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Model Railroader Magazine 2007 July Build better trees Caboose operations Instal
Model Railroader 2007 July
6 From the Editor
Three wishes
8 News & Products 20 Railway Post Office 24 Information Desk
The auto-rack revolution by Carl Swanson
30 Workshop
Painting stripes on oil drums and more
TREE SPECIAL
38 Scenery Step by Step
Improving commercial trees by Cody Grivno
41 Build a dense forest
Combine two simple techniques for a great forest by Tom Harris
44 Perfect scratchbuilt pines
A new twist on an old way to make evergreens by Ron Morse
48 Freelancing a transition-era RR
The HO scale Hudson Point & Hawthorne by Paul Dolkos
54 Designing a mid-size N scale layout
The evolution of a track plan
by Tom Danneman Online bonus
60 Install white LED headlights
Realistic lighting effects using surface-mount diodes by Lutz Kuhl
REALISTIC TRACK PLAN
62 Urban switching on 59th Street
This freelanced 1950s city track plan took first prize by Stan Sweatt
PROTOTYPE INFORMATION
66 Modeling caboose operations
The many regulations that dictate caboose handling by Jim Hediger
70 Signal detailing
Building code line cables with copper wire and styrene by Bruce Petty
72 Upgrading an HO scale masterpiece
New superdetailed scenes highlight this layout
by Dana Kawala Online bonus
78 DCC Corner
Current-sensing occupancy detectors by Mike Polsgrove
82 Product Reviews
Bachmann Spectrum HO scale 4-4-0 with DCC ... and more Online bonus
89 Pike-size-train contest rules 92 Trains of Thought
Finding a niche of our own by Tony Koester
95 Cartoon
100 Trackside Photos
113 Index of Advertisers
114 The Operators
Classification signals by Andy Sperandeo
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