Model Railroader 2005 July
6 From the Editor
Our favorite decade
8 News & Products
Hobby industry news and product announcements
20 Railway Post Office
Letters from our readers
26 Information Desk
A road map for train crews by Carl Swanson
30 Workshop
Build a handy small-parts sorting tray
36 Step by Step
Easy and versatile benchwork by David Popp
40 Big and getting bigger
The Bay State Museum club builds from west to east by J. Robert McLaughlin
10 Online bonus
48 Modeling modern highways
All the information you need to build realistic roads
by Pelle Soeborg II Online bonus
54 A realistic N scale fleet
Small changes give diesels a uniform level of detail
by Tom DannemanOnline bonus
56 A window to big vistas
This HO scale layout appears bigger than it is by Flemming Orneholm
64 Weathering a little at a time
Techniques that go beyond "recipes" by Robert Smaus
72 John Allen's Timesaver revisited
The classic switching problem along a wall or on a curve by Ed Vondrak
76 Moving mountains
An O scale layout that takes Appalachia on the road by Cody Grivno
80 Transporting your trains
Build this carrying case to easily move rolling stock by John Van Bramer
83 Illinois interurban
A steel-sheathed wooden car with ITS standard features by David L. Waddington
88 DCC Corner
ABCs of consisting by Mike Polsgrove
92 Product Reviews
NYC Niagara in HO from Broadway Limited Imports Online bonus
GE Dash 8-40CW in HO from Atlas ... and more
100 Trains of Thought
Learning to manage free time by Tony Koester
102 Trackside Photos
121 Index of Advertisers
122 MR Project Illustrated
Water tower animation
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