Railroad Model Craftsman-1986

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January
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Special Features - Perspective: Night (Railroad operations take on a different character after dark); 1986 Calender (A trio of modern diesels at work on the Seaboard System are the subject of this year's calendar painting); A First Layout: Utah Copper Railway (Here is everything you'll need to know to get started on building your first model railroad) Modeling - First Class Track (There is more to modeling railbed than just gluing down ballast); Tie Spacing (Railroads follow standard practices for laying different types of track. A simple jig can help you do the same to your layout); Kitbashing C&NW's FA2 Demonstrators - Part II (This month we'll finish detailing and paint the models); Protofile 37: ART Airslide Hopper (A refrigerated car company operated the covered hoppers featured in this prototype); RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Big River Forge (Two Vollmer buildings form the basis of this project); Sweet N' Sour Weathering (Two common household products - vinegar and steel wool - can be combined to form a weathering chemical that gives amazing results on wood and plaster); Bill Gould's Rio Grande Southern (The glory days of narrow gauge live on Bill's layout) Prototype - CB&Q Depot (The CB&O's depot at Whitehall, Illinois, was typical of many of their small town stations); Pulpwood And Rails: Log Landings (Pulpwood shipments are an important part of many railroads business); Pulpwood And Rails: Rolling Stock (Here is a look at some of the cars used to handle plywood and drawings of a pulpwood flat) Departments - Notes On An Olds Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Railbooks (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Tips And Techniques (Modeling methods and ideas); Observations (Timetables and rulebooks by computer by William Merrill); Collector Consist (State of the Art HO - 1939 by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
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February
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Special Features - Perspective: Not just a waiting room, Fire Hall No. 5, A first layout: Utah Copper Railway Part II Modeling - Modeling with an Erie Lackawanna theme: The H&H Rwy., Steam from kits: Part III, A yard office from a caboose, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashed coil car, Protofile 38: LEF&C boxcar Prototype - MP15AC and SP slug, To market by rail: milk cars
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March
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Special Features - Perspective: Small time crossing for big time railroads, Fire hall No. 5: Part II, PMP-112 Modeling - Modeling the SPSF's new image, The sky's the limit, Better backdrops, Protofile 39: C&O 50-foot pulpwood car, Modeling a small scrap yard, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Action backhow, Casting car parts Prototype - To market by rail: privately owned milk cars
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April
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Special Features - Perspective: Not without purpose, PMP-112: Part II, Marshall Pass: Modeling a railroad and it's operation Modeling - Vinny's gone to Sn3, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Auto parts expediter, Utah Copper: Conclusion, Three from Illinois: modeling IT SD39s and GP7 Prototype - Thompson station
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May
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Special Features - Perspective: A class act, Marshall Pass: Modeling a railroad and it's operations: Part II, Boomer Trail Special Modeling - HO scale Vermont Railway, RMC/Dremel Kitbash Award: Modeling three milk cars, Modeling a Black Widow Train Master, A modern classic: Farmer's Feed Mill Prototype - Laurel Line combine 115
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June
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Special Features - Perspective: Louisiana Logger (Take an abandoned IC branch, add a pulpwood unit train and set the whole thing in the swamplands of Louisiana somewhere between 1941 and 1970, and you've got the making of an interesting railroad); Index To Volume 54 (A subject and author directory to the June, 1985 through May, 1986, issues of Railroad Model Craftsman); PMP-112: Steam Sound (This final installment of our series explains how to build the sound modules for this 112 channel command control system) Modeling - Requiem For A Road Name: The MoPac's Short-Lived Merger Scheme (The UP-MP merger spelled doom for the screaming eagle of the Missouri Pacific as Union Pacific's grey and yellow covered over the MoPac blue); Peter Watson's Sandy River (A dozen years ago, after 18 years in HO, the author decided to try his hand at something different. His 17' x 12' On2 Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad is the result of that decision); $3 Turntable (This turntable is built from a simple kitchen accessory); RMC/Dremel Kitbash Award: Heavy Duty Hauler (Inexpensive trucks from the toy department of a local store provided the parts for this kitbash); New Horizons (Mountains, cityscapes and thunderstorms can all be added to a backdrop with the use of stencils); Protofile 40: Fort Dodge Line 40-Foot Boxcar (The Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern, once a mighty traction line and later merged into the C&NW, is all but a memory today save for the few freight cars that still carry it's name); N Scale Niche (This month we start a new plan feature for N scale builders) Prototype - L & N Water Car (This distinctive maintenance car carried tools and water for workcrews); Fairbanks-Morse H16-66 Baby Train Master (There was nothing pretty about these engines. They were built to haul freight and spent most of their lives in heavy drag service. Win Cuisinier provides us with plans and a history of these units) Departments - Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Railbooks (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Observations (The camera by John Swanson); Collector Consist (Wither OO by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
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July
