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Model Railroader 1998 January
OUR COVER STORY
The new and expanded
Virginian & Ohio76
By W. Allen McClelland
A first look at the new track plan for this ever-popular HO layout, now set in 1975
Completing the
Northwest Timber Co.86
By Lionel Strang
The Strang family adds wiring, scenery, and structures to finish our HO project railroad
Building a Mather
50-foot stockcar94
By Jim Teese
An HO scale kitbash using two Life-Like 40-foot car kits and some homebrewed door castings
Trackside Photos98
Pictures from our readers
Cylinders, rods, and valve gear 104 By Stephen Anderson
Learn to rivet and use the "piece-on-a stick" method of making small parts in part 4 of scratchbuilding a steam locomotive
Scenery on the
Wisconsin Central112
By Marc Van Cleven
In part 7 we add trees, water, and ground cover to our N scale project layout
Kitbash an enclosed water tank121
By Allan Houghton
Protect your locomotive's water supply from freezing
PROTOTYPE DRAWINGS
BC Rail center-beam flatcar retrofits123
By Patrick Lawson
Drawings of a prototype "kitbash"
Colorado & Southern's
Grant Canyon Division128
By Ken Sasso
Rocky Mountain railroading in the
1930s in Gn3
PAINT SHOP
American Flyer cars in HO scale156
By Marty McGuirk
A Pullman-Standard car used by several colorful railroads
Along the Line202
The real thing
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