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BOX 700, NEWTON, NJ 07860RAMROAD MOopeEL CRAFTS MA N® August 2008 Volume 77, Number 3 Departments | Special features 42 Perspective: Ghosts from time by Joseph Kreiss § Notes on an Ord Once a busy division ponnt on the D&IGM the rato has et ts Timetable aa mark on Salida, Colorado, even if trans no longer run ere Carsten 44 The Ann Arbor revisited by Kristian Foondie This nici seeneked N sale layout was mepired yan article on the 6 Safety Valve Ann Aer rar! at nine page a tc In te ary 157 7 86 The Washington, Idaho & Montana Rwy. by Thomas Hillebrant 12 Dispatchers Report The Wight was chest shortine ated ne Fae Norwest : that operated witha variety of equipment over the years and ls eat 32. Railbooks modeling subject. Book news and reviews 39 RMC Timetable ‘Scheduled events and a di Li ee odeling 98 Tost Track RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: A downsized kitbash by oduct reviews Gerry Leone 110 Collector Consist To fa ema apace on his layout the author trammed! dawn a Cherished heritage or lost Walthers Cornerstone Series kit and came up with a nice little legacy — Keith Wills warehouse in the process. 112 Editors Notebook . 57 One person's junk... another's treasure by Lenn Amrhein Commentary —William From straws to snaps, there are a lot of everyday. inexpensive Items Schaumburg that can be turned into details on a model railroad layout. 117 Classified Advertising 61 Modeling a Lehigh Valley smoking car by Chuck Davis Commercial listings With the addition of a few details, a Branchline Trains coach can be 117 Exchange Place turned into a model of a Lehigh Valley smoker car Non-commercial listings 72. The Peterboro project by Trevor Marshal 118 Dealer Directory ‘This HO scale portable layout is based on a real location and built to Recommended hobby ves co seaneras dealers 79. Improving an IHC 4-4-0 by Hakan Nisson 121. Advertising Index ‘A few detail changes and the addition of DCC ean make a model of a classic 19th century locomotive run and look even better. 82. Scratchbuilder’s Corner: Multiple work stations by Bob Walker When it comes to working with large power tools like a lathe or drill press, different operations and processes need thelr own spaces. 84 Modeling a call box by David Leider Small lineside details like this phone box from the Soo Line can make a layout look more realistic and be a prop during operations Prototype 68. The new Rollins Bridge by Chuck Yungkurth After years of service, a pile trestle Is replaced by a new, pre-cast concrete bridge on the Union Pacific's former D&GW mainline. Cover x of first and second generation power, Kristian Foondle’s N scale layout turns the clock back to the 1980's and the final years of the Ann Arbor Railroad. Photograph by Kristian Foondle 4 AUGUST 2008editoria/HAROLD Structures hat first Mohawk Central Rail- road years I built years ago ran well enough despite an inner loop that looked remarkably like a dog. log. It featured repainted Tootsietoy cars and a number of cardboard buildings as part of the scenery. The buildings were mostly by Ideal and Skyline and includ- ed stations and other needed railroad structures, a few small factories, houses, and several commercial buildings. ‘Those buildings all assembled easily, requiring little more than a razor blade and a tube or jar of model airplane ce- ‘ment. The kits in both lines consisted of lithographed cardboard sheets. Win- dows were cellophane or something sim- ilar. If your favorite railroad had green and gray structures you had to be con- tent with the cream and brown offered by Ideal. At 25 or 50 cents a kit you could afford to “content yourself” with what was available, just as you lettered that big American’ Flyer New York Central Hudson for Santa Fe or Erie. ‘Most HOers at the time didn't have the tools used by O gaugers unless they could afford the three dollar Walthers kits and had learned how to do solder- ing, fling and drilling. Most HOers, led by the great Erie LaNal, bragged about their ability to avoid soldering. The ra- zor blades I used were double edged ‘ones discarded by my father, which T snapped in two. It was easy to tell which fingers I used for cutting. They always had minor nicks! The blades worked fairly well for most HO pro- jects, at least for the first few cuts ‘When a safety knife made its appear- ance I bought one for a nickel and I still, have a scar in my index finger from the gash made by the “safety knife.” It would be some years before X-Acto knives became available. ‘Those early structures actually looked quite good at the time; if noth- ing more they were “state of the art” be- cause that is all there was. The lithog- raphy reproduced wood siding, stucco, stone, brick, and concrete to the satis RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN faction of most of the modelers. ‘Around 1930, a one-time motorman on the North Jersey Rapid Transit named E. J. Quinby built some half inch scale trolleys using Druck trucks. He ran these outside of his Ridgewood, New Jersey, home, and seratchbuilt a number of crude wooden stations for the line. They were rugged enough for New Jersey winters, and I guess they, too, were state of the art back then. Later, Frank Ellison, in New Or- leans, started seratchbuilding struc- tures for his Delta Lines. His first rail- road was tinplate but as his layouts advanced they were “state of the art” scale. Frank used bristol board for his buildings with wood strips for trim. In- dia ink applied with a ruling pen be- came board siding, stone, brick, and other building materials. Color was added by hand with tempera colors, artists’ color from tubes, and even wa: ter colors. Frank's many structures ap- peared in the old Lionel Model Builder ‘Magazine. You'll also find Ellison arti- cles in early 1950 issues of Toy Trains and later in RMC. Many modelers dis- covered that Ellison's articles were an easy path to seratchbuilding and that seratchbuilding was fun. ‘The end of World War II brought forth a trainload of new kits. Kits by Tom Ayres, Ed Suydam, Leo Campbell, and others introduced techniques not seen previously in kits. Printing improved and included silk sereened structure kits, There were Suydam metal foil buildings, making it easy to build quon- set huts and other metal structures. Bachmann started a line of economical, easily assembled plastic buildings. Campbell and Northeastern introduced ‘wood kits with finely cut basswood. ‘Things kept improving and new kkinds of kits were offered, like the Fine Scale Miniatures precision wood kits having literally hundreds of wood, cast ‘metal and other parts. Today you ean get kits with molded parts, laser-cut parts, resin parts and all sorts of de- tails. As kit building production ad- vanced, 50 did the art of scratchbuild- ing. Seratchbuilders and kitbashers discovered they could save days and weeks of work using pre-cut roof shin- eles, windows molded in plastic and parts of kits to build what they want. Imagine my delight not too long ago to see the Atlas Susquehanna Railroad ‘Maywood Station assembled and ready to use in both HO and N scales! This is pretty much a standard Erie Railroad design which, with variations, was found on various parts of the Brie sys- tem. How about repainting it in Erie green, or reducing it in size, or maybe getting a second depot and butting ‘them together? Kitbashing is alive and well because the manufacturers can’t make every variation of a structure, but maybe you can.—HAL e PUBLISHER Henry R. Carstens EDITOR William C. Schaumburg EMAIL? bls @rmodeetman com ASSOCIATE EDITORS James E. Ankrom AIL: jnarmedseatomen cm Christopher P. D'Amato EMAIL: chredGrmadeerateman com CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Kenneth R. Gosiett Keith Wills ADVERTISING DIRECTOR John A. Earley ASSISTANT TO THE PUBLISHER Phyllis M. Carstens PRESIDENT Harold H. 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I kept looking at it and looking at it and felt something did not look right. I went to high school and college in Philly and have been traveling there for baseball games since the Phillies played at Connie Mack stadium. Just to verify things I checked with Google Earth and sure enough, it is flopped left for right JACK SIENKIEWICZ via e-mail “Changes,” yes and no ‘In my 70 years of reading the model press I have never before encountered anything similar to Fred Lango’s beau- tifully written “Changes: 1955, 1979” (RMC June 2008). It is highly literate nostalgia accom: panied by evocative photos of carefully modeled scenes. The final picture of a road disappearing far into the distance blows my mind! How did Lango ineor- porate the photos of Uncle Plug into the model scenes? I seem to remember John Allen doing something similar ‘TRACY K. HASTINGS Belfast, Maine Fred Lango's “Changes” article is the best I have read in over 45 years of read- ing model magazines. It incorporates many of the reasons, usually unspoken, we tend to model certain subjects. It also places our work in a valuable social con- text, a perspective lacking in most other magazines. Thanks for staying at the hobby’s forefront, KERRY DOYLE via e-mail I have long admired the modeling skills of Fred Lagno. His “looking back piece in June, 2008, is absolutely out standing. I don't think I have seen a more clever and well conceived piece like this. It simply captures every emo- tion that all of us have when we think back to a special place in time. His photographic skills match his model ing expertise. Thanks for featuring it! ALAN SMITH Wayne, Pennsylvania I am writing to let you know how thoroughly I enjoyed Fred Lango’s arti- cle in the June 2008 issue of RMC, When I first saw the article I thought, “such a long article in a model railroad magazine that has no model- ing information in it,” but when I got into it, [ could not put it down, I don’t know if Fred’s Unele Pug was a real or fictitious person, or how much of the article was “lived” or just made up, but o much of it was believable. ‘The ames, the places, the incidents, and, of course, the pictures from 1955 (with Unele Pug in them) and then from 1979, helped to tie the story together, GALE WOODROME Ottaw: Kansas “Changes: 1955, 1979” was interest ing, and definitely qualifying for, “the layout as literature,” but I found it tooSomeone told us we couldn’t do our super-detailed passenger cars in N scale. We told him he could go jump in a lake. EDA mIANE Ah 4A SUPER-DETAILED PASSENGER TRAINS BY RAPIDO TRAINS INC. 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This is not to criticize, for every thin including the story, the equip: structures, and were well done. andseaping It is simply that I don’t wish to enter the world of a Ten Williams, John Steinbeck, or William Faulkner when opening ‘the pages of RMC The concept of the “layout as litera ture” is a valid element which adds greatly to the essence of the hobby ut, from my perspective, most model railroaders ‘are seeking’ some relief from the world, factual and/or fictional That said, RMC has provided material designed to evoke reader response, and that in itself is a worthwhile goal And now, row houses Whatever has happened to model railroading? More and more your mag- azine, and that of a competitor, has be come one of architectural concern and personal tales of mundane interest ‘What has happened to articles pertain. ing to railroad equipment, locomotive facilities, stations, trackage, freight yards and their structures? T may be out of date but articles for building row houses along city streets, amusement parks, circus op erations, and streets lined with build ings have little to do with railroad op. erations, traffic or backgrounds are of little interest. We model railroads, { if and not municipalities. JOE COLLIAS St. Louis, Missouri When I came across the article “The Enduring Philadelphia Row House” in the June, 2008, issue it took me back tc my childhood in East Trenton, New Jersey. Although slightly different in detail, the look is eo close to the house I spent the first five years of my life and then summers until I was around 15. It was a real turn back of memories, Klagg Avenue has several sections of row houses with sin houses mixed in between them. When I walked through the backyard and the empty ot to Courtland Street I could see the trains running along Route 1 and the yard tracks that were Twas taught at an early age to check the tracks as we crossed them at Mul berry Street as freights ran there fre quently. The houses were two-story with a front and rear bedroom. Kitchens were in the rear bump-out, and it was a big deal for the family when my father young guy after WWII, added an extension for an indoor bathroom. ‘The outhouse was no longer needed (five fears before I was born in 1951), The basement window was used for eoal de liveries until 1963 or so when the house was converted to a gas-fired furnace. It was neat to open the bi and watch the coal come slidi the chute from the truck pler but dirtier age back then). After college, I moved to the Over brook section of Philadelphia and even tually my wife and I bought a row house there with a front porch and three bedrooms. 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Building on this urban theme was Al Westerfield’s “A Pelham Pe spective.” At our Layout Design -Jour nal we plan a future issue on avoiding the bland look of a generic urban lay out. Our special issue will address tackling urban scenes with an authen- ticity that often escapes modelers, ‘The Layout Design Special Interest Group hopes to hear from readers who would like to see some of their ideas and experiences of modeling prototype urban scenes make it into print. NICHOLAS KALIS| via e-mail Travel kit In his June column Bob Walker dupli- cated the tackle box I purchased in 1950 when faced with a possible recall during the Korean confit. I filled it with neat stuff. I wasn't reeailed, but at summer encampments I was very popular putting 00/90 screws in eye glasses, In 1968 I was promoted to a travel ing job that lasted over twenty years and the box always went with me. Many cars were built and decaled, in- cluding a set of two dozen Erie Mining ore jennies. There were also some great laughs, too. ‘One morning, east of Cleveland, 1 was enjoying a nice breakfast and overhead three of the housekeepers “He's here again,” one said “Who?” “I don’t know, but he has what looks like a tackle box and its filled with lots of small tools and little parts, etc. What do you suppose he does for liv ing?” I couldn't resist approaching them and introducing myself. She tru= ly was embarrassed, almost to tears, but finally realized I was enjoying the situation and not upset in the least. To top it off that night one of her relatives who was a model railroader and I spent a pleasant evening together. DEAN FREYTAG Ashland,Ohio #14045 #a0as WA 00-6 With Hard Rock Quarry Bucket #4047 Was00-6 With Rockland Log Grapple ‘Nalabe from Classic Mint Colectibles ar al today to pace an order: 765-284-5088 RESERVE YOURS TODAY! Komatsu WA 500-6 Wheel Loader Features movable lift and bucket movements, working articulated joint. 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Computer programs and DéC Model Rectifier Corp., 80 Newfield Ave., Edison, NJ 08837-3817, has re leased the Synchro Sound box for mod. elers of smaller scales and layouts to add full featured synchronized sound and control. Features are easy hookup, works with ae., de., or DCC layouts, has two operating modes: steam and diesel, master control volume and 28 DCC ‘sound/accessory functions. No. (0001025, it retails for $79.98, Z scale product news Micro-Trains Line, P.O. Box 1200, Talent, OR 97540-1200, has two new EMD ‘locomotives in Z scale. Nos. 98101121 and 98001122 are GP35 powered locomotives in the Missouri Pacifie Blue scheme for $175.98, and os. 98201071 and 98201072 are Chicago & North Western GP9 pow: ered units in the green and yellow scheme for $185.95. Z scale rolling stock includes Nos. 53100081 and 53100082, Union Pacific 70-ton, twin bay, covered hoppers for $17.05 each: Nos, 52200161 and 52200162, Chicago, Burlington & Quiney 50-foot, fishbelly gondolas for $23.50 each; Nos, 52000151 and 52000162, Norfolk & Western 40-foot despatch stock cars for $18.85; Nos. 50300031 and 50300032, Missouri Pacific 40-foot boxcars with single Youngstown doors for $17.65: eri) Nos. 52700051 and 52700052, Canadi an National 60-foot bulkhead flat ears with two new covered lumber loads for $23.65; and Nos. 50600231 and 50600232, Western Paeifie 50-foot box ears with double doors for $22.75. The N Scale Architect, 4063 Ci Highway 2, DeLancey, NY 13 offering Foreground Fine Seale Minia ture trees and bushes. They come in Z scale in realistic colors and shapes, fiber bonded ground foam, finely etched branches and hand painted ar- matures. Packages come as Winter Slumber, New Growth, Fall Fiesta red, Old Growth, Fall Fiesta ocher, Spring Blossom white, Spring Blossom pink, Fall Fiesta orange and Silver birch. In: cluded in each package are six trees 20-40 seale feet high for $45.95, N scale product news Kato, U.S.A., Inc., 100 Remington Ra., Schaumburg, IL 60173-3705, has introduced a Gunderson Pacer Stack Let Your Trailers and Containers Ride in Styletrain MAXL-IV double stack well ear in N scale, Each articulated, thr car comes with six individually-num bered, 53-foot intermodal containers with Pacer Stacktrain logos. 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Road Railroad; Southern Pacific; Union Pa: couplers; truck detail molded all names for these offerings will be Am- cific; VIA Rail Canada and undecorat- around; fixed steps or partial skirts; trak (Phase 1), Baltimore & Ohio; ed. The retail price is $47.95, air, steam and electrical lines repre- Canadian National (1954 scheme); Athearn Trains, 1550 Glenn Curtiss sented; insulated 36-inch metal wheel- Canadian National (wet noodle”); St, Carson, CA 90746, has introduced sets; battery powered interior lighting; Chicago & North Western; Erie Lack- Dallas/TRE commuter F59PHI locomo- full interior detail; diaphragms with awanna; Great Northern; Milwaukee _ tives. The fully assembled models come etched brass end gates; flush windows Road (1950 scheme}; New York Cen- with sharp printing, full window glaz- Athearn’s versatile new HO 57-Foot All-Purpose Spine Car is based on the 70-ton Trinity-built car that first appeared on the rails a decade ago. 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For rolling stock, there's a 40-foot milk car that comes fully assembled with screw mounted trucks and McHenry N scale knuckle couplers. Road names in two numbers are Bellows Falls Creamery, Canadian National, Central Vermont, Hood's Deluxe...Innovations in freight cars for 15 years version 3), Bowman's (version 2) and Boston & Maine. These cars retail for $16.98. Also in stock are three-bay outside-braced hoppers in five packs. ‘The fully assembled cars come with McHenry N scale knuckle couplers, Peer rer rere r 7 Bettendorf trucks, and screw mounted emer trucks for enhanced performance. The road names are BNSF, D&RGW, Read Southern, CSX and Chessie B&O. ‘These five car packs retal for 369.98, Atlas Model Railroad Co., Inc, 378 F Florenee Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205, has Correction: released its Classic Series N seale EMD -| GP30 Phase I locomotive. It features An error occurred in the article appearing on page 69 of den-white LED's, directional light the June 2008 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman entitled| in. nomeperating nose headlight blackened metal wheels, Seale Speed “Modeling an HO. ‘kened metal wheel: le Sp ‘ale Fairbanks Morse C-Liner” motor, AccuMate magnetic knuckle cou- The model discussed is actually a product of Hobbycraft] ples zowerel low rieton drive, dual Canada, Ltd., produced for Life-Like Canada, and distrib-| _ in three numbers each are undecorated, : ; : Baltimore & Ohio, Burlington. Route, uted to Life-Like USA, a division of Wm. 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These come in four what bis ovale his mon Fm, inthe heck out these Paint Schemes! 8-408 - San luis io Grande, Union Pactic £8-40BW - BNSF (Worbonnet), BNSF (H2) 8-32BHW - Amtok (Phase V) numbers each. Nos. 69954, Amtrak FI in four numbers, is priced at $119. the matching F7B in four number $84.95, New N scale rolling stock in clude modified AAR 40-foot boxcars. They come with Micro-Trains wheelsets and couplers in Rock Island, Chicago & North Western, Fort Worth & Denver, and Maine Central, and sell for $21.95, N.J. International, P.O. Box 1029, Higley, AZ 85236, has released an N scale House Mast Combination Signal. It comes with LED's, three light D type head with Snow Hood, opening cabinet door on both ends and operational capa: bilities with DCC, No, 2071 is $39.99. 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The cars have full underbody detail and piping and feature lights that can be turned on and off with a magnetic wand; correct BX trucks are included and the model works on both de. and DCC. ‘The road names are Amtrak (Phase 1, CN (wet noodle” and 1954 scheme), C&O, GN, Milwaukee Road, MP, NYC, Northern Pacific, PRR, San ta Fe, UP, VIA and undecorated. InterMountain Railway Co, P.O Box 839, Longmont, CO 80502, has EMD FP9 A and B locomotives with or without sound. Features include multi- ple road numbers, wire grab irons, etched metal details and Kadee cou. plers. Road names are Canadian Na- tional, CP Rail, Algoma Central and Chicago & North Western. 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They come with a urethane cone piece carbody, complete details and proprietary decals, but less trucks and couplers, Available R7 reefers are No. 11601, an original Pennsylvania Vandalia RR cary No, 11602, original roof Fruit Growers Express’ cary No. 11651, lap seam roof, Pennsylvania Railroad; and No. 11652, lap seam roof, Fruit Growers Express, These cars retail for $40.00 each ‘Sunshine Models,, Box 4997, Spring: field, MO 65808-4997, is offering a Santa Fe 52-foot, drop-end steel gondo- las from the late forties and early hey come in both riveted and elded versions. The kit is vacuum ast in gray urethane in “Quick Kit format with the sides and end cast to- gether as one unit, Kits include detail parts except trucks and These cars sell for $34.00. Accurail, P.O. 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Itis priced at $70.00, More information on this and other offerings can be found at www.signaturepress.com. ‘The Railroad Never Sleeps 24 Hours in the Life of Modern Railroading, edit ed by Brian Solomon, has been pub Sy ‘Thaler, he Ashley Lin by Peter Wallac lished by Voyageur Press, 400 First Ave. North, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN'55401 ” (www.voyageurpress.com), This 176-page, 91" x 11” book covers the activities of a single day, May 10, 2007, with 220 color photographs taken on railroads across North America. The book has a list price of $35.00. Book reviews my) Silver City Nar- row Gauge; New Mexico Two ™ “| Footer: The 5) Story of the 2' Gauge Silver City, Pinos Altos & Mogollon RR, by Duane Erieson published by M2FQ Publica tions, P.O. Box 133, Washingtonville, OH "44490. Softcover, 72 814"x11 pages, $29.95. Silver City Narrow Gauge, by Duane Ericson, is a comprehensive survey of the obscure Silver City, Pinos Altos & Mogollon Railroad, a two-foot mining railway in the southwest corner of New Mexico that was built to carry copper ore from the Comanche Mining and Smelting Company's mines in the Pinos Altos district to their reduetion works in Silver City, This is an excel- lent book, bringing together all of the 2's Beaty Alan Dawe at ae uary 2008 - Constrcion Of The Ashley Line by Peter Wallace, Coal Fring With Carper Febuary 21 108 - Paige, 163 March ‘ary Hans Niky Moeken, Concrete Par Of Keith Brown, and much nore w by Dan Keen, Raising The Canopy by 8 A tale For The TVLR by Eric Lonésboraugh, Autor Tins hy fan Midget lee lnanie Water Level nfestion by Orafare Wilkins, Corts Couch by Tony Reyna and much more,N SCALE Petit but powerful, the EMD NW2 switching locomotive is an ideal addition to any UP yard, boasting high performance ‘without compromise. 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Once B&o ta Rita mountains before closing after the threat of Apache attacks eased, Bracket | °° years of operation miners exploited the area with better Mention two-foot gauge to most read- equipment and better transportation Signal ers and they immediately think of when they became available after the Maine and the legendary Sandy River & opening of the Silver City, Deming & Rangeley Lakes or the Wiscasset, Wa- Pacific Railroad in 1883. Only the diffi The model is true tothe proto-| Ms type 85 Inches tall and uty | rville & Farmington, but there were a cult and expensive haulage of the ore Getled. The model features Pipe | {© railroads out west that chose 24- by teamsters from the mines to the re- Bracket Post and 2 Signal Masts | inch as even more economical than the finery in Silver City remained to be Filed With Color Postion Lite | three foot width most railfans associate conquered. The Silver City, Pinos Altos Signal Discs And Marker Lights, | with western narrow gauge lines. Col- & Mogollon would be constructed to an. Both With LEDs. orado’s two-foot Gilpin Tram has been swer that challenge described by a number of writers and A false start in the late 1880's is evi modelers and now the Silver City, Pi dence of the difficulty facing railroad Altos & Mogollon will enjoy better noto- builders in those years but Erieson riety thanks to Duane Erieson, does find a connection between Maine's Author Erieson grew up in Southern Bridgeton & Saco River and the deci- Sea and rats Wi Bpa ; “ Hite ef vo, sig | “tere tt ie dr, rls in Clty wa apna a oe te ctl 8159-99) iovreaidenin Silver lig eherehehas the Sites City Boe Altes Ma NJ. INTERNATIONAL, INC. | cleaning material from local libraries, actually began in 1905. area mining historians and the re. Ericson traces the route from Silver .0. Box 1029, HIGLEY, AZ 85236 mains of the railway itself to compose City up through the mountains and Ph: 40) 219-4195 Fan (80) 2194185, this authoritative account of the Silver onto the mines and uses a number of mall: slgals@liaternationl com City, Pinos Altos & Mogollon Railroad. extraordinary period photographs and Bice. DLIOs ~ a. i Cee ee Coe OC CmeR Race is Ces ee Ce eu Pe eee eee ee eee Ted contain series that were originally published in Model Railroading magazine. Pages may be printed for personal use. HIGHLANDS. _ Atoavailable at the Book Depot 17 Nile) SiC orscrens Only $18.95 ea. plus S&H ieee MTe crc) Pe cme cea rad from the publisher... premrrere een et Ceceseveral recent aerial survey photos to document the character of the line. One BAM 19 Photograph depicts a. wooden ‘Towne eek truss spanning Pinos Altos Creek Raa 1s which is remarkable, The familia lat- ae tice patter of the Towne truse was a ma ee ways rare inthe West and absolete in railway civil engineering after the Civ aM 150 itWar, but hee tn 1905! ae TheSiver City, Pinos Altos & Mogol- | RAMA Ba fa 13 tom i me rie in oy | BS ey RL mantfacture its own railcars according | RAM 108 Construct fA 188 tolocal accounts ited by Ericson. Steel, | RAM 197 wostitey doubletruck ore cars similar to the | AM 108 Gerape Werk Gilpin Tram rolling stock are compli- rosa mented by an assortment of wooden FAM 128 Bell urege gondolas, flats, a “corrugated” boxcar and even a caboose built by the shop forces of the railroad. Modelers will note the lack of scale drawings of any of these, but the author frequently ex- presses his own hope for additional in: formation and perhaps with digital analysis of these few surviving pho- tographs some reasonable drawings can be created. Like most mining railways, the Sil. ver City, Pinos Altos & Mogollon en joyed some initial suecess, even pros: perity, or so it seems to author Erieson, The railway purchased new Shay loco- motives from Lima to complement the second-hand veterans from Gilpin and it continually added rolling stock. 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In the end however, it was trouble on Wall Street that caused the railway to fail Erieson documents what he can of the end, lamenting the searcity of informa tion that often accompanies failures in mining and railroading e author takes great pains to record the fate of the railroad’s equip- ment, some of which remained in the area employed in minor ore carriage for the intermittent zine mining that oc curred during World War I. He has photographed many of the archaeologi cal sites that remain along the right-of. way, and the remains of Shay No. 4, which wound up in Utah. Shay No. 5 got all the way to Virginia, which is my home. According to Richard E. Prince's Norfolk & Western Railway: Pocahon tas Coal Carrier (Millard, Nebraska, 1980) No. 5 was converted to 42-inch gauge on the Big Sandy & Cumberland R.R. and later widened further to stan. dard gauge to work for the N&W as a construction locomotive before serap- ping in 1937, quite a career T like this’ book. Duane Erieson has assembled a valuable collection of ae- counts and photographs to preserve what is left of the Silver City, Pinos Al tos & Mogollon RR. into a single re source that will be useful to western mining historians, industrial archaeol ogists and model railroaders alike. Modelers will find enough material to inspire another wave of narrow gauge layouts featuring tight curves, wooden trestles and tiny Shays struggling up mountain grades in arid lands (few trees to build!), Thank you Duane Erie- son, —TOM LEDFORD eS Schaal =z Narrow Gauge Through the Bush: Ontario's ‘Toronto Grey & Bruce and Toronto & Nip- issing Railways, by Rod Clarke, published by Rod Clarke and Ralph Beaumont and dis- tributed by Credit Valley Railway Company, 184 Queen Street South, Streetsville Ontario L5M 1.3 Canada; 905-826-1306 (www.cvreo.com). 