Model Railroader Magazine 2005 November Better scenery Passenger diesels Oil

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Model Railroader November 2005 Vol 72 No 11

CONTENTS

6 From the Editor

Individual approaches

8 News & Products

Hobby industry news and product announcements

20 Railway Post Office

Letters from our readers

26 Information Desk

Making sense of steam by Carl Swanson

32 Workshop

Renumbering Kato HO locomotives ... and more

40 Step by Step

Modeling foreground trees by David Popp

COVER STORY

46 How to make better scenery

From forest floors to front yards By Lou Sassi

MID-SIZE LAYOUT

52 Modeling a secret prototype

So you think information on your railroad is hard to find by Paul J. Dolkos

INDUSTRY YOU CAN MODEL

56 Pipeline on rails

Railroads played a vital role in the oil industry of the 1940s by Jeff Wilson

KITBASH CONTEST: 3RD PLACE

62 A depot from two houses

Kitbashing an HO rural station using inexpensive kits by Richard lvins

66 Lessons from a successful layout

Reflections on 15 years of model railroad building: Part 2 by Paul J. Dolkos

70 Modeler's guide to passenger diesels

A survey of the power that pulled the varnish by Tony Koester

78 Build the Claremont & Concord in G

Rolling stock and operation on our project railroad by Tony Koester/Online bonus

MID-SIZE LAYOUT

84 Gopher State fallen flags

An HO scale C&NW and Milwaukee Road layout by Michael Maas/Online bonus

94 DCC Corner

Power buses and districts by Mike Polsgrove

100 Product Reviews General Electric C30-7 from Broadway Limited in HO N scale USRA 2-6-6-2 from Bachmann Alco C-425 diesel from Atlas O ... and more Online bonus

110 Trains of Thought

Comfort zone by Tony Koester

114 Cartoon

118 Trackside Photos

137 Index of Advertisers

138 MR Project Illustrated

Threading the needle

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