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Model Railroader Magazine 2005 June West Virginia Northern Loads for flatcars
Model Railroader June 2005 Vol 72 No 6
CONTENTS
6 From the Editor
Tuning and tweaking
8 News & Products
News and product announcements
20 Railway Post Office
Letters from our readers
26 Information Desk
Operating oversize loads by Carl Swanson
30 Workshop
Flextrack on trestles, Q's & A's, and tips
36 Step by Step
Laying and wiring trackby David Popp
42 A handcrafted gem
The 17 x 21-foot HO scale West Virginia Northern by Ross Allen, with Gail Allen Komar
50 Modeling a highway underpass
Seven steps was all it took to build a bridge for the MR&T by Cody Grivno
54 Make a great model railroad
Five things you can do to create a remarkable layout by John Pryke
60 Modeling a flatlands scene
Representing rural America in the Midwest by Gary Hoover
66 Branch line in a tunnel
Double-ended staging track simulates prototype activity by Bob Boelter
68 DCC and sound for a brass diesel
How to add modern electronics to older HO locomotives by Don Janes
72 Frame your layout
Add a valance and fascia before starting on track by Pelle Soeborg
76 Twice as much fun
Hobby perfection: An N scale layout and Ntrak modules by George Hall
80 Chains, chocks, and shackles
Realistic loads for your flatcars and gondolas
by Jim Hediger Online bonus
88 DCC Corner
Operate your staging yard with DCC by Mike Polsgrove
92 Product Reviews USRA 2-8-8-2 Life-Like Proto 2000 with sound Kato HO scale SD38-2 Digitrax Model UT4 Digital Command Control throttle N scale Proto N GP20 from Life-Like
100 Trains of Thought
Walking around in an old photograph by Tony Koester
104 Trackside Photos
108 Cartoon
121 Index of Advertisers
122 MR Project Illustrated
Weathering roads by Cody Grivno
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