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A vacant roadbed, a chunk of coal, rusted spike, retired boxcar, all are “ghosts of railroads past.” The ghost trains still blow their whistles, belch coal smoke and hiss moist steam. Find an old right-of-way and you'l see what I'm talking about. Get out of your ear, stand still, and close your eyes. Wait and be quiet. Can you hear that whistle? Can you smell the steam and smoke in the air? Tean in my new hometown of Salida, Colorado, where railroad ghosts are alive and well. ‘One time, not too long ago as all students of Colorado railroading know, Salida was home to the mighty Rio Grande, and not just standard gauge, but narrow gauge and dual gauge track, too. The City’s railroad heritage still permeates the crisp mountain air. Nestled in the Southwest Colorado Rockies, Salida was an important division point on the Rio Grande’s line from Pueblo through the famous Royal Gorge north to the mines in Leadville and beyond. Massive, articulated standard ‘gauge steamers and diminutive narrow gauge locos were both residents and visitors. In the shadow of Tenderfoot (or “S”) Mountain, there's little left of Salida’s bustling rail yard, lo- comotive shops and roundhouse. A trio of weed-grown Union Pacific tracks, all but officially aban- doned, are what's left. The former Rio Grande passenger station is long gone, and a turn around for vehicles on F Street exists near the location of the faney Monte Cristo Hotel and Lunch Room. “Back then” the narrow gauge peeled off from Salida yard’s dual-gauge trackage, then curved to cross the Arkansas River near F Street. The three foot gauge rails cut a path through part of down- town Salida, heading towards Mears Junction and the grueling 4.5 pereent grade over 10,000-foot Marshall Pass where they crossed the Continental Divide on their way to Gunnison and Montrose. A small part of the 21.68-mile Monarch branch that came off the Gunnison line at Poncha June- tion (originally narrow gauge, later standard gauged) is now a paved bike/walking trail. Before you dismiss paving over “sacred ground,” listen and believe. The ghosts are there. The east bridge abutment still clings to the Arkansas river bank in Salida and the vision of the wooden truss ‘span is reflected in the rushing water. Slowly peddling the path up-grade from the river on my moun- tain bike, I'm suddenly transported back in time. No longer on my bike, I'm in the cab of a K-28 as the engineer works the throttle to gain momentum against gravity at the 7,100-foot elevation. I feel the same strain as I peddle past where a spur once led to the Colorado Power Station, now the renovated Steam Plant Theater and Event Center. The power plant received high-side gondolas of coal to gen- crate electricity. I peddle further up the line and see old railroad ties, hundreds of them, tie plate in- dentations and spike holes in every one. They are used as borders and retaining walls along the path. ‘These “ghosts” didn’t wander very far from where they once held rails in place. Here the line split into a small, three-track yard, if you will, at West Ist Street. I can hear a whis- tle blasting a warning. I rattle across as the brakeman flags the crossing, then swings back aboard. Long coal sheds were located along the south track, split in two by West 2nd Street. What's that curved building? “Oh,” the ghosts whisper. “it was built along one leg of the wye located here.” A bit further to my left is the old Salida Wood and Lumber Supply Co. sawmill, One of the original wood- en mill buildings still stands, now part of the local Hylton Lumber Company. Looking west towards the flat, grassy ranchlands tucked beneath the towering mountains in the distance, I can see, yes, Tm almost certain, a plume of black smoke rising from the eastbound mixed train headed my way’ ‘Also being a “Jeeper,” T often take my four-wheel drive up to explore remote, abandoned railroad grades turned Forest Service roads. The railroad ghosts are there, too, living among the wind- whipped meadow grass and ice-etched cliffs where the air is thin and former mainlines cling to nar- row ledges. Alone out on some deserted railroad grade, the “ghost chaser” can certainly feel the presence of trains gone by. The wind can play tricks on the ears at this elevation. Voices of track gangs moan their laborer’s songs. A lone whistle echoes through the canyons. Hear it? Flanges Squeal through tight curves on iron rails. Water gushes into a tender from the rusted spout of a trackside tank. A locomotive’s hissing air pump “ka-clunks” in a dull, non-descript rhythm, ‘After a close encounter with a “ghost railroad,” fil all your senses and take the images, feelings and scenes from time and head straight to the train room. Translate them onto your layout. The experiences from railroading of the past will bring life to your model railroad in both the present and the future, JOSEPH KREISS ia AUGUST 2008RAILROAD MODEL GRAF‘A Michigan Interstate RS-1 towing a short freight approaches Lodi Junction tower on the author's Ann Arbor- \spired N scale layout The Ann Arbor revisited An artic! ust afew year before bankruptcy J related the Ann Arbor Ralvoad organlaation inthe” mid 1BTO', Ratunoap Moves CRarTsMan featured Mtcwestern short tine. In the 1979 ar= tel, Jim Boyd boarded the Ann Arter Railroad's car ferry Vibing in Mani Lake Michigan to the Ann Arbors port faction in Elberta, Michigan. He then fllowed the route all the way fo the railroad’s terminal at Toledo, Ohio. the story chronicled Jim's experi ences along the line as he observed and recorded the railroad’s operations, From the loading and unloading of freight ears on and off the boats to the daily trains that moved cargo across the system in coordination with the cross-lake serviee, he did a great job de seribing the Ann Arbor’s daily opera tions in the mid-1970's, Best of all, the article featured a lot of good photos and detailed information > that appeared in RMC 35 years ago inspires the construction of asmall N scale layout/Kristian Foondle about the railroad’s fleet of motive pow er and rolling stock. It was a virtual snapshot in time, allowing modelers of both then and now to gain valuable in. sight on the railroad. Layout background The story of my small N scale layout begins with the recollection of Jim's ar- ticle because my love for trains sparked by the very scenes that J captured with his camera and word While Jim trekking across ‘AUGUST 20082 Waters Gutup Tacks races 5 Mathers Site Stet Sires RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN Painted, weathered and detailed for the Ann Arbor, a pair of Atlas N scale GP35 locomo- tives rum ‘Michigan in pursuit of the Annie (as the Ann Arbor is affectionately known by its fans), I spent many Saturday mornings watching the ferries in Elberta while traveling up north with my family. Equally fascinating were visits to Ann Arbor and other places along the route. With each trip, scenes of the Annie were etched in my mind. Unfortunately, many of the scenes and operations recorded in the 1973 RMC article were ultimately consigned to the history books. The rail- ‘over a bridge above a local highway on the outskirts of Lodi Junetion. road declared bankruptey after default- ingona loan to parent DT&l, resulting in significant organizational changes as the venerable operation struggled to survive in the mid-seventies, In 1976 the State of Michigan pur- chased the line to preserve rail service in the region. The State leased the op- eration of the route to Conrail in 1976. 1977, and then the line was leased to Michigan Interstate for the next five years. The Michigan Interstate era in 1. Mote noun ss ge. Kao 45The Ann Arbor revisited ‘Jim Boyd's article in the November, 1973, issue of RMC inspired the author to build his N scale Ann Arbor layout. These photos, reprinted from the original article, show GP35 No. 388 (above) switching the Saline Branch (note the caboose with the streamlined cupola be- hind the engine) and a trio of GP35's leading a freight through Frankfort Michigan (below). troduced new hope and a new look for the railroad, with the ferry-in-the-fog paint scheme and investment in new rolling stock, but growing political unrest over subsidies finally resulted in the termina- tion of ferry service in April of 1982, and eventually the northern end of the line was abandoned beyond Yuma, However, much of the Ann Arbor sys- tem still exists today and the full story of this short line's evolution is fascinat- ing and rich with modeling potential. ‘Those details, however, are reserved for a larger layout and a different arti- cle at a future date. This article is intended to demon- strate how, by using readily available resources and materials, an average modeler can accomplish a very reward- ing, era-specific layout with a modest amount of space, time and budget. Research and goals Every layout story is built upon lessons learned. Sometimes we learn from others, while sometimes we Jearn from our own misadventures. In my case, lessons came from the latter resource, which were more than abundant, My interest in N scale began with the gift of an Atlas starter set in 1988, Amazed by the small size and realistic appearance, I immediately started dreaming of building a huge N scale empire, and I started buying N scale equipment wherever and whenever I could without regard to practicality or realism. I had the train bug, T bought stuff because I thought it Jooked cool, and I bought stuff because it was on sale. I had four or five differ- ent types of locomotives with four or five different road names, none of which were remotely in the same geo- graphic region. My early layouts had no identity and no reason for existing oth: er than to serve as a place to run trains. When I realized this approach was never going to yield a gratifying layout, I decided to build a layout featuring the Pennsylvania Railroad. My logic? [had more Pennsy models than any other road name, and PRR equipment was popular and readily available! Even though T was slowly learning some valuable lessons and my modeling skills got better and better, none of the layouts I built were truly satisfying to me. I finally realized that, while always fun and worthwhile, my modeling sim- ply did not capture the essence of why I fell in love with trains. I never saw a Pennsy Ka lugging heavyweight coach- es through a mountain pass, nor did T ever witness long trains of keystone- AUGUST 2008‘Caboose No. 2845 (above), a Micro-Trains model with a kitbashed ‘cupola, brings up the rear of a freight. Having just crossed Main St., clad hoppers headed for steel mills. 1 did, however, see a lot of glorious Annie orange traveling through the beautiful lower peninsula of Michigan. Therefore, decided it was time to replicate some of my fond childhood memories. I gathered up my extensive collection of Pennsy-theme motive power and rolling stock and logged on to eBay With a fresh, burning desire to model the Annie, the goal was to sell all of my Pennsy transition era equipment an seek out Ann Arbor Railroad models from the late 1970's and early 1980's As I sold off my collection of Pennsylvania models and looked for Ann Arbor equipment, I also ran a dai- ly eBay search for historical documents RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN on the Annie. I bought some old timeta. bles and train orders, then some ferry schedules and waybills. In addition, I had a lot of interesting conversations with the folks who were selling these artifacts, These simple efforts resulted in learning even more about the histo- ry and operations of the railroad ‘Then I happened upon an auction for ‘a used copy of the November, 1973, RMC featuring a multi-page spread on the Ann Arbor. Needless to say, this was a must-have item, and I frantically bid into the stratosphere to ensure that I won it. Approximately $28.00 and one week later when the magazine arrived, I read the article over and over, mar- veling at the details and the pictures the train is headed north towards Owosso. The RS-1's on the layout (below) are Atlas units that have been painted for the Ann Arbor. Bonanza: exactly what I needed! Inspired by Jim’s article, my goal was to recreate in N scale the prototype images that he had captured during his trip, but slightly modified to reflect the owner- ship and operator changes as of 1980. Building a fleet ‘Now all I had to do was find off-the shelf Ann Arbor equipment in N scale and I would be ready to go! As I soon learned, off-the-shelf models of the Ann. Arbor in N Scale are pretty scarce, While there are a few decent pie rolling stock out there, ready-to-run lo- comotives are basically non-existent for the timeframe I wanted to model. Since my desire to model the Ann Arbor in 1980 was greater than my fear of tack. ling custom building and painting, T took the plunge and bought undecorat- ed models. T also bought lots of su- perdetailing parts and extra pieces of rolling stock to be modified, Let me preface this portion of my sto- ry with a confession that may eause the ists to shudder. Although I am very in my desire to recreate the Ann Arbor's equipment, I am not a perfee: tionist. I brush-painted my models, then weathered them. I chopped apart Micro-Trains Line cabooses to build my fleet of streamlined cupola hacks, ac cepting that the window pattern wasThe Ann Arbor revisited Although the layout is smal, scones like these showing a long freight passing the depot (above) or the rear of a pair of trains at slightly off. And, know that the DT! nerald was gone from the eab the GP35's by 1977, but I real ly liked the look of that scheme, so in my version of 1980, the heralds stayed T built my GP35’s from Atlas Classic units, substituting the appropriate Aleo from Atlas U25's, These are a simple drop-in replacement, and you can get the entire truck assembly from the Atlas parts catalog. Superdetailing parts such as plows, sunshades and m.u. hoses came Enterprises. Block letter and ferry-in-the-fo for all my locomotive decals and rolling stock conversions were made by SoliDesign along with unit number decals and number board inserts, ‘The RS-I's are standard Atlas Classic undecorated units with roof- mounted horns added. As mentioned previously, I sacrile giously destroyed several Micro-Trains cabooses by removing the square cupo- las and filling in windows. I construct ed the streamlined cupolas from ‘ junction (below) are typical of the sights one might have seen along the tracks in America's upper Midwest around 1980. styrene sheet from Evergreen to repli- cate the smooth-sided, Wabash-style appearance As for rolling stock, Atlas, Micro Trains Line, InterMountain and Roundhouse offer a nice variety of box- cars. I purchased a large number of du- plicate ears, then used an Excel spread sheet to create an entire sheet of new road numbers. Next, I gently seraped off the old numbers, slid on the new decals and added reporting marks on the ends. T used the same approach with aalways been overwhelmed by the arti cles about some of the large layouts. Don't get me wrong. [ love the large layout features. I think it would be awesome to have a 30- by 60-foot base- and fill it with trains, but I think the time, effort and money that are clearly necessary to build such an em- pire may be beyond the reach of the av- erage modeler. While enjoyable and in- spirational, the large, superdetailed layout feature story can also be intimi- dating: 500 feet of track, 100 turnouts, Thore are @ number of well done scenes on this N scale layout. Whether itis crossing a stream (left), a small town main street (bo- ow), or passing in the shadow of a grain of ‘evator (bottom), this apartment-sized Ann Arbor layout proves you don't need a lot of room to build a nice looking layout. number of JnJ's three-bay hoppers, and Thave been able to find Atlas two-bay hoppers custom-painted for the Ann Arbor at various train shows, My point is this: don’t be afraid to e: periment, and always take your model ing to the point that makes you happy There are a lot of helpful resources out there, and with some ingenuity and ef- fort, you can accomplish anything! ‘The layout Thave subscribed to a number of qual- ity model railroad periodicals for a long time, and every month I am impressed by the great modeling I see in them. However, while I certainly appreciate and respect the efforts of anyone who builds and shares their layout through the various hobby publications, I have 60 locomotives, 450 freight ears. Where do you start, how much will it cost, and how long will it take? This layout used mainly off-the-shelf materials, cost less than $1,000 and took just’ under six months'to build from start to completion, At 30° wide and 80° long, the layout weighs less than 25 pounds and mounts quickly and easily onto two wall brackets, Framework is 1" x3" lumber with 1’. thick rigid foam insulation board as the primary surface. For the river and un- derpass areas, 2° foam was inserted in the subgrade T used Atlas code 55 sectional and flex track with No. 7 turnouts for the mainline and No. 5's for spurs. Tortoise switch machines power the turnouts and. frogs, while NJ International switchstands provide an authentic look. Bridges are from Rix, Micro- Engineering, Kato and Atlas. Power is standard d.c. with block control, and the panel diagram was RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN “0The Ann Arbor revisited The many well executed details both small and larg made in Microsoft Word, then printed on cardstock and laminated before be ing hot-glued to the hardwood fascia. Structures are from Walthers and Bachmann, Roads and ground cover are Woodland Scenies, with pine trees from Peco; all the deciduous trees are done with Scenic Express materi ‘The functional grade crossing flash- ers are from Berkshire Junetion, acti- vated by optic sensors hidden between the ties on all of the erossing approach- es. An HQ sound module from Innovative Train Technology play automated, looped recording of a cross ing bell, and another HQ module plays a diesel horn on push-button command. Additional details include Magic Line telegraph wires, utility lines made from common thread, and lots of Woodland Scenics figures. Vehicles are mostly Mini-Metals, and they travel on roads with accurate pavement mark ings and authentic road signs from Blair Line. Operation "This is a simple layout plan, with a simple approach for operation: have fun The design is a basic oval with a passing siding. There are four industries to be served and an interchange track dedi cated to making a connection with the outside world. The interchange was de- signed for future expansion and/or for simple hand-fiddling of ears on and off the layout. I added a car-card waybill system, available through Micro-Mark, although it likely would have been pret ty simple to make these using any type of word processing software. It is interesting to read recent articles about the relative merits of prototype versus freelance modeling. In my ease, I have chosen a very specific prototype for its motive power and rolling stock, However, with the advance intention of demonstrating how the average mod eler can use readily available materials to build a nice small layout, I specifi cally avoided any pretense of modeling a particular place on the Annie. So, while the premise of the modeling is based on the prototype and inspired by the 1973 RMC article, the layout's set tings freelanced and not limited by at tempting to replicate real places or structures; ‘Therefore, I call my modeling efforts “proto-lanced,” a compromise term that I believe most accurately reflects the spirit of this layout. Whether you choose a prototype, freelanced or “pro- to-lanced’ style layout, inspiration and guidance toward your model railroad ing goals ean come from many places. Go on-line and search for informa- tion about your favorite railroad, as a ‘on this beautitully done 30” x 60" layout help to bring the Ann Arbor Ri oad alive. little bit of research can pay off quite handsomely, Do a search of old maga zine articles. Without the perspective provided in that RMC story I would not have had the historical photos and background as a reference point for my modeling efforts, We are very fortunate to live in a time when so many great products and materials are available. Anyone can build a very nice layout using standard kits or ready-made models. In addition, several companies offer fantastic detail parts and accessories, and those who wish to customize their layout ean do so now much more easily than could be done in the past, T hope that you have enjoyed the “Annie Revisited” and that you can find something interesting and helpful in this article for use on your own layout. (Now, if my calculations are correct, a car ferry should be about 4” wide and 28" long in N scale.) = AUGUST 2008A downsized kitbash As modeled in HO scale/Gerry Leone RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN their way onto my Bona Vista Railroad. True, to justify rail traffic, industries One thing about them is that many need to be sizeable. That also means, are based on large-scale operations. though, that they will eat up a lot of Watthers’ American Hardware Supply Co. (above) is shown in its stock assembly as a large four story bullding. Because of layout space considerations, the structure had to be reduced (top) 80 that it was only two stories tall and its length and width were shorter.A downsized kitbash real estate on a layout or module. It is great if you have the room. I don't. I On-screen kitbashing ‘There were several characteristics of district on my layout that contained the tail end of my yard lead, a long, curving like to make my mid-size layout seem larger by scaling everything down just a little, and I would rather add ‘two medium-sized structures instead of one large one. To me, it ereates scenes that are more interesting, When the time came to add a struc- ture to a space-starved area between the back of my railroad’s roundhouse and a curved backdrop, I carefully eyed the Cornerstone Series line and chose the American Hardware Supply Com- pany. This building is a classic con- crete, brick curtain wall type common- ly found in large and small towns all across America. It's a great looking “generic” building that would fit per- f into. my “also generic-early 1950's” era. In fact, you would think it, was the perfect structure for that spot on my layout. (Well, so you would think.) A [a Before cutting everything up the author scanned the kit's walls walls into the computer (top) and “edited” them just as he did ‘with the photo on the box. This proved out the changes. The rear kit wall as it comes is shown above left; as far as possible, the the available layout spa be taken into account. area was at the edge of an industrial -e that had to rst, the empty single track that I envisioned as travel ing through an empty field filled with serub growth, It's an “industrial back om | Pils cuts were made to coincide with the mortar lines. The photo at the bottom left shows the rear wall cut apart. The entire second story and one vertical panel and pilaster was removed to make a shorter, two-story building; the rear wall is the new front (above). AUGUST 2008A slurry of Testors plastic coment and Squadr where the wi yard,” so it would be very appropriate to position the back side of the new building toward the aisle. Second, the hardboard backdrop bor. dering the right side of the field is curved into a 24-inch radius. ‘Third, and maybe the most trouble- some, my railroad’s mainline pokes through a hole in the curved portion of the backdrop and continues on its way into Colfax Yard and mythical Black River beyond. So, the bottom line was that the ‘The walls were airbrushed with Polly Scale Cor lasters and floor details were masked off and a Red and Roof Brown was drybrushed over the ‘or them. Giving the walls @ couple of light coat RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN ron white putty was used to fil in the seams were cut. The consistency that works best Is like thin pancake batter. American Hardware Supply Company kit couldn’t work as-is in this location. It would have been far too large for the space and too close to both the round- house and the backdrop. Just as bad, it would have dwarfed the three-stall Heljan roundhouse which serves the Bona Vista and is presumed to be its, main locomotive facility. Even ignoring these problems, the position of the mainline and yard lead tracks were such that the building would have to be situated in front of nerete and left to dry. Then the concrete pi- brick color mixed from Polly Scale Caboose 3d portions of the molded bricks to col- is is better than trying to do this in one step. both tracks, making it too close to the front of the layout for my liking. A much smaller building was in order. The trick was to figure out how to re- size American Hardware Supply with- out losing its inherent character. ‘The American Hardware Supply Company is a four story building that's about 13 inches wide by 9 inches deep. Before doing any chopping, I needed to see if it would even be possible to make the building both shorter and narrower while retaining the flavor of the con- crete and brick curtain wall. I seanned the photo of the rear of the building on the kit’s box and brought it into Photo- shop Elements®, Then I made several copies of the layer containing the build- ing scan and proceeded to lop out por- tions of the walls using electrons rather than a knife. Having multiple copies of the original layer meant I could always, start over if necessary ‘The first thing to go was some height. 1 took out one of the floors, creating a three-story building, which still looked too large to me. So, away went a second, floor. This left me with a very pre- sentable small manufacturing build- ing. I was starting to get somewhere However, the building now looked a little long and thin, so I decided to nar- row the structure by removing one ver- tical panel of windows from both of the remaining floors. It still looked good. In just ten minutes this Photoshop tweak- ing convinced me that this route was indeed viable. So far so good for Phase 1, but further work was needed before I put “saw to plastic.” 1 taped the actual plastic walls to- gether, laid the window castings into the holes, and scanned this loose mess again, I went through the same editing exercise, first turning the building into a full-width, three-story structure, then creating, a two-story, reduced. ‘width building. Tprinted out the result- ing edits along with a portion of one of the building's sides and mounted it on cardboard. The idea here was to create a rough mockup of the building that I could set on the layout. I wanted to see exactly how the seale of the structure would fit into the existing real estate and to be sure the building would hide the hole in the hardboard backdrop. Tt was perfect. What little of the hole that would show above the top of the building could be covered by @ photo pasted to the backdrop. More important ly, the two-story structure seemed to be «good fit for the space and surrounding neighborhood. The only thing was that the mainline track was still in the way. ‘Then, I remembered a brilliant trick first published by Earl Smallshaw, one of my model railroading heroes, in the July, 1989, issue of Model Railroader 53A downsized kitbash {A close up of the bricks (lef) illustrates how effective the dry- tween the bricks. To further add to the fidelity, a small brush was. brush-over-the-mortar color approach is in retaining the lines be- used to add slightly darker colors to random bricks (above). He had wanted to reproduce congested urban scenery, yet retain enough room for trains in Middletown on his Middle- town & Mystic Mines R.R. So, he built buildings that would overhang the un- seen ground-level tracks. They used, as he put it, “air rights” in the town. The train passed through the first floor of the buildings, but because of the clever camouflage, the viewer never realized that and assumed the train was pass- ing behind the buildings. He made the layout seem larger without adding an inch to it. It’s what I call “virtual real estate.” Virtual real estate was exactly what Ineeded. One more test fitting with the cardboard cutout proved that this was the perfect solution for the Bona Vista. It was time for me to grab the knife, the ruler and start cutting, cut! ‘Although [used the American Hard- ware Supply Company, Walthers’ back- ground building, River City Textiles, would also work for this kitbash as well. However, you will need a few pieces from your scrapbox to create the longer portions of the side walls if you use it. | first laid out the rear wall of Ami ican Hardware as the manufacturer recommended so I could figure out ex- actly where I needed to make the cuts. The wator tower in its stock form seemed too large for the re-sized building, s0 two bande" worth of height were cut from the tasting using arazor saw and a milor Box. ‘The revised water tank is shown at igh Each board was painted individually with grayecnd browne, some wi a single color Sind some mixed together right on the tank. meeps st AUGUST 2008The side view of the building (top) shows the opening in the wall against the backdrop that the trains pass through. As shown in the overhead view, this opening is effectively hid- den on the layout by other buildings and sc Because the building sits at an angle on my layout, the mainline only passes through one of the two side walls. Us- ing my cardboard mockup, I deter- mined how much of each side wall could be made to fit into the available space. RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN ery, and visitors are unaware of the ruse. To figure out the clearance for the mainline, I used an NMRA standards gauge. Instead of using a razor saw to cut the walls, I went at them with a hobby knife and @ metal ruler. I knew the No. 11 blade would more easily follow the mor- tar lines in the brick, and I would get a completely straight. cut, important for creating seamless joints later on. T chose to cut on mortar lines that would be relatively easy to hide, and, starting with a new blade, I carefully cut the wall sections as shown in the photos. The temptation here was to think of the walls as being sheet styrene and score a few times, then bend and break. Don’t do it. It distorts the plastic and you want the joints as perfect as possible. Besides, molde plastic walls are reasonably soft as compared to sheet styrene, and it does- n't take long to make the cuts with a sharp knife. Refer to the photos to see which wall sections will be discarded and how the remaining wall sections will be assembled. I applied Tenax 7R from the back side of the wall to initially bond the sec- tions together, then added some heav- ier styrene on the back to reinforce the Joints in them. No matter how careful you are with your cutting, there are bound to be a few gaps in the cuts, Squadron Putty would seem to be the answer, but I've never been a big fan of it because it al- ways seems too thiek and coarse by it- self. Instead I employed a tip I picked up in a hobby magazine: I mixed Squadron White Putty with a few drops of Testors Plastic Cement until it was about as thick as paneake batter, then used a round, headless mierobrush (a round toothpick would also work) to put little drops of the putty into the cracks. It is important to use Testors Plastic Cement to create the slurry since, for some reason, few, if any other types of plastic cement will mix with the Squadron Putty like Testors, ‘The slurry sets up relatively quickly, but I let it dry overnight, just to be sure. I found I needed a second coat be- cause the putty slurry shrinks slightly onee cured. I touched up any