old Caboose (Equipping minature cabooses with FRA safety glazing.), Abe Etter's five-sided Warehouse (Who says all your HO corners must be square.), The General Electric Dash 8 40B (This unit features the latest in locomotive technology.), Bill Pirie's S scale Southern Pacific T-28 Ten-Wheeler (The Model of the Month award.), CAD Drawings for Model Railroading (Computer-aided-drafting makes drawing and planning easy.), Build a Slide-Detector Fence(Our third-place winner followed a Northern Pacific prototype.), Model Transport and Storage Box (An inexpensive way to protect your models.), Heritage Fleet: Lionel's 2023 Alco FA's (A great toy engine for the firm's golden anniversary.), Kitbashing Heavyweight Pullman Cars: 1 (Five body conver4sions from Rivarossi's HO 12-1.), Paint Shop: Rutland "Green Hornet" (Green Mountains for Vermont's Green Mountains.), Prototype Data and Drawings - Long Island RR interlocking tower, General Electric Dash 8 40B |
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| May |
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Bill of Lading - The Union Central & Northern, Sliding rails, The Minnesota Western RR, Leadsville's early years, The Cloud City & Western Railway & Mining Co., The Colorado & Southern's Leadville station, Santa Fe's 3000-class Mallets, Symposium on electronics, Eliminating jerky motion in N scale rolling stock, Heritage Fleet: Flyer's Pioneer Zephyr, The N scale Downe & Owite, Robert R. Pitts Sr.'s HO scale Hercules Inc. shorty tank car, Kitbashing heavyweight Pullman cars: 2, Paint shop: Pullman two-tone gray, Prototype Data and Drawings - Colorado & Southern Leadville station, Santa Fe 2-10-10-2 Mallet |
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| June |
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Bill of Lading - Saint John Society of Model Engineers (This Canadian Club has made modular railroading its specialty.), Repowering HO Diesels (Use these specification tables to plan your own conversions.), Heritage Fleet: Lionel's Pennsy Turbine (The model was more popular than the prototype.), Modeling Western Foliage (The shrubbery comes from a variety of sources.), Track and Lineside Details (Improve your track with small, simple details.), Richard Plachter's S scale Dolores Colorado Depot (The Model of the Month award.), Southern Pacific's Streamlined Sleeping Cars (Drawings of these 10/6 sleepers by George A. Trager.), Preview of Houston's Layout Tour (Model railroads you can visit at AstroRail '89.), The Cloud City Today (An interesting area to visit, with lots of modeling ideas.), The Great Ghost Train Chase (Exploring Colorado mining towns and abandoned rights-of-way.), D&RG Ore-loading Ramp (Harold Russell drawings of a structure near Colorado's mines.), Kitbash a Pulpwood Flatcar (An ideal beginners project.), Computers in Model Railroading (Development throttle and computer help with the LM317.), Paint Shop: Minneapolis & St. Louis red Geep (It wasn't just their boxcars that got brighter in 1956.)Prototype Data and Drawings - Southern Pacific streamlined sleeping cars, Small modern mine near Leadville Colorado, D&RG ore-loading ramp |
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| July |
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Bill of Lading - The Cheyenne Mountain RR (A look at Rusty Paulus' S scale empire); Pullman Mini-Hy-Cube Boxcar (Geissel drawings of a 40-foot, high-capacity house car); A Bulkhead Flatcar For Two Gauges (Model a prototype kitbashed from standard to narrow gauge); Locomotive Whistles On The Yosemite Valley RR (A walkaround whistle system for all scales); A Working N Scale Crossing Signal (Making the Bachmann crossing signal operate); Heritage Fleet: Lionel's Hell-Gate Bridge (A massive accessory for Standard and O gauge); Modeling Junk (Litter can liven up a layout's appearance); Modifying The Con-Cor SW1500 (How to make this N scale switcher look and run better); James MacIntyre's 1:20 Proportion 3-foot Narrow Gauge Shay (The Model of the Month award); The Mountain Park Extension (An addition to the author's layout based on Leadville); Modeling The Ibex Tipple (A turn-of-the-century mining structure that still stands); Modeling The Matchless Mine (A small mine complex with a legendary past); Urban Scenery (How to build a city scene in any scale); How To Be A Model(er's) Wife (Light-hearted advice for women entering the hobby); Paint shop: Shiny White Reefer For The SP (The latest scheme for SPFE mechanical refrigerator cars, in HO) Prototype Data and Drawings - Pullman Mini-Hy-Cube Boxcar; Ibex Tipple; Matchless Mine Departments And Miscellany - Contributing To MR; MR Product News; Railway Post Office; Schedules; MR Product Reviews; Cartoons; Hobbyshop Window; At The Throttle; Heritage Fleet; Trackside Photos; Model Of The Month; Getting Started; Trains Of Thought; Paint Shop; MR Workshop; Bull Session; Index Of Advertisers |
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| August |
