September 2013 Volume 82, Number 4
Departments
5 Safety Valve Letters from our readers
8 Dispatchers Report Product and industry news
26 Railbooks Book news and reviews
32 RMC Timetable Scheduled events and notices
81 Test Track Product reviews
90 Collector Consist Bassette-Lowke for North America —Keith Wills
92 Editors Notebook Commentary—Christopher P. D’Amato
94 Classified Advertising Commercial listings
94 Exchange Place Non-commercial listings
95 Dealer Directory Recommended hobby dealers
97 Advertising Index Website
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Special features
40 Perspective: Caution: road work ahead by David Lustig From quite, residental neighborhoods to downtown city streets, dealing with road construction is a fact of life for drivers. Whether it is just a pot hole being filled or a major reconstruction, such scenes can provide great fodder for modelers.
42 Colorado RGS narrow gauge by David Thompson The Rio Grande Southern has been gone for over half a century, but its legend continues to live on in model form. This large, HOn3, two-level layout features plenty of grades and beautiful Colorado mountain scenery.
Modeling
48 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing a bakery for Richmond Harbor by Tom Griffiths With a little ingenuity a Walthers farm house is kitbashed into a combination commercial/residental structure. Buildings of this nature were once commonplace.
57 Modeling C&IM caboose 31: an ex-DL&W wood caboose gets steel sides by Scott Lupia Modeling one of the ex-Lackawanna, re-sided, eight-wheel, wood cabooses–in this case C&IM No. 31–isn’t hard and the resulting model could be just what your shortline needs.
62 The Barrett Division Covered hopper by Michael Evans To model these cars, which were part of a prototype kitbash that turned tank cars into covered hoppers for carrying granulated slate, the author starts with an HO scale Tichy kit.
68 Scratchbuilder’s Corner: Working with styrene by Bob Walker Whether you are modeling a structure or a piece of rolling stock, styrene can be a great material to work with. This month we look at some ways to make your efforts go smoothly.
70 Building a comprehensive test bench by Peter Birdsong This simply designed bench is designed to test both locomotives and rolling stock.
73 Timber trestles on the C&TT Railroad by Tom Troughton The author’s Sn3 Cimarron & Tall Timbers railroad features a variety of bridges and trestles. Here is a look at some of them and how they were designed and built.
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Heading upgrade towards Lizard Head Pass, Rio Grande Southern 461, an ex-D&RGW K-27 2-8-2 Mudhen, leads a stock train over the Gallagher trestles. Another Mudhen, this one leased D&RGW No. 462, has been cut in ahead of the caboose and pushes hard on the rear. The action here was photographed by David Thompson on his HOn3 layout. For more about Dave’s layout, see page 42.
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