February 2014 Volume 82, Number 9
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 Pre-Athearn Globe —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: Too good to last by Bob Miller The Pacific Harbor Line began its operations with a variety of secondhand motive power. Today it rosters new equipment painted in a classy black and white striped scheme.
40 Adding timetable and train order control to the Columbia & Western: Pt. I by Mark Dance; with photos by Timothy Horton With a deep interest in operations, the author set about to develop an operating scheme that would fit his CPR-inspired N scale layout.
72 Fun in 4′×6′ by Eric Miller Although small, this HO scale father-and-son layout has provided a great deal of enjoyment for its builders.
Modeling
49 Salvaging a wreck: a Civil War boxcar gets rebuilt by Bill Gill An old Mantua boxcar gets a new lease on life with the addition of a variety of detail parts and the transformation is impressive.
52 Making rock molds by Gregor Moe Here is how you can make reusable latex rock molds.
58 Creating a rodeo scene by Louis Gomes This mini-layout scene involves kitbashing a bull and rider.
62 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing a Conrail-CNJ fire car by M.R. Snell Like the prototype, this HO scale model was built using a steam locomotive tender. The changes include the addition of a roof and fire fighting equipment.
68 Modeling a small oil dealership by Bob Bennett This small business can add another source of revenue to your layout.
Website
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76 Scratchbuilder’s Corner: Another big one by Bob Walker In this month’s column, Bob reflects on designing and building a ten foot long trestle for his On3 Rio Grande Southern layout.
78 Building twin critters by Phil Gliebe
Built for an HOn30 modular layout set in Maine, these two locos employ Bachmann N scale mechanisms under kitbashed Funaro & Camerlengo HO scale Plymouth shells.
Prototype
54 The CSM plant by David Butts This large baking plant, which receives covered hoppers of ingredients, would make a good lineside industry on a contemporary layout.
Cover
A pair of Fairbanks-Morse road switchers lead a westbound Canadian Pacific work extra with crane 414330 in tow past an eastbound extra lead by a two F-units and an H-16-44 at Farron summit in the winter of 1970/71. The action is on Mark Dance’s N scale Columbia & Western layout. Photograph by Timothy Horton.
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