irregular- ities and sanded down the excess with a small piece of folded sandpaper. I also found it was important to use a needle or dental pick to pry any dried putty from surrounding mortar lines since filled-in mortar lines will be very obvi- ous in the final paint job. Again, taking a little extra time with these steps will help ensure nicely-done walls. Making red bricks red The next step was painting the bricks. I'm not a big fan of the “paint the bricks, then add a thin wash of mor. tar” method of doing brick walls. The thin mortar wash always seems to need three or four applications, and even then it’s not very effective in my eyes, Instead, I do exactly the opposite: IA downsized kitbash paint the entire wall a mortar color, then dry-brush on the brick color. First, the walls are airbrushed with Polly Seale Concrete. When that dries overnight, I mask off the concrete areas with blue painters’ tape and mix up a dark red brick eolor using half an eye- dropper of Polly Scale Caboose Red with 40 drops of Polly Scale Roof Brown. The ratio isn't critical. ‘The trick to the dry-brushing tech nique is to use a stiff, flat-ferruled brush, rather than the ‘classic round brush. Put some paint on the brush, then wipe most of it off by painting it, ‘onto some serap paper. When it’s bare- ly visible on the paper, lightly go over the bricks on the model. You want sev- eral light, even coats, rather than try- ing to cover the bricks with one pass. ‘Try to keep the bristles from falling down into the mortar lines. They in- evitably will, but the idea is to keep as much paint’as possible on the front faces of the bricks. A little unevenness here and there adds to the character of the bricks. ‘To add a little more dimension and in- terest to a brick wall, T paint random bricks a lighter or darker color. Some people think this would be the last thing ‘you do before going completely insane, ‘but it actually doesn't take much time at all, In fact I finished the entire building facade in less than 20 minutes, and it re- ally was time well-spent. For this step, I started with my base brick paint color and added a few more drops of Polly Scale Roof Brown to darken it just slightly. Remember, you want this effect to be subtle; otherwise you are apt to produce a wall that looks more polka-dotted than realistic. Use a brush with bristles roughly the same size as the bricks, and just dab the paint on to random bricks. Try to be reasonably careful with this step (but it ‘won't be the end of the world if some of the darker paint finds its way into the mortar lines). Once the paint dries re- move the tape. glued the walls together with Tenax ‘7R and added the model's full-depth f after cutting the width to the new size. I didn't really need a rear wall since the roof helps hold the side walls in place. The reason for keeping the roof at its full depth is to create the il- lusion that the building is much deeper than it really is. Finally, I painted and added the win: dows, doors, loading dock and stairway to the side. ‘The American Hardware Supply Company comes with a water tank that sits on a concrete pedestal on the roof, but because the building was now so substantially reduced in size, I found the water tank supplied looked far too large. I got out the razor saw and miter box and eut two of the six sections out. After assembling it, I painted the indi- vidual boards with a mixture of Polly Scale Roof Brown, CP Gray, Railroad ‘Tie Brown, and Concrete. Some colors were used straight from the bottle, and some were mixed together on the brush ‘as I painted. It gave the tank a nice weathered wood effect. I then painted the bands with Polly Scale Roof Brown and Rust, again mixed on the brush. ‘The building was now complete, and it was named for the man that created this invaluable “through the building” illusion. It is now Small & Shaw Hard- ware Manufacturing. ‘As you can see in the photos I gained a substantial amount of virtual real estate by having the train pass through the building. The building is slightly below eye level, so viewers can see the roof and assume it occupies a full square foot of layout space. Because of this, their brain says the train must have come from be- hind the building. The reality is the train would never fit there. A grove of tall trees, strategically planted between Small & Shaw and the edge of the layout hides the side wall ‘Thanks to Photoshop and Earl, the Bona Vista has a little “mystical” secret that turned out great! = AUGUST 2008One person’s junk... another’s treasure Inexpensive detail parts for model railroads/Lenn Amrhein any times there is a big differ- ence between a finished look- Jing model and a really great model. The difference boils down to three things: details, details and more details. Whether from a kit or scratch built, nothing dresses up a model more than’added details. In today's world, however, you can pay a lot of money for detail parts. Roof vents can cost between $2.95 and $4.49 for a package of two; smoke stacks are $2.25 for two and finials can cost any- where from $2.89 to $4.98 a pair. It all adds up. Now, what if you could get Lenn Amrhein collects all kinds of plastic and metal pieces to use as details on his mod- ls. Thes these detail parts for just pennies, or even for free? You'd be surprised by how many common things around the house can be transformed into recog: nizable details you'd expect to see on buildings, Plainly, what one person considers junk I see as potential model parts. Let's start with a ball point pen. ‘There are a lot of different ball point RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, Include straws of all kinds, old pens, medicine bottles and toothpicks. pens on the market. Many are inexpen- sive, but when empty, don't “write them off” They can have a second life after salvaging their parts, At the top of the pen, remove the plug. These plugs come in a variety of shapes. Some are cylindrical, some have domes with an attached shaft and others are slightly conical in shape. All of the ones painted silver make good Tool ing vents for structures and roof’, Now go to the business end of the pen. Remove the point from the empty shaft. Throw the shaft away; it's messy. Without modification, this piece makes fan acceptable finial. Just paint it cop- per, silver, gray, or any other color. Or, you can add a straight pin where the ink reservoir was, Attach it with eyano- acrylate cement or epoxy and add a small round plastic bead below the writing point, or add a “bi-cone” bead (a plastic bead with two conical ends). Glue it to the bottom of the writing point. Paint this silver, gold, copper or whatever color you like, and you have made another finial, Many of these inexpensive pens have aplastic sleeve around the point. These sleeves make nice rooftop stacks, Next, look at the plastic body of the pen. It can be cut down to various sizes to make a good smokestack. The pen body can also be used as a drain pipe coming out from rock walls or a culvert from under road or track Glue three or more pen bodies to- gether and make a stack of pipes. Get some pin striping tape in a contrasting color, about one-sixteenth of an inch wide. Wrap the tape around the stack of pipes near the ends and maybe one around the middle. These make great loads for a gondola or flat car. Five in- expensive pens will produce five roof vents, five pieces of pipe, five finials and five fancy smoke stacks. Not bad! Spray cans are another product that can be found in your kitchen, bath room, work bench or garage. You prob- ably throw the empty cans away. Be- fore you do, take the caps and nozzles to your workbench. There are cylindrical nozzles, some with angle cuts and oth- ers with no angle. I find that when painted silver or gray, they make good roof vents. In many cases, a small piece of strip plastie (curved on top, flap on the bottom) can be glued to the top of the nozzle to form a directional fin for the vent, Caps from these cans some: times make nice storage tanks. Drinking straws come packed in large numbers. I use four types: soda straws, bendable and non-bendable, and the smaller diameter “stirring srOne person’s junk... another’s treasure straws” that you get with coffee, tea, or a mixed drink. All of the straws make great exhaust vents. In most eases, just paint them black and add to a building For added detail, top the straw with the plug from the ball point pen, or glue a very short piece of straw perpendicular to the long piece. You get a number of smokestacks from just one straw These are ideal’ for _ cabooses, kitchen/dorm cars, or on buildings. Another use for soda/drinking straws is steel piping. One-sixteenth inch pin striping tape wrapped around the straw makes a perfect “joint.” Toothpicks, especially the round ‘nes, have many applications in model: ing, ‘but better still are the unique toothpicks available at the Cracker Barrel stores. These have a pointed end anda flat spindle head. The flat spindle ends have a baluster look about them Merely cut the pointed end off to the re Details from a common ball point pen (top) are there for the taking. There are pen col- lars, shafts and pen points that resemble pipes, finials, vents and culverts. Lucy's Garage (above) was scratchbullt and has straws for smoke stacks. An aspirin bottle (above right) can be placed on a roof as a tank. The dust collectors (righ on this old cer brick building were made from wire nuts, along with straws for smoke stacks and lightning rods made from pins. quired length. The spindle head makes a good fence post, newel post, baluster, stair rail or bollard. Bollards are those posts on a ship or wharf used for secur: ing ropes or those iron posts used to protect garage entrances and service station islands from being hit by traffic. They can also be used as decorative garden features. By using a hobby knife or small file, extra groves can be put around the toothpick. Cheek your medicine cabinet, and you might find some more useful items. An empty plastic tablet bottle makes a great vertical metal tank. All you have to do is remove the label and cut off the bottle se entry hatch out of e or from an extra ie inverted bot. reefer ear hatch, and place it on the top of ‘AUGUST 2008 cap threads, then add all or some of the tle. Next, make a following details. Cut some ladder stock, some serap_styre and glue it to the side ofVarious sized and shaped straws (top) are can easily be made into piping and smoke stacks. The scratchbuilt gas station (above leff) includes round toothpicks as bollards to protect the Pumps and the sign posts from wayward dri the bottle. Use a flexible soda straw to add a fill pipe. To attach the pipe, simply drill a hole into the bottle the size of the straw’s diameter. Put the flex end into the hole and bend the straw 90 degrees along the side. Here's a simple, easy to make detail, an exhaustiventing system for factory walls. Take two plastic electrical wire nuts and glue the open end to the open end. Get the appropriate size nuts for the scale you are modeling. For added detail, wrap with pin striping tape at the joint. This also makes for a more solid joint Finally, take a piece of 2.5mm plastic styrene tubing. Hold the tubing just above a lighted candle and allow’ th tube to bend 90 degrees. Drill a hole in the bottom of what will be the lower RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN the “teapo' rs. A bent piece wire nut, then drill a hole in the side of the upper wire nut, Take one 90 degree tubing piece and install it into the bot- tom hole. Take the second 90 degree piece and install it into the upper side hole. Make sure that both 90 degree pieces extend toward the building. A second factory detail is a dust col- lection vent. For this, use one wire nut and a piece of ball point pen shaft. For the top, glue a wire pigtail connector or a piece of a golf tee. Cut off Ys" from the large end of the golf tee with a hobby saw, and cut off % off from the cut off end. Super glue this to the ball point shaft, Next take another small piece of 2.5mm styrene tubing bent to 90 de- grees. Drill a %c" hole into the side of ball point pen piece. Insert and glue with eyanoaerylate the 90 degree styrene piece into the hole, Top this with a metal “snap” (discussed in next paragraph). You've created another in expensive super detail ‘The next few detail parts require a trip toan arts and crafts store. Buy var ious sizes of eyelets and snaps. Snaps, when used with round tooth picks, drink straws, or 2.5mm styrene tubing become the top of a smoke jack. They look great on a eaboose, kitchen car, dorm car, passenger car or building While in the arts and crafts store, check out the plastic beads. There are hundreds, if not thousands, available The round and eylindrical plastic beads work best. You'll need at least thre sizes of round beads and straight pins to make finials, lighting rods and weather vanes. Make sure you get some crystal clear beads, beside the £0: id color ones. Cylindrical beads come in various lengths. A variety of these, will SSO wo» of plastic artist's brush is used as a smoke stack and handle on " station. Wire nuts, a golf tee, ball point pen shaft, ‘snaps and pin stripping tape (above righ scale dust collectors for structures on the layout. used to make HO come in handy. There are also double cone beads called “bi-cone.” Straight pins come with metal heads and bead- ed heads, in various sizes and lengths. Buy some of each. You might want to go on the internet and look-up finials, lightning rods, and weather vanes, I found hundreds of useful pictures. I also found out how lightning rods were correctly connected to the ground (more superdetail parts). Also, some lightning rods can act as a weather vane. To build a finial, start with a very small piece of square styrene strip. Cut it evenly so you end up with a small block or box. Drill a hole in the center of the box and push a steel headed straight pin through this hole. (A “bi- cone” bead can also be used instead of the box.) Add a round bead to the pin'sOne person’s junk... another’s treasure ‘A box of snaps, round tooth picks, 2.5mm styrene tubing and straws (leff) combine to make up convincing smoke stacks. The shaft, then a short cylindrical bead, and a smaller round bead on top. Cut the pin about one quarter to one half inch above the beads. Paint them cop- per, gold, or silver and place on the peak of a pitched roof. There are hun- dreds of variations to make, For lightning rods, use a single steel headed straight pin. Add a round erys- tal clear bead to the pin. Glue the round crystal bead about a quarter inch from the steel headed pin top. Slide on a see- ond (optional) round crystal bead and glue this an eighth to a quarter inch above the first bead. Cut the pin above and below the beads, leaving short lengths of the shaft on both ends, one which will insert into a rooftop. If you want even more detail on the lightning rod, take some sewing thread and run it from the bottom of the light- ning rod down the building's side to the ground. Don't forget that water tanks with peaked roofs or domes can also be topped with a finial or lighting rod or weather vane, ‘To make that weather vane, solder two straight pins perpendicular to each other. Cut the rooster, eagle, or what- ever animal or figure you want, as well as an arrow and tail from paper or in- dex card, ‘The next detail is in your kitchen right now. It consists of flour, salt and water. From those ingredients, we'll make a common model railroad detail. Many commodities shipped on freight cars and found around building docks are packaged in various sizes of cloth, paper or plastic sacks. Sacks con: tain commodities such as flour, sugar, cement, crushed stone, fertilizer, pota: toes, onions or rice. ‘Make up some balls of dough follow- ing the recipe in Table 1. Break off a 0 Roman numeral Table 1: Salted dough mix 2eups All pupose tour teu Sat cup Weter ‘Recipe can be cutin hall. Min bow othe consistency of cookie dough. Thicken with our Table 2: Common sack sizes Four 18°» 36" ‘Sugar 16° 96" Gemont 18° x 24° or 10° 19" Crushed stone 12" 18° or 12°24" Potatoes 20° 36° Food 17°30" or 21" 30" “Top sol 20" 96" Onions 18" 36° Mulch 14x 24" oF 19°32" Salt 14°24" piece and roll it into a small worm-like section. Using a scale ruler, flatten the roll to the width of a model sack. Then, measure off the correct heights and cut from the roll with a butter knife. Let the model sacks air dry for about 48 hours. Make sure each Sack has a straight edge on its top and bottom. These sacks can then be stacked or stand alone. They take water or oil based paints very well. This recipe will make hundreds of model sacks. Add de- cal labels, if desired. Left over basswood strips ranging in size from ho" X Yu" to 1" x 5/' can ere- ate unlimited numbers of erates. After seratchbuilding a structure, I always have small pieces of stripwood left over. leces from a RISK® game and some scrap wood (right) make a convincing scrap metal load for a gondol Any size wooden crate or cardboard box can be simulated by cutting the left over pieces into what I call “bread slices.” Six scale inches to three seale feet give you a wide variety of erate heights. Leave unpainted for wooden crates, or paint to a tan cardboard col- or. But, if cutting these erates is too much for you, read on! In 1959, Parker Brothers first brought out the board game RISK®. ‘The original game contained six boxes of wooden cube “armies.” These cubes make wonderful HO seale wooden crates and cardboard boxes, In the 1980's, the game pieces were changed to plastic Roman numerals 1, IIL, V, and X. The “I” ean be used as is, ‘The III, V and X can be split with a ra zor saw or Dremel cutoff dise to form I and II beams or V bridge shoes, You can also paint them with appropriate weathering colors to make great scrap metal piles or gondola loads. These RISK wooden cubes and Ro- ‘man numerals can be found at garage sales or on the internet, You might find them for as little as a quarter (that's what I paid at a garage sale) to a few dollars on line, You now have plenty of detail parts to create and keep you busy. The significant factor is that all of these parts cost very little money, and some are free. The supply of many of these items can be unlimited. I'm sure you can find many more useful things around the house. Don't throw them away, because they are hardly junk. Just tise your imagination, Lenn Amrhein will be presenting one of the clinies at the NMRA Northeast- ern Region's fall convention, Empire dJunetion ‘08, in Syracuse NY Sept. 11- 14. More information is available at www.empirejunetion.org, = AuGusT 2008Modeling a Lehigh Valley smoking car Modeling this LV passenger car from a Branchline coach/Chuck Davis arly passenger service included dedicated smoking cars or areas which were especially popul: with the many cigar smoking business- men heading to and from New York City. In 1929, the Lehigh Valley Rail: road had 146 coaches and 30 smokers, which amounted to 17 percent of the coach fleet. By 1940 only 77 coaches and 10 smokers were in service, which was 11 percent of the coach fleet, Gen: erally, smokers were not listed sepa rately after 1943, indicative of things to come, but smoking areas were still pro vided in coaches. Color interior views of coach 901 in Lehigh Valley-2 in Color by Robert J. Yanosey, and probably coach 1503 or 1504 in CNJ/LV Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equip ment, by Craig T. Bossler, show re- versible metal signs hung on the inte rior walls of the coaches. The “No Smoking” side had a bright red back ground, and the “Smoking Permitted side was green. (On arecent Amtrak trip to New York City from Newport News, there were only two station stops with long enough waits for passengers to have the time permitted to get off and have a ciga- rete. The times and rules for public smoking have really changed! RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN The prototype cars Like most class 1 railroads, the Lehigh Valley purchased steel passen- ger equipment after the turn of the twentieth century. The LV opted for a number of shorter 67-foot coaches to meet its needs. Most of these 888-993 series coaches were built by the Pull- man Car & Manufacturing Company from 1912-1914 and seated 68-72 pas- sengers. These short coaches were sup: plemented in 1925 by five from Pullman for mainline trains. They seated 74-80 passengers, were num. bered 1500-1504, and were delivered in the Lehigh Valley’s then-standard Pullman Green paint. They had clerestory roofs, Garland venis, and four-wheel, cast steel trucks. ‘These 1500-series coaches had an in- teresting history. Cars 1501-1504 were among the first ears on the Lehigh Val- Coaches 1501 and 1503 were put in storage after LV passenger service was concluded fon July 8, 1967. They were sold to the Edwards International Corporation and were de- livered to Mexico. Both cars had served on the Valley's mi line for 35 years.Modeling a Lehigh Valley smoking car = fi aera a sbi CbL ETL This photo was probably taken after the mechanical air conditioning system was TT Ee ated directly above a switchboard and air conditioning lock- the globe vent is over the Women’s restroom. The loca- ished photo of car 1501 with ale was aken in Apri 1897 The argo vontWehnfs near Newark on te soutee Ye Rey Shots oe oe Ccapacty- 72 e [AUGUST 2008Lehigh Valley Railroad Standard 70-foot coach Drawn by Robert Losse Full size for HO scale: 3.5mm=1'-0"; 1:87.1Modeling a Lehigh Valley smoking car ley to receive Frigidaire electro-me- chanical air conditioning. This was probably installed in 1937 and involved removing and plating over the Garland vents, installing an air conditioning and electrical locker opposite the men’s room, and an exhaust vent over the locker. A photo of the opposite side of car 1501 dated 1937 was printed in The Handsomest Trains in the World, by William T. Greenberg and Frederick A. Kramer. During 1939-1940 the Valley at- tempted to upgrade passenger service using existing equipment and ten new lightweight “American Flyer” stream- lined coaches from Pullman, Otto Kuh: ler was hired to streamline the locomo- tives and equipment for several trains Cars 1501 and 1502 were refurbished in 1940 at the railroad’s Sayre shops for Trains 9-10, the Black Diamond. Fluo- rescent lighting was installed and skirting was added to match the rest of the cars in the train, which was paint- ed Cornell Red, the new Lehigh Valley color. The seating was reduced from 78 to 74 and they were designated as SL- 74, Smoker with Lounge, ears. The seating was increased in 1948 and they were redesignated class R-82, Cars 1503 and 1504 received a simi lar treatment the same vear for Trains 4-17 and later 11, the Star. These cars had an 11’-10" smoking section seating 16, and a 64 seat passenger compart- ment, They were designated class SC 80, During 1948, the interiors were modified and the designation changed to SC-82 by adding seats facing each other opposite the women’s room. Ed Schaller’s comprehensive website, www.lvrrmodeler.net, lists typical Lehigh Valley passenger train consists for 1952 Car 1500 had the most interesting history. It had not been upgraded like cars 1501-1504, but was converted to transport aliens and POW’s between ‘The Branchiline coach makes a very close starting point for this HO conversion, The most prominent change is the addition of skirting on the car sides, a “modernization” done by the cash-strapped Lehigh Valley passenger department to look more streamlined, Jersey City and upstate New York and Canada by July of 1941. Seven steel bars were attached to each of the 22 windows on each side. In 1948 the Lehigh Valley totally dieselized and 14 Alco PA’s took over all passenger service. As part of this last attempt to upgrade passenger ser- viee, car 1500 was among five other cars totally rebuilt as 76-seat coaches at Sayre in 1947-1948. With the addi- tion of air conditioning, a streamlined roof, skirting and Hunter windows, these cars resembled the lighter- weight streamlined coaches purchased by many railroads at that time. All five cars remained in service un til the end of LV passenger service in 1961. The Handsomest Trains in the World lists ear 1502 a8 being disman- ted at Sayre in August, 1961, while the remaining cars were sold to the Bd- wards International Corp. on May 4, 1961, for service on Mexican railroads Modeling Lv 1504 ‘The Branchline Trains coach (based on a New York Central 22-window car) is similar to the five coaches purchased by the Lehigh Valley in 1925. I chose one of their undecorated kits since I would need to make a few changes to model smoker 1504. This was primarily adding the skirting, and painting in any ease, While all the windows on the LV ear were even- ly spaced, the end windows on the NYC car were centered in the restrooms, mal ing the last post approximately 15° wide versus 7i/# on the others, but this was something I could live with. By 1959 the ‘end window in front of the air condition- ing locker was plated over anyway, at least on ear No. 1501 The Branchline instructions are well written, easy to follow, with excellent illustrations. After reading through them carefully and identifying all the parts, I started with the interior as rec- ‘ommended. The interior changes would AUGUST 2008dictate the other modifications to the kit. Note that the parts have very close clearances and should be test-fitted be fore using. Although the ears now come assembled, one should be able to scout upa kit A copy of a shop card I had from the mid-1940’s was used to identify the in terior differences and seating arrange ment of smoker 1504, which Iwas mod cling. Lehigh Valley Railroad Passengers Cars, by M. Mickey and D. Wareful, has full seale HO plans for ‘ach of the variations. Published in 1980, copies can still be found at train shows. The primary interior differences from the NYC cars involved the loca tion of the lavatories, which were on the opposite end of the LV car, and the addition of the smoking section. ‘Switching the lavatories required re moval of the last two sets of seats, Cuts were made from underneath the seat along the isle so the seat could be re moved and reused. The locator tab on the bottom of the isle side lavatory walls was removed so the passengers could sit on the opposite end. A piece of 030" sheet styrene was cut 1'-9" x 4’- to fill the holes left on the floor ends, and the slots in the floor were filled with Squadron Putty ‘Aseat was located against the car side on the end opposite the women’s toilet, and a switchboard and air conditioning locker was located across from the men’s toilet on the smoking compartment end. [MODEL CRAFTSMAN ‘The locker wall was made from 0.030" styrene with the same dimensions as the toilet: 4-46" x 6-3 ‘The partition for the smoking section was made from .030" styrene 8'-9" wide and 7'-0" high using the top of the vestibule interior wall as a pattern, and 1'x4" strips were used to frame the door. A noteh 4°x4.5" must be cut on the bottom of the partition to straddle the floor. Notehes must also be made on the top and bottom of the partition edges identical to the lavatory walls in order for the sides and roof to fit flush. The fourth row of seats was removed and, using the partition for spacing, switched to face the opposite direction, ‘The seats, partitions, and walls were set aside to be painted separately be- fore assembly Modifications to the body involved adding the skirting to the sides and modifying the vestibule doors. The car ends and doors are molded to the car frame. Lehigh Valley doors had a sin. gle pane window. The post was re- moved from the center of the window, and new windows were cut from .015* clear styrene. New windows were also made for the interior vestibule door since the kit's windows were too thick and will interfere with installing the lavatory walls, Metal drop grab irons were substituted on the ends for the plastic ones in the kit, which I had dif- ficulty keeping attached. ‘The only change to the Branchline coach sides, and the most time con suming step in this project, was adding the skirting, The sides are separate castings which snap in place, then get glued to the body during assembly. The separate sides makes the addition of the skirting much easier. When the 154s" deep skirts were first added in 1939, they ran the entire length of the ears between the doors, Practicality quickly overcame aesthet- ies. Notches were cut into the skirts in front of the trucks to facilitate routine maintenance, and hinged sections were used to reach areas requiring less fre quent attention, such as battery boxes and air conditioning units. Small vents were also cut into the skirts, presum- ably to improve the operation of the air conditioner. I made the skirts using three separate strips the length of the car sides, plus 3 ‘on each end for trimming later: & 2" x 4 4°x6" and 4"x 8", After gluing the 4" x6" and 4° x8" strips together the bottom was sanded with fingernail emery boards along the entire length to form a gentle curve. Reducing the 4 thickness to 2" gave about the right look. Five feet was then marked off on each side of the 54-foot truck centers, and a curved pattern was made to mark off an angled double “S” curve. The truck section was cut off and curved files used to obtain the correct shape. The three 14” high sections were then glued to the 2” x4" to obtain 16Modeling a Lehigh Valley smoking car deep skirts along the sides of the car. Before attaching one of the skirts, the position of the air conditioning unit was marked and two 6” x 9" holes 3'-0" apart were filed for the A/C vents. Pho- tos in books show these were covered with a screen, so I cut pieces of the etched sereen on the ends of the extra clerestory sides for this. After checking the fit, these pieces were put aside un- til after painting. The skirts were attached flush with the sides after the bottom of the sides hhad been filed smooth. As the ends of the skirts are particularly fragile when handled, I attached pieces of (040" x .080" strip behind the skirts for reinforcement. After the ends of the skirts were dressed with the car side, the supplied grab irons were attached with cyanoacrylate cement. Underframe and trucks ‘The Branchline instructions identi fy how to build the kit as a basic mod- el or as a superdetailed kit with cer- tain details being marked “optional.” This really applies to the underframe, which has the most detailed brake sys- tem I've ever seen. Even though the skirting would hide most of these de- tails, I' modeled them because I was fascinated with the detail T used the few photos I had of the cars to identify the locations of most of the major components. The only two that had to be added were the air con ditioning compressor and condenser. I used a Precision Scale Company Frigidaire compressor and the front of an