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Model Railroader Magazine 2003 March Realistic operations Super Logging Empire
Model Railroader 2003 March
Features
OUR COVER STORY
58 A day at East LaSalle By Dan Christiansen with Dave Karkoski Realistic operations on a superb club layout
64 DCC Buyer's Guide By Jim Hediger
Getting started in Digital Command Control for less than $500
71 Amtrak's mail and express fleet By Cody Grivno
Add modern express operations to your layout
74 MODEL RAILROADER 26th annual photo contest winners
80 Building the Turtle Creek Central: Part 3 By Jim Kelly
Adding forests, rocks, and rivers
86 Scratchbuild a semaphore By Jeff Scherb
These classic signals feature prototypical operation in HO
90 Conrail's ex-Lehigh Valley U23Bs By Dennis Lippert
Patchwork painting makes these units stand out in a sea of Conrail Blue
ROOM-SIZED MODEL RAILROADS
97 The Virginian in HO and N By Roger Marsh
Two track plans that allow big-time railroading in small-time space
100 Louis Ullian's Logging Empire By Louis ullian The On3 Coon Creek Lumber Co.
MODEL RAILROADING IN SMALL SPACES
106 Streetcars in a coffee table By Hans D. Rudolph
A compact HO layout brings back memories of a 1940s steel town
Departments
6At the Throttle
The stages of DCC
10 Railway Post Office 16 Product Reviews
Life-Like's N scale Y3 2-8-8-2 HO Alco DL-109 from Life-Like Atlas N scale ACF tank cars And more ....
26 MR Reader's Choice Ballot 30 MR News
Product News Hobbyshop Window
47 Workshop
52 Back to Basics
Figure painting
110 Workin' on the Railroad
Building scenery
116 Trains of Thought
In a corner
121 DCC Corner
DCC terms you should know
124 Prototype Info
SP's articulated passenger cars
128 Coming Events
151 Index of Advertisers
152 Editorial Flashback
September 1960
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