November 2012 Volume 81, Number 6
Departments 5 Safety Valve
Letters from our readers
6 Dispatchers Report Product and industry news
28 Railbooks Book news and reviews
36 RMC Timetable Scheduled events and notices
78 Test Track Product reviews
88 Collector Consist Designer diesels —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 50 Two for the load by Bill Gill
Adding loads to open cars can increase their visual interest. Here is how you can easily model a lumber load for a flat car and a pulpwood load for a gondola.
54 Scratchbuilder’s Corner: Expand your horizons by Bob Walker Trying out new modeling techniques can make you a better modeler and provide new avenues of modeling pleasure.
56 Canadian Pacific section house by Mike Chandler The CPR provided section houses for employees who lived and worked in remote areas. Using the plans provided, the author shows how you can model one of these classic buildings.
61 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing Southern Rwy.’s first 50-foot boxcars by Fenton Wells
In 1938 the Southern Railway began taking delivery of 50-foot, double-door boxcars. Fenton Wells earned this month’s Kitbashing Award by modeling two versions of these interesting freight cars.
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73 From a photo to a model: Ma & Pa baggage car No. 44 by Richard E. Bradley Using Photoshop®, the author turned a photo into a set of plans, which he then used in constructing his model.
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68 A trackplan for a shelf layout: The Troy Industrial Track by William Gill
This contemporary industrial line in upstate New York is served by two railroads and could be the basis for a compact switching layout.
Cover
Pete Smith’s beautiful Sn3 Loon Lake Railway & Navigation Company layout is featured on this month’s cover. Pictured is 55-ton Shay No. 1 on a siding at Camp 8 as the crew gets ready to pick up two empty fuel tank cars. The geared locomotives on the Loon Lake Railway are all oil burners. Shay No. 1 is the only wood burner and it will undergo a conversion to oil in the near future. Photo by Ken Patterson.
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4 NOVEMBER 2012 Special features
42 Perspective: The stories behind this photograph by Steven Meyers A photographer explains how he captured a classic image of the Staten Island Rapid Transit in its final days of operation on the South Beach line.
44 The Loon Lake Railway & Navigation Company by Pete Smith, with photos by Ken Patterson
This highly-detailed Sn3 layout is set in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1930’s. It features plenty of steam action, mountain operations and a beautiful harbor scene.
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