July 2012 Volume 81, Number 2


Departments 5 Safety Valve


Letters from our readers


6 Dispatchers Report Product and industry news


31 Railbooks Book news and reviews


35 RMC Timetable Scheduled events and notices


80 Test Track Product reviews


88 Collector Consist Rosebud Kitmaster —Keith Wills


90 Editors Notebook Commentary—William C. Schaumburg


94 Classified Advertising Commercial listings


94 Exchange Place Non-commercial listings


95 Dealer Directory Recommended hobby dealers


97 Advertising Index Special features


40 Perspective: What’s in a name? by Karl Zimmermann It’s been a long tradition that sleeping cars are given names. Cars of the same configuration on the same railroad were usually part of a series, so railroaders would immediately know a car’s interior arrangement just by its name.


42 Operations on the NYW&B by Dick Karnes What if the electrified New York, Westchester & Boston had survived and prospered? That’s the scenario behind this well- detailed S scale layout, which features a mix of steam, early diesel and electric operations.


57 Train dispatching on the Western Midland by John Green and Mike Chandler


Working with a former railroad dispatcher added extra realism and enjoyment to layout operating sessions.


Modeling


48 Making switch locks from phono plugs and jacks by Bill Denton For modelers whose layouts are often on public display, here is a simple way to prevent unwanted tampering with switches.


51 New life for an old model by Michael Ferris An early Life-Like Proto 2000 E-unit gets a makeover and emerges wearing the chocolate and orange of the Illinois Central.


62 Modeling municipal waste trains Part III: ULTRA spine cars by M.R. Snell


We wrap up our series on moving municipal waste with a look at how to model the articulated spine cars and containers that have been developed for this industry.


70 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashed motor cars by Phil Holden


Website Be sure to visit us at:


www.rrmodelcraftsman.com


Two models, built using Bachmann chassis and Roundhouse 50- foot combine bodies, are the winners of this month’s award.


72 Scratchbuilder’s Corner: Thirty minutes by Bob Walker In many cases, it doesn’t take long to add those little extra details that can turn a standard model into a real eye catcher.


Prototype


74 Front of the layout vignettes: No. 25, American railway accidents Pt. I–bad days at Steamboat Rock by David Lambert A collection of postcards documents a wreck on the M&StL.


Cover


The unmistakable brown and orange paint scheme of the Illinois Central Railroad adorns this early Life-Like Proto 2000 HO scale model. The painting and detailing are the work of Michael Ferris and beginning on page 51 he recounts the changes he made to the stock model. Photograph by Michael Ferris.


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