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Special Features - Perspective: Caboose Servicing (Despite all the talk of their demise, cabooses are still a common fixture on railroads both big and small, and their servicing facilities can be incorporated into a modeling scene); Visiting MIT's Club Layout (Mainline, shortline and traction are all included on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's HO scale club layout. The layout will be included on the NMRA Minuteman Convention tour in Boston); Bad Order Tags (This is a simple way to keep track of maintenance chores on a layout) Modeling - RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: A Low Nose For An Atlas RS11 (The Lehigh Valley had four low nose RS11s; here is how the author modeled one of them); Making Mud (One scenery feature that is often overlooked by modelers, but is as common as a springtime rain, is mud); A Yard Office From A Coach (N scale modeler Roger Baker explains how he modeled a yard office out of card stock for his railroad); Solvent Displacement Casting (Here's an easy way to improve your castings); Modeling Two N&W Cabooses (Both the C-31P and the C-6P N&W cabooses can be kitbashed from Athearn cars) Prototype - The AAR "Alternate Standard" Twelve-Panel Hopper (The Pennsy H39 hopper featured in these plans was jointly developed by the PRR, N&W and C&O); The Bank Of Cairo (Along the tracks of the B&O in Cairo, West Virginia, stands a little brick bank that would fit nicely on most any model railroad); All About Containers (As more and more freight traffic gets turned over to containers, there are certain differences in containers that modelers should be aware of) Departments - Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Railbooks (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); N Scale Niche (Plans for N scalers); Company Photographer (Pictures In A Flash by Steve Sint); Editor's Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
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August
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Special Features - Perspective: Out of the house, A family affair: The Salt Lake Southern Modeling - Seaboard System SD40-2, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing a Pennsylvania GLa hopper, Odd loads, Modelilng California's golden grass, Scratchbuilding a frame interlocking tower, Painting gas cylinders Prototype - They called her the Big Four: Godchaux's 2-6-0 No. 4, The smooth Canadian
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September
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Special Features - Perspective: Midday on the Milwaukee, Meanwhile back in Tule Springs Modeling - Zebra stripes on an RSD5, Installing Kadee couplers the easy way, Scenery without plaster, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing the Smooth Canadian, The Clear Creek-Gilpin Ore Company: taking a model train from conception to completion, Boxcar detailing ideas Prototype - Yesterday's trains today
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October
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Special Features - Perspective: Going, Going...Almost Gone (With very little fanfare the old twin hopper is quietly disappearing); Super Elevators (The traditional grain elevators of the mid-west are gradually being replaced by giant elevators capable of holding a million bushels or more); Boomer Trail Special: The End Of The Line On The C & N (A scrap train makes the final run over the old C & N narrow gauge line as modeler Jim Wild moves to a new home) Modeling - Jim Hertzog's LNE (An early 1960's fatality of the declining coal industry comes back to life in HO in a basement in Pennsylvania as the final years of steam and diesel power are played out once again); RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: GN-Style Electric (Take one CG1, three MDC track cleaning locomotives and a sharp hobby knife and you've got the main ingredients of this creative HO kitbash); Kitbashed Canadian National SW1200 (George Dutka tells why and how he built this HO switcher); Protofile 41: MP And N & W Converted Reefers (These boxcars were built from former refrigerator cars); The Acme Brickyard (Here's a small lineside industry that you can add to your railroad) Prototype - The Berwind Hopper Cars (The Berwind White Coal Mining Company had it's own large fleet of hoppers to carry its coal. Here is a history of the cars and plans of a Berwind BWI hopper); Wisconsin & Northern/Soo Line Depot At Crandon, Wisconsin (Drawings and photos of a rural station building) Departments - Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Railbooks (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); N Scale Niche (Plans for N scalers); Collector Consist (On Hold by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
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November
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Special Features - Perspective: Farewell To The Cat (A modeler reflects on the latest changes to his favorite railroad); Franklin & South Manchester (Well known modeler and manufacturer George Sellion took a year off from work to devote his time to building this unique HO railroad); Portable Display Railways (Display railways are a great way to promote the hobby and share it with fellow modelers. Here's a helpful guide on how to build and show them) Modeling - RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Bob Kenderdine's Kitbashed Century 630 (While the Reading had C630's on its roster, the author's HO Reading roster lacked the big Alcos. A kitbashed C630, however, filled the gap); Protofile 42: GN 70-Ton Covered Hopper (The E&B Valley HO covered hopper and Champ decals are just about all that's needed for this project); Modeling Soo Line's Crandon Depot (Using the plans presented last month, the author explains how he built his model); Building La Oasis Cafe (Intrigued by a run-down old building in the Mojave Desert, Joel Earnest went about modeling it for his HO layout); Mass Produced Custom-Lettered Cars (Here's a quick way to letter a batch of cars) Prototype - The Reading's C630s (Alco delivered two orders of these 3,000 h.p. locomotives to the Reading and they were used in a variety of services); ACL/SCL's Enduring M5 Caboose (These steel cabooses were built from surplus boxcars); D&RGW Water Car No. W462 (Saved from the scrapper's torch, this old tender was used in work train service) Departments - Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Collector Consist (O scale); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
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December
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Special Features - Perspective: More detail than you can imagine, Lake Erie's Limestone carriers: The Shay's of Kelleys Island, Chuck Brasher standard gauge empire Modeling - How I built the Penn Valley, Upgrading the Northeastern snow plow, Protofile 43: Canadian National's ex-ABOX boxcars, Modeling SCL's M-5 caboose, Modeling a carriage repair shop, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing SP's distinctive GP40P-2 Prototype - Great Northern's Wedge plows, EMD GP40P-2
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