Eastern Car Works condenser. The box for it was made from .020" styrene. Tassembled the steps, but set them aside for painting. The couplers also are a novel design. They are body mounted but can pivot. I prefer to be able to remove the coupler, so I drilled and tapped 2-56 holes for he" flat head ‘The car comes with nicely engi neered and beautifully detailed six wheel trucks, and holes are provided in the underframe for mounting both centered four-wheel and off-center mounted six-wheel trucks. While the four-wheel trucks on the Lehigh Valley cars had a unique shape and are not commercially available, the Eastern Car Works, Pullman Standard four-wheel truck has an 8'- 0” wheelbase and is a close match. ‘These trucks must be assembled and do not come with wheels, The car will sit almost a foot too high on the stock ECW trucks, but this ean be addressed before the trucks are assembled by carving off the bolster ridge by using a No. 18 hobby knife blade. With this done, the car sits 11'-1" to the top of the side and has an overall height of 14'-2", which matehes well with cars I have from other manufacturers. The sides of the Lehigh Valley car were ac- tually 11'-3%" high and 13'-11%%/e' overall Tsaved the Branchline trucks for an- other project, so I used NorthWest Short Line 36” wheels I had on hand and which roll very nicely in the BCW trucks. Art O'Toole, a friend who is a mem. ber of the Passenger Car Group on Ya- hoo, provided a list of other four-wheel trucks which members had mentioned for this kit. These include Central Val ley non-riveted frame trucks; Bethle hem car Works No. 95: Precision Seale Company No. 33026 (brass), 33207 (brass kit), or 38208 (plastic kkit)s and Railworks NYC trucks. Roof The kit comes with two different styles of clerestory sides for the roof. One has molded-on Ward vents and the other represents the vents covered over. The Lehigh Valley cars were built with Garland vents, which are avail- able from Bethlehem Car Works. The vents were covered over when these cars were air conditioned, so I used the roof with covered vents Globe vents are included for the lava- tories, but on the Lehigh Valley cars these vents were taller. A short piece of Evergreen rod was glued to the casting to obtain the proper height, and ‘/is" holes were drilled on the opposite side from the locator tabs for the NYC car Other roof details added were: (020" x .020" styrene for the rain gut- ters over the doors and ends, Detail As- sociates passenger car roof grabs and Westerfield 23" grabs over the lavato- ries, plus .035° rod for the small air vent. ‘There was one unique vent located directly over the air conditioning clos- et. This vent was quite large: approxi- mately 2’-0" wide and a foot high with a curved shape which made these cars easy to identify in train photos. Mak. ing a similar vent for another project (LV business car 353) had perplexed me for sometime, as no commercial castings were availabl I fabricated the vent from styrene with the box part formed from a piece of "x10" strip, 1'-8" long and a piece of 060" x .156" (approximately 5%/"x14 HO scale) strip 2'-0" long. Two seale 12" x 12" pieces of 015" styrene were temporarily joined and filed to obtain the curve shape of the sides, and a rec- tangular piece of .010" styrene 1'-8) wide was rolled over a drill bit end to AUGUST 2008;obtain the curved shape. This was then glued to the separated side pieces. A piece of 1" x 3" strip formed the bottom of the vent. (See the photos.) The two smokers also appeared to have an exhaust fan on the side oppo- site the air conditioning vent. I used a Walthers metal exhaust fan which is no longer produced, but which might be found at established hobby shops. I filed it down to 6" wide and located it above the third window on the left side. Lighting ‘The sight of a passenger train pass- ing by at night is one of the memories I will never forget, and an illuminated model train with passengers visible in the windows is just as eye-catching, ‘The Branchline kit makes no mention of lighting, nor is any provision made or it. 1 like the lighting effect in Bach- mann’s Spectrum cars, which uses only one bulb and a light bar which provides constant illumination throughout an 85-foot car. The power can be fed through wipers attached to the trucks, and the clean track required to operate DCC and sound systems helps to make a single bulb system effective without creating a significant electrical load. The light bar and 16 volt bulb are usually available from Bachmann's parts department and are inexpensive. Another suggestion for the bulb is to use a 45 ma, 14-volt grain of wheat bulb, The light bar was too wide, but a few strokes of a mill file took care of that, Bachmann's earlier light bars were clear plastic wrapped with alu- minum foil on the top and sides which provides very good illumination. The recent ones seem to be flat black on top, which doesn't seem to diffuse the light as well. I removed the paint and cov- ered the bar with Reynolds's heavy aluminum foil. A strip of electrical tape was placed directly under the bulb to produce uniform lighting. Because the roof is removable (on the ‘one kit version of the car), T used Min: tronics two-pin miero-mini connectors in the wiring. The pins can be separated if ‘one is very careful, and one package will provide enough to do four cars. One wire "was run from the light to each end of the car with the connectors in the lavatories, ‘The other end of the wire was soldered to Rivarossi_six-wheel truck wipers which were then attached to the bottom ‘of the trucks with eyanoacrylate cement. Wipers can also be fabricated from .005" brass or one can use Bachmann tender truck wipers. Painting ‘After washing all parts, I started by spraying the bottom of the roof, interi- AILAOAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN or walls, partitions and vestibule inte- rior with a very light green, a mixture of Testors aeryl Semi-gloss White and Pale Green. The seats were dark green, but I painted them Interior Green for better visibility. The roof interior was painted with Floquil’s Aged White, while the interior floor and_metai weight were sprayed with their SP Let- tering Gray. The roof, underbody, trucks and steps were painted flat black. For the Cornell Red sides, ends and vestibule interior I added 15 drops of black to '/s 7, of Testors acrylic Guards Red. This very closely matches the red Stewart used on their LV diesels, and it is clos- est. to the color I remember on their trains, The A/C vents in the skirting were dry brushed with the Cornell Red and the underbody components were dry brushed with Tarnished Black, which was also used to paint the di- aphragms. The face plate was rubbed with a lead pencil and finished with a Rust wash. Tused Microscale Lehigh Valley pas- senger decals, MC-4197, which were reproduced with contributions from the Anthracite Railroads Historical Soci- ety. These cars had 7" high letters and 6” numbers. The smaller set of num- bers was placed over the exterior vestibule door. The passenger equip- ment was well maintained until the end, s0 I used Model Master Sen clear over the Cornell red. To finish the assembly I started with the body by attaching the trucks, cou- plers, steps, weight, and interior floor. ‘The windows in the vestibule and exte- rior doors and partition were attached using small beads of Microscale’s, Kristal Clear. The vestibule interior, lavatory, A/C locker and smoking par- tition walls were then attached with liquid cement. Assorted figures from Preiser and Woodland Scenics were at- tached with Microscale Liquidtape to bring the ear to life. Before gluing the sides to the body, the windows were snapped into place. They have a small bevel which faces in- ward and did not require any glue to hold them. A piece of frosted acetate (found at an art supply store) was placed in front of the lavatory windows, ‘The dark green paper stock used for the curtains was cut to varying lengths and also attached using Liquidtape, which dries clear Finally, the sides were at- tached using liquid cement. The light bar fit snugly inside the roof, so it ean be easily removed if the bulb burns out. The root has a lip which snaps over the interior of the sides. While it fit snugly before painting, dur- ing final assembly it would not seat. This was remedied by deepening the -gloss top notch on the lavatory, A/C locker, and partition walls. ‘The finished car weighed 6.5 ounces, the NMRA recom- ‘mended weight for a car of this length, ‘That completed the ear; it operates in the company of a small, but growing fleet of Lehigh Valley passenger equip- ment on my HO scale layout. @& Parts list Precision Scale Company No, 31008 Figiaire compressor Detail Associates "No. P6603. Roo adder gabe Eastern Car Works ‘No, 9008. P.S 4-nhee! passenger tucks ‘No. 9103 PRAVPullman under car dots Walters No, 947-1072 2.56% Hated seems No. 961-1178. Exhaust fans (nt avalatle) Westertiold 23° straight grab irons Tichy Train No, 2018. Drop grab ions ‘Bachmann Industries No. 6602 Light tube No. 6603. Light bulb Miniatronies No. §0:001-02 Tworpin, micro-min ‘connectors Rivarossi No. 220-001 Eletica pickup NorthWest Short Line No. §9:371184 96" whois Microscale Decals MC-4197 LV passenger cars, 1999-1972 “estore Model Master Acrylic: No. 4701 Sem-ioss white ‘No. 4632 Guards Red ‘No, 736. interior Groon No. 4768. Flat Black FMO2016 Semi-glss clear 514227 Pale Green Floquil Paints ‘Aged Write SP Letting Gray Tarmished Black ‘Steam Power Black Evergreen Scale Models No. 120 020" x 020" Styrene stip No. 157.060" x.156" Styrene stip No, 8103. HO 1°x3" Siyene stip No, 8204 HO 2x4" Siyrene stip No. 8408 HO 4"x 6° Styne stip No. 08 HO 4" x8" Styrene str No, 8404 HO 4" x 10° Styrene stipThe new Rollins Bridge Anew bridge spans an old location/Charles Yungkurth BNSF GE’s lead a freight across the new bridge over South Boulder Creek at Tolland, Colorado, on the former D&RGW (now ‘nthe January, 2005, issue, RaIRoaD Piece pin a ticle on the continued use of wood pile trestles on “here and now” mainline railroads. Although these trestles are disappearing because of high mainte- nance costs and the shortage of heavy timbers, there are still many of these veterans in service, One of the trestles pictured was on the former D&RGW line a few miles east of Moffat Tunnel, cur: rently used daily by about twenty Union Pacific and BNSF heavy freights, along with two Amtrak scheduled passenger trains. It was about 120 feet long on a very gentle curve. After not visiting the UP route near the tunnel for over a year I was sur- prised to find that the pile trestle span ning South Boulder Creek had been re- placed by a new, three-span structure of pre-cast concrete sections. I probably should not have been surprised since this line handles heavy coal trains and the trestle had been in use for many years. Since this is a route with very heavy traffic the old bridge had to have been dismantled and replaced with a minimum of interruption to train traf fic. Often in bridge engineering, design: ing the actual structure is a’ routine task as compared to the planning, cy up) scheduling, and actual construction, With my’ background and interest in engineering it was only natural that I would do some “reverse engineering” and figure out how they did the replace- ‘ment without shutting down the line for weeks, especially since there is no rea- sonable way of re-routing traffic between western Colorado coal mines and routes leading east from Denver. An inspection of the new bridge showed that the main spans were pre-cast concrete beams, meaning they were cast in forms at a concrete plant, then brought to the site. Tt was also obvious that the new sup- porting piers, pier caps, and abutments of concrete could be poured in forms ¢ to Moffat Tunnel (above). In 2004 a timber trestle still Served at this location (page 69); the train is the California Zephyr. while the existing trestle was still in use. ‘The four new cylindrical piers in the stream were easily constructed while the old trestle was still in place since they were beyond the deck of the existing tres- tle. Five-foot diameter holes were drilled in the stream bed down to solid rock us: ing heavy earth augers, then steel pipe sections were placed in the drilled holes and filled with conerete. Forms were con- structed on top of each pair of piers and concrete poured for the massive pier caps that carry each set of two pre-cast con- crete beams for the spans. End abut ments at the ends of the bridge were also poured in forms underneath the still use, old trestle. One can be sure that this Bridge replacement [AUGUST 2008work was done in the late summer di season when snow-fed Boulder Creel was down toa tiny flow After the new piers and abutments were completed, a portion of the old timber deck between the new piers, along with track and ballast, v moved and the pre-cast conere beams put in place. Ballast was then RAILROAD MODs RAFTSMAN, spread in the trough formed by the ex. tended portions of the beams, and the ties and rail put back in place on the new span. The new beams were brought to the site on flat cars. A rail-mounted crane was used ahead of the flat car, lifting the beams from the car and swinging them around and lowering them into position on the piers and abutments, Bach pre-cast beam weighs around 40 tons, which puts them well within the hoisting range and reach of rail-mount ced wrecking cranes. Where stre ditions and environmental restrictions permit a heavy duty truck mounted crane in the stream bed could be used for this type of work. While not visible unless the bridge is examined closely, the beams are actu- ally hollow “box section” type with two longitudinal square openings in each section. The hollow center saves dead ‘weight and conerete and is not required to carry the loads. (In structural engi- neering parlance, “dead weight” is the weight of the bridge itself that must be supported while “live load” is the weight, of the train or other variable load) Steel reinforcing bars are placed in the concrete beam when it is poured. Double cell, pre-cast box beams are generally used for spans up to fifty feet long. Longer beams up to a hundred feet are usually single cell, while those less than thirty feet are most often just simple steel reinforced concrete slabs. Nearly all such box section beams are prestressed.” Conerete is very weak in tension (think “stretching”) and very strong in compression (think “squeez- ing’). If the beam ean be designed so that when it is loaded no part ofits ever in tension the weight and amount ofThe new Rollins bridge conerete used can be greatly reduced. This is accomplished by embedding high strength wires longitudinally in the ‘beam when it is cast. The wires are each tightened to a very high load and re- tainers are placed at each end so that a high compressive loading is maintained in the entire beam even after the jack or other wire tensioning device is removed. Hence, the beam is “pre-stressed.” When loading is applied to a typical beam the top part of the beam is com- pressed and the bottom is stretched and is in tension. In a pre-stressed beam, the concrete is already in such a high degree of compression that the stress caused by the applied loading Union Pacific R.R. South Boulder Creek bridge . Drawn by Chuck Yungkurth AUGUST 2008have used to replace the pile trestle in terms of the cost of the bridge alone. A steel span of plate girders with connect: ing members, beams under the rails, and a steel plate pan to hold the ballast certainly would have been cheaper. The in-stream piers could probably been eliminated by a single, long steel span of girders or trusses, but such a steel struc- ture would have required assembling the steel sections at the site, tearing out the old trestle before erection of the new bridge was even started. This would take the line out of service for weeks, re- sulting in a huge loss of revenue; not to mention the inconvenience to shippers. A series of concrete arches or large cul verts would also take a long construe- 2—____» tion time, so when the total expense of construction cost considers lost revenue the expensive span was the least costly. Building a model of such a very mod. ern bridge would be a very simple task. ‘The span girders, piers, pier caps, and abutments could easily be built from wood shapes and dowel or by building up from styrene sheet and tubing. Since the bridge has a ballasted deck flexible track can simply be glued to the top of the model, then ballasted by the same means as the approaching track. The only real challenge is modeling the grating type walkways and railings. Etched freight car roof walks are quite similar to the metal grate walks and various plastic railings that are readil available would be an acceptable com- promise to the prototype (although sol dered components for these parts would certainly be more rugged). For those who don’t want to get in- volved in seratchbuilding model con- crete bridge components of this type, in HO scale BLMAmodels.com has injec- tion-molded kits and the Scale Bridge The new bridge was actually built “around” the old trestle since the posts are placed Company sells east plaster kits closely wider than its deck. This minimized interruptions to rail service on this heavily-traf- resembling those shown on the Union ficked line. The pre-stressed beams were manufactured off-site and brought in by rail. Pacific plans published here, Ss | eait—oe| Section A-A merely subtracts from the initial com pression in the bottom of the beam, Hence, the conerete never goes into ten sion and the problem of low tensile strength of conerete is circumvented, ‘An internet search revealed that there is a thriving business for compa- nies doing engineering and construction of replacements for these aging timber pile trestles, Their design and replace- ment is pretty much as I had deduced, ‘The technology involved consists of building new concrete abutments, piers, and pier caps while the old trestle is still in use, My search was done under “pre- cast concrete railroad bridges” ‘The choice of pre-cast box beams with in-stream piers and concrete pier caps was certainly not the least expensive strueture that the Union Pacific could RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN,The Peterboro project en een eM oer aa ae mer) ometimes in this hobby we all want to try something different. That was the case in the summer of 2006 when Pierre Oliver and I decid: ed to build The Peterboro Project. Pierre normally models the Cana dian National Railways in Palmerston, Ontario, in 1950, while my home lay out, as regular RMC readers know, is freelanced O scale effort closely pat terned on the Maine two-foot lines and set in the 1920's, But, Pierre and I were intrigued by the Free-mo modular standard (see sidebar) and we both had in doing something more modern, so we decided to build a stand. alone exhibition layout that was also Free-mo compliant. This would allow us to demonstrate Free-mo at shows and encourage others to consider alter natives to the “giant oval” format of more traditional modular standards Design criteria Pierre and I agreed that we should pick a real place to model because we The work done for the day, the Peterboro crew head for home (above). The SW1200RS land transfer caboose are about to cross the {ON swing bridge over the Otonabee River. GN 7310, a caboose, and a short cut of cars ‘emerge from beneath the Highway 7 over pase and enter the New Yard area (ght) felt Free-mo really shines when it is used to accurately portray a prototype location-something that’s difficult to accomplish using other modular ap- proaches, We accepted that this would require extra work to research the place, seratchbuild or kitbash accurate structures, and so on, but what proto: type to pick? To answer this, we draft ed a list of a half-dozen desirable fea tures to help us select a prototype *First on the list was a Southern Ontario location because that's where we would most often exhibit this new layout and a local theme would res- onate more with our audience ‘Since I already owned some modern CN switch engines and vans (cabooses)that suggested a mid-1980's to early 1990's era, and a Canadian National theme, *We wanted a track arrangement that, from a physical perspective, was typical of prototype railroading but not often modeled on a home layout be- cause of space constraints, ‘*Wo also wanted a track arrange- ment that, from an operational per- spective, would create an entertaining stand-alone layout, but one that would also work well as part of a larger Free- ‘mo layout. ‘*Another requirement was a proto- type that would build into a fairly ex- tensive module that was sure to attract attention at local shows. Fortunately, Pierre runs the set-building workshop for the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, and this professional theater company graciously allowed us to use the shop during its summertime quiet period to work on Peterboro, With a 10,000 square-foot, fully equipped shop at our disposal, we simply had to build something big to act as an anchor mod- ule for any Free-mo community that developed in the Southern Ontario area. When we started Peterboro, we knew of no other modelers in the region working to the Free-mo standard and we wanted to inspire others to join us. ‘This was an opportunity to show our fellow hobbyists what Free-mo could do that other standards could not. *At the same time, we also wanted a prototype that was small enough and simple enough that two motivated peo- ple could build, maintain, store, set up and—most importantly transport, We decided from the start that if we could- n'tfit it into Pierre's minivan, it was too much layout. Fortunately, Pierre's RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN ‘The Peterboro module drew crowds at the 2007 Toronto Christmas Train Show (above). One of the module's builders, Pierre Oliver (orange jacket), entertains kids large and small ‘Many people were excited by the Free-mo concept, proving that the best way to generate interest in a new aspect of the hobby is to bulld something and take it out to a show. This view (below) looks across New Yard from the southeast. The lower right spur serves Trent ‘Timber Treating. Peterboro Cardboard is adjacent to Lansdowne Road in the upper right. Using short peninsulas off the main "spine" of the module allowed the benchwork to con- {orm to the physical track arrangement of the prototype. Meantime, using straight-sided ‘sections of equal width allowed the module to be tightly packed for transport and storage. work experience means he's used to building large things that must also pack tightly and be easy to move, so we were able to build quite a bit of layout and still take it on the road. (More on that later.) Picking Peterboro Pierre and I looked through a num- ber of books and scoured web sites that featured prototype track maps and as- signment charts. We considered seg- ments of Cambridge, Chatham and ‘Thorold, Ontario, but in the end, we chose a part of CN’s operations in Peterborough (or “Peterboro”, as it was known on the railway), a small south- ern Ontario city about two hours north- east of Toronto on the Canadian National’s Campbellford Subdivision.‘The crew of CN 7302 (above) switch the Skyway Fertilizer lead. The National Grocers ‘warehouse Is just to the south of Highway 7. Portant customer in the Peterborough Industri agit makes pasta sauce, and is an im- Park (below). Here, the CN switch crew carefully position a boxcar next to the building. The modest yard at the CN Express ‘building (page 75) features two tracks ending at a TOFC ramp, but it never sees trailers today. instead, the yard is used mostly for storing m.o.w. equipment wh . two CN hoppers bask in the sul nt from Lindsay to Belleville to pass through town ‘being done in the at Lup to wait for the loc: Hi Peterboro was once a reasonably busy place on the Canadian National and the railroad’s presence in the city ‘was too extensive to model in its entire- ty. However, in the southeast corner of the city we found a small yard and ad- jacent industrial park that met our de- sign criteria Pierre and I first encountered CN's “New Yard” and the Peterborough Industrial Park (PIP) in Keith Hansen's Last Trains from Linsday (Sandy Publications, 1997: ISBN 0-9681215. 0), which chronicles the CN lines in this part of Ontario. The pictures and track ‘maps here were enough to get us start- ed and convince us that a trip to Peterborough was in order. ‘The New Yard was so called because it was built in the mid-1970’s to move CN out of downtown Peterborough. The city wanted the land and working the old yard tied up too many city streets. ‘The railway agreed to move its oper- ations out of the downtown, along. its line to Belleville, Ontario. New Yard was modest, consisting of passing sid- ing and three spurs. One spur served a freight house for the railway’s CN Express business, while the other two ended at a piggyback ramp. The ex- press building saw business for a few years and many photos show a CN bag gage car spotted next to it, but event ally all of this type of traffic moved off the rails onto trucks and the former CN building became a farm equipment 1 track work 3 the Peterboro crew ties dealer. The railw. ‘Trailer-On-Flat-Car (TOFC) business never materialized. Still, New Yard was a useful place for sorting traffic for a couple of nearby in dustries with spurs off the mai well as for the few rail-served cus tomers in the Peterborough Industrial Park just to the south, In addition, it was often used as a storage site for non- revenue equipment when CN’s main- tenance-of-way forces were in the area. For a few years New Yard really did act as a yard, as the way freight out of Belleville would use it to drop a loco- hoped-for, local motive and all traffic for Peterboro, A yard crew would then come on duty and ‘spot and lift cars at locations through- out the city while the road crew contin ued on to Lindsay. The next morning, the eastbound way freight out of Lind say would collect the lifts and. the Peterboro yard locomotive on its way to Belleville. For a brief time in 1987—shortly be- fore CN transferred its operations in the city to CP Rail-Peterboro was served out of Toronto via Lindsay, which created an interesting operating situation. Lindsay was a Toronto job, while Peterboro was assigned to a Belleville crew. When CN tried to amalgamate the two jobs, the union pushed back until a compromise was reached: The way freight out of Toronto was equipped with two locomotives and two vans (cabooses). At Lindsay, the train was split in two. The Toronto crew would switch customers in Lindsay, while a Belleville crew taxied to Lindsay and ran their portion of the train to Peterboro to work the cus- tomers there. When the Peterboro job returned to Lindsay, the two trains were recombined into a single way freight. The Toronto crew worked the train back to their home yard, while the Belleville crew taxied home From a modeling perspective, New Yard and PIP had just twelve turnouts between them, which Pierre and I felt was a manageable number for two peo- ple to build and maintain. Physically, however, the spurs struck out from the main track at all kinds of odd angles, making this prototype ideal for us to show just how flexible the Free-mo standard could be. When we realized that we could incorporate a nearby swing bridge that carries the CN over the Otonobee River (part of the Trent. ‘Severn water system), the die was cast. AUGUST 2008Design for transport We knew, however, that it didn't mat- ter how interesting New Yard and PIP appeared. What really mattered was, “Can we get it into the minivan?” Pierre took tape measure to hand and reported that we could fit module sections up to five feet long in the back. We could also stack up to five sections, provided we made the sections fairly thin and could rack them fairly close together. The Free-mo standard specifies a 24” wide interface point so our first inclin: tion was to use that for our module se tions, but we realized that would limit us to single stack. If we made our sec- tions 18” wide, we could do two stacks, or double our fun, although we would have to create short trapezoidal seg- ments to bring Peterboro back out to the Free-mo spec at each end. Of course, each of these segments would have to be straight-sided. To ac commodate curves, we designed in an- gles at section ends. We also realized that not alll sections had to be five feet long. For example, a shorter section could be used for a peninsula to support a spur that swings away from the main track. This allowed us to create paired sections that would be used in very dif ferent places on the module, but occupy ‘a single level in the racks for storage and transport. Planning Peterboro Measuring the minivan told us we could accommodate up to ten 60" x 18° sections, which represented 50 linear feet of module, plenty of real estate for a prototype with just twelve turnouts! The next challenge was to translate the prototypes track arrangement onto this 50 linear feet. Pierre and I realized that as a stand- alone layout, we'd need some staging, RAJLROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, so we reserved one five-foot section for a sector plate, Using a sector plate in- stead of a traditional yard would give us more storage for the space and re- duce turnout maintenance. We're able to store more than 40 pieces of equip- eal raliroads go trom place to place ‘and do real work along the way. Trains rarely chase their tails around large oval mainlines, but many modular standards were developed to do just that. While thousands of hobbyists enjoy building modules to these conventional standards, others have looked for an alter ative that would allow them to more accu- rately model the appearance and opera- tion of real railroads, In HO scale, Free-mo is one of the most, successtul solutions. Its a North American standard that was adapted in the mid- 1990's from a European standard called FREMO. Since then, it has successfully ‘been used to build hundreds of modules depicting single- or double-track raliroad- ing in the United States and Canada. Some groups have even adapted the Free-mo standard for use in other scales ‘and gauges. How it's different Most modular standards specify accept able sizes and shapes for modules. These restrictions ensure that modules can be connected together to form large oval la ‘outs with continuous mainline loops, But they also severely restrict layout design because track, structures and scenic fea- ture must be shoehomed into these rigid module frames. With Free-mo, the modeler is able to build modules of any size and shape, bro- ken into any number of sections for stor ‘age and transport. Only the interface points and aspects directly atfecting the ‘operation of rains ~such as ral size, curve radii and tumout numbers, and wiring— What is Free-mo? ‘must conform to the standard, This freedom means modelers can de- sigh their module frames to follow a proto- type track arrangement, instead of the oth- ler way around. The only mits are what an Individual or group can build, maintain, transport, setup, and store, Putting it all together People build Free-mo modules with op- eration in mind, and groups of Free-mo en: thusiasts gather fo join their modules into layouts fo run trains. Since modules can ‘be any shape or size, Free-mo gatherings take a bit more planning than setting up a traditional, oval-type modular layout, ‘person called the Fun Chief organizes ‘and coordinates a Free-mo meet. The Run ‘Chief measures the venue and determines how the modules willbe linked together to fit the available space. This task is made easier if those contributing modules tothe event can provide, ahead of time, an accu- rate and scaled drawing oftheir modules. This allows the Fun Chief to plan with con- fidence, Want to know more? ‘The full Free-mo standard explains how tobulida module, ands available online at the Free-mo home page: http:/ivww Aree: ‘mo.org. This site also has many afticles, links to Free-mo groups across North ‘America, reports on past Free-mo meets, land other useful information. “Those looking for mare information can Join the Free-mo Yahoo group, which isthe ‘online meeting place for hundreds of Free mo enthusiasts: http//groups.yahoo.com/ {rOUpIFree-mo,— TREVOR MARSHALLThe Peterboro project This bird's eye view of the Peterborough Industrial Park from above the mainline (top) shows the National Grocers warehouse in the lower right, while Skyway Fertilizers is in the center. The blue building to the right is Ragu. To the left of the train is Domex while the tall building infront of the train is the Peterborough Co- ‘op. Looking east across New Yard (below) the CN Express build ing Is visible to the lower right, while the future home of Trent Timber Treating is on the short peninsula on the opposite side of the mainline. The Highway 7 overpass and industrial park can be ‘een in the distance. Despite the many peninsulas and unusual overall shape, this is all considered a single module and was de- signed to showcase one of the key capabilities of Free-mo: the ability to let a prototype track arrangement dictate benchwork de- sign, instead of being forced to hammer a prototype into a prede- termined shape. Free-mo modules and layouts are intended to be ment on our five-track sector plate. Each track can accommodate a train of half-dozen cars, afour-axle diesel and a van, which is a perfectly reasonable train length for operating Peterboro as a switching layout Pierre also suggested, and I agreed, that placing the prototype's. straight mainline on a very large radius curve would add some visual interest and also some much-needed stability when setting up Peterboro. (Remember, the sections are only 18" wide, and Free-mo specifies a rail height of 50" above the floor.) We accomplished this by design- ing trapezoids for most of the sections used between the north end of the mod- ule and the swing bridge. From one end ofthe mainline to the other, the module deflects about 20 degrees. When it came time to transfer the traekplan from graph paper to the module, we imply grabbed a 20-foot length of thin steel bar from the supplies in Pierre's workshop and used it as a giant ease- ‘ment tool, securing the ends perpendic- ular to and centered on the Lansdowne Street and Swing Bridge sections and allowing the bar to find its own natural resting point across the intermediate sections that make up New Yard. We estimate the radius is more than 80 feet, and a train looks fantastic tra- 76 versing this cosmetic curve. We made a number of other changes to the prototype as well: ‘*We restored the spur into a factory at the Lansdowne Street end of New Yard. We were not sure whether this served Peterborough Cardboard or an- other, adjacent factory but the card: board company was a more interesting building, so that's the one we picked, ‘The National Grocers spur should be on the west side of the main track, but ‘we moved it to the east side because it fit better on an already track-heavy section. ‘*We restored a spur into PIP that used to serve the Outboard Marine com enjoyed from both sides, so no backdrops are used, pany, but was lifted sometime in the 1960's. As well, during the planning of the module Pierre and I discovered some wonderful sulfuric acid tank car kits that we just had to have, so we tre planted Skyway Fertilizers a few hun- dred miles from Smithville in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula. (See the June and July, 2005, issues of RMC for more on Smithville.) The Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo Railway served Skyway and, as a fan of the TH&B, I'd always wanted to model this industry. In addition, fertiliz- er companies are the largest consumers of sulfuric acid and there are a number of other agriculture-based businesses in ‘AUGUST 2008‘An overview of the Peterboro Project Free-mo module, from south to north shows the piv- ‘ting sector plate used as a staging yard. Note the gentle curve through the mainline from staging yard to New Y The prototype's mainline was straight here, but this gentle ‘curve helps greatly with stability when the tall, narrow module sections are set up. Peterborough, s0 this was a reasonable substitution, ‘*We moved the Otonabee River two miles southeast of where itis in real life, to put the swing bridge to the south of New Yard. This gave us a longer lead be- tween PIP and the sector plate, making it easier to switch the industrial park. We adhered to the Free-mo spec for everything that mattered. That means we set our rail height at 50° above the floor, made our interface plates 24° x 6", used code 83 rail on the mainline and double-ended sidings and Number 8 turnouts for any tracks that mainline trains might use, adopted Digitrax as our DCC standard, and fitted our inter- face points with Cinch-Jones electrical connectors. Elsewhere, we had no issues with ad- justing the standards to suit our tastes. For example, we wanted lighter rail on secondary tracks, so we used code 70 for spurs. We also wanted tighter curves in PIP to give it more of an industrial park feel, so we squeezed the radius to as lit- tle as 24°—tight indeed, but fine for a four-axle switcher shoving one or two foot cars ata realistic crawl, And, our wiring within the module is all done us ing Anderson PowerPole connectors, which we like better than the Cinch: Jones style. With the PowerPoles, we ‘were able to gang together several sets of wires into a single block, and make each pair of connectors unique so that cables cannot be accidentally plugged together incorrectly. Construction tips Building Peterboro. was _ pretty straightforward so there's no need to pro- vide a blow-by-blow description of how we did it, That said, Pierre has more than three decades of experience as a builder of theater sets, so he has some good tips for building portable benchwork ‘Materials are important. We framed each section with a premium ¥¢ plywood known as D-3, which has a poplar plywood core and paint-grade birch face veneers. This provided the best combination of strength, weight and dimensional stability. We incorpo- rated leg sockets into each frame to simplify set-up, and topped our frames with 4’ good-one-side poplar plywood. *To speed construction, use good quality glue and hold components to- gether using a power brad nailer. These “oversized staplers” are a good if you're building a lot of RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, ee ‘ore 20 Peterboro HO scale Free-mo layoutThe Peterboro project train swings off the mainline and into the Peterborough Industrial Park. The white build- ing above the locomoti benchwork (whether for a permanent or portable layout). Round robin groups or clubs may want to purchase one to spread the cost among several people. ‘The brads will hold everything togeth- er while the glue dries, and building benchwork with a power nailer is much faster than using clamps. ‘Instead of building legs using 2" x 2" stock, we glued up L-girder style legs from finger-jointed pine, which has had all knots and other blemishes cut out. This puts wood grain in two direc- tions and helps keep legs from warping over time. ‘*Any portable layout will have a number of components that must be as. sembled when setting up. Legs will need braces, power supply shelves will need to be installed, removable build ing bases will need to be secured to the sections, module sections will need to be secured in racks for transport—the list goes on. For all of these compo- nents, standardize on a single fastener system. For Peterboro, we used No. 10 stove bolts and blind 'T-nuts for every- thing. We drilled a hole through both pieces to be fastened, slipped a bolt through, spun the nut on, then ham- mered the nut into place. This ensures the nut is properly aligned in the hole. The benefit of using a single fastener ‘comes when setting up or tearing down at a show. Pierre and I ean each grab a fistful of bolts and one screwdriver to set up Peterboro-from opening the back door of the van to running our first trainin under 90 minutes. Tearing down is even faster, taking just under an hour. Not bad for two people and fifty feet of layout. 7% is Skyway Fertilizer, while the bl In the upper right, New Yard and the CN Express building can be seen in the di building beyond itis Ragu. *One thing to which we could have paid more attention during benchwork construction was the clamping surfaces between sections. We have been able to address this subsequently, and it helps that we're using good quality quick-re- lease clamps. It pays to think about this at the design stage. ‘Label everything. Don't rely on re- membering where things go from mod ule rally to module rally. Even items that are supposed to be identical, such as the leg assemblies on Peterboro, have been fitted to specific modules. We used a permanent marker on the underside of each module section, all log sections, all braces, structure bases, and so on. Each module section was la- beled with an A or a B to help orient it in the transport racks. The labels on the racks help us determine what order to pack up sections when it’s time to tear down Peterboro. Putting on the show Pierre and I have had a chance to set up and operate Peterboro in both Free- mo and stand-alone formats, and it's great fun either way. When used as an exhibition layout we set up three trains on the sector plate, representing three days’ worth of westbound way freights out of Belle- ville. Each train consists of four to six cars each plus a locomotive and van. We use a fourth track for extra power, vans or unusual equipment (such as maintenance-of-way gravel hoppers or ‘a CN baggage car for the express building), while we set aside the fifth track as an arrival track. Meantime, another dozen or so cars are scattered about New Yard and PIP. ‘We run one train at a time, stopping at New Yard to sort the way freight’s consist and plan our moves. We haven't, yet introduced a ear-forwarding system although it would fairly easy to set up Peterboro for car card and waybill op- eration. Instead, somebody (Pierre, me, or even a spectator at the show) plays: freight agent, designating four to six cars to pick up, figuring out where cars in the train should be set out (some cars, like the sulfurie acid tank cars, have only one possible consignee, but boxcars can go anywhere) and we go from there. When a crew is finished its work in Peterboro, the train is reassembled heading east and taken back to the Belleville sector plate. We repeat this with the other trains, then take a quick break from operations to re-set the see- tor plate. We usually only have to do this once or twice during a day-long show, and spectators are fascinated by how we use the five-track sector plate to re-stage the trains, When Peterboro takes part in a Free- mo module rally, we start a switch en- gine and van on the express track in New Yard, and seater a dozen or 80 cars around the various spurs. We then pull industries until we have five or six ears, which we place on the runaround track in New Yard. The next way freight through Peterboro will lift these cars and drop a similar number box- cars, tank cars and covered hoppers. The Peterboro yard crew then delivers to customers, coordinating with the dis- patcher for use of the main track. Another set of cars is pulled from in- dustries, set in the runaround track, and the eycle repeats. Try something new For us, Free-mo represents a great opportunity to work with a scale, era or prototype that is outside one’s primary interest. What’s more, it’s a great way to model real places ‘and share them with friends and fellow hobbyists. While my main focus will remain Maine two-footers in O scale, I can en- vision the space under the home layout filling up with Free-mo modules of var- ious sizes and themes. I expect the same thing will happen in. Pierre's basement. We have sold Peterboro to a person in the Ottawa, Ontario, area and we are both planning new places to tackle in Free-mo, Pierre is building double-track modules based on_ the Canada Southern Railway (a New York Central subsidiary through southern Ontario). Me? Well, stay tuned. Why don’t you give Free-mo a try too? Ifyou do, maybe we'll see you at a mod- ule rally sometime soon! = ‘Auaust 2008Improving an IHC 4-4-0 Modifying a classic HO model/Hakan Nilsson the 10th conta, thn most om inthe United States mas the Amer. jean Standard 4-40, ft was present on thebotiofilds and on the way to them pulling soldiers and weaponry in tho Civil War. It was present when the great transcontinental railroads were being built across the young nation. It was present when the first Pullman sleeping cars arrived on the scene. The American type reigned for decades un- ‘The old style oll hea RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN ht received special attention. On the mod- cl its illuminated by an LED that barely sticks out through the back of the housing. The lens itself is poured epoxy; a resistor in- til newer and bigger locomotives came to haul the increasingly-heavier trains as the 20th century approached. The board of my fictional railroad company, The California Railway & Navigation Company (set in the side the boiler drops the current to It. The author also modified the drawbar to improve the reliability of the electrical path be- tween the tender and the locomotive; note the thin spring clip.Improving an IHC 4-4-0 1880's) decided that, as passenger cars and trains became bigger and heavier the time had come to order bigger 4-4-0 from back east. The older locomotives were too smalii and, fre quently, double-heading had become necessary to make the grades and keep the schedules, ‘The individual that wants to model an American Standard 4-4-0 from the latter half of the 19th century has a challenge in HO scale. There aren't many commercial models to work with. Except for brass, the only mass-pro- duced models of these common locomo- tives in HO are the Bachmann stan- dard 4-4-0, the old Mantua General ‘now from Model Power), and the IHC old-time 4-4-0. The IHC old-time 4-4-0 is similar to the Pocher and Rivarossi models imported by AHM years ago and is a good starting point with a mechanism that runs fairly well ‘They are modeled from the Virginia & Truckee’s Genoa and Reno and are, as often mentioned by others, a bit oversize for HO (10-15 percent) com pared to their prototypes. However they can make good models of big 4-4 O's from around 1880-1890, before the Americans changed much from their classic appearance ‘The model runs quite good from the box with exception of the low speed per- formance and an excessive top speed This can be traced to the motor, the power pickup and the low gearbox ra tio. The gearbox ratio is the most diff cult to modify. The only simple solution is to change the motor to one with a gear-head like a Faulhaber or Maxon, but these cost a lot, more than the loco itself. I went for another alternative Since I wanted the locomotive to be equipped for DCC, I added a decoder. This can improve the running charac- teristics of most locomotives. Together with changing the motor and better electrical pickup on the tender wheels, I got much better performance out of the loco. For the electrical pickup, I used the method described in the March, 2007, RMC by Harold Minkwitz. The engine now starts at barely a crawl, a steady 0.5 smph, and runs smoothly up to the programmed maximum speed. which I set to 40 seale miles per hour Talso wanted to get away from the plastic look of the model as it comes from the box and give it a different look without. adding too many details, or changing it a lot. I went for a dark green paint scheme that I devised from information found on the inter net and pictures in my reference li brary. A very useful source for ideas and. exchanging information is. the Earlyrail Yahoo group, 80 ‘The original motor is hard to replace because of the gearbox arrangement, so the author ‘trimmed back some of the weight inside the boiler and installed a DCC decoder (above). The pilece was reclaimed, hammered roughly flat and glued to the remaining weight to help keep Up the traction ofthe litle teakettle. Repai DCC conversion For the front headlight, I chose a tiny LED from Southern Digital. It came with a thin cable already soldered on, and the headlight was primed and painted in the dark green color. ‘The lens was made in the following way. First, I painted the reflector with a very bright silver paint and poured epoxy into the headlight so it filled up 19 yielded a classic look on a classic model the cavity behind the reflector. After it cured, I drilled a hole with a 2mm drill (ha’) from the front center of the reflec: tor, going right through the epoxy to the back of the headlight casting. The LED was inserted through the back and positioned so its front became flush with the reflector Next, epoxy was poured into the hole so the LED, together with the cable, august 2008was glued in place. After the epoxy had hardened, I touched up the reflector around the front of the LED. When the paint had dried, I mixed a new batch of epoxy and poured this over the reflector ‘to make the actual lens. Care should be taken when mixing this to minimize air trapped in the epoxy. Also, use epoxy with a long setting time so the bubbles have a better chance to escape. The big- ger bubbles ean be opened with a nee- dle before the epoxy hardens. ‘The headlight was finished by filling the hole in the back with epoxy and touching up the paint. After the headlight was finished a Imm (No. 61 drill) hole was drilled in front of the smokestack. ‘The LED wires were inserted into the hole and led back towards the cab. New, thicker wires were soldered to these leads for the connection to the tender. ‘To avoid burning out the LED, a 1,200-ohm resistor was added between the decoder and the LED on the posi- tive side. The resistor was placed inside the boiler to permit more space in the tender for the decoder, and the cables and resistor were taped to the inside of. the boiler. ‘The decoder is very small (Zimo ‘MX620). Itis installed in the tender on the side of the motor and is mounted with double-sided tape. I also added tape to hold the wires in place s0 they wouldn't interfere with the motor shaft. To get reliable pickup from the loco, I soldered a piece of wire to the frame retaining plate that covers the driving wheels. The wire was connect- ed to the new pickup wires on the ten- der and finally connected to the de- coder. Note that three wires come from the loco, one for the electrical pickup and two from the LED. To lead the LED wiring around the weight in the cab, Ieut off apiece at the side of the weight to make a noteh. Mechanism ‘The motor I chose is a Mashima MH- 1626 with a 2mm shaft. It was secured to the old motor mount with double- sided mounting tape. The back of the motor mount had to be cut slightly for the motor to fit and the drawbar short- ened by cutting it off and drilling a new hole. To compensate for the shorter dis- tance between the locomotive and the tender a new shaft was made from NWSL components. It is smaller and more inconspicuous than the original. ‘To compensate for the added weight in the front of the locomotive from the new smokestack and headlight, Icut off the front piece of the weight that came with the engine. To balance it, I added more weight at the back of the loco us- ing lead cut to size, glued together and then painted black RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN The loco comes from the factory with Buropean-size flanges, which won't run through my trackwork, so the wheels had to be turned down or changed to ones which conform to NMRA. stan- dards. The tender wheels were easily changed to new ones from NorthWest Short Line, as was the locomotive's front wheelset; here [used spoked ones from Precision Seale Company. That left the drivers, which posed the greatest problem. The wheel were not easy to change, which led to the option of turning them to shape using a lathe or other device. As Ido not own a lathe, finally managed to shape them using the following method. 1 placed the locomotive upside-down in a padded cradle and applied current to the motor. With the loco running at top speed, I carefully applied a small needle file to the flange of one wheel at a time, slowly grinding it down and checking with a NMRA gauge all the time so the flange did not become too small. During the filing, I used a vacu- tum to keep the small particles from en- tering the mechanism. When Twas sat- isfied with the contour, the mechanism was dismantled and cleaned thorough- ly before being put back together. Painting and detailing ‘The headlight, smokestack, bell and number plate were changed. The de- tailing on the tender handrails, etc. was removed and new ones fabricated from .020" brass wire. The pilot was kept but the stanchions were removed and the holes filled with model putty. ‘As the automatic coupler had not ar- rived yet in the 1880's (not on my lay- ‘out, anyway) I added a link and pin drawbar to the front of the pilot. This, was made from styrene strip material Since I wanted a woodburner, I re ‘moved the oil tank cover from the ten- der and glued on a piece of styrene sheet painted black. On this, T added firewood made from twigs collected in the backyard and cut to size. ‘The locomotive and tender were first primed with flat black. I then turned to the boiler and cab assembly. The cab, smokebox and brass bands on the boil- er were masked and the boiler air- brushed a Russian iron color. I then masked the boiler and sprayed the cab, pilot and the tender a dark green, The white wheel rims were done by mask- ing the wheelsets, then using white primer from a can to spray the whole of the outside of the wheels white. I paint ced the wheel centers red using a brush ‘and many layers of thinned paint to avoid brush marks. Because I wanted the locomotive to look as it came fresh from the paint shop, I used gloss varnish on the pilot, ‘Southern Digital LED Golden white 1.5mm sur. mount Mashime MHE1626 Motor NorthWest Short Line No. 482-6. Unworsal connector No. 2015-4 Shaft material, 2mm No, 7266-4 28° Tender wheo!s No, 1001-9 Electrical wie Precision Scale Company No. 31633. Headlight ‘No. $1906 Headlight bracket ‘No, HO-31897 Spoked wheels No. HO-31947_ Number plato No. HO-3516 Rady & Hunter smokestack ‘cary (Bowser) No. 19-144 1800' Bet Zimo MXE20 Decoder with seven wires Tiehy Train Group ‘No, 2008, Brakewhoo! Useful terature John H White Jr A History of The Amer an Locomotive ts Development 1880- 1880. A very usolul source wih everything ‘tom smokestacks to fuel consumption. ‘Also has descitions of representative lo- Ccomotives with crawings and pictures. Can ‘be bought new. George B Abas ve books: This was Ral roading: Pace Slope Railroads; Rais Wiest: Ci War Rairoads; A Locomotive ‘many old photographs of ocomotves from ‘around the U.S.A, with emphasis on the la- {er al ofthe 19! century. Can be found ‘on eBay or used books sels, Internet resources: Yahoo Earl forum: ntpigroups yahoo com/group/EaryRay Harold Mingus page: ‘itp pacccoastatinerr. com! Golden Age of Raiding: ‘ntp:nome.earink.net-dan_o sparksigo onal rm cab and the tender. The wheels were finished in satin varnish. The loco was lettered for my home road, the Califor- nia Railway & Navigation Company. ‘The only weathering that I currently have done on the locomotive are some rust on the coupler and front link and pin drawbar; this was done using chalks, The locomotive was now ready to roll out on the mainline and pull some var- nish, at least until the passenger trains get bigger and heavier again. Then the ‘company will have to go back and order newer and more powerful passenger lo- comotives. =Multiple work stations Different operations and processes need their own spaces/Bob Walker hink of your modeling work area I ‘as a place where you ereate good things, not unlike what happens the kitchen, What ifyou only had the sink to prepare meals? No stove, no counter-top, no other space in which to work? Not a very pleasant thought is it? You probably would not eat very well, either. There are so many differ- ent chores in this hobby that some should, by necessity, be restricted to their own work areas. Even if you have never seratchbuilt a single model, nor have any intention of doing so, there are still several “operations” that re- quire their own work spaces. Rock casting and locomotive mainte- nance can be done in the same area if ‘you want to put everything away after every use. About the only thing these ‘two activities have in common is that they are both considered model rail roading. The time you spend in prepa ration and clean-up can indeed be bet ter spent. If you consider the umpteen other things you need to be involved in, half your precious time will be spent in preparing that lone work area or clean: ing it up for the next task. Within rea the solution seems to be to ereate more than one work area Even taken to the extreme (who me?) we are only talking about four or five discreet modeling areas. We don't need a whole shop building to do this sort of thing, although Ihave always dreamed of having just that. Unless you are in the business, there is little justification for an entire building devoted to build- ing models. Come to think of it, Thad exactly that when I owned Walker Model Service. I still did all my hobby modeling in a small area of the build- ing, much the same as the area [have nov. The rest was indeed devoted to the business and off limits to my per- sonal play-time. Sure, there are those hardy souls out there who do their best work on the kitchen table after the family has re- tired. I'm a messy enough worker that had 1 gone this route, I would have been killed and eaten long ago! Most of us need a permanent place or in this case, places, to do our thing. My modeling area is more or less seg- regated into five general work areas or categories: 1. Wood and styrene con- struction (main workbench); 2. metal: working (athe, mill, and drill press); 3. spray booth and sandblasting cabinet ee Scratchbuilder's Corner (air stuff); 4. large machine area (band saw, dise sander, grinder, ete.); 5. mold making and casting (the messy one). ‘The work done in each of these areas is not compatible with the other four for obvious reasons. Carried to the ex- treme, I suppose one could think up an- other five operations-specifie work ar eas, but that is hardly necessary. Five may be a bit extreme in itself, and those with less interest in this corner of the hobby could get by nicely with a smaller number (like three), In my esti mation three is the minimum for a seratchbuilding hobbyist, or any hobby ist for that matter. A general work bench, a spray painting area, and a casting area would serve most people's needs. In reality, none of these areas have to be all that large. They just have to be well organized and efficient to use. Let's take them one by one ‘The main work bench has been dis cussed enough here that we can pretty much pass over it. Suffice it to say that it needs to be weil made, well lit, and well organized. (As usual, those’ who know me are rolling around on the floor right now! Mentioning me and the word “organized” together will do that to my friends.) By definition, the main work- bench will be the core of your non-la} out hobby efforts. The other work are will all be secondary in nature and can be in some fairly unlikely places, which we will go into further down the page. A little ingenuity will go a long way here. As usual, a lot of the ideas pre- sented here have been blatantly pur- loined from others, Thave always felt that metal-work: ing and its related machinery are so substantially different from the rest of our hobby labors that they deserve their own work area, In my early years tried to do it all on one work surface, which really didn't work out that well, so I developed this multiple work sta. tion approach early in my hobby career. Different work areas may even re- quire different lighting. Many folks use the good old 48-inch fluorescent “shop lights” over their workbenches. This is fine to a point, but you should have in- candeseent lights where you intend to Divide and conquer, at least when it comes to setting up work areas. The lathe and milling ‘machine/drill press have their own spots in the shop and all the cutting olls, ool bits and fixtures for working with them are close by. Oil resistant tops. fe used on these benches. AUGUST 2008use rotating tools. Have you ever won- dered why the lights by machinery are normally incandescent bulbs, rather than fluorescent? It is because fluores- cent lighting can be downright danger- ous where rotating machine tools are concerned. They are actually flickering at all times and a spinning tool can ap- pear to stationary at certain rp.m’s, which can pose a substantial hazard, to say the least. The frequency that they operate at can also cause a general feel- ing of being “unsettled” for some peo- ple, Even the new “green,” twisty tubes are a big no-no when it comes to light sources on rotating machinery. Lights by machines should also be adjustable for positioning. Inexpensive swing-arm lamps work just fine Keep in mind that a metalworking workbench needs to support heavier ma- chinery. It is also a little more sensitive to being dead-nuts level. ‘The actual work surfaee should be something non- porous to oil and be solvent resistant. One of mine is tempered hardboard sealed with three coats of marine epoxy paint, and cutting oils or solvents wipe right up. The mostly impervious surface makes cleanup all that much easier. ‘The area for larger