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Bill of Lading - Line change at Summit, Concrete highway bridges along the CM&SF, Sun-bleached highways along the CM&SF, Wireless walkaround control for the CM&SF, The Allentown Western, Pennsylvania RR open quad hoppers, Detailing a Rio Grande Tunnel motor, Electro-Motive GP18 diesel locomotive, Working locomotive headlights, Steve Holzheimer's N scale grain elevator, Symposium on electronics, New York, Ontario & Western freight house, Building an N scale layout in sections, Highway billboards from the 1930s and '40s, Heritage Fleet: Lionel's Irvington cars, Paint shop: Six-axle Soo Line power Prototype Data and Drawings - Pennsylvania RR open quad-hoppers, Electro-Motive Division GP18 road diesel, New York, Ontario & Western freight house |
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| September |
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Bill of Lading - Introducing F&S Junction (Contemporary railroading in a 2 x 4-foot space.), Scratchbuilding an HO Factory (Techniques for making a generic industrial building of any size.), Tom Busack's HO scale Pennsylvania RR class N1s 2-10-2 (The Model of the Month award.), The Green Mountain RR (A modern short line with a touch of tourism.), Ken Davis' Great Northland Ry. (This HO scale railroad was begun in 1956.), Modeling State Line Tunnel on the NEB&W (The Rensselaer Club adds a well-known local scene to its layout.), N scale Milwaukee Road Ribbed-Side Boxcars (An easy method of kitbashing an unusual house car.), Milwaukee Road Boxcars (Russell drawings of a car with a distinctive Milwaukee design.), Computers in Model Railroading (Photo scale converter and Southern Ry. engine check digits.), Model Railroad Power Control Center (Realistic motive-power distribution for your operations.), Heritage Fleet: Lionel's no. 736 Berkshire (This 2-8-4 had the longest tun of any postwar Lionel steam engine.), Paint shop: Red-Orange and White on the TP&W (HO scale models of Toledo, Peoria & Western GP38-2 diesels Prototype Data and Drawings - Milwaukee Road ribbed-side boxcar |
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| October |
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Bill of Lading - Dear Rick, Closeup: Illinois Central coal-loading facility, David Prawdzik's N scale C&NW Crandall Cav E8 B/A unit, Pike-size steam and diesel passenger trains, Heritage Fleet: Flyer President's Special, The San Diego Trolley, San Diego's modern trolley car, The Santa Fe's 120-foot through truss turntable, Modeling a Santa Fe 120-foot turntable, MR visits a train manufacturer in China, MR interviews Kenneth Ting, Scenery, bridges and buildings for F&S Jct., Paint shop: Orange Blossom Special Prototype Data and Drawings - Illinois Central coal-loading facility, San Diego's modern trolley car, Santa Fe 120-foot through truss turntable, Seaboard Air Line Orange Blossom Special |
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| November |
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Bill of Lading - The Highland Pacific RR (An extensive HO club layout built in its own home.), Weathering with Water-base Media (Tricks for using acrylics, inks and watercolors.), Early Coil Street Cars (Easy kitbashing ideas to product some unique gondolas.), Pine Trees for your Layout (A new way to make realistic pine foliage.), Simulated Night Photography (Shoot "after-dark" scenes on your model railroad.), Trees,Ssignals and Details complete the Project (Tips and techniques on detailing scenes authentically and inexpensively.), Building an N scale Santa Fe roundhouse (Just take a Chopper to a pile of plastic.), Alois Heilmann's No. 1 scale Union Pacific 4-12-2 (The Model of the Month award.), Pennsylvania RR Heavyweight Combine (Pullman buit this Limited service car in 1925.), Four-truck Flatcar (Geissel drawings of a car made for transporting heavy equipment.), Computer Waybill Operation (Randomized billing with realistic car assignments.), Fabricating a Control Panel (Make a neat panel with contemporary materials.), Tale of a Turning Head (At last - a model engineer who watches where he's going.), Scale Tails (An easy way to model cattails in any scale.), Symposium on Electronics (LEDs can improve communication between mainline and yard operators.), Heritage Fleet: Kusan Southern Ry. F7s (These O gauge diesels were worthy competitors of Lionel's F3s.), Using Weeds for Woods (Ragweed painted green does a nice imitation of trees.) Paint shop: "The diesel that did it" (50th anniversary color chart for the Electro-Motive FT demonstrator Prototype Data and Drawings - Pennsylvania RR heavyweight combine, Westinghouse four-truck 250-ton flatcar, Electro-Motive FT demonstrator |
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| December |
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Bill of Lading - Meet the MR&T, The new MR&T, Christmas in Pine Hollow, Over-lettering to simulate age, Scenic Rail Dining, Lou Sassi's HO scale wood coaling tower, Building a turnout from scratch, Cincinnati's Trains of Christmas, Citibank Station, Frisco "38s" in HO scale, Constant lighting and flashing beacons, Tomahawk & Lobo Creek RR, Heritage Fleet: Boxed 1935 Lionel Jr. set, Computers in model railroading, Mail and express cars, Building a layout for Hollywood, Paint shop: "State of Maine" heater cars, FT 103 repainted in demonstrator colors, Cattle caper at Coal Canon |
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