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Model Railroader 1937 April
CONTENTS
MINNEAPOLIS MODEL RAILROADERS
BUILDING A FLAT CAR making a model from model railroader drawings and stock materials
THE HARTFORD CLUB RAILROAD trials, triumphs, and tribulations of the O gauge new York and new England
MILWAUKEE ROAD PRAIRIE a small but heavy prototype ideally suited for model railroad service
STARTING TRAINS FROM A TERMINAL how railroads work
BUILDING A LOCOMOTIVE part 5 choice of materials for an O gauge loco: how to rescale plans
KEEPING TRACK OF TONNAGE
Minneapolis Model. Railroaders
Mill City 0 Gaugers Most Active With Several Good Operating Layouts.
MINNEAPOLIS Model Railroaders is the name of the model railroad club which meets monthly in that city. And a descriptive name it is, too, for all of the members are really active, all with equipment and several with complete operating layouts.
It might be expected to find a good deal of railroad interest in Minneapolis, terminus as it is of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, as well as focal point for the Soo Line and with the Milwaukee Road, North Western (Omaha), Burlington, Rock Island, Chicago Great Western, Minneapolis & St. Louis, and several small roads entering the city.
But there also is the inspiration of the various logging roads. Take P. S. Van Wyck, one of the model rails. He has been associated with various of these small roads, as well as the larger ones, in the mechanical departments, and his 0 gauge model work is colored by it. There
are no large modern locos. Even the turntable is a short old timo wooden truss job which could hardly look a good sized Atlantic in the face. The prize of Van Wyck's motive power is a dummy engine of the type formerly used on street railway lines, disguised as a street car. This one is modeled after those once used on the Market St. Ry. in San Francisco, and later sold to logging companies. The latter is its association on Van Wyck's line, where it pulls flat car loads of logs.
Then there's an old timber trestle correct to the smallest detail not only in appearance but in engineering design. And there's a small two-stall roundhouse, frame construction prototype, and painted red. A crummy is built up complete with interior fittings, even to the pot bellied stove. An old time wood paneled Pennsy coach is a dandy. And, just to show that here's a model rail who is broad minded about what he models, here are two British prototype models on the mantelpiece. Everything is built up from scratch. Everything shows ingenuity as well as originality.
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