machines, if you have them, should be away from the railroad and from the other work areas if possible. Dise sanders (especially the big ones, but small dise sanders can send up a mighty cloud of dust just as easily) and table and band saws (large ‘and small) can generate a lot of dust and chips which tend to get into every- “Clean zone RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN re Important, too. The author set ing, and, again, all the supplies are kept near it. Paper covers the desktop here to mab sr-up easy. Note the ample and adjustable lighting by the various work stations. thing around them. I find the garage to be a fine place for the full-size tools. Casting, no matter what type, is al- ways a mess-generator. Hydrocal® plaster is worse than resin in that it Starts out-as a powder. As careful as 1 try tobe, Lalways make a hideous mess when making rock castings or plaster building components. Aside from the powder situation, the addition of water doubles the problem. Even if you are the neatest worker in the hobby (I know him!) you are still going to have clean-up issues. My casting bench is just two feet by four feet with material storage areas above and below it. I try to keep the en- tire bench top clear to make the most. area possible available for casting. My models are mostly O seale, and I really wish the top of the casting workbench was twice that size. Teover the work area with newspa- per and dispose of it at the end of each casting run. When I am doing resin work I use a “tale sock” to powder the main working surface prior to laying down the newspaper. Any spilled resin will soak through the paper on occasion and stick (really well) to the top of the work surface. The tale coating will al- low the resin soaked paper to lift easily from the surface. What's a “tale sock?” It is actually an old sock (but not “holy” or having a lot. of loose fibers on its surface) filled with talcum (baby) powder and tied off at the top. [ use it to lightly coat molds prior to casting since it makes a won- ide an area for plaster and resin ca derful mold release. Consequently, it also makes a good “release” under the newspaper. If you are like me, you should put newspaper on the floor un- der your feet as well, and be sure to wear old shoes! Separate work areas? Ask yourself if you really want to take apart an ex- pensive locomotive on the same work- bench as the one which is used for casting, filing and making real mess- es. Oh, and unless you are expecting new carpeting for the living room to arrive tomorrow, take off your shop shoes before you go back into the house if you are doing mold making, resin casting, or making plaster cast- ings for buildings and scenery. ‘The spray booth is a “no-brainer.” If you're into this hobby to any depth at all, you will be spraying models, be it with an airbrush or a spray ean. Safety dictates that all but a complete fool will ‘vent the fumes and dust from spraying, and health issues aside, you probably don't want paint all over everything. T've seen some pretty inventive loca- tions for a lot of these alternative work areas, The usual under-the-layout loca- tion is one approach. Also look under the stairs as another good place. One fellow I know went out and bought one of those do-it-yourself yard barns, and his spray booth and casting bench are “out in the barn.” ‘This may be a good solution, but you may have to make some accommoda- tion for winter cold and summer heat and humidity; you had also best keep it clean and dust free if you are going to use an airbrush. Another enterprising individual made a table to go over his staging yard. It lifts up for mainte- nance and an occasional re-railing, In any case, ifyou have enough room, don’t hesitate to make more than one workbench. Just leave enough room be- tween them to maneuver around a bit. While we're on the subject of loca- tions, it helps to locate a spray booth on an outside wall to make it easier to vent the unwanted fumes and dust to ‘a place where no one is actively trying to breathe! ‘Also, and you know this, keep that spray booth away from open flames like furnace and hot water heater pilot lights, too! Even the non-flammable paints ereate dust, which will make a rice bang if you are not careful. If you don't think s0, go on the internet and enter “grain elevator dust explosions.” ‘The danger is real. Next month we will talk about home- made details. Most will be of the one- evening variety and easily mass pro- duced, and some will actually be masters for that messy easting process ‘we talked about this month! = es* cae we oe The once-common phone box allowed crews to call the dispatcher/David Leider hone or call boxes were a com- ‘mon sight in the days before mo- bile radios. Since I model the transition era, I knew I'd need some for my layout. ‘The prototype photos show one I found several years ago in Grayslake, Illinois, on the Soo Line, from which I was able to get all the necessary measurements for a replica. They also show how the wires were connected I started the model by gluing a 015" x .188" piece of styrene to a piece 125" x.188" to get one measuring 14” x .188". I squared off the bottom and cut it 28 HO scale inches long, then I beveled the top to an 87 degree angle. The door is a piece of .005 styrene cut to size. The two hinges and the plaque were carefully-placed sliv ers of the .005" material ‘The final step was to drill a No. 80 hole in the door for the handle. The box is se- cured to the mast with two metal clamps. I modeled the clamps and handle using thin copper wire from an old lamp cord I made the U shape clamps using the mast as a form, then drilled four No. 80 holes in the back and glued the clamps onthe back. The mast was not glued in place yet. When everything looked right, I glued on the top, which was made from a piece of .015" x.250' styrene cut to the correct shape. Tneeded to make more than one, so I made rubber molds of the phone box and base. The top was so fine that I at tached a length of styrene to each side to act as a sprue. They do not show on the model, but you can detect two small holes in the rubber mold. ‘The base was next. I looked at sever- al commercially available call boxes, but none matched the Soo prototype. 1 found that Details West made a crossing signal that could be used. I cut off the large bumper on the base and drilled No. 80 holes for four new n.b.w. castings and glued a portion of Ye" round styrene to the bottom for inserting it into the scenery. The top was drilled to accept a length of Yu" brass tubing For the mast, I cut a piece of brass tubing 91-9" long and smoothed off the edges. There is a bracket near the top of the mast that secures a guy wire to hold the communication cables, After the cal boxes were retired, all the wires were removed. I am modeling the peri- fod when call boxes were still in use, so Twanted to model the guy wire and the cables, I drilled a No. 80 hole in the brass tube to hold the wire just above where the bracket was placed. To mod. el the guy wire, I used another piece of copper wire from a lamp chord and sol dred it in place ‘The bracket was modeled using some copper fil. Any other very thin, narrow material could also be used. I like the copper foil beeause it ean be soldered if needed to the brass mast. The bracket is two scale inches wide and placed just be low the threaded coupling that attaches the finial to the mast. The coupling was modeled with another tworinch wide cir AUGUST 2008cle of foil. On my model I left a foot be- tween the bracket and coupling to allow room for the hole for the guy wire. ‘To assemble everything I glued a Parts list CContral Foundry Metal Works No. 1962 Final ‘Overland Models No. 9170 Handle Details West No. C5913. Crossing Signal base Model Master No. 4679 Stel paint Mise. 125 x 108" tyrone stip 125°% 105" Slyrene stp 118" 250" Styrene stp ‘tyrone rod ‘Soo Line call box ar ® | Tegal | Day Ken Lawrence RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN 1: Since several call boxes were needed, rubber molds were made for casting the base land box. 2: The wite clamps that will hold the box to the pole are attached to the back Of the box. Its easier to Ie assembled, but pri Served as the prototype. handle to the phone box and the finial to the top of the mast. The mast was slipped through the two brackets on the phone box and into the base. A few drops of cyanoacrylate at strategic lo- cations hold everything together. Tmasked the concrete portions of the base and painted everything with sil- ver paint. After it was dry, I brushed some conerete colored paint on the ve the box in the mold for this step. 3: Here are before assembly: pole, base, call box and wir the parts : This is the rear of the call box, fully 10 painting. 5: A Soo Line call box, its base hidden in the weeds, ‘all box. base. I mounted the completed assem: bly along the tracks next to a commu- nications pole and connected the guy wire from the call box to the pole. The communication wire was made from strands of very fine wires twisted to- gether and painted black. The cable was secured to the guy wire with eyano- acrylate. Note the drip loop where the wire exits the finial eThe Washington, Idaho & Montana Rwy. i Just completed reer eed tnd based on the Palouse rion coutheast Washington State sometn Ghring the early diesel era, This area of rich farmlands once boasied an int cate epiders web of varoad branc fines competing forthe heavy tafe wheat and peas grown inthe Palouse Tome thecombiationoaling wheat Sela, small towno, tall gras elevators and multiple ranchlines string arn their heop would make on eal ama fr alapoet At Ets 1 Cd io develo a concpt for a frelanced railroad et inthe Palouse region, but Ison realized how important it was tome thet any Reion al railroad also bea plausible one I other ‘words, could my ‘ralload whether t be an additional railroad ally "have existed nth, place and time? After several years of considers limits of credibility Slowly, the abvious answer bogan to sink into my skull, Maybe T shout f ® e 49 mile run from Palouse, Washington, in No. 2, motor car No. 11~nicknamed the Potlatcher- sits outside the Bovill, Idaho, station. Note the wood water tank at the: cus on modeling one of the real rail roads that operated in the Palouse. After all, there were four to choose from: the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Great Northern and Milwau- kee Road, but which should I choose? Each of the four offered a unique set of north end of the yard and the Milwaukee Road's N-3 2-6-6-2 No. 50, Which is starting around the wye. The flat car loads of logs on the adjacent track are headed to Potlatch Forests mill at Potlatch, Idaho. advantages and disadvantages, so it was difficult to narrow down the list. I theorized that if I modeled a loca- tion or series of locations on one rail road where several of the others lines interchanged traffic and set those up as, live” interchanges I could operate AUGUST 2008trains from several lines on a single layout. Finding the right location also posed its own challenge. No single town seemed to have every feature I wanted to model, and I was afraid ifT increased the scope to include too many locations, the resulting plan would be too compli cated to build and operate. However, there was another option that gradually came to light. My maps showed a single rail line stretching east. from the town of Palouse, Washington, into the mountains of North Idaho. This, piqued my curiosity, so I paid another visit to the area and followed the line in question to the town of Potlatch, Idaho. ‘There stood a large wooden railroad station alongside a compact four-track yard from which the main line appeared to continue east. The day I visited was a holiday, so there were no trains in sight, but beneath the branches of a tree be- hind the depot I spotted a not-so-well- preserved steam locomotive with the letters WI&M Ry. on the tender. This deserved some investigation, All [had to go on at first was the name of the railroad: Washington, Idaho & Montana Ry. There was very little information available on this rai road, so I kept my eyes open for men- tion of the WI&M anywhere in maga- zines or books. It was a slow process, but as I continued to dig up tidbits of information the pieces began to fall into place. The big breakthrough came when [followed up on a lead by writing toa gentleman named Tom Burg, in Wisconsin. Tom had been gathering material for a book on the WI&M, and he gladly shared much of his research with me, RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN Caboose No. 1 (above) sits outside the open alr sheds in the Potlatch yard. Cabooses 1 and 2, both wood sheathed, were painted yellow with dark, reddish- brown trim. WI&M No. 21, a 1908 Rogers- built 2-8-0, steams past a cut of empty log cars in the Bovill yard (left). Note the bark, twigs, wood chips and dirt that litter the tops of the empty log cars. The streamlined rallbus can be seen in the background, Five railroads in one ‘Between Tom and my other sources, learned that the WI&M was original: ly built by the Potlatch Lumber Com- pany to transport logs from their tim- ber holdings to a giant sawmill then being built in the company-owned town of Potlatch. The WI&M also hauled fin- ished lumber from that mill to no less than three interchanges: NP and GN branchlines at Palouse, and with the Milwaukee Road’s Elk River Branch at Bovill, Idaho. In addition to. the Potlatch lumber traffic, the WI&M car-The Washington, Idaho & Montana Rwy. A simple wood shelter to protect passengers from the elements was all that was needed to meet the r handle. Eight the platform is road's needs at Stanford (above), in the sparsely populated Idaho pan- ions along the line were named for noted universities, The 1e photographer's daughter. No. 21 pull /oung girl on trainload of logs out of the Bovill yard (below). WI&M caboose No. 2 sits in the yard at Potlatch (below right). ried lumber from a fw smaller on-line sawmills and considerable grain ton- nage from several elevators. The kicker for me was learning that during the carly 1950's the WI&M operated a small Alco diesel alongside its two re- maining steam engines. also learned that the colorful histo- ry of the WI&M continued up to the present day. In 1962 the lumber com pany sold the WI&M to the Milwaukee Land Co., which turned over operation of the line to its sister company, the Milwaukee Road. For the next eighteen years, the WI&M functioned, in effect, as a branch of the Milwaukee Road, complete with orange and black GP9's pulling the trains. During that time, thanks mostly to the output from the Potlatch mill, the WI&M remained a steady source of traffic, both for the faltering Milwau- kee Road and for Burlington Northern, the WI&M's new interchange partner at Palouse after 1970. When the end fi- nally came for the Milwaukee's west- ern lines in 1980, BN opted to purchase the WI&M. Shortly after the transition to BN ownership, however, the WI&M suf- fered a major blow. Potlatch Corpora- tion, by then a nationwide wood prod- ucts firm, found that their now-obsolete mill at Potlatch could not compete in the recession-riddled lumber market of the early 1980's. Potlatch Corp. closed the mill in 1981, and by 1983 nearly all its structures were dismantled. Despite this decision, Potlatch Corp, did not completely leave the picture. In 1980 the company had incorporated the St. Maries River Railroad (STMA re- porting marks) to operate part of the ‘Milwaukee Road’s mainline and its Elke River Branch that served their plywood mill at St. Maries, Idaho. As a result, several former Milwaukee Road cus” tomers started shipping their products; including plywood from Potlatch Corporation’s St. Maries mill, wood chips for the Scott Paper mill in AUGUST 2008,Under the watchful eye of the head brake- 14M No. 21 prepares to depart the Bovill yard witha train of logs headed for the mill at Potlatch (above). Ten-wheeler No. 1 ‘and Consolidation No. 21 waitin the round house for their next cal to duty (right). Everett, Washington, and bulk garnet for making abrasives south on the STMA to the BN interchange at Bovill For more than fifteen STMA trains met BN’s WI&M Local twice each week at Bovill to exchange loaded boxcars and wood chip gondolas for a corresponding number of empties. On the other end of the line, the WI&M Local handed its traffic off to the “Highball,” BN’s _ threo-day-a-week train that ran between Spokane and Pullman on the former NP route. After 1990, Scott Paper began receiving cut logs at its mill instead of chips. The re sulting strings of loaded flat ca ing west on the WI&M seemed the clock back to its glory days ging railroad. More importantly, 2 this overhead traffic helped the WI&M line continue earning its keep for BN er for BNSF all good things sometimes come to an end. In February of 1996 he: the WI&M in vveral locations. On east end of th fi line, the large fill over Corral Creek washed out, while flooding on the Palouse River severely RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMANThe Washington, Idaho & Montana Rwy. WI8IM 2-8-0 No. 20 has finished switching cars at Palouse and is shoving its train to the NP interchange at Lairds. The photographer was standing on the GN trestle. The Palouse de- Pot can be seen behind the engine (above). Another view from the trestle (below) shows a freight ariving in Palouse. The edge of the station can be seen in the far right of the photo. Note the large retaining wall behind the train and the grain elevator served by the GN above it. The WI&M's first diesel, an Alco $-3 numbered 30 (page 93), joined the roster in 1950. weakened a bridge just west of Kennedy Ford. BNSF dpted to repair the damaged bridge but held off on re- pairs to the slumping fill, bringing a Permanent end to the overhead traffic off the St. Maries River Railroad. About this same time, BNSF began selling many of its branch lines to shortline railroads. As part of this pro- gram, the truncated WI&M and its for: mer NP connection to the BNSF main at Marshall, the “P&L” line, became part of the Palouse River & Coulee City Railroad (PCC reporting marks), a new member of the Watco shortline group, in September, 1996. By the time the PCC took over, the WI&M was down to three active cus- tomers, the grain elevators at Deary and Kennedy Ford, and the Bennett Lumber Products mill near Princeton, After only a few months of ownership, poor track conditions east of Harvard forced the PCC to discontinue service to the Deary elevator. Although traffic from the Kennedy Ford elevator was sporadic, the Bennett mill remained a consistent shipper, generating as many as twelve loaded centerbeam flat cars each week. ‘Typical equipment On the WI&M, the locomotives and rolling stock varied with each succes- sive owner. A stable of five Aleo loco- AUGUST 2008Bovill, 1D mae gene ' ecm Erne nose te tank LSB ns ss om Fa foscanones Go Frag neses| sroenroer Deming by en tanrone motives, two 4-6-0's and three 2-8-0's, served the WI&M during the st. era. Two Alco diesels switchers, an S-3 purchased new in 1950 and a used HH- 660 acquired in 1956, eventually re placed the steamers. As for passenger service, a twelve-seat gasoline-powered rail bus, nicknamed “The Potlatcher,” operated on the WI&M from 1937 until RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMANThe Washington, Idaho & Montana Rwy. fifties-cra WI&M operated a pair of sec- ondhand NP cabooses, with two earlier cabooses having been removed from their trucks for use as a depot at Deary and a tool shed at Harvard. The Milwaukee used a steel cupola caboose on the WI&M for many years until it was damaged in a derailment, after which they brought in a rib-sided bay window caboose as a replacement. The BN used its standard extended-vision cabooses on the WI&M until selling the line, but the PCC ran without eabooses. Instead, the PCC conductor often “chased” his train in a highway vehicle, running ahead to set up switching moves and checking the train for de- focts as it passed. Freight cars commonly seen on the - WIM included 40-foot boxcars for neeaae hauling grain that remained in service until the traific shifted to covered hop- Led by a Milwaukee Road Geop, a westbound train passes the siding at Deary, Idaho pers in the early 1980s. The Scott Paper (above). Note the grain hoppers spotted at the elevator and the caboose depot, complete log traffic traveled on BN bulkhead flat with outhouse. An eastbound freight loading leaves cars equipped with log bunks. From the Potlatch (below). Under the watchful eye of a brakeman, a Bennett Lumber Products A- carly 1970's until the mid-1990's, the {frame fatcar is moved into position in the Bovill yard by a Milwaukee Road GP9(bottom). Fen nett mill shipped finished lumber in their own fleet of flat cars and all-door boxcars. Later, Bennett began shipping their products’ on other railroads’ cen- terbeam flat cars. At the time the Milwaukee took over, the WI&M usually operated two daily trains out of Potlatch, one to Bovill and one to Palouse. From the late 196 until 1996, only one train ran regular- ly, from Potlatch to Palouse three days a week, and to Bovill twice. With the PCC in control of the WI&M and P&L lines, crews typically ran from Marshall to the Bennett mill on ‘Mondays and Wednesdays, with a re. turn trip to Marshall on Tuesdays and ‘Thursdays. Naturally, the railroad var- ied their schedule as required to meet their customers’ needs, the mail contract ran out in 1955. Milwaukee Road GP9's began haul- ing WI&M trains in 1965. Alone or in pairs as dictated by traffic levels, they remained the dominant locomotive type on the WI&M throughout the Milwaukee era and for many years un- der Burlington Northern ownership. Not until the early 1990's did BN re- place the GP9's with GP35's, 38's, and 40’s to handle most WI&M trains, When the PCC took over they brought in a small fleet of ex-Conrail and ex-CSX GP30's and GP35’s, and two of these were usually assigned to the WI&M trains. These engines ar- rived in heavily patched versions of their former owners’ paint, but. the PCC gradually repainted most of them into the Watco-standard scarlet and black scheme. On the other end of the trains, the 82 AUGUST 2008Realistic operations on an HO layout ‘As I began planning my new layout, I set two primary goals for my design First, as mentioned before, the layout should have a plausible, Palouse-based theme where I could operate a wide va riety of equipment in a prototypical manner. Second, the layout should be of modest size and scope to avoid tack: ling a project that time, space and mon- ey constraints might make difficult to complete. Thad already met my first goal by fol- lowing the WI&M as a prototype Although the WI&M serves the eastern fringe of the Palouse region, its traffic still involves hauling grain on a rural railroad. The heavy lumber traffic is a huge bonus. Also, I can operate equip ‘A westbound train probably one of the last behind a Milwaukee Road engine —| at Princeton hopper at th ferent types of Milwaukee Road cabooses were used on the WI&M. No. 01603, sporting ‘ cupola, is seen crossing the Palouse River (above), while a rib-sided, bay window ca- bboose Is pictured making its way down the ‘middle of Whitman St. in Palouse (right). vent from three of the four Palouse railroads, GN, NP and Milwaukee, at the interchanges. ‘Since the WI&M’s surroundings have remained nearly unchanged over the last fifty years, [can also run each oper- ating session with equipment from dif ferent time periods while making only minor changes to the layout itself, per- haps removing a structure or two and ‘swapping out any highway vehicles that don't fitin. In addition to running steam and diesel locomotives on the indepen: RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN dent WI&M during a 1956 time period (or 1955 if ean find a way to model “The Potlatcher”), I plan to also operate ses- sions set in 1972 with Milwaukee Road GP9’s in 1992 with BN GP38's and GP40’s; and in 2001 with PCC GP35’s heading up the trains, T met my second goal by designing a sectional layout that could be expanded as more time, space and/or money be- came available. My current layout must fit inside a 16'-10" x 12'-2" spare room where the center of the floor is to be kept open to make room for my wife's craft projects. I have also drafted plans for a larger, 18' x 22’ room with no restrictions on the center of the floor to see how the sections from my current layout could be re-assembled to create a longer version of the WI&M. Both layout designs begin, as does the prototype, at Lairds, where the NP and GN lines connect with the WI&M. On the smaller layout, Lairds is repre-The Washington, Idaho & Montana Rwy. {In scenes that look lke they could be on @ model railroad, pair of BN Geeps roll an east- bound freight around a curve three miles east of Palouse, nearly on the Idaho-Washington state line (above), and two GP9's head east over a trestle on the Palouse River (below) sented by an “off-stage” sector plate connecting the hidden NP and GN stag- ing tracks with the WI&M tracks at Palouse. When the GN predecessor, Spokane & Inland Railway, an electri¢ interurban line, built through Palouse, it constructed a large conerete retain ing wall to support its depot and sub station across from, and above, the WI&M depot. The interurban tracks then crossed the WI&M tracks and spanned the shallow Palouse River Valley on a long trestle. For my purpos: es, the retaining wall conveniently serves to hide the NP and GN inter change tracks, while the trestle also helps hide the sector plate from view From the Palouse depot site the tracks continue east behind a grain el evator and a row of brick storefronts, most of which still stand on Palouse’s Main Street today. On this layout, the scenic ten-mile trip along the Palouse River to Potlatch is compressed into the corner section. Upon reaching Potlatch the train en ters a small yard with spurs branching off, one to serve the fuel dealer and grain elevator and another to represent both the log dump and the loading shed at the Potlatch sawmill. [also included a seale track at Potlatch, since weighing out- bound loads was an important job for the WIKM train crews and I wanted to repli- cate this when operating the layout. Although I tried to keep the track plans for each town as close to the prototype as possible, space limitations dictated some ‘compromises. Still, I am confident that the model will feel like the prototype when crews are switching at Potlatch. Moving farther east, the siding at Princeton affords access to a single grain elevator there. Finally, the train arrives at a spur that serves the Bennett Lumber Products mill. Beyond this spur I included a removable train AUGUST 2008‘A brakeman dismounts his train to set up a drop of three grain cars at the Kennedy Ford elevator (top). At Lairds, where the WIM once hada junction with th Northern Pacific's Palouse & Lewiston line, 70-car string of empty log flats prepares tomove off the old P&L and on to the WIM (right). Shortly after the BN took over the WIM a westbound freight with several Milwaukee rib-side boxcars converted for woodchip loading makes it way across Bridge 14 (bottom right). cassette to represent the Bovill inter change. I also added a short passing siding, mostly hidden by the mill struc tures, to facilitate re-staging the cas- sette after a session, ‘When switching the Bennett mill, op- erators can also use this siding to repre- sent the siding at Harvard, which is three miles away on the prototype. During the PCC era when trains seldom ran beyond the Bennett mill, and crews preferred switching the facing point spur using two locomotives (see the dia- gram), rather than travel three more miles to run around the train. I plan to copy this operation using my DCC sys- tem and breaking up the two-unit con- sist when the train reaches this spur The engines will switch the mill inde- pendently, then m.u. for the return trip, Room for more railroad My plan for a larger layout, in the 18’ x 22" space, inserts additional layout, sections between some of the key sections from the smaller layout. Some of these new sections provide more switching work, while others add more scenery and extend the run time between towns. For instance, a new, fully scenicked section replaces the sector plate at Lairds to make the interchange movements more realistic. An optional tumntable RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN here reflects the actual track arrange- ment at Lairds, although the prototype turntable was removed after the diesels took over since they did not need to face forward for the return trip to Potlatch. With greater distance between Palouse and Potlatch, there is now room for the grain elevator at Kennedy Ford. With some additional space at Potlatch, Ihave the option of extending the yard and building a new connection to the log dump from the east, more like the prototype had. Also, a drop leaf wye track will be easy to add if I choose. Beyond Princeton, eastbound trains face a two percent climb up to a log loading spur at Yale and to the elevator at Deary. Another stretch of two per: cent brings the line back down to zero elevation at Bovill. If I were modeling an era before 1950, I would include a Junction with a logging branch east ofThe Washington, Idaho & Montana Rwy. Deary, since some ofthese were still ac- tive through the end of World War II The few logs that moved on the WI&M after 1950 were transloaded from trucks at Bovill or delivered by the Milwaukee Road from Elk River. Having Bovill and Palouse at the same level makes it easier to build a re- movable bridge across the doorway. Although the bridge can support con uous running if desired, its main pu pose is to connect the hidden staging tracks at Palouse and Bovill. With this configuration, operators ean more real- istically duplicate the interchange ac tion at both ends of the railroad. The di- agram shows a simplified scheme for movements of the interchange partners trains between the two staging yards. Depending on the era in which an op- erating session is set, some of the strue- tures that no longer exist can be tem- porarily removed from the layout, and tracks that are out of service ean be i nored. One structure that should defi- nitely remain in place is the Potlatch depot. The prototype for this classic structure is currently undergoing restoration in its original location, Still struggling In early 2006, changing business conditions compelled the PCC to stop running trains altogether on the P&L % and WI&M lines. Both lines lay dor- mant for several months before anoth- er operator could be found. The P&L and WI&M lines are now served by the newly organized Washington & Idaho Railroad, whieh still runs out to the Bennett mill once or twice each week Currently, the W&I runs with three leased locomotives, including a re- stored F9A painted in the Southern Pacific's Black Widow scheme. This latest development only em phasizes the fact that change has been the only constant in the history of the Washington, Idaho & Montana, a trend that will probably continue in- definitely. But no matter what the fu- ture may bring for the real WI&M, the colorful history of the line makes it an excellent subject for a model railroad, where that history can be reenacted in miniature, = os os sey ama ie erence 5-235 pul omptes anos ‘east auton en sores ‘Snes oa om ep tak Switching Bennett Lumber with two locomotives eng 2557 rest Sa ~ es We) 225 ron de ‘AUGUST 2008‘Marea spoare wang ‘pn tie lan Optona omg spur De0ot ‘The Bennett Lumber Prod- ucts mil-seen here from the cab of PCC No. 2357 (page 96, top left}~is now the major shipper on the line. While Switching the Bennett mill (page 96, top right), GP35 No. 2258 prepares to pull forward fon the main track while GP35 No. 2357 waits on the spur. After the 2268 is clear of the ‘witch, the 2357 will couple Up behind and the pair will be ready to rotum to Palouse. ‘The drawings on page 98 il lustrates these moves. Two PCC GP35's (page 96, bottom left) run light past a pair of loaded covered hoppers. [fier picking these cars up off the siding, the train will con- tinue to Palouse and on to Marshall. Current operations fon the W8l can have a bit of a retro look to them when the railroad runs its leased F-unit. Here (page 96, bottom right) F-9AU6304~an ex-VIA, exx-CN, unt painted in the SPs black widow scheme-approaches Potc Limber Ca ain eet oh pate ayer Palouse, Washington, with 15, loaded centerbeam flat cars. {rom the Bennett mil en RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN 1:0Erie Lackawanna Kadee® PS-1 40'- 0" BOXCAR T’- 0" Youngstown Door di (0x carted) Two Numbers $2700 srbssan $300 Test Track oa Product reviews ELHS Exclusive DL&W VESTAL, N.Y. 