RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award Tom Griffi ths A minimum of
$100 and a Dremel Rotary Tool Kit with a variable-speed Dremel 3000 rotary tool and accessories are awarded to the monthly winner of the RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award. Models must
consist of at least 50 percent commercial components. Entries must include
at least two high- resoluti on photos (minimum 3,000 pixels wide) and a short descripti ve text of the model and its constructi on. All entries must
be submitt ed on a CD or DVD; e-mail submissions will not be accepted.
Please mail to: Railroad Model Craft sman, ATTN: Dremel Award, 6324 N. Chatham Ave, Box 117 Kansas City, MO 64151
Unused entries
may be retained for future editorial use in Railroad Model Craft sman.
SIB Ry. No. 33 drift s under the road bridge as it prepares to make the stati on stop at Central Avenue on the HO layout of the Ocean County Society of Model Railroaders. While gas-electric cars were once quite common, this model rep-
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resents a rare prototype: an arti culated unit. It can easily be seen that the trailer has only one truck of its own. The forward end of the car shares a common bolster with the trailing truck of the locomoti ve.
Articulated Gas Electric for the
Staten Island Belt Ry. Gas-electric, oil-electric, rail
car, Doodlebug, and more recent- ly, RDC. These names all bring to mind an image of small, single-unit rail vehicles, trundling along weed- grown branch lines, or holding down a last appearance in the Offi- cial Guide for a railroad whose pas- senger fortunes are all in the past.
In many ways, they are an ideal way to present some sort of passenger service on a small model railroad, especially if you are modeling the era between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s. The best thing about these rail vehicles, from a modeler’s standpoint, is that since many of them were built by the rail- roads in their shops, they were all different! At least most of the time it seems so. This makes it relative- ly easy to kitbash something, and more likely than not, it will look okay!
Having always had a desire to
have something no one else has pot- tering around my layout, my mind went into high gear when I spied a photo of Santa Fe’s articulated M-190 quite some years ago. At the time, no one had as yet produced a commercial model of this strange- looking vehicle. Some years later, I think a model was done in brass, but since I was not an AT&SF mod-
eler, and M-190 was so uniquely Santa Fe, I didn’t get one. Howev- er, the image rattled around in my head until one day I sat down and thought about it. I had acquired the then-new MDC boxcab diesel kit, and upon looking it over, real- ized that I could shorten the body enough to allow a trailer to be hung from the back, sharing the rear truck kingpin. So I did the deed and used an AHM 80-foot heavy- weight combine — suitably short- ened — as the trailer. (Strangely enough, that car was a model of an AT&SF combine, which had begun life on the AT&SF as a Library, Bar- bershop, and Smoking Room car!) A period in the shop for necessary bodywork, painting, and lettering, and soon the Richmond & Chica- go Railway gas electric-car No. 15 rolled out the shop doors. The car proved somewhat erratic in service (as did many of the prototypes), and eventually was retired in favor
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