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October 2012 Volume 81, Number 5


Departments 5 Safety Valve


Letters from our readers


6 Dispatchers Report Product and industry news


22 Railbooks Book news and reviews


30 RMC Timetable Scheduled events and notices


80 Test Track Product reviews


88 Collector Consist 1975 Atlas N scale —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 Modeling


42 Two views on modeling a major New England junction in a limited space: Pt. I: George Dutka’s White River Jct. by George Dutka


The author explains how he compressed the area around the White River Junction station to fit on his layout.


47 Two views on modeling a major New England junction in a limited space: Pt. II: Don Janes’ White River Jct. by Don Janes Don Janes took a different tack when it came to modeling White River Junction. He concentrated on the yard area.


51 The West Point Route: modeling the Western Rwy. of Alabama’s Alabama Riversleeper by Justin May A Walthers HO scale 10-6 sleeper was used to build this model. 55 Creating a landslide by Tom Troughton


Here’s an interesting scenery feature that helps to hide the seam between the mountain rocks and the backdrop on an Sn3 layout.


58 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing a Pacific Electric Ry. derrick by Kevin Bunker


This month’s winning model was built by modifying a Tichy Trains model of a 120-ton Bucyrus crane.


63 Building the Red Star Yeast plant by Bruce Feld Scratchbuilding this large brick plant was a challenge.


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70 Front of the layout vignettes: No. 26: Rail and water interface: Pt. I Whaleback vessels by David Lambert


Adding one of these interesting vessels to a layout would certainly make an eye-catching scene.


Cover


This month we take a look at how two different modelers chose to represent White River Junction, Vermont, a once busy interchange between the Central Vermont and the Boston & Maine, on their HO scale layouts. Large photo by Don Janes, inset photo by George Dutka.


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68 Scratchbuilder’s Corner: Organization and storage by Bob Walker


Keeping your tools organized and within easy reach can make any modeling project easier.


Special features


40 Perspective: The GP30 still pays its way by Lee Davids It has been more than 50 years since the first GP30 rolled off the production line and, while their ranks have thinned, they can still be found doing what they were built to do–hauling trains.


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