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Model Railroader Magazine 1939 October Construction of a Gas Electric car Taylor
Model Railroader 1939 October
Table of Contents.
Construction of a
Gas-Electric Car 493
Railroad Modeling Contest 499
The Little TH&B500
Lamps for Stations 504
D&RGW 4-8-4 505
Thornburgh Has Built 61 Locos 506
Simple D. C. Power 508
Three-Indication Signal 510
Building a U. S. R. A. Switcher 511
B&O Offers Blueprints 516
NYC K-3 Pacific Type Plans 517
Pete Rides the Line
(Boomer Pete) 520
Dear Pete 524
Letters From the Editor 528
Railway Postoffice 531
The Open Coupler 533
News 534
Trade Topics
542
Brass Hatting a Pike of Your Own.
FREE-LANCE model railroading is fun. At least, Ll we think so, even though some of our super-scale friends don't. Since we're lucky enough to own the mag we'll get first expression of our opinion in this prominent place and they can come back later at us in the Railway Postoffice column.
By free-lance modeling we don't mean the creation of monstrosities. We don't mean out of scale cars and locomotives. We don't mean track that doesn't look like track. We do mean by free-lance model railroading that we go into the railroad business to scale instead of just making some models. We build our own railroad, but always to scale from first class standard practice.
Off in the wild someplace there is a section of country which needs a railroad. Perhaps if you look hard enough you can find a location where even the I. C. C. can't butt in and tell you what to do. If you can't find such a location, make your own country, and appoint yourself the I. C. C., so that there will be 100 per cent co-peration.
If the location for your prospective railroad is a piece of honest-to-goodness U. S. A., you can get topographical maps of it from the U. S. Geodetic Service, Washington, D. C. If the country springs full-fledged from your imagination, you will have to sketch it out in considerable detail, complete with a metropolis, suburban villages, and even perhaps a wild-cat mining town. Either way you have a space that's just aching for a railroad, and the fact that that's unusual nowadays makes it all the more fun.
Now to figure out the prospects for traffic. What connections will the line have with through railroads? How many carloads of beer will the population of Mazurka Center need on a hot Summer day? How many passengers a day will travel between the termini, and will they run more to coach or first class? How many carloads of coal will be burned annually in the territory, and will gasoline and oil come in by pipe line or will your railroad get a crack at the business?
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