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Mountain Model Imports, a division of Precision Scale Company, has re- leased a great line up of narrow gauge O's that represent classic Colorado Steam locomotives at their best. I couldn't resist adding one of the Rio Grande Southern versions to my loco- motive roster and found it to be a very impressive model. From the 1880's through the 1900's the 2-8-0 became the standard locomo- tive on the Colorado narrow gauge lines and many other railroads. They replaced smaller and less powerful 4-4- 0's, 4-6-0's, and 2-6-0's in many appli- cations, and later were used on log: ging, mining and other industrial railroads. As late as the 1920's, some were still built for sugar cane service in Cuba and many were exported to South America. The classic Rio Grande photos by Fred Jukes and Charles Lively from 100 years ago show the Rio Grande’s C-19's in action on Cumbres Pass often with four of the engines on a turn from Chama to Cumbres. They were also used on Marshall Pass and in many other demanding services. Photos also show these little engines pushing the monstrous rotary snow- plows into the enormous drifts that so often plagued the narrow gauge lines in the Rockies. Originally these 1881- built Baldwin locomotives were the D&RG's Class 70's and were numbered in the 400's, but in the 1920's they were renumbered in the 340-349 se- ries; some were classified as C-17's and. numbered between 300 and 304 (along with two other 2-8-0's that became 305 ‘and 306). Interestingly, some the 2-8- O's were rebuilt to standard gauge in the late 1890's and then rebuilt back to narrow gauge in 1900. After larger power became available they were assigned to branchline and yard duties. Some were modernized ‘with steel eabs, boiler tube pilots, re- placement dome covers and more mod- ern headlights, giving them the ap- pearance we associate with their last days of operation before retirement. Fortunately, several of the C-19's have been preserved: No 346 is at the Col orado Railroad Museum in Golden; No. 340 is at Knott's Berry Farm in Cali fornia along with the Rio Grande Southern’s No. 41, and RGS No. 42 is preserved, but not operational, at the Durango & Silverton’s roundhouse in Durango. A very helpful source on the C-19's and other D&RGW engines can be found on the internet at www.drgw.net, a website dedicated to providing lots of information on the Rio Grande. Newer, but similar C-18%s are also in the plans for Mountain Model Imports. ‘Two of those survive and the dramatic news of the 2007 was the return to steam of D&RGW 315 at Durango by the Durango Railroad Historical Soci ety. Its operation over the Durango & Silverton, means some of us will have ‘an opportunity to see one of these en- ggines in action. C-18 No. 318 is at the Colorado Railroad Museum where it has operated and may run again one day, too, What is different about this model, and others produced by Mountain ‘Model Imports is the form of construc- tion and the price, but not the quality. I think that engines like this one are redefining what is involved in very high quality models and how they are ‘AUGUST 2008constructed. If you look at one of these 2.8.0's closely, you will be hard pressed to find very much to distinguish it from an all-brass model of a few years ago. A few refinements and some of the small: er details are not included, but it takes close scrutiny to see the differences, However, it sells for perhaps one third the price of brass, This new range of lower prices is made by using die-cast ings for the major components of the models and then applying many brass castings for the detailing. Previously many larger components were etched in sheet brass and then formed to RAILROAD MODEL CRA TSMAN make the larger assemblies in models which added considerably to the labor needed for making the models. No plastic detail parts are used in these models Of course this doesn’t take away from the intrinsic or aesthetic value of 1 beautifully handmade, —all-brass model like a Precision Seale Crown K. 36 or a Kodama On3 K-27, or 4-4-0, which are some of the finest brass models I've ever seen. They are still as beautiful as the day they were made and run just as well, but for modeling purposes and operation, it is hard to {Incredible No beter word fr this new ai ass mat.) ighy tenured ary sandy savannah eal wih ts -4nm bufalo grass random sprouting through the surace, Four seasonal samples included: Spring, ‘Summer, Late Summer and Autumn Sample sheets corfcmto mestany eran 5 the CE ‘75 Shot Dive MOD Deen Pa Teeze ‘nde: (728}4083106= FAX: T2468879. ou" St wm senicexpress com. 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NE Woodie, WA 98072 Tole: 877-976-6000 Fax 425402948, sr verreenscalltodels 2m argue that this new generation of mod- els hasn't approached them in overall, accuracy, durability and operation. The impact is shown in the lower prices advertised for many fine brass models that were released a few years ago. Some brass is now perhaps more equivalent to limited edition art pieces. It is hard to say where this will lead, but if the list of future releases from Mountain Model Works is any indica tion, the outlook is good for anyone ‘who wants to model and operate a vari- ety of narrow gauge engines, ‘My model is of the fabled Rio Grande Southern’s No. 40, a delightful old nar- row gauge hog that worked its whole life in the mountains of Colorado first on the Denver & Rio Grande as No. 411, named “Quartz, Creek” and subse- quently renumbered to 802 and then 402. It went on to the RGS in 1916 and spent many years on stock trains, ore trains and any other assignments the financially troubled railroad sent its way. In its later years, it had mis- matched domes, the steam dome rounded and the sand dome reflecting the earlier ornate fluted style of the 1880's. It had an old boxy headlight until the end of its service on the RGS. In its later years, the RGS had little time or money to lavish on its decrepit old motive power and No. 40 was no ex- ception. Photos of it in such classics as Mallory Hope Ferrell's Silver San Juan show it well weathered and look: ing all of its 60-odd years of age. Much as I like the model's beautiful paint job, itis going to get a careful ag- ing and weathering one of these days, Til try to find some coal and cinders along a section of the old RGS grade on my next Colorado narrow gauge junket, and use them as a basis for my weath- ering in the same way I did with my Chinese QJ 2-10-2 I deseribed in the February, 2007, RMC. Maybe Til find enough for a full coal load, but who knows? It will need a dusting of coal smoke, some road grime on the running gear and a faded look from years in the sun and snow, and not a lot of eosmetie at- tention. Also, the pilot wheels need painting, a coupler needs installation. ‘on the tender, it could use some cab curtains and perhaps some hoses be- tween the engine and the tender. I no- ticed too that the spark arrester is a little different from the one show in photos of the engine in its last years before it was dismantled in 1943. It has a sprung chassis, and a fully detailed underframe on both the en- gine and the tender. Overall, it really looks right and captures the feeling of the prototype locomotive very well. I also inspected two Rio Grande versions, and they were equally well done and appealing. The model is fully assem- bled and ready-to-run with the excep- tion of seating the two painted crew members in the cab, adding the spark arrestor, some safety chains and a cou- ple of coal rakes to the tender. ‘These models look and fee! solid, but there are lots of small details that stands out beautifully under the ‘opaque but very thin and carefully ap- plied paint. The tender is also fully de- tailed including the underside and in- side the coal bunker. These engines had flangeless, or blind, center drivers. The tires on these wheels were wider than normal and the combination of no flanges and wide wheels meant the lo- comotives could negotiate _ sharp curves, yet the center drivers stayed in contact with the rails and retained their tractive ability. These features are captured nicely on the models, and don't mistake them for the flangeless wheels that were once common, but not authentic, on some model trains. Directional lighting is installed in the models, and it looks very good and is bright and clear. The marker lights are also illuminated and really help bring the model alive. The engine weighs 1 pound 8.9 ounces and the ten: der weighs 14.7 ounces. On my test track, it started smoothly right out of the box and ran quietly and with good speed control. ‘My friend Patrick Hind, who has two of the On30 D&RGW versions, found his ran very well, but one was slightly quieter than the other. Both were ea- pable of pulling easily at least 15 Bach- ‘mann cars or cars of similar weight on his layout. One of motors on Patrick's C-19's proved defective after a short time, and the manufacturer replaced it quiekly. The model comes with draw ings that show lubrication points and the internal wiring system. A small socket driver is provided for minor ad- justments or disassembly. ‘Mountain Model Imports is a divi- sion of Precision Seale Company and on their website, they list more planned lo- comotives. These include D&RGW C-21, C17 and C-18 2-8-0, as well as 44.0’, 0-6-0T's and the larger K classes of loco” ‘motives. They are planned for release in both On3 and On30. In HOn3, C-19's and D&RG 4-4-0's have been announced. Sn3 models are also being produced. Further down the road are Westside Shays, more 2-8-0's, 2- 82's and Sumpter Valley and Uintah Mallets. Check their website for more details: www.precisionscaleco.com. Thope Mountain Model Imports/Preci sion Seale Co, will produce models of the 2-80's from the early 1900s, too, and will add some Colorado & Southern en- gines to their list of future releases. ‘The many different C-19's versions in On3 and On30 have suggested retail prices of $529.00. T'm really delighted ‘with my model and recommend these 2. 8-0's highly.—ROBERT D. TURNER AUGUST 2008Canadian Pacific wood caboose: HO scale ‘Mfd. by Canadian Hobbycraft Ltd. 140 Applewood Crescent, Concord, On: tario, LAK 4B2, Canada, www.hobby ceraft.com tt ‘Two months after releasing its model ofthe Canadian National wood caboose, Canadian Hobbycraft has released a ready-to-run caboose representing the common CPR wood caboose, a model that many modelers have been awaiting for years, From around 1929 to the early 1970's, the Canadian Pacific Railway owned some 1,200 wood cabooses. Most had a similar but not identical appear: ance. Although the official CPR term was “caboose” many CPR operating crews referred to them as vans, a de rivative of the British term “brake van.” A brief article on CPR cabooses was published in CP Tracks (issue 10- 1), the publication of the Canadian Pa cific Historical Association. Some variations in features existed, ‘The more obvious variations were length, cupola height, wood or steel un derframe, brake system and truck style. Many retained their original K brake systems into the 1970's. Origi nally fitted with arch bar trucks with leaf springs, most were later modern- ized with cast side frame trucks. CPR’s main Angus shops in Montre- al built all of the railway's wood ca- booses in almost continous production over many years. The number of CPR wood cabooses in serviee varied over time. In 1929, 1,865 were in service and in 1947 1,230 were in use (plus Quebec Central had nine, Dominion Atlantic had six, Esquimalt & Nanaimo, four). By 1956 only 1,155 were in service (plus, Quebec Central still had nine, Dominion Atlantic, 0, quimalt & Nanaimo, three). PR's all-steel cabooses started to arrive in 1948 and in 1965 only 1,087 CPR wood cabooses remained in use. From the early 1900's to the 1980's RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, CPR wood cabooses received the fol lowing paint schemes, which over lapped in such a way that most schemes could be seen simultaneously: 1. From early 1900's to 1980's, mineral brown, red ends, black roof with white nine-inch block lettering. This was the most common and longest lasting scheme. 2, 1959 to the 1980's saw min. eral brown, red ends, black roof with white script lettering. 3. 1967 to 1980's, bright red sides, yellow ends, black underframe with white seript let, tering. 4. 1968 to 1980's, Action Yellow body, black roof and underframe with black CP Rail lettering and black and white multimark, CPR assigned the wood cabooses widely over its vast system. Cabooses of the same design were lettered for CPR’s International of Maine Division and subsidiaries Dominion Atlantic Railway, Quebec Central Railway, Es- quimalt’ & Nanaimo Railway, Grand River Railway and Lake Erie & North- ern Railway In addition to the large number owned by the CPR, other regional Canadian railways that owned the CP- design cabooses included the Sydney & Louisburg, Roberval & Saguenay Rail- way and Greater Winnipeg Water Dis triet Railway ‘The HO model by True Line Trains represents a CPR 30-ton steel-under- frame caboose with length over body end-sills of 29-0" and over strikers of 34’-10". The width of the body was 9 0” and the truck spacing was 19-4 ‘They had wood bodies with 3-inch wide, tongue-in-groove sheathing. The roofs of the body and cupola had a radi- al shape and were canvas-covered, ‘The True Line Trains model is fully assembled, decorated and ready-to- run. 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They must be installed carefully to not break their locating pins. ‘The free-rolling_ trucks have metal, ribbed-back wheels in plas- tic side-frames with leaf springs. The side-frames represent cast steel frames fas used in the 1940's and 1950's. The magnetic couplers are mounted in cou- pler pockets with serews. ‘The model weighs 3.5 ounces. The initial offering by True Line ‘Trains includes models painted and let- tered in four schemes described above with four road numbers for each scheme ‘On the model with the block lettering paint scheme, there are two very minor paint issues: the side railings on the end platforms should be yellow and the underside of the roofs of the end plat- forms should be bright red matching the ends. The applied road numbers are accurate. All the different painted mod: els are physically identical. True Line Trains has announced this caboose will be available in the fu. ture decorated in the following addi- tional paint schemes: Grand River Railway, Dominion Atlantic Railway, Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway and Ontario Northland Rail- way. The first two schemes are accu: rate for this caboose but the last two are not. Over the years there have been sev eral HO kits available to model these common cabooses but this is the first accurate plastic model. This True Line ‘Trains model will be highly appreciat- ed by modelers of the CPR from around 1929 to the early 1970's. ‘The ready-to-run fully-assembled ca- booses are each priced at $44.99 Canadi- ‘an or $44.99 U.S. Four-packs decorated in one paint scheme with four different. road numbers are priced at $189.99 U.S. or $189.99 Canadian —JoHN RIDDELL, Dynamis wireless infrared DCC system and HO turnouts ffd. by Bachmann Industries, 1400 E. Erie Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19124 With the addition of DCC decoder equipped E-Z Track turnouts to the line, Bachmann has the enviable posi- tion of having a fully integrated, easy- to-use DCC line of products that in- cludes DCC command systems, loco- motive decoders, inline locomotives with factory installed decoders and de- coder equipped track components. This is a real boon for the DCC neophyte, since it allows one to purchase prod- ucts that are compatible and ready to use without the usual installation learning curve. Additionally, all of these items are NMRA compliant s0 they are readily usable by anyone us- ing a compliant system. Simultaneously with the release of the DCC turnouts, Bachmann has re- leased the Dynamis DCC control sys- tem. This is a complete departure in concept and design from not only Bach- mann's’ previous E-% Command Sys- tem but from nearly every other sys- tem currently on the market. The original E-Z Command is intuitive in use, affordable and expandable. Its shortcomings in relation to the serious hobby market is the limited address, function and programming features, still it has been a rock solid reliable system that meets the needs of smaller portable and home layouts. With the Dynamis, Bachmann pro- vides a full feature system that has two-way infrared walk-around control build in, A number of IR receivers built into the command station allows recep- tion over a 150 degree arch with a test- ed range of twelve feet. Bear in mind that your results may vary due to the conditions of your operating area. This system was originally released in Europe over a year ago and has a distinct European heritage and feel. As released, the Dynamis is a single throt- tle stand alone system with a 2.3 amp output that should easily control four or five average HO scale locomotives. Plans are currently afoot at Bachmann to allow for expansion of the system to allow multiple units to operate through a central hub and a 5 amp booster, In design, the Dynamis is unlike any control system currently in use and re- sembles a computer game consol more than a. conventional throttle. Speed control is via a joystick that when ad- vanced and held (pushed forward) will increase the speed of the locomotive as long as the stick is engaged. Once re- leased, the speed will be maintained until the joystick is reengaged and is either advanced or decreased (pulled back). This set up is a departure from the usual throttle operation, however, this allows the operator to shift be" tween locomotives easily without hav- ing to jockey the throttle between speed settings for each train. By mov- ing the joystick either left or right, an operator can easily recall and control other locomotives previously pro- grammed onto the throttle. ‘All functions and features are clearly ‘AUGUST 2008ey Water displayed on a central back lit LCD sereen that supports a series of icons and read outs. As a locomotive is ac ed, it can be programmed to a spe cific icon for easy call up. In addition, e Dynamis supports 14, 28 and 128, speed steps, A dedicated key allows the operator to toggle between locomotive control and accessory control (turnout), ‘The Dynamis easily operates all NMRA compliant stationary decoders. The only short coming of this feature is that the user has either accessory con- trol or locomotive control depending on the feature chosen, but not both. ‘The Dynamis readily programmed decoders from all of the major manu: facturers. This included low draw de- coders as well as those equipped with sound. The system has all of the pro- gramming modes at its disposal and supports over 9,000 locomotive ad- dresses as well as all CV's with up to 21 specific functions. The system does not support address 0 (d.e. analog) for use with a non decoder equipped loco- motive. All locomotives must be de- coder equipped to operate with this system, Entering the programming mode is not as intuitive as is the operation of the rest of the system. To gain profi cieney in programming, it is recom mended that one keeps the manual handy for the first few attempts. The Dynamis supports main line program- ming of two digit addresses (0-127) and the programming of four digit address. es on a programming track using broadeast programming. Since there is no provision for a dedicated program- ming track with the system, the main line needs to be turned off before this, feature is used otherwise all locomo- tives on the layout will be repro: grammed to the same address, A SPST switch wired into the mainline feed will easily avoid this perplexing and RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, embarrassing occurrence In operation, the Dynamis measures up well to any full feature entry level DCC system on the market. Overall the system is easy to learn and use while providing full feature control for advanced DCC operation with few draw backs. In its present state the Dynamis is a good choice for a single operator's small to medium sized home layout. with potential for expansion with the rel additional acces: sories from Bachmann, Until the release of Bachmann's E-Z Command DCC turnouts, one of the key components missing from the list of easy to use DCC products has been dedicated plug-and-play track compo- nents. Bachmann has remedied this situation with their latest offerings that utilize the proven E-Z Track sys. tem as their basis. Each of the turnouts uses code 100 nickel silver rail and a cast machined frog. The track conforms to 1947 AAR track en. gineering standards for secondary mainline track and gauges to NMRA standards. Operation through the frog and points is smooth without bumps and catches sometimes associated with mass manufactured track. With weathering and ballasting these com: ponents are easily upgraded to hobby grade appearance The machinery mounted under the roadbed consists of a geared, low draw solenoid motor and pre-installed de- coder. This gives positive and solid ac- tion to the points without the power drain commonly associated with sole- noid motors. Both the machine power and DCC signal are fed through the rails, In addition, the frog can be pow ered by clipping a pre-installed wire to ‘a mounting lug beneath the track. 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This fu tion was easily accomplished using systems from four manufacturers as well as both Bachmann's E-Z Com- mand and Dynamis systems. ‘The E-Z Command turnouts will al- low the modeler to piece together an operating track plan as quickly as link- ing the track together and hooking up feed wires to their DCC system. They are smooth, reliable and easy to in stall. These turnouts literally allow one to build a reasonable layout with only a couple wires controlling the ac tion (of course you will probably want to add additional feeders to improve re- liability). —GEoRGE RILEY EMD SD40-2 “mid-production"lo- comotive: HO scale Mfa. by Kato US.A., 100 Remington Ra., Schaumburg, IL 60173. ‘The SD40-2 is a 3,000 horsepower, CC diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Divi- sion from January, 1972 to Februar 1986. A total of 8,957 were built, and most were purchased by large U.S. Canadian, and Mexican railroads. The BNSF operates the largest fleet of sD40-2' These locomotives use a _turbo- charged 16-645E3 engine driving an AR10 alternator to power the six dec. traction motors. The SD40-2 was the successor to the SD40 and included Dash 2" features including HT-C trucks (with shock absorbers on the middle axle journal boxes) and modu- lar electronic controls, and many other improvements. The SD40-2 was signif- icantly more economical and reliable than contemporary units with higher power ratings, with the result that these were among the best selling loc- motives of all ti BNSF No. 6752 was built in October, 1979 with construction number 786219-23 as ATSF No. 5093. It be- came BNSF No. 6752 on January 19, 1998. This unit was delivered to the Santa Fe in the blue and yellow *war- bonnet” scheme, was repainted into the SP-SF merger scheme in the mid 1980's, and was repainted into the blue and yellow warbonnet scheme. The unit "was still wearing this paint scheme as recently as early 2006, but photos taken in early 2008 confirm the unit now wears the BNSF “swoosh” (also called “Heritage III’, “Slash” or “Bold Heritage”) scheme as applied to the Kato model, Based on the construction date, BNSF 6752 would have the features of a later Phase II SD40-2. Phase II pro- duction started in December, 1976 with distinguishing features including an 88" instead of an 81" nose, corrugat- ed radiator intakes instead of “chicken- wire,” notched stepwells, and “lift-off” AUGUST 2008,doors on the lower sides of the cab with a stiffener rib along the bottom of the door. Beginning in January, 1979, the metal plate around the cab side win: dows was welded in place instead of at tached by bolts around the edges of the plate. Units produced after May, 1979 had a solid lip along the bottom of the air intake grille in addition to the top and side lips previously used. ‘The Kato model has the correct nose length, radiator intakes, steps, and lower cab side access doors, and has the lower lip on the air intake, but has the earlier bolted plate around the cab windows, Available photos of the 6752 show that it lacks the lip under the air intake, and while not razor sharp im- ages, they seem to show that the unit has the welded plate around the cab windows, ‘The model features a highly de tailed, single plastic superstructure on a die-cast frame supporting a flywheel drive. All the wheels are powered, and all pick up track power. The model comes with factory-installed handrails made from a tough and slightly flexible engineered plastic. The locomotive has operating headlights and illuminated number boards that display the correct locomotive number. These are illumi- nated by golden-white LED's with a very realistic incandescent color ‘The model features working ditch lights, operated by a dual mode DCC decoder. When operated on convention al de., the ditch lights operate in ei- ther continuous-on or alternate flash: ing, changing each time power is turned off and reapplied, or when run- ning by a momentary click of the re verse switch, ‘When operated on DCC, the decoder responds to function commands to op: erate the ditch lights, and provides CV's for changing the flash rate. Note however that the factory-installed de- coder is only for the ditch lights, and a separate decoder is required for motor and headlight control and for sound. A standard S:pin socket is provided for the additional decoder. The design of the model facilitates sound installation with a built-in speaker housing in the fuel tank. "The Kato SD40-2 comes with facto- ry-installed, Kadee compatible, split DECALS 323 PRET BYE aa ecg ee ody ie ) Baw etre: Gasue tn = Nigmenate S ena ese MAS id 7 : Hes ose a6 200 P4H Im $9 per DD ROBINSON & ASSOCIATES ae ek Belem RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, 05RAILROADER REALISTIC LARGE SCALE RAILROADING| BACK ISSUES J 4 1H charges 1s follows! In'US, rs under $10.00) $6 00(for 00) $7.00 tor order ‘orders $50.01-575.00) shank couplers, but these couplers do not have metal “air hoses” for magnetic uncoupling. The wheel tread” and ‘gauge conform to the NMRA standards gauge. The flanges are thinner than the RP-25 contour, and not quite as deep, resulting in a flange edge more like the old original NMRA standard than the rounded edge of the RP-25. We did not encounter any problems during testing of the model, but these flanges might have a greater tendency to “snag” loosely closed points or other track defects, ‘The model weighs in at 13.9 ounces, and exerts 2.0 ounces of draw-bar pull ‘without wheel slip. None of the wheels have traction tires. Running light on a closed loop at 12 volts d.c., the locomo- tive drew 0.1 amps and was timed at just over 68 s.m.p.h. The locomotive had a current draw of 0.2 amps run- ning at full load, and topped out at about 0.4 amps ‘stalled with wheels slipping. The sample locomotive tested seemed a bit noisier than is typical of Kato products, and had a speed depen- dent motor whine, but we did not oper- ate the locomotive for an extended break-in period. The manufacture’s $179.00 for these units. list price is GARY QUALE Milwaukee Road Milwaukee depot and train shed: HO scale Mf. by Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., 5601 W. Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53218. T will always remember my first ar- rival in downtown Milwaukee. Mil- waukee Road's home city had services radiating to all the outlying points on the railroad from here, Not that long. ago, the Milwaukee Road had lines all the way to Seattle, with a 500 mile long electrified division, and other routes virtually crisserossing the northern portion of the Midwest. Mil: waukee Road even managed to have a line running to Westport, Indiana, only § miles west of Cincinnati, In 1955 Union Pacific transferred its long dis- tance passenger services east of Oma: ha from the Chicago & North Western to Milwaukee Road The Milwaukee facility on Everett and 5th was shoe-horned into a grid of streets, with tracks approaching from the south via a bridge over the Menom- inee River, around a sharp curve in which the fan of tracks spread out and then through to the station shed locat- ed on Clyborne St. On the east end was the postal facility which had direct ac- cess through the ground floor to Everett Street. In the 1950's, this was full of mail wagons, and mail truck routes radiated from the station to lo- cal post offices, laden with mail sacks taken right off the trains. On the tracks adjacent to the station on the east end, cars of both storage mail and priority Railway Post Office mail could be found at all hours of the day. At the western end of the station was the ex- press building. Railway Express wag- ons and green trucks transferred parcels from the trains to local delivery routes there. Also on the west or 5th Street end of the station was a small turntable in a wood lined pit, probably intended for small steam engines in lo- cal serviees. ‘As trains moved westward from the station, they rounded another tight curve and ran into a cut to proceed to points north and west. Freight trains uused other lines bypassing the station, Several cities in the U.S. had train sheds similar to this one, and the sta- tion model could be used to simulate various other city installations for the Richardson Romanesque style was used in many of the famous large city stations For example, there is a close resem- blanee to Dearborn St. (Chicago) which was terminal for Santa Fe, Wabash, (later N&W) C&EI (later L&N) Grand ‘Trunk Western, and Erie. (Later Erie- Lackawanna) Jersey City Terminal of the Central RR of New Jersey (which was also host to Reading's New York service and that of Baltimore and Ohio) is very similar to the model, al- though it has a very different central cupola and tower. (i would be easier to seratchbuild the tower for that applica- tion than to have to build the whole structure.) This model is a fine exam- ple of Richardsonian Romanesque style, which was based on Tudor and Romanesque styles originally by H.H. Richardson. The semi-circular Syrian arches and various other details identi- fy this style, which was adopted by many architects of the late 1800's While Everett St. Station was a through type structure with the sta- tion on the side of the tracks, the model could also be configured as a head type (stub end) station. The included train shed, or in combination with platform sheds would look fine with this model, Head or stub stations are ideal for long narrow layout segments, and force the turning of trains at the end of a run making for interesting switching oper- ations. All of the New York stations (Except Grand Central) serving rail: roads from the west were stub stations. ‘These would include ones such as Broad St., Philadelphia; Reading Ter- minal, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Union Station and all of the Chicago stations ‘The model goes together easily and the parts are probably the best mold: ings I have ever worked with in a large kit. Seams fit perfectly and very com. plex joints fit easily. The elaborate brickwork is especially well done. As with most of the recent high tech kits that have been introduced, parts should be removed from their sprues AUGUST 2008,with a flush cutter, The special sprue cutters available from PBL, or the Xuron tools are both suitable for this work, and I recommend going over parts carefully with your finger (or in: spect while wearing a magnifying vi sor) because any small nubs left will throw off the perfect fit of these parts, All wall meeting points and the cor ners of the window moldings have these stub pieces. ‘The instructions include several ex ploded and assembled views to identify all the parts easily, and the steps are all logical and well written. A special instruction, such as a notch which has to be removed on one side only is shown in an inset which attracts atten- tion, I recommend following all the steps. I missed one point at which the rain gutters were to be fitted atop the walls and mistakenly attached all my roof portions to the walls directly, and was disappointed as they did not fit correctly because it was the rain gut ters that had the flanges on the inside to which the roof must be fastened. I brought up this problem to friends who have built this kit; [learned that when the rain gutters had been fitted proper- ly, the fit of the roof pieces was as accu- rate as the rest of the kit. Ihad to build collars to disguise gaps at the sides of the dormers and add plastic strips at some roof seams, but this problem was my fault having not followed the in structions. 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With traction experiencing ue een} Pee Re Rg (eM MRR nce id Me cmc) Handbook is a comprehensive guide er oe eee a ce Ce eee er) oer eo ad RE eee ind scribe how to replicate these railways uM re tion exclusively, or as part of a main- A cue UE Sr ee RCTS ors SPs 95 Pr rey al | aap lalate er carstens-publications. com DR ear) rr Se ee Seed ke this one without mortaring the bricks. I mixed light grey and tan col ors of tube type artist's gouache paint Squeeze out a small amount on a palate or old dish and dilute very slightly with water to make a thick paste, Brush the color into the brick: work and as it begins to dry, wipe off surface residue with a dry to slightly damp rag. As this is watercolor, it can be permitted to dry completely and ean then be removed with a damp rag if you prefer, but you need to avoid using a wet rag that will completely dissolve the paint and wipe it away T have not illuminated the station, put this can be done easily by mount: ing screw mounts at various locations inside the roof. I suggest painting the inside walls black or covering with alu: minum foil on the inside to keep light from shining through the plastie as it is not fully opaque. If the modeler cut. out the flats in the four clock areas leaving just a small flange at the edge it would be possible to glue the clock faces in place, and light them from be hind with a bulb in the tower Thad not anticipated writin of this kit, and I added som Grey paper from the art supply store was used to make the shades. I placed these with Testors Canopy cement 3515. I added a few interior walls made of matt board, but you could make a full interior if you wish. Suitable waiting mand office furniture benches, desks and bookcases are all available from the Walthers catalog. The model is called “Milwaukee style” by Walthers for it is not an exact brick by briek replica of Milwaukee station but is compressed. In some in. .s, four part trim (on one of the chimneys) is replaced with three part and the building length has been shortened. I can usually spot a model that has had sections lopped off by the model manufacturers, but the changes in size and detail in this kit were done carefully by an expert who is obviously familiar with this style of architecture Treally had to compare this model to HO Union Pacific B-50-38 and -3 photos directly to find the detail changes from the prototype that had been made. The architect who de signed the structure in 1887 might no- tice these small changes, but I doubt that anyone else would. Moreover, any one who really needs an HO sca tion larger than the 24%/ inch le this one can enlarge this model u parts from a second kit. (With or with: ut the second clock tower) Due to the large size of this HO seale kit with its high ceilings, it could easily be adapted for use with S scale layouts. Removal of the transom separators would create door openings large enough for S scale layouts. It would be up to the modeler to make new doors to fit these. To make use of the train shed, it would have to be raised up on foundations which could be made of ei ther round or square tubing to fit around the lower portion of the sup- port columns in order to extend these Painted in a concrete color, they would be typical of facilities of this type. There is also a separate train shed kit from Walthers. Historically, by 1900, the problems with covered train sheds had revealed themselves to the railroads. Even those built with exten: sive glazing were dark all the time for smoke from steam engines darkened the glass quickly. Wind blew through and the sheer weight of rain or snow on top of these huge structures called for very heavy construction to_prevent their collapse. The advent of electric lighting failed to solve the problem for the roof was so high it did not reflect ght dust as railroads were important enough to build these huge structures, they became obsolete, replaced by the Bush shed which covered individual platforms and had their roofs placed just above the steam locomotive stack ‘so smoke and fumes went right out the slot in the roof Milwaukee's tr fair with a elerestory intended to col ject the smoke and exhaust it, al though none of the train sheds built 9 Postwar Box Cars Ki Series KI13 - Eight iffene hs o modell variants "EEDWITCH N 1 A+ 645 TANNER MARSH ROAD, GUILFORD, CT 06437 Firs time these funusual UP procorypes have been offered in HO! Accurate Alrernate Center River sides and [UP welded lunderframe doors, and running =did this very well. Few of these expen sive train sheds were ever replaced. T have been wanting a model of a train shed like this one for a long time, but so far, the models available have been either European designs or never quite had the look of American train sheds. The model can accommodate four tracks inside, and one along each edge, depending ‘on your clea Simulated concrete platforms are in- cluded. The roof is fairly heavy for the plastic girders, and while there should be no problem under normal circum- stances, dusting of the roof should be done with a soft brush to avoid damag- ing the structure the girders inside the roof are very fine and the model has the look of the real Milwaukee installation. Optional roof end panels are includ- ed permitting the modeler to add addi tional train shed kits to make a longer model, and one of the trusses or bents should be omitted where the two seg: ‘ments of the roof join, As in the station kit, the parts are well designed and en gineered, and the mold work is beauti ful. A number of small “badges” (my name for the small round pieces that permit injection molds to completely fill the cavities) must be removed with flush cutter tweezers or pliers, but this is easy work. The parts fit perfectly and for such thin lacy components make up to a strong structure. I modi- fied my kit slightly as I did not want to use the platforms from the kit to better fit my location. In the kit are simulat- ed, low level concrete platforms that accept molded plugs of the support columns. I cut these off so the shed roof would sit directly on platforms T had fitted to my track plan. To insure perfect fit and to reinforee the model, T used styrene tubing col lars to represent conerete foundations. ‘These can be slid down to meet the ground and can be epoxied in place, or holes can be drilled in the layout base for the collars to be fastened, These are expensive but nicely done kits, but do not seem unreasonable for models that will have more limited ap: peal than, for example, a refinery, coal mine or small station. This kit offers probably the easiest and fastest way to get a very high quality American style large city type station, The station kit is a limited run, so do not wait too long before making ‘a decision to get one 0. 933-2943 the Station and Train hed kit retails for $249.98 and No. 933-2949, the Train Shed kit only sells for $99,98.—vIc ROSEMAN e Signs? Yes, CULE Ce re Be Pa RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, NEW! HOM] Pizzaland| ‘See your dealer, visit our websie ‘or request our ce new catalog. 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His layout, for seale and tin- plate hobbyists alike, was the first truly great model railroad in our history. It became an ideal, a Holy Grail if you will towhich modelers aspired to emulate no matter how modestly. Frank Ellison was one of the first modelers to promote prototype opera- tions, to run trains on schedules and to switch freight ears at industries along the line. These are the very basics for modern model railroading practice to- day. There are many pioneers in our hobby who paved the way for model ‘manufacture in all scales, but Ellison is an icon, the first to create a miniature scale reality for us to directly visualize in his articles. In later years, Bruce Chubb recreated Ellison's Fillmore sta- tion on his HO layout as homage to the original and with full credit to its his toric source. Ellison built the layout in his base- ment; it had an unfinished earth floor which left it vulnerable to humidity, termites, silverfish and cockroaches (which will eat everything including book binding glue). Some surviving struetures reveal the scars done to them by these creatures. It is common knowledge the layout suffered severe damage in a move after Ellison sold it, but what happened, what became of it? It was cut in see- tions and placed in Baton Rouge for lo cal storage. A van carrying the layout to Boston, in an attempt to drive under an overpass not high enough to clear it, damaged its top, subjecting the con- tents to rain water. Then the Pullman batteries used to power the layout were placed above the contents and the bat- tery acid leaked causing further dam- age, primarily to tracks, yards and scenery. Fortunately, a number of structures survived and were later auc- tioned off in Pennsylvania and remain to this day in private hands. Hal, in his 110 March NOTES ON AN OLD TIMETABLE, not- ed the TCA Toy Train Museum in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, has several of his structures. ‘Those of a certain age (myself includ- ed) are most familiar with Ellison’s ar- ticles for both magazines when he was closely associated with Lionel through Model Builder. The illustrated articles Collector COMSIS Too. with photos of the layout’s quarter-inch seale T00E Hudsons, PRR BE switchers and semi-seale UP M-10000 in its orig- inal and later, Delta Lines, liveries was a treat, Model Builder photos reveal he ran several other O scale steam loco- ‘AUGUST 2008motives, a Seale-Craft 48-2 with Vanderbilt tender, a Scale Model Railways 2-8-0, both of pre-war manu- facture, and a “doodlebug,” more than likely custom, as Walthers did not make its own until after the war. After those many articles, which ran be- tween June, 1939, to the end, March, 1949, he operated several Lionel F3 diesels converted to outside third rail pickup. One A-A set in untouched Santa Fe livery had a consist of Kasiner aluminum streamline passenger cars, and the other was a pinstriped blue and aluminum-painted A-B combina- tion with matching pinstriped Kasiners, Both sets are now in a pri- vate collection, He brought the Delta Lines into the modern postwar era with attractive new diesels and Kasiner pas- senger equipment. However, in several 1940's Model Builder photos the rem: nants of steam remained; they include an American Flyer’s 0-6-0 switcher in an article about a coal tipple ‘The Raymondale structures are fair- ly complete in number, many in private collections with the exception of the El Ropo Cigars factory, which has disap- peared. Fillmore Station has also van- ished and like El Ropo Cigars, its whereabouts are unknown. Most of his other structures were presumably made of cardboard if we are to judge by his articles, some of the larger ones specified to have been constructed of 12- or 16-ply illustration or mat board RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN backed by wood framing at the corners. This was not always so, as I was fooled into believing when reading and writ- ing earlier about them Some articles had photos of his teenage son cutting out window open- ings on flat cardboard and doing other such work meant to inspire young mod- clers with simple hand toois. Actually, Ellison made some of his structures out of eighth-inch and quarter-inch fiber- board or plywood. Larger ones such as the Fillmore and Chapelle stations were made from quarter-inch fiber board with other major details made from wood for additional strength. Chapelle was a grand, complex struc: ture based on the Cincinnati, Ohio, Union terminal, about which Ellison also wrote of making lower level train sheds in a March, 1944 Model Builders. While he wrote construction articles about a water tank and coal tower for ‘Model Builder, he later bought similar ‘wood kits from Model Structures. His freight cars were kits with dummy cou- plers which required the “Big Hook” to uncouple and couple. Kadee magnetic couplers were a long way off. Passenger cars, for their size and length of consist, didn't require such handling. Buildings such as Carter's Little River Mill, Chapelle station and others, small and large, survive in private col- lections. Background flats for Fillmore and Villa Rica exist, as does his control panel, whieh is also in a private collec- tion, Another collector has a filing cab- inet filled with Ellison's papers, con- tracts and the like. This is our history. Sadly, when collectors have made in- quiries to donate items or lend Delta Lines models to meets, response has not been forthcoming, Item: Alllen Keller has recorded videos of many famous layouts familiar to read- ers of RMC and Model Railroader. Subject. layouts are the Virginian & Ohio, Carabasset & Dead River, Canandaigua Southern and Allegheny Midland, to name a few of the nine on his recent “Fallen Flags, Great Model Railroads Remembered” videos. New generations know them, yet The Trains Collectors Association Library has a film of Ellison's truly historic layout and has not trans- ferred it to tape or CD for sale and gener- al distributions. Itis one thing to read his old, yellowed magazine articles, and quite another to see it in action. It would be criminal to lose, to forget, this renowned “Fallen Flag.” Item: When a Florida collector ap- proached the NMRA about bringing the Chapelle model, at his own expense, to ‘a meet held in Cincinnati Ohio termi- nal, he received no reply. The collector thought it would be an interesting his- toric center piece There seems to be little interest or re- spect in the hobby for a giant who helped define our hobby. We are seri- ously in danger of forgetting and then losing our early cherished scale her- itage. There are several generations of younger hobbyists, not only operators, ‘but magazine writers and editors, for whom Frank Ellison and his Delta Lines remain an antique equation, an historic anomaly reserved for us elders who remember him and his layout. Not only do they not know, but they don’t care. How can more recent generations comprehend how far we've come to ar- rive where we are today? It is in some measure because of Frank Ellison and his creativity and insight into opera- tion at a time when most modelers in any scale were content to run their trains in relative circles. They were locked into tinplate thinking, and he was able to communicate succinctly the art of model railroading in all its as- pects, Thankfully, there are those few collectors who know and care about Ellison and his Delta Lines and care- fully preserve the remains of what was ‘once the most renowned layout in our early O scale history. Mention him and his layout to a younger generation hob- byist and the response will more than likely be “Ellison who?” I want to thank John Bower for in- valuable background information re- garding the disposition of Frank Ellison's legacy = mLOCOMOTIVE QUARTERLY Ee @ Only $13.50 ie es ed ay Pe ec) pages, and contains Petrie as) een eta et) white images and brief Pence Slit Notebo commentary/WILLIAM C. SCHAUMBURG Homeward bound jravel around here goes in spurts, and for now my. fancy-after shave, free if you buy so many $8 worth of it around Fathers Day, car ry-on bag is alone and neglected on a shelf. (I have a great collection of “de signer aftershave luggage” and have not bought a new suitease in decades, Also going in spurts, and even though outdoor activities and yard work are at their peak, I usually get more model railroading done during the Dog Days of Summer than in the Dark of Winter The Dog. Days, named by the Ancients, who apparently had a lot time on their hands when they weren't smiting each other with sword: building rains, or trying to correct typos in the stone tablets they were fond of u their manuseripts. At night they around playing connect-the-dots with the stars, which was certainly less it turns out, were damaging to their neighbors’ or their own health when you consider some of the available options. Sirius, the Star, brightest in the constellation Canis Majer, rises and sets with the sun in the northern hemisphere in summer, and they thought it added heat to the day Right. You really have to wonder about them. You also have to wonder what they would have done with a creative model railroading, perhaps hobby The rides home from work trips are ieeeereteey good times for snoozing, window-watch- ing, or reflecting on the weekend before All are valid activities. Sometimes they help explain why we do all this, the wide-ranging stuff that makes up the model railroading and railroad enthusi: st hobbies. That is part of the fun For example, we have all heard the story of how Theodore Judah hypothe- sized a continuous ridge line over the Sierra Nevada east of Sacramento. All he had to do was find it (and, ves, have a few really deep cuts and some heroic bridges and fills constructed), then lay tracks. Sure, Hypothesized omnes pe ee Eee ee ee eee Cee carstens-publications.com Beker) ee eT) Judah was a good civil engineer, to be sure, but he must have been one heck of a salesman, maybe mixed with a touch of hustler. One thing is for sure—he was lucky. (And, to quote the old knight in he third Indiana Jones movie when he addressed Indy, “You have chosen wise something like that Flying home from San Francisco by way of Chicago a handful of weeks ago showed how right Judah was. If the weather conditions are typical during a morning departure from SFO the route is more or less fixed—up and over Dor ner. A left side window seat is best for this leg of the trip. I especially like the S-80/MD-80 since the wi back and they have 2-3 seating. The “2 side is to port, and the flight path is just south of I-80 and the former SP. he window, Coit Tower ind the Embarcadero float by first. For a brief moment you can trace out the ‘oute of the State Belt R.R., gone from the City now but being recreated in HO seale by my friend Bill Kaufman, Hav ing operated on his layout the place is now familiar to me both full size and “in scale.” That has to be Sausalito and Tiburon and the great restaurants over there. The Northwestern Pacific car float went to Tiburon, hauling com- meree to and from the timber country and Eureka, well to the north. Decades 2 had a “railroad/industrial waterfront,” though it is hard to believe today. The NWP/ATE&SF depot remains in a park not far from the passenger fer ry dock. On the San Francisco side, near Pier 43, cut-off rails lead to the rem- nants of the NWP’s apron; the monu. mental concrete arch is still in place Their presence is not understood by the tourists that pass by, other than that those things are “old. sign for U.S. Highway 101 on a piling of the dock at the National Maritime His: ago Tibu AuGusT 2008ee ‘The “last picture” button on a digital camera can provide a pleasant diversion on a trip home. On the way to the PCR/NMRA convention in May a bunch of us again teamed up with retired M&ET employee Mike McReynolds and toured the road. Since our previous visit ‘some switches have been converted to remote control and are operated by the engineer trom the cab. After inspecting one installation, Jim Providenza decided this was a prototype version of DCC, complete with decoders and unique addresses (page 112). Modeling and railroading coincide once more. Then there is the introspection, retrospection part of travel ‘The two photos above are the same image, except the /ower one is cropped on the left and is larger only to fill out the two-column width. It has more “oomph!” Oomph is good. torical Park, just a little way west. The built a car ferry w part of this pieve of sign faces what would be northbound 101. Others won't. The bridge was com- traffic, but the road stops at the end of pleted in 1937, its name coming from the the wooden pier. 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(The March, 2007, RMC had an article on the ferry and model.) ‘The flight path swings north now, over the Delta, the countless twisting chan- nels and mud islands where the Sacra- ‘mento and San Joaquin Rivers come to- gether at the head of San Pablo Bay. This area, too, had its own railroad car ferry, the Sacramento Northern's Ra- ‘mon, out of Antioch, where there is now fa huge steel bridge tall enough to let ships pass on their way to Stockton. To- day few large ships make the left turn towards Sacramento, but Stockton’s port. still sees ocean-going traffic. It is a bit unnerving to realize that BART almost oes to Antioch these days, retracing the route of the interurban in spirit, ifnot al- ways on the same ground. On the north side of the water SN trackage became part of the Western Pacific, then Union Pacific, Several miles are now operated by the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista. Agricultural preservation zoning in some places means the view from the windows of their electrie cars is nearly identical to what one would have seen from an SN interurban 66 years ago! Next up, Davis, Sacramento and Ro- seville are all easy to locate. They all have their own railroad associations and stories. As the plane gains altitude 1-80 has to be used to help spot the UP (ex- SP) tracks. As you climb over the foothills one thing becomes quite clear: life begins at 80! But—it is “Interstate 80," and that mainly applies to new de- velopment. The argonauts dug into every hill and ravine in this country, panning for nuggets and gold dust, turning every stream into a dream of riches. Their small towns and camps dotted the landscape and had names only a model railroader could come up with. It was all Hardscrabble no mat- ter what the name was on the mail bag, stage line or railroad depot. The easy stuff ran out early and only corpo rate organization and large scale capi tal, much of it Eastern, could find and process the sought-after metal. Para- phrasing a writer from the past, it took a gold mine to have a gold mine, From the air you can see large tracts of new housing, and they cling to the Inter- state like a lifeline just as previous generations held close to the railroad. Most of the railroad traffic is “pass through” business today, containers destined for markets elsewhere or ‘empties heading to Oakland to be sent to Asian ports for refills. Local busi- ness rides on rubber tires ‘At Aubumn the American River splits and the air route follows the North Fork. Being a Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad fan, this is special coun- try. Colfax is “right there,” and Rollins Resevoir, whose rock wall dam is just above the former location of the big Bear River Bridge on the Narrow Gauge, is a bit farther towards the horizon. Colfax was the helper. station for trains going up “The Hill,” up Donner Pass and to Reno. [only know the SPs hhuge conerete enginchouse from old photos, but the yard is still there, small: er but in service, and the Colfax depot not only exists, it has been restored in SP%s classic colors and is used as a vis tor center and Chamber of Commerce office. Amtrak makes do with a small shelter, but the new concrete platforms, are next to “narrow gauge ground,” not “holy ground,” but still neat. If you take Gerald Best's book with you ean walk the NCNG right-of-way and line up pho- tos by Al Phelps and others in viewfinder. Surprisingly, many scenes [AUGUST 2008,can be repeated, minus trains, though time is changing that, too, Cape Horn is just beyond Colfax. The NONG ducked’ beneath the SP near here, as 1-80 does today on almost the same alignment. At Cape Horn transcontinental passenger trains once stopped so people could get off on and gaze in awe at the thousand-foot deep fabyss in front of them. Even from four niles up ook at the eanyon and am im: pressed. The American River Canyon rmore of less just stops at a wall of rock. Even a detailed topographic map or Google Earth® doesn't explain this as well as the view from the sky. ‘Truckee and the tracks’ back and forths up by Norden to gain elevation are about the last thing on the railroad visible from the air before the loud cov- er comes in—other than one indis- putable fact. There was and is continu ‘ous ridge line. Judah was not only lucky, he was right It is as if a giant was playing in a sandbox and took the heel of his hand and made a path. You cant help but be impressed. Theodore Judah found this not from the air, but by land How many times has this been re peated in our tranportation history? Whether you fly over the Appalachi ans, the Allegheny Front, or anywhere west in the U.S. and Canada, there is no obvious way through the moun. tains. Nor is there any probable way around them. If you fly to the south: west you see an aveful lot of desert, beautiful in its own right but not exact ly hospitable or easy to eros ‘The same is true ifyou travel by t or car. The rails and the pavement swerve or rise and fall for a reason, For us even the windows of a commuter train are worth looking through Change and traditional life are both out side that glass. We do “sce better.” Twill never get tired of looking at all this, and I will always be amazed by the work of the railroad. surveyors who opened this continent, those who dug the canals before them, or the road builders, as well as the creation we traverse. ‘The little window in the camera From the window looking out of the airplane, let's go to the little window on the back of the camera. The photos in- cluded here came from that trip. I do more “sport shooting” on trips than any other time these days, and even though I am not currently modeling an industrial park railroad, I find the challenge of pho- tographing them fun. Reviewing the photos from a visit to the Modesto & Em- pire Traction provided a bit of entertain: ment, but, even more, it also made me appreciate Trevor Marshalls efforts at photographing the Peterboro modules. You have to work a lot harder at getting interesting industrial park photos than you might think —BILL s, = RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN Coming next month Ue ad How did you take that picture? Al Askerberg has been exploring model pho: tography and trying to recreate the old photos one might find in a forgotten box on a shelf. I all starts with the modeling, but then we learn his secrets. inois Central in Tennesee: An HO visit to Go TR Christy’s family heritage. Nest Mont : RAILF, + THROUGH THE ROCKIE: Opened in 1934, the Dot- sero Cutoff was the final piece in connecting Denver directly with the west coast. Greg Monroe takes us along the Colorado River for a look at this key former Rio Grande line. + IOWA NARROW GAUGE: The Midwest Old Threshers Reunion, held each Labor Day weekend in Mount Pleasant, lowa, _ features plenty of steam, including three locomotives. Jeff Terry takes us to the heartland for the three-day event. 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