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Model Railroader Magazine 2005 October Best of the Santa Fe LEssons you can use
Model Railroader October 2005 Vol 72 No 10
CONTENTS
6 From the Editor
A really big show
8 News & Products
National Train Show new-product announcements/Online bonus
20 Railway Post Office
Letters from our readers
26 Information Desk
What switch crews know by Carl Swanson
30 Workshop
Q's & A's and helpful modeling tips
36 Step by Step
Plan your layout in 3-D by David Popp
COVER STORY
40 Santa Fe's best
The best of the West on a 24 x 49-foot HO layout by Gary Hoover
48 Build the Claremont & Concord in G
Completing the scenery and kitbashing structures by Tony Koester
54 Lessons from a successful layout
Reflections on 15ears of model railroad building: Part 1 by Paul J. Dolkos/Online bonus
58 Build a backwoods sawmill
A kitbashed HO structure for a logging layout by Eldon Parker
62 Tips for buying a brass locomotive
Why you might want to, and what to expect by Andy Sperandeo/Online bonus
68 Changing of the guard
Maintaining a modern locomotive fleet on the Utah Belt by Eric Brooman
76 Midwest mainline action
An N scale track plan based on the WC in 1995 by Patrick D. Flynn
PROTOTYPE DRAWINGS 83 Santa Fe baggage cars
Semi-lightweight P-S cars delivered from 1960 to 1965 by George Trager
88 Quick mounting for switch motors
Hook-and-loop tape and a dowel make it easy by Bob Adams
92 DCC Corner
Adding the sound of steam by Mike Polsgrove
98 Product Reviews
GE AC4400CW in N scale from Kato
Atlas O scale EMD GP9 ... and more
108 Trains of Thought
Just like a good book by Tony Koester
110 Trackside Photos
129 Index of Advertisers
130 MR Project Illustrated
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