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April 2013 Volume 81, Number 11 Departments


5 Safety Valve Letters from our readers


6 Dispatchers Report Product and industry news


26 Railbooks Book news and reviews


33 RMC Timetable Scheduled events and notices


80 Test Track Product reviews


88 Collector Consist


The art of lithography– Pt. II —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: A diesel on display by David Moran Equipped with the latest equipment to meet EPA rules for clean burning locomotives, Union Pacific SD59MX No. 9900 not only provides the railroad with an excellent platform to test out the equipment, but a chance to show it off, as well.


42 Railroading on the D&H Sonnyvale branch by Kip Grant It is forever autumn, 1962, in Kip Grant’s train room and the marvelous HO scale layout that he has developed certainly captures the look of an upstate New York branchline during that time period.


Modeling


50 Re-detailing house models by Brian Holtz With a few simple changes, the Rix Maxwell Avenue Home and the classic AHM/IHC Victorian house can be kitbashed in a number of variations to create a neighborhood look on the streets of any layout.


52 Modeling the Rock Island’s Quad City Rocketby Alvin Ho Rather then join Amtrak at its inception, the Rock Island continued to operate its own passenger service in the 1970’s. Here is a look at modeling the Chicago–Rock Island, Illinois, train in N scale.


58 Scratchbuilder’s Corner: Aging and weathering by Bob Walker If you want to build a realistic looking model railroad, you’ve got to learn to weather your equipment and structures.


60 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing a Monon delivery trailer by Montford Switzer Trailers like this one were used to pick-up and deliver l.c.l. freight loads in the Chicago area in the mid-1950’s.


66 Building a DCC caddy by Walt Muren Here is a way to store and transport your DCC equipment.


69 Portland cement scenery by Richard Todd A bag of cement proved just the material for this modeling project.


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76 Rediscovering the past in 1 /4 ″ scale: Modeling a B&M storage


shed by Bob Bennett A 48-year-old issue of RMC provided the plans for this classic little storage shed.


Prototype


65 Grand Trunk hand pump car by Julian Cavalier These plans are based on Grand Trunk drawings from 1908.


Cover


Kip Grant’s wonderful HO scale layout features the fictional Sonnyvale branch of the Delaware & Hudson Ry. Pictured is an RS- 3 winding its way down Woodchuck Hill with the southbound Hill Freight returning to Junction. The train carries a few loads, but it is comprised mostly of empty cars from customers at Sonnyvale and Fenimore. For more on the layout see page 42. Photo by Kip Grant.


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