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Model Railroader Magazine 1962 May Building scenery How to build a boomtown
Model Railroader May 1962 Vol 29 No 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS
New tool for better operation. ------10
Eliminate much track wiring and many insulated rail joiners.
Many a locomotive had a humble beginning.---20
Photos of Tom Moxley's reworked Varney Super-Mike locomotive.
The planning of Boomtown.------22
Prototype boomtowns just grew - but you must plan your model.
Portage Hill & Communipaw Ry. By Don Reschenberg --26
Part 4 - Synopsis; mud, grass and weeds.
The amazing GNR of Francis Lee Jaques. By Linn H. Westcott32
O scale, S gauge railroad - the distortion achieves realism.
An artist colors his own pike.------38
Full-color scenes on Francis Lee Jaques' Great North Road.
Staining wood for model structures. By Arnold J. Crell --42
You can master this simple method with easy-to-get materials.
Wayside Notes - Unusual turnout for city streets. ---46
Bluebook of Model Railroad Practice (86)
J - Signal aspects and their indications. By Richard Spencer 47
Buildings for Boomtown. By William Johnson---50
Unpainted boards were the hallmark of the quickly built structures.
So you don't like plastic kits! By John C. Stough ---54
Use these kits with imagination and scratchbuild other models.
Let's build that Alcan hopper car. By William Harwood-56
Aluminum tank-hopper car more modern than a diesel locomotive.
Prototype plans and data:
Eureka Nevada 2-6-2------24
NYC caboose--------31
LA&T caboose--------31
EMD GP-30--------40
Unusual turnout-------46
Signal aspects and their indications----47
Alcan hopper car-------57
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