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Model Railroader 1939 June
Table of Contents.
How to Build Hopper Cars 287
World's Fair Pike, photos 294
"Big Four" Planning Rules 295
Toonerville Trolley, photos 298
Prototype Poll Tabulation 300
Pacific Leads Vote301
Philadelphia Has Best304
Model Show
Pennsy G-5s Ten-Wheeler308
Plans
D. C. Power Supply311
This Model is a Movie Star 316
Electrical, photos318
Control Circuits (Boomer Pete) 320
Railway Postoffice 324
News 325
Trade Topics 328
Locomotive Types for the Average Layout.
LOCOMOTIVE stud is a term often applied to the engines in service at any particular engine terminal. In a broader sense it can be applied to the locomotives in service on an entire railroad. The proper proportioning of the locomotive stud is a subject of interesting speculation in model railroading, and while it's fun to build appealing engines as they turn up from time to time, it is wiser to plan out in advance the entire stud which will be built for years to come.
As a beginning premise it is perhaps well to decide whether the locomotive stud will be proportioned so that trains on the model railroad will look right, according to the best practice, or whether the locomotives will be proportioned according to other considerations. It has been truthfully said that any type of locomotive can be used for any kind of 'train, and the prototype would be found somewhere in actual practice. Articulated locomotives can be found pulling freight trains of 10 cars. Consolidations have been known to work hot shot passengers. Pacifies will pull freight runs, switch engines sometimes work road trains, and so on. However, we think it is best to work locomotives according to their usual purposes, as this will result in the best appearance of traffic on the finished model railroad.
Most of you will agree that for a first engine, it is best to pick a small, general purpose type of locomotive. A Pacific, with 69" or 72" drivers, admirable for this purpose, as it can be used for short freight trains, passenger work, and even for yard switching. It looks quite all right in any one of these services, and makes a perfectly congruous train. A Ten-Wheeler is another locomotive which fits in well as a starter. If the road is only going to run freight service at first, perhaps a Consolidation will do fine, and in these days there is always the possibility of using a Diesel-electric type for all three classes of service. We like the flash and movement of side rods, but to
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