January 2014 Volume 82, Number 8
Departments
5 Safety Valve Letters from our readers
6 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 Reading’s P-7sa Atlantics: a tinplate favorite —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 Special features
38 Perspective: Local stop by William C. Schaumburg Small towns were once connected to each other and the mainline rail network by local passenger trains, and the stations they served were filled with details that create interest and realism when added to a layout.
40 The Morada Belt Railwayby Dave Stanley Built by a career railroader, this multi-level HO scale layout is set in the western U.S. during the steam/diesel transition era and it features plenty of action.
56 Dawson Station by Kenneth Olsen This small, contemporary N scale switching layout is based on the steam-powered Hull-Oakes lumber mill in Oregon.
69 The Naperville RPM meet by William C. Schaumburg As always there was no shortage of fine modeling on display and excellent clinics to attend at the 2013 meet.
Modeling 49 Moving melons by rail by David Steer
During the first half of the twentieth century, specially ventilated boxcars were used to move melons and produce to market. Here is how you can model a loaded watermelon car in HO scale.
54 Window glazing for a tender’s dog house by Tom Troughton Adding window glazing is a simple way to improve the appearance of a tender’s dog house.
60 Rebuilt work train cars that actually do work by Al Sohl Inspired by a recent article on m.o.w. equipment and operations in RMC, the author turned his idle m.o.w. cars into actual work cars.
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62 Scratchbuilder’s Corner: Scene augmentation by Bob Walker Adding appropriate small details to a scene can really help bring it to life and make your layout more interesting.
64 Build a beer bottle water tower by Chuck Diljak This industrial water tank was modeled after one that stood for 75 years in Newark, New Jersey and is representative of the eye-catching industrial advertising of the early- to mid-twentieth century.
67 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing two small industries by Hans Renker With a few cuts, one Tyco freight house kit yielded two very different looking building flats for use on a narrow section of a layout.
73 Scratchbuilding Wesolowski Chemical by Gerry Leone When the author decided to add a chemical plant to his layout, he chose to model it using plans for a building drawn up by long time modeler and chemistry professor, Dr. Wayne Wesolowski. Join us for a look at how the model went together.
Cover
Heading westbound at Eagles Nest, the Southern Pacific’s Daylight is detouring over the Morada Belt Railway. For more this HO scale multi-level layout, see page 40. Photograph by Pat Davis.
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