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Model Railroader 1997 March
OUR COVER STORY
A bedroom-sized HO Pennsy layout70
By John Winter
Serving the hills of western Pennsylvania in the 1950s
BASIC MODEL RAILROADING
Making vehicles more realistic76
By Jeff Wilson
Paint and detail tips for improving the looks of model cars
Modeling culverts78
By Rand Hood
Spring can bring floods -is your railroad ready?
The Easy DCC command control system: 284
By Keith Gutierrez and
Lee Rayburn
Constructing the booster completes the basic Easy DCC system
The locomotive nobody wanted 90 By Erik Bergstrom
How to model EMD's BL20-2
Winners of MR's 20th annual photo contest94
Inspiring shots of scenes in
HO, N, 0, and Sn3 scales
Cliff Grandt, model railroad pioneer102
By George Hall
Grandt Line's founder has been a hobby leader for over 60 years
MODEL OF THE MONTH
Felix Rivera's 0-4-OT 8-ton industrial switcher in On3109
PROTOTYPE DRAWINGS
A prototype plastic boxcar113
By George Sebastian-Coleman Burlington Northern chooses plastic composites to build a better boxcar
The Dolly Varden Mines Ry. in HOn2 1/2116
By Dick Patterson
A beautifully scenicked
5 x 8 layout set in the rugged mountains of British Columbia
COMPUTERS IN MODEL RAILROADING
Computer-aided layout design122
By Keith Thompson
An overview of CAD software programs, including their features and computer requirements
PAINT SHOP
Painting HO South
Shore equipment148
By David Jiskra
Two Geeps, a caboose, and a couple of freight cars for an interesting Midwest railroad
Along the Line186
Spring cleaning
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