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Model Railroader Magazine 1938 November Plans complete Super Chief Train
Model Railroader 1938 November
Table of Contents.
The San Marino & Santa Fe___461
Station Accessories464
Central Attica RR.467
Small Station Layouts470
Colortone Photo Pages472-473
Santa Fe Super Chief474
Building a Passenger Train475
Improved Right of Way479
Plate Girder Bridge485
Self Guarding Frog
(Boomer Pete)492
Two-Rail Club Layout494
Live Steamers496
News499
Trade Topics504
The Scenic Effect in Model Railroading.
THE natural color photo on our cover this month is, we believe, the first time that four-color process printing methods have been put to this purpose in a model railroad magazine. The color cover and the exceptional spread of inside photos are by way of bonus to our readers on our attaining 10,000 net paid circulation, far and away the largest model railroad circulation in the world.
Mr. Cronkhite's work is exceptional. America's No. 1 model railroader, he's been in the hobby for more years than most of us have even dreamed of it. The photos of his line provide inspiration and set a standard of realism for others. Probably many a model rail feels that this standard is too high, that he has little if any hope of ever equaling this superb work. If so, let him look at the pictures of the Central Attica and see what has been done by comparative newcomers to the hobby.
There's no reason why on your line or mine we can't try to achieve better scenic effects. It's a field in which there are practically no rules of the game and there's plenty of room for individual experimentation. The commonest and cheapest of materials serve. When the budget bogs down, why not remember that scenery may add to your pike as much as another locomotive, but with less time and expense?
Each of the well known model railroad scenic artists has his own bag of tricks, and it matters little whose advice you follow or if you make up your own. There have been articles in these pages from time to time with hints at how to use plaster, twigs, peat moss, earth mixes, oil colors, and other components to good effect. But what's most needed is your own brain work on the general scenic plan, and then later the details.
Trips by train add to the background of the model railroader and enable him to better plan scenery. But even within 10 miles of your own city we'll wager there's enough material for scenicing your layout if you observe carefully and apply yourself to properly combining the various ideas you notice.
For instance, out in the country you may find a river meandering under the railroad in a way that you can fit in right next to your main station. An overhanging bluff may work in well at another point. Perhaps near you is an abandoned, or still active, interurban line paralleling the tracks, and this can be followed in detail